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Geraldo Rivera is largely responsible for the Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic of the late 1980's

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In 1979, following the disappearance of Dallas Eggbert, the popular role-playing game "Dungeons & Dragons" became the subject of a modern witch hunt called the "Satanic Panic"

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1. In the 80s Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) allegations created a morale panic putting innocent people behind bars, destroyed careers, and changed the way children are questioned. It formed the basis of many morale panics against Heavy Metal, video games, and D&D.

2. I learned that the US in the 80s had a "Satanic Panic" whereby hundreds of daycare centres were falsely accessed on satanic rituals on children

3. Fran & Dan Keller who spent 21 years in prison after being convicted of child abuse for supposedly running a Satanic cult/day care during the 'Satanic Panic' of the early 90's

4. Satanic panic is a panic about alleged widespread Satanic ritual abuse which originated in USA. Also, South Africa was particularly associated with the panic, because of the creation of the Occult Related Crimes Unit in 1992 - world's only 'ritual murder' task force

5. About the McMartin preschool trials - the most expensive (US) criminal trial involving child abuse. It was during a time of child day care abuse hysteria mixed with satanic panic. "After six years of criminal trials, no convictions were obtained, and all charges were dropped in 1990."

6. The British intelligence forces attempted to create a satanic panic in Northern Ireland during the troubles by placing black candles and upside-down crucifixes in derelict buildings and war torn areas.