Beware alcoholic DAs. They are capable of horrifying false accusations. The case of Bernard Baran, accused of daycare sex abuse and, 20 years later, exonerated.
Retrospective find of the month:
Numerous clues revealing likely addiction are disclosed in How to Spot Hidden Alcoholics. Clue # 16, “Has ever knowingly made a false accusation” in the chapter, “A Supreme Being Complex,” describes how false accusations, an especially vile subcategory of lying, are often made by addicts. Turning facts and reason on their head, addicts “play an instigating and continuing role in most crowd psychology,” turning crowds into mobs, which can result in riots and witch-hunts*. These include the spate of daycare sex abuse “witch-hunts” of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s.
While the hysteria had largely died down by the time I began researching addiction, I thought it would make a fascinating study and add to the massive ...
