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Witch-hunt - Day care sex abuse: Encyclopedia II - Witch-hunt - Day care sex abuse

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Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia II - Witch-hunt - Day care sex abuse

Witch-hunt - Day care sex abuse

One recent example of a widescale witchhunt in a Western society is the McMartin preschool case. The McMartin preschool owner and employees were accused of child molestation and satanism. The evidence used against them were accounts told by children as young as 3, many whom were repeatedly asked the same question until they claimed they were abused. Many were led to believe the workers were devil worshippers and in the trial the fact that one of the defendants had a high school graduation gown was used as evidence of a satanic cult. In a classic witchhunt technique in the Kern county child abuse cases people who defended the accused were themselves accused. In the Little Rascals Day Care Center case a police officer in a divorce and child custody case accused his own ex-wife of involvement, and she was arrested, and lost custody of their child. This led to a fear of Satanic ritual abuse that crossed the United States during the 1980s. Many people were charged with abuse and had their lives ruined as a result. Most of the cases have turned out to be completely baseless.

Witch-hunt - Involuntary commitment

The practice of involuntary commitment has been described as a witchhunt, with systematic bias in the standards for involuntary commitment, the search for people to involuntarily commit, and the judicial procedures that may result in their commitment. However, this viewpoint is not widely espoused, and the vast majority of people maintain that, as there no general hysteria over any "need" to involuntarily commit people, the comparison of the possibility of unjust individual hearings to full-scale witch-hunts is inappropriate, perhaps used as an "axe to grind" by individuals with personal disagreements with the current system.