moral panic”.Salter, M. (2011), Organized abuse and the politics of disbelief.

It is often said that Vietnam was the first television war. By the same token, Cleveland was the first war over the protection of children to be fought not in the courts, but in the...

I am saying that very clearly. In some cases, evidence was not put in the court. In other cases, agreements were made between lawyers not to put the case to the court at all, particularly...

Allegations of multi-perpetrator and multi-victim sexual abuse emerged to public awareness in the early 1980s contemporaneously with the denials of the accused and their supporters. Multi-perpetrator sexual offences are typically more sadistic than solo offences...

…Cleveland was the first war over the protection of children to be fought not in the courts, but in the media…Given that most of the hearings took place out of sight of the press, the...

When we began researching the film on behalf of Channel 4, which had commissioned and paid for it, the response from individual child protection workers inside and outside Cleveland was universally positive. Everyone we met...

In her book claiming that allegations of ritualistic abuse are mostly confabulations, La Fontaine’s (1998) comparison of social workers to ‘nazis’ shows the depth of feeling evident amongst many sceptics. However, this raises an important...

But nothing in my previous work had prepared me for the experience of reinvestigating Cleveland. It is worth — given the passage of time — recalling the basic architecture of the Crisis: 121 children from...

Victims of bullying should keep a log of their mistreatment, so that any allegations can be substantiated.

I think it’s clear that his allegations fully justify our claims.

The former employee was suspended immediately upon [the] allegations and, after internal and external investigations, he was later terminated.

We have to investigate those allegations as well as the intimidating note.

We disagreed with the allegations, … We disclosed consistently that we denied any wrongdoing and we were going to contest the proceedings. That’s what we’ve been telling shareholders.

There is a large difference between allegations and charges and convictions.

We have always been in favor of a very rapid process to dispose of these allegations and to resolve them quickly and with justice. The majority (of the committee) has mastered the ‘talk’ of speed,...

My own take is that there wasn’t enough to the allegations to substantiate them.

page after page of (allegations of) misconduct by the Army investigators, but because it didn’t directly deal with racism, it wasn’t investigated.

For all this talk about us being a nation at war with child abuse, and for all the media hype about witch-hunts and false allegations — and don’t ever let anyone use the word witch-hunts...

Mr. Greenberg continues to deny the allegations made against him, and he and his legal team are preparing to vigorously defend the allegations.

If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every...

The Chinese have publicly denied the allegations. We’ve made the point that a further investigation would be helpful. We urge that it be done.

We can’t find anything to substantiate the allegations that appeared in Newsweek,

These allegations are totally unfounded and untrue.

The department is cooperating fully with the ongoing investigation into the allegations against Brian Doyle. We take these allegations very seriously.

We became aware of the allegations some time last year and were notified by the Tampa Bay Reads board that the investigation was under way.

The underlying allegations are really just the same, but relabeled. The government has been investigating my client since 2002. You would think that by this time they would be able to prove that he actually...

We’re very concerned about those allegations.

We are extremely disappointed that these allegations were ever brought into the public domain, particularly when they had been expressly contradicted by previous statements from Ms Alam.

I did nothing wrong and these allegations are totally unfounded.

When the new president pulled out these allegations, the whole country simply laughed, because even under the Kuchma regime, these charges were cleared, … This case has already been thrown out by the courts.

I believe the allegations are completely untrue,

The organization has been made aware of the allegations involving our players, and we take these allegations very seriously. We are working diligently to gather as many facts as possible. At this time, we have...

He is being investigated for allegations of threatening violence, excessive use of force, possession of maybe an illegal weapon and violating the electoral process.

While many experts insisted that children seldom lie about sexual abuse, others claimed that young children often failed to distinguish between fact and fiction and might be susceptible to suggestion and pressure on the part...

It is worth — given the passage of time — recalling the basic architecture of the Crisis: 121 children from many different and largely unrelated families had been taken into the care of Cleveland County...

The story contained some allegations that I think require investigation,