mass hysteria day-care sex-abuse hysteria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-care_sex-abuse_hysteria https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5242773 A particular part of the wider "Satanic panic" that occurred primarily during the 1980s and early 1990s, and featured charges against day-care providers accused of committing several forms of child abuse, including Satanic ritual abuse. A prominent case in Kern County, California, United States, first publicized the issue of day-care sexual abuse, and the issue figured prominently in news coverage for almost a decade. The Kern County case was followed by cases elsewhere in the United States, as well as Canada, New Zealand, Brazil, and various European countries.