First motion in White case deals with reliability of interviews

URBANA – One mom's comment to another mom at a party, about something that happened to her daughter at school, marked the beginning of the end of Jon White's teaching career.

The mom listening is married to a University of Illinois police officer and when she told her husband what she had heard about the other woman's child participating in a "tasting game" with her teacher, the officer reacted.

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