{"id":381,"date":"2012-02-13T21:15:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T21:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=381"},"modified":"2016-07-04T12:48:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:48:16","slug":"uncg-professor-showed-no-tolerance-for-skepticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"UNCG professor showed no tolerance for skepticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-382\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120213Hurd.jpg\" alt=\"120213Hurd\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>Feb. 13, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cIt is evident that, although mistakes were made in the handling of the (Little Rascals) case, these children definitely were sexually abused by one or more individuals at the day care center. To suggest otherwise is to revictimize these smallest victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cAs a professor of social work at UNCG whose specialty is child abuse, I would like the public to be aware that research has shown that 97-99 out of 100 children who report that they have been sexually abused are telling the truth. When a child tells you that an unauthorized adult is \u2018playing doctor\u2019 with him\/her, it is highly likely that he\/she is describing some sort of abuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cIf you do not believe the child, you become part of the victimization of that child. If you believe that detection and prosecution of child abuse cases are witch hunts, then you protect child molesters and allow them to continue to traumatize children. I cannot imagine that the responsible people of this state want to put themselves on the side of criminals who abuse children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncg.edu\/swk\/faculty\/faculty.html\" target=\"_blank\">Elisabeth Porter Hurd<\/a>, Greensboro<\/p>\n<p class=\"style207\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From a letter to the editor <\/em><em>of the Greensboro News &amp; Record,\u00a0<\/em><em>June 9, 1997<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style208\">Does Dr. Hurd still believe that the Little Rascals children \u201cdefinitely were sexually abused\u201d? And that to doubt the prosecution\u2019s case was to \u201cprotect child molesters and allow them to continue to traumatize children\u201d?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style208\">Last week I asked Dr. Hurd whether she might have changed her mind \u2013 so far no response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 13, 2012 \u201cIt is evident that, although mistakes were made in the handling of the (Little Rascals) case, these children definitely were sexually abused by one or more individuals at the day care center. To suggest otherwise is to revictimize these smallest victims. \u201cAs a professor of social work at UNCG whose specialty is [&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-381","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\/381","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=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}