Kee MacFarlane

{{Short description|American social worker}} {{Infobox person | name = Kee MacFarlane | birth_name = Kathleen MacFarlane | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1947}} | death_date =  | known_for = Role in the McMartin preschool trial | occupation = Social worker }}

'''Kathleen 'Kee' MacFarlane'''<ref>{{cite book | pages = [https://books.google.com/books?id=-5RlDhkvDakC&pg=PA68 68] | title = Anatomy of the McMartin child molestation case | isbn = 978-0-7618-1983-7 | publisher = University Press of America | year = 2001 |author1=Butler EW |author2=Fukurai H |author3=Dimitrius J |author4=Kroothwas R }}</ref> (born 1947)<ref name=Timnick>{{cite news|url=http://latimes.perfectmarket.com/1988-09-19/local/me-1557_1_interview-techniques |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131033338/http://latimes.perfectmarket.com/1988-09-19/local/me-1557_1_interview-techniques |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-01-31 |title=Interviewer's Methods Seen as Key Issue in Preschool Case |date=1988-09-19 |access-date=2009-08-01 |last=Timnick |first=L |work=Los Angeles Times }}</ref> is an American social worker known for involvement in the high-profile McMartin preschool trial in the 1980s. She was the Director of Children's Institute International.<ref name=umkc>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mcmartin/macfarlanetestimony.html |title=Testimony by Kee MacFarlane |access-date=2009-06-29 |date=August 8, 1988 |publisher=University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law |archive-date=2009-08-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090808093432/http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mcmartin/macfarlanetestimony.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> She developed the concept of the anatomically correct doll for children to use during interviews concerning abuse and played a significant role in the McMartin trial. MacFarlane has been criticized for her methods of interrogating small children.<ref name="RobertHicks">In Pursuit of Satan — The Police and the Occult, Robert D. Hicks, Prometheus Books, Pg 190.</ref> Charges against the defendants were eventually dropped.

==Professional training== She received a bachelor's degree in fine arts at Denison University in Ohio and later received her master's degree in social work.<ref>Snedeker 1995 p. 13.</ref> After graduation, MacFarlane became a lobbyist for the National Organization for Women<ref>{{cite book |author=Van Til, Reinder |title=Lost daughters: recovered memory therapy and the people it hurts |publisher=William B. Eerdmans |location=Grand Rapids, Mich |year=1997 |pages= [https://archive.org/details/lostdaughtersrec0000vant/page/134 134] |isbn=978-0-8028-4272-5 }}</ref> and grant evaluator for the National Center for Child Abuse and Neglect,<ref name = deyoung2004/> later becoming the Director of Children's Institute International (CII).<ref name=umkc/> Prior to the McMartin preschool trial, MacFarlane described herself as a psychotherapist but lacked any professional licenses.<ref name = Timnick/>

