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'''Ross E. Cheit''' is a Professor of Political Science and Professor of International and Public Affairs at [[Brown University]]’s [[Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs]].<ref name="Watson">https://watson.brown.edu/public-policy/people/faculty/ross-cheit</ref>
  
'''Ross E. Cheit''' is a Professor of Political Science and Professor of International and Public Affairs at [[Brown University]]’s [[Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs]].<ref name="Watson">{{cite web |title=Ross Cheit |url=https://watson.brown.edu/public-policy/people/faculty/ross-cheit |website=Brown Public Policy Program |publisher=Brown University |access-date=6 December 2020}}</ref>
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==''The Witch Hunt Narrative''==
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Himself a victim of child sexual abuse, Cheit is interested in the issue of repressed memory vis-a-vis childhood sexual abuse in cases like [[McMartin preschool trial|McMartin]] and the [[Catholic Church sexual abuse cases]] and put out his theories in: ''The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children.''<ref name="Witch">https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/science/the-witch-hunt-narrative-are-we-dismissing-real-victims.html</ref> For the [[book]] he relied as far as possible on primary documents and videos as they were available to him.
  
==''The Witch Hunt Narrative''==
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Cheit argues that most of those accused in alleged [[day-care sex-abuse hysteria]] cases, including the [[Country Walk case]], the [[McMartin preschool trial]],<ref>https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199931224.001.0001/acprof-9780199931224-chapter-2 The McMartin Preschool Case (1983–1990)] , isbn=9780199931224</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20151017083842/https://ncrj.org/resources-2/response-to-ross-cheit/the-witch-hunt-narrative-rebuttal/ </ref> and the [[Oak Hill satanic ritual abuse trial]], were actually guilty.<ref name=myths>doi=10.1300/J070v16n03_06, Myths About the Country Walk Case</ref><ref>10.1177/0886260516688889, A Response to Articles and Commentaries on the Witch-Hunt Narrative</ref><ref name=taubman>https://web.archive.org/web/20030818204959/http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Taubman_Center/PBS/|archive-date=2003-08-18</ref> (The district attorney declared the Oak Hill defendants "actually innocent",<ref>https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2017-06-20/kellers-exonerated/</ref> so they were compensated for their imprisonment.<ref>https://www.statesman.com/news/20170824/dan-fran-keller-to-get-34-million-in-satanic-day-care-case</ref>) In the [[book]] Ross demonstrates that researchers who were writing books about these scandals in the aftermath, were actually falsifying data to show that there was never any indications (in most of the cases) that any abuse had happened at all.
Himself a victim of child sexual abuse, Cheit is interested in the issue of repressed memory vis-a-vis childhood sexual abuse in cases like [[McMartin preschool trial|McMartin]] and the [[Catholic Church sexual abuse cases]] and put out his theories in the book ''The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children.''<ref name="Witch">{{cite news |last1=Bazelon |first1=Emily |title=Abuse Cases, and a Legacy of Skepticism |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/science/the-witch-hunt-narrative-are-we-dismissing-real-victims.html |access-date=6 December 2020 |publisher=The New York Times |date=June 9, 2014}}</ref>
 
