Resources: Child Abuse
Day-care sex-abuse hysteria - Wikipedia
Day-care sex-abuse hysteria was a moral panic that occurred primarily during the 1980s and early 1990s.
False Memory - Wikipedia
False memory has figured prominently in many investigations and court cases, including cases of alleged sexual abuse.
Gerald Amirault - Wikipedia
Gerald "Tooky" Amirault was convicted in 1986 of molesting and raping eight 3 and 4 year-old children at the Fells Acres Day Care Center in Malden, Massachusetts, run by his family, in one of the hysteria induced child-molestation cases of the 1980s.
Kern County child abuse cases - Wikipedia
The Kern County child abuse cases started the day care sexual abuse hysteria of the 1980s in Kern County, California. The cases involved claims of satanic ritual abuse that were performed by pedophile sex rings with as many as 60 children testifying they had been abused. At least 36 people were convicted and most of them spent years imprisoned. 34 convictions were overturned on appeal.
Wee Care Nursery School - Wikipedia
The Wee Care Nursery School was in Maplewood, New Jersey and was one of many day care child abuse cases that went to trial in the 1980s.