The 1990s panic over "phantom social workers" trying to abduct children

In the early 1990s, reports began surfacing across the UK and the United States of mysterious strangers posing as social workers, showing up at homes and attempting to examine or abduct children. Police took the reports seriously. Parents were terrified. The media ran wall-to-wall coverage. — Read the rest

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