We Believe the Children by Richard BeckCall Number: 362.76 B393
During the 1980s in California, New Jersey, New York, Michigan, Massachusetts, Florida, Tennessee, Texas, Ohio, and elsewhere, day care workers were arrested, charged, tried, and convicted of committing horrible sexual crimes against the children they cared for. It would take years for people to realize what the defendants had said all along--that these prosecutions were the product of a decade-long outbreak of collective hysteria on par with the Salem witch trials.