Wrongful Convictions · False Allegations · Memory & the Courts
Clareese Packer · 1 July 2026
Police allege a group of “claims farmers” recruited former inmates and public-school students to file fraudulent historical child sexual abuse compensation claims, leading to arrests across Sydney.
The wrongful-conviction case of Fr. Gordon MacRae — a New Hampshire priest sentenced to 33½–67 years on uncorroborated abuse claims — and the discredited detective, James McLaughlin, whose investigation secured it.
1 July 2026
An Easter essay on Australian theologian Barbara Thiering's Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship and her naturalistic reconstruction of the crucifixion.
1 July 2026
Newly released body-camera audio captures actor Timothy Busfield denying child sex-abuse allegations to an Albuquerque detective, as his attorney calls the recording 'completely exculpatory.'
1 July 2026
Why weaponising a false accusation is rational: the system rewards it before it tests it, and consequences for the accuser are rare, late, and fought.
30 June 2026
The former US transportation secretary says an anonymous, false report — which police determined was meritless — led Child Protective Services to separate him from his young twins for 24 hours, in what he calls a “cruel, politically motivated hoax”.
30 June 2026
Sky News host Andrew Bolt has criticised the decision to grant two men compensation by the federal government’s National Redress Scheme for alleged historical…
31 January 2025
The headline of a report in the Age Newspaper on Wednesday 22 March 2023 read, “Gobbo seeks immunity deal to dob on police.” Gobbo refers, of course, to Nicola…
3 April 2023
Lamar Johnson, sentenced to life for the killing, was released after judge found ‘reliable evidence of actual innocence’
15 February 2023
ST. LOUIS (MO)Catholic News Agency - EWTN [Denver CO]
8 September 2022