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Satanic panic on a Greater Manchester council estate: The long shadow cast by the 'ritual abuse' scandal

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direct to your inboxAt the crack of dawn on a May morning in 1990 a convoy of official cars crawled up the hill from Middleton to the sprawling council estate of Langley.Once there, police officers and social workers converged on five homes.Kids were roused from their beds, hurriedly dressed and taken off in tears as their distressed parents looked on in shock.It was the start of a barely believable nightmare for six families accused by social service workers of being involved in the satanic ritual abuse of children.Some 20 youngsters were taken into care, placed into foster homes and barred from all contact with their families.For some it would be 10 years before they saw their parents again.

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