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Purpose; Academic and Clinical Studies
Background
History of this project
The Archive
101 corroborated cases of recovered memory
Response to Critics
Dr. August Piper (1999)
Dr. Richard McNally (2003)
FAQs
Other Scholarly
Resources
Bibliographies, links
to websites by four
doctoral-level
psychologists
Supportive
Information
For those with personal
questions & concerns
about sexual abuse &
those interested in
political & social
responses to sexual
abuse
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The Archive > Criteria
for Inclusion
1. Cases must be verifiable. To be included on this
list, cases must be identified with sufficient specificity
to facilitate independent examination by others. Proper names
are favored, and cases without proper names must nevertheless
be verifiable. The only cases involving pseudonyms are those
so treated by a court, and those cases can be located and
reviewed (although obtaining access to all of the records
would require judicial approval). There is at least one citation
for each case on this list, and eventually there will be full-text
hyperlinks to various supporting documents.
2. Cases Must Include Strong Corroborative Evidence.
To be included on this list, the recovered memory memory at
issue must be corroborated by at least one of the following
sources:
a. confession, guilty plea, or self-incriminatory statement
b. testimony from other victims (or from an eyewitness
to the abuse), or corroborative documentary evidence that
is vitally relevant to the charges at issue
c. corroboration of significant circumstantial evidence
note: almost cases in the Archive have more than one
form of corroborative evidence. With the exception of a few
cases set within a family, the multiple victim cases all have
corroboration from more than one additional victim. The cases
based on circumstantial corroboration all include favorable
judicial decisions on the facts as well.
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Page last updated
July, 2005
Project Director
Professor Ross E. Cheit
Taubman Center for Public Policy & American Institutions
at Brown University
67 George Street
Box 1977
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2201
Fax: 401-863-2452
 
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