In the Shadow of Satan: The Ritual Abuse of Children<\/a>\u201d included \u201cA Case of Multiple Life-Threatening Illnesses Related to Early Ritual Abuse\u201d by Rennet Wong and Jock McKeen, \u201cRitual Child Abuse: A Survey of Symptoms and Allegations\u201d by\u00a0 Pamela S. Hudson and \u201cSatanic Ritual Abuse: A Cause of Multiple Personality Disorder\u201d by George A. Fraser.<\/p>\nMy request for retraction elicited this response from RCYCP:<\/p>\n
\u201c…. Carol Stuart and Grant Charles, Editors of RCYCP… have agreed that a statement in the next issue about the original article and the wrongful prosecution of these defendants would be appropriate.\u00a0 Could you please provide… a draft of what you think is appropriate, ensuring correct names, etc. Our editors will then review and finalize and confirm any questions or issues with you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boy, was I excited! This is what I proposed:<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 1990 the Journal of Child and Youth Care (now Relational Child & Youth Care Practice) published a Special Issue entitled \u2018In the Shadow of Satan: The Ritual Abuse of Children.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cAll five articles in the issue were based on the writers\u2019 erroneous belief in \u2018satanic ritual abuse,\u2019 a moral panic that led to wrongful prosecutions against day cares in the United States, Canada and elsewhere during the 1980s and 1990s.\u201d<\/p>\n
A few days later I received this change of plan from RCYCP:<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have carefully reviewed the 1990 Special Issue… and found no reference to the Edenton Seven or the Little Rascals Day Care. As such, our editors will not be printing a retraction.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course, I responded:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Little Rascals and McMartin cases were but two manifestations of the moral panic of satanic ritual abuse. In the 1980s and early 1990s, numerous similar, if less publicized, prosecutions occurred across North America and as far as New Zealand and Germany.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll these cases were rooted in the belief affirmed and promoted in the Special Issue….<\/p>\n
\u201cLittle Rascals and McMartin are mentioned only indirectly, but my request for a retraction addresses \u2013 as does the issue \u2013 the entire false concept of satanic ritual abuse.
\n\u201cI hope this clarification will move the editors to reconsider.\u201d<\/p>\n
So far, it hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dec. 5, 2012 As noted previously, my requests for retraction to\u00a0Nursing Research\u00a0and Child Abuse & Neglect went nowhere. But I found a spark of interest at a third journal,\u00a0Relational Child & Youth Care Practice. As well I should have \u2013 in 1990, RCYCP (then known as the Journal of Child and Youth Care) published not […]<\/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-741","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\/741","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=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}