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Friday, November 7, 2003

An FBI agent who retired last week is calling on Attorney General John Ashcroft to launch an independent investigation into the handling of child abuse cases in Indian Country.

Agent Jane Turner said the FBI and local law enforcement failed to interview a 9-year-old Indian boy who was abused in North Dakota. The interview could have uncovered evidence of other victims. A TV broadcaster pleaded guilty to the abuse of the boy and was sent to prison.

Turner said she intervened in another case on the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota. She said the BIA documented injuries of a 3-year-old boy as caused by a car accident but she discovered they were the result of abuse by the boy's father.

Turner is working with the National Whistleblower Center and is involved in a long-running retaliation case with the FBI.

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Probe of Indian abuse cases sought (AP 11/7)

Relevant Links:
National Whistleblower Center - http://www.whistleblowers.org

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