TIL that in 1988, in the US state of Georgia, a man named James Moseley was convicted of performing consensual oral sex on his wife, and sentenced to 5 years in prison (he served 1.5)
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Were they convicted of *witchcraft* or of abuse?
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I’m sorry, you are correct, the convictions were for (almost certainly imaginary) sexual abuse. However, witchcraft was a major theme in the trials, and seems to have been the de facto accusation.
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Was witchcraft actually the name of the crime they were convicted of? I thought most were convicted of child abuse (both sexual and not) in connection with witchcraft (or, technically, Satanism), which may not have been illegal as such.
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Yes, that is correct. OTOH, the content of the trials was largely about witchcraft/Satanism, despite that not being a crime in the US currently.
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