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Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills is a 1996 American documentary film directed, produced and edited by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky about the trials of the West Memphis Three, three teenage youths accused of the May 1993 murders and sexual mutilation of three prepubescent boys as a part of an alleged satanic ritual in West Memphis, Arkansas.
Some of the accusations were described as "bizarre", [7] overlapping with accusations that mirrored the emerging satanic ritual abuse panic. [ 6 ] [ 23 ] It was alleged that, in addition to having been sexually abused, they saw witches fly, traveled in a hot-air balloon , and were taken through underground tunnels. [ 6 ]
The murder took place during a period known as the "Satanic panic", when there was much public concern [2] [3] [4] over the effects of Satanic and occult content in heavy metal music and in role-playing games. Kasso was wearing an AC/DC T-shirt at the time of his arrest and was a fan of groups such as Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne.
The daycare owners were convicted of sexually abusing a 3-year-old girl in 1992 as part of a disturbing trend of wild accusations.
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Day-care sex-abusing 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 ...
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.