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Allegations of ritual sex with children may have been false

The San Antonio Express-News today published a story - which will be put online Wednesday - about four potential wrongful convictions following allegations of sexual abuse of a child against four women. Here's the overview:In the fall of 1994, months after two young sisters spent a week visiting their aunt Elizabeth Ramirez, the girls told their grandmother, father and police that they had been ritualistically and sexually abused by the aunt and her three female friends, ages 19-21. The accused women were convicted after jury trials in 1997 and 1998 and went to prison. But an Express-News investigation that included a review of trial transcripts and police reports, and interviews with experts and key players in the case, questions the validity of medical evidence presented in the trials and the credibility of the accusers...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 19, 2010 (boomark / email).