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Capturing the Friedmans (Dir. Andrew Jarecki) ―A 2003 HBO documentary about Arnold and Jesse Friedman, [41] who both pleaded guilty to child abuse, but claimed the charges were false and the guilty pleas coerced. A Map of the World (1994) ― A novel that was turned into a film (1999), about a school nurse falsely accused of molesting a student.
A false allegation of child sexual abuse is an accusation that a person committed one or more acts of child sexual abuse when in reality there was no perpetration of abuse by the accused person as alleged. Such accusations can be brought by the victim, or by another person on the alleged victim's behalf.
The agency's budget increased from $1.8 million to $7.2 million between 1983 and 1984, increasing to $15 million in 1985, making it the greatest source of funding for child abuse and neglect prevention in the United States. The majority of this budget went toward studies on sexual abuse with only $5 million going towards physical abuse and neglect.
The McMartin Preschool trial ended with zero convictions. "McMartin" became a byword for social contagion, hysteria and the epic failure of trusted institutions: law enforcement, courts, the child ...
Child sexual abuse* Kern County, California: Varied Varied Some The Kern County child abuse cases are a notable example of day-care sex-abuse hysteria of the 1980s. [116] The cases involved claims that a pedophile sex ring performed Satanic ritual abuse: as many as 60 young children testified they had been abused. At least 36 people were ...
Sep. 17—Boys from Joplin and Carthage and a boy and a girl from Neosho are among 11 alleged victims of past sexual abuse by Catholic Church officials cited in a lawsuit filed last week against ...
Day-care sex-abusing hysteria was a moral panic that occurred primarily during the 1980s and early 1990s, and featured charges against day-care providers accused of committing several forms of child abuse, including Satanic ritual abuse.
Smyth later returned to Ireland and pleaded guilty there to 141 counts of sexual abuse. ... the former North Kingstown coach facing child molestation charges after being accused of subjecting ...