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The McMartin preschool trial was a day care sexual abuse case in the 1980s, prosecuted by the Los Angeles District Attorney, Ira Reiner. [ 1] Members of the McMartin family, who operated a preschool in Manhattan Beach, California, were charged with hundreds of acts of sexual abuse of children in their care. Accusations were made in 1983, with ...
Genie (feral child) Genie (born 1957) is the pseudonym of an American feral child who was a victim of severe abuse, neglect, and social isolation. Her circumstances are prominently recorded in the annals of linguistics and abnormal child psychology. [ 1][ 2][ 3] When she was approximately 20 months old, her father began keeping her in a locked ...
Day-care sex-abuse hysteria. Day-care sex-abuse hysteria was a moral panic that occurred primarily during the 1980s and early 1990s, and featured charges against day-care providers accused of committing several forms of child abuse, including Satanic ritual abuse. [ 1][ 2] The collective cases are often considered a part of the Satanic panic.
Turpin case. The Turpin case involved the abuse of children and dependent adults by their parents, David and Louise Turpin of Perris, California, U.S. The ages of the 13 victims ranged from 2 to 29 years-old. On January 14, 2018, one of the daughters, then-17-year-old Jordan Turpin, escaped and called local police, who then raided the residence ...
July 15, 2024 at 8:46 PM. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California became the first U.S. state to bar school districts from requiring staff to notify parents of their child’s gender identification ...
David James Pelzer (born December 29, 1960, in San Francisco, California) [1] is an American author of several autobiographical and self-help books. [2] His 1995 memoir of childhood abuse, A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive, was listed on The New York Times Best Seller list for several years, and in 5 years had sold at least 1.6 million copies. [3]
Family law. Paternity fraud is one form of misattributed paternity [ 1] or paternal discrepancy. [ 2] Specifically, paternity fraud is the intentional misidentification of a child's biological father by its mother. [ 3] Paternity fraud is distinct from other, unintentional misattribution, which may arise from simple error, an accident such as a ...
The Kern County child abuse cases started the day care sexual abuse hysteria of the 1980s in Kern County, California. [ 1] The cases involved allegations of satanic ritual abuse by a sex ring against as many as 60 children who testified they had been abused. At least 36 people were convicted and most of them spent years in prison.