Sponsored link. Since 1995, we have studied over 40 Multi-Victim, Multi-Offender (MVMO) cases at 24 locations, mostly involving allegations of ritual abuse. In other areas of this website, we do not take sides. We do not reach conclusions. We merely report both or all sides of each issue and let our readers make up their mind. However, with these ritual abuse cases, it seemed obvious to us that grave injustices had been done, both to the alleged perpetrators and to the alleged victims. As Kimberly Hart of the National Child Abuse Defense Center said, police and District Attorneys' offices had suspended their "intellectual integrity." They readily "believed the absurd." We decided to write the essays with the assumption that most or all of the defendants were innocent of ritual abuse, and that the crimes never actually happened. We believe that some sexual molestation did happen at Country Walk, in Miami FL, and perhaps in a few of the remaining cases. But it is our opinion that:
Hundreds of adults were convicted of ritual abuse of children, mostly during the 1980s and early 1990s. Almost all have had their cases revisited. Most convictions have been overturned because of what investigators now know about:
A few innocent people continue to rot in prison in the United States and elsewhere. A list of addresses of US prisoners was available. 5 Child psychologists and police investigators are now generally aware of how to avoid implanting memories of non-existent events through improper questioning of young children. New allegations of MVMO ritual abuse cases dried up in the early 1990s. However, one strange case did surface in Lewis Island, Scotland, in late 2003. Hopefully, this will be the last. US Cases:
* See also: Magical tunnels under McMartin Preschool The Justice Committee has examined many child sexual abuse convictions that were triggered throughout the United States by the Bakersfield and McMartin cases. They believe that there are more than 1000 persons who are innocent of the crimes for which they have been convicted. The Committee's main project is to persuade Congress to hold hearings to study the causes of these prosecutions and initiate remedies for the unjustly convicted. They have obtained support from Congressmen Bill Archer, Dick Armey, Sonny Bono, and others. 3 ABC-TV's Turning Point program of 1996-NOV-15 stated that:
Lona Manning, writing for Crime Magazine, describes the case of Robert Halsey, a school-bus driver who was convicted in 1993 and is:
On 2014-AUG-25, Michael Parker was released from prison in North Carolina after over 20 years incarceraton for a crime the he did not committ -- crimes that never even happened. His lawyer suggests that he is the last person convicted of Satanic ritual abuse to be released.
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Location | People Involved |
Cornwall, ON | Allegations of sex-rings and ritual abuse |
Martensville, SK | The Sterling Family("The Martensville Nightmare") |
Prescott, ON | 120 adults! We call it the Prescott Nightmare -- perhaps the worst (and least-reported) miscarriage of justice in Canada's history |
Richmond, BC, Canada | Michael Kliman |
Saskatoon, SK | The Klassen family and 11 other adults "The Scandal of the Century" |
Cases Outside North America
Location | People accused |
Sydney, Australia | "Mr Bubbles" |
Charleroi, Belgium | Marc Dutroux |
Muenster, Germany | Rainer Moellers |
Ashhurst, NZ | The Venus Case 6 |
Christchurch, NZ | Peter Ellis and 4 other cases 6 |
Bishop Auckland, UK | 4 families |
Lewis island, UK | Group of 8 adults |
Newcastle, UK | Christopher Lillie and Dawn Reed |
Nottingham, UK | Group of 9 adults (the one that started the UK Satanic panic) |
Pembroke, UK | Group of 6 adults |
Rochdale, UK | Group of 10 adults |
Three groundbreaking books that explain how the justice system failed both children and adults:
Stephen Ceci & Maggie Bruck, "Jeopardy in the Courtroom:
A scientific analysis of children's testimony," American
Psychological Association, (2000). Read reviews or
order this book This book was largely responsible for changing child
interview techniques across North America, and bringing an end to
implanted false memories of child abuse.
Dorothy Rabinowitz, "No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times," Wall Street Journal Books,
(2003). Read
reviews or order this book "No Crueler Tyrannies recalls the hysteria
that accompanied the child sex-abuse witch-hunts of the 1980s and 1990s:
how a single anonymous phone call could bring to bear an army of
recovered-memory therapists, venal and ambitious prosecutors, and
hypocritical judges -- an army that jailed hundreds of innocent
Americans." (Amazon.com
review)
Mary de Young, "The Day Care Ritual Abuse Panic," McFarland
& Company, (2004). Read reviews or order
this book "This work is a sociologically based analysis of the
day care ritual abuse panic in America. It introduces the concept of moral
panic and analyzes its relevance to the ritual abuse scare, explores the
ideological, political, economic, and professional forces that fomented the
panic, discusses the McMartin Preschool case as the incident that brought
attention to satanic menaces and children, and examines the dialect between
the various interest groups that stirred up and spread the moral panic and
the day care providers accused of ritual abuse. Also covered are the popular
culture representations of day care ritual abuse, the diffusion of the scare
to areas overseas, the institutionally symbolic and ideologically
contradictory social ends of the panic, and the outcomes of the panic in
various settings. The book ends with a discussion of moral panic theory and
how it needs to be changed for a complex, multi-mediated postmodern culture,
and what lessons can be learned from the scare."
(Amazon.com review)
Kathryn Lyon: "Witch Hunt: The true story of social hysteria and abused justice, (1998).
Read reviews or order this book
It appears to be currently out of print. As of late 2007, you can buy a used
copy for $0.01 plus shipping at Amazon.com marketplace. This book is by a lawyer
and public defender. It deals with the MVMO cases in
Wenatchee, WA.
References used:
- Carol Tavris: "Mind Games: Psychological Warfare Between Therapists and Scientists," The Chronicle of Higher Education, Section: The Chronicle Review, Vol. 49, Issue 25, Page B7, 2003-FEB-28.
- Kimberly Hart is executive director of the National Child Abuse Defense Center in Ohio. The quote came from the National Post, 2001-JUL-10, Page A10. The National Post is a conservative Canadian newspaper.
- Debra Poole is a professor of psychology at Central Michigan University. She is the author of the forensic interviewing protocol for children now mandated by Michigan law.
- Carol Hopkins, News Release, The Justice Committee, 625 Broadway, Suite 1111, San Diego, CA 92101. Issued 1996-AUG-11
- Bob Chatelle had a list of falsely accused inmates at: http://bobchatelle.net/
- For other false allegations in New Zealand, go to Brain Robinson's website (no relation) at: http://www.wave.co.nz/
- Lona Manning, "The forgotten innocent man," Crime Magazine, 3--6=OCT-16, at: http://crimemagazine.com/
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