Beyond the Hampstead baby-killing hoax
The history of a moral panic
On Monday evening Channel 4 screened a 90 minute documentary about the Hampstead Satanic Abuse Hoax of the mid twenty teens, and how it affected parents accused of paedophilia and murder. The hoax itself was propagated by Abraham Christie, the abusive boyfriend of a new age mother, Ella Draper, who was estranged from her husband,…