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MacFarlane said they met when Satz came to interview her for a general story on child molestations. In late , before stories about the case broke, Ms. MacFarlane said she received a phone message from Satz saying he wanted to discuss Raymond Buckey, who would later become a defendant. It was startling to me. He seemed to know everything. MacFarlane did not say when the relationship ended. She has since married someone else. Best Of. Married Couple Found Fatally Shot Inside Moorpark Home Authorities on Sunday were investigating the circumstances surrounding the deaths of two people both of whom were 91 and married.

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Reiner went on to identify the correct source of the problem. To do so would require them to talk of a thing which they have no understanding or knowledge. And so we can always rely upon a child talking about being sexually molested.

But what we had here were these social workers questioning the children, asking very leading and very suggestive questions Reiner even provides an example.

Now, you're just as smart as Johnny, aren't you? They go on to another subject. Finally, Reiner made a staggering admission. Asked by Wallace how many of the hours of videotapes of the children had been viewed by his office prior to sending the case to the grand jury for indictment, Reiner said, "In round figures, zero. While such irresponsibility can hardly be exaggerated, I find even more disturbing the fact that leading lights in the field of child sexual abuse continue to insist that what MacFarlane did was proper.

What this tells us is that children all over the country will continue to be interviewed in this manner for years to come. Returning to his defense of MacFarlane's interviews, Summit , p.

This assumes, of course, that a molestation has taken place, despite the fact that the interview is supposed to discover whether molestation has occurred. Tragically, this assumption of sexual abuse is precisely the attitude that Summit, MacFarlane and other experts in child sexual abuse have promoted, through countless workshops for police, protective service workers, mental health professionals, and district attorneys.

It is this belief that if an allegation is raised, regardless of the circumstances, it must be true because "Children don't lie about sexual abuse," which explains the irresponsible investigations in the McMartin case, and the hundreds of other false allegations throughout the country.

This raises other serious questions. Where does the claim that "Children don't lie about sexual abuse" come from? Are there only two choices, that the child is either lying or telling the truth?

Does this ignore the possibility that a child may be manipulated into an accusation, and with sufficient training eventually come to sincerely believe in things which never took place?

With the answers to these questions comes the recognition that in defending Kee MacFarlane and the Children's Institute International, Summit is defending himself and the other leaders of what he refers to as the "fledgling specialty" of child sexual abuse.

In a highly influential article, Summit has written, "It has become a maxim among child sexual abuse intervention counselors and investigators that children never fabricate the kinds of explicit sexual manipulations they divulge in complaints and interrogations" , pp.

Unaided by adults with axes to grind, this is probably true most of the time. Ideas which children would never imagine on their own come forth as they try to figure out what are the terrible things which the interviewer insists on hearing about.

Take, for example, the child repeatedly interviewed as part of the string of cases in Bakersfield, California. These cases have been found by California's Attorney General to be based on the same irresponsible interview techniques that were used on the McMartin children Van de Kamp, In one of the cases, a child told how a mother and father had sexually abused and then murdered their two-year-old son.

I am happy to report that the "murdered" child is alive and well. Another child in this same case, subjected to the same indoctrination techniques, added the district attorney, the sheriff, and the child protection worker to the long list of child molesters. The Minnesota Attorney General investigated the sex abuse hoax in Scott County, where children told of sex rings and murders, and accused their own parents of these heinous acts Humphrey, A major conclusion of the investigation was that " To ignore such evidence is irresponsible.

It seems that rather than face up to the nightmare which the experts have promoted by their aggressive and manipulative techniques, they are determined to confuse the issues by claiming that quoting Summit "If there is a danger out there Rather than discredit MacFarlane, the criminal justice system needs to better understand the problems of child sexual abuse and make accommodations to new sources of evidence" Summit, , p.

This means more puppets, more anatomically correct dolls, more testimony from three, four, or five year olds who have been badly manipulated by interviewers that they can no longer differentiate what they remember from what has been suggested to them. Recently we learned that hundreds of thousands of federal and state dollars are currently funding a U. The lead investigator is psychologist Jill Watermann who co-authored a book with Kee MacFarlane on how to investigate child sexual abuse.

Summit has made one worthwhile recommendation. He has urged that the videotapes of the McMartin interviews be carefully studied no matter what happens in the criminal case. This is precisely what needs to happen, once they are edited to protect the children's identities. The hundreds of hours of videotaped interviews are indeed the key to understanding how the children could come to sincerely believe things that never happened.

These tapes must not be allowed to gather dust merely because the district attorney's office finally admitted it was a terrible mistake to trust MacFarlane and the Children's Institute International. These tapes are a key not only to understanding the McMartin hoax but the thousands of smaller but otherwise similar debacles unfolding throughout the country. If, as I have seen from my own viewing of the McMartin tapes and listening to hours of audio- and videotapes in other cases, the best and the brightest have created the current mess in investigations of alleged child sexual abuse, then some basic lessons emerge:.

First, we have once again made a terrible mistake by turning to mental health professionals for advice in delicate and difficult issues of law and social policy.

Mental health professionals are no more qualified to investigate whether a child has been sexually molested than to determine if a murderer knows right from wrong or predict if a prisoner is safe for release Coleman, Second, police and child protection workers throughout the country will need to be retrained.

The ideas and methods of Summit, MacFarlane, and their closest colleagues which now pervade child sexual abuse investigations will need to be exposed and discarded in favor of careful and responsible investigations which do not turn to "experts" for insights which we mistakenly assume they can provide.

We will do far better without them. I join hands with Dr. Summit in calling for the most thorough study of the McMartin tapes by the widest possible audience. Let transcriptions go forth across the land.