USA: A MAN WHO TOOK HIS TODDLER DAUGHTERS FROM THEIR MOTHER'S HOME 20 YEARS AGO, PLEADES GUILTY TO KIDNAPPING AND CONTEMPT CHARGES

Record ID: 980518

  • Title: USA: A MAN WHO TOOK HIS TODDLER DAUGHTERS FROM THEIR MOTHER'S HOME 20 YEARS AGO, PLEADES GUILTY TO KIDNAPPING AND CONTEMPT CHARGES
  • Date: 29th May 1999
  • Summary: CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES (MAY 28, 1999) (POOL) 1. SV STEPHEN FAGAN WALKING INTO COURT WITH LAWYER 0.16 2. MCU OF FAGAN AND THEN PAN TO HIS DAUGHTERS IN THE AUDIENCE 0.28 3. MCU OF MOTHER, BARBARA KURTH 0.35 4. SLV FAGAN WALKING TO THE WITNESS STAND 0.41 5. LV COURTROOM ATTENDEES 0.45 6. MCU (English) MIDDLESEX SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE PETER LAURIAT SAYING TO FAGAN: "You, in fact did commit these crimes as described by Ms. Rooney?" FAGAN: "Yes." JUDGE: "Do you plead guilty to these charges?" FAGAN: "Yes, I do your Honour."" 1.02 7. SLV OF COURT ROOM AS FAGAN WALKS AWAY FROM THE STAND 1.09 8. SV MOTHER AND GRANDMOTHER OF DAUGHTERS - PAN TO DAUGHTERS WALKING TO THE WITNESS STAND 1.38 9. MCU OF JUDGE PETER LAURIAT 1.42 10. MCU (English) RACHEL MARTIN SAYING: "Lisa and I would like to thank our father for the many scarifies he made on our behalf. For the past two decades, he has foregone his identity, his profession and the comfort of family and friends for our well-being. Our father has dedicated his life to raising us and instilling in us the knowledge, values and goals to become independent women." 2.00 11. MCU FAGAN LISTENING TO DAUGHTER'S STATEMENT 2.03 12. SLV DAUGHTERS RETURNING TO THEIR SEATS 2.07 13. SV/LV OF COURT ROOM WITH COURT CLERK ANNOUNCING FAGAN'S SENTENCE (2 SHOTS) 2.49 (MAY 28, 1999) (NBC - NO ACCESS USA/CNN) 14. MCU (English) FAGAN SAYING: "I was raised in a home where the best interest of the children always come first. They still do. This has always been about Rachel and Lisa, for me. Nothing and no one else. It was an agonizingly painful decision but I believed at the time it was the right decision and I still believe that." 3.11 (MAY 28, 1999) (POOL) 15. MCU (English) MIDDLESEX COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY SAYING: "We knew we could not undo what Stephen Fagan had done, taking from Barbara Kurth her own two children and indeed robbing those children not only of their mother but of the idea of their mother. But what we could do was consider with Barbara Kurth as we did whether we could assist her in the opportunity to mend that severed relationship and give them a chance to begin to know one another now and perhaps establish the bonds of love and friendship in a mother-daughter relationship that until today Stephen Fagan had denied them." 3.45 16. MCU LISA AND RACHEL MARIN LISTENING 3.52 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES
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  • Country: USA
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