{"id":668,"date":"2012-10-15T17:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T17:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=668"},"modified":"2016-07-04T11:17:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T11:17:33","slug":"national-borders-were-no-barrier-to-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"National borders were no barrier to panic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-669\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/121015Witch.jpg\" alt=\"121015Witch\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>Oct. 15, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cGerman television and the press (especially the tabloids) dwelled on McMartin with almost the same intensity as did the U.S. media&#8230;.The impact was predictable: an immediate, steep increase in the number of abuse claims by children and their parents&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cIn the city of Muenster&#8230;. children (at a Montessori school) accused persons totally removed from the setting, including taxi drivers, and talked about coffins, mortuaries, trap doors, chaining and secret subterranean vaults. The panic spread to other schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cFinally, the (Montessori) investigation, which lasted from 1990 to 1993, resulted in dismissal for lack of evidence. A key role was played by a level-headed psychologist who submitted an analysis of the children and their parents forming a \u2018group mind\u2019 that had evolved through mutually reinforcing suggestion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cA warning for the modern world: When analyzing children\u2019s allegations, we also must analyze the role of the modern mass media, not only within national boundaries&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201cWitch-Children: From Salem Witch-Hunts to Modern Courtrooms\u201d \u00a0by Hans Sebald (1995)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 15, 2012 \u201cGerman television and the press (especially the tabloids) dwelled on McMartin with almost the same intensity as did the U.S. media&#8230;.The impact was predictable: an immediate, steep increase in the number of abuse claims by children and their parents&#8230;. \u201cIn the city of Muenster&#8230;. children (at a Montessori school) accused persons totally [&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-668","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\/668","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=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/2497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}