Talk:Little Rascals day care sexual abuse trial

"Hysterical"

I don't like the choice of the word 'hysterical' as a word describing child sexual abuse. I'm fully aware of all the meanings of the word, but it could definitely be interpreted by people as meaning 'funny.'--Hraefen 19:13, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

click on the link

I assume you never clicked on the link to read about hysteria. Please try it before commenting. Hysteria is a term use in the DSM-IV and is 100% appropriate in this usage.

• I assume that you gave me no credit as someone who knows what words mean when I said that I know about the word hysteria/hysterical and its many meanings. I still think it's a sloppy word choice that starts this article off to a weird, clumsy start...but hey, don't listen to me... let people start the article thinking "Is this article saying that child sex abuse can be hilarious?--Hraefen 20:50, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't think very many readers will get the meanings muddled. Gwen Gale 13:24, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Just a suggestion, but some people refer to these cases as Child Daycare Abuse Panics or flaps. I prefer Panic to flap because flap is generlaly used in cases where people people in communities hear, see or smell something that may or may not have ever been there such as The Mad Gasser of Mattoon or sightings of Phantom kangaroos. Since some people refer to scares over SRA to be Satanic Panic, panic might be a better word. Since these cases were horribly wounding to the communities where they ocurred, whatever word is used, should be as NPOV as possible. In cases such as these, both the falsely accused and the accusers themselves were victims of a social panic that gripped their towns and communities. Lisapollison 23:19, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

I concur w/ Gwen Gale above...Hysteria is the right word for this phrase. I realize people use "hysterical" sometimes to mean comedic or funny (ex: "You should have heard him - it was hysterical !") but thats outside its proper definition. There is no reason to avoid the proper, commonly known connotation because of a minor coloquialism...Engr105th (talk) 00:08, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

I concur with Anonymous, at the beginning. If hysteria is the term used in the DSM-IV, then it's a technical term, regardless of Hraefen's associations. Thomas1617 (talk) 06:51, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

edit to page

I have restored data to the page from a reliable source (Washington Post) that was deleted w/o a valid reason. ResearchEditor (talk) 02:12, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Rename discussion for all ritual abuse cases

Editors note generalized discussion affecting all ritual abuse cases, at Talk:Satanic_ritual_abuse#Rename_discussion. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 14:49, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

References to appeal opinions

Dropped these references as they don't link properly:

ref name=StatevKelly>North Carolina Court of Appeals (1995-05-02). "State v. Kelly". Retrieved 2010-01-18.</ref>

ref name=StatevWilson>North Carolina Court of Appeals (1995-05-02). "State v. Wilson". Retrieved 2010-01-18.</ref>

Ellsworth (talk) 00:58, 3 January 2012 (UTC)