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Oct. 4, 2014<\/p>\nOct. 4, 2014<\/p>\n
Among those journalists who fell for the \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d storyline, none fell harder than Civia Tamarkin.<\/p>\n
She not only stage-managed an embarrassingly credulous episode of \u201cNightline<\/a>,\u201d but also testified earnestly at a\u00a0Believe the Children convention<\/a>\u00a0alongside Little Rascals prosecutor H. P. Williams Jr. and supposed ritual-abuse survivor Laura Buchanan (“\u201c was told that a surveillance device would be inserted into my brain….\u201d).<\/p>\n In 1993 Tamarkin delivered a lengthy address on \u201cInvestigative Issues in Ritual Abuse Cases<\/a>\u201d to the Fifth Eastern Regional Conference on Abuse and Multiple Personality in Alexandria, Va.<\/p>\n Like\u00a0Ross Cheit two decades later<\/a>, she had no trouble detailing numerous flaws in the prosecution of McMartin and other ritual abuse cases but inevitably came up frustrated in her search for a smoking gun or two.\u00a0 Most striking, after recounting all her journalistic fault-finding, was her unquestioning gratitude to SRA snake-oil theoreticians\u00a0Roland Summit<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Bennett Braun<\/a>\u00a0for \u201c(taking) the time to teach me what they could.\u201d<\/p>\n Prior to her affiliation with Believe the Children, Tamarkin had reported commendably for Time, People and the Chicago Sun-Times and had coauthored a book with Chicago educator\u00a0Marva Collins<\/a>.<\/p>\n