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Monday, March 24

More sex abuse

The mother implicated in the sex abuse case of Douglas Conrad and James Wiley will be back in Saratoga Springs City court tomorrow morning. The woman, who we are not identifying to protect her teen-aged kids, is facing two counts of endangering the welfare of a child in the second degree.

Here's the story: On Feb. 2, one of the two children (both of whom have allegedly been molested by Conrad and/or Wiley) blurts out in the car to his mom that Conrad is abusing him. His sibling immediately calls him a liar. According to family counsel John Aretakis, Mom tells that kids that if what he is saying is true, he should go to the police. He doesn't, and neither does Mom. The abuse doesn't come to light until several days later, when another victim, outside of the family, came forward.

Saratoga County DA James Murphy stated, at the time of this woman's arrest, that the aim in charging her was not to throw her in jail, but to get her into court-mandated therapy and family treatment.

Aretakis, says it's a BS charge, and that prosecuting her is only going to hurt the family more. What do you think?

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think she should be held accountable. Chances are she has had neglect charges in the past. Any Mother that will pass off her obligation to Mother has issues of some kind.

March 25, 2008 at 10:38 AM 

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