Childhood trauma has life-long effect on genes and the brain
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Childhood trauma has life-long effect on genes and the brain 2/22/09 - McGill Newsroom - Study confirms effects of early environment in brains of suicide victims - McGill University and Douglas Institute scientists have discovered that childhood trauma can actually alter your DNA and shape the way your genes work. This confirms in humans earlier findings in rats, that maternal care plays a significant role in influencing the genes that control our stress response. Using a sample of 36 brains; 12 suicide victims who were abused; 12 suicide victims who were not abused and 12 controls, the researchers discovered different epigenetic markings in the brains of the abused group. These markings influence the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) function, a stress-response which increases the risk of suicide. This research builds upon findings published last May that showed how child abuse can leave epigenetic marks on DNA.....The all-McGill study is set to be published in the February 22, issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience."We know from clinical experience that a difficult childhood can have an impact on the course of a person's life", said Dr. Turecki. "Now we are starting to understand the biological implications of such psychological abuse," added Dr. Szyf. "The function of our DNA is not as fixed as previously believed, said Dr. Meaney. "The interaction between the environment and the DNA plays a crucial role in determining our resistance to stress thus the risk for suicide. Epigenetic marks are the product of this interaction."
http://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/news/item/?item_id=104667
Friday, February 27, 2009
Dale Akiki Case
Dale Akiki Case
describes crimes
Ex-School Volunteer Acquitted of Child Abuse Charges Verdict: After deliberating for just seven hours, jury finds Dale Akiki not guilty on all 35 counts. Trial was longest in San Diego’s history. Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles, Calif. - Michael Granberry - Nov 20, 1993
A Superior Court jury concluded a 7 1/2-month trial Friday by acquitting a former nursery school volunteer of 35 counts of child abuse and kidnaping that had kept him jailed without bail for 2 1/2 years….
Nearly 170 witnesses testified during Akiki’s trial-the longest in San Diego history-which ended after only seven hours of jury deliberation….
Several on the (jury) panel sided with Akiki’s attorneys, public defenders Kathleen Coyne and Susan Clemens, who tried to show that Akiki’s alleged victims-nine boys and girls between the ages of 3 and 5-had been systematically brainwashed by parents and therapists.
But Deputy Dist. Atty. Mary Avery, the lead prosecutor, disputed such claims.
“The whole idea of contamination and suggestibility just does not account for the major behavior changes that occurred (in the children) while they were in Dale Akiki’s (nursery school) class,” she said, referring to such incidents as bed-wetting and nightmares.
Witnesses accused Akiki of sexually molesting and terrorizing children at Faith Chapel charismatic church in Spring Valley by hanging them upside-down from a chandelier, dunking them in toilets and making them drink the blood of animals in ritualistic ceremonies.
Molestation Hearing Continues Next Week - Los Angeles Times - February 8, 1992 - San Diego County Edition
….Deputy Dist. Atty. Mary Avery has called some of the parents to testify about behavioral changes they observed in the children. “There were drastic changes observed,” Avery said. Defense attorney Kate Coyne, however, maintains that Akiki has been falsely accused by parents who did not like his physical appearance.
Judge Rejects Bail for Suspect In Molestations at Preschool - Los Angeles Times - May 25, 1991 Amy Wallace; Times Staff Writer
….But Deputy Dist. Atty. Mary Avery, the prosecutor, said that, in addition to the grand jury testimony of seven children who attended the Faith Chapel in Casa de Oro, her case will rely on behavioral symptoms observed by parents months before any allegations of abuse were raised.
One mother said her daughter was so terrified of having her head near water that it was impossible to wash her hair, Avery said. Grand jury testimony later revealed that at least one child had had her head dunked in a toilet, she said.
Testimony was also heard that a child became hysterical when he was taken to a hospital to get stitches, apparently because he had a flashback of “the defendant holding him down and hurting him,” Avery said. The indictment filed against Akiki said he inflicted injuries on children with a needle.
Avery maintained that some of the children remain so traumatized by Akiki’s treatment that they have attempted suicide–one by running in front of a car, another with a knife.
Other Suspects Added to Child Sex Abuse Probe - Los Angeles Times - May 15, 1991 - Amy Wallace; Times Staff Writer
As many as three former child care workers at Faith Chapel in Spring Valley are suspected of molesting and abusing preschoolers over a 15-month period ending in August, 1989, a San Diego County prosecutor said Tuesday.
Speaking after the arraignment of Dale Anthony Akiki, a former church volunteer who was indicted last week on 50 felony counts of child molestation and related charges, Deputy Dist. Atty. Mary Avery said two other former child care workers are being investigated….
According to the 13-page indictment, which a grand jury returned after hearing live televised testimony from seven of the children, Akiki abused them sexually and physically, at times using a bottle top, a toy, a glass, a stick and a needle.
Church Volunteer Indicted in Molestations - Los Angeles Times - May 14, 1991 - Amy Wallace; Alan Abrahamson; Times Staff Writers
….Soon, Avery said, a couple of parents noticed that their children were exhibiting similar “unusual” and “regressive” behavior. The children had not yet said they were abused, Avery said, but the parents observed a pattern.
“In thinking it over, they realized the one thing the children had in common was they went to the same church,” she said.
The church asked a licensed social worker to assess whether there was reasonable suspicion of abuse and, after talking to a few families, he reported the case to the authorities.
Avery began investigating in February, 1990. Since then, she said, the district attorney’s office has kept Akiki under periodic surveillance, “to make sure he was not working with children during the week or involved with child care in any way.”
Avery said her case is strengthened by the fact that it relies on the children’s behavior as well as their testimony. “It will focus on behavior that was observed prior to the initial disclosure” of the alleged abuse, she said. “So there cannot be a contamination issue regarding behavior that occurred prior to anyone ever mentioning this to the children.”
