Ritual abuse is real in many places. Franklin wasn’t one of them.
The Nebraska legislature referred the case to the Douglas County grand jury which did not find evidence of child abuse but did charge two of the accusers with perjury.
A separate federal grand jury looked at the case and they also didn’t find evidence warranting an indictment, but like the Douglas County grand jury they indicted one of the accusers with perjury.
Discredited cases like Franklin and McMartin aren’t doing the cause of ending child abuse any favor. They just increase cynicism and make prosecutors less inclined to believe new charges where there might actually be real evidence of real crime.
“Ritual abuse is real in many places. Franklin wasn’t one of them.”
The funny thing is that the case involved in this thread, the Idaho ritual abuse statute, the testimony of the sexually/ritually abused McMartin children, the testimony of the sexually/ritually abused children in the Franklin case, and many other references on the issue all describe similar types of cult (involving pedophilia, child porno, drugs, costumes, cross dressing) behaviors.
Name one ritual abuse case that you believe to be real (you say they are real in many places?). Tell us. Everything you have written in your posts would seem to indicate that you believe that ritual abuse is made up.