==Involvement in the McMartin preschool trial== {{main|McMartin preschool trial}} As part of her job at CII, MacFarlane interviewed 400 children for the McMartin preschool trial using anatomically correct dolls and hand puppets. MacFarlane believed that the children suffered from child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome, and would deny sexual abuse without special techniques designed to encourage disclosure.<ref name = deyoung2004>{{cite book |author=De Young, Mary |title=The day care ritual abuse moral panic |publisher= McFarland & Company | location=Jefferson, N.C |year=2004 |pages= [https://books.google.com/books?id=_e8ZkJBtz0EC&pg=PA28 28–9]|isbn=978-0-7864-1830-5 | author-link = Mary de Young }}</ref> The interview techniques<ref>Snedeker 1995 p. 188.</ref> MacFarlane used during the investigation into the allegations were highly suggestive and invited children to pretend or speculate about supposed events.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Schreiber| first = Nadja|author2=Lisa Bellah |author3=Yolanda Martinez |author4=Kristin McLaurin |author5=Renata Stok |author6=Sena Garven |author7=James Wood| title = Suggestive interviewing in the McMartin Preschool and Kelly Michaels daycare abuse cases: A case study| journal =Social Influence | volume = 1| issue = 1| pages = 16–46| year = 2006| url = http://digitalcommons.utep.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=james_wood | doi = 10.1080/15534510500361739| s2cid = 2322397| url-access = subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | pmid = 9648524 | last = Garven | first = S |author2=Wood JM |author3=Malpass RS |author4=Shaw JS | journal = Journal of Applied Psychology | volume = 83 | issue = 3 | pages = 347–59 | year = 1998 | title = More than suggestion: the effect of interviewing techniques from the McMartin Preschool case | doi = 10.1037/0021-9010.83.3.347| s2cid = 16766571 }}</ref> By spring of 1984, it was claimed that 360 children had been abused.<ref>Snedeker 1995 p. 127.</ref> Astrid Heppenstall Heger performed medical examinations and took photos of what she believed to be minute scarring which she stated was caused by anal penetration. Critics have alleged that the questioners repetitively asked the children leading questions which, it is said,<ref>{{cite news | last = Fischer | first = M | title = A Case of Dominoes? | publisher = Los Angeles Magazine | date = 1989-09-25 | pages = 132}}</ref> always yields positive responses from young children, making it impossible to know what the child actually experienced. Others believe that the questioning itself may have led to false memory syndrome among the children who were questioned. Ultimately only 41 of the original 360 children testified during the grand jury and pretrial hearings, and fewer than a dozen testified during the actual trial.<ref name=apology>{{cite news |first=K |last=Zirpolo |author2=Nathan D |title=I'm Sorry; A long-delayed apology from one of the accusers in the notorious McMartin Pre-School molestation case |url=http://www.freejesse.net/LATimes/Introduction.htm  |publisher=Los Angeles Times Magazine |date=2005-10-30 |access-date=2009-09-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090315070411/http://www.freejesse.net/LATimes/Introduction.htm |archive-date=2009-03-15 }}</ref>

MacFarlane went on to testify before Congress that she believed there was an organized, nationwide conspiracy of individuals and "orthodox satanic groups" sexually abusing children, although she never presented evidence of who any of the individuals were nor proof of any orthodox satanic groups.<ref>{{cite book |author=Frankfurter, David |title=Evil incarnate: rumors of demonic conspiracy and ritual abuse in history |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, N.J |year=2006 |pages= [https://archive.org/details/evilincarnaterum00fran/page/57 57] |isbn=978-0-691-11350-0 |author-link=David Frankfurter }}</ref>

==Publications==

===Books and book chapters=== * {{cite book | title = Social Work and Child Sexual Abuse | last = MacFarlane | first = K |editor=Conte JR |editor2=Shore DA | author2 = Bulkley J | isbn = 978-0-917724-98-5 | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=1z4fNR_XulkC&pg=PA69 | chapter = Treating Child Sexual Abuse: An Overview of Current Program Models | publisher = Haworth Press | year = 1982 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/socialworkchilds0000unse }} *{{cite book | title = Sexual Abuse of Young Children: Evaluation and Treatment | isbn = 978-0-89862-703-9 | year = 1998 | last = MacFarlane | first = K | author2 = Waterman J | publisher = The Guilford Press | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/sexualabuseofyou00keem_0 }} * {{cite book | title = When Children Abuse: Group Treatment Strategies for Children With Impulse Control Problems | last1 = Cunningham | first1 = C |last2=MacFarlane|first2=K| publisher = Safer Society Press | year = 1996 | isbn = 978-1-884444-23-4 }}

===Videos=== * {{cite book |vauthors=MacFarlane K, Feldmeth JR, Saywitz KJ |title=Response Syllabus: The Clinical Interview |publisher= The Guilford Press |location=New York |year=1986 |isbn=978-0-89862-940-8 }} *The Clinical Interview; with Joanne Ross Feldmeth, Karen Saywitz (1988)

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==References== *<cite id=Nathan1995>{{cite book |last=Nathan|first=D |author-link=Debbie Nathan|author2=Snedeker M | title=Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JVVsAAAAIAAJ |year=1995 |publisher=Basic Books |isbn=978-0-87975-809-7 }}</cite>

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