Category: Bernard Baran

Berkshire Eagle: Expunge Baran’s Record

…it is small-minded of the attorney general’s office to grasp at technicalities to deny a reasonable request that his name be cleared. http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_22684794/our-opinion-clear-barans-record

Bernard Baran, Exonerated and Compensated, Fights to Clear His Name

National Center for Reason and Justice — NCRJ For immediate release: February 17, 2013 Contact:  Bob Chatelle, press@ncrj.org Victim of false conviction and imprisonment, already exonerated and awarded monetary damges, still fighting in Massachusetts courts to clear his name WHEN: 2pm, February 26, 2013 WHERE:  Suffolk Superior Court, Courtroom 1006, before Superior Court Justice Mary        … Continue reading Bernard Baran, Exonerated and Compensated, Fights to Clear His Name

Bernard Baran and John Swomley at St. Francis College

Bernard Baran was the first case sponsored by the NCRJ. After 22 hellish years, he was finally freed in 2006 and exonerated in 2009. On April 17, 2012, Baran and his attorney, John Swomley, spoke before a criminal-justice class at St. Francis College in Brooklyn. Here is a video of their presentation.

After 25 years, All Charges Finally Thrown Out for Bernard Baran, the First Childcare Worker in America Convicted in a Daycare “Ritual Sex Abuse” Case

Roxbury, Massachusetts —June 15, 2009—The NCRJ applauds a district attorney’s decisionon June 9th to cease further appeals and drop all charges against Bernard F. Baran, Jr. During the national hysteria over ritual sex abuse  in daycare centers in America in the 1980s, Baran was the first childcare worker ever to be convicted in one of… Continue reading After 25 years, All Charges Finally Thrown Out for Bernard Baran, the First Childcare Worker in America Convicted in a Daycare “Ritual Sex Abuse” Case