Cases
At present, we have approved the following cases for sponsorship: To see cases in your own state, click here.
You may also check our cases in other states by using the box below.
OUR Cases
Elizabeth Ramirez and Others
The Texas Four. Elizabeth Ramirez and others.The National Center for Reason and Justice has sponsored the San Antonio 4 since we learned about their plight, in 2008. Before Anna, Cassie, Kristie and Elizabeth found us, they’d written to other …
Jesse Friedman
The story of Jesse’s wrongful conviction is told in the acclaimed motion picture, Capturing the Friedmans. Read More.…
Victor Rosario
Victor Rosario
(photo credit: Peter Chermayeff) On the basis of statements signed while in the throes of delirium tremens, Mr. Rosario was convicted 32 years ago of a crime he did not commit. The police concede that, during the interrogation, …
Bernard Baran
Bernard Baran was 19 and working in a daycare when the panic ravaged the nation in the early 80s. He was sent to prison for 22 years, where he was raped, beaten, and denied adequate medical care. Read more.…
The Yankton Four
For the history of this case click here.
Here is a recent article about the case by Evelyn Red Lodge in the Native Sun News.
Read more about this case in the Huffington Post.
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Joseph Allen and Nancy Smith
Joseph Allen and Nancy Smith were convicted of sexually abusing young children in August of 1994. Smith, a 37-year-old single mother with four children, was a bus driver for the Lorain, Ohio Head Start. Read More.…
Francisco Fuster
Francisco Fuster, of Miami, FL, aged 36, was convicted in 1985 on 14 counts of child abuse. The children described the chanting of prayers to Satan, eating someone’s head, and riding on sharks.
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Bruce Perkins
Bruce Perkins. The frightening thing about “this nightmare” is that such a nightmare could happen to anyone. Once a sexual abuse allegation is made, and the wheels of the Child Protective Services system begin to roll, logic and presumed …
Father Gordon MacRae
Father Gordon MacRae. Another bogus false memory case against a Catholic priest. .
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Fran and Dan Keller
In 1992 Fran and Dan Keller were sent to prison for sexually abusing a child in their suburban Austin Day Care Center. But parents have convinced themselves that the Kellers belong to a cult that tortured andbrainwashed their kids and …
Lawrence Brose
Lawrence Brose is a well regarded gay artist based in Buffalo who has also made videos dealing with gay male sexuality. He has long scoured the Internet to download images for future use in his art. His work is not …
The Amirault Family
The Amirault Family. For 18 years, Violet Amirault ran a thriving and well-loved daycare center in Malden, Massachusetts. In later years, she was assisted by her son, Gerald, and her daughter, Cheryl. Read more.Khemwattie Bedessie
Khemwatie Bedassie. The daycare panic is not over. This tragic case was complicated by anti- immigrant bigotry.
Jack Carroll
Jack Carroll. The accusations in this case arose after the then 13-year-old daughter of Jack Carroll’s ex-wife reported to a friend that she was having dreams that an unidentified someone was touching her. Read More.…
Varn Chandola
Petition for review granted. The case of Varn Chandola meets our criteria for fiscal sponsorship. but there is no current fund-raising activity for this case.
Varn Chandola and his wife Neha, Seattle lawyers, were in the unhappy position of divorcing …
Bruce Clairmont
Bruce Clairmont. Bruce Clairmont’s story begins in June, 1991, when he and his wife of 18 years, Deborah, separated. At that time, two of the children stated their preference to live with their father. Read More.…
Dr. Robert Bruce Craft
The case of Dr. Robert Bruce Craft meets our criteria for fiscal sponsorship, but there is no current fund-raising activity for his case. But please read about his case for its educational value.…
Gunther Fiek
Gunther Fiek. On Sunday night, December 3, 2000, Gunther was lying on the couch with his wife, watching a movie, when he received a phone call from the father of one of his students. He told Gunther that he …
Robert Halsey
Robert Halsey drove a school bus for twenty years, delivering an entire generation of Lanesboro children to school. He and his wife raised one daughter and he had no criminal record.
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Dr. James Krivacska
Dr. James Krivacska. A highly respected psychologist tries to help intellectually impaired adolescents and ends up in prison. …
Lynn Malcom
Lynn Malcom. It all started on a quiet, normal day in January 1987. I had opened a daycare for only 2 1/2 months before the month of April when I was arrested for raping, molesting and violently abusing several …
Elsie Oscarson
Elsie Oscarson. Elsie Oscarson is serving a life sentence for allegedly molesting her two sons at her home in Vermont when they were three and four years old. She was supposed to have engaged in oral sex with them. She …
James Rodriguez and Others
James Rodriguez and others. The allegations of horrific sexual abuse started when Randy claimed he had been raped by his father…
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Father Paul Shanley
Father Paul Shanley, 82, became one of the highest-profile figures in the Catholic abuse scandal that gripped the state in 2002. But while Shanley’s conviction in February was widely interpreted as a closing chapter in the scandal, his case …
Onsy Zachary
Onsy Zachary was falsely accused by his brother, who wants him deported. Onsy and his wife, Fadia, fled Egypt to escape religious persecution and sought religious asylum in the U.S.
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