{"id":2999,"date":"2017-10-15T20:06:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T20:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2999"},"modified":"2017-10-15T20:06:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T20:06:04","slug":"i-heard-a-so-called-expert-describe-vast-networks-of-these-cults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2999","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I heard a so-called expert describe vast networks of these cults\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3001\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3001\" style=\"width: 80px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171015Gerritsen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"161\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gerritsen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Oct. 15, 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember, [this fictional child sex abuse trial] happened during an odd time in criminal justice, when the public was convinced there were satanic cults all over the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI attended a forensic psychology conference in the early &#8217;90s, and I heard a so-called expert describe vast networks of these cults abusing children and even sacrificing babies. She claimed that a quarter of her patients were survivors of ritual abuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll around the country there were criminal trials going on&#8230;. Unfortunately, many weren&#8217;t based on facts but on fear and superstition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 \u00a0Dr. Lawrence Zucker, a character in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=suAsDwAAQBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=i+know+a+secret&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwje5bLH6uvWAhUB7CYKHT-aA1oQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&amp;q=i%20know%20a%20secret&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I Know a Secret<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rizzoliandisles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rizzoli and Isles<\/a>\u00a0thriller from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tess_Gerritsen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tess Gerritsen<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That conference sure sounds like the actual one at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2668\">Kill Devil Hills<\/a> that preceded Bob Kelly\u2019s arrest by just months.<\/p>\n<p>And the \u201cso-called expert\u201d? Well, here\u2019s how Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedeker described <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=877\">Ann Wolbert Burgess<\/a>\u00a0in 2001 in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Satans-Silence-Ritual-Making-American\/dp\/0595189555\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Satan\u2019s Silence<\/a>: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a\u00a0 Modern American Witch Hunt\u201d:\u00a0\u201cpromoter of the use of children\u2019s drawings to diagnose sexual abuse, developer of the idea of the sex ring, participant in developing the case that imprisoned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.umich.edu\/special\/exoneration\/Pages\/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3863\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amirault family<\/a>\u00a0and currently a researcher into the traumatic aftereffects of ritual abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LRDCC20.jpg\" alt=\"LRDCC20\" width=\"132\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 15, 2017 \u201cRemember, [this fictional child sex abuse trial] happened during an odd time in criminal justice, when the public was convinced there were satanic cults all over the country. \u201cI attended a forensic psychology conference in the early &#8217;90s, and I heard a so-called expert describe vast networks of these cults abusing children [&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-2999","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\/2999","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=2999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3002,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions\/3002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}