{"product_id":"9781459710887","title":"Martensville: Truth or Justice?: The Story of the Martensville Daycare Trials","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen a child-abuse scandal is uncovered at an unlicenced daycare in small-town Saskatchewan, it polarizes the community. Frann Harris, a rookie court reporter assigned to the trial the longest in Saskatchewan history starts to wonder if the scope of the alleged crimes is dwarfed by something even more startling: a botched police investigation and inappropriate courtroom procedures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarris' narrative alternates between the stories of child sexual abuse and whimsical recollections of her own childhood, using the odd touch of humour. Because the unfamiliar courtroom jargon sounds like a foreign language to her and to most readers, she translates it into plain English, and simplifies and demystifies elaborate and stylized courtroom procedures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarris takes the reader into the courtroom, recreating the trial in all its complexities: the painful allegations of the children and their parents; the daily parry-and-thrust of lawyers trying to discredit both the police investigation and the testimony of the victims; and the contradictory testimony of psychologists and medical experts. Harris also goes outside the courtroom, interviewing witnesses and eavesdropping on the conversations of the accused, the police, neighbours and journalists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe verdicts in the Martensville case were and still are hotly contested. We may never know what really happened at the daycare, but in \u003ci\u003eMartensville: Truth or Justice? The Story of the Martensville Daycare Trials\u003c\/i\u003e, we can learn the intricacies of the investigation and the trial, and decide for ourselves whether justice was served.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dundurn Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143608811760,"sku":"9781459710887","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781459710887_p0.jpg?v=1763877825","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781459710887","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}