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the first five years in prison i was in and out of the hole. why did you get in the hole? i had an attitude. for stoll, changing that attitude meant finally shutting his mind off from the world beyond these walls and giving up any hope that someone outside cared about him or his claims of innocence. and then, years later, stoll got word that margie grafton and her boyfriend had been set free. their convictions thrown out. had she been able to prove what both had believed at trial that the children s stories were made up? well, no. instead, grafton s lawyer discovered that a psychiatric analysis had been performed on both margie grafton and her boyfriend tim, and from that analysis it was determined that neither one of them had a sexual inclination toward children. but this very important bit of evidence was ruled inadmissible by the judge at trial. and while margie and tim sat in

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but it got worse. in the next few days, five more children surfaced, first and second graders, claiming they had been molested too. raped by john stoll. he had no criminal record, but with six kids ready to testify against him, stoll s conviction seemed all but assured. so the prosecutors offered stoll what appeared to be a generous plea bargain. what deal did they offer you? 12 years. why didn t you take it? i m no child molester. or so he said. but then john stoll s son jed and five other little boys took the stand and gave humiliating testimony before a judge and jury. the children hung their heads and answered yes or no to explicit questions about horrific acts of molestation. you re down there sitting at your table in the courtroom listening to your son. yeah. what was that like for you?

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what dark force was at work? authorities came to believe the sex rings were part of a much larger satanic cult. tips led them to alleged grave sites in search of child sacrifices, but no bodies were found. still, hundreds of suspected molesters were investigated, dozens prosecuted. at one point, this was a 12-man cell. there was people sleeping under the beds, on the tables, under the tables. all accused of the same thing? all child molesters. it was just like this great upheaval of child molesters. two cells full of them. and there in jail, while awaiting trial, stoll befriended an inmate whose case was almost identical to his. though jeff modahl had been accused of belonging to one of the other alleged child sex rings, modahl s 10-year-old daughter, carla, had testified her father, along with his friends and family, had molested her. but modahl, like grafton and stoll, said the stories were

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stay in the pool house for a couple weeks until you found another place. did you worry about the kids around him or have any reason to? why would you think something like that? i mean, seriously, why? i mean, now i m seeing child molesters under rocks, but i didn t think about it. prosecutors accused them all. stoll, self, grafton and her boyfriend, of raping boys from 5 to 8 years of age. and one of the star witnesses was grafton s 7-year-old son, donald, who took the stand and said not only that stoll had molested him, worst of all, he told the jury, his own mother had forced him into orgies. you were accused of sexually molesting your own son? yes. just the thought that everybody in the world thought that i had done that was devastating. it was devastating.

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