In most legal exonerations, somebody did the crime — just not the person convicted of it. But, of those recorded as of mid-November 2013 by the University of Michigan’s National Exoneration Registry, 129 — or more than a fifth — fall into a “rapidly growing” category of cases where no crime occurred at all.

Three-quarters of these no-crime cases involved child sexual abuse. And a third of the no-crime sex abuse convictions stem from what the Registry calls “child sex abuse hysteria.”

As the Registry’s 2012 report details, women on the exoneree list are likely to have been convicted of crimes against children.

Posted by rbchatelle on Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 @ 9:20PM
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