Just Ask My Children
In 1982, parents Scott and Brenda Kniffen are arrested on false accusations of ritualistic child abuse; their children are taken into custody and manipulated into believing the lies being told about them. Based on a true story.
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"I have never before in my entire life seen a movie which dealt so strongly and so stirringly with the most profound and most common human emotion of all: love within a family. I felt emotionally attached to the Kniffen family as if I were a member of their kin. The emotional roller-coaster this movie provides is substantial and will not let go of you. This is because of the unbelievable injustice and the outrageous mistake committed by the legal system of the United States. Just Ask My Children is a true story, elaborating on the tragedy of the Kniffen family in 1982. This was the time of a n..."
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After they were found to have mishandled many of the abuse cases of the early 1980s, the legal officials involved in the case faced much public scrutiny and many lost their jobs; as the film's ending text states, one of the lawyers who had coached the Kniffen boys into confession did indeed end up working for minimum wage as a cashier afterwards, while others continued to work within the court system until at least 2009, facing little to no serious consequences for the way they responded to the cases. As was later revealed after the making of this film, most of the legal team involved with the prosecution had read the now-debunked true-crime novel "Michelle Remembers", about a case of alleged satanic-ritual abuse syndrome.
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In 1982, parents Scott and Brenda Kniffen are arrested on false accusations of ritualistic child abuse; their children are taken into custody and manipulated into believing the lies being told about them. Based on a true story.