  
Cheit argues that most of those accused in alleged [[day-care sex-abuse hysteria]] cases, including the [[Country Walk case]], the [[McMartin preschool trial]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199931224.001.0001/acprof-9780199931224-chapter-2|title=The McMartin Preschool Case (1983–1990)|first=Ross E.|last=Cheit|year=2014|publisher=Oxford University Press|via=oxford.universitypressscholarship.com|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199931224.001.0001|isbn=9780199931224}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ncrj.org/resources-2/response-to-ross-cheit/the-witch-hunt-narrative-rebuttal/|title=The Witch Hunt Narrative: Rebuttal |publisher=[[The National Center for Reason and Justice]] |year=2015 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017083842/https://ncrj.org/resources-2/response-to-ross-cheit/the-witch-hunt-narrative-rebuttal/ |archivedate=2015-10-17 |url-status=live }}</ref> and the [[Oak Hill satanic ritual abuse trial]], were actually guilty.<ref name=myths>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1300/J070v16n03_06| title=Myths About the Country Walk Case| year=2007| last1=Cheit| first1=Ross E.| last2=Mervis| first2=David| s2cid=27645676| journal=Journal of Child Sexual Abuse| volume=16| issue=3| pages=95–116| pmid=18032242 |issn=1547-0679 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1177/0886260516688889| title=A Response to Articles and Commentaries on the Witch-Hunt Narrative| year=2017| last1=Cheit| first1=Ross E.| s2cid=52090559| journal=Journal of Interpersonal Violence| volume=32| issue=6| pages=1002–1023| pmid=30145970|issn=1552-6518 }}</ref><ref name=taubman>{{cite web|url=http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Taubman_Center/PBS/|title=Debunking Frontline's Did Daddy Do It?|date=April 24, 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030818204959/http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Taubman_Center/PBS/|archive-date=2003-08-18}}</ref>  (The district attorney declared the Oak Hill defendants "actually innocent",<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2017-06-20/kellers-exonerated/ |title = Kellers Exonerated! |date=2017-06-20 |first=Michael |last=King |newspaper=[[Austin Chronicle]] }}</ref> so they were compensated for their imprisonment.<ref>{{cite web|author=Chuck Lindell |url=https://www.statesman.com/news/20170824/dan-fran-keller-to-get-34-million-in-satanic-day-care-case |title=Dan, Fran Keller to get $3.4 million in 'satanic day care' case - News - Austin American-Statesman - Austin, TX |publisher=Statesman.com |date= |accessdate=2020-05-27}}</ref>)  James M. Wood, [[Debbie Nathan]], Richard Beck, and Keith Hampton criticize that Cheit's work "has omitted or mischaracterized important facts or ignored relevant scientific information" and "is often factually inaccurate and tends to make strong assertions without integrating relevant scholarly and scientific information."<ref name=wood>{{Cite journal |doi = 10.1177/0886260516657351|title = A Critical Evaluation of the Factual Accuracy and Scholarly Foundations of ''The'' Witch-Hunt Narrative|year = 2017|last1 = Wood|first1 = James M.|last2 = Nathan|first2 = Debbie|last3 = Beck|first3 = Richard|last4 = Hampton|first4 = Keith|s2cid = 52091302|journal = Journal of Interpersonal Violence|volume = 32|issue = 6|pages = 897–925|pmid = 30145966 |issn=1552-6518 }}</ref> [[KC Johnson]] writes "Even as [Cheit's] book gives every benefit of the doubt to the investigators and prosecutors ... much of Cheit’s evidence nonetheless portrays the prosecutions as massive miscarriages of justice."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/kc-johnson/revisionism-gone-wild/|title=Revisionism Gone Wild: The Witch-Hunt Narrative by Ross E. Cheit |author-link=KC Johnson |first=KC |last=Johnson |magazine=[[Commentary Magazine]] |date=September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814105018/https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/kc-johnson/revisionism-gone-wild/|archive-date=2020-08-14 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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==Critics==
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James M. Wood, [[Debbie Nathan]], Richard Beck, and Keith Hampton criticize that Cheit's work "has omitted or mischaracterized important facts or ignored relevant scientific information" and "is often factually inaccurate and tends to make strong assertions without integrating relevant scholarly and scientific information."<ref name=wood>doi = 10.1177/0886260516657351, A Critical Evaluation of the Factual Accuracy and Scholarly Foundations of ''The'' Witch-Hunt Narrative, 2017, James M. Wood, Debbie Nathan, Richard Beck, Keith Hampton, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, volume 32, issue 6, pages 897–925</ref> [[KC Johnson]] writes "Even as [Cheit's] book gives every benefit of the doubt to the investigators and prosecutors ... much of Cheit’s evidence nonetheless portrays the prosecutions as massive miscarriages of justice."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20200814105018/https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/kc-johnson/revisionism-gone-wild/</ref>
  
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Cheit graduated from [[Williams College]] (1977, political economy and a coordinate major in environmental studies) before earning a law degree and PhD in public policy at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. Before working for Duane, Lyman, and Seltzer, Cheit clerked for Justice [[Hans A. Linde|Hans Linde]] of the Oregon Supreme Court. He joined the faculty at Brown in 1987.<ref name="Watson" />
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Cheit graduated from [[Williams College]] (1977, political economy and a coordinate major in environmental studies) before earning a law degree and PhD in public policy at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. Before working for Duane, Lyman, and Seltzer, Cheit clerked for Justice Hans A. Linde of the Oregon Supreme Court. He joined the faculty at Brown in 1987.<ref name="Watson" />
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For fifteen years, Cheit was a member of the Rhode Island Ethics Commission, including eight years as chairman.<ref name="Watson" /><ref name="Chair">https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/rhode-island/2019/12/18/top-ethics-watchdog-stepping-down-after-years-here-what-learned/JNMsDVBPQOVVXS3dOW0vpN/story.html</ref>
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For fifteen years, Cheit was a member of the [[Rhode Island Ethics Commission]], including eight years as chairman.<ref name="Watson" /><ref name="Chair">{{cite news |last1=Fitzpatrick |first1=Edward |title=R.I.’s top ethics watchdog is stepping down after 15 years. Here’s what he learned. |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/rhode-island/2019/12/18/top-ethics-watchdog-stepping-down-after-years-here-what-learned/JNMsDVBPQOVVXS3dOW0vpN/story.html |access-date=6 December 2020 |publisher=The Boston Globe |date=December 18, 2019}}</ref>
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Revision as of 19:11, 15 September 2021

