Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 00:45:07 -0700
From: apfanning@yahoo.com ("Alan Fanning")
Subject: [lpaz-repost] Death by Therapy
To: justiceforfamilies@yahoogroups.com
Cc: lpaz-repost@yahoogroups.com ("ALP Repost")
This is too long to include the entire thing, but it is definitely a must
read.
--Alan
http://www.weeklystandard.com/magazine/mag_6_35_01/caldwell_feat_6_35_01.asp
Feature May 28, 2001/Vol 6, Number 35
Death by Therapy
The New Age counselors who killed a little girl-and the "child welfare"
regime that enabled them.
By Christopher Caldwell
The death of 10-year-old Candace Newmaker -who was asphyxiated last year
during a bizarre New Age therapy for a dubious disorder-had all the
ingredients of an O.J. Simpson-esque cause clbre. It's not just that
Candace was a particularly charming girl, although she appears to have been.
It's also that her therapists-cum-captors, throughout the Denver trial that
ended in their conviction on April 20, showed every outward sign of
unrepentant evil. They even videotaped the entire hour over which Candace
was gruesomely killed.
Yet the New York Times gave the case only a brief story in the waning days
of the trial, the Washington Post honored the guilty verdict with just a
wire-service snippet deep inside the paper, and the networks were largely
silent. Peggy Lowe's excellent reporting on the case in the Denver Rocky
Mountain News never got the national attention it deserved. Candace
Newmaker's story is a grisly one, but the media's inability to make sense of
it may have another explanation-that it tells ordinary Americans something
they don't want to hear about the plight of a lot of their own children.
Candace Newmaker (born Candace Elmore) was removed by social service
authorities from her home in Lincoln County, North Carolina, in 1995. She
was given up for adoption (at age 6) to an unmarried Durham heiress and
aspiring single mother named Jeane Newmaker, who lives in a five-bedroom
house and works as a nurse practitioner. Newmaker showered her daughter with
gifts and affection, but was troubled to find the two weren't "bonding."
Candace continued to miss her siblings Michael and Chelsea and (go figure!)
her mother. She had a temper. She knocked down a bookcase. Jeane Newmaker
claims she killed her goldfish.
Jeane started surfing the Internet for information on Candace's "problem."
She discovered ATTACh, the Association for Treatment and Training in the
Attachment of Children. She attended one of their conventions in Alexandria,
Virginia. There she discovered "reactive attachment disorder," or RAD, the
clinical name for a child's inability to bond with new parents. It may not
surprise the reader to hear that a therapist who'd never met Candace (then
at home in North Carolina) diagnosed her with RAD in absentia
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