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Transcript: Children would be sexually abused by the SRA followers. Sometimes the abuse would be filmed. The believers would physically hurt, cut, or even kill children as a sacrifice. A couple named Frances and Dan Keller, who ran a daycare center, were accused drowning babies, putting blood in the children's Kool-Aid, and exhuming bodies at the local cemetery, forcing kids to carry the bones. Anne A. Johnson came forward with her story, saying that her mother and step-father began to physically, sexually, and mentally abuse her when she was three years old until she ran away from home when she was 17. Often times, hard evidence was not necessary in these cases because the panic was widely spread and people believed anything the alleged victims said. When this moral panic broke out, many people were concerned because children and animals were being abused in many forms. Some were even killed in the process. The people who performed SRA were also sometimes hard to identify. The Satanic Ritual Abuse instilled fear into society. Satanic Ritual Abuse By: Jessie Phelps, Lauren Hasse, Lexi Villegas Reasons Behind It: This moral panic is not justifiable because the cases that have been brought up have been over exaggerated and there have been few confirmed cases that we know of. People convinced themselves that they were possessed by the devil and then made a chain reaction, convincing others that they were possessed as well, and this caused the panic. The panic started in the 1980s and subsided in the 90s. Controversies, confessions, and media coverage brought the rise of the panic, and skepticism and conclusions created the fall. Since the 90s, Satanic Ritual Abuse is rarely talked about or known in society. Works Cited "Cults That Never Were: The Satanic Ritual Abuse Scare." Spiritual Community. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Feb. 2015. <http://www.people.vcu.edu/~dbromley/undergraduate/spiritualCommunity/SatanicCults.html>. "Hell Minus One- signed verified confessions of satanic ritual abuse." S.M.A.R.T. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Feb. 2015. <https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/Survivor-Stories/hell-minus-one-signed-verified-confessions-of-satanic-ritual-abuse/>. "Satanic ritual abuse." Wikipedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Feb. 2015. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_ritual_abuse>. McRobbie, Linda R. "The Real Victims of Satanic Ritual Abuse." Slate. N.p., 7 Jan. 2014. Web. 6 Feb. 2015. <http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2014/01/fran_and_dan_keller_freed_two_of_the_last_victims_of_satanic_ritual_abuse.html>. Is It Justifiable? Volitality People who practiced SRA worshiped the Devil and believed that the Devil's spirit was possessing them. The "possessed" people did things that would please the Devil's spirit with some type of sacrifice. The SRA believers practiced physical and sexual abuse typically, and mostly with children, although the believers abused and killed animals as well. In 1975, Michael Aquino, a former member of the Church of Satan, founded the Temple of Set. This provided evidence of Satanists living in North America. During the 1980s, animal mutilations attributed to Devil worshiping were discovered, and a lot of rock music was accused of being Satanic. These realizations are causes of the moral panic. The satanic ritual abuse originated in the United States. The panic started in the 1980s and was ended in the late 1990s. People were being accused of abducting children and physically and sexually abusing them for sacrifices to Satan. Many dissimilar groups were brought together in the effort of trying to end this practice. "At the time, pretty much everyone in America thought the allegations were true" (Linda R. McRobbie). CNN headlines launched in 1982 "Talk show 'experts' claimed that every imaginable form of abuse was happening on a massive scale in America and that networks of Satanists had influenced schools, the police, and local government" (Linda R. McRobbie). In 1989, Oprah Winfrey interviewed Michelle Smith, a victim of SRA. Consensus Summary: What Happened: Concern