Satanic panic is making a comeback…
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Image caption: Utah County Attorney David O. Leavitt speaks on July 31, 2019, in Provo. Image credit: Rick Bowmer / AP file. Article by Brandy Zadrozny. NBC News – updated September 15, 2022.
PROVO, Utah — On June 1, David Leavitt, the prosecuting attorney for Utah County, stood behind a lectern in his windowless Provo office before a gaggle of reporters. Wearing a gray suit and an exasperated look, he wanted to make something categorically clear: Neither he nor his wife were guilty of murdering or cannibalizing young children. It was, by all accounts, a strange declaration from the progressive Republican prosecutor, a Mormon and younger brother of a former Utah governor, Mike Leavitt, who had earned a name for himself by prosecuting a well-known polygamist in 2001. […]
