LK Daily Report for 7/22/17 - CPS is doing a bad job and more...

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Juvenile courts in California can supervise children whose parents are no longer able to protect or control them, even if the parents have done nothing wrong, the state Supreme Court has ruled.

More >> Children can be taken if parents can’t control them, court rules
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Police investigated 10,000 children in a year for abusing their parents or other adults in their homes.

The shocking figures obtained exclusively by the Sunday People reveal kids as young as six were probed for terrifying crimes of domestic violence against adults.

More >> Police probe 10,000 children for 'abusing' parents as mums and dads become domestic violence victims
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Awwww

Ankita Majumder and her husband Richard Henderson rattle around their beautiful suburban home. They have good jobs, loving friends and family but feel empty.

More >> Would-be parents left in limbo as number of children for adoption drops to all time low
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A former social worker at a Nottingham children’s home has been acquitted of historical child sex offences.

More >> Former Nottingham social worker cleared of historical child sex offences
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ALBANY — The state’s top child welfare agency is doing a poor job overseeing foster care providers in New York, according to an audit made public Friday.

More >> State's top child welfare agency is doing bad job overseeing foster care providers, DiNapoli study says
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Julia Shaw uses science to prove that some memories are false. Now she's tackling criminal-justice failures.

More >> False memories and false confessions: the psychology of imagined crimes

How False Memories Form

A Michigan counselor faces a lawsuit from parents who believe the therapist’s techniques gave their daughter false memories of abuse.

More >> How False Memories Form

Parents can sue Michigan therapist in false memories case

The Michigan Supreme Court has cleared the way for a lawsuit to advance against a counselor in the Upper Peninsula who is accused of planting false memories of sexual abuse in the mind of a teenager.

More >> Parents can sue Michigan therapist in false memories case

Explainer: what are false memories?

Explainer: what are false memories?

Recent media reports have raised questions over the therapy undergone by several people making allegations of historical sexual abuse against prominent public figures. In particular, it has been suggested that certain forms of therapy run a high risk of unintentionally generating false memories of sexual abuse. But why are there such fears around these kind of therapies?

Witnesses at centre of VIP sex abuse allegations had attended charity accused of using controversial counselling which can create false memories

Witnesses at centre of VIP sex abuse allegations had attended charity accused of using controversial counselling which can create false memories

Two key witnesses in the VIP paedophile investigation are being helped by a charity that uses a controversial therapy which can generate false memories, it emerged yesterday.

Satanic child abuse claims are almost certainly based on false memories

Satanic child abuse claims are almost certainly based on false memories

“EXCLUSIVE: Charities claim that the satanic abuse of children is rife” screamed the headline in the Express on Sunday earlier this month. The piece reports that two charities, Kilmarnock-based Break the Silence and Dundee-based Izzy’s Promise, believe satanic abuse to be rife in Scotland and that it has been for decades. They say children are forced to take part in satanic rituals involving the sacrifice of babies and the making of snuff movies. According to Kate Short of Break the Silence, “Victims are so brainwashed they don’t dare to speak out.” These are obviously extremely serious allegations – but are they true?

Children's memories of abuse may be unreliable, expert says during hearing for accused N.J. man

Children's memories of abuse may be unreliable, expert says during hearing for accused N.J. man

An expert in forensic psychology is prepared to testify at trial that the memories of six children who were allegedly abused by a Washington Township, N.J., man may be unreliable.

Neuroscientists discover how to implant false memories in the brain

Neuroscientists discover how to implant false memories in the brain

Scientists have implanted a false memory in the brains of mice in an experiment that they hope will shed light on the well-documented phenomenon whereby people “remember” events or experiences that have never happened.

Note: Alienating parents have been doing this for years.

Shrink implanted false memories

Shrink implanted false memories


A FRENCH psychotherapist has been convicted of implanting memories of abuse in two of his patients.