Unlike other child molestation cases that rely largely on the testimony of the victims, the Akiki case is “one which can be cleanly and coherently presented to a jury for their determination,” said Steve Casey, a spokesman for the district attorney’s office.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Guilty Plea Entered in Ponchatoula Sexual-abuse Case - Prison Time Could Be Avoided with Plea
By David J. Mitchell Advocate Florida parishes bureau 2/17/09 Amite - The estranged wife of a former church pastor convicted in a child sexual-abuse scandal at a now-defunct Ponchatoula church pleaded guilty late this morning to obstruction of justice under an agreement with prosecutors. Under the terms of her "best interests of justice" plea, Robbin Lamonica, 49, of Hammond, could avoid any prison time in connection with charges from the case, attorneys on both sides said. Prosecutors agreed to dismiss three counts of aggravated rape and four counts of aggravated oral sexual battery in exchange for the guilty plea entered today before Judge Zorraine M. "Zoey" Waguespack at the Tangipahoa Parish Courthouse in Amite....Prosecution and defense attorneys also said Lamonica has agreed to testify at future trials in the Hosanna case, which has raised lurid child sex charges amid allegations of satanic rituals at the church. Seven members of Hosanna Church have been indicted or convicted in connection with the alleged child sex ring. Juries have convicted former Hosanna pastor Louis D. Lamonica, Robbin Lamonica's estranged husband, and Austin "Trey" Bernard III on allegations of child rape. Lamonica is serving four concurrent life sentences and Bernard three consecutive life sentences....The defendant does not admit to a specific act but admits that prosecutors have enough evidence to get a conviction on the charge in question. http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/39743437.html
institutional abuse, MPD/DID, child pornography
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The Fallen Feather- Indian Industrial Residential Schools - Canadian Confederation - Documentary 2007 - Between 1879 and 1986, upwards of 100,000 children in Canada were forcibly removed and placed into Indian Industrial Residential Schools. Their unique culture was stripped away to be replaced with a foreign European identity. Their family ties were cut, parents were forbidden to visit their children, and the children were prevented from returning home....Tens of thousands of cases of sexual and physical abuses. The Government has assumed partial responsibility for this historical wrong and has agreed to pay out Billions in damages. They agree that the assimilation of First Nations children within these Industrial Schools was a terrible mistake.
http://www.fallenfeatherproductions.com/
Editorial: Cornelia B. Wilbur, M.D. Richard P. Kluft, M.D - Dissociation Nl. V, No. 2, June 1992 - ...While in Nebraska she had begun the treatment of a young teacher who hoped to take graduate training at Columbia. When this young woman, known as "Sybil," relocated and resumed her treatment, Connie rapidly discovered the presence of multiple personalities. Connie's efforts to present and publish her findings, and the rebuffs that she encountered and endured, are an embarrassing commentary on the mental health professions' capacity to dissociate dissociative disorders. Suffice it to say, after years of rejection of her efforts to communicate what she had learned, she began to discuss a lay publication with a journalist whose integrity and honesty she had admired, Flora Rheta Schreiber. This project became a reality only after " Sybil ' s " integration. Eleven years after the publication of Sybil (1973), Connie's first psychiatric paper on MPD, "Treatment of Multiple Personality" was published in Psychiatric Annals. Others followed, but the majority of her writings and presentations remain unpublished and unavailable.
https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/1638/Diss_5_2_1_OCR.pdf?sequence=1
Wilbur, C. B. (1984) . Treatment of multiple personality. Psychiatric Annals,14, 27-31.
Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder By Bennett G. Braun Published by American Psychiatric Pub, 1985 ISBN 0880480963, 9780880480963 206 pages google books
http://books.google.com/books?id=kPxuNFMOzQkC&dq
Childhood Antecedents of Multiple Personality By Richard P. Kluft, American Psychiatric Association Meeting Published by American Psychiatric Pub, 1985 ISBN 0880480823, 9780880480826 258 pages google books http://books.google.com/books?id=AplwBTXWr44C
Child pornography: images of the abuse of children By Susan J. Creighton (November 2003)....An earlier police operation in 1998, Operation Cathedral, against a paedophile ring known as the Wonderland (after Alice in Wonderland) Club had seized 750,000 child pornography images. Over 1200 different children were identified among these images, only 18 of whom had been discovered, three in the U.K. (Downey, 2002). It should be stressed that these are the cases that come to light and have been recorded and not the true incidence. The COPINE project at the University of Cork has been conducting research on the volume and characteristics of child pornography on the Internet. During a six-week period in 2002 they came across 140,000 child abuse images, of which 35,000 were completely new. Twenty previously unseen children were identified among these 35,000 images (Taylor 2004)....The use of child pornography for barter and straight commercial dealing has increased with the advent of the Internet. Taylor and Quayle (2003) have documented how the desire for new pictures can lead some consumers to abuse their own, or neighbouring children, in order to supply fresh images for barter or sale. The commercial sale of child pornography on the Internet has been increasing. The recent Operation Ore in the U.K. grew out of Operation Avalanche in the US. This operation acquired the credit card details of Internet subscribers to child pornography websites run by a Texan company, Landslide Productions run by Tomas and Janice Reedy. At the time of their arrest in 1999 they were making $1.4 million a month from Internet subscribers to Landslide. With this demand for child pornography commercial suppliers are bound to exploit the market.
http://www.nspcc.org.uk/inform/research/briefings/imagesofchildabuse_wda48219.html
The Fallen Feather- Indian Industrial Residential Schools - Canadian Confederation - Documentary 2007 - Between 1879 and 1986, upwards of 100,000 children in Canada were forcibly removed and placed into Indian Industrial Residential Schools. Their unique culture was stripped away to be replaced with a foreign European identity. Their family ties were cut, parents were forbidden to visit their children, and the children were prevented from returning home....Tens of thousands of cases of sexual and physical abuses. The Government has assumed partial responsibility for this historical wrong and has agreed to pay out Billions in damages. They agree that the assimilation of First Nations children within these Industrial Schools was a terrible mistake.
http://www.fallenfeatherproductions.com/
Editorial: Cornelia B. Wilbur, M.D. Richard P. Kluft, M.D - Dissociation Nl. V, No. 2, June 1992 - ...While in Nebraska she had begun the treatment of a young teacher who hoped to take graduate training at Columbia. When this young woman, known as "Sybil," relocated and resumed her treatment, Connie rapidly discovered the presence of multiple personalities. Connie's efforts to present and publish her findings, and the rebuffs that she encountered and endured, are an embarrassing commentary on the mental health professions' capacity to dissociate dissociative disorders. Suffice it to say, after years of rejection of her efforts to communicate what she had learned, she began to discuss a lay publication with a journalist whose integrity and honesty she had admired, Flora Rheta Schreiber. This project became a reality only after " Sybil ' s " integration. Eleven years after the publication of Sybil (1973), Connie's first psychiatric paper on MPD, "Treatment of Multiple Personality" was published in Psychiatric Annals. Others followed, but the majority of her writings and presentations remain unpublished and unavailable.
https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/1638/Diss_5_2_1_OCR.pdf?sequence=1
Wilbur, C. B. (1984) . Treatment of multiple personality. Psychiatric Annals,14, 27-31.
Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder By Bennett G. Braun Published by American Psychiatric Pub, 1985 ISBN 0880480963, 9780880480963 206 pages google books
http://books.google.com/books?id=kPxuNFMOzQkC&dq
Childhood Antecedents of Multiple Personality By Richard P. Kluft, American Psychiatric Association Meeting Published by American Psychiatric Pub, 1985 ISBN 0880480823, 9780880480826 258 pages google books http://books.google.com/books?id=AplwBTXWr44C
Child pornography: images of the abuse of children By Susan J. Creighton (November 2003)....An earlier police operation in 1998, Operation Cathedral, against a paedophile ring known as the Wonderland (after Alice in Wonderland) Club had seized 750,000 child pornography images. Over 1200 different children were identified among these images, only 18 of whom had been discovered, three in the U.K. (Downey, 2002). It should be stressed that these are the cases that come to light and have been recorded and not the true incidence. The COPINE project at the University of Cork has been conducting research on the volume and characteristics of child pornography on the Internet. During a six-week period in 2002 they came across 140,000 child abuse images, of which 35,000 were completely new. Twenty previously unseen children were identified among these 35,000 images (Taylor 2004)....The use of child pornography for barter and straight commercial dealing has increased with the advent of the Internet. Taylor and Quayle (2003) have documented how the desire for new pictures can lead some consumers to abuse their own, or neighbouring children, in order to supply fresh images for barter or sale. The commercial sale of child pornography on the Internet has been increasing. The recent Operation Ore in the U.K. grew out of Operation Avalanche in the US. This operation acquired the credit card details of Internet subscribers to child pornography websites run by a Texan company, Landslide Productions run by Tomas and Janice Reedy. At the time of their arrest in 1999 they were making $1.4 million a month from Internet subscribers to Landslide. With this demand for child pornography commercial suppliers are bound to exploit the market.
http://www.nspcc.org.uk/inform/research/briefings/imagesofchildabuse_wda48219.html
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder - Google books
The book "Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder" looks at the role of crime in the lives of people that suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder. It is a collection of essays written by several international researchers. It explores the legal, moral, ethical and clinical questions that psychotherapists and other professionals face while working with those suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder. Authors that have contributed to the book come from the fields of psychotherapy, counselling, psychology, medicine, law, police, psychoanalysis and social work. Chapters include discussions on ritual abuse, dissociative identity disorder, mind control, extreme abuse, survivor accounts and criminal convictions.
http://www.karnacbooks.com/product.php?PID=25876
http://books.google.com/books?id=upHtL9lual0C&dq=Forensic+aspects+of+dissociative+identity+disorder+|&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=caNy__6-zt&sig=VwIOryBkcSN0nh24CJR3aJkS_gs&hl=en&ei=702fSbmpOo_ftgfe5eSVDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA142,M1
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Interview With the Author of Hell Minus One
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/survivor-stories/interview-with-the-author-of-hell-minus-one/
Other resources on Hell Minus One:
Hell Minus One - signed verified confessions of satanic ritual abuse - Anne’s parents confessed their atrocities - both in writing and verbally.
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/survivor-stories/hell-minus-one-signed-verified-confessions-of-satanic-ritual-abuse/
book’s web page - http://www.hellminusone.com/
Woman revisits the ‘Hell’ of ritual abuse By Ben Winslow Deseret News 12/10/08
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705269563,00.html
An Interview With the Author of Hell Minus One
ANNE A JOHNSON DAVIS
My Story of Deliverance From Satanic Ritual Abuse and My Journey to Freedom
Q. What is Hell Minus One about?
Anne: Ultimately, Hell Minus One is a book about hope and empowerment. It is a memoir – a segment of my life. As the subtitle of my book states, it is “My Story of Deliverance from Satanic Ritual Abuse and My Journey to Freedom.”
Hell Minus One also reveals that there are people who engage in satanic ritual abuse. SRA is not a myth, as some claim it to be.
Starting at age three, my parents intermittently used me as a sacrificial object in satanic rituals until I ran away from home at 17.
Hell Minus One tells the story about my abuse, and the steps I took to break free, heal and eventually forgive my tormentors.
It is a story of choices I made, and the miracles and crucial help I received, which empowered me to triumph over a tragic past. It is also about the commitment I made to live a new life of love and purpose.
Q. Why did you write Hell Minus One?
Anne: As I healed, I began to understand that my life and my sanity hadn’t been spared for my sake alone. I felt a calling to bring empowerment and hope to others. My husband, Bruce, was also convinced of that calling, and consistently encouraged me to write a book. He felt that my experiences could make a contribution to the world. At first I resisted, because I wasn’t ready to commit to what I suspected would be an intense and painful effort.
Yet, as I healed, the desire to inspire courage in others grew. Based on my experience, I wanted other victims of abuse to have hope, and to be empowered, to overcome what appear to be insurmountable obstacles; that whatever we face, we can overcome – and be even better. Doors will open and help will come when we are giving our all for good.
Also, I have unique corroborative evidence to SRA. Memories I allowed to come forth, alone and in private, I wrote in explicit allegation letters.
Those letters were responded to with handwritten confessions from the perpetrators, who were my own mother and stepfather. Also, my half-siblings sent letters to authorities that validated my abuse allegations as true.
Two detectives from the Attorney General’s Office subsequently obtained from the perpetrators verbal confessions admitting to their handwritten confessions.
Q. Who should read Hell Minus One?
Anne: My book is a story intended to bring hope to the abused that they have the ability to be healed; hope to those in bondage that they have options (take courage, seek them out). It is also a plea to those in a position to help—such as law enforcement officials, mental health professionals, clergy and even friends—to be open-minded about allegations entrusted to them.
This book is also for those who would love to read a true story about goodness and light overcoming evil and darkness.
Q. What is the most important message or messages in your book?
Anne: Our adversity is not our identity. What we do, or what has been done to us, is not who we are. No matter what has been inflicted upon us – or what mistakes we may have made – we can overcome and be true to our authentic, real self. Goodness and light always overcome evil and darkness. Our God-given ability to define our own life is never lost – never!
This book is for those who need encouragement – or who are in a professional or personal position to support and encourage others.
The subtitle of my book is: “My Story of Deliverance from Satanic Ritual Abuse and My Journey to Freedom.” I often say “deliverance” rather than “escape” because I could not have made it out by myself. I received assistance from a Higher Power. I do not believe that anyone can get out of something this thoroughly enslaving entirely on their own.
This book is more than about overcoming satanic abuse. My message also applies to individuals, organizations and corporations about overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles. We all have Goliaths to face and overcome. This process of facing and overcoming is never easy and requires commitment and hard, hard work. But the work and the result are life-changing. The only way out is through.
