this may be heavy for survivors
Little girls lost? Embraced in family courts across the country, a controversial "syndrome" may be placing abused children at risk By Lynn Vincent "...how many children are lying about sexual abuse? In custody battles, about one in three, according to most researchers. The Association of Family and Conciliation Courts in Colorado in 1990 surveyed custody-visitation disputes involving 209 alleged child-sex-abuse victims. In 33 percent of cases, the allegations were considered false, and in 17 percent of cases, investigators could make no determination. A 1995 study by University of Michigan social work researcher Kathleen Faller found that of allegations in 215 child-sexual-abuse cases, about 70 percent were considered likely to be true, 20 percent were unlikely to be true, and about one in 10 was uncertain. Studies in 1986 and 1991 yielded similar results....In Ms. Faller's 1995 study, 40 parents who raised sexual-abuse allegations-none of which were judged knowingly false-experienced negative sanctions, including losing custody to the alleged offender, limitation or loss of visitation, and court admonitions not to report alleged abuse again to the court, child protective services, or police.Such cases often turn on Dr. Gardner's "parental alienation syndrome." WORLD reviewed histories on 13 PAS cases-in California, Texas, New York, North Carolina, Georgia, Utah, and other states. These cases had something in common: documentation. In all 13 cases, court records show the mother had already been found a fit parent, and was in most cases already the primary custodial parent. In all 13, court-appointed psychologists ignored children's testimony of sexual abuse, and in some cases, medical findings of abuse, and even previous sex-offender violations. And in all 13 cases, court-appointed mediators concluded that the mothers had inculcated PAS in their children and recommended Dr. Gardner's standard prescription: to strip custody from the mother and place the child with the father for "deprogramming." http://www.worldmag.com/world/issue/02-08-03/cover_1.asp
two from L Moss Sharman Minneapolis man pleads guilty to voodoo-related slaying AP 1/29/03 "A second Twin Cities man involved in the 1997 killing of a Minnesota pharmacist in rural Wisconsin has pleaded guilty to homicide for his participation in what prosecutors have called a voodoo ritual....Authorities said Foster had told Friesner that he became a voodoo high priest by killing his predecessor in a ritual in New Orleans. Foster allegedly designated Friesner to kill him, thereby assuming Foster's priesthood and acquiring his soul as well as the souls of preceding high priests." http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3620023.html
Priest details longtime affair Tells four children of the woman who died that he's sorry By Stephen Kurkjian, 1/31/03 "The Rev. James D. Foley, who fled when the Needham woman with whom he was having an affair took a fatal overdose in 1973, apologized to her four children -- two of whom he may have fathered -- during an extraordinary face-to-face encounter earlier this month....Foley disclosed the affair and the fatal overdose to Cardinal Bernard F. Law and the Rev. -- now Bishop -- John B. McCormack in 1993. But Law and McCormack made no effort to notify the family. Instead, after sending Foley for psychological treatment, Law returned Foley to ministry in 1995 at St. Joseph's Church in Salem in 1995. He was removed from the parish when the records became public on Dec. 5." http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/031/metro/Priest_details_longtime_affair+.shtml <A HREF="">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.
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