I was surprised to learn that the primary witness in the recently adjudicated Shanley case involved a victim with a recovered memory of abuse. Until I heard that Elizabeth Loftus was involved with the trial, I had assumed that the victims in this case had continuous recollections of their abuse. However, I was not able to find any information about the circumstances of the memory recovery. In the snippet of testimony I heard on the radio, it sounded like it might have been a spontaneous recovery rather than something extracted from extended (and potentially suggestive) therapeutic work. Anybody have more details on this? Three other victims were dropped from the case. Were their recollections also recovered memories?
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