In the summer of 1983, a California woman named Judy Johnson took her
3-year-old son Matthew to a hospital near her home in Manhattan Beach.
She pointed the doctor’s attention to her child’s anus, which, she said,
looked redder than it had that morning, before he had gone to his day
care center
Whether out of genuine concern about foul play or to salve a worried mother, the doctor filed a suspected child abuse report. Johnson, who later received a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, took her own suspicions to the police, who soon alerted parents whose children attended the McMartin Preschool to a possible abuser in their midst.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/books/review/we-believe-the-children-by-richard-beck.html?emc=edit_tnt_20150821&nlid=63876270&tntemail0=y
Whether out of genuine concern about foul play or to salve a worried mother, the doctor filed a suspected child abuse report. Johnson, who later received a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, took her own suspicions to the police, who soon alerted parents whose children attended the McMartin Preschool to a possible abuser in their midst.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/books/review/we-believe-the-children-by-richard-beck.html?emc=edit_tnt_20150821&nlid=63876270&tntemail0=y