Lawyers created hysteria about abuse

In 1950, when I graduated from Cresco High School, I asked my science teacher what scientific occupation he thought I should prepare for in college. His reply astonished me.

“Scientists and engineers are ‘a-dime-a-dozen!'” he said. “Be a lawyer!” I wouldn't have wanted to be a lawyer, even if I'd had the opportunity. To me, civil lawsuits were non-productive games, which someone must lose, so someone else can win. Criminal trials were worse, often without any “winners.”

In the 1980s, some lawyers developed plans to get money from the Catholic Church. With the aid of compliant news media, they created public hysteria about child sexual abuse. As a result, many innocent people were sentenced to long prison terms.

For information about that, Google “victims of the state,” and go to “child abuse.”

The so-called top news story of 1984 was phony. It was about alleged sexual abuse and even murder of children, by their parents, in Jordan, Minn. To find out what really happened, read Tom Dubbe's book, “Nightmares and Secrets.”

Gerald Baker

Cedar Falls