From Canada's CityNews:

Leduc's weird tale began on May 30, when she dropped young Victoria off for class at Terry Fox Elementary and headed in to work, only to receive a frantic phone call from the school telling her it was urgent she come back right away.

The frightened mother rushed back to the campus and was stunned by what she heard - the principal, vice-principal and her daughter's teacher were all waiting for her in the office, telling her they'd received allegations that Victoria had been the victim of sexual abuse - and that the CAS had been notified.

How did they come by such startling knowledge? Leduc was incredulous as they poured out their story.

"The teacher looked and me and said: 'We have to tell you something. The educational assistant who works with Victoria went to see a psychic last night, and the psychic asked the educational assistant at that particular time if she works with a little girl by the name of "V." And she said 'yes, I do.' And she said, 'well, you need to know that that child is being sexually abused by a man between the ages of 23 and 26.'"

The school officials accepted the testimony of the psychic as valid evidence of abuse and turned Leduc over to "Children's Aid" -- the Canadian equivalent of US's Child Protective Services. Fortunately for her, Leduc had a unusual electronic "paper trail" which proved no such thing had occurred.

This is the first contemporary case I've noticed where "spectral evidence" was admitted as legitimate evidence, as was the case in the Salem Witch Trials. Here, as then, the accusers were dabbling with psychic phenomenon and the occult. Will such cases increase again as the occult becomes more popular?