Editing Satanic panic (section)

===Origins of the rumors===
Information about SRA claims spread through conferences presented to religious groups, churches and professionals such as police forces and therapists as well as parents. These conferences and presentations served to organize agencies and foster communication between groups, maintaining and spreading disproven or exaggerated stories as fact.<ref name=CA/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume3/j3_3_1.htm|title=IPT Journal - "The Satanic Cult Scare and Allegations of Ritual Child Abuse"|website=www.ipt-forensics.com}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Harrington |first=Evan |title=Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia: Notes from a Mind-Control Conference Some therapists' lack of skepticism may make them prime targets for racist propaganda |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367380741 |journal=Skeptical Inquirer |volume=20 |issue=5 |pages=35–42}}</ref> Members of local police forces organized into loose networks focused on cult crimes, some of whom billed themselves as "experts" and were paid to speak at conferences throughout the United States. Religious revivalists also took advantage of the rumors and preached about the dangers of Satanism to youth and presented themselves at paid engagements as secular experts.{{sfn |Victor |1993 |pp=[https://archive.org/details/satanicpaniccrea00vict/page/n41 22–23]}} At the height of the panic, the highly emotional accusations and circumstances of SRA allegations made it difficult to investigate the claims, with the accused being assumed as guilty and skeptics becoming co-accused during trials, and trials moving forward based solely on the testimony of very young children without corroborating evidence.{{sfn |Victor |1993 |pp=[https://archive.org/details/satanicpaniccrea00vict/page/n95 16–17]}} No [[forensic evidence|forensic]] or corroborating evidence has ever been found for religiously based cannibalistic or murderous SRA, despite extensive investigations.{{sfn |Bibby |1996 |pp=205–13}}{{sfn |LaFontaine |1998 |p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=JBxfvDeQdmoC&pg=PA5 5]}}{{sfn |Frankfurter |2006 |p=[https://archive.org/details/evilincarnaterum00fran/page/n234 213]}} The concern and reaction expressed by various groups regarding the seriousness or threat of SRA has been considered out-of-proportion to the actual threat by satanically-motivated crimes, and the rare crime that exists that may be labeled "satanic" does not equate to the existence of a conspiracy or network of religiously-motivated child abusers.<ref name=Robbins>{{cite journal|last1=Robbins |first1=T |title=Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend – book reviews |journal=Sociology of Religion |year=1994 |doi=10.2307/3712069 |volume=55 |last2=Victor |first2=Jeffrey S. |jstor=3712069 |issue=3 |pages=373–75 }}</ref>{{sfn |LaFontaine |1998 |pp = [https://books.google.com/books?id=JBxfvDeQdmoC&pg=PA20 20–21]}}