March 30, 2012
Kee MacFarlane is the notorious therapist who led the ritual abuse scare of the late 1980s (and pioneered the misuse of anatomically correct dolls in interviewing children). In just four months MacFarlane diagnosed more than 360 children at the McMartin Pre-School as abused.
In 2005 she declined to be interviewed by CNN but sent a statement:
“We’ve learned a lot in 20 years about how to interview children for forensic purposes and how to manage complex cases such as this one. It would be a sad commentary if we didn’t learn from such painful experience.”
Not much of a mea culpa – but still more than anyone connected with the Little Rascals prosecution has managed.