{"id":151,"date":"2015-11-18T11:37:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T11:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=151"},"modified":"2016-07-03T15:08:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T15:08:58","slug":"catholic-clergy-abuse-scandal-unrelated-to-day-care-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"Catholic clergy abuse scandal unrelated to day-care cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style361\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-153\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/151118Friend.jpg\" alt=\"151118Friend\" width=\"260\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/151118Friend.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/151118Friend-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Nov. 18, 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cReaders who want a deeper look at how young children\u2019s accounts of CSA (child sexual abuse) were discredited in the same time frame of the (Roman Catholic) clergy CSA scandal should read Ross Cheit\u2019s 2014 book \u2018Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology and the Sexual Abuse of Children\u2019&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style360\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c \u2018<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chronicleofsocialchange.org\/opinion\/spotlight-gets-lot-right\/14350\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Spotlight\u2019 Gets A Lot Right<\/em><\/a><em>\u201d by\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.endabuselb.org\/Monthly-Programs-2010\/2009-11-Colleen-Friend.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Colleen Friend<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0in the Chronicle of Social Change (Nov. 15)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Whoa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">The clergy sex abuse scandal at the center of the just-released newsroom drama \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/in-spotlight-filmmakers-take-a-journalists-care-in-retelling-the-story-of-church-sex-abuse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spotlight<\/a>\u201d had nothing to do with the \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d moral panic so earnestly if unpersuasively denied by Professor Cheit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Clergy abuse was all too real, and the evidence proved undeniable; abuse in day cares was a fantasy produced\u00a0by undertrained and overreaching therapists. Tragically, the children&#8217;s accounts that were &#8220;discredited&#8221; were their original denials that they had experienced abuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Worth noting: Dr. Friend is former director of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/therapefoundation.org\/programs\/stuart-house\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stuart House<\/a>\u00a0in Santa Monica, Calif., a child abuse treatment center\u00a0opened to accommodate the tidal wave of (mostly imaginary) abuse cases spawned by McMartin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 18, 2015 \u201cReaders who want a deeper look at how young children\u2019s accounts of CSA (child sexual abuse) were discredited in the same time frame of the (Roman Catholic) clergy CSA scandal should read Ross Cheit\u2019s 2014 book \u2018Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology and the Sexual Abuse of Children\u2019&#8230;. \u2013 From \u201c \u2018Spotlight\u2019 Gets A [&hellip;]<\/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-151","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\/151","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=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2315,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/2315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}