McMartin preschool trial
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The McMartin preschool trial was a day care sexual abuse case in the 1980s, prosecuted by the Los Angeles District Attorney, Ira Reiner. Members of the McMartin family, who operated a preschool in Man
Virginia McMartin during the McMartin preschool trial
Satanic panic
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The Satanic panic is a moral panic consisting of over 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse, sometimes known as ritual abuse, starting in North America in the 1980s, spreading throughou
McMartin preschool trial
…dropped in 1990. By the case's end, it had become the longest and most expensive series of criminal trials in American history. A pivotal case during the Satanic panic, the McMartin investigation began when a mother accused a teacher of molesting her son. Authorities and social workers began using highly suggestive…
Blood libel accusations against Jews are considered historical precursors of the modern moral panic.
In Early Modern Europe people accused of being witches were stated to be working for Satan and burned at the stake.
Rosie Waterhouse lecturing about Satanic Panics during the European Skeptics Congress 2015