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Child sex abuse
hysteria and the Ellis case |
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October 6 1998 It is time for plain speaking. As
a member of Casualties of Sexual Allegations Inc (COSA), I take issue with
the emotive, ideological and cowardly attack made by Seymour, Read, Lambie,
Jackson and Davies (Oct 10) on one of the three authors of current research
about "recovered memories" and false allegations of sexual abuse. Police and the Courts record many
cases of false allegations. COSA has hundreds of them on file. Newspapers
regularly report them. Many result from "recovered memories".
Others are made in custody disputes, claims of rape, for mistaken or
vindictive reasons, and for extortion. Some false accusers recant, others
confess and some are convicted. Read and Seymour particularly, are
avid believers in the nonsense of "repressed memories" of sexual
abuse. They now say "The vast majority of abuse victims remember their
abuse from the time of its occurrence." Without one shred of evidence,
memory liposuction by "therapists" has caused thousands of parents
to be falsely accused of committing incest, rape, indecent assaults, and
ritualistic abuse. The failure of these narrow-minded
critics to acknowledge or review the mass of credible data on false
allegations is professionally inexcusable. How dare they presume that we
falsely accused parents have no evidence of our innocence. There is no substitute for fact
and truth. Their criticisms are irresponsible, incompetent and demonstrably
wrong. |
