Editing Prescott, Ontario (section)

===Project Jericho===

Project Jericho, which was one of the largest and most highly publicized sexual abuse investigations in Canada, took place in the 1980s–1990s and focused on a case of multi-generational child sexual abuse in Prescott, which was "staggering in its reach and its routine violation of hundreds of victims."<ref name=breaking-the-cycle>{{cite book |last=Steed |first=Judy |title=Our Little Secret |publisher=Random House |year=1994 |pages=107–130 |chapter=Prescott: Breaking the Cycle |isbn=0394223187 |chapter-url-access=registration |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/ourlittlesecretc0000stee/page/107}}</ref> When the investigation concluded, the total victim count was 275 (including 113 adults who disclosed that they were abused as children), and the total perpetrator count was 119.<ref name=healthunit>{{cite web |title=The Prescott Case: Key Dates and Events |url=http://www.healthunit.org/carekids/jericho/STORY.htm|work=Care for Kids – Jericho |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203191702/http://www.healthunit.org/carekids/jericho/STORY.htm |archive-date=3 February 2017 |publisher=Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit |access-date=5 October 2012}}</ref> The case was sensationalized as an example of [[Satanic ritual abuse]], though it was never linked to a satanic cult, but rather, "a group of adults of limited intelligence who lived on the margins of society."<ref name=healthunit /> Many of both the perpetrators and the victims were developmentally disabled.<ref name=healthunit /> By 1994, of the cases which went to trial, the conviction rate was {{percent|91}}.<ref name=healthunit /> However, the Prescott case bears many similarities to other instances of [[Satanic panic|"Satanic Panic"]] that happened in the 1980s and 1990s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.religioustolerance.org/ra_presc.htm |title=Ritual Abuse Cases in Prescott, Ontario, Canada |website=religioustolerance.org |access-date=December 24, 2021 }}</ref>