Two prospective witnesses in the murder trial of the Rev. Gerald Robinson - a leading expert in blood-stain pattern analysis and a forensic anthropologist - will be allowed to testify at the priest's upcoming trial in Lucas County Common Pleas Court, a judge ruled yesterday.

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.

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.

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.

The BBC has successfully challenged an injunction blocking a programme about a group of children taken from families wrongly suspected of Satanic rituals.

The effects of the Rochdale social services scandal are still with us

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.

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.

A long-delayed apology from one of the accusers in the notorious McMartin Pre-School molestation case

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.

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.

Authorities expand investigation to claims of ritualistic sex abuse

Toledo women say they were abused in bizarre ceremonies decades ago

A Toledo priest accused in the slaying of a nun nearly 25 years ago has a new judge and a new trial date.

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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