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But hundreds of other children suffered similar experiences, shunned by friends, suffering financial hardship, and watching their parents fall apart under the strain of being accused.

However, her experience of being shunned as a Black woman by other local gay clubs bolstered her resolve to make the Catch welcoming for those left out of the scene in L.A.

She was accused of stealing from pensioners, shunned by her local community, and spat on outside a local supermarket.

Marxist writers shunned the word “totalitarian”; Nazi Germany was invariably referred to as “fascist,” while the Soviet Union was a “people’s democracy.”

Baker, detectives learned, had been a sweet-tempered practitioner of Wicca, a form of nature worship that shunned violence.