Video helps clear convict of abuse after 21 years

[Oceanblueeyes]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32341725/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

Video helps clear convict of abuse after 21 years
Evidence in accused man’s favor never shown to his attorney and jurors

Convicted in 1985, Baran lost his first appeal. For the next nine years, he had no lawyer because his family couldn't afford one. He was transferred from prison to prison after being beaten, sexually assaulted in the shower and having his eye split open by an inmate's fist.

More at link........

[packy]

How sad and disgusting. And not surprised it was in the 80s.

From your link, "'Oh, my God'
Appellate attorney John Swomley watched them all. "It was like, 'Oh, my God,'" he said.

In one, a 6-year-old boy is being questioned. "The kid keeps saying over and over, 'Where's my prize? You promised me a prize! I want my prize now!'" Swomley said."

[packy]

http://www.reflector.com/news/nation/ritual-child-sexcases-lessons-often-unlearned-762330.html

"ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND, AUG. 8-9 **In this July 14, 2009 photo, Bernie Baran smells the flowers at his home in Woburn, Mass. Baran was recently released from prison after serving 21 years for a series of sexual attacks at a day care center in the Berkshires. A judge overturned his conviction and ordered a new trial, citing the incompetence of his trial lawyer and the videotapes, which had recently resurfaced after years of being lost among boxes of legal evidence. In May, the district attorney dropped all charges against Baran. "

More at link with info past convictions. Ritual child sexcases' lessons often unlearned

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'Didn't want no homo'
His case had followed a tortured path — the first complaint came from a drug-addicted couple, acting as narcotics informants, who told their police connection they "didn't want no homo" watching their son. One day, they said, the boy's penis had blood on it.

Baran was eventually arrested. His photo appeared in the local newspaper. One by one, five sets of parents came forward to say their daughters and sons had been molested.

Convicted in 1985, Baran lost his first appeal. For the next nine years, he had no lawyer because his family couldn't afford one. He was transferred from prison to prison after being beaten, sexually assaulted in the shower and having his eye split open by an inmate's fist.

"If you're considered a child molester, you are the bottom of the barrel," Baran said. "To be considered a gay child molester? That's the worst of the worst."

But in June 2004, Baran got a new legal team, courtesy of a local advocacy group. And the missing videotaped interviews were finally found in an evidence room, filed with tapes of drunken-driving arrests.

This is terrible that a family who is biased against homosexuals would make up something like that. IMO, their child is at risk just being with the parents. How can they sleep at night knowing they put an innocent man behind bars for something so sleazy, which caused this man to be sexually assaulted and beaten in prison. I think they need some psych evaluations done to see that their child is being raised in a good home...drug addicted parents??? :mad: