The ad for which Cramer gained national attention was produced to
accuse the Clinton-Gore Administration of giving nuclear technology to
China in return for campaign contributions.
At the time, he refused to identify who financed the commercial.
From The Monitor, 6/17/06:
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Alleged victim testifies in sexual assault trial
June 17,2006
Brittney Booth
Monitor Staff Writer
EDINBURG --
A young girl featured in a controversial television ad during the 2000
presidential campaign testified this week that the man who developed
the commercial molested her for years and forced her to watch
pornography and use sex toys.
The girl, now 15, told jurors Carey Lee Cramer -- a 44-year-old
political consultant who gained national notoriety when he released an
anti-Al Gore ad showing a young girl picking daisy petals and ending
in a nuclear blast -- began molesting her in the third grade, when she
lived in Mercedes with him, his then-wife and her younger brother.
The ad in which she and another girl were featured was a remake of one
Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson’s campaign used against
Republican Barry Goldwater in 1964.
The girl took the stand Thursday in Cramer’s aggravated child sexual
assault trial, which began June 7 in Hidalgo County before Visiting
Judge Homer Salinas’ Auxiliary Court A.
She continued testifying Friday.
Cramer’s defense attorney, Charles Banker, argues the allegations are
false and stem from a custody battle over the son Cramer shares with
his ex-wife, Samara Whittaker.
The girl shared graphic testimony.
At times, she appeared to fight back tears and her voice quivered as
she gave detailed accounts.
She told jurors Cramer began by taking her into his home office and
showing her pornography when she was 8.
He would touch her sexually, remove her clothing and perform deviant
sexual acts on her.
The incidents occurred weekly, when the girl was home alone with
Cramer.
By the time she was in the fifth grade, Cramer began to force her to
perform acts he would share with her from pornographic Web sites,
including oral sex, she said.
He also tried to make the girl use a vibrator and other sex toys, she
continued.
And Cramer forced her to have sex with him three times, she testified.
She said Cramer continued to molest her after they moved from Mercedes
to McAllen and Tucson, Ariz., until she finally reported the abuse in
2004.
In response to the defense’s claim she was lying to help Whittaker in
her custody battle, she denied it.
"I haven’t lied for her and I won’t," she said.
"I told you everything that happened that he did to me."
She said she initially denied the abuse to Child Protective Services
because Cramer threatened to keep her away from her family if she
told.
Jurors have also heard testimony from the girl’s therapist, a doctor
who examined her and police officers who investigated the case.
Earlier in the week, another 15-year-old testified that Cramer touched
her under her underwear one time when she was visiting the family in
Mercedes.
Cramer’s alleged victims are relatives.
The ad for which Cramer gained national attention was produced to
accuse the Clinton-Gore Administration of giving nuclear technology to
China in return for campaign contributions.
At the time, he refused to identify who financed the commercial.
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Ya can't make this kinda stuff up, folks.
Harry
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