When children no longer feel safe

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071021/ap_on_re_us/teacher_sex_abuse_ii


This makes me sad for these children that they had no one to go to, no one to comfort them in their time of need, and the people they chose to go to for support took too long to do something about it. But there are some issues being raised that I feel in all honesty are fair to consider. What if the children coming forward now ARE lying? It's natural for one to think that children wouldn't lie about such a thing, but does anyone remember the McMartin Trial? Where people were accused of molesting children at their family run preschool for everyone to find out that the children WERE lying and being pressured to by the prosecution and the child psychologist they were sent to see and sometimes their parents. The stories got wilder with accusations of secret tunnels and satanic rituals. The end result? The preschool was leveled, the family members good name was tarnished, the prosecutor was never reprimanded for evading the protocol for discovery disclosure.