earthworm
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Should we never discuss the Salem Witch Trials because they were over three hundred years ago?
I knew a guy who went from fundie church to fundie church with his story of having recovered from Satanic drug use etc to screw the local churchie girls.A lot of people whose lives have been ruined? That's a stretch. Have an example of someone who was falsely accused, etc?
I thought it was perfectly clear in the OP. But if you need clarity for some reason: a lot of people were later exonorated from any involvement in such 'Satanic' crimes (a vast majority of individuals convicted under the auspices of the "Satanic panic", in fact, have been cleared, and of the few who remain in prison, virtually all are generally believed innocent by observers). It seems that, from start to finish, the entire thing was a national-level fiasco virtually unprecedented in American history, a mass hysteria in the most literal sense.
Ok - so most were exonerated.
Good, then, right?
I have oddly fond memories of that time. I was probably in 4th or 5th grade when the scare hit our suburb of Houston. My friends and I found the body of a dog that appeared to have been cut open and had its organs removed. In retrospect I realize it was just a dead dog that had bust open to decay and the release of gasses, but we spent two weeks researching it and playing the Hardy Boys.
In the end we deduced that our science teacher was a secret Satanist and had committed the dirty dead.
Good times.
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No, and I think a lot of people owe a lot of other people whose lives have been ruined a collective apology.
You are not going to leave it at that will you? What did the Hardy Boys do against the newly deduced Satanist teacher that was sacrificing dog body parts to the devil?
Perhaps but part of it relates to the sexual exploitation of minors which is of real concern even today.
A lot of people whose lives have been ruined? That's a stretch. Have an example of someone who was falsely accused, etc?
Alas, around that time we found a huge collection of Playboy magazines in someone's garbage. Our attention was sufficiently diverted.
No, and I think a lot of people owe a lot of other people whose lives have been ruined a collective apology.
After having spent years or decades in prison and thousands in legal costs.
Tell that to the McMartin's or to Dale Akiki. Along with the others mentioned above. There were a lot of peoples lives turned upside down over this hysteria.
Tell that to the McMartin's or to Dale Akiki. Along with the others mentioned above. There were a lot of peoples lives turned upside down over this hysteria.
Thats the name i was trying to remember.
McMartin preschool.
Massive sexual abuse by the whole staff.
In the news for months.
Never happened. Guy spent like ten years in prison until the kjds got old enough to recant.
Not satanic, it was the "where did he touch you" dolls, before they realized kids want to please so they figure out what story you're trying to hear and tell it to you.
What always offended me was there is never any effort to sensationalize the vindication of the falsely accused. All i saw was a short piece about one guys release, but they talked about it daily for about a year during the investigation and trial.
my mother and my uncle were both victims of satanic ritual abuse. Shame on everyone here who pretends this never existed.
my mother and my uncle were both victims of satanic ritual abuse. Shame on everyone here who pretends this never existed.
Reread the case study. Satanic ritual abuse played a significant role in the accusations.
my mother and my uncle were both victims of satanic ritual abuse. Shame on everyone here who pretends this never existed.
And you never thought that they were put there in purpose did you!?
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