Compare and Contrast Essay (Crucible vs Just Ask My Children) The Salem Witch Trials was a tragic time in history. Innocent people were being falsely accused for things they did not do. The punishments for these crimes weren’t forgotten so easily either. Many men, women, even animals were hung for not confessing to witchcraft. In the 1980, a pedophilia witch-hunt was speed throughout the Bakersfield area, young children accusing their parent that they were being molested. Thousand of adults have been sentenced to life in prison for crimes they had nothing to do with. There are still people serving their life sentences to this day. Although these two events have a similar story, they also have their small differences. First, both events
