# Satanic panic is making a comeback…

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/satanic-panic-is-making-a-comeback-fueled-by-qanon-believers-and-gop-influencers/
- Published: 2022-09-16T09:15:28-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

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. […] Click here to view original web page at www.nbcnews.com