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Special prosecutor gets leading pedophile apologist Elizabeth Loftus to admit her methodology “not that scientific”… 
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald took on the first witness in the CIA leak case Thursday, dissecting an expert witness until she acknowledged errors and misstatements in her research.  washingtonpost.com  Elizabeth Loftus, the nation’s leading pedophile apologist,  (see vol3_iss7 and vol3_iss8)  was forced to admit that her research methodology was “not that scientific.”

For more than an hour of the pretrial hearing, Loftus calmly explained to Judge Reggie B. Walton her three decades of expertise in human memory and witness testimony.  Loftus asserted that, after copious scientific research, she has found that many potential jurors do not understand the limits of memory and that Libby should be allowed to call an expert to make that clear to them.  http://www.washingtonpost.com

But when Fitzgerald got his chance to cross-examine Loftus about her findings, he had her stuttering to explain her own writings and backpedaling from her earlier assertions.  Citing several of her publications, footnotes and the work of her peers, Fitzgerald got Loftus to acknowledge that the methodology she had used at times in her long academic career was not that scientific, that her conclusions about memory were conflicting, and that she had exaggerated a figure and a statement from her survey of D.C. jurors that favored the defense.

Kline receives 90 records…  
Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline, who sued abortion clinics for records of pregnant minors to build statutory rape cases against the men who got them pregnant,  vol4_iss5  said Tuesday night that his office has received the records of 90 patients from two abortion clinics and is reviewing them for possible crimes.  ljworld.com  Kline said the crimes could include rape of a child and potentially illegal late-term abortions — two matters he has repeatedly discussed in public.  But they also could include incest, forcible rape and making a “false writing,” Kline told The Associated Press without elaborating.

In other news...  
The Catholic priest accused by former congressman Mark Foley of molesting him as a boy said on Friday the allegations did not constitute a basis for him to be prosecuted.  http://abcnews.go.com  FBI agents are using a detailed, six-page questionnaire sent from headquarters to interrogate male former congressional pages about everything from Mark Foley's e-mails to his visits to the page dorm, according to a former page who was questioned by the FBI for nearly three hours last week.  http://blogs.abcnews.com  Meanwhile, another former altar boy says he was sexually abused in the 1970s by the same retired Catholic priest who acknowledged fondling former Rep. Mark Foley when Foley was a teenager.  http://www.msnbc.msn.com

A 32-year-old Colorado man convicted of posing as a teenager to sexually assault 19 children was sentenced Monday to 508 years in prison.  thedenverchannel.com

Cambodian police said Tuesday an American police officer accused of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl killed himself while in custody in the Cambodian capital.  http://public.findlaw.com  Donald Rene Ramirez of San Francisco "committed suicide by firing two bullets into his mouth," said Keo Thea, chief of anti-human trafficking police in Phnom Penh.

A partnership with a local agency is helping to train resident physicians at Eastern Tennessee State University's James H. Quillen College of Medicine in how to better recognize sexual abuse in children.  http://www.easttennessean.com  ETSU Family Physicians of Bristol is partnering with the Children's Advocacy Centers of Sullivan County, Tennessee and Bristol/Washington County, Virginia., by serving as medical consultants and members of the investigative teams, which include social workers, prosecutors, police officers, and other officials involved in the cases.

A suburban Fort Worth school district has halted a program teaching students to attack a gunman if he invades a classroom, administrators said Wednesday.  http://abcnews.go.com

The district will continue to train students in how to respond to life-threatening situations but no longer will show them how to take down an attacker, spokesman Richard Crummel said.

A former school teacher convicted of having sex with a 15-year-old student has been ordered by a judge to leave the United States for the next three years, returning only to meet with his probation officer.  http://hosted.ap.org  Malcolm Watson, 35, agreed to the sentence to avoid as much as a year in jail after pleading guilty to endangering a child and third-degree sexual abuse - both misdemeanors.  Watson, a former teacher at the Buffalo Seminary, is a U.S. citizen who already lives in Fort Erie, Ontario, with his Canadian wife and three children.

Federal prosecutors and the FBI in Connecticut are investigating whether a high-ranking staff member at one of the country's most venerable Anglican churches possessed child pornography, sources tell NBC News.  http://www.msnbc.msn.com  The sources say that earlier this month the FBI searched a building on the grounds of Christ Church in Greenwich, Conn., after obtaining information that allegedly implicates the church's long-time music director, Robert Tate, in a child pornography case.

A man accused of being Brazil's most prolific serial killer was sentenced on Wednesday to more than 20 years in prison in the first of 42 possible trials for the slaying and mutilation of boys.  http://www.msnbc.msn.com




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