Contents

After the First McMartin Trial

A National and International Panic

The Denial — and Redefinition — of Incest

Cultural Anxiety About Child Safety

Paranoia About Satanism

"Recovered" Memories and MPD

The McMartin "Investigation" and "the child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome"

The New Psychology of Ritual Abuse

The Margaret Kelly Michaels Case

Edenton, North Carolina

The Lasting Damage Done by McMartin