{"id":3080,"date":"2018-05-18T13:33:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T13:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3080"},"modified":"2018-05-18T13:33:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T13:33:03","slug":"mcmartin-preschool-acquittal-did-little-to-stem-spread-of-hysteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3080","title":{"rendered":"McMartin Preschool acquittal did little to stem spread of hysteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3079\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3079\" style=\"width: 80px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3079\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/180518Anderson80.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"160\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andersen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">May 18, 2018<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the acquittal in [the McMartin Preschool case], the hysteria kept raging there and nationally; mainstream news still gave it credence, police still made arrests, prosecutors still prosecuted, and true believers among psychologists and psychiatrists (and their clients) still believed and proselytized, often with a government imprimatur&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a small town in Tidewater North Carolina, children testified that a satanic cult operating a day care center had ritually abused them \u2013 and taken them in hot-air balloons to outer space and on a boat into the Atlantic where newborns were fed to sharks; several people were sentenced to long prison terms and served time before their convictions were overturned or charges dismissed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=aaX4DAAAQBAJ&amp;dq=kurt+andersen&amp;source=gbs_navlinks_s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fantasyland<\/a>: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History\u201d by Kurt Andersen (2017)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The ripples from McMartin were even more pronounced in Edenton, after prosecutors brought back from California a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=446\">crucial lesson<\/a>: Conceal, obscure or destroy the therapists\u2019 notes that would reveal how relentlessly the child-witnesses had been manipulated.<\/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>May 18, 2018 \u201cDespite the acquittal in [the McMartin Preschool case], the hysteria kept raging there and nationally; mainstream news still gave it credence, police still made arrests, prosecutors still prosecuted, and true believers among psychologists and psychiatrists (and their clients) still believed and proselytized, often with a government imprimatur&#8230;. \u201cIn a small town in [&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-3080","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\/3080","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=3080"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3088,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions\/3088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}