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IPFS News Link • Criminal Justice System

Child-Snatchers and Life-Stealers, Pt. II: Protecting the Guilty and Powerful

• by Will Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Under the rule of District Attorney Ed Jagels, Kern County, California became ground zero for the child abuse hysteria that raged across America for most of the 1980s. Utterly ruthless in pursuing convictions and entirely indifferent to the truth, Jagels recruited and developed a disciplined cadre of persecutors -- assistant DAs, police investigators, social workers, and "expert" witnesses -- who refined the art of railroading defendants into an exact science.