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The Satanic panic is a moral panic consisting of over 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse (SRA, sometimes known as ritual abuse, ritualistic abuse, organized abuse, or sadistic ritual abuse) starting in the United States in the 1980s, spreading throughout many parts of the world by the late 1990s, and persisting today.
The daycare owners were convicted of sexually abusing a 3-year-old girl in 1992 as part of a disturbing trend of wild accusations.
The Oak Hill satanic ritual abuse trial occurred in Oak Hill, Austin, Texas, in 1991 when Fran Keller and her husband Dan, proprietors of a small day care, were accused of repeatedly and sadistically abusing several children.
Day-care sex-abuse hysteria was a moral panic that occurred primarily during the 1980s and early 1990s, and featured charges against day-care providers accused of committing several forms of child abuse, including Satanic ritual abuse. [1] [2] The collective cases are often considered a part of the Satanic panic.
The publication of Michelle Remembers, a 1980 memoir co-written by a Canadian therapist and a patient who ‘recovered’ memories of torture by Satanists, sparked international mass hysteria ...
Several states passed similar laws in the 1980s and ’90s, during the height of hysteria over satanic ritual abuse, but few, if any, prosecutions came from them.
The book detailed a satanic cult that allegedly operated in Victoria, British Columbia. [12] [13] A protracted child custody case contested in family court in Hamilton, Ontario, from 1985 to 1987, centred on allegations of satanic ritual abuse; it was later documented in a book written by a Globe and Mail reporter who was assigned to cover the ...
In the new book Unmask Alice , author Rick Emerson connects the editor behind Go Ask Alice and Jay's Journal to the launch of two 20th century moral meltdowns