With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...
Sunday April 16, 2000; 11:04 AM EDT
Media Ignore Sister Jeanne's Corroboration of Juan Miguel's Abuse
The controversial affidavit alleging that Juan Miguel Gonzalez
physically abused the woman he divorced in 1991 and the boy she
gave birth to two years later is corroborated by an unimpeachable
source -- but America's mainstream press refuses to report it.
According to a statement issued Friday night by family spokesman
Armando Guttierez , Orlanda Rodriguez swore on penalty of perjury
that he saw Mr. Gonzalez had beat Elisabeth Brotons so badly
that it sent her to the hospital.
Rodriguez also claimed, "Juan Miguel is of a violent nature,
impulsive nature and out of control, all of which traits I saw
him inflict on his own son Elian." (See: Rodriguez Affidavit)
But after thirty six hours of frenzied denial by those allied
with Mr. Gonzalez, no establishment press outlet has cited the
account from Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin, the Barry University
president who hosted a reunion between Elian and his grandmothers
in January.
"(O'Laughlin) also said Friday that information from one of the
grandmothers that the father had been abusive to Elian's mother
made her question how good a father he would be to Elian,"
reported the Miami Herald in February. (See: Sister Jeanne:
Grandma Wanted to Defect - Miami Herald, Feb. 20, 2000)
When reporters challenged the Barry University president on
whether she was fluent enough in Spanish to be sure of what she
had heard, O'Laughlin insisted, "I clearly understood what was
said to me that night."
O'Laughlin had been handpicked by Attorney General Janet Reno and
had said before her meeting with the grandmothers she was neutral
on the question of the boy's return to Cuba.
But within days of the reunion, O'Laughlin publicly announced a
complete about face on the issue, saying she now believed it was
in Elian's best interests that he remain in America.
In it's initial report on the affidavit, NewsMax.com noted Sister
O'Laughlin's corroboration of the abuse charges -- and was the
only print source to publish an unexpurgated transcript of Mr.
Guttierez reading of the document.
Mr. Gonzalez reportingly denies the child-abuse charges in a "60
Minutes" interview set for broadcast Sunday evening.
Typical of the media's malfeasance in this dispute were Sunday
morning's dual interviews with Sister O'Laughlin and Joan Brown
Campbell, General Secretary of the National Council of Churches.
Appearing on ABC's "This Week," Sister O'Laughlin was never
questioned by host Cokie Roberts about her account of the
grandmother's child-abuse confession.
During the same interview, Dr. Campbell criticized the family
for videotaping Elian's pleas to stay in the US, saying the boy
had been coached. Roberts made no mention of her own network's
interview with Elian two weeks ago, where he told ABC's Diane
Sawyer the exact same thing without any coaching whatsoever.
In Sunday's interview, Dr. Cambpell repeatedly insisted that
during his stay in the US, Mr. Gonzalez was free to speak his
mind.
Inexplicably, Roberts decided not to challenge Campbell with
information first reported last week by her and her "This Week"
colleague Sam Donaldson, that Mr. Gonzalez's parents had been
forcibly removed from their home in Cardenas, Cuba and had been
relocated to Havana where they were being "watched" by Castro's
agents. (See: Castro Holding Elian's Grandparents Hostage: ABC
News)
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