Exactly. Thomas MacKay, in his "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds", goes into the European witch hunts extensively. His descriptions of the testimony in those cases sounds amazingly similar to these modern cases.
I believe this to be even worse. We all have become more enlightened to the junk science and the wicked ways of the liberal BS. How could this kind of mumbo jumbo still happen. I really feel for these people and I damn those prosecutors for standing by their crime even years later.
I remember reading everything about these travesties as they were happening and thinking that no jury in America could ever convict these poor people based on the pipe dreams of these innocent kids, with stupid parents. BUT THEY DID!