At 10:54 AM 1/13/2006, you wrote:
Annette Taylor, Ph. D. wrote:
I'm not so sure of that, at least not directly. In fact, I am not aware
of any
largely popularized cases of actual 'satanic' abuse. Mostly it is just plain
old sexual abuse. If you look at the most popularized cases in the US
(McMartin
and the other one in CA whose name is the abuser falls prey to a senior
moment),
and I have to admit I have not heard of any big ones recently, then I don't
believe religion played a part.
In the McMartin case, in spite of being the longest criminal case in
history, there were no convictions of abuse of any type. While 'not
guilty' is not the same as 'innocent', I thought that it was a case in
which the main culprits were the overzealous interviewers who
(inadvertantly) manipulated the testimony of young children.
I friend of mine was a grad student in clinical at UCLA, and did some
clinical work with some of the McMartin kids. He was pretty confident that
*something* had occurred because the children just didn't test normally on
some standardized measures. He was also pretty clear that the prosecution
had failed to prove its case.
-- Jim
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