Self-fashioned "debunkers" love to tell horror stories of "witch hunts" in day care centers. So imagine the decades of speculation and debate that would arise from the case of John Jackey Worman if there were not ironclad evidence.
At least twelve children come forward with lurid claims of abuse... a six month-old baby is sexually assaulted... a child is locked in a wooden box in
a basement... a female day care operator lures children and even
participates in the sexual abuse...
Authorities say that incredible scene is exactly what happened outside Philadelphia for
years. And there should be no circus of claims and counterclaims about
"false allegations" and the unreliable testimony of child victims,
because John Worman videotaped his crimes in detail.
Worman, of Corwyn, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 120 years this month
for manufacturing child pornography depicting his assaults on a series
of children. Police found over 11,000 video clips of Worman's crimes,
as well as 1.2 million other child pornography images.
Media reports do not say whether Worman's victims tried to make outcries and were not believed, whether they were frightened into silence or whether they repressed memories of what was done to them. But the years of horror did
not come to light until a past victim, now 21 years-old, came forward.
Dorothy Prawdzik, a "girlfriend" of Worman, was sentenced to 30 years
in April for her role in the crime ring. Another accomplice, Concetta
Jackson, is awaiting sentencing.
Law enforcement knows where hundreds of thousands of child pornography
producers and distributors are located in the U.S., yet less than 1% of
these known suspects are being investigated, due to a lack of resources.
