* While chatting with Rick Thoma, Judith Labonte was overheard saying:
JL>I agree with you that that is the question; however, I have a
JL>further 
JL>question and maybe you can help me.  I agree with the legal
JL>stuff you 
JL>guys seem to be doing for people falsely accused, but I was
JL>wondering 
JL>if there was anything of a more psychological nature to
JL>support someone
JL>who has been falsely accused and imprisoned overcome that
JL>trauma?  This
JL>relates to someone in my family who has been falsely accused
JL>and I KNOW
JL>it was false because this person is not physically able to do
JL>what they
JL>were accused of, although that is not something I can 
JL>"prove" in 
JL>court.
JL>Anyway, is there any help around for someone like that who
JL>has been 
JL>pounded away at by counselors they were sent to by the courts
JL>who were 
JL>trying to force them to admit something they didn't do?
JL>I want to be up front with you folks.  I am, myself, a
JL>"survivor" of 
JL>abuse and you may have seen me on some of the echoes for that
JL>subject.
JL>If you've been falsely accused, you may immediately question
JL>that and I
JL>wouldn't blame you one bit.  But I am.  However I don't
JL>believe that 
JL>everyone who is accused is a perpetrator all the time and I
JL>was also a 
JL>witness a few years back for a young man who was accused of
JL>raping a 
JL>friend of mine at a time when he was on the phone with me -
JL>as my long 
JL>distance bill confirmed.   So I KNOW there are are false
JL>accusations 
JL>and I want to give all of you the benefit of the doubt and I
JL>hope you 
JL>will give me the same thing.  Because I am VERY concerned
JL>about someone
JL>who is in prison now and who hopefully will win an appeal and
JL>get out.
JL>I know this must effect people just as horribly and is abuse
JL>just as 
JL>bad as anything I went through.  
JL>How do I help another person come through that?
JL>Any ideas, suggestions, would be welcome and thank you.
I hope you do not mind if I jump in.  The problem you face in finding someone 
competent to help the person you know.  Psychology and social work is 
infested with people practicing a civil religion instead of using anything 
remotely  resembling science.  The tragedy is that no one in these 
professions should be trusted until they clean up their houses.  I can  give 
you a rough estimate of the probability of finding some one safe: social work 
20%, psychology 40%, psychiatry possibly 60%.  They still will not be using 
science, just well intentioned.  Good luck, this is a sad time to need help.
--- GEcho 1.11+
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