[1] In 1992, a mother in Martensville, Saskatchewan, alleged that a local woman who ran a babysitting service and day care centre in her home had sexually abused her child.
More than a dozen persons, including five police officers from three different forces, ultimately faced over 100 charges connected with running a Satanic cult called The Brotherhood of The Ram, which allegedly practiced ritualized sexual abuse of numerous children at a "Devil Church".
[2] The son of the day care owner was tried and found guilty of molestation, but not of sexual abuse on the scale that had been alleged.
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police task force subsequently took over the investigation, concluding that the original inquiry was motivated by "emotional hysteria.
[6] John Popowich, one of the five police officers falsely accused, received a settlement of $1.3 million for malicious prosecution.