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Show I ! ! Lehi outraged, not 'tormented' f I Editor: i Every right thinking person j abhors child abuse. I personally cannot conceive of anything worse, j But if child abuse is the worst thing i in the world, the second worst would i have to be to be charged of it and be i innocent. I do not even know all of -. i the families that are charged but ! j some of them are my closest, finest i friends. I have watched them suffer under the stress of this ongoing i nightmare until I fear for their physical health. How well could any of us adjust to having our children taken from our home for two weeks and put in foster homes? The children were i returned of course, with an apology I , and a statement that these were T exceptionally well-adjusted j' j children, but did that make those two weeks any less a living hell? One young child in this family was told in an interview by the psychologist who was attempting to determine if abuse had taken place, "Your mother has already confessed con-fessed to doing these things to you so you can tell me." It is a testament to the integrity of the child that even with this type of coercion she refused to say her mother had abused her-because she had not! I resent the connotation that Lehi is a "town in torment." I do not feel tormented, I feel outraged that so many fine people have lived with this "falling ax" over their heads for so long. Surely we cannot rest until the truth is uncovered. -Judy Nattress Lehi |