I'm Roberta Glass, and you're listening to my true crime report.

The Innocence Movement took a huge hit at the end of last year when the False Memory Syndrome Foundation announced on their website that the organization was dissolving.

The mainstream media that embraced the False Media Syndrome

Foundation's narrative ignored the story of the group's closing, with the exception of a few

tweets. A small Yahoo News article, the story of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation's end

when unreported. But what was the False Memory Syndrome Foundation's end when unreported.

But what was the False Memory Syndrome Foundation?

And how did they manage to convince the public that a syndrome they made up existed?

And how did the organization advance their argument that sexual abuse victims were not victims of sexual

abuse at all. But instead, their memories of abuse were a product of the suggestions of therapists,

or a product of overzealous investigators, intense interrogations.

Psychologists and mental health professionals weren't always to blame.

False Memory Syndrome Foundation also pointed to what they called

a moral panic that was created among communities struggling with a child sexual abuse case.

They pointed to a kind of atmosphere, a witch hunt against innocent parents, daycare providers,

teachers, and priests.

They also suggested that false claims of child sexual abuse were created in communities because

some parents and children didn't want to be left out.

Nowhere is this better expressed than in capturing the Freeman's documentary.

As far as the families were concerned, I don't want to use the word that they were competitive with each other.

I don't know if it's to that extent.

You know, sometimes it'd be some mild conversation about, you know, another boy, you know, he was sodomized five times,

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