People are still in jail for it down in Florida. Janet Reno, who put them there in her own such prosecutions before she was AG fought hard politically to keep them there long after she was "retired." Even if not guilty of anything they had been properly tried and convicted.
I remember it hitting hard here in NC with a showy trial of daycare Owners and workers. The media couldn’t wait to feed the frenzy each day with wilder and wilder tales that the child psychiatrists, social workers and other insane clown insisted were true.
I think a couple folks went to jail here too and it took years before they were let out becuase the accusations were just plain wrong.
Their lives, however, were ruined.
Over stupidity.