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Witch Hunt DVD

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Witch Hunt should be required reading for all Attorney Generals, Prosecutors, Police Officers, Child Protective Services and anyone affiliated with CPS. The events related in this documentary are eerily similar to what the legal community perpetrated on my husband who was falsely accused and wrongly convicted of the same type of crime. He is currently serving a 20 year sentence for a crime he did not conmmit..the same type of crime the men and women featured in Witch Hunt were charged with. I will be purchasing as many copies of Witch Hunt as I can afford to send the Deputy Attorney General who prosecuted my husband with no evidence, the police officer who "lost" evidence, the hospital case worker who did not follow protocol in interviewing the very confused child, the nurse who falsified her report and withheld evidence, the jurors who convicted on emotion and ignorance and the judge who made erroneous rulings in an effort to remain politically correct. I will use Witch Hunt in an effort to educate... in an effort to prevent such miscarriages of justice that befell the persons in this documentary, in an effort to bring attention to the plight of my husband and hundreds of others who are still behind prison walls waiting for someone to listen, to care and to help.

Like the McMartin Trial, this modern day witch hunt really deserved to be told, While I do not find it shocking, seeing that it was by no means an isolated incident in modern America, but the how the "witchfinders" manage get away with it is disturbing nonetheless.

However, as a documentary, it lacked the precision of, say, an Errol Morris film.

The events/contents beg for a procedural treatment, but instead the film makers focus on the emotional content of the piece, turning it into a feature length version of a 20/20 segment.

Sean Penn narrates this hard hitting documentary film about the US justice system. Guaranteed to make your blood boil, Witch Hunt focuses on the human toll wrongful convictions take on everyday people. It truly can happen to anyone.

The title WITCH HUNT is somewhat misleading for this documentary since it conjures up images of the infamous McMartin case involving a Day Care center where the owners and workers were accused not only of molestation but also of satanic rituals and human and animal sacrfices. Although such things are mentioned in passing in this film they have no relevance to any of the cases represented and if you're looking for coverage of that you'd best look elsewhere. The film does offer up a truly terrifying example of what can happen when the public panics and allows the police and the judical system to run roughshod over the individuals rights to a fair trial in the name of protecting innocent children.

The more some people will get paid to unearth imaginary crimes, the more other people will be persecuted. Especially as the guilty party (i.e.the prosecuters) never receive punishment.
This excellent film should be shown in schools all around the world though, apparently, it is hardly distributed anywhere outside a very narrow circle. Nobody ever gets a chance to watch it, here in Europe...

After watching "Just Ask My Children", I became interested in the subject of how sex crimes are handled today and wanted to learn more. This documentary did not disappoint. It goes into great detail about the actual events, showing the timelines and interviewing the actual participants. As with "Just Ask My Children", there are no graphic images, and very few graphic descriptions in this film. Maybe this would be asking too much, but I really wish it had included interviews with the jurors who had the ultimate power to convict or acquit.