Reply #8: There Is No Resemblence Whatever, Ma'am [View All]

The only unretouched photograph of the child in circulation shows nothing on which any point of identity could be based. The "aged" image is not a reliable one; it is a composite of averages, and even these are pursued only to a point much younger than Guckert's evident age.

You will not hear from Mrs. Gosch on the matter, nor will you hear from Guckert on it. Nor would many of those who believe this believe denials; these would be taken as simply the product of fear of the "Hidden Hand", or its bribes, or some other such subornation.

The analysis of the matter presented by Skeptic magazine is a correct one. My memory extends to the time it describes, and the wave of hysteria on the subject of ritual abuse was distuebing to any thinking person, particularly one who has made some small study of witchcraft trials as a youth. No case in which these allegations were brought ever included physical evidence, and were they true, there would necessarily be an abundance of physical evidence in the form of blood residue, bones, and such. Blood is awfully durable; archeologic excavations at sites over a thousand years old have found its traces in analyzable quantities.

The fact is that some people began to link this Guckert affair to pedophilia rings well before the Gosch case was brought into the mix. Why do you, Ma'am, think that was so?