FRONTLINE examines child sexual abuse and how, during the 1980s, mounting fears of child sexual abuse in day care centers led to a new prosecutorial crusade against child molesters in South Florida. This program recounts how Miami prosecutors developed a method for winning child molestation convictions, led by then-state prosecuting attorney Janet Reno. It was a method that would be ...

Blows Against the Empire: THE GRIBBEN TRIAL by David L. Doughten In August of 1995, I was appointed along with Jeff Jakmides of Alliance, Ohio, to represent Susan Gribben. Ms. Gribben had been charged with killing her four young children with prior calculation and design. I had grown up in New Philadelphia. I was to return home to try one of the most extraordinary cases of my career. According ...

Megan's Law debated before high court Thursday, September 17, 1998 By Jon Schmitz, Post-Gazette Staff Writer Opponents of Pennsylvania's Megan's Law, a 2 1/2-year-old statute that was intended to crack down on violent sex offenders, asked the state Supreme Court yesterday to declare the law unconstitutional. Supporters of the law said it was a rational and constitutional way to protect citizens ...

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