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\u201cFor several years… during which innocent people, many of whom were themselves the parents of young children, were sent to prison, the press by and large went along. \u2018The horrors may only have started with sodomy, rape, oral copulation, and fondling,\u2019 Newsweek confidently reported of the McMartin allegations in April 1984….<\/p>\n
\u201cTime’s account noted that a horse was slaughtered in front of the toddlers to intimidate them into silence, but the magazine neglected to ask how this messy procedure was accomplished without detection in a busy preschool in the middle of town, where parents and teachers came and went throughout the day. \u2018Parents,\u2019 Time chided, \u2018were too trusting, assuming that separation anxiety was the reason their children cried when dropped off at school.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBy the late \u201980s, then, the notion that many, many day care workers went into the field only to sate their Sadean lusts for small children, and that schools were places fraught with sexual \u2018stranger danger,\u2019 and that childish innocence was under unprecedented assault from the forces of evil, had sufficient credibility to darken the nightmares of mothers and fathers across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n