She’s on the faculty at the University of Texas, leads a center specializing in assessing children for abuse and, not only trains other medical professionals, but created a Dr. Kellogg has testified in over 800 abuse cases. The 19 and 20 year-olds were indicted in an environment of ubiquitous homophobia and the idea that homosexuals are naturally prone to sexually abusing children.
In 1994, four women were accused, tried and convicted of assaulting two young girls (nieces of Ramirez). With that conviction-at-all-costs mentality pervasive among prosecutors in the U.S., we can expect there are many more innocent people in prison than we know. Nonetheless, even when one wishes the director would push some of her interviewees a bit harder — especially in regard to Javier, who gets away with directly lying to the camera — a wealth of VHS recordings and considerable access to the principal players lends the project a compelling comprehensiveness.Esquenazi’s film is shrewdly edited, enhancing its contentions through excerpts from official documents that highlight the flimsiness of the case against the San Antonio Four, as well as the homophobia propelling it forward. Kristie “Kris” Mayhugh was on temporary leave from Texas A&M Veterinary School in College Station, Texas, at the time of her arrest. The judge ultimately agreed new trials were warranted, but found the women had not proven they were actually innocent.The San Antonio Four need to be exonerated in order to be compensated by the state for the years they spent unjustly imprisoned. Association (Bfca) and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association (Btja) announced the winners of the inaugural Critics. The event will also feature a screening of the documentary Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four. The incident was speculated to … But the judge deemed that irrelevant and refused to let the jury hear it.The defense managed to keep the jury from hearing speculation that the alleged attacks were “satanic-related,” but prosecutor Philip Kazen got the message across nonetheless with language about Ramirez having “sacrificed” her niece on “the altar of lust.” When Ramirez took the stand and said she would never hurt her nieces, Kazen announced, “So says O.J., ma’am.” He later explained away the fact that the children and their grandmother couldn’t keep their stories straight by telling the jury that was to be expected of children and implying that only a rape apologist would even consider whether the children were being truthful.
//players.brightcove.net/416418724/default_default/index.min.js All the women were convicted. The state’s reluctance to take responsibility in a case where its failings have been unusually well-documented and publicized suggests locking up the occasional innocent person isn’t that big a deal. They were juggling work at Arby’s and AutoZone, shifts watching the girls and Rivera’s kids and coordinating rides to Walmart, public parks and the doctor. © Copyright 2020 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. “Southwest of Salem” doesn’t need to strain to provoke indignation, so clearly innocent are its subjects — all of whom, in interviews from prison, unwaveringly proclaim that nothing happened. The nieces, their father and grandmother told various authorities and two courts that Aunt Liz and her friends had suddenly called the nieces in from playing one day to strip them naked, hold them down and violently penetrate them with a syringe of unidentified liquid, white powder and a tampon.
However, as the American Academy of Pediatrics explained in a 2007 report, “torn or injured hymens do not leave scars as a matter of scientific fact.” Variations like the ones Dr. Kellogg claimed were evidence of traumatic injury are normal and she has since admitted her testimony was flawed. Kristie Mayhug h , sentenced to 15 years. © Copyright 2020 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. The 28th Annual GLAAD Media Awards revealed this year's 156 nominees, and lots of familiar faces are being recognized. The film, which will begin airing on the Discovery ID network on October 15th, explains how it all went down at the tail end of a period of nationwide panic that Satan-worshippers were preying on children at daycare, in an atmosphere that was very homophobic.
Now, the documentary Southwest of Salem: the Story of the San Antonio Four, tells the story of those convictions, made on the basis of inexplicable allegations and … Directed by Deborah S. Esquenazi. LOGLINE: After being wrongfully convicted of gang-raping two little girls during the Satanic Panic witchhunt of the 80s and 90s, four Latina lesbians fight against mythology, homophobia, and prosecutorial fervor in this now-classic gay rights 'True Crime' tale that helped exonerate the 'San … Glenn here. In 2012, one of the nieces admitted to having been pressured by her father, Javier Limon, to make the false accusations.
Much of its running time consists of interviews with the women, and these segments are emotionally powerful. Academy brass on Tuesday announced the roster of songs that will advance to the nominations stage for the 89th Academy Awards. We want to hear from you! The district attorney’s office agreed Kellogg’s testimony was unsound and the women were entitled to new trials.