Q. How long did it take you to write the book?
Anne: Let’s see – how old am I? It took me a lifetime! Forty-seven years to first live it, and then relive it and deal with it; six years to write it; and finally, eighteen months to edit and publish the final manuscript released in December 2008.
Q. What kind of research did you do?
Anne: What kinds of research? I didn’t research it. First I lived it, and then I remembered it.
Memories to come forward – which they did in crystal clarity – one by one, day after day, week after week, month after month. They formed a shocking and malignant picture of which I had been totally unaware.
I wrote explicit allegation letters and ultimately received handwritten confessions from my parents – my own mother and stepfather. Those written confessions were validated by verbal confessions to Utah Attorney General Detectives who investigated the allegations.
Q. What was the most difficult thing or challenge for you in writing Hell Minus One?
Anne: Finding determination and courage to stay with it for over seven years; writing and re-writing manuscripts that recounted horrifying and painful details, yet balancing the dark elements of my story with the more important shafts of light that diminished the darkness.
Those shafts of light included my faith and spiritual experiences, along with circumstances and priceless people who intersected my life.
Q. In the book’s early chapters, the amount of detail you recall as a three year old is significant. How did you remember all that? Was it always there, or did it come to you as you wrote?
Anne: Most of it I had recalled as I went through therapy. Additional details emerged as I endeavored to get my story into written form over the years.
As my editor and I worked together to finalize the manuscript, at times he asked me if I knew more. In that case, I would employ the same skill I had gained from my counselor. In order to maintain authenticity and accuracy, I gave myself quiet uninterrupted time and simply let the supporting details emerge.
Q. Were your siblings victims like you, or were they Satanists like your parents?
Anne: My half-siblings wrote corroborating letters to church authorities verifying my allegations as true. I respect their privacy, and cannot speak for them.
They were not victims “like me,” because I was separated out from the rest of the family – considered the “bastard child” to be used as a sacrificial object.
Q. How did you get them to write corroborative allegation letters against your parents?
Anne: In the early stages of my therapy, when I still had contact with them, I called all three and asked if they would each write to church authorities corroborating my allegations. All three did.
Q. Your parents’ confession letters are published extensively in your book. You used ellipses extensively in several paragraphs. What did you leave out and why?
Anne: left out parts that were too demented and violent to be published.
This book is less an expose and more a message of hope and encouragement, deliverance and healing.
My intention of including the confession letters in this book was to give the reader enough information to know how bad it was. But I didn’t want it to be so abrasive and offensive that the reader would put the book down.
There are references made to my half-siblings, and for the sake of their privacy, I also excluded that information with ellipses.
Q. Where are your parents’ confession letters now?
Anne: The originals are in a security vault.
Q. Are they available for public scrutiny? If not, why?
Anne: No. They are not available for public scrutiny. They were made available to the Utah Attorney General’s Office during its investigation.
They were also made available to the publisher and editor of the book during the writing of the final manuscript; but, because of the often overtly graphic nature of the contents, and issues of libel and invasion of privacy in naming names, they are not available to the public.
Q. Your parents began to subject you to satanic ritual abuse when you were three years old and continued until you left home at 17. You began to experience episodes of rage in your mid-30s. By the late 1990s, you had finished your therapy and were on your way to recovery. That was over a decade ago, and now you’re in your mid-50s. You say it took you seven years to write Hell Minus One. Why didn’t you write your book sooner? Was it a matter of getting emotionally ready before revealing this memoir?
Anne: It wasn’t until 2001 that I felt I had enough closure and time to write a meaningful book that would help others. Writing Hell Minus One took much longer than I could have ever anticipated, but I was not willing to finalize the manuscript until it was authentic in every detail, and also well written. It took eighteen months to write and edit the final manuscript.
Q. Your parents did horrible and vicious things to you. After each episode, you wouldn’t remember a thing, or connect your dark, painful feelings inside to your parents. What is the medical or psychological definition of this occurrence, and how does it come about? How and why does the brain work this way? To cancel things out?
Anne: Professional definitions that I have heard used are inconclusive. I tend to stay with my own experience rather than attempt to use labels that can be contradictory and misunderstood.
In my case, my psyche prevented me from knowing about my abuse until I was mature enough to take action. Until then, the threats of my perpetrators of being able to tell what I was thinking, even if they were not around, and that I would be destroyed if I remembered anything, kept all of the memories of their abuse in bound psychological silence.
Q. What exactly is Satanic Ritual Abuse?
Anne: To me, SRA is a criminally inhumane and depraved form of devil-worship. The felony crimes include brutal torture and molestation of innocent victims – physically, sexually, mentally and spiritually.
Q. What is its origin? Its history?
Anne: First of all, I’m not an expert on satanic ritual abuse, nor do I want to be. Sometimes while I was being abused, I heard my parents and their cohorts speak of going back into medieval times, and therefore, anything that was done that night didn’t apply to that present time.
However, what they said is not the origin of SRA. There are several resources on the Internet that describe in detail the term and origin of satanic ritual abuse. Unfortunately, what is found there mostly proclaims SRA to be false—to be an urban myth, born during the 1980s and discredited by the late 1990s, largely because of unsubstantiated victim claims. Yet, what happened to me—and my parents’ confession letters—directly challenges those proclamations. In fact, my parents’ confession letters, their confessions to law enforcement, and their excommunication from their church, provides new evidence that researchers and skeptics of SRA haven’t had before. Without such evidence, I can understand why SRA hasn’t received stronger belief and support in the past. One of my hopes is that Hell Minus One will encourage critics—from law enforcement, to mental health professionals and even the media—to reconsider the satanic ritual abuse question.
Q. Why do cultists engage in this behavior? What do they get out of it?
Anne: From my point of view, it was justification to gratify sexualized addiction to violence and perversion. Also, I witnessed them employing the most deranged of behaviors – determined to call down the powers of darkness and evil – believing that it would give them an advantage of power over other people, and extraordinary means to obtain money.
Q. The SRA you experienced occurred in the 1950s and 1960s. If you Google Satanic Ritual Abuse, hundreds of SRA sites are listed, some that offer help, some that go into disturbing detail on how to perform SRA today on family members, friends, etc. How would you compare the SRA you experienced to what is being done today?
Anne: After scanning the Internet about SRA practices for only a few hours more than a year ago, I decided that I would never again subject myself to the mind-rotting material I saw and read.
What I did understand is that the purpose and intent of SRA doesn’t seem to have changed, although the implementation techniques have developed dramatically, becoming more bizarre, brutal and inhumane.
Q. To readers who are victims of SRA, what would you recommend that they do?
Anne: Most importantly, I would want them to know that they have options. I would urge them to have courage and seek out help in any way that they can – to get away and stay away from evil bondage. If your family is sick and toxic – entrenched in evil and criminal activity – don’t go back to them. You can’t save them, but you can save yourself.
