The Trial of Creative Frontiers School Principal Robert Adams

Now slowly winding its way to trial, the alleged child molestation case against Robert Adams and Creative Frontiers School first made the news in July 2011, when the school was closed and Adams was declared a suspected child molester based on uncorroborated allegations alone: allegations made by a 65-year-old school volunteer who'd been passed over for a paid position; allegations that were released in prosecution press-packets and that made national and international news within 24 hours; allegations that, in the two years since, have been loudly and repeatedly denied by actual children at the school; allegations that were confounded by the six months of school video surveillance seized by police; allegations since dropped from the case altogether, but only to be replaced, by prosecutors desperate to save face and avoid a staggering lawsuit, with statements made, one and all, by a fresh handful of demonstrably motivated accusers: two families who owe money to the school, two fired teachers, and their friends; allegations that stand in marked contrast to the experiences of over-five-thousand students and employees who have played on the bucolic 7-acre campus and sat in the cottage-style classrooms of the 30-year-old, predominately women-staffed, private school that once thrived, like hope itself, among the sprawl of Citrus Heights, Sacramento County, California.