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Other Corroborated Cases of Recovered Memory
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11. Stephen McCaffrey's adult recollections of sexual
abuse by Rev. Robert J. Vonnahmen at the Belleville diocese
camp. "Neither [another abuse survivor] nor McCaffrey used
hypnosis, or was in therapy at the time of the flashbacks."
The suit was still pending at the time of this article, which
also states that "Rev. Vonnahmen is one of eight priests who
have been removed from their duties in the Belleville diocese."
Virginia Baldwin Hick, "False 'Memories' a Growing Issue in
Abuse Cases," St. Louis Post Dispatch, March 3, 1994: 5B.)
12. Former altar-boy in Baltimore, who requested anonymity,
but whose adult recollection of abuse resulted in the removal
of four priests. The victim told the Washington Post that
the "molestations began when he was 11 or 12 and continued
until he was about 17. He began having marital problems several
years ago and sought therapy. On January 19 [1995], he met
for nearly two hours with Monsignor William Lori. The next
day, Lori separately interviewed the four priests and each
admitted to the victim's allegations." (Clari.news.crime.sex;
article 865, February 6, 1995; see also, "4 Priests Removed
After Admitting They Molested an Altar Boy," New York
Times,
February 7, 1995: A14.).
13. Kevin MacKenzie, former alter boy in Pennsylvania,
who "did not remember the abuse until certain events triggered
his 'repressed memory' in 1993." A New Jersey appeals court
dismissed his case under the statute of limitations. "N.J.
Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against Priest," Philadelphia Inquirer,
July 25, 1995: N1. While this case was pending, Kohler was
apprehended for his involvement "in taking 'suggestive photographs'"
of young boys with ex-priest William O'Connell. "Priest Will
Face Obscenity Charge," Bergen County Record, July 13, 1994:
A6. "Thousands of photographs of young boys, some of them
naked" were found in the home."
14. Juror Crawford in Gerald Amirault's infamous child
molestation case. According to Jonathan Harris "the day after
he was convicted, an anonymous called called his lawyer to
tell him that a cousin of his spent time in prison many years
ago for raping one of the jurors when she was about 14. Juror
Crawford insisted that she did not remember the rape and must
of (sic) repressed it." Harris also states that Juror Crawford
had indeed testified at a preliminary hearing and at a trial
that resulted in conviction just about forty years and forty
days before Gerard Amirault's conviction. WITCHHNT posting,
May 2, 1995.
15. Susan Lees' recovered memories of horrendous
physical and sexual abuse as a child (Birmingham, England;
1997). Ms. Lees was adopted at the age of five by a family
who treated her as one of her own, and did not even know
about all the abuse that she had suffered before they adopted
her. Her memories of abuse did not begin until she was 35.
Lees was listening to a news report from Bosnia on her car
radio and heard the screams of a young girl in Bosnia having
shrapnel removed from her back without an anaesthetic.
"The
next thing I knew I had pulled over and was crying uncontrollably.
When I got home I dashed into the attic to get my old doll
out of the loft. I started to bathe and wash because I felt
dirty. For weeks afterward I bathed and scrubbed my legs
because they itched. It got to the stage where they were
raw." Lucy
Johnston, "Memories of Child Abuse Spark Lawsuit", The
Observer (March 2, 1997): 3.
Fearing that she was going insane, Lees
contacted a GP, who referred her to a therapist. During the
next six months more flashbacks came back. Then she set out
to find her social service records. "Documentary evidence
from more than 30 yeas ago confirms that Ms. Lees' mother
left her alone with an alcoholic father when was nine months
old, and that social workers sent her to live with a friend
of her father who the NSPCC knew to have been involved in
child abuse." Id. The
itching turned out to be an actual memory of being defleaed
when she was admitted to the hospital at age four; according
to medical records, she was anemic and had screaming fits.
Ms. Lees also "has evidence that she was buggered and had
her toes smashed with a hammer" before she was adopted.
Id.
16. Terry Throneberry's recovered memories (in 1990)
of sexual abuse by Rodney Grantham at the Shults-Lewis Children's
Home between 1960 and 1969. Throneberry's claims that Grantham
impregnated her when she was 14 years old and gave her "pills
containing quinine which caused vomiting, diarrhea and bleeding,
and resulted in abortions." These memories, recovered in therapy,
were corroborated by Margie Cole, who had continuous memories
of similar abuse by Grantham in 1962. Matthew Tully &
Frank Wiget, "Court: Woman's Case Can Proceed," Post-Tribune (Gary, Ind.) (March 19, 1997: A1). The memories were also
corroborated by Grantham, who "admitted to the allegations
in court papers," but challenged the suits on statute of limitations
grounds. Michael Puente, "Lawsuit Pivots in Ruling on Repressed
Memory," Post-Tribune (Gary, Ind.) (September 11, 1995: A1).
The Indiana Court of Appeals allowed Throneberry's action
to proceed, agreeing that she "had no independent memory [before
1990] of Grantham sexually molesting her." Cole v. Shults-Lewis
Child and Family Services, 677 N.E.2d 1069, 1074; 1997 Ind.
App. LEXIS 177 (March 18, 1997).
17. Lisa Shogren's 1992 criminal complaint against
Lee Roy Donnell for child sexual abuse. Ms. Shogren "testified
at pretrial hearings that her memories of that [assault] and
other incidents had been repressed until she entered therapy
in recent years." Donnell was convicted of sexual battery.
"Father Guilty in Assault," Washington Port (September 10,
1992): B3.
18. Adam Farthing's successful claim for childhood
sexual abuse before the Crimes Compensation Tribunal in Melbourne,
Australia. Claim corroborated by two siblings. Formal hearing
on February 2, 1998.
19. Mary Staggs recovered memories of sexual abuse
by Father John Lenihan, her priest in early adolescence in
Anaheim, California. Staggs went to police when she experienced
flashbacks at age 26. The criminal statute had run, but she
was abuse to pursue a civil damage suit. In a deposition,
Lenihan admitted fondling Staggs in 1978. In 1991, the Diocese
of Orange paid Mary Staggs an out-of-court settlement. Jason
Berry, Fathers and Sins: An Uneasy Coalition of Activists
and Clerics is Forcing the Catholic Church to Confront the
Problem of Sexually Abusive Priests," Los Angeles Times
Magazine (June 13, 1993).
20. Marguerite Hurt's repressed memory of being raped
by three U.S. Army soldiers the night before leaving Vietnam
more than twenty years earlier. The case is corroborated by
medical records indicated that she contracted gonorrhea. Dave
Moriz, "Vet Center Seeing Scars of Sexual Battlefields," Columbia
[South Carolina] State (October 20, 1995), p. A1.
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