I would want them to realize that they have the God-given right to their own lives and identity, and that they have inner signals to guide them as to where to turn.
Q. To readers who worship Satan, or practice SRA, what would you recommend that they do?
Anne: To those who practice Satanism, they have the right to do whatever that want – but not when it is a crime.
Having witnessed the soul-sickening practice of Satanism, I would advise them to get out, whatever the price, before it’s too late.
Q. What purpose or design do you hope or intend Hell Minus One will accomplish?
Anne: My hope and prayer is that Hell Minus One will be a beacon of light out of darkness – a message of hope and courage – that we can all overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. The epigraph in my book reminds us: we have all been endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights to our lives, liberty and happiness.
Q. In your book, you explain why you and your husband chose not to seek criminal and civil charges against your parents. Now that several years have passed since that decision, do you regret it? Yes or no, why do you feel that way?
Anne: No, I don’t regret it. To this day, I don’t feel that at the time, with society’s mind-set about SRA and false-memory syndrome, it would have resulted in a fair trial. Instead of my parents being the focus, it would have been me and whether or not I was telling the truth—even though my parents had already written confession letters, confessed to detectives from the Utah Attorney General’s Office, and were excommunicated from their church. Something deep inside warned me that it would have resulted in a media explosion that would have torn my little family and me apart.
ritualistic satanic abuse news report
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article describes crimes
The Remarkable Transformation Of One Child - CBS Evening News: After Being Subjected To Unspeakable Abuse, Mia Was Nearly Lost 2/17/09 by John Blackstone (CBS)...."The level of terror, when the pediatrician saw her, the neurologist saw her, everyone said: 'what in the world happened to this child?'" Behrens said. According to Thom Snyder, the deputy district attorney of Kings County, Calif., the abuse Mia suffered was ritualistic -- "Satanic in some way," he said. Snyder knows well what happened to Mia when she was less than a year old. "She was an infant, but she was grievously sexually abused in ways that I think for the average individual . would be incomprehensible," he said. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 3,300,000 reports of child abuse are made every year in the United States. And more than 80 percent of abused children carry lasting scars as an adult suffering from depression, anxiety, and eating disorders, according to the National Clearinghouse of Child Abuse and Neglect. Mia's abuse was discovered after her father killed her baby sister. Mia had been abused since she was born. "She drew biting monsters. She drew naked women lying in pools of blood - the most ghastly pictures you can imagine a three-and-a-half year old drawing," said Dr. Lenore Terr, a child psychiatrist....After years of treatment for wounds both mental and physical, there's a different Mia. She's a smiling, confident young woman. She told CBS News: "They thought I would never be able to socialize. They thought I would never be able to talk with people. I would be, like, in an animal state, like, growling, biting, scratching, hitting, screaming and stuff." http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/17/eveningnews/main4808278.shtml
Friday, February 13, 2009
Extreme Abuse Survey research
http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas-st
The Extreme Abuse Survey final results are online with findings, questionnaires and presentations for download as pdf-files. More than 750 pages of documentation http://extreme-abuse-survey.net/
Understanding ritual trauma: A comparison of findings from three online surveys - Handout for Karriker, Wanda. (2008, November). Understanding ritual trauma: A comparison of findings from three online surveys. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, Chicago, IL.
10 Extreme Abuse Survey Findings Helpful to Understanding Ritual Trauma
1. Ritual abuse/mind control (RA/MC) is a global phenomenon.
2. A diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder is common for persons who report histories of RA/MC. (84% of EAS respondents who answered that they have been diagnosed with DID [N=655] reported that they are survivors of RA/MC).
3. Ritual abuse (RA) is not limited to SRA, i.e., satanic ritual abuse, sadistic abuse, satanist abuse.
4. RA is reported to involve mind control techniques.
5. Some extreme abuse survivors report that they were used in government-sponsored mind control experimentation (GMC).
6. RA/MC is reported to be involved in organized “known” crime.
7. RA/MC is reported to be involved in clergy abuse.
8. Most often reported memories of extreme abuse are similar across all surveys.
9. Most often reported possible aftereffects of extreme abuse are similar across all surveys.
10. In rating the effectiveness of healing methods, therapists tend to favor stabilization techniques; survivors are more open to alternative ways to cope with indoctrinated belief systems.
HAND-OUT for Karriker, Wanda. (2008, April). Child Sexual Abuse and Beyond: Findings From a Series of International Extreme Abuse Surveys. Paper presented at the Fourteenth Annual Northern California Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Conference: Sacramento, CA. Karriker, Wanda. (2008, April).
Selected Responses from the EAS
My memories of abuse include incest. 1122 70%
I had memories of incest before I sought therapy/counseling. 985 64%
I was ritually abused in a satanic cult.* 986 55%
I had memories of ritual abuse before I sought therapy/counseling. 977 48%
Secret government-sponsored mind control experiments were
performed on me as a child. 1000 26%
I have been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder (DID or MPD). 1007 65%
I am a therapist/counselor/clergy for RA/MC survivors. 965 10%
*Of the 257 EAS respondents who reported that secret mind control experiments were used on them as children, 69% (177) reported having been abused in a satanic cult. Of the 543 respondents who reported that they had been abused in a satanic cult, 33% (179) reported having been used in secret mind control experiments as children.
http://d.scribd.com/docs/1skli77hxmq3o3×3
MEDIA PACKET - Torture-based, Government-sponsored Mind Control Experimentation on Children - Documentation that torture-based, government-sponsored mind control (GMC) experimentation was conducted on children during the Cold War. Data from two international surveys that give voice, visibility, and validation to survivors of these crimes against humanity….SURVEYS - EAS: Extreme Abuse Survey for Adult Survivors (An International Online Survey for Adult Survivors of Extreme Abuse) January 1 - March 30, 2007 with 1471 respondents from 31 named countries. P-EAS: Professional - Extreme Abuse Survey (An International Online Survey for Therapists, Counselors, Clergy, and Other Persons Who Have Worked Professionally with at Least One Adult Survivor of Extreme Abuse) April 1 - June 30 2007 with 451 respondents from 20 named countries. Contact: Wanda Karriker, PhD sandime@twave.net http://my.dmci.net/~casey/GovernmentSpon
Rutz, C. Becker, T., Overkamp, B. & Karriker, W. (2008). Exploring Commonalities Reported by Adult Survivors of Extreme Abuse: Preliminary Empirical Findings. In Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-first Century: Psychological, Forensic, Social and Political Considerations, J.R. Noblitt & P. S. Perskin (Eds), pp. 31- 84. Brandon, Oregon: Robert D. Reed Publishers.
