Demonized[1] Women: Accused Witches in Recent Child Custody Cases

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The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

—Pat Robertson, 1992[4]

In 1991, five months before a Texas jury[5] deliberated on a request for custody of Petitioner’s two year old daughter, she received Notice of Deposition Duces Tecum requiring production of “[a] black veil or any other clothing or article or object related to and pertaining to the practice or use in witchcraft, the occult or ‘new age’ practices in your possession or subject to your control.”[6] She realized she was being accused of practicing witchcraft. Why? What relevance might it have in a child custody case? During the week long jury trial that followed later that year, Petitioner thought that she might be the only woman in twentieth-century America to be “tried” for witchcraft. That was not so.