Wrongful convictions for imagined crimes that did not happen, including witchcraft and satanic sexual abuse, have been influenced by gender stereotypes. The role of intersecting forms of prejudice is examined through case studies of wrongful child abuse convictions of a gay man in New Zealand and lesbians in the United States. Case studies of the wrongful convictions of Florence Maybrick, Lindy Chamberlain and Kathleen Folbigg are related not only to their immediate cause of faulty forensics but also to perceived departures from gendered concepts of motherhood and wifehood. A similar theme is seen in the disproportionate wrongful convictions and false guilty pleas of women for the deaths of children in their care. Shaken baby syndrome played a role, but gender, racial and class prejudices were also often in play. Women, especially Indigenous women, are particularly vulnerable to making false guilty pleas. The possible role of stereotyped assumptions about male violence in sexual assault wrongful convictions will be examined. Sexual assault law reforms make it more difficult to correct wrongful convictions where consent is claimed as opposed to the minority of cases of stranger sexual assaults where DNA can prevent and remedy wrongful convictions.