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Feb. 5, 2015<\/p>\nFeb. 5, 2015<\/p>\n
\u201cI was involved in this (McMartin Preschool) case. I remember getting dropped off at court-ordered therapy. I don\u2019t remember the sessions, but I have seen the macabre pictures I drew. I have read the accounts the therapist wrote down for me as I detailed the abuse.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is my belief, after years of treatment centers and therapy, that nothing physical happened to me…. Mentally, well, that\u2019s a different story. How about paying attention to the kids that were scarred from this therapy? Do you think that just because there was most likely no physical abuse that we didn\u2019t still suffer? Eating disorders, alcoholism, depression, anxiety….<\/p>\n
\u201cI lived in fabricated fear. I have a vivid memory of one teacher telling us that she would come to our house in the middle of the night and shoot our parents if we ever told them what happened. This memory, which I now assume was a dream, was the one thing that kept me questioning for years whether or not this happened. So, while I now believe that the memories were unintentionally implanted, I still lived the nightmare through stories and drawings…\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 From \u201c<\/em>The Trial That Unleashed Hysteria Over Child Abuse<\/em><\/a>\u201d in the New York Times (March 9, 2014) \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Although I linked to Clyde Haberman\u2019s thorough and perceptive piece\u00a0when it appeared<\/a>, I\u2019m just now noticing that among the 166 reader comments was this one above from a \u201ctherapy…scarred\u201d McMartin child. Unfortunately, it was posted anonymously \u2013 so continues the long wait for now-grown child-witnesses (other than\u00a0Kyle Zirpolo<\/a>) ready to go public with their recollections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Feb. 5, 2015 \u201cI was involved in this (McMartin Preschool) case. I remember getting dropped off at court-ordered therapy. I don\u2019t remember the sessions, but I have seen the macabre pictures I drew. I have read the accounts the therapist wrote down for me as I detailed the abuse. \u201cIt is my belief, after years […]<\/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-1377","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\/1377","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=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}