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June 12, 2014<\/p>\nJune 12, 2014<\/p>\n
\u201cHe thinks the continued treatment of these cases as a modern-day episode of mass hysteria does disservice to children and even puts them in danger.<\/p>\n
\u201c \u2018We have, over the last 20 years, discounted the word of children who might testify about sexual abuse,\u2019 he writes. \u2018We have become more worried about overreacting to child sexual abuse than we are about underreacting to it.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cIf that were the legacy of the day-care cases, it would be a damning one. But when I spoke to psychologists in the field \u2013 those Professor Cheit cites respectfully, as well as those he attacks \u2013 they gave a different account of the science at the heart of this history….\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 From \u201c<\/em>Abuse Cases, and a Legacy of Skepticism<\/em><\/a>\u201d by\u00a0Emily Bazelon in the New York Times (June 9)<\/em><\/p>\n Thank you, Ms. Bazelon. In the category of \u201cfat books in desperate search of a reason to exist,\u201d Cheit\u2019s \u201cThe Witch-Hunt Narrative\u201d belongs right up there with William D. Cohan\u2019s contemporaneous “The Price of Silence<\/a>,\u201d an account of the Duke lacrosse case that sympathizes not with the railroaded (and later exonerated!) defendants but with District Attorney Mike Nifong, who was disbarred and briefly jailed for conspiring to rig the case against them.<\/p>\n At the core of each book is the unsubstantiated contention that something surely must have happened, either at a Durham party house and at countless day cares. Fortunately, Cohan and Cheit can only gratuitously smear the reputations of innocent defendants, not put them in prison \u2013 unlike Little Rascals expert witness Mark \u201cwhere there’s smoke there’s fire<\/a>\u201d Everson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 12, 2014 \u201cHe thinks the continued treatment of these cases as a modern-day episode of mass hysteria does disservice to children and even puts them in danger. \u201c \u2018We have, over the last 20 years, discounted the word of children who might testify about sexual abuse,\u2019 he writes. \u2018We have become more worried about […]<\/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-1237","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\/1237","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=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}