Photo: Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos/New York Magazine When she was 8 years old, Chaneya Kelly lived in a pale-yellow house on Washington Street in Newburgh, New York. She was the oldest of five kids, with two brothers and two sisters, ages 2 to 7. Some nights, her father, Daryl, would cook dinner, and while Chaneya and… Continue reading “Did Your Father Touch You?”

Varn Chandola of Seattle is enmeshed in a domestic dispute with his ex-wife. His case came to our attention because the trial court’s ruling dividing the spoils and the time each parent can spend with their child not only did not punish Varn’s wife for making what all agree to have been a false allegation… Continue reading Petition for Review Granted

Credit: Howard Schnapp Jesse Friedman appeals to obtain complete criminal case files Friedman pled guilty to numerous false charges of sexually abusing computer students in Great Neck, NY, 1988, at the height of the satanic ritual abuse panic. With the support of filmmaker Andrew Jarecki, and the NCRJ, Friedman and his lawyers have been trying… Continue reading Jesse Friedman Appeals to Obtain Complete Criminal Case Files

“This is not just a Texas problem. This is happening all over the country,” Saloom said. “Texas just happens to be a leader in its willingness to reconsider convictions based on such evidence.” USA Today The women, along with another on parole, and the Kellers have been professing their innocence in separate cases for almost… Continue reading USA Today and Time Magazine on the San Antonio Four and the Kellers

Fran and Dan Keller. Photo by Debbie Nathan. “Debbie Nathan – with Michael Snedeker, the author of Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt (1995) – chronicled the nationwide hysteria that produced the widespread “satanic ritual” prosecutions, among them the Keller case. Her continuing work with the National Center… Continue reading Some Press About the Release of the Kellers and the San Antonio Four

In most legal exonerations, somebody did the crime — just not the person convicted of it. But, of those recorded as of mid-November 2013 by the University of Michigan’s National Exoneration Registry, 129 — or more than a fifth — fall into a “rapidly growing” category of cases where no crime occurred at all. Three-quarters… Continue reading 1 in 5 criminal exonerations: No crime occurred

“Between 1984 to 1989, some 100 people nationwide were charged with ritual sex abuse and 50 were put on trial, according to Debbie Nathan of the National Center for Reason and Justice, which works to free those wrongly imprisoned.” From Reuters: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-rt-usa-texasrelease-20131127,0,2131722,full.story

FREEDOM! Fran Keller, of the infamous, 1993 satanic daycare case in Austin, was freed a few minutes ago after 20+ years in prison! This is a National Center for Reason and Justice-sponsored case. Many parallels to the San Antonio Four case, including junk science medical evidence now discredited. Her husband, Dan, is slated to be… Continue reading FREEDOM!

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