-Caveat Lector- Defense: witnesses in church rape cases now deny abuse 8/15/07 - AP Amite - Lawyers for church members accused of raping children say one alleged abuse victim now says he was never abused and his brother, an alleged witness, backs him up, a Baton Rouge newspaper reported Wednesday. Statements by two boys and a girl were the center of allegations that the minister of Hosanna Church, his wife and five members of their now defunct congregation sexually abused children from 1999 to 2003. But the boys, now 21 and 17 years old, now say there was no abuse and they were coerced into statements against the adults in the spring of 2005, attorneys for the minister, Louis Lamonica, and for the only defendant whose trial has been scheduled told The Advocate Tuesday.....The girl, now 7 years old, still maintains she was sexually abused, prosecutors and her mother told The Advocate outside court on Tuesday, when a pretrial hearing was held for Bernard. His trial is scheduled Nov. 26. Because of her age during the alleged abuse -- infancy until she was 3 years old -- she is not expected to testify, Assistant District Attorney Don Wall said....Nine church members were arrested and seven indicted....Wall said Bernard admitted abusing children, and one of those statements was videotaped. His statements mirrored the children's, the prosecutor said." _http://www.wwltv.com/local/northshore/stories/wwl081507khchurchabuse.37ae5b4f.html_ (http://www.wwltv.com/local/northshore/stories/wwl081507khchurchabuse.37ae5b4f.html) In Depth: Aboriginal Canadians - A timeline of residential schools CBC News Online | Dec. 21, 2006 _h ttp://www.cbc.ca/news/background/aboriginals/timeline_residentialschools.html_ (http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/aboriginals/timeline_residentialschools.html)
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