Becker, T., Karriker, W., Overkamp, B. Rutz, C. (2008). The Extreme Abuse Survey: preliminary findings regarding dissociative identity disorder. In A. Sachs & G. Galton (Eds.), Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder, pp. 32-49. London: Karnac.
Karriker, Wanda (November, 2007). “Helpful healing methods: As rated by approximately 900 respondents to the “International Survey for Adult Survivors of Extreme Abuse (EAS).” http://www.endritualabuse.org/Karriker%2
Karriker, W. (2008, September). Torture-based mind control as a global phenomenon: Preliminary data from the 2007 series of Extreme Abuse Surveys. In Torture-based mind control: Empirical research, programmer methods, effects and treatment. Workshop conducted at the 13th International Conference on Violence, Abuse and Trauma, San Diego, CA. http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas-st
http://eassurvey.wordpress.com/extreme-a
From :Rutz, C., Becker, T., Overkamp, B., & Karriker, W. (2008).
Exploring commonalities reported by adult survivors of extreme abuse: Preliminary empirical findings.
In R. Noblitt & P. Noblitt (Eds.), Ritual abuse in the twenty-first century (pp. 49-50).
Bandon, OR: Robert D. Reed.
Of 987 persons who self-selected the category of abuse that best describes their experiences, 19% chose ritual abuse; 7%, mind control; 52%, ritual abuse and mind control; 22%, other extreme abuse. Listed below are the five most frequently reported “yes” responses for the memories, possible aftereffects, and personal experiences sections.
Memories
· Receiving physical abuse from perpetrators
· Sexual abuse by multiple perpetrators
· Other abuse(s)
· Being threatened with death if I ever talked about the abuse
· Witnessing physical abuse by perpetrators on other victims
Possible Aftereffects
· Sleep problems
· Painful body memories
· Posttraumatic stress disorder
· Unusual fears
· Beliefs indoctrinated by perpetrator(s)
Personal Experiences
· I have a spiritual belief system.
· I was subjected to RA/MC at ages 3 through 6.
· I was subjected to RA/MC at ages 7 through 13.
· I have been diagnosed with DID (dissociative identity disorder/ formerly multiple personality disorder).
· I had memories of incest before I sought therapy/counseling.
The five most frequently reported healing methods that were checked either “much help” or “great help” are
· Individual Psychotherapy/Counseling
· Supportive Friends
· Creative Writing
· Personal Prayer/Meditation
· Journaling
Relevant to the controversies over the reality of ritual abuse, government-sponsored mind control experimentation, the credibility of repressed memories, and claims that therapists implant false abuse memories in their clients, our data show that 64% of 985 respondents reported memories of incest and 48% of 977 respondents reported memories of ritual abuse before they sought therapy. Sixty-nine percent of 257 respondents who reported secret mind control experiments used on them as children also reported having been abused in a satanic cult.
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From:
Becker, T., Karriker, W., Overkamp, B., & Rutz, C. (2008).
The Extreme Abuse Surveys: Preliminary findings regarding dissociative identity disorder.
In A. Sachs & G. Galton (Eds.),
Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder (p. 41).
London:Karnac
If perpetrated in ritualistic settings, a sample of ten identical items from both the EAS (Extreme Abuse Survey for Adult Survivors) and P-EAS (for professionals) and ten similar items from the C-EAS (for child caregivers) could be classified as ideologically motivated crimes.
Listed below are the total number who answered the question (N) and the percent of “yes” responses to each statement by each group. (EAS - survivor reported the memory; P-EAS - professional had worked with at least one survivor who reported the memory; C-EAS - caregiver had heard at least one child report the memory)
EAS P-EAS C-EAS N % N % N %
1093 88% 216 97% 90 82% Receiving physical abuse from perpetrators.
1090 82% 217 95% 91 77% Sexual abuse by multiple perpetrators.
1077 73% 221 88% 88 70% Forced drugging.
1057 56% 218 77% 96 43% Witnessing murder by perpetrators.
1059 55% 218 78% 92 59% Forced to participate in animal mutilations/killings.
1059 55% 220 82% 83 53% Pornography (child).
1040 48% 220 70% 90 42% Forced participation in murder by perpetrators.
1045 48% 218 77% 79 25% Prostitution (child).
1041 40% 220 71% 82 33% Forced impregnation.
1021 26% 217 55% 82 18% Survivor’s own child murdered by his/her perpetrators.
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From: Becker, T. (2008).Re-searching for new perspectives: Ritual abuse/ritual violence as ideologically motivated crime.In R. Noblitt & P. Noblitt (Eds.),Ritual abuse in the twenty-first century (pp. 245-246).
Bandon, OR: Robert D. Reed.
Although controversies over the existence of ritual abuse have centered on reports of abuse from satanic cults, results of two studies show that ritual abuse is also practiced in other groups founded on religious or ideological doctrines. In 1997, German journalist Ulla Froeling and German psychotherapist Michaela Huber (Becker, 1999) compiled data from a questionnaire returned by 126 therapists and counselors from 61 locations in Germany. The backgrounds of 354 cases in treatment were examined to determine the classification of groups in which survivors had been ritually abused. More than half of the victims reported abuse in more than one category. My co-researchers and I asked similar questions on the Extreme Abuse Survey for Adults (EAS) offered in German and English See Table 1 for a comparison of preliminary results of both studies.
Table 1.
Comparisons of German-language and English-language Reports of Ritually Abusive Groups
(Percent of total respondents for each question who answered “Yes”)
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Groups SRA1 Gnostic2 Child Religious Fascist Uncertain porn sects3 groups4 ideology
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Germany (1999) 58% (354) 52% (354) 26% (354) 12% (354) 03% (354)
EAS (German)5 29% (151) 07% (149) 40% (151) 29% (156) 15% (156) 35% (160)
EAS (English)6 60% (835) 15% (826) 50% (826) 41% (837) 23% (832) 50% (834)
EAS (Total) 55% (986) 14% (969) 48% (977) 39% (993) 22% (998) 47% (994)
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1,2 Category for German study is “Destructive Cults.” Most cases are from a satanic background but there are some from Gnostic-occult groups.
3 So-called Christian groups who are abusive through exorcism and cleaning rituals.
4 Described as a group that considers itself superior in race, creed, or origin, e.g., Neo-Nazi, White Supremacist and KKK.
