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...Joel Hungerford, 57, stands ac cused of a crime that would seem unforgettable. In 1991, his daughter charges, he raped her-just days before her wedding. Laura B., as she is called in a New Hampshire court proceeding, did not tell anyone about the assault because, she claims, she repressed all memory of the ordeal. Only after she began therapy a year later did the horror resurface. "It was his hands. It was his beard. It was his body,'' she said last week in a pretrial hearing before Judge William Groff. "He ripped the covers off my bed, pinned...
...statement, defendant Hungerford maintained that therapists and their clients "have the power to invent a crime ... and use the legal system to trash your life and rape you-financially and emotionally." What makes his case different is that, for the first time, a criminal-court judge has agreed to decide before a trial begins whether or not a witness's testimony based on recovered memory is solid enough from a scientific point of view to be presented to the jury. Previously, courts left it to juries to decide whether to believe the memories. Legal experts expect Judge Groff to issue...
...abuse is a real-and enormous-problem. More than 400,000 reports of verifiable sexual assaults are filed with authorities each year by teachers and doctors who deal with obviously battered and traumatized youngsters. That kind of statistic makes it all the more important that in cases like the Hungerford trial in New Hampshire, the legal system gathers enough hard evidence to decide which are the real memories-and who are the real victims. --Reported by D. Blake Hallanan/San Francisco, Alice Park/New York, Rod Paul/Manchester and Dick Thompson/Washington
Michael Ryan was a quiet fellow, except when it came to talking about guns. He never tired of telling his neighbors in Hungerford, a little farming town some 75 miles west of London, about his collection of firearms or showing them off whenever anyone paid attention. Ryan, 27, had recently joined the Tunnel Rifle and Pistol Club, where he practiced regularly. Said Club Manager Andrew White: "He was a very good shot. He hit an 18- by 14-in. target consistently at 100 meters." Last week Ryan used his shooting skill to deadly effect, turning his neighbors into targets...
Seven minutes later he arrived at the row house he shared with his widowed mother in Hungerford. He shot her, killed the family dog and set the house on fire. Retrieving a semiautomatic Kalashnikov assault rifle and ammunition from a garden shed, Ryan began walking toward the center of town, firing bursts and reloading as he went. "He was just strolling along the road, shooting at anything that moved," said Barbara Morley. Said another witness, Christopher Browsher: "He looked just like Rambo...