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.

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.

The Victorian government will reportedly conduct an investigation into the practice of repressed memory therapy.

Alien Abductees Reveal How Emotion Can Cloud Reality

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.

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.

A man's molestation trial is nullified after several witnesses retract testimony they gave as children.

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.

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.

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.

Five People Said They Lied During First Trial

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

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

A University researcher is receiving international attention this week for a recent experiment exploring why people forget.

Prosecutor grills men who recant childhood testimony. The hearing will decide whether inmate gets retrial.

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