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Victims of the fury: the tragic story of Wenatchee, Washington, is but one example of child protection services run amok.(The family)(child abuse scandal)
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Wenatchee, Washington, a quiet, orchard-strewn community of 28,000, is by all appearances unexceptional. For several years in the mid-1990s, however, Wenatchee was the scene of what has become the nation's most notorious child abuse scandal. Between 1992 and 1995, 43 adults were arrested and charged with roughly 30,000 counts of sex abuse against scores of children. Eighteen adults were eventually convicted, and sent to prison. Dozens of children were removed from their homes; some were sent to foster care, and others were placed for adoption.
Many of the charges involved accusations of macabre rituals in which men wearing black suits and ...
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