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On the \\\"Values Dissonance\\\" entry of the YMMV page, the poster states that a society without camera phones would not have believed any allegations against the Trunchbull because they were simply too farfetched.
I\\\'m guessing that poster never heard of the McMartin preschool trial.
In arguably the most prominent example of an intense moral panic over alleged abuse of children at daycare centers, the McMartin family and other school employees were hit with increasingly bizarre allegations of molestation, animal mutilation and Satanic ritual abuse. Yet the parents, and society at large, believed all the allegations hook, line and sinker. It didn\\\'t matter that the initial accuser was an alcoholic paranoid schizo who was accusing everyone left and right of molesting her son. It didn\\\'t matter that the \\\"confessions\\\" from the children were clearly coerced through suggestive interrogation techniques. It didn\\\'t matter there wasn\\\'t a shred of corroborating evidence to all these claims; people believed the ludicrous charges.
And that was in the mid 1980s, long before camera phones.
I\\\'m guessing that poster never heard of the McMartin preschool trial.
In arguably the most prominent example of an intense moral panic over alleged abuse of children at daycare centers, the McMartin family and other school employees were hit with increasingly bizarre allegations of molestation, animal mutilation and Satanic ritual abuse. Yet the parents, and society at large, believed all the allegations hook, line and sinker. It didn\\\'t matter that the initial accuser was an alcoholic paranoid schizo who was accusing everyone left and right of molesting her son. It didn\\\'t matter that the \\\"confessions\\\" from the children were clearly coerced through suggestive interrogation techniques. It didn\\\'t matter there wasn\\\'t a shred of corroborating evidence to all these claims; people believed the ludicrous charges.
And that was in the mid 1980s, long before camera phones.
