 Some scholars have proposed that these accusations were largely fueled by a series of events called "The Satanic Panic" or "satanic ritual abuse".This hypothesis supposes that because the Little Rascals Day Care Center case was not an isolated incident, it must have been part of a broader national phenomenon.Other day care centers were accused of committing similar acts of violence against children in the 1980s and 1990s, and many had the common theme of being related to Satanism in some way.