Re: Paranoid Styles,
On Oct 22, 2006, at 2:19 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote:
Responding to Joanna, I don’t think that anyone here is saying that Bettina’s allegations should be dismissed out of hand out of hand, but basing such allegations on “recovered memories” seems to be frail basis for supporting allegations that at best would tarnish a person’s reputation, and which at worst, if they had been made while Herbert was still alive, could have sent him to prison.
Paul Shanley, the Massachusetts priest, was convicted entirely on the
basis of recovered memory http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/September-October-2004/feature_wypijewski_sepoct04.msp.
Doug