This kind of stuff happened all over in that time frame. It’s how Janet Reno got her start, for cryin’ out loud.
Their ideological heirs today are people like Nifong, the prosecutor in the Duke Lacrosse case. Anything to get ahead politically, even if it sends the innocent to jail and ruins them.
And let’s be honest-—it’s a bit odd that survivors of Communist murder, the Holocaust, ethnic wars that involved rape and murder, dislocation, former sudanese slaves-—none of these people forget those traumas...why would being touched, even by your parents all of a sudden render you an amnesiac?