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Abuse suspect at Oprah's school out on bail

Tiny Virginia allegedly abused seven students, the youngest being 13 years old, was released on bail after she pleaded not guilty on Monday.
She had been formally charged with 13 counts of abusing and assaulting students at Oprah Winfrey's school for girls in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The prosecutor for the case said Virginia held a position of trust at the school for being the girls' matron, but that abused that trust.
The CNN article included many quotes from Oprah, the prosecutor, and other people involved in the case, so it was informative.
They could have included more quotes, not just attribution, to people involved in the case because they quoted Winfrey several times in the article.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/11/05/oprah.school/index.html
I liked FoxNews's article better because the headline and lead directly told the readers what the article was going to focus on.
It said and did focus on Oprah Winfrey's comments about the abuse case.
It did not cover it up with promised of re-telling the whole story, like CNN somewhat did.
It included the details of the class at the bottom of the article, and quotes of Oprah at the top.
I thought it was better organized that way because the new information was Winfrey's reactions to the case, not the case itself.

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