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Tuesday, 27 June 2006
In the early hours of the morning of 30th June 1986 a little girl tragically died of smoke inhalation in a house fire at Columbus Grove, Ohio.
That little girl, 3 years old Cynthia Kay Collins was considered by assistant prosecutor Randall Basinger to have been a victim of murder by arson. Reliable forensic evidence exists which proves that Cynthia was not a murder victim and that her death was a horrific accident.
Her family's grief can never be under-estimated and Basinger's insistence of murder by arson deflected from the possible conclusion by them, of an accidental cause to Cynthia's death. His political agenda precluded such a finding as being viable and his political ambition of being elected Judge required a robust pursuit of the perpetrator of what he regarded as murder by arson. His political ambition was realised and Kenneth T Richey became a further victim of Basinger's political opportunism.
Is the price of political advancement to be paid by the distorted presentation of someone's tragic accidental death and by the life of someone who was cynically used as a cruel electoral aid.
Cynthia Kay Collins would be twenty three years old this year and the thought that her death was used in such a manner, is an affront to her memory and to those perceptive enough to penetrate the smoke-screen of political opportunism inherent in this case.
It is also an affront to justice.
Please say a prayer for Cynthia and her family. God Bless little Angel.