Falsely accused of satanic horrors, a couple spent 21 years in prison. Now they’re owed millions.

[Washington Post]

Long before the age of the Internet and the fleeting spasms of mass hysteria that came with it (Remember Jade Helm? Pizzagate?), and going back to the late 20th century, when irrational fears moved slower and lasted longer, there was Satan.

The “satanic panic,” some call it now. It began some time in the 1980s, when newscasters and fundamentalist Christian cartoons warned of the evils of the role-playing game “Dungeons & Dragons,” and stretched into the 1990s, when police and psychiatrists saw thousands of unfounded accusations of ritualistic sex abuse and children were seized from British parents accused of devil worship.

One case still stands out.

“This country hasn’t seen anything like it since the Salem witch trials,” Texas Monthly wrote in 1994, in a profile of Austin day-care operators Dan and Fran Keller, who had been thrown in prison two years earlier.

Read more

 

Related posts

Subscribe
Notify of

We welcome a lively discussion with all view points - keeping in mind...

 

  1. Submissions must be in English
  2. Your submission will be reviewed by one of our volunteer moderators. Moderating decisions may be subjective.
  3. Please keep the tone of your comment civil and courteous. This is a public forum.
  4. Swear words should be starred out such as f*k and s*t and a**
  5. Please avoid the use of derogatory labels.  Always use person-first language.
  6. Please stay on topic - both in terms of the organization in general and this post in particular.
  7. Please refrain from general political statements in (dis)favor of one of the major parties or their representatives.
  8. Please take personal conversations off this forum.
  9. We will not publish any comments advocating for violent or any illegal action.
  10. We cannot connect participants privately - feel free to leave your contact info here. You may want to create a new / free, readily available email address that are not personally identifiable.
  11. Please refrain from copying and pasting repetitive and lengthy amounts of text.
  12. Please do not post in all Caps.
  13. If you wish to link to a serious and relevant media article, legitimate advocacy group or other pertinent web site / document, please provide the full link. No abbreviated / obfuscated links. Posts that include a URL may take considerably longer to be approved.
  14. We suggest to compose lengthy comments in a desktop text editor and copy and paste them into the comment form
  15. We will not publish any posts containing any names not mentioned in the original article.
  16. Please choose a short user name that does not contain links to other web sites or identify real people.  Do not use your real name.
  17. Please do not solicit funds
  18. No discussions about weapons
  19. If you use any abbreviation such as Failure To Register (FTR), Person Forced to Register (PFR) or any others, the first time you use it in a thread, please expand it for new people to better understand.
  20. All commenters are required to provide a real email address where we can contact them.  It will not be displayed on the site.
  21. Please send any input regarding moderation or other website issues via email to moderator [at] all4consolaws [dot] org
  22. We no longer post articles about arrests or accusations, only selected convictions. If your comment contains a link to an arrest or accusation article we will not approve your comment.
  23. If addressing another commenter, please address them by exactly their full display name, do not modify their name. 
ACSOL, including but not limited to its board members and agents, does not provide legal advice on this website.  In addition, ACSOL warns that those who provide comments on this website may or may not be legal professionals on whose advice one can reasonably rely.  
 

4 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

SMALL WORLD. My foster brother from 1996 was among the children removed from the homes of those accused and placed into truly evil home under by CPS. He was sexually abused by the “good home” while the state pursued charges against the parents, who were accused of all kinds of bad cult-like acts. After years of abuse, he was finally able to get out of that situation and ended up in California after it was found out the bad home was paying CPS workers for children. I was 16 at the time and thought this was all too crazy to be real. That kid in 1996 became my new foster-brother. He was so messed up, i felt really bad for him.

A few weeks ago i was googling his name to find out what ever happened to him after all these years. I had heard he’d got to jail at one point as a teenager for a sex crime conviction, he was due to get out at the age of 25. Sadly, i learned from various news coverage he was murdered, but the stories didn’t say exactly why, but they did make it clear in the story that he was a convicted sex offender.

CPS is absolutely the worst and tore my family apart too, based on an accusation against my stepfather back in 1989. There was no truth to the story, but it was enough to put me in foster care against my wishes.

I had forgotten about the evil in Washington, but there is so much more to the story than people accused. The real perpetrators were the people rippings kids out of homes and arresting the parents, all orchestrated by the real cult that probably still exists today. I have no proof, only what i learned from my own foster brother who is now dead.

Nicholas, Your story and situation are sad and far too common. CPS, foster care and Domestic Violence groups are like the anti-sex offender groups has base their organizations on fear, hate and lies. The main reasons for their existence is for the cash cow. The more numbers they show and hysteria they can fan gives them more money they get from the government. Yes, there are seriously abuse women and children that do need help and protection, however, those numbers are far below the hype. These groups has became government protected criminal organizations. Again, I am sorry for you and your brother, who’s resting in peace.

Hmm… The preoccupation with sex……The gift that keeps on giving – to everyone but the people/citizens; it doesn’t give anything to them, even though they wrongly think it gives them safety and such. It just costs, and costs, and costs……………….