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I find the people im mad at is who told them that story? i sat in my cell many a night thinking what the hell did they do to get all of these children to tell this outlandish story? >> and as those boys looked back at stolen childhoods and broken families, it was hard to know who in the end was more damaged. >> me and my dad after that just became distant. >> why? >> he didnt want to get accused i assume for the same thing. >> knowing how easily a life can be destroyed by false accusations, ed s...

Opinion and shared oh, my god, hes innocent. weve got to get him out. >> but what would the alleged victims of stolls sex ring have to say about that? one by one stolls lawyers tracked them down. remember little donny grafton? margie graftons son? he testified in 1984 that stoll and his mom forced him into orgies. didnt they? >> she never did anything wrong. >> donald grafton, now grown, says it never happened. he tells us authorities pressured him to lie. >> i was just tricked into lying to put...

>> sampley and the others say they were finally told what to say. not only by social worker morillo, but also by a prosecutor. >> they did coach us totally. they made us go over stories over and over. >> children, manipulated says sampley, by powerful authority figures. now as adults, they took the stand and proclaimed john stoll innocent. grown men reverted to little boys. they exhumed humiliating guilt riddled memories. they sat up on the stand and they looked down at john stoll in the courtro...

>> for these boys, the story was the same. after first being visited by this social worker, velda morillo, seen here in an old training tape. she came to their homes with the sheriffs officer, but she asked most of the questions they told us. took them to a room away from their parents and told them she knew they had been molested by stoll after swimming in his pool. the more they denied it, they told us, the more she seemed convinced they were hiding something. grafton says he and his brother w...