There’s a lot to unpack here, and over eight episodes Guilliatt looks at the case from a multitude of angles: the parents’ legal representation, debunked practices for retrieving repressed memories, eyewitness accounts of key moments in the timeline of this case and personal testimony from some of this story’s protagonists. In an attempt to answer these questions – or perhaps to confirm his suspicions – Guilliatt embarks on a years-long journey, interviewing family members, neighbours, medical experts, psychiatrists, lawyers, even a woman who herself experienced repressed memories of ritual abuse that she now says were delusions. It’s also clear that Giuillatt himself is conflicted, and that his attempts to get to some kind of journalistic truth have failed in a case he says was the hardest he ever investigated “Would a daughter accuse a parent of such ghastly crimes if they never happened?” “Could a child be tortured and abused by her parents for 13 years without anyone noticing?” he asks in the first episode. And his new podcast, Shadow of Doubt, is the result. Two of their four children had testified against them.Įnter Richard Guilliatt, a journalist who establishes his authority with the fact that he wrote a book about the Satanic Panic of the 1990s, exposed cancer scammer Belle Gibson as a fraud and investigated Rolf Harris.
In a case so horrific it was described by some of those who attended court proceedings as “the worst case of child abuse they’d ever heard”, the father was convicted on 73 counts of child abuse, and the mother on 13 counts.
Some time in the past 15 years – for legal reasons, we are not told exactly when, though a quick google will fill you in – an Australian mother and father were found guilty of child abuse.
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