{"id":1060,"date":"2013-09-04T02:48:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T02:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2016-01-17T15:39:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T15:39:21","slug":"question-mark-in-so-many-minds-about-mcmartin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1060","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Question mark in so many minds&#8217; about McMartin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Sept. 4, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">In her appreciative review of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/movies\/moviesnow\/la-et-mn-the-hunt-20130712,0,1721207.story\" target=\"_blank\">The Hunt<\/a>,\u201d the new Danish movie about a kindergarten teacher wrongfully accused of child sexual abuse, Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times writes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cIf you were in Los Angeles in the 1980s, it is impossible not to be reminded of the McMartin preschool case that dominated headlines for nearly a decade and still remains a question mark in so many minds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Linking \u201cThe Hunt\u201d to the day-care ritual abuse panic is certainly apt \u2013 but in whose minds does McMartin \u201cremain&#8230;. a question mark\u201d?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">In the mind of law professor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=996\">John E.B. Myers<\/a>, perhaps. But what credible social scientist today will argue that cases such as McMartin and Little Rascals were grounded in anything but therapist-created fiction?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 4, 2013 In her appreciative review of \u201cThe Hunt,\u201d the new Danish movie about a kindergarten teacher wrongfully accused of child sexual abuse, Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times writes: \u201cIf you were in Los Angeles in the 1980s, it is impossible not to be reminded of the McMartin preschool case that dominated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1668,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}