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the case had no physical
evidence of abuse and the
social worker “was presented
as an expert in treating sexual
abuse victims with signii-
cant experience in spotting
indications of suggestion or
coaching.”
The court determined
“the ends of justice and the
gravity of the error” require
a new trial.
Pergande has been back
at the Umatilla County
Jail, Pendleton, since July
2, 2015. Morrow County
Circuit Court records show
he has had several proceed-
ings since the ruling came
down, including a conference
in May that failed to reach a
plea deal.
Temple has been off
the case since April, and
Circuit Judge Dan Hill is
presiding. He set Pergande’s
trial for ive days starting
July 11. Oregon Department
of Justice prosecutor Dan
Wendel will return and work
with Morrow County deputy
prosecutor Richard Tovey to
try the case. They handled
the irst trial together.
Pergande on May 18
sent Judge Hill a “notice
of protest” promising to
“remain silent to all court
hearings, including a criminal
trial” because of his defense
attorney, Robert Klahn of
Pendleton.
Pergande has tried to
dump Klahn several times,
but judges have kept Klahn
on the case. Pergande in
the document states he was
dissatisied with Klahn’s
representation during his trial
and does not want him this
time around.
He also asserted Klahn
has a conlict of interest
because he represents Shaun
Allen Dick, a jail inmate
the state accused Pergande
of assaulting. Court records
show Pergande faces a
misdemeanor trial in that
case on July 13, and there is
a motions hearing June 8 that
could take up the protest and
other matters.
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BRIEFLY
Idaho father takes
pregnant teen
to marry rapist
ST. ANTHONY, Idaho
(AP) — An Idaho man will
spend about four months in
jail for taking his 14-year-old
daughter to Missouri to marry
a 24-year-old man who raped
and impregnated her.
The father pleaded guilty
to injury to a child last
week, and a judge put him
behind bars for 120 days
and ordered four years of
probation, the Idaho State
Journal reported.
“While you sit in jail, you
will sit and think about the
120 days your daughter was
in a vile farce of a marriage
to a rapist because of you,”
Judge Gregory Moeller said
at sentencing.
The Associated Press
does not generally identify
victims of sexual abuse and
is withholding the name of
the father and man involved
in the marriage to avoid
identifying the girl.
The father believed that a
man should marry a girl he
gets pregnant and picked a
state where 14-year-olds can
legally wed, according to court
documents. He told the judge
that he loved his daughter
and would never intentionally
harm her but acknowledged
making a bad decision.
Clinton scores
endorsement from
Gov. Jerry Brown
LOS ANGELES (AP)
— Hillary Clinton landed a
coveted endorsement from
California Gov. Jerry Brown
Tuesday, patching up a
strained relationship between
the two Democrats as she
seeks to deliver a inal blow
to Bernie Sanders’ campaign.
Clinton heads into
California and the other
end-of-the-line primaries
June 7 with the Democratic
nomination virtually locked up
— she needs just 71 delegates
to reach the required threshold
at the party’s summer
convention in Philadelphia.
East Oregonian
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Trump sends checks to vet groups as media persists
Associated Press
NEW YORK — More than a
dozen big checks lowed out of New
York last week, bound for veterans’
charities from Donald Trump. On
Tuesday, he announced he had made
good on his promise of last January
to give the groups millions of dollars
from a highly publicized fundraiser.
The announcement by the
presumptive Republican presidential
candidate came in the midst of a
40-minute rant against “dishonest”
and “sleazy” reporters who have
been pressing the issue.
The largest donation, a $1 million
check dated May 24 and drawn from
Donald J. Trump’s personal account,
was addressed to a small Tuckahoe,
New York, group that provides
scholarships to the children of fallen
Marines.
Trump had been interviewed that
same day by The Washington Post,
which for weeks had been raising
questions about where the promised
money was, urging him to disclose
recipients of the millions raised
during a splashy telethon-style
fundraiser he held in Iowa in January
in place of a Fox debate he was
boycotting.
At a news conference Tuesday,
Trump released a list of 41 groups he
said had received $5.6 million.
“Most of the money went out
quite a while ago,” Trump said.
“Some of it went out more recently.
But all of this has gone out.”
Throughout Tuesday’s confron-
tational event, Trump repeatedly
slammed the media as “unbelievably
dishonest” for its treatment of the
issue and dismissed an ABC reporter
as “a sleaze.” He said many times
that he didn’t want credit for the
fundraising but seemed peeved that
he wasn’t thanked for it.
“Instead of being like, ‘Thank you
very much, Mr. Trump,’ or ‘Trump
did a good job,’ everyone’s saying,
‘Who got it? Who got it? Who got
it?’ And you make me look very
bad,” Trump complained, taking on
reporters in the room. “I have never
received such bad publicity for doing
such a good job.”
The Associated Press spoke or
left messages with each of the orga-
nizations Trump named. Of the 30
groups that responded by Tuesday,
about half said they had received
checks from Trump just last week.
Several said the checks were
dated May 24 — the same date as
Trump’s interview with The Post,
and shipped out overnight express.
Among them was the big check
from Trump himself, written to the
Marine Corps-Law Enforcement
Foundation. Trump’s campaign had
previously told the newspaper that
his promised $1 million personal
donation had already been distrib-
uted.
Though the foundation had
received a $100,000 check from
Trump’s charity in March, last
week’s $1 million donation came as
something of a surprise.
“It is obviously a wonderful
donation,” said Sue Boulhosa, the
group’s executive director and sole
employee. She said the group had
“an inkling” that more might come
but the amount was a happy surprise.
Trump has a longstanding
relationship with the group, which
Boulhosa said typically raises a total
of between $2 million and $3 million
a year. The foundation had presented
Trump with an award at its 2015 gala
held at a New York hotel.
Appearing on CNN Tuesday,
Democratic presidential front-
runner Hillary Clinton said she was
glad that Trump had given out the
promised money.
“The problem here is the differ-
ence between what Donald Trump
says and what Donald Trump does,”
Clinton said. “He’s bragged for
months about raising $6 million
for vets and donating $1 million
himself, but it took a reporter to
shame him into actually making the
contribution.”
Trump’s campaign manager
Corey Lewandowski had originally
told the Post that the event had raised
about $4.5 million — less than the
$6 million originally announced
by Trump — because some who’d
pledged had backed out. Lewand-
owski also said all the money had
been given out.
Trump had claimed during the
fundraiser that he’d raised $6 million
through a combination of pledges
from wealthy friends, the public and
$1 million from himself.
But the campaign refused for
months to disclose which charities
had received the money, leading to
questions about whether the money
raised was less than he had said.
“It was very unfair that the
press treated us so badly,” Trump
complained Tuesday.
He suggested he had hoped to
keep the donations private. However,
Trump hadn’t appeared shy about
giving away poster-sized checks at
campaign events in the weeks after
the fundraiser.
On Jan. 30, just before the
campaign’s leadoff caucuses in
Iowa, he gave a $100,000 check to
the Puppy Jake Foundation, which
provides service dogs to wounded
Documents show
sales tactics at
Trump University
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Trump
University instructed employ-
ees on how to play on peo-
ples’ emotions to get them to
buy more expensive seminars
for succeeding in real estate,
according to nearly 400 pages
of court documents unsealed
Tuesday.
The “playbooks” for the
now-defunct business owned
by Donald Trump, the pre-
sumptive Republican nominee
for president, offer detailed
sales scripts and tell em-
ployees how to overcome
obstacles such as potential
customers who have reached
their credit card limits or want
to check with a spouse before
buying.
The 6-year-old case in San Di-
ego is scheduled to go to trial
shortly after the November
presidential election.
veterans. Representatives from the
foundation, accompanied by several
service dogs, accepted the check
at the Adler Theater in Davenport,
Iowa, where Trump was being inter-
viewed on stage by Jerry Falwell Jr.
