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Lost Innocents
Pollitt, Katha | July 14, 2003 issue

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The article offers observations on the case of Bernard Baran, a 19-year-old childcare worker in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Baran was the first to be convicted in the wave of mass-molestation daycare cases in the 1980s. The original complaint came from a troubled family and "Peter," whose alleged complaint to his mother that his penis hurt set off the investigation, was a difficult child. Baran's legal team have been trying for more than two years to get from Gerard Downing of Berkshire County, records to which the court has agreed the defense is entitled and which, the lawyers believe, could absolve Baran. An important and unusual feature of Baran's case is that he is gay.

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BARAN, Bernard; CHILD sexual abuse; COMPLAINTS (Civil procedure); ACTIONS & defenses; DOWNING, Gerard; FALSE imprisonment; WITNESSES; GAY men; MASSACHUSETTS
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