Our misguided child porn laws do little to protect children

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n fact, it is not clear why mere possession of child pornography should ever be grounds for locking people in cages. The Supreme Court’s main rationale for upholding the ban on possession was that demand for this material …

Woody Allen, Feminism, and ‘Believing the Survivor’

Cathy Young, writing in Time, points to the role of feminism in legitimizing false accusations of child sexual abuse. But there are many other social anxieties and criminal policies and practices that enhance people’s tendency to believe such claims. …

Jury Awards 9 Million to Wrongfully Imprisoned Cop

Sharon Krause, the detective whose concocted “evidence” convicted this cop, was also instrumental in sending an innocent mother, Lynn Malcom, to prison. The NCRJ has long sponsored Lynn’s case.

“Justice was served — even though it took 30 years,” …

Dylan Farrow’s Accusations

Lawyers representing divorced people in custody battles know well that the first charge of child abuse gives the accuser momentum. False charges have become common in this context, even acceptable. A Seattle judge recently acknowledged that charges of molestation against …

Coakley Should Admit Fells Acres Mistakes

The NCRJ does not endorse (or disendorse) political candidates. We are, however, more than convinced that the Amiraults are innocent and that the Fells Acres case was a hysteria-driven witch hunt. We have sponsored this case since 2002.

For this …

Nothing but the Truth

My name is Cornelius Dupree, and I am a sex offender. I paced the narrow aisle between the bunks in my cell, going over the words in my mind, trying to force them to my lips.

Those were the …

Slate reprises the Kellers, satanic panic, and NCRJ’s role in stopping it.

“It sounds laughable,” says Debbie Nathan, an investigative reporter who co-wrote Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt about the panic and is now a director for the National Center for Reason and Justice, …

The Mystery of the San Antonio Four

TAMIR KALIFA

“Otto found an organization called the National Center for Reason and Justice, which was created in the wake of the 1980s-era satanic ritual abuse scandals to advocate for people wrongfully accused of harming children. His packet of information …

A murderer targets registered sex offenders

Sex offender registries do not increase public safety, especially when you include the part of the public whose names and addresses appear on the registry.

Following the murder of one registered offender and the severe maiming of another, both in …

“Did Your Father Touch You?”

Photo: Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos/New York Magazine

When she was 8 years old, Chaneya Kelly lived in a pale-yellow house on Washington Street in Newburgh, New York. She was the oldest of five kids, with two brothers and two sisters, ages …