{"id":135,"date":"2011-11-02T11:14:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T11:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=135"},"modified":"2016-07-04T13:12:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T13:12:27","slug":"chapel-hill-therapist-was-nothing-if-not-certain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Chapel Hill therapist was nothing if not certain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nov. 2, 2011<\/p>\n

Post on\u00a0<\/em>hidden mysteries.org<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(1995):<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>Aside from the children and their parents, others are deeply disappointed by the N.C. Supreme Court\u2019s decision not to (overturn) the reversals by the Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuperior Court Judge Marsh McLelland, who heard the Little Rascals case the first time, wrote in a letter to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: ‘Your refusal to review the Kelly and Wilson reversals by the Court of Appeals is legally and morally reprehensible.’<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce more, the Edenton children find themselves as much on trial as their alleged perpetrators, if not more so.\u201d<\/p>\n

ANN EARLE<\/p>\n

Letter to the editor of the News & Observer of Raleigh (May 16, 1996):<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAs a psychotherapist who treats many child victims and adult survivors of sexual and ritual abuse… I am incredulous that so many people support Robert F. Kelly….<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is ample historical and anthropological evidence that ritual abuse has existed for centuries…. Unfortunately, day care centers are optimal settings for such perpetrators.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there is indeed a ‘witch hunt’ going on, it’s actually aimed at abused children and those who advocate for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

ANN EARLE, C.C.S.W., B.C.D.<\/p>\n

Chapel Hill<\/p>\n

Letter to the editor of the News & Observer of Raleigh (June 4, 1997):<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cInvestigators should not ask leading questions, of course, but even if they did it is difficult to imagine how a young child could come up with graphic details of sexual activity if nothing happened.\u00a0Child sexual abusers and pornographers routinely incorporate fantasy to entice children to cooperate and render them less believable if the child ever tells.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy are journalists so quick to believe alleged abusers and discount sexual abuse allegations by children?\u201d<\/p>\n

ANN S. EARLE<\/p>\n

Chapel Hill<\/p>\n

Letter to the editor of the News & Observer of Raleigh (January 15, 1999):<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIn reality, false allegations of sexual abuse by preschool children are rare.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have spent three years researching and editing a book on ritual abuse allegations. Ample evidence supports the existence of such abuse in day care centers, in spite of how bizarre it may sound.<\/p>\n

\u201cRobert Kelly was found guilty by a jury of his peers in a lengthy trial. This verdict was overturned only on a technicality.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinally, there is obviously significant evidence to charge Kelly in a case unrelated to Little Rascals (charges dropped eight months later). We should consider these facts before concluding that the alleged abuses at Little Rascals were due to a ‘hysteria’ fueled by a ‘rumor mill.’ \u201d<\/p>\n

ANN EARLE, C.C.S.W., B.C.D.<\/p>\n

Chapel Hill<\/p>\n

As these comments suggest, certainty in the pervasiveness of ritual abuse extended well beyond those therapists directly involved in the Little Rascals case.<\/p>\n

Did Ann Earle, a board member of the International Council on Cultism and Ritual Trauma, ever change her mind? If so, she seems not to have shared the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nov. 2, 2011 Post on\u00a0hidden mysteries.org\u00a0(1995): \u201cAside from the children and their parents, others are deeply disappointed by the N.C. Supreme Court\u2019s decision not to (overturn) the reversals by the Court of Appeals. \u201cSuperior Court Judge Marsh McLelland, who heard the Little Rascals case the first time, wrote in a letter to the Chief Justice […]<\/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-135","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\/135","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=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2554,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}