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...world fell in for Lawrence Spiegel in December 1983. After a bitter divorce and custody fight, Spiegel was arrested on a complaint by his ex-wife and charged with the sexual abuse of his daughter Jessica, 2 1/2. There followed a two-year ordeal during which Spiegel, a psychologist from Flanders, N.J., lost most of his practice, built up legal bills of $70,000 and worst of all, he says, was denied contact with his little girl. "I wanted to kill myself," Spiegel recalls...
...daughter. He also has a new book, A Question of Innocence (Unicorn Publishing; $16.95), in which he maintains that the increased determination by authorities to uncover child sex abuse has had a less wholesome consequence: a raft of false charges that devastate the lives of those accused. Spiegel is not the only one to complain. Three years ago, 24 adults in the small city of Jordan, Minn., were charged with sexually abusing children. But only one was convicted, while two were acquitted, and charges against 21 others were dropped. They are suing the county for, among other things, the damage...
Things started off well for the Crimson, with Arkie Engle leading the way. Engle's match was never close, as he took control from the beginning to smash Mitch Spiegel...
...second doubles match, Stinebaugh and Palandjian squashed Spiegel and Jeff Gordon in straight sets...
When the Belmont Town Democratic Committee scheduled a forum for only six candidates, James Spiegel sued them for leaving him out--and both Kennedy and King refused to participate unless all of the Democratic candidates joined them...