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...witness in the Solano County, Calif., Municipal Court was a twelve-year-old girl named Amy, and Judge John DeRonde was cold and impersonal as he asked her to take the oath and testify. The girl, neatly dressed in jeans and a white blouse, replied with a nervous smile that she would not. The startled judge and prosecutor explained that the law required Amy to take the witness stand. Again she politely refused...
Judge DeRonde then took an action that shocked the nation: he ordered Amy held at the Solano County Juvenile Hall until she agreed to testify. She remained there in solitary confinement for eight days. Her only offense: refusing to testify against her stepfather, who was accused of sexually molesting...
...facts of the California case were more tortuous than a television melodrama: a family therapist, acting under the demands of a 1980 state law requiring that child abuse be reported, gave Solano County officials information about a physician who was alleged to have molested his stepdaughter. The information had been obtained during a counseling session with the doctor, his wife and the girl. As a result, the stepfather was charged with child molestation. He signed a confession, but Amy's corroborating evidence was needed in order to prosecute. When she refused to testify. Judge DeRonde found her in contempt...
Commented C.W. Post Coach Kathy Solano. "The officials let the game get out of hand, when the Crimson was pressing us. I was afraid someone was going to get hurt...
Wicker Park Elementary School. The money has been used to set up highly popular courses in cooking, darkroom techniques and computer science. The Los Angeles Dodgers have adopted the Solano Avenue Elementary School near the stadium, sending in such stars as Second Baseman Steve Sax and Pitcher Fernando Valenzuela to talk about developing good habits. Says Dodger Coach Mark Cresse: "You know how kids are. Their parents can tell them 100 times that they should study, and it goes in one ear and out the other. If a Dodger tells them, believe me, they listen...