THE TIDE TURNS IN WENATCHEE

BUT WILL JUSTICE PREVAIL?

ROBERT AND CONNIE ROBERSON FInally got their daughter Rebecca back last week. "It was great," says Robert, a Pentecostal lay preacher, who, along with his wife, had just been cleared of 14 counts of child molestation in Wenatchee, Washington. Roberson says Rebecca, placed in foster care when her parents were arrested, "was fine--she just acted like she'd been staying overnight someplace else."

Many in Wenatchee no doubt wish they could resume their own lives so blithely. The Robersons were among 40 adults accused of thousands of sex crimes by detective Robert Perez. Perez's charges were based on unvideotaped "recovered memories," which...

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