A New Physiological Marker Points To False Memory

A New Physiological Marker Points To False Memory

How good is your memory? Or should we be asking; how accurate is your memory? When we bring together our recollections, how true are they? What is it that makes us experience false memories? These questions have challenged psychologists for years and for the first time, published this year, physiological measurements have been used to investigate false memories and find a change in the body that indicates when false memories are occurring in our mind.

Court to Rule on Repressed Memory in Sexual Abuse Cases

Court to Rule on Repressed Memory in Sexual Abuse Cases

Sexual abuse victims often struggle for years with memories of the traumatic abuse they suffered as children. In some cases, the experiences are so traumatic that they block out (or repress) the memories.

Plaintiff seeks $1.5M in false memory claim

Plaintiff seeks $1.5M in false memory claim

A former Albany resident is suing a family counselor and accusing him of planting false memories during counseling sessions.

A woman recounts how she overcame the hurt of false memories

A woman recounts how she overcame the hurt of false memories

How does a person — despite having no evidence of ever having been abused — become convinced that she indeed was the victim of abuse?

Note: This idiot should go to jail and be labeled for life as a sex offender for making a false accusation.

Victims advocates hope ruling won't foster distrust of resurfacing memories

Victims advocates hope ruling won't foster distrust of resurfacing memories

A day after a Dane County jury awarded $1 million to a couple in a false memories lawsuit, trauma victim advocates say the verdict shouldn't be used to discount all instances of memories surfacing after a long delay.

Parents awarded $1 million in suit claiming therapists created false memories of abuse

Parents awarded $1 million in suit claiming therapists created false memories of abuse

A Dane County jury has awarded $1 million to a former Madison couple who claimed therapists created in their daughter false memories of childhood sexual and physical abuse.

Suit charges counselor with instilling false memories

Suit charges counselor with instilling false memories

Former Albany resident Stephan Skotko has filed a civil lawsuit against a Lebanon couple, claiming their marriage counseling sessions led Skotko’s family to file false claims of child abuse.

"My Lie": Why I falsely accused my father

"My Lie": Why I falsely accused my father

For years, Meredith Maran believed her dad molested her. She talks about "recovered memory," and finding the truth

More than 20 years ago, Meredith Maran falsely accused her father of molestation. That she came to believe such a thing was possible reveals what can happen when personal turmoil meets a powerful social movement. In her book "My Lie: A True Story of False Memory" (the introduction of which is excerpted on Salon), Maran recounts the 1980s feminist-inspired campaign to expose molestation, which hit feverish levels in 1988 with the book 'The Courage to Heal." As an early reporter on the story, Maran observed family therapy sessions, interviewed molesters and steeped herself in cases where abuse clearly took place. Meanwhile, she divorced her husband and fell in love with a woman who was also an incest survivor. Maran began having nightmares about her own molestation and soon what had been a contentious relationship with her father turned into accusations of unspeakable crimes. Eventually, she came to realize the truth. She was the person who had done wrong.

Adults more prone to 'false memory'

Adults more prone to 'false memory'

Adults are worse at remembering negative or stressful events than children are, a finding that could impact the criminal justice system, a study says.

My Lie: a True Story of False Memory

My Lie: a True Story of False Memory

At age 37, Meredith Maran—an award-winning journalist and mother of two—accused her father of sexual abuse. Ten years later she realized, nearly too late, that he was innocent. This is her wrenchingly honest, profoundly human account of living a daughter’s nightmare.

Note: I am going to add the comments in regards to this that was left on facebook by realzoomy.

"False Memory Syndrome was invented by a PAEDOPHILE

The False Memory Syndrome Foundation wheels out people to give false testimonies, this pile of cr*p is the usual nonsense they have3 been coming out with for years."

'False memories' warning

'False memories' warning

Memories of highly charged events can be totally inaccurate and too unreliable to use in court, a conference has heard.

Psychologist Dr James Ost said people create false memories which can pose problems for police investigating major crimes, social workers investigating families where abuse is suspected, adults who believe they have "recovered" memories from childhood trauma and for the courts where witness testimony is relied upon.

He told the BA Festival of Science in Liverpool many people can be persuaded they have seen things which never happened.