On the Drudge Report just now, there's a link to an article titled "Study: Half of people "remember" events that never happened". http://www.cbsnews.com/news/half-of-people-remember-events-that-never-happened/

From the article: "The results also raise questions about the integrity of processes that rely heavily on human memory, from courtroom testimony to therapy treatments."

I don't doubt for a second that they're going to push the idea of false memory syndrome as a defense against the victims that come forward.

I highly recommend reading the following article: "Perhaps nowhere has this played out more clearly than in trying to help the courts decide whether someone is telling the truth or not. In August 2014, Michael Brown, a young, unarmed man in Ferguson, MO was fatally shot by a police officer in broad daylight. Witnesses to the event give dramatically different accounts of the events. Did they perceive the events differently? Do they remember them differently? Are some of them lying?

Whether an account is accurate or not may have nothing to do with whether someone is intentionally trying to deceive. Memory is not perfect and what you retrieve is not a veridical rendition of what you saw. It is open to forgetting, failures to encode, distortions, biases and misattributions of the source. But, the fact that it is imperfect, and that memory for an event may contain both accurate and inaccurate aspects does not mean the person must be intentionally lying. It merely means that some portion of the memory is false. How we perceive the world is driven not only by what enters our brain through our eyes, ears, and other sensory receptors, but also by our expectations. Often called “top-down” influences, these expectations drive what we attend to and what we see and are themselves driven by how our past experiences have shaped us. Two individuals with different backgrounds can therefore honestly witness the same event and “see” it differently." http://www.dana.org/Publications/ReportOnProgress/Truth,_Lies,_and_False_Memories__Neuroscience_in_the_Courtroom/

When trials begin and victims testify, we must remember that these people have suffered traumatic events and some of their memories may be distorted, but we should not simply assume that they are all lying or they have had false memories implanted by someone with an agenda.