I believe you are going to hear evidence that Bruce and Carol Perkins -- Bruce Perkins, the defendant, and his wife, Carol, would invite their sons and their families over often to come to their home to visit and to have family gatherings and eat and do those sort of things, that they would often call on the phone to their sons and daughter-in-laws and go to their homes to visit them, that the daughter-in-laws felt this to be at times a bit intrusive.
I believe you are going to hear evidence that the parents, about a year and a half ago when these children were smaller than they are now, they began to see sexualized play with their children and they didn’t know where it was coming from, didn’t know why their children were doing the things.
I believe you are going to hear evidence that another cousin's name was mentioned by these children, a Jennifer, that she was mentioned as also participating with some of the children.
I think you are going to hear evidence that in the summer of '92 there were two deaths that occurred in the Perkins family, that Carol Perkins? parents passed away shortly -- one right after the other and that during that time when those people passed away that that is the time when these children had been going to Dr. Hudson and the parents were trying to discover where the source of the sex play was coming from.
- Prosecutor Marie Munier, describing the evidence in the Perkins trial that would support guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
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