“Michael never confessed to the crime – because no sexual abuse of his cousin ever happened. The real story would be revealed years later when Stephanie admitted to lying (she believed) in order to help her mother LaVonna as she navigated an ugly divorce from the Arena brothers’ uncle. Stephanie has recanted her damning testimony multiple times over the last decade and more, saying that at 7 years old she barely knew what sexual abuse was. In 2010, when she was 21, she told the Chronicle that she only knew that her mother, who’s ‘kind of mentally unstable,’ ‘told me to say that my cousins had molested me, otherwise she would go to jail.'”

Read the article by Chase Hoffbergeer in the Austin Chronicle.

Posted by rbchatelle on Saturday, October 10th, 2015 @ 8:07PM
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