{"id":1474,"date":"2015-08-04T19:22:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T19:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2016-01-07T19:24:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T19:24:55","slug":"injustice-without-amends-we-should-be-ashamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1474","title":{"rendered":"Injustice without amends: ‘We should be ashamed’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"150804Casey\"Aug. 4, 2015<\/p>\n

\u201cSome have drawn parallels between the Salem witch trials of 1692 and the false accusations of sexual abuse that sweptc America in the 1980s. The difference is this:<\/p>\n

\u201cThose falsely accused in Salem got public apologies from their accusers and reparations. No such luck for the dozens of day-care workers and others who were falsely accused and imprisoned in modern-day America.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should be ashamed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 From \u201c<\/em>How the daycare child abuse hysteria of the 1980s became a witch hunt<\/em><\/a>,\u201d\u00a0a review of \u201c<\/em>We Believe the Children<\/em><\/a>,\u201d by Maura Casey in the Washington Post (July 31)<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll have more soon on Richard Beck\u2019s important new addition to the \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d bookshelf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aug. 4, 2015 \u201cSome have drawn parallels between the Salem witch trials of 1692 and the false accusations of sexual abuse that sweptc America in the 1980s. The difference is this: \u201cThose falsely accused in Salem got public apologies from their accusers and reparations. No such luck for the dozens of day-care workers and others […]<\/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-1474","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\/1474","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=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}