Satanic panic on a Greater Manchester council estate: The long shadow cast by the ritual abuse scandal
Social workers snatched 20 children away from their families amid bizarre accusations of devil worship and occult rituals
Updated It s a disgrace. The lives of these innocent children and their parents have been irreparably ruined
At 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.