PUBLISHER'S NOTE: Little Rascals Day Care Case: I am always pleased to draw our reader's attention to this important Blog by former Charlotte journalist Lew Powell to draw to the attention of our readers: "For several years I have been following a Blog on what has become known as the "Little Rascals Day Care Case" by former Charlotte journalist Lew Powell. I have learned a great deal about waves of fear and hatred, and prosecutions motivated by mass hysteria from Mr. Powell's Blog and recommend it heartily to our readers. Lew Powell writes that he didn't cover the Little Rascal's case, and does not know anyone involved. "My motivation is simple outrage and shame over how North Carolina prosecutors maliciously denied justice – and continue to deny exoneration – to seven innocent defendants." He has been described as " an early and persistent critic of the madness who does not waiver in his plea for belated justice."
Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog.
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PASSAGE OF THE DAY: (Mary de Young: Author of "The Day Care Ritual Abuse Moral Panic); “My papers include 40 binders on American, European and Australasian cases. For many of the cases, I traveled to the site of the moral panic and collected local material that is not generally available by internet searches. I also have a file box of ephemera – symptom lists, descriptions of rituals, etc. – that were widely circulated at the endless training sessions that recruited so many social workers, police officers, medical and legal professionals to the idea that day care providers were engaged in a satanic conspiracy to abuse children. I have a few books, written by apologists, that probably should have been burned long ago, but they are testimony to the mainstreaming of these ridiculous ideas"…"The prospect that lessons can be learned from this dark decade is very satisfying…. While day care centers are no longer the site of the panic, the ridiculous assertions, unfounded complaints and pseudoscience that resulted in so many miscarriages of justice still occur in recovered memory and other types of cases around the Western world."
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POST: "Expert on day-care panic adds papers to Duke Law archive," published by The Little Rascal Day Care Case Blog on January 11, 2019.
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/
