Ebook: We believe the children : a moral panic in the 1980s
Author: Beck Richard
- Tags: Child sexual abuse -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Ritual abuse -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Child care workers -- United States -- History -- 20th century. False arrest -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Moral panics -- United States -- History -- 20th century. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security POLITICAL SCIENCE / Pu
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: PublicAffairs
- City: New York, United States
- Language: English
- epub
In the 1980s in California, New Jersey, and New York, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Florida, Tennessee, Texas, Ohio, and elsewhere, daycare workers were arrested, charged, tried, and convicted of committing horrible sexual crimes against the children they cared for. These crimes, prosecutors said, had gone undetected for years, and their brutality and sadism defied all imagining. What's more, the abusers had Read more...
Abstract: In the 1980s in California, New Jersey, and New York, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Florida, Tennessee, Texas, Ohio, and elsewhere, daycare workers were arrested, charged, tried, and convicted of committing horrible sexual crimes against the children they cared for. These crimes, prosecutors said, had gone undetected for years, and their brutality and sadism defied all imagining. What's more, the abusers had photographed and videotaped their victims, distributing the images through a sophisticated international network of child pornographers. More often than not, violent satanic cult worship ha