According to several researchers and historians, the Salem With Trials were started when a group of young girls started to accuse older women of the society of witchcraft. Witchcraft was considered the ultimate sin in the community and was thought that this meant the convicted witch made a compact with the Devil to do evil among others and they denied any belief or faith in God. The accusations are thought to have usually started over jealousy or hatred for another member of the community. Two girls named Betty and Abigail, along with six of their friends, started the accusations by naming 3 women as witches; Sarah Osborne, Sarah Good, and Tituba. Sarah Osborne was an older woman in the community who had not attended church in over a year, the ultimate sin for any Puritan. Sarah Good was a poor woman in the community and would often go door to door to beg. When denied anything, it was said she would mutter inaudible things under her breath to the people who would not help her. Finally, Tituba was a slave and was well known by Betty and Abigail and several others of the community. In court, the young girls would keep up an act of screaming, fright, and trembles while around the convicted. Sarah Osborne and Sarah Good maintained their innocence while in the court room, while Tituba confessed to conducting witchcraft and making a compact with the Devil. Ultimately, it was not a good idea the Tituba did this, no one knows why she confessed. It was known that she practiced in fortune telling and that she maybe really thought she was guilty. Or, she thought by confessing, the judges would be lenient on her sentence. Since all three women were of low ranking in the community, it made it believable that they could all be witches. Unfortunately, all three women were found guilty of witchcraft and were sentenced to the Boston jail. Sarah Osborne was the first victim of the trials, for she died of natural causes while in jail. The accusations and jailing of these three women did not put an end to the witch trials, it was only the beginning. The girls continued their acts of violent rage and kept accusing more and more members of the community, including minister George Burroughs as being the leader of all the witches. From any bit of evidence to pure suspicion of a person, it got them jailed and in total that was 200 members of the community. Several of them ended up being hanged or tortured for their crimes. (Sutter)