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524: Moons Over My Grammy Edition

The Scathing Atheist

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The Fatal Panic

In 1990, a Texas father was accused of satanic ritual abuse by his wife during an already ugly divorce. Melvin Quinnie was arrested for indecency with a child in 1990 and convicted to 20 years in prison the following year. He was released in 1999, got off early on good behavior, but he still had to register as a sex offender over shit that never happened. People's lives were ruined. They were robbed of decades because of the 90s equivalent of people thinking Facebook is going to take possession of all their photos at midnight unless they share this fucking status. And we'll take a look back at 2022 just so we can be glad we don't live there anymore.

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