Michael Rose

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Charge:	Child/Minor Sex Abuse (incl. molestation)
Sentence:	23 years
Years Imprisoned:	6
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Year Convicted:	1995
Year Cleared:	2000
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Washington
County or Region of Crime:	Chelan
City of Crime:	Wenatchee
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"One of the Wenatchee 43. They were 43 adults in the Wenatchee, WA area arrested in 1994-1995 on a total of 29,726 counts of rape or molestation involving 60 children that were fabricated by the police, state child service workers and prosecutors. Michael Rose was wrongly convicted in March 1995 of raping and molesting two boys. His conviction was reversed on December 5, 2000, and he was released from prison two days later, on December 7th. He was the last of the 19 Wenatchee defendant's convicted to be released from prison. He was wrongly imprisoned for six years."
Conviction Caused By:	"Two children falsely testified against Rose under pressure by Wenatchee police detective Bob Perez and Wash. State social workers. One of the children was a boy that had an IQ of 49 and was diagnosed as being "highly suggestible and easily influenceable." The child's mother, Cherie Town, also recanted her allegations against Rose and another Wenatchee defendant, Randall Reed, that were identicable to each other."
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Age When Imprisoned:	25
Age When Released:	31
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	""The Anger is Gone: Man says he's found God and a new lifestyle after spending six years in prison," Katherine Schiffner (staff) Wenatchee World, 2001"
Information Location 1:	http://christianparty.net/wenatchee3.htm
Information Source 2:	"Last Child Sex-Ring Defendant Released From Prison After Court Action, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 27, 2000."
Information Location 2:	http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/wena27ww.shtml
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Book About Case:	"“Witch Hunt: a true story of social hysteria and abused justice,” Kathryn Lyon, Avon Books, NY, 1998"
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Michael Rose

Charge:

Child/Minor Sex Abuse (incl. molestation)

Sentence:

23 years

Years Imprisoned:

6

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1995

Year Cleared:

2000

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Washington

County or Region of Crime:

Chelan

City of Crime:

Wenatchee

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

25

Age When Released:

31

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

""The Anger is Gone: Man says he's found God and a new lifestyle after spending six years in prison," Katherine Schiffner (staff) Wenatchee World, 2001"

Information Location 1:

http://christianparty.net/wenatchee3.htm

Information Source 2:

"Last Child Sex-Ring Defendant Released From Prison After Court Action, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 27, 2000."

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/wena27ww.shtml

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Book About Case:

"“Witch Hunt: a true story of social hysteria and abused justice,” Kathryn Lyon, Avon Books, NY, 1998"

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