{"id":462,"date":"2012-04-09T14:34:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T14:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=462"},"modified":"2015-12-30T14:38:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T14:38:26","slug":"who-killed-the-ritual-abuse-day-care-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Who killed the ritual abuse day care panic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-463\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120409Three.jpg\" alt=\"120409Three\" width=\"396\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120409Three.jpg 396w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120409Three-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/>April 9, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\"><em>\u201cWhere do epidemics go when they die?&#8230;. Have all the sadistic pedophiles closed down their day-care centers?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201cMistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)\u201d by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">I asked Mary de Young, author of \u201cThe Day Care Ritual Abuse Moral Panic,\u201d whether this epidemic might have gasped its last in Edenton as a result of \u201cInnocence Lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cOfra Bikel certainly pounded a nail in its coffin,\u201d De Young said. \u201cHer excellent work on the Little Rascals case appeared after the last day care ritual abuse case was prosecuted, but she created a reason to be profoundly skeptical of all the cases that came before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cI would give a lot of credit to Debbie Nathan (Village Voice) and Dorothy Rabinowitz (Wall Street Journal) for bringing an end to this craziness, but to be honest I think the moral panic really collapsed under its own weight \u2013 i.e., it was impossible to sustain these allegations in the absence of evidence, as well as to sustain the suspended disbelief that was required.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 9, 2012 \u201cWhere do epidemics go when they die?&#8230;. Have all the sadistic pedophiles closed down their day-care centers?\u201d \u2013 From \u201cMistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)\u201d by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson I asked Mary de Young, author of \u201cThe Day Care Ritual Abuse Moral Panic,\u201d whether this epidemic might have gasped [&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-462","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\/462","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=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}