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ROBERT AND CONNIE ROBERSON FInally got their daughter Rebecca back last week. "It was great," says Robert, a Pentecostal lay preacher, who, along with his wife, had just been cleared of 14 counts of child molestation in Wenatchee, Washington. Roberson says Rebecca, placed in foster care when her parents were arrested, "was fine--she just acted like she'd been staying overnight someplace else...
...were fortunate, praise the Lord, but this is not over," says Roberson. He intends to file a civil suit against the state, seeks the release of those in prison and supports a local campaign to have the U.S. Justice Department investigate. Indeed, Attorney General Janet Reno has asked her civil rights division to review the case under laws against misusing public office to deprive citizens of their due-process rights; a report is due after Christmas. But it is unclear whether the proofs necessary to convict Perez and others are available in Wenatchee. A state appeals court may free those...
LAST SPRING, AS PASTOR ROBERT ROBERSON HANDED out groceries from the food bank at his Pentecostal church in East Wenatchee, Washington, a SWAT team surrounded the building, then handcuffed the minister and took him in for questioning. At the same time, Roberson's wife Connie was called out of a class she was attending at Wenatchee Valley College and arrested. Their daughter, four-year-old Rebekah, was taken by Child Protective Services, placed in foster care and subjected to intense recovered-memory therapy; the Robersons--who were imprisoned for 4 1/2 months--have not seen or talked to her since...
...Robersons were accused by 11-year-old D.E.--the state's chief witness, who just happens to be the foster daughter of Wenatchee's sole sex-crimes investigator, Robert Perez--of myriad acts of child abuse, allegedly carried out not in furtive encounters but in bizarre sex parties at their church. Lurid reports describe orgies and ritual sacrifice on the altar, with Roberson and his congregation of perverts shouting "Hallelujah!" after what D.E. calls "the wild thing...
...television with on Tuesday, after delaying the broadcast until a jury was sequestered--as though it mattered. The film, as shocking in its revelations as an old calendar, stars Bobby (China Beach) Hosea as O.J., Jessica (One Life to Live) Tuck as Nicole and David (The O.J. Simpson Story) Roberson as A.C. Cowlings. The docudrama opens with the Simpson kids' Akita, Kato, looking to fetch help back to the site of the carnage, the most suspenseful moment of the whole thing. Faithful to the public record, it is pretty flat all around...