Uhh...
The dude is writing the book, not reading it.
I've read some of his stuff on bigtrial.
It's fair to say that he knows his topic, and knows the law.
It's also fair to say he has an agenda. He's an accused abuser and was a member of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation.
The FMSF was founded by laymen who were accused of abuse by their daughter, a cognitive psychologist and professor at the University of Oregon.
Ralph Underwager, a defense witness in hundreds of sex abuse cases, was on the FMSF board when he gave an interview to a Dutch pedo magazine, Paidika. Here are some of his quotes that forced him to resign from the FMSF board:
"Paedophiles spend a lot of time and energy defending their choice. I don’t think that a paedophile needs to do that. Paedophiles can boldly and courageously affirm what they choose. They can say that what they want is to find the best way to love. I am also a theologian and as a theologian, I believe it is God’s will that there be closeness and intimacy, unity of the flesh, between people. A paedophile can say: “This closeness is possible for me within the choices that I’ve made.”
Paedophiles are too defensive. They go around saying, “You people out there are saying that what I choose is bad, that it’s no good. You’re putting me in prison, you’re doing all these terrible things to me. I have to define my love as being in some way or other illicit.” What I think is that paedophiles can make the assertion that the pursuit of intimacy and love is what they choose. With boldness, they can say, “I believe this is in fact part of God’s will.” They have the right to make these statements for themselves as personal choices. Now whether or not they can persuade other people they are right is another matter (laughs)."
"I think that Holly and I agree that sexuality is a smaller part set within a large whole of our humanity: our capacity for love, our ability to approach some form of unity with another person. Sexuality takes place within this larger context, but it is not exhaustive, nor necessary, nor sufficient as a cause unto itself. The necessary and sufficient cause of sexuality for us is the unity, the wholeness, the intimacy.
The history of human behavior surely demonstrates that sexual behavior can become a very volatile, explosive part of intimacy and closeness, such as in jealousy and possessiveness. There is, in other words, a potential for sexuality, even if it is a small part of the whole, to erupt into what can be pervasive, cataclysmic experiences. When the sex ends abruptly and the man has been saying to the boy, “I love you, I care for you. You and I are one in mind, body, spirit,” and then suddenly says, “That’s all fine, but we ain’t gonna do it no more.” What happens then?"
" I was urging earlier that you make the loving image clearer to the outside world. What appears to the public is not the picture of a loving man but rather the picture of the dirty old man lurking in alleys, waiting for nice innocent young lads to come by, grabbing their genitalia and hustling them off and sort of casting them aside and waiting for the next one."
Underwager's wife remained on the board. Loftus, who was quick to resign from the APA when notified of two ethics complaints, is a FMSF advisor.
The fact that there's no documentation of RMT in the Sandusky case should be enough to know how full of shit this whole line of defense is. Pendergast didn't ask V7 about repressed memory until after their meeting in an email. He omitted his end of the exchange from the Bigtrial.com article: "I forgot to ask you about repressed memories" was included in another article. So V7 was prompted to use the term "repressed memory".
But you keep believing people who are accused of abuse and those that get paid $400 an hour defending abusers have all the credibility. The guy who couldn't stop showering with kids is really the victim in all this.