"People," one psychiatrist says, "just aren't ready for this."
I'm almost reluctant to talk about it, or have you guys talk about it."Īpart from their personal safety, the overriding concern among those investigating and prosecuting such cases is that many Americans who are only now coming to grips with the extent of sexual child abuse will conclude that the children in such cases are fantasizing, not only about devils and demons but also about being abused.
"We've seen a couple of cases here in Denver where that's been part of it. Richard Krugman, a pediatrician with the Henry Kempe Center in Denver and a leading expert on sexual child abuse. "But I have a hard time looking at it logically and coming up with any other conclusion." "I wanted to believe in the worst way that this was explainable on some other basis," he said. The first therapist had initially been skeptical of the children's accounts. "Good luck with your life," said another child therapist, one of whose patients is among the children making such accusations.
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