The next day, in Council Bluffs,
Trump presented another check, also
for $100,000, to Partners for Patriots,
which also provides service dogs to
disabled veterans.
The public presentations trickled
off within days, though some of the
groups contacted by AP did report
receiving checks in February, March
and April.
Police investigate parents of boy rescued from gorilla
By DAN SEWELL
Associated Press
CINCINNATI — Police
said Tuesday they are
investigating the parents of
the 3-year-old boy who fell
into a gorilla enclosure at
the Cincinnati Zoo and had
to be rescued by a team that
shot the 400-pound animal
to death.
Authorities said the
investigation will look at
the parents’ actions leading
up to the incident — not the
operation of the zoo, which
is overseen by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
Police will then confer with
prosecutors over whether
charges should be iled,
Hamilton County Prosecutor
Joe Deters said.
The incident has triggered
a furor online, with some
saying the boy’s mother
should be charged with child
endangering, while others
want the zoo held respon-
sible for the animal’s death.
Separately, USDA said it
will investigate Saturday’s
incident for any violations of
the Animal Welfare Act.
Zoo authorities said the
unidentiied boy climbed
over a 3-foot-high railing,
walked through bushes and
plunged about 15 feet into
a shallow moat. The zoo’s
dangerous-animal response
team killed the gorilla as it
dragged the boy through the
water, authorities said. The
boy had only minor scrapes
on his head and knee,
according to police.
Ohio State University
criminal law professor Ric
Simmons said he doubts a
charge of child endangering
could be proved in this
AP Photo/John Minchillo
A boy brings lowers to put beside a statue of a gorilla outside the shuttered
Gorilla World exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden on Monday in Cin-
cinnati. A gorilla named Harambe was killed by a special zoo response team on
Saturday after a 4-year-old boy slipped into an exhibit and it was concluded his
life was in danger.
instance, since the offense
typically involves leaving
a youngster unattended for
an extended time, not a
case of a child momentarily
wandering off.
“The mother was standing
next to a zoo exhibit and lost
track of her child for perhaps
a minute or so,” Simons
said in an email. “That has
happened to almost every
parent in the world in a
public place.”
The boy’s family said
he is “doing just ine” at
home, and it had no further
comment.
A federal inspection by
USDA less than two months
ago found no problems with
the Gorilla World exhibit,
but earlier zoo inspections
detailed an incident in March
STUDENT
OF THE
in which polar bears escaped
through an open den door
into a behind-the-scenes
hallway. No one was hurt,
but an inspector warned that
the public could have been
“at great risk for injury, harm
or death.”
Zoo director Thane
Maynard said that using
tranquilizers on the gorilla
would not have knocked
the animal out right away,
leaving the boy in danger.
Maynard said 17-year-old
Harambe was agitated by the
commotion from the crowd
and was extremely powerful,
capable of crushing a
coconut in one hand.
He said the zoo remains
safe for its 1.6 million
annual visitors, but a review
is underway to determine
whether any improvements
can be made.
Donald Trump weighed
in Tuesday, saying the zoo
had little choice but to kill
the gorilla. Trump said it was
“a very tough call,” but the
child’s life was at stake.
The executive director of
a Cincinnati-based animal
rights organization is calling
on the USDA to ine the zoo.
“The barrier obviously
isn’t suficient to keep the
public out,” said Michael
Budkie of Stop Animal
Exploitation NOW. “Other-
wise, Harambe wouldn’t be
dead.”
Jack Hanna, host of “Jack
Hanna’s Into the Wild,”
said the zoo made the right
call by shooting the gorilla,
telling WBNS-TV: “I’ll bet
my life on this, that child
would not be here today.”
In an interview with
Boston TV station WFXT,
conservationist and tele-
vision host Jeff Corwin
suggested that the boy’s
family should shoulder some
of the blame, saying: “Zoos
aren’t your baby sitter.”
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