Candace Newmaker (Candace Tiara Elmore)

Incident date: 2000 Apr 18

Child placement type: Adoption

Family size: 1 to 4

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Candace Elizabeth Newmaker (19 November 1989 — 18 April 2000) was a victim of child abuse, killed during a 70-minute treatment session supposedly to treat reactive attachment disorder. The form of diagnosis and the treatments used were unvalidated and non-mainstrean methods practised within the field of attachment therapy.

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Documents

Title	Publication date
The Exorcists: The fine line between saving children and torturing them.	2007 Mar 7
Coercive Restraint Therapies: A Dangerous Alternative Mental Health Intervention	2005 Aug 9
Child Abuse in Two Huge Tennessee Families Investigated	2004 Sep 2
N.C. Rebirthing Ban Comes Under Fire From Supporters	2003 Dec 1
Court upholds conviction in 'rebirthing' death	2003 Aug 29
Utah parents accused of killing 4-year-old daughter with water	2003 May 7
Attachment therapy: A treatment without empirical support	2002 Nov 1
Man Seeks Ban on Therapy He Used on Daughter	2002 Sep 29
House Condemns Rebirthing Therapy	2002 Sep 17
No prison for Candace's adoptive mom	2001 Oct 12
'Rebirthing' mom enters guilty plea	2001 Oct 12
Therapists get 16 years	2001 Jun 19
Therapists sentenced to 16 years in rebirthing death	2001 Jun 18
Grandparents campaign on 'rebirthing' therapy	2001 Jun 14
Seeking Cures, but Finding Anguish	2001 May 6
Stop casualties of pop therapy	2001 May 2
Convicted therapist posts bail, is freed	2001 Apr 25
Videotape, flannel cloth convince jury	2001 Apr 21
Verdict a relief for family	2001 Apr 21
Verdict Reached In Rebirthing Trial	2001 Apr 20
Girl's Death Brings Ban on Kind of Therapy	2001 Apr 18
Expert blasts therapy	2001 Apr 11
The death of a new beginning	2001 Jan 28
Therapist has strong defenders, foes	2000 Oct 29
Her name was Candace	2000 Oct 29
Mother charged in rebirthing death	2000 Sep 6
Four Face Trial in Child's Death	2000 Aug 18
Prosecutor likens 'rebirthing' session to 'torture'	2000 Aug 18
Therapist faces 2nd felony count	2000 Aug 1
Suffer the Children	2000 Jul 27
Alternative therapies not new in Evergreen	2000 Jun 17
Mother Charged in 'Rebirthing' Death	2000 May 26
Evergreen chock-full of therapists	2000 May 21
State probes 'rebirth' therapists	2000 May 20
Girl dies in Colorado after controversial therapy	2000 May 18
"Rebirthers" Who Killed Child Receive 16-Year Prison Terms	2000 Apr 18
Candace Newmaker - Wikipedia articlce	1989 Nov 19
Excerpts from video of the "birth" and death of Candace Newmaker