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“I should meet many people who do not know anyone personally who has been raped or molested as a child. But I can't remember seeing a newspaper without a rape or molestation charge in it somewhere, and when I ask groups how many people know someone personally with a history of molestation, almost always, every hand in the room goes up.”
― Anna Salter, Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders

“interview from Ross E. Cheit about The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children (Oxford University Press, February 2014).
In the foreword to your book you mention a book titled Satan鈥檚 Silence was the catalyst for your research. Tell us about that.

Cheit: Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedeker solidified the witch-hunt narrative in their 1995 book, Satan鈥檚 Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt, which included some of these cases. I was initially skeptical of the book鈥檚 argument for personal reasons. It seemed implausible to me that we had overreacted to child abuse because everything in my own personal history said we hadn鈥檛. When I read the book closely, my skepticism increased. Satan鈥檚 Silence has been widely reviewed as meticulously researched. As someone with legal training, I looked for how many citations referred to the trial transcripts. The answer was almost none. Readers were also persuaded by long list of [presumably innocent] convicted sex offenders to whom they dedicated the book. If I鈥檓 dedicating a book to fifty-four people, all of whom I think have been falsely convicted, I鈥檓 going to mention every one of these cases somewhere in the book. Most weren鈥檛 mentioned at all beyond that dedication. The witch-hunt narrative is so sparsely documented that it鈥檚 shocking.”
― Ross Cheit