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IN-DEPTH: Survivors Alleging Satanic Ritual Abuse Raise Awareness Amid Media Claims of ‘Panic’

IN-DEPTH: Survivors Alleging Satanic Ritual Abuse Raise Awareness Amid Media Claims of ‘Panic’
Kimberli Koen, a survivor alleging satanic ritual abuse. Courtesy of Koen
Sam Dorman
Sam Dorman
Washington Correspondent
4/17/2023|Updated: 8/3/2024
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Survivors alleging satanic ritual abuse (SRA) and their advocates are continuing a decades-long fight to advance their cases as media companies push a narrative that the type of abuse they allege is largely the creation of a social panic.

Last month, the South by Southwest film festival screened “Satan Wants You,” which “tells the untold story of how the Satanic Panic of the 1980s was ignited,” according to the festival’s website. Echoing years of skeptical news coverage, the description adds that “satanic rumors spread through panic-stricken communities across the world, leaving a wave of destruction and wrongful convictions in their wake.” Other “satanic panic” warnings can be found in recent coverage of cases in Scotland and Utah while the backlash against Sam Smith’s Grammys performance has prompted similar caution.
Sam Dorman
Sam Dorman
Washington Correspondent
Sam Dorman is a Washington correspondent covering courts and politics for The Epoch Times. You can follow him on X at @EpochofDorman.
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