Not Since the Salem Witch Trials
These warnings stretched into the ‘90s, when police and psychiatrists started hearing thousands of baseless accusations. People were claiming that they or their children were victims of ritualistic sexual abuse. Parents, teachers, and in the Kellers’ case daycare owners, were being accused of Devil worship.
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The case of the Kellers stood out from the rest, as its implications were pretty dire. “This country hasn’t seen anything like it since the Salem Witch Trials,” the Texas Monthly wrote in 1994, two years after the Texas daycare owners were thrown in prison. In 1992, Dan and Fran were both convicted of sexual assault.