In 1994, four women were accused, tried, and convicted of the heinous sexual assault of two young girls—as one newscaster puts it, “the modern version of the witchcraft trials.” Twenty years later, the four women have maintained their innocence, insisting that the accusations were entirely fabricated, and borne of homophobic prejudice and a late-’90s mania about covens, cults, and child abuse.
Direction
Esquenazi spent years earning trust—intimacy that bleeds through every frame.
Editing
Juxtaposing '94 news hysteria with present-day exoneration is devastating.
Writing
Lets the women speak for themselves—no narrational hand-holding.
Director
Deborah S. Esquenazi
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The case exemplifies how 'recovered memory' therapy and Satanic Panic hysteria destroyed lives—peak 90s moral panic weaponized against marginalized women.
Director Deborah S. Esquenazi is a queer Latina herself; she has said she made this film because she saw herself in these women, and feared how easily it could've been her.
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I can't imagine what these women went through.. and to be accused of a crime they NEVER did is also heart breaking . After watching this, I do believe that Javier Limon had something to do with the girls lying because he was jealous and couldn't get over the fact that he was being rejected.. and even when him talking, you can see it in his face that he made them kids lie..
@sherrondavis4859 4
So basically this sad and heartbreaking story right here is like the lesbian female version of the central park 5.
@bmendez3782 14
Oh this just broke my heart. I never knew about this story. I am so sorry this happened to you.
@scorpiolady73 4
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