{"id":507,"date":"2012-05-21T16:38:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T16:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=507"},"modified":"2016-07-04T12:35:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:35:28","slug":"they-saw-themselves-as-the-good-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=507","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They saw themselves as the good guys&#8230;.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">May 21, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Lee Coleman, a Berkeley, Calif.,\u00a0 psychiatrist and co-author of \u201cHas a Child Been Molested?\u201d (2000), served as a consultant to the Little Rascals defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cWhen I examined the terrible interviewing methods,\u201d he recalls, \u201cit quickly became obvious that (Little Rascals) was like the McMartin and Kelly Michaels cases: a complete fabrication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">How does Dr. Coleman account for therapists&#8217; and prosecutors&#8217; \u201cunwillingness to see what was in front of their faces\u201d?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201c[(McMartin therapist) Kee MacFarlane became a national figure by claiming to know how to talk to kids to help them describe abuse. There followed a cadre of young, bushy-tailed professionals who saw themselves as the good guys of a movement. They were glamorous and self-righteous, and they had nothing left to think with. What if a child hadn&#8217;t been molested? They never thought about it&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThen they led meetings across the country, where they taught their system to others, who applied it locally&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Dr. Coleman\u2019s characterization captures precisely the origin of the Little Rascals allegations, in which\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=129\">a seminar led by \u201csex rings\u201d alarmist Ann Burgess<\/a>\u00a0attracted prosecutor H.P. Williams, therapist Judy Abbott and police dispatcher Brenda Toppin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 21, 2012 Lee Coleman, a Berkeley, Calif.,\u00a0 psychiatrist and co-author of \u201cHas a Child Been Molested?\u201d (2000), served as a consultant to the Little Rascals defense. \u201cWhen I examined the terrible interviewing methods,\u201d he recalls, \u201cit quickly became obvious that (Little Rascals) was like the McMartin and Kelly Michaels cases: a complete fabrication.\u201d How [&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-507","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\/507","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=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2518,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/2518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}