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Summary: Research Material Only
Review: Co-author Snedeker has been a psychologist, a writer and an appellant's attorney since the mid-70s, so is remarkably well qualified to write on the subject. The book's dissection of the nonsense that prevailed in mid-80s "satanic, ritualistic, child abuse" witch hunts should be required reading for persons in the child protection field. Were it so, the fevered investigators' imaginations which created these travesties might have been cooled, and innocent people spared from allegations of perpetration. I am retired from that field, so am terribly familiar with the pervasive incompetence it harbors.
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Summary: this book helped give me back my family
Review: I had cut off ties with my family due to "memories" of ritual abuse. This book helped me see that the "memories" were in my imagination. I have been depressed most of my life and was therefore attracted to dark and gory subjects, plus I was looking for someone to blame. After reading this book, I resumed contact with my family and we've been back in touch for a number of years. This book was a real help to me.
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Summary: The Real Persecutors
Review: In the Margaret Kelly Michaels case, if you read the judicial evaluations carefully you can see clearly who the real perpetrators are: not Kelly at all, but the teams of prosecutors and "experts" who coerced the children into telling them exactly what they wanted to hear to whip up public hysteria. By the time the Superior and Supreme Court justices caught up with these misguided prosecuting "adults", Kelly's life as an actress and writer had been ruined, five years of her life had vanished into unjust imprisonment, and the lives of her students had been damaged for a very long time by those "adults" who forced them to dance to a prejudiced prosecution tune having nothing to do with the facts. These are the real tragedies, and they are far from over.
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Summary: The Real Persecutors
Review: In the Margaret Kelly Michaels case, if you read the judicial evaluations carefully you can see clearly who the real perpetrators are: not Kelly at all, but the teams of prosecutors and "experts" who coerced the children into telling them exactly what they wanted to hear to whip up public hysteria. By the time the Superior and Supreme Court justices caught up with these misguided prosecuting "adults", Kelly's life as an actress and writer had been ruined, five years of her life had vanished into unjust imprisonment, and the lives of her students had been damaged for a very long time by those "adults" who forced them to dance to a prejudiced prosecution tune having nothing to do with the facts. These are the real tragedies, and they are far from over.
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Summary: On Reviews of Skeptical Books
Review: In these days where evidence and reason are secondary concerns to the deliverence of justice, a book such as this shines through the lies. The bizarre accusations of ritual child abuse in the 1980's stood as one of the most amusing and tragic examples of bourgeoisie demagoguery. This book attempts to detail how such lies were perpetrated as thoroughly as possible. Unfortunately, the lack of detail found in the research is due to the simple reality that it is impossible to prove a negative. Because the accusations were not consistently proven to be false does not mean they were true.
Given this fundamental basis of logic, the evidence that is suppled by the author is consistent with the circumstances. I give this work four stars, as I believe it could have been more impartial and more directed towards the source of such accusations, the illogical nature of theists. It is no more difficult to believe in satanic child molesters than a supernatural being or santa clause for that matter. The psychologists employed to coerce the young witnesses were not atheists and certainly did not identify with Albert Ellis. Psychology and theistic belief is a dangerous combination, as evidenced by this book.
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Summary: Good Book but needs to be more indepth
Review: Me being a child of the 80's I remember watching the TV movie about it....growing up in a Catholic School made it even worse.
Ritual Abuse is one of those things that unfortunatly does exist but it's not as precedent as one might think...A very very close and recent case of Ritual Abuse happened to one Rev. Sonath of the Order of Perdition...(Now gone thank god) the esteemed "Satanist" priest molested his 12 yr old daughter in ritual abuse. Google Search it if you think I am kidding. He was also in an episode on americas most wanted. The book itself is a good read with a lot of prevalent facts and case files but like I said...it's out there you just have to know where to look....no card carrying member of the CoS would likely admit to it...but a lot of the "denominations" currently held in the satanic church practice it without anyone knowing...
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Summary: Must Reading for Anyone Who Cares About Justice
Review: Satan's Silence is simply the best book yet written about the ongoing epidemic of false accusations of child sexual abuse that began in America with the daycare panics -- McMartin, Fells Acres, Little Rascals, etc. -- that swept this country in the 80s. Satan's Silence examines several key cases in detail, explaining what happened and why. It is carefully researched, well reasoned, intelligent and compassionate.
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Summary: This Is A Must Read For Those Interested In The Subject
Review: This book is great. It will make even the most ardent believers of SRA[Satanic Ritual Abuse] have seconde thoughts. The research is complete and very informative.
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Summary: A scary expose of justice gone awry!
Review: This book is must reading for anyone concerned with justice in America. This book details cases of child abuse accusations that put people behind bars for outlandish crimes that could never have been committed, crimes that were so fantastical and so unreal as to be utterly unbelievable. This is not a one-sided account, but a true and courageous investigative expose of the child-abuse and satanic ritual cases like the McMartin Pre-school case that were nothing but a house of cards that came crashing down when the facts were examined with a critical eye. Read it and you will wonder in amazement and disbelief how prosecutors and judges -- elected public officials -- could have allowed these cases to happen and why some of the accused are still behind bars despite their innocence and the fact that the crimes never could have occurred.
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