Folks should read the Franklin books and make up their own minds. Also, they should watch Conspiracy of Silence. The fact that a bicameral, bipartisan panel of the Nebraska legislature held hearings on the matters and found credible evidence, that their private investigator’s plane blew up in midair after gathering a batch of evidence from one of the perps, and that some of the accused were later convicted of pedophilia, should all be of interest.
Ritual abuse is quite real.
Ritual abuse is real in many places. Franklin wasn’t one of them.
The Nebraska legislature referred the case to the Douglas County grand jury which did not find evidence of child abuse but did charge two of the accusers with perjury.
A separate federal grand jury looked at the case and they also didn’t find evidence warranting an indictment, but like the Douglas County grand jury they indicted one of the accusers with perjury.
Discredited cases like Franklin and McMartin aren’t doing the cause of ending child abuse any favor. They just increase cynicism and make prosecutors less inclined to believe new charges where there might actually be real evidence of real crime.