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When the original incident and arrest happened, the child was around 4. The Free Press article said she told her grandmother about it in October, 2007. She is 11 now and that was 6-7 years ago. This new civil suit is more recent, but the original occurrence (and plea bargain) were when the children were young enough to remember those recent events.
Memory before the age of 5 is very sketchy. I had memories of going to feed the neighbor's lion in his cage when I was around 3. I asked my mom about it when I was grown and she informed me they had a collie who had a kennel behind their garage. Much less exciting, clearly!
I have very vague memories of being in a cabin and my dad trying to kill bats. That really happened, when I was about 2 1/2. The same vacation, some geese attacked me and I have a vague recollection of that. Both events would have felt pretty scary to me and I believe that's why I remember them.
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