Witch Hunt

Absolutely Riviting!
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...

"SOME CONVICTIONS ARE CRIMINAL"
Witch Hunt is a disturbing yet well done documentary about a dramatic surge in child molestation cases in Bakersfield, Kern County, California. The accusations and court hearings began in the early 1980s after Ed Jagels, a new tough on crime DA was elected. It's amazing; the story is just so stunning because it was so obvious that there couldn't have suddenly been huge numbers of people all abusing their own children and their neighbors' children. The film moves along at a very good pace, telling the story with compelling interviews with the children, now adults, who testified against their own parents and neighbors as well as interviews with some of the men and women falsely accused of child molestation. The cinematography works well; and the narration by Sean Penn is terrific.

Because of inept, poorly trained social workers and law enforcement, children were harassed, coerced and downright bullied into changing honest stories that nothing happened to fabricated tales the...

Fascinating and informative
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.

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