European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 Webb Appeal to governor at hearing Chicago up Gary Dotson and the woman who accused him of a rape she now says never occurred each appealed to James Thompson thursday to Grant executive clemency to free Dotson from the whole thing was a big Dotson former accuser told the governor and the Illinois prisoner review i would like to apologize for my past mistakes that have caused problems for so Many people As Well As Cathleen Crowell who accused Dotson of rape when she was told the fac finding hearing she had concocted the rape charge because she feared she was pregnant after having sex with her asked by the governor Why she came Forward last month with her Webb said she wanted Sim ply to Tell the truth about a deception that sent an inno cent Man to jail for the past six who lives in explained that the lie troubled her conscience after she became a born again i can Only do my Best with gods strength to right a Webb in morning Dotson declared his innocence in an emotional speech to the governor and the what else can i do except to say in innocent Dotson i dont know what else i can do or should have done to prove i want with Dotson i was never at any time in my life involved in any violent has served six years of a 25to 50year prison term for his 1979 rape and kidnapping i still try to Hope for Freedom because this Nightmare Doest he said at the Dotson and Webb Are among 18 witnesses expected to no one wants to remember said who outlined for the Board the events of july the night Webb said she was a photo Gary appeals for clemency to before an Illinois prisoner review 75yearold mercy killer gets 25 years fort up Roswell Gilbert was convicted thursday of the mercy killing of his 73yearold incurably ill wife in what he called an act of love and the prosecutor called a cold and calculated i dont feel like i committed a crime at the 75yearold retired Engineer adding he would do it again if confronted with the same Justice is on my but the Law is on somebody else the Broward circuit court jury of 10 women and two men deliberated four hours and 15 minutes before finding Gilbert guilty of the first degree murder of Emily Gil his wife of 51 circuit judge Thomas Coker saying the trial had been emotionally demanding on promptly sentenced the be spec Silver haired Gilbert to 25 years in prison with no Chance of i thought id be said Gil who calmly testified he fired two bul lets into his wife brain because incurable osteoporosis and alzheimer disease had racked her with pain and forced him out of love to terminate her defense attorney Joseph who said Gilbert is the first mercy killing defendant in the nation to be tried for first degree Mur attributed the guilty verdict to the defendants stoic jurors Are Varon they would prefer to see a Man get on the stand and cry his heart he has no tears left Gilberts Martha Gilbert was led from the courtroom after the verdict i dont want to see my daddy in hell die in Coker said the trial had been difficult for in not without but i am sworn to uphold the the judge the Law prohibits the Type of act that Gilbert marshals led the 12 jurors from court House As a group and All refused to discuss the assistant state attorney Kelly Hancock told the jury that Gilbert was a calculating scientist who Felt no mercy or com passion when he shot his wife to death with a Rusty pistol March 4 while she sat on a sofa in their lot floor Emily became a Hancock he had decided that Emily was a psycho that the word he be hard and Hancock told the jury in closing dont let sympathy get in the Way of the hard 7to 13yearolds Are most troubled Many abused kids avoid lasting harm Boston a Many Young victims of sexual abuse seem Able to weather these encounters without suffering any lasting psychological a new study those most prone to have personality problems after being subjected to sexual advances Are children Between the Ages of 7 and the researchers while pre school children and teenagers Are More Likely to escape permanent the study was conducted on youngsters who took part in the family crisis program for sexually abused children at new eng land medical it was published in the May Issue of the journal Hospital and Community Jonathan a former director of the program who is now chief of psychiatry at Carney Hospital in said the findings indicate that sexual abuse Doest necessarily doom children to a life time of mental the researchers said Young victims of sexual abuse Are More Likely than other children to suffer psychological they said the level of psychological Dis Tress observed in victims of sex abuse seems to Range from a Complete absence of any conventional symptoms of childhood psychopathology to the presence of extreme and pervasive emotional in some these personality problems might have existed before the youngsters were sexually and their difficulties could have made them More susceptible to sexual the researchers based their findings on the results of a behavioural questionnaire Given to 112 sexually abused three quarters were and nearly two thirds were abused by a family among youngsters who were Between Ages 4 and 17 percent showed signs of significant psychological about 20 percent of these youngsters were physically and emotionally immature and lagged their Peers in developing a sense of right and instead of being caused by sexual these were probably longstanding developmental difficulties that made them More vulnerable to Coer Cion and intimidation by sexual about 20 percent of the children had fears and depression that were More Likely to have resulted from emotion ally disturbing Horowitz speculated that since Young sters this age dont understand they Are less Apt to be burdened by the children Between the Ages of 7 and 13 seemed More affected by sexual forty percent of them were seriously Dis Turbed in at least one area of they were More Likely than other Young sters their age to be angry and destructive or to hold in their among teenagers Between Ages 14 and Only 8 percent showed serious personality they cautioned that they might have missed some of the worst cases among this age because the abused teen agers could have run away or refused to take part in the counselling they recommended that social psychologists and other professionals re Frain from probing into the details of the sexual experience if the preschooler shows no obvious they should help the youngster understand when adults approaches Are Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today May 1945 the government announced that while the horse racing ban and the Midnight curfew have been the nation was warned there will be no wholesale scrapping of wartime 30 years ago today May 1955 a scientific group studying survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings reported that so far no genetic defects traceable to the bomb have been observed among children whose parents were 20 years ago today May 1965 the three Kun flux klansmen accused of killing civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo marched Side beside in a 10block klan March on the fourth anniversary of the Freedom rider bus burning in they received a standing ovation from a crowd of about 950 70 years ago today May 1975 the cambodian communists peasant revolution is forcing be tween three and four million people out of the cities on a grueling exodus into the Sun times publisher says newspaper for Sale Chicago up the publisher of the Chicago Sun times confirmed thurs Day that newspaper magnate Rupert Mur Doch is putting the newspaper up for Sale to comply with Federal regulations in his Pur Chase of seven television Sun times publisher Robert Page issued a statement to the newspapers employees saying Murdoch has put the newspaper up for Sale to comply with acc regulations prohibiting Cross ownership of newspaper and television stations in the same Murdoch must sell the Sun times apparently the new York Post As Well so he can buy seven metro Media television including new in new York and wild in