5,6 From unpublished raw data
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Three additional questions on the EAS asked about abuse in ideologically motivated groups: (1) Ritual abuse in a witchcraft cult was reported by 23% of 971 respondents, (2) ritual abuse in voodooism was reported by 7% of 966 respondents, and (3) 26% of 1000 respondents answered “yes” to the question: “Secret government-sponsored mind control experiments were performed on me as a child.”
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From :Rutz, C., Becker, T., Overkamp, B., & Karriker, W. (2008). Exploring commonalities reported by adult survivors of extreme abuse: Preliminary empirical findings. In R. Noblitt & P. Noblitt (Eds.), Ritual abuse in the twenty-first century (p. 43). Bandon, OR: Robert D. Reed.
note: These attacks occurred during the first EAS survey
Attacks
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Fortunately, the attacks gradually diminished and after three weeks almost ended. In early March, there was another attempt to hack the server by someone trying to connect to the Microsoft Frontpage serverports which are part of the Microsoft Internet Information Server. Since we did not use these ports, this attack failed. Parallel to these incidents, third parties made several attempts to obtain the private data of some surveyors and technicians.Tuesday, February 10, 2009
ritual abuse newsletter and conference
the latest issue of SMART newsletter is now available online at:
http://ritualabuse.us/2009/02/issue-85-march-2009/
the issue has information on Underwager, McHugh, parental alienation syndrome, institutionalized abuse, pedophile rings, child pornography, ritual abuse and mk-ultra
New information is now available on the The Twelfth Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference August 14 - 16, 2009 in Connecticut
Updated speaker information is available at:
http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/
conference press release - please post and forward
"A conference to help survivors of severe child abuse (ritual abuse) and torture will be held on August 14 - 16, 2009, between 8 - 5 PM Saturday and Sunday at the DoubleTree Hotel near Bradley International Airport, 16 Ella Grasso Turnpike, Windsor Locks, CT 06096 (between Hartford, CT and Springfield, MA). This conference will help educate survivors of this abuse and their helpers. Pre-registration is preferred. For information write S.M.A.R.T., P. O Box 1295, Easthampton, MA 01027-1295 E-mail:
smartnews@aol.com , conference information is at: http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/
http://ritualabuse.us/2009/02/issue-85-march-2009/
the issue has information on Underwager, McHugh, parental alienation syndrome, institutionalized abuse, pedophile rings, child pornography, ritual abuse and mk-ultra
New information is now available on the The Twelfth Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference August 14 - 16, 2009 in Connecticut
Updated speaker information is available at:
http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/
conference press release - please post and forward
"A conference to help survivors of severe child abuse (ritual abuse) and torture will be held on August 14 - 16, 2009, between 8 - 5 PM Saturday and Sunday at the DoubleTree Hotel near Bradley International Airport, 16 Ella Grasso Turnpike, Windsor Locks, CT 06096 (between Hartford, CT and Springfield, MA). This conference will help educate survivors of this abuse and their helpers. Pre-registration is preferred. For information write S.M.A.R.T., P. O Box 1295, Easthampton, MA 01027-1295 E-mail:
smartnews@aol.com , conference information is at: http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/
Extreme Abuse Survey attacks
http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas-studies/
The Extreme Abuse Survey final results are online with findings, questionnaires and presentations for download as pdf-files. More than 750 pages of documentation http://extreme-abuse-survey.net/
From :Rutz, C., Becker, T., Overkamp, B., & Karriker, W. (2008). Exploring commonalities reported by adult survivors of extreme abuse: Preliminary empirical findings. In R. Noblitt & P. Noblitt (Eds.), Ritual abuse in the twenty-first century (p. 43). Bandon, OR: Robert D. Reed.
Webmaster's note: These attacks occurred during the first EAS survey
Attacks
On the evening of January 2, 2007, the server faced an intense amount of port scans at the high and low ports and also attempts to access non-existing server pages by checking a variety of filenames. For a few days afterwards, the nameserver was addressed with several requests (ping, nslockup and trace) carried out on a large scale. This used an enormous amount of bandwidth, rendering the server at stake due to this loss. In the first weeks, our provider's own web projects had an unusually high amount of traffic suggesting that unknown people wanted to learn more about those working on the survey.
Fortunately, the attacks gradually diminished and after three weeks almost ended. In early March, there was another attempt to hack the server by someone trying to connect to the Microsoft Frontpage serverports which are part of the Microsoft Internet Information Server. Since we did not use these ports, this attack failed. Parallel to these incidents, third parties made several attempts to obtain the private data of some surveyors and technicians.
The Extreme Abuse Survey final results are online with findings, questionnaires and presentations for download as pdf-files. More than 750 pages of documentation http://extreme-abuse-survey.net/
From :Rutz, C., Becker, T., Overkamp, B., & Karriker, W. (2008). Exploring commonalities reported by adult survivors of extreme abuse: Preliminary empirical findings. In R. Noblitt & P. Noblitt (Eds.), Ritual abuse in the twenty-first century (p. 43). Bandon, OR: Robert D. Reed.
Webmaster's note: These attacks occurred during the first EAS survey
Attacks
On the evening of January 2, 2007, the server faced an intense amount of port scans at the high and low ports and also attempts to access non-existing server pages by checking a variety of filenames. For a few days afterwards, the nameserver was addressed with several requests (ping, nslockup and trace) carried out on a large scale. This used an enormous amount of bandwidth, rendering the server at stake due to this loss. In the first weeks, our provider's own web projects had an unusually high amount of traffic suggesting that unknown people wanted to learn more about those working on the survey.
Fortunately, the attacks gradually diminished and after three weeks almost ended. In early March, there was another attempt to hack the server by someone trying to connect to the Microsoft Frontpage serverports which are part of the Microsoft Internet Information Server. Since we did not use these ports, this attack failed. Parallel to these incidents, third parties made several attempts to obtain the private data of some surveyors and technicians.
