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Wednesday August 25, 2004

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Teen hopes to change the way sexual abuse cases are tried

Editor's Note: It is the policy of the Hampton Union not to name alleged victims of sexual abuse. In the hope of helping others in her situation, the woman in this story consented to being identified.
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Monday August 23, 2004

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Human mind put on trial

BRENTWOOD - Prosecutors began presenting testimony this past week that they hope will convince a superior court judge to clear the way for repressed memories of sexual abuse to be admissible as court evidence.
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Friday July 23, 2004

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Concerns over repressed memory therapy

The Victorian government will reportedly conduct an investigation into the practice of repressed memory therapy.
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Wednesday July 21, 2004

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Feeling Is Believing?

Alien Abductees Reveal How Emotion Can Cloud Reality
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Tuesday July 13, 2004

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Wronged father should have sued for defamation

It sounds far-fetched enough to become a Jeffrey Archer bestseller. The daughter of a respected pillar of the community goes to hospital complaining of a sore stomach. With no physical diagnosis, she is referred to a psychiatrist. He uses a controversial technique unlocking, through dreams and hypnosis, hidden painful "memories" of brutal and sadistic sexual abuse by her father. The daughter later recovers, and confirms no such thing ever took place. But by then it’s too late - her father’s reputation is already ruined. His family do not trust him. Now he seeks revenge on the psychiatrist.
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Friday July 9, 2004

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Father loses claim over sex-abuse allegations

A father who claimed his daughter falsely accused him of sadistic sex abuse while undergoing "recovered memory therapy" lost a £250,000 damages action yesterday.
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Monday May 3, 2004

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Conviction Tossed After 19 Years

A man's molestation trial is nullified after several witnesses retract testimony they gave as children.
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Saturday May 1, 2004

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Amirault freed: ‘I’m going to fight to the day I die’

BOSTON - Gerald "Tooky" Amirault vowed to clear his family's name after he was released from prison yesterday, 18 years after his controversial conviction in one of the country's most bizarre and bitterly disputed child-molestation cases.
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U.S. day care worker jailed for ritual abuse freed, fights to clear name

NORFOLK, Mass. (AP) - A former day-care worker was released from prison on parole Friday, 18 years after his conviction in one of the most bizarre and bitterly disputed child-molestation cases in the United States.
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Friday April 30, 2004

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Satan comes to Amish country

The scene was something from a bygone age. The accused, a soft-spoken, unmarried woman of 34, wore a long, blue dress from neck to ankle. She sat in the "prisoner's box," an elevated pew in the centre of the splendid 19th-century courtroom. The room was filled with people in Amish dress -- men with broad-brimmed hats, women in homemade cotton, little boys with hair cut in the shape of inverted bowls. Except for the closed-circuit camera, it could have been the century before last. Or maybe Salem.
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Wednesday February 25, 2004

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Convicted Child Molester May Be Set Free

Five People Said They Lied During First Trial
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Saturday February 14, 2004

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Psychiatric patient tells of ordeal in treatment

When Elizabeth Gale sought psychiatric treatment in 1986, she suffered from depression, the most common of psychiatric illnesses.
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Thursday February 12, 2004

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Not in cult: Woman gets $7.5 million

This is not "The X-Files" or a supermarket tabloid story -- it is a real court case settled this week at the Daley Center.
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Tuesday January 20, 2004

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Professor uncovers the nature of memories

A University researcher is receiving international attention this week for a recent experiment exploring why people forget.
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Emotions High as ‘85 Abuse Case Reviewed

Prosecutor grills men who recant childhood testimony. The hearing will decide whether inmate gets retrial.
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Saturday January 17, 2004

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Is Your Psychotherapist Qualified?

(CBS) Carol Diament thought her problems were over when she read about a cutting edge marriage counselor in the local paper.
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Monday January 12, 2004

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Engaging in forgetful behaviour

A neuroscientist believes his research provides physical evidence that repressed memories may be real.
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Friday January 2, 2004

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A smudge on indelible memories

They can be changed later, studies suggest
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Monday December 15, 2003

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Father sues over bogus abuse case

A former top official in the Scottish National Party who was falsely accused of sexually abusing his daughter is suing an NHS trust for £250,000.
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Father sues over false memory

The father of a woman who during "recovered memory" therapy accused him of having sexually abused her is suing an NHS trust for £250,000 over the family's ordeal.
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Monday December 8, 2003

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‘We can implant entirely false memories’

You were abducted by aliens, you saw Bugs Bunny at Disneyland, and then you went up in a balloon. Didn't you? Laura Spinney on our remembrance of things past
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Lawyer in sex-abuse case will test ruling

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The attorney for a medieval history group leader who hosted weekend sleepovers for children will be among the first to take advantage of a recent state Supreme Court decision concerning sexually abused children.
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Thursday November 20, 2003

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Don’t always believe what you see, suggests study on false memories

People can easily be swayed into believing that they have seen something they never actually did see, say researchers at Ohio State University.
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Friday October 31, 2003

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Psychology expert discusses false memory

Have you ever been abducted by aliens? New psychological research is giving abduction survivors--and survivors of other traumatic events--reason to question their memories.
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Man convicted in repressed-memory murder case seeks release

A man convicted of a 1975 murder after the victim's son said he remembered his father's killing 15 years later has asked to be released from prison pending a decision by a federal judge on whether to follow a magistrate's recommendation that he get a new trial.
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