1982 – Kern county child abuse case

1983 – McMartin preschool trial in California

1984 – Fells Acres Day Care Center

1984 – Bernard F. Baran, Jr., convicted January 30, 1985.

The first known conviction of a day care worker

1985 – Bronx Five case

1985 – Wee Care Nursery School in New Jersey in April

1987 – Cleveland child abuse scandal in England

1987 – Friedman cases begin

1989 – Glendale Montessori sexual abuse case in Stuart, Florida

1989 – Little Rascals Day Care Center scandal in Edenton, North Carolina

1990 – All charges dropped in McMartin preschool trial

1991 – Christchurch Civic Creche, New Zealand, inv. Peter Hugh McGregor Ellis

1992 – Martensville Scandal, Martensville, Saskatchewan, Canada

1994 – start of Wenatchee Sex Rings case

1996 - Convictions in the Kern county child abuse case overturnedo

Day-care sex-abuse hysteria was a moral panic that occurred primarily in the 1980s and early 1990s featuring charges against day-care providers of several forms of child abuse.

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