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Arrest and Trial
Melvin Morse was arrested in August of 2013 and charged with seven felony counts of child endangerment. These were sensationalized in the media as charges that he waterboarded his "companion's" daughter, essentially his step-daughter. We upload and quote directly from the trial transcripts in presenting the information on this page so that there can be no doubt as to the veracity of what we are presenting. His charges and conviction are inaccurately described as child abuse in his Wikipedia article. (Click here for his sentencing report where it is clear he was convicted of one felony count of child endangerment
Dr. Morse was charged with seven felonies and convicted of one count of child endangerment, not child abuse.
Dr. Morse was convicted of one felony count of child endangerment. This is not child abuse or anything to do with sexual assault. The jury found that she was endangered but not injured.Although the prosecutor and the media constantly called the endangerment "waterboarding", no CIA type torture or waterboarding was ever described at trial.
The young lady described at trial throwing up on herself. Dr. Morse then placed her in a tub of water and washed the vomit off her. He asked her if she was going to be sick again, and finished washing the vomit off her.
She does not describe being forced fed, as it once stated in the Wikipedia article. She clearly describes overeating, throwing up, and being placed in a tub to wash vomit off her. Click here for trial reports.
Eugene Braxton cited in Wikipedia is a self proclaimed mystic and wrote about Dr. Morse in his self published book on near death experiences.
Wikipedia describes Dr. Morse as so desperate to reclaim his near death crown that he was convicted of performing end of life experiments on the young lady. In fact, no end of life events were described at trial, the young lady was not near death or physically injured in any way, and described the events leading to the felony conviction as occuring after she threw up on herself. (Trial testimony volumes D)
Eugene Braxton is the self proclaimed "America's Psychic" and self published his book on near death experiences. He used Dr. Morse's heart breaking situation to further his own agenda.At Dr. Morse's sentencing, Judge Stokes specifically called the idea that Dr. Morse was performing end of life experiments on his accuser "speculative" and stated that he saw the situation differently. Click here for sentencing report
Dr. Morse's accuser admitted that she lied about accusing her half sister of sexual assault.
Under cross examination by Dr. Morse's attorney, the young lady who accused Dr. Morse admitted that she had previously falsely accused her half sister of sexual assault. Her half sister went to prison for two years.
She also accused her half sister of trying to suffocate her, locking her in her room, pushing her down stairs and attacking her with a knife, all of which she later admitted were untrue.Click here to link to news article
Click here for trial transcript of cross examination see pages E25-35
The Young Lady's Therapist Testified that Dr. Morse was previously falsely accused of slapping his accuser.
A year prior to Dr. Morse being arrested, his accuser told Delaware Family Services that he slapped her. Her therapist testified that this was a lie.Click here for trial testimony.
At trial, a social worker testifies that Dr. Morse's child was told she could not go home unless Dr. Morse went to jail.
Social worker Reba West supervised the visits between Pauline Morse and Dr. Morse's accuser while he was waiting for trial and the children were in foster care. The social worker heard Pauline Morse telling the young lady about near death experiences and nearly drowning, as well as one child being told that she could not go home unless Dr. Morse went to prison.Click here for trial transcript.
Pauline Morse admits she was having an affair when Dr. Morse was accused of waterboarding her daughter and that the couple was separating.
False accusations often come up in the context of parents who are separating and bitter situations of infidelity. Click here for trial testimony.
Two Investigators and a social worker admit at trial that Dr. Morse's accuser's testimony changed over time.
The lead detective and the lead Delaware Family Services Investigator admitted under oath that Dr. Morse's accuser's testimony changed considerably over time.A social worker who interviewed the accuser also acknowledged that his accuser's testimony changed considerably over time. Click on above links for trial testimony. Click here for trial testimony detailing all of Dr. Morse's accuser's lies under oath.
Much of our motivation is to correct the distortions of the truth and inaccuracies of Dr. Morse's Wikipedia article. We will be quoting directly from the article and presenting our corrections of it with appropriate sources.
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We welcome your questions and queries. Please see our Contact Us page for complete contact information. For those highly motivated, we can supply you with the complete trial transcripts.
Part of this site is to clear up the many misinformed statements about Dr. Morse, published on the Internet. For example, in fact the Delaware Courts have not imposed any restrictions on Dr. Morse seeing his daughter Melody.
DR. MORSE HAS PAID HIS DEBT TO SOCIETY
Dr. Morse has repeatedly expressed remorse for his part in these tragic circumstances. He wrote his accuser an apology letter which was posted in the Victim's Impact bank. A worker at the Victim's Impact bank was so moved by the sincerety of his apology that she felt it helped in her own personal healing from trauma.
Dr. Morse is on a spiritual journey just as we all are. His attitude towards the crime of which he was convicted is that he was the adult; he had a responsibility to make every child in his household feel safe and loved. He certainly failed to do that, in this tragic situation for all concerned.
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