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Febrile huh? I have no idea wtf you are talking about. But the Satanic Panic started in CA in the 80s, along with a push to disempower judges for prosecutors, as prosecutors for both parties were seized by the aristocracy. They, along with a psychiatrist quack, took allegations of child rape from a crazy person, grabbed these little kids, like 6 years old or something, and browbeat them for days, weeks telling them they know they were abused, you are suprressing it, until they could get them to accuse their parents (some refused.)
It's a long story, but the practice was exported nationwide, and hundreds of false convictions for baby rape were had, which they expanded to include devil worship. All bad faith. They would do a raid and bring news cameras and props with them. Set up dildos and bdsm gear, satanic and torture stuff, then bring the news cameras in like they found it that way. Prosecutors' allegations would also just not be possible, claiming big satanic abuse parties in little houses that couldn't fit them, etc.
The cases fell apart in the 90s, with the kids denouncing the police and their false allegations. Even then prosecutors fought to keep them in prison. Some in the original places they started, bakersfield, the heart of darkness in the central valley, misfiling cases so do gooder lawyers couldn't challenge their convictions. Bakersfield is notorious for framing people for murder too by the way.
Source: "Mean Justice" a book by a pullitzer prize winning author.