Wrongful Convictions · False Allegations · Memory & the Courts
19 stories
A Valparaiso mother and father have their kids back after they say the Indiana Department of Child Services wrongfully accused them of abusing their baby.
7 July 2026
Patrick O'Loan draws a parallel between the grooming gang scandal and the handling of false allegations: in both, institutions feared activist backlash more than injustice.
27 May 2026
Former Pope Benedict XVI plans to defend himself in a German civil lawsuit alleging he helped cover up historical abuse.
8 November 2022
Peter Ellis waited 31 years to have his name cleared; when the Supreme Court quashed his convictions he was already dead.
7 October 2022
ST. LOUIS (MO)Catholic News Agency - EWTN [Denver CO]
8 September 2022
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A former Duval County teacher of the year said she is devastated and maintains she did nothing wrong after charges of child abuse were…
30 August 2022
False allegations of abuse during a custody battle can seriously harm children. Here's how psychiatrists can separate fact from fiction.
13 May 2022
A jury unanimously found Richard Gidney 'not guilty' to every charge he faced
23 November 2021
The authors of a new report into findings in Family Court matters where sexual abuse was alleged say they began the project because of a lack of data.
9 August 2021
Former head teacher Richard Dunne is exonerated as the DBS closes his case, vindicating him after false allegations.
15 July 2020
Officers face possible misconduct allegations
5 October 2019
The Met had vowed not to shy from historical sex abuse after the Jimmy Saville scandal
5 October 2019
Carl Beech is a liar, fraudster and paedophile.
26 July 2019
Simon Warr on contamination, collusion and concoction: how abuse allegations multiply once compensation enters the picture.
25 March 2019
Archbishop John Charles McQuaid (slandered by Dr Noel Browne and John Cooney)
10 July 2018
Moses Farrow's first-person account of life inside Mia Farrow's household, and why he says the 1992 allegation against Woody Allen never happened.
23 May 2018
Senior trauma and memory researchers say the $500 million royal commission has adopted a misguided victim-advocacy role and published “ethically dubious” research.
30 September 2017
She’s a highly influential activist for childhood trauma survivors. But questions are being asked about Cathy Kezelman’s own shocking story of abuse.
30 September 2017
On the trail of the IICSAthon Part 2: Still waters running deep and the trigger that opened the floodgates
22 September 2016