Sex Hysteria!

Day Care Sex Abuse Hysteria

During the 1980s and 1990s, the nation was gripped by panic in which prosecutors, law enforcement, and social services workers embarked on a binge of charging and prosecuting innocent people with child sex abuse crimes.  This crusade is now almost universally regarded as a “witch hunt” because it took on the very characteristics of the witch hunts in Salem Massachusetts during the late 17th century.

In 1692, children made up incredible stories at the behest of their puritanical inquisitors, accusing adults of horrendous acts.  When some children refused, they were labeled as being co-conspirators.  It was a vicious cycle that could have no other outcome than a flood of false accusations that utterly destroyed entire families.

What follows is a who’s who of those involved with instigating and perpetuating the child sex abuse hysteria of the 80s and 90s.  While some may have been motivated by good intentions, most were driven by the promise of personal gain and fame.  It should be noted that, despite the swath of misery and ruined lives they left in their wake, few suffered any repercussions, and many indeed benefited personally and politically because of the part they played in feeding the blood lust for retribution of a paranoid American public that is only too willing to see evil everywhere, especially when the magic word “children” is invoked.

I’ve only started compiling the names and the order is simply alphabetical, but I may eventually regroup the list into specific cases.

Witch Hunt Honor Roll

Barbour, Mary Ann — First Accuser, Bakersfield

Caissie, Denise  — First Accuser, Fells Acre

Casey, Dan — Prosecutor, Country Walk

Dolan,  Elizabeth — Judge, Fells acre

Fox, Roberta — State Senator and child protection advocate

Haber, Merry Sue — Psychologist, Country Walk

Harshbarger, L. Scott  –  Middlesex County DA, Fells Acre

Hardoon, Larry –  Lead Prosecutor, Fells Acre

Heger, Astrid — CII examining doctor, McMartin

Hoag, Jane — Detective/Investigator, McMartin

Hollingsworth, Jan — Journalist/Activist, Country Walk

Jagels, Ed — Kern County DA, Bakersfield

Johnson, Judy — First Accuser, McMartin

Kelley, Susan — Pediatric Nurse, Child Interviewer, Fells Acre

Kuhlmeyer, Harry — Police Chief, McMartin

Laeser, Abe — Deputy Chief State Attorney, Country Walk

MacFarlane, Kee  — CII Child Social Worker – McMartin

Newberger, Eli –  Child expert? – Fells Acre area

Pazder, Larry — psychiatris, co-author of “Michelle Remembers”

Philobosian, Robert — Los Angeles Deputy DA, McMartin

Rappaport, Michael — Psychologist, Country Walk

Reiner, Ira — Los Angeles DA, McMartin

Reno, Janet — Dade County State Attorney, Country Walk

Rubin, Lael — Prosecutor, McMartin

Samek, Jeffrey — Defense Attorney, Country Walk(incompetent)

Satz, Wayne — Jounalist, McMartin

Smith, Michelle  –  co-author of “Michelle Remembers”

Sullivan, John Paul — Judge, Fells Acre

Von Zamft, Michael — Defense Attorney, Country Walk (incompetent)

The Good Guys

Davis, Danny — Defense attorney, McMartin

Loftus, Elizabeth — False Memory Researcher

Stevens, Glenn — Prosecutor, McMartin