Family's life unravels as dad accused of raping daughter - Part 1 of 6

[Bozita]

Family's life unravels as dad accused of raping daughter
1:09 AM, Jun. 12, 2011
BY L.L. BRASIER AND JOHN WISELY
DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS

First in a six-part series

Chapter 1: The allegations

Julian Wendrow paced in his cell.

Three steps one way. Turn. Three steps the other way.

Four to eight hours a day, he walked back and forth in his windowless cell in the Oakland County Jail, a first-time prisoner accused of raping his autistic daughter.

Wendrow spent 74 of his 80 days in jail in the one-man cell. He saw almost none of the winter of 2008, the season that would change the West Bloomfield father's life.

He and his wife, Thal Wendrow, were seemingly ordinary middle-class parents deeply involved in their children's lives -- until the accusations prompted a prosecution that a federal judge later described as a "runaway train."

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Wendrow was stunned. His 14-year-old daughter -- mute and autistic -- communicated only through a technique called facilitated communication (FC), a typing method in which an aide guided her hand.

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[rpannier]

1. I'm thinking the same thing as this guy who posted on the story

skittybob

2:40 AM on June 12, 2011

Wow, a high school diploma and one hour of training and you're a "facilitator"?

on edit:
K&R I will be looking for the rest of this story as it comes out.
The first part was very interesting

[yurbud]

10. ouija board parlor trick

[DavidDvorkin]

2. Lives ruined by psuedoscience.

[MedicalAdmin]

4. Lives were not ruined by psuedoscience.

They were ruined by lies. Please find somewhere else to post about your pet theories. This tragedy had was not engendered by a label, no matter how convenient you find it.

[DavidDvorkin]

5. Facilitated communication is psuedoscience.

[MedicalAdmin]

6. Agreed.

But other than the medium of communication What dies that have to sonwitht due trenches corruption that made this case possible?

[xocet]

8. As it were, psuedoscience must involve lawyers.... n/t

[Demeter]

3. I've heard this story before, a couple years ago

in NH, I think...

[DavidDvorkin]

7. There are a couple of separate problems

One is psuedoscience cloaked in scientific respectability. The other is ignorance and hysteria on the part of school administrators, coupled with ignorance on the part of the police and a drive for convictions at any price on the part of prosecutors.

Sure, all of those have to be there for something like this story to happen. In this particular story, it seems to me that the biggest problem, and the starting point, is the psueodoscience.

[woo me with science]

9. +1 Thank you. nt