Back in the 80s there a spate of criminal prosecutions and civil suits concerning allegations of ritual and satanic child abuse and recovered memory syndrome. Mcmartin is the most well known but there were hundreds of them. They were in the main preposterous on their face - allegations of classrooms full of children being taken to secret unground lairs where they were sexually abused by clowns riding elephants on the one hand; and on the other allegations from adults that they had been so abused when they were children and only managed to remember such abuse under hypnosis or via "therapy." The fantasies of children - who OTOH lie about everything and OTO are taught by their parents to believe in the exitence of magical creatures who remove their teeth from beneath their pillows in exchange for gold - were believed wholeheartedly by adults, perhaps well meaning, but in any event either gullible or stupid enough to believe that children would never lie about such things. The reality is that children lie all the time, and should rarely be believed about anything. In none of the cases of which I am aware were such allegations true.
Which isn't to say that sexual abuse does not occur, but only that normal happy people don't know too much about it. Most children are abused by family members and friends of family, not by devil worshiping strangers who abduct them from playgrounds. A boy is 10 times more likely to be raped by his uncle than by his gym teacher. A child is 10000 times more likely to be abused by a teacher in school than by a priest in the rectory. Male children are abused at about an equal rate as female - odd to consider that homosexuals, who make up 10 percent or so of the population, comprise 50 percent of pedophiles. Shtum, that's a dirty little secret. And minorities are much more likely to be victims, despite the media bleating every time a BHBE girl goes missing.
I have no idea who Bernie Fine is, much less whether he's a rapist. But the reality here is that post PSU alleged victim$ are going to be coming out of the woodwork, seeking nuisance settlements, encouraged by ambulance chasing lawyers. The amount of detail in their stories is no more proof of their veracity than is the amount of detail in War of the Worlds proof that martians invaded New Jersey. And neither is the reaction of their employers, who have no choice but to take action lest they be exposed to further liability.
Which isn't to say that sexual abuse does not occur, but only that normal happy people don't know too much about it. Most children are abused by family members and friends of family, not by devil worshiping strangers who abduct them from playgrounds. A boy is 10 times more likely to be raped by his uncle than by his gym teacher. A child is 10000 times more likely to be abused by a teacher in school than by a priest in the rectory. Male children are abused at about an equal rate as female - odd to consider that homosexuals, who make up 10 percent or so of the population, comprise 50 percent of pedophiles. Shtum, that's a dirty little secret. And minorities are much more likely to be victims, despite the media bleating every time a BHBE girl goes missing.
I have no idea who Bernie Fine is, much less whether he's a rapist. But the reality here is that post PSU alleged victim$ are going to be coming out of the woodwork, seeking nuisance settlements, encouraged by ambulance chasing lawyers. The amount of detail in their stories is no more proof of their veracity than is the amount of detail in War of the Worlds proof that martians invaded New Jersey. And neither is the reaction of their employers, who have no choice but to take action lest they be exposed to further liability.
