![]() ![]() ![]() It seems that Sebold genuinely believed Broadwater was the man who raped her, but the various authorities who took over the case when she went to the police with this accusation should certainly have been more skeptical. So it is one thing for trauma survivors to seize control of their own stories in therapy, but an entirely different matter to do so within our deeply flawed and racist criminal justice system. Our memories are far more unreliable and manipulable than we’d like to admit. There is also a history of false accusations and overturned convictions involving recovered “memories” of sexual abuse and Satanic rituals dating back to the 1990s. ![]() But many trauma therapists will admit that their most afflicted patients sometimes tell them stories of past abuse that they strongly suspect are not accurate, even though patients believe they are. Many people believe that to question any aspect of an assault victim’s account of their ordeal is to compound that victim’s trauma. ![]()
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