Friday, February 6, 2009
19 out of 20 cases of child sexual abuse go undetected
from http://ritualabuse.us
Wasaga Beach man charged in child porn raids by Trina Berlo 2/5/09 OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino announced at a press conference in Toronto earlier today a total of 93 charges had been laid against 31 people after police executed 33 search warrants in raids across the province yesterday. Charges include sexual assault, sexual interference, making child pornography, making child pornography available, distributing child pornography and possession of child pornography....Since the strategy was implemented in August 2006 at the request of the provincial government, police have laid 1,983 charges against 634 people as a result of 4,782 investigations. The Child Sexual Exploitation Section of the OPP investigated another 996 cases, resulting in 392 charges being laid against 144 people....Those charged are all men and many are relatives or neighbours of victims, said police. Police say collections of child pornography in circulation on the Internet include hundreds of thousands of images and hundreds of child rape videos. The victims are increasingly younger and the images are more violent as the appetite for live video of child sexual abuse on the Internet grows, say police. Often mistaken as victimless, most child pornography offences in Ontario involve the actual sexual exploitation, rape and sexual torture of children, including infants, on-camera, said police....Studies suggest 19 out of 20 cases of child sexual abuse go undetected. Only one in 10 adults report sexual assault and the sexual assault of children is reported less often. Possessors of child pornography have a very high propensity to be hands-on abusers, and studies in the United States indicate that anywhere from 30-80 per cent of collectors of child sexual abuse images are hands-on abusers. Studies indicate abusers have anywhere from 13-30 child victims each. http://www.simcoe.com/article/128263
Wasaga Beach man charged in child porn raids by Trina Berlo 2/5/09 OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino announced at a press conference in Toronto earlier today a total of 93 charges had been laid against 31 people after police executed 33 search warrants in raids across the province yesterday. Charges include sexual assault, sexual interference, making child pornography, making child pornography available, distributing child pornography and possession of child pornography....Since the strategy was implemented in August 2006 at the request of the provincial government, police have laid 1,983 charges against 634 people as a result of 4,782 investigations. The Child Sexual Exploitation Section of the OPP investigated another 996 cases, resulting in 392 charges being laid against 144 people....Those charged are all men and many are relatives or neighbours of victims, said police. Police say collections of child pornography in circulation on the Internet include hundreds of thousands of images and hundreds of child rape videos. The victims are increasingly younger and the images are more violent as the appetite for live video of child sexual abuse on the Internet grows, say police. Often mistaken as victimless, most child pornography offences in Ontario involve the actual sexual exploitation, rape and sexual torture of children, including infants, on-camera, said police....Studies suggest 19 out of 20 cases of child sexual abuse go undetected. Only one in 10 adults report sexual assault and the sexual assault of children is reported less often. Possessors of child pornography have a very high propensity to be hands-on abusers, and studies in the United States indicate that anywhere from 30-80 per cent of collectors of child sexual abuse images are hands-on abusers. Studies indicate abusers have anywhere from 13-30 child victims each. http://www.simcoe.com/article/128263
Thursday, February 5, 2009
SURVIVORSHIP TRAUMA WORKSHOP: An Exploration of Recovery Techniques 2
Sunday February 28th
from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Family Justice Center
470 27th Street, Oakland, CA.
led by Kel and Mary Ciofolo? $35 – $60?Scholarships and work exchange available
( There is a possibility that Mary Ciofolo won't be able to come due to family circumstances. If so Dvora Gordon, the Board chair of Survivorship will take her place to lead the workshop)
This workshop will be a follow up to the workshop from Jan 25th. It is NOT necessary to have been at the workshop in January to participate in this workshop.
Survivorship is proud to present a second workshop about psychological trauma and its aftermath. We cordially invite you to join us for a day of survivor solidarity and sharing, as we explore creative coping strategies and recovery techniques.
The workshop will be facilitated by Kel, a survivor of extreme abuse. She has experience facilitating workshops for Marin Abused Women’s Services, Marin Services for Women, the Survivors’ Healing Center in Santa Cruz, and for Survivorship. She also presents for San Francisco Women Against Rape, and BAWAR, and is a graduate of MAWS’ domestic violence counselor training program.
Mary Ciofalo MFT has been a therapist in San Francisco for over twenty-five years, working with dissociation and multiples a good deal of that time. she is also an artist, focusing on painting and tile mosaics, and has written two books.
“The perpetrator of an atrocity steals many things from the victim:innocence, power, meaning, hope and faith among them. But the giant disconnect the victim experiences is perhaps the most tragic loss of all.
Because no one can heal in isolation.” - Kel, from “Survivor Solidarity”
Together we can break through these barriers and begin to heal. Come join us!
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REGISTRATION
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SURVIVORSHIP
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Oakland CA 94612
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Masons, Blue House case, ritual abuse, battered woman received asylum
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American Family Receives Asylum in Europe - A battered woman ...fled the United States with her children to protect them from abuse. They were granted Asylum in the Netherlands. We told our Mom that our father was still hurting us and she believed us. We would show our mother the bruises when we returned from our fathers and we would beg her not to send us again. She pleaded with the court to protect us but they refused. When my father appeared at our home to pick us up I would cry so hard that I would throw up. Many times my mother would also cry and sometimes she couldn't bear to make us go with him, but then my father would call the police. The policemen would enter our home and search for us. My brother and I would hide in the closets or under our beds. It was terrifying. The police would pull us out from underneath our beds and hand us over to this man who was beating us as we were kicking, screaming and begging for help. My father filed for a custody reversal based on Parental Alienation Syndrome and used the police reports as evidence that our mother was interfering in his relationship with his children. Even though the judge found that our father was abusive, in the very same order he issued a reversal of custody, citing that our mother was too traumatized from the abuse to care for us. I was 7 years old when a court officer arrived with my father and pried my fingers loose from my mothers dress. I was fighting with everything I had. http://www.americanchildrenunderground.blogspot.com/
webpage describes graphic crimes - Chapters from THE EGYPTIAN MASONIC - SATANIC - CONNECTION - By David L. Carrico and Donna M. Carrico FOLLOWERS OF JESUS CHRIST MINISTRIES P. O. Box 4174, Evansville, IN 47724-4174 (812) 477-6338 E-mail: FOJCMinistries@cs.com includes : CHAPTER 6 - EGYPTIAN SATANISM - CHAPTER 7 - SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE (The author of Chapter 7 is Rick Doninger) - DRAWINGS BY SURVIVORS OF SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE - CHAPTER 9 - FREEMASONRY AND SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE "Our suspicions were first aroused that there could be a connection between Freemasonry and SRA during our involvement in the "Blue House SRA case in Evansville, Indiana. The children in Evansville alleged that they were taken from school and subjected to Satanic abuse in a blue house. According to Rick Doninger, the leading children's advocate for the `blue house children', all of the `blue house children' claimed that they were abused by Masonic perpetrators. Mr. Doninger also informed us that the police who investigated the `blue house case' also were Freemasons. No arrests resulted from the investigation." http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/books/chapters-from-the-egyptian-masonic-satanic-connection/
articles describes crimes
Rick Doninger - Blue House Case - Rick talked about the famous "Blue House" case in Vanderburg County (Evansville), Indiana in 1990, where several children were taken out of school and allegedly (the allegedly is mine) ritually abused. Even though there was a great deal of evidence, the case never even made it to a grand jury. The attorney that attempted to bring the case to trial was fighting a lot of political power. He once told his son that he had been threