Lanning Kenneth V
1 FBI Retired, Fredericksburg, VA, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2017 Mar;32(6):967-978. doi: 10.1177/0886260516657359.
As a result of his assignment to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Behavioral Science Unit, the author consulted on and has firsthand knowledge of most of the cases discussed in Cheit's book. He came to believe that there is a middle ground. Some of what victims allege may be true and accurate, some may be misperceived or distorted, some may be symbolic, and some may be contaminated or false. The problem and challenge, however, is to determine which is which. He basically agrees with much of what Cheit sets forth about seeds of truth in many allegations. He has concerns about some confusing and inconsistent definitions. What was and is referred to by many as the backlash can be confused with what Cheit refers to in his book as the witch-hunt narrative. Many professionals, including possibly Cheit, do not seem fully aware of the wide diversity of ways in which children are sexually victimized. The author believes that any delayed reporting and minimization of recent cases involving the Catholic priests and Penn Sate have more to do with inaccurate stereotypes perpetuated by child abuse idealists than some witch-hunt narrative. From a law enforcement perspective, more benefit would have come had Cheit's extensive research focused more on documenting how allegations became so bizarre and inaccurate and less on the alleged far-ranging harm caused by the witch-hunt narrative. In the author's opinion, it is that process and not the witch-hunt narrative that caused most of the long-term damage discussed.
由于被分配到联邦调查局（FBI）行为科学组，作者为切特书中讨论的大多数案件提供了咨询并掌握第一手资料。他开始相信存在中间立场。受害者所声称的一些内容可能是真实准确的，一些可能被误解或歪曲，一些可能具有象征意义，还有一些可能被污染或是虚假的。然而，问题和挑战在于确定哪些是哪种情况。他基本上同意切特在许多指控中提出的关于真相萌芽的诸多观点。他对一些令人困惑且不一致的定义感到担忧。许多人过去和现在所说的强烈抵制可能会与切特在其书中所提到的政治迫害叙事相混淆。许多专业人士，包括可能切特本人，似乎并未充分意识到儿童遭受性侵害的方式具有广泛多样性。作者认为，任何关于涉及天主教牧师和宾夕法尼亚州立大学的近期案件的延迟报告和淡化处理，更多是与儿童虐待理想主义者长期存在的不准确刻板印象有关，而非某种政治迫害叙事。从执法角度来看，如果切特广泛的研究更多地聚焦于记录指控是如何变得如此离奇和不准确，而不是所谓的政治迫害叙事所造成的广泛危害，将会带来更多益处。在作者看来，正是这个过程而非政治迫害叙事造成了所讨论的大部分长期损害。
