{"id":545,"date":"2012-06-25T23:28:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T23:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=545"},"modified":"2016-07-04T12:13:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:13:55","slug":"oh-for-the-ability-to-recognize-something-odd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"Oh, for the ability to recognize something &#8216;odd&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-546\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120625Rabinowitz.jpg\" alt=\"120625Rabinowitz\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>June 25, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cI saw this woman in her 20s &#8230; accused of something like 2,800 charges of child sex abuse. Oh, I thought, well, that&#8217;s very odd&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cI thought, How can (Kelly Michaels) one woman, one young, lone woman in an absolutely open place like the child care center of the church in New Jersey that she worked for \u2013 how could she have committed these enormous crimes against 20 children, dressed and undressed them and sent \u2013 you know what it is to dress and undress even one child every day without getting their socks lost? \u2013 20 children in a perfectly public place, torture them for two years, frighten and terrorize them, and they never went home and told their parents anything?&#8230; This did seem strange.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 Dorothy Rabinowitz, recalling on C-SPAN the 1985 case that led to her\u00a0Pulitzer-winning coverage of the ritual-abuse day-care mania<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\"><em>\u201cThis did seem strange.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">From the vantage of 2012, of course, such allegations seem not only \u201cstrange\u201d but also patently incredible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">So why didn\u2019t everybody \u2013 therapists, journalists, prosecutors, jurors \u2013 share Rabinowitz\u2019s reasonable doubt?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">How did such a grotesque misconception flourish?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Had skepticism really fallen that far out of fashion during the \u201cBelieve the Children\u201d zeitgeist?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 25, 2012 \u201cI saw this woman in her 20s &#8230; accused of something like 2,800 charges of child sex abuse. Oh, I thought, well, that&#8217;s very odd&#8230;. \u201cI thought, How can (Kelly Michaels) one woman, one young, lone woman in an absolutely open place like the child care center of the church in New [&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-545","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\/545","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=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2514,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/2514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}