Child Sex Abuse Links

The Web has a wealth of information on child sexual abuse, from impartial guides to more controversial partisan sites.

Facts about Child Sexual Abuse The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has created a brief guide on the subject.

When a Child or Youth is Sexually Abused: This thorough online booklet created by a group of Canadian Social Service agencies offers information on everything from legal issues to medical exams.

Witch Hunt Information Page: Created by an MIT professor who believes that science is being subverted in the rush to convict child molesters, this site is a compilation of data on various sex abuse cases where irrational fear at least temporarily conquered reason.

Child Sexual Abuse: This site has links to lots of Web resources on the subject.

Elizabeth Loftus' Site: Loftus is a psychologist who has been critical of the way the Wenatchee cases were handled. She has written extensively on the theory of recovered memory, which she believes is a myth. (Wenatchee investigators used recovered memory therapy in their attempt to gather evidence.)

Child Sexual Abuse: Statistics, Research, and Resources: This site, built by a Boston psychologist and therapist, offers a wealth of information on sexual abuse, and especially on the issue of recovered memory, in which he strongly believes.

Concerned Citizens for Legal Accountability: Created by a group of Wenatchee citizens that believes the town has been gripped by a social hysteria, this page offers information, some up-to-date and some several years old, on the issues and events surrounding the controversy.