{"id":2253,"date":"2020-06-14T05:57:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T10:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2021-12-09T05:50:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T10:50:35","slug":"tv-polygraph-operator-daniel-ribacoff-denies-falsely-branding-steve-wilkos-show-guest-as-a-liar-but-deletes-posts-when-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/14\/tv-polygraph-operator-daniel-ribacoff-denies-falsely-branding-steve-wilkos-show-guest-as-a-liar-but-deletes-posts-when-challenged\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Polygraph Operator Daniel Ribacoff Denies Falsely Branding Steve Wilkos Show<\/i> Guest as a Liar, But Deletes Posts When Challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daniel D. Ribacoff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Polygraph operator Daniel Ribacoff, who performs for the NBCUniversal Television Distribution syndicated daytime television talk program, The Steve Wilkos Show<\/a><\/em>, has publicly denied having wrongly accused show guest Anca Pennington of lying. In an unaired segment recorded on 11 December 2019, Ribacoff accused Pennington of lying when she denied having burned her infant daughter with cigarettes. (Pennington, who resides in Omaha, Nebraska, did not bring her daughter with her to the show’s studio in Stamford, Connecticut.) Distraught, Pennington attempted suicide<\/a> later that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anca Pennington<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Medical staff who treated Pennington after her attempted suicide, upon being shown a photograph of the lesions on her daughter’s leg, identified them as ringworm, a common and easily treated fungal infection. When lesions reappeared later in December, a medical examination confirmed a ringworm infection, and an antifungal preparation was prescribed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photograph of Anca Pennington\u2019s infant daughter\u2019s lesions provided to The Steve Wilkos Show<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Ribacoff’s denial that he had wrongly accused Pennington came in the form of a Facebook reply to Steve Sledge<\/a>, who in late May or early June asked on Ribacoff’s public Facebook page<\/a>, “What happened with the case where the woman [sic] child had ringworm instead of a cigarette burn. That polygraph was wrong?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ribacoff replied, “the polygraph was correct. Ringworm was a secondary infection form [sic] the cigarette burns and was diagnosed weeks after the show.” In a second reply to Sledge, Ribacoff wrote, “doctors determined they were cigarette burns at the onset of the investigation.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, 12 June 2020, Pennington, who posts on Facebook under the pseudonym Lore Radu<\/a>, replied to Ribacoff, “stop lying you sick man! I took my child to the doctor my baby NEVER had cigarette burn you sick lying evil man!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That same day, Ribacoff deleted Steve Sledge’s question and all replies to it from his Facebook page and blocked Pennington from viewing the page. Pennington provided AntiPolygraph.org with the following screenshots of the deleted posts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AntiPolygraph.org has written to Daniel Ribacoff asking how he knows for sure that Pennington’s child had cigarette burns, how he knows for sure that ringworm was a secondary infection to that, and why he deleted these posts. At the time of posting, Ribacoff has not replied these questions. This post will be updated as warranted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update (15 June 2020):<\/strong> Anca Pennington posted a commentary to YouTube on Friday, 12 June 2020:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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