17
Apr
09

Glendale Student Recants claims against James Toward

In February 2008, a former student at the Glendale Montessori School contacted the Foundation. She explained that when she was 9-yearsold, she had been sent to a therapist who used hypnosis to try to uncover her “memories” of being abused at Glendale when she was two, three and four. The caller remembered a discussion of satanic ritual abuse between her therapist and his partner. She told us that because her family did not file charges and did not want her to testify, the psychologist felt they were negligent and tried to get her mother to sign release papers. Because her mother was suspicious, she refused to sign anything, and she took our caller to another therapist who was outside the Glendale community. This therapist said that the family should lead a normal life. If anything had happened, it would be revealed naturally.

The former Glendale student said that after a lot of investigation, she is now certain that Toward had been wrongly convicted. She feels that the groups concerned with the wrongly accused have overlooked the Glendale case, and she wants to find a way to free James Toward.



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Why Believe That for Which There Is No Good Evidence?

Many people believe in the existence of widespread "repressed" child sexual abuse and organized satanic cults. Such beliefs occur despite lack of evidence supporting them, influenced instead by reliance on authorities and social consensus. In addition, people fail to understand the fallibility of retrospective memory, erroneously assume that high confidence in a memory means that it is accurate, and mistakenly believe that more information necessarily implies a better grasp of reality. Compounding this problem is the diminution in the scientific training of licensed therapists. When therapists themselves have not been inoculated with scientific skepticism, they will not inoculate their clients and will instead contribute to the epidemic of irrational beliefs. -Robyn M. Dawes http://www.fmsfonline.org/dawes.html