so if you report abuse and your kid has a bad therapist then the abuse is no longer real?? If you read the actual case there were real signs of abuse. If it was the mcmartins or not, I don't know, but someone abused the kids.
In the Oak Hill case, there were not signs of abuse.
In the McMartin case, the woman who made the first charges of abuse was a paranoid schizophrenic and alcoholic. She accused Raymond Buckley of abusing her son. Her stories kept going. She also accused her husband, an AWOL Marine, three models from the local health club and a member of the school board. She said the Marine also molested her dog.
She claimed that her son watched Ray Buckley fly through the air and another child have his armpits drilled with a electric drill. This information was kept from the defense attorneys.
One of the children who made accusations, came forward as an adult and said that he lied. He said he knew other kids had been interviewed for hours, so he just told them what he knew they wanted to hear.
so if you report abuse and your kid has a bad therapist then the abuse is no longer real?
That's too generic a situation to respond to. However, we know that bad therapists or bad interviewers can lead kids to making things up and and the kids believing them. This is shown over and over again in studies. It's not all kids, but a very high percentage. The kids can give very detailed even graphic testimony of things the researchers know did happen. It can happen in adults too, but with kids and especially young kids, it's pervasive.
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Are_we_sure ago
You may want to look at the James Woods TV movie on the McMartin trial and see how bad some of these therapists were. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whd3YbTLPCc
notdivided ago
so if you report abuse and your kid has a bad therapist then the abuse is no longer real?? If you read the actual case there were real signs of abuse. If it was the mcmartins or not, I don't know, but someone abused the kids.
Are_we__sure ago
In the Oak Hill case, there were not signs of abuse.
In the McMartin case, the woman who made the first charges of abuse was a paranoid schizophrenic and alcoholic. She accused Raymond Buckley of abusing her son. Her stories kept going. She also accused her husband, an AWOL Marine, three models from the local health club and a member of the school board. She said the Marine also molested her dog.
She claimed that her son watched Ray Buckley fly through the air and another child have his armpits drilled with a electric drill. This information was kept from the defense attorneys.
One of the children who made accusations, came forward as an adult and said that he lied. He said he knew other kids had been interviewed for hours, so he just told them what he knew they wanted to hear.
That's too generic a situation to respond to. However, we know that bad therapists or bad interviewers can lead kids to making things up and and the kids believing them. This is shown over and over again in studies. It's not all kids, but a very high percentage. The kids can give very detailed even graphic testimony of things the researchers know did happen. It can happen in adults too, but with kids and especially young kids, it's pervasive.
https://youtu.be/Q-B4AsF1ma0?t=1397