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TxDemChem

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3. I remember those times

Reply to zappaman (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 25, 2013, 06:35 AM

Oct 2013

They had "psychologists" saying that children had repressed memories of prior abuse and that there were hundreds of satanic cults throughout the country.

My dad would just shake his head and call it BS. I haven't looked at the link yet, but I recall an entire family bring suspected of sexual abuse and I think the daycare owner's son was convicted on flimsy evidence. Either way, I thought it was just terrible how that could so nonchalantly ruin innocent peoples' lives.

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It really was a travesty. zappaman Oct 2013 #1

I remember those times TxDemChem Oct 2013 #3

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It's hard to imagine that people took a child seriously zappaman Oct 2013 #6

I remember it a little bit cpwm17 Oct 2013 #5

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