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"come to Kern county on vacation, leave on probation."

Bakersfield’s Witchhunt-A documentary by Sean Penn
Look for it on MSNBC

BAKERSFIELD: The Kern County Board of Supervisors has agrred to pay a $5 (five) million settlement to John Stoll; he was convicted of child molestation in one of several infamous Kern County sex ring prosecutions that took place in the mid-1980s. He was convicted solely on the 1984 testimony of six boys, ages seven to nine – there was no physical evidence presented at trial. Ed Jagels, district attorney, presided over this prosecution.