Person.png Ross Cheit WebsiteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(Author, Researcher)
Ross E. Cheit.jpg
NationalityAmerican
Alma materWilliams College, UC Berkeley School of Law, Goldman School of Public Policy
Interests • McMartin Preschool
• Repressed memory
• Childhood sexual abuse
• Daycare child abuse scandals of the 1980s
• Child abuse

Ross E. Cheit is a Professor of Political Science and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.[1]

The Witch Hunt Narrative

Himself a victim of child sexual abuse, Cheit is interested in the issue of repressed memory vis-a-vis childhood sexual abuse in cases like McMartin and the Catholic Church sexual abuse cases and put out his theories in: The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children.[2] For the book he relied as far as possible on primary documents and videos as they were available to him.

Cheit argues that most of those accused in alleged day-care sex-abuse hysteria cases, including the Country Walk case, the McMartin preschool trial,[3][4] and the Oak Hill satanic ritual abuse trial, were actually guilty.[5][6][7] (The district attorney declared the Oak Hill defendants "actually innocent",[8] so they were compensated for their imprisonment.[9]) In the book Ross demonstrates that researchers who were writing books about these scandals in the aftermath, were actually falsifying data to show that there was never any indications (in most of the cases) that any abuse had happened at all.

Critics

James M. Wood, Debbie Nathan, Richard Beck, and Keith Hampton criticize that Cheit's work "has omitted or mischaracterized important facts or ignored relevant scientific information" and "is often factually inaccurate and tends to make strong assertions without integrating relevant scholarly and scientific information."[10] KC Johnson writes "Even as [Cheit's] book gives every benefit of the doubt to the investigators and prosecutors ... much of Cheit’s evidence nonetheless portrays the prosecutions as massive miscarriages of justice."[11]

Biography

RCheit-US News 1997.jpg

Cheit graduated from Williams College (1977, political economy and a coordinate major in environmental studies) before earning a law degree and PhD in public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Before working for Duane, Lyman, and Seltzer, Cheit clerked for Justice Hans A. Linde of the Oregon Supreme Court. He joined the faculty at Brown in 1987.[1]

For fifteen years, Cheit was a member of the Rhode Island Ethics Commission, including eight years as chairman.[1][12]

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References

  1. a b c https://watson.brown.edu/public-policy/people/faculty/ross-cheit
  2. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/science/the-witch-hunt-narrative-are-we-dismissing-real-victims.html
  3. https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199931224.001.0001/acprof-9780199931224-chapter-2 The McMartin Preschool Case (1983–1990)] , isbn=9780199931224
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20151017083842/https://ncrj.org/resources-2/response-to-ross-cheit/the-witch-hunt-narrative-rebuttal/
  5. doi=10.1300/J070v16n03_06, Myths About the Country Walk Case
  6. 10.1177/0886260516688889, A Response to Articles and Commentaries on the Witch-Hunt Narrative
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20030818204959/http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Taubman_Center/PBS/%7Carchive-date=2003-08-18
  8. https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2017-06-20/kellers-exonerated/
  9. https://www.statesman.com/news/20170824/dan-fran-keller-to-get-34-million-in-satanic-day-care-case
  10. doi = 10.1177/0886260516657351, A Critical Evaluation of the Factual Accuracy and Scholarly Foundations of The Witch-Hunt Narrative, 2017, James M. Wood, Debbie Nathan, Richard Beck, Keith Hampton, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, volume 32, issue 6, pages 897–925
  11. https://web.archive.org/web/20200814105018/https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/kc-johnson/revisionism-gone-wild/
  12. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/rhode-island/2019/12/18/top-ethics-watchdog-stepping-down-after-years-here-what-learned/JNMsDVBPQOVVXS3dOW0vpN/story.html