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According to Yant, the proliferation of ever-stranger allegations by aggressively questioned children -- and the tendency of adults to believe them -- is common in these situations, which he termed "sex-abuse hysteria."

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As a result of his investigation, Yant concluded that all the mistakes, ambiguities, discrepancies, corrupted testimony, and biases that figured into the process add up to one thing -- doubt.

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Yant called the trial "a judicial atrocity" and said aggressive questioning by frightening authority figures contaminated the Rouse youngsters' memories before they got to the trial and made it impossible to ascertain the accuracy of their testimony.

Stephanie Woodard: Presumed Guilty: Group Seeks to Exonerate Four Yankton Sioux Men Stephanie Woodard 2011

Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Monica Yant Kinney wrote Sunday about two outraged Philadelphia moms, Susan Matthews and Kathy Kane, who are asking people to mail their archbishop pictures of their children, the face of the future, and then make radical change to bring in lay voices in the fight to clean up the clergy sex abuse mess.

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Editor William Marimow will remain at the Inquirer as an investigative reporter, said columnist Monica Yant Kinney, who spoke with him after Thursday's announcement.

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In taking the cases, NCRJ relied on the work of prominent investigator Martin Yant, author of Presumed Guilty: When Innocent People Are Wrongly Convicted.

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