Why your childhood memories may not actually have happened.

[Kurska]

28. I would say solid evidence of long ago abuse could be a lot of things.

Obviously there would rarely be physical evidence remaining. However collaboration by many different victims with little contact would qualify. Testimony that puts the potential abusers at the right place and the right time to match the memories would be other such evidence. There are many other things that could support a claim of abuse in the past. My point isn't that such allegations need to be dismissed out of hand. My point is that there needs to be more than just an allegation, because of what we understand of how these kinds of false memories can work. There is this idea that an allegation must be true because "no one would lie about something like that", however people can make false allegations without even lying in the way we would conceive of a lie (a false statement the person understands to be untrue).