{"id":548,"date":"2012-06-27T23:31:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T23:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=548"},"modified":"2015-12-30T23:33:15","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T23:33:15","slug":"ritual-abuse-mania-contaminated-legitimate-prosecutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"Ritual-abuse mania contaminated legitimate prosecutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">June 27, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cWhen well-intentioned but misguided individuals use questioning techniques known to increase the risk of false allegations of sexual abuse, a cascade of unfortunate events can follow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cConsequences of corruptive interview techniques include the risk of innocent individuals being falsely accused as well as abused children not being believed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201cForensic Issues in Child Sexual Abuse Allegations\u201d by Charles L. Scott, M.D.,\u00a0in Psychiatric Times (December 1, 2008)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Scott points out a seldom-mentioned but potentially tragic after-effect of the day-care ritual-abuse mania: A loss of credibility for children who actually have been sexually abused. The clouds labeled \u201cMcMartin\u201d and \u201cLittle Rascals\u201d now hang over every such prosecution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 27, 2012 \u201cWhen well-intentioned but misguided individuals use questioning techniques known to increase the risk of false allegations of sexual abuse, a cascade of unfortunate events can follow. \u201cConsequences of corruptive interview techniques include the risk of innocent individuals being falsely accused as well as abused children not being believed.\u201d \u2013 From \u201cForensic Issues [&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-548","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\/548","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=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}