The child's gonorrhea test was the only physical evidence the state produced against Fuster and his wife Ileana.
When CDC lab workers used a superior method to re-evaluate thousands of samples that had originally tested positive, more than one-third of the samples proved to be negative. Compiled by attorneys Arthur Cohen and Robert Rosenthal, the 40-page brief sets out four distinct claims:ġ)The gonorrhea test performed on Fuster's six-year-old son made use of a method that has been labeled "highly unreliable" by the Centers for Disease Control.
Two weeks ago he filed a motion seeking a new trial, based in part on the Bragas' own questionable interviewing techniques. What the documentary didn't mention - what virtually no one ever mentions - is that, over the past eight years, Frank Fuster has compiled a small mountain of evidence to support his steadfast claims of innocence. Just last week the Arts & Entertainment Network aired an hourlong special about the case, which spotlighted the Bragas' role in helping put Fuster away.
The case made heroes of then State Attorney Janet Reno, and the two self-proclaimed child experts she recruited to interview alleged victims, Joseph and Laurie Braga. Vilified in the press for months before and during his trial, Fuster the molester was subsequently memorialized in Jan Hollingsworth's 1986 book, Unspeakable Acts, and a 1990 TV docudrama of the same name whose re-airing apparently triggered the most recent jailhouse attack.Īmong social workers and prosecutors Country Walk has become legendary as the case that offers definitive proof that "ritual" child abuse is not a figment of overactive imaginations. The instrument's steel tip lodged in Fuster's neck, millimeters from a main artery.Ĭountry Walk parents will tell you Frank Fuster is getting what he deserves. In mid-August, another convict at Sumter Correctional Institute in Bushnell, Florida, stabbed him with a pen. This past January, a gang of fellow inmates nearly succeeded in choking him to death.
He has been the target of routine attacks ever since. In 1985 he was sentenced to six life terms. Life in prison has not been easy for Frank Fuster, the Cuban immigrant convicted of sexually abusing at least eight children at a day-care center in South Dade's Country Walk housing development.
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