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Tuesday February 21, 2006
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February 16, 2006 - The priest is accused of killing Sister Margette Ann Pahl in the chapel at the former Mercy Hospital back in 1980. Robinson's murder trial is set to start April 17.
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Friday January 20, 2006
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Shock waves reverberated round the Langley estate this week as residents tried to come to terms with the revelations of the suffering of the parents and children involved in the false allegations of satanic abuse more than 15 years ago.
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Friday January 13, 2006
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In 1990, families on a council estate in north Manchester woke up to every parent's worst nightmare. With no warning, police and social workers had come to take their children.
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Thursday January 12, 2006
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The BBC has successfully challenged an injunction blocking a programme about a group of children taken from families wrongly suspected of Satanic rituals.
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Tuesday January 10, 2006
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The effects of the Rochdale social services scandal are still with us
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Monday January 9, 2006
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A dozen of the children who were snatched from their parents by Rochdale social workers in the so-called "Satanic abuse" scandal in 1990 are seeking compensation.
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Monday November 28, 2005
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CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- An 18-year-old Chicago man was arrested after allegedly kidnapping two young children to perform a demonic ritual intended to get back his former girlfriend, authorities said.
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Saturday October 29, 2005
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A long-delayed apology from one of the accusers in the notorious McMartin Pre-School molestation case
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Friday April 22, 2005
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TOLEDO (AP) -- A woman says in a lawsuit that a Roman Catholic priest accused of killing a nun in 1980 took part in ritual abuse ceremonies with other clergy members. The woman, who was not identified, said in the lawsuit filed Wednesday that she was tortured and raped as a young girl in a church basement nearly 40 years ago.
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Saturday April 16, 2005
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SAN JUAN, Texas – A satanic scare is sweeping the Rio Grande Valley – at least according to school officials and counselors who warn that devil worshippers are snatching children and cutting up their bodies.
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Monday February 21, 2005
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Authorities expand investigation to claims of ritualistic sex abuse
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Toledo women say they were abused in bizarre ceremonies decades ago
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Saturday January 29, 2005
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A Toledo priest accused in the slaying of a nun nearly 25 years ago has a new judge and a new trial date.
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Tuesday November 16, 2004
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REGINA (CP) - The Saskatchewan government has reached a settlement with a couple who were wrongfully accused in a bogus ritualistic child abuse ring more than 12 years ago.
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Monday November 1, 2004
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A woman whose claims of Satanic child sex abuse helped put eight people in the dock had a history of making false allegations, which was known to police, Scotland on Sunday can reveal.
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Monday July 19, 2004
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In October police carried out coordinated raids in Scotland and England arresting several people accused of being part of a paedophile ring on the Isle of Lewis.
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Friday July 16, 2004
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In October last year the remote Scottish island of Lewis was torn apart by allegations of ritual child abuse. But two weeks ago, the case against the accused suddenly collapsed, just as similar actions in the Orkneys and Nottingham did before them. It was another case of 'Satanic panic', but as Rosie Waterhouse finds out, the community remains divided
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Sunday July 11, 2004
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The expert who helped discredit infamous claims of satanic abuse in Orkney has branded the failed investigation into similar allegations on Lewis an even bigger disgrace.
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‘We were accused of raping little girls, having orgies, killing cats and chickens and drinking their blood ... it was all lies but they wouldn’t believe us’
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Sunday July 4, 2004
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People who were falsely accused of satanic child abuse on a remote Scottish island spoke out yesterday against the police and social services investigations that led to their arrests.
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As child abuse allegations are dropped in Lewis, the accused have become victims of the system, reports Vicky Allan
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Friday July 2, 2004
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The case against seven men and a woman accused of child abuse in the Western Isles has collapsed.
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Thursday July 1, 2004
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A woman who claimed she was sexually assaulted by a couple during "quasi-satanic rituals" has denied her allegations were complete "hocus pocus".
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Tuesday June 29, 2004
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Jurors will today continue to hear how a couple allegedly forced teenage girls to strip before sexually assaulted them during "quasi-satanic rituals".
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Monday May 24, 2004
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WENATCHEE, Wash. (AP) - It's been a decade since this placid town of alpine lakes and apple orchards first came to be haunted by whispers of a pastor and his flock taking children to the church basement and forcing them to take part in sex orgies.
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