Simulcast: VFALSAC, VOCAL, FMS
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 10:55:15 EST
From: "Jonathan G. Harris, Dept. of Chem Eng, MIT" 
Subject:      Urgent action needed to help another SRA hoax victim
Originally to: Multiple recipients of list WITCHHNT
[Please redistribute this to other relevant mailing lists]
URGENT ACTION needed in Smithfield SRA case to help free Sonja Hill
from prison.
Sonja Hill is serving an unjust ten year prison sentence for satanic
ritual abuse. The methods used to send Sonja and her boyfriend to
prison are no better than those used to obtain the stories of alien
abductions. In fact the child interviews shown on the Nova program
appeared milder than those often used in SRA cases.  If you read
farther, you will see that even the district attorney has expressed
skepticism.
Sonja pleaded no contest to minor charges after her boyfriend, Pat
Figured received three consecutive life sentences for charges that
they raped children with a screw driver, dressed up as a devil and
burned a bible, held sexual ceremonies involving candles, and made
children drink urine. Further details of this case included the
Figured's appeal brief and the outrageous appellate court decision
keeping Pat Figured in prison can be obtained from: http://liquid2-
sun.mit.edu/witchhunt.html. http://liquid2-sun.mit.edu/idiotic1.html
Ann Lee, Sonja's sister wrote me and I talked with her on the phone.
Sonja has been  twice denied parole in North Carolina. Sonja was
notified that her next hearing can come up ANY DAY. Thus time is of
the essence. The family thinks that interest from people outside their
family might spur the parole board to release her. Hill's family
members believe that Juanita Baker, chairperson of the parole
commission, is the key obstacle and that this is because of
friendships with relatives of the accusing children.
Please WRITE:
Ms. Juanita Baker, Chairperson
N. C. Parole Commission
831 W. Morgan Street
Raleigh, NC 27603   phone 919/733-3414
and
Mr. Franklin Freeman, Secretary of the Department of Corrections
214 West Jones Street
Raleigh, NC 27600 phone 919/733-4926
Let them know that the WHOLE WORLD is learning about this outrageous
miscarriage of justice through the internet. We are watching them. Let
her know that this case is based on junk science. Let her know that
the word that SRA is a hoax is spreading farther and farther. If you
are a journalist, perhaps expressing interest in this story would also
prod them to action. Of course the next step is justice for Pat
Figured also (I need help; I am getting over my head). This case is
truly as ludicrous as the alien abductions. ----Jonathan G. Harris,
harris@mit.edu
ABSTRACT from the web page.
In short the story behind this case is that Patrick Figured's
girlfriend's mother babysat a few children at her farm house. One two
year old was having pain in the genital area and perhaps constipation.
After seeing several doctors, the child ended up at Duke. There, a
pediatrician who examined the child's anus decided there was the
possibility of sexual abuse. The girl's case was referred to social
worker Nancy Berson, who claims experience in satanic ritual abuse.
During interviews that Ms. Berson admitted involved leading questions
as to sexual and ritualistic abuse, she extracted accusations that Pat
Figured molested the girl with a candle and screwdriver. She
introduced Pat's name in the interview because the girl's mother
insisted that Pat was the only person who had access to the child. Ms.
Berson then used similar suggestive techniques on the girl's five year
old brother and another two year old girl who attended the daycare.
The accusations included molestation with objects, that Pat dressed up
as the devil, burned a bible, had sex with his girlfriend and her
daughter in front of the children, and made the children drink urine.
Pat Figured was convicted and sentenced to three consecutive life
terms in prison. Below is the appellate decision affirming his
conviction.
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