Trial
The trial was originally moved from Edenton to Farmville due to local publicity. “The attention became national...May (1991) with the airing of a documentary, "Innocence Lost," on the PBS series Frontline, which took the position that abuse of the extent alleged by the state was impossible.”
In March 1992, “Mr. Kelly, 43 years old, (was) facing 100 charges of sexually abusing a dozen children in 1988 and 1989 at the Little Rascals Day Care Center...Originally there were 248 charges involving 22 children, but the prosecution had withdrawn many charges while Judge D. Marsh McLelland...ha(d) dismissed others.” “The assistant district attorney said, "their reactions fit the pattern of a traumatized child. They are a consistent picture that paints abuse."
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