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Jan. 8, 2014<\/p>\nJan. 8, 2014<\/p>\n
\u201cAmong the atrocities that Frances and Dan Keller were supposed to have committed while running a day care center out of their Texas home: drowning and dismembering babies in front of the children; killing dogs and cats in front of the children; transporting the children to Mexico to be sexually abused by soldiers in the Mexican army; dressing as pumpkins and shooting children in the arms and legs; putting the children into a pool with sharks that ate babies; putting blood in the children\u2019s Kool-Aid; cutting the arm or a finger off a gorilla at a local park; and exhuming bodies at a cemetery, forcing children to carry the bones.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was frankly unbelievable \u2013 except that people, most importantly, a Texas jury, did believe the Kellers had committed at least some of these acts. In 1992, the Kellers were convicted of aggravated sexual assault on a child and each sentenced to 48 years in prison….<\/p>\n
\u201c(Today) after multiple appeal efforts and 21 years in prison, the Kellers are finally free….<\/p>\n
\u201cThe doctor who provided the only physical evidence that any sexual assault had taken place recanted his testimony. Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg agreed that their conviction should be overturned, allowing the Kellers to be released while their appeals move through the courts….<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir release may also finally mark the end to one of the strangest, widest-reaching, and most damaging moral panics in America\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 From \u201cThe Real Victims of Satanic Ritual Abuse<\/a>\u201d by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie at Slate.com<\/p>\n What a day-brightener \u2013 spotting McRobbie\u2019s thorough tracking of the\u00a0Fran and Dan case<\/a>\u00a0atop Slate magazine\u2019s home page.<\/p>\n Yes, miracles do happen \u2013 a Texas doctor recanting his testimony, and a DA agreeing the convictions should be overturned.<\/p>\n