Oct. 17, 2012
“Little Rascals is a most important case, because it demonstrates how the mind set of interviewers can be transmitted to the children and persuade them to disclose events that never happened. A San Diego grand jury which investigated child abuse observed:
Of particular interest is the information received about the Little Rascals case in North Carolina. Eighty-five percent of the children received therapy with three therapists in the town; all of these children eventually reported satanic abuse. Fifteen percent of the children were treated by different therapists in a neighboring city; none of (these) children reported abuse of any kind after the same period of time in therapy.
“In effect, the Edenton (multiple victim, multiple offender) case was a real-life replication of the type of laboratory experiment that could never be done for ethical reasons:
- Select a town or city in any area of the U.S. or Canada.
- Take 90 children, and divide them into two equally sized test and control groups.
- Have the test group interrogated by therapists who believe in ritual abuse, using direct and repeated questions.
- Have the control group independently interrogated by therapists who are skeptical of ritual abuse using general questioning.
- Compare rates of disclosures of ritual abuse from the two groups. “
The probable result would be that close to 100% of the test group and about 0% of the control group would reveal ritual abuse.”
– From “Ritual abuse cases in day care centers” on ReligiousTolerance.org, (Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance)