{"id":514,"date":"2012-05-25T16:46:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T16:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=514"},"modified":"2015-12-30T16:48:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T16:48:13","slug":"children-dont-remember-but-are-sure-abuse-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"Children don&#8217;t remember, but are sure abuse happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-474\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120418Bruck.jpg\" alt=\"120418Bruck\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>May 25, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cMaggie Bruck, co-author of \u2018Jeopardy in the Courtroom: A Scientific Analysis of Children&#8217;s Testimony\u2019 and a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, says no long-term psychological studies exist that track groups of children involved in alleged sex-abuse rings, in part because of confidentiality issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cBut Bruck has studied follow-up interviews of children involved in cases similar to the notorious McMartin preschool trial. Some kids continue to believe they were abused. Bruck suspects it\u2019s because their families or therapists have reinforced the stories of abuse. \u2018The children say they don\u2019t remember the salient, allegedly terrifying details,\u2019 she told me. \u2018But they are sure it happened.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2013\u00a0<em>From \u201cWho Was Abused?\u201d by Maggie Jones\u00a0in the New York Times (Sept. 19, 2004)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\n<p class=\"style184\">Might the Little Rascals children be among the subjects of that follow-up research? Sorry, Dr. Bruck says predictably \u2013 \u201cConfidential information.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 25, 2012 \u201cMaggie Bruck, co-author of \u2018Jeopardy in the Courtroom: A Scientific Analysis of Children&#8217;s Testimony\u2019 and a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, says no long-term psychological studies exist that track groups of children involved in alleged sex-abuse rings, in part because of confidentiality issues. \u201cBut Bruck has studied follow-up interviews of [&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-514","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\/514","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=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}