The last time the fake news media whipped up a witch hunt frenzy, innocent people went to jail
by: Robert Jonathan
NaturalNews.com
Thursday, June 29, 2017
A Texas couple caught up in the so-called Satanic Panic era were finally exonerated after being jailed for 21 years.
Austin daycare operators Fran and Dan Keller were convicted of child abuse in 1991 for the alleged sexual assault of a three-year-old girl. During the investigation, the initial accusation of a spanking evidently morphed into lurid accusations of Satanic ritual abuse, including human sacrifice, from the girl and several other children.
Investigators apparently accepted all these allegations at face value without finding any evidence. A lawyer for the couple also argued in his appeal that the state may have used “suggestive interview techniques…” that “encouraged the children to make ‘fantastical false statements,’” the Guardian noted.
The Kellers were nonetheless each sentenced to 48 years in prison reportedly in part because an examination from an inexperienced emergency room doctor about damage to the three-year-old’s vaginal area that could have indicated molestation. The doctor’s testimony was apparently the only physical evidence of wrongdoing in the case.
The physician subsequently testified that his original diagnosis was incorrect, The Intercept reported.
During a hearing in the summer of 2013, he unequivocally stated that there was no doubt that the child’s genitalia was normal and that he’d gotten it wrong when he examined her in 1991. He said that he tried to reach out to the Austin Police Department after he realized his error but was rebuffed by the detective, who was “convinced they were guilty.”
The Kellers were released in December 2013 for lack of evidence, and about a week ago, Travis County District Attorney Margaret Moore, who took office in January, officially dropped all charges and exonerated them, something her predecessor was unwilling to do.
Parenthetically, the liberal Travis County DA’s office has a history of bringing politically motivated indictments against Republicans. You may recall that former DA Rosemary Lehmberg charged then-Gov. Rick Perry with abuse of power in 2014. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals subsequently threw out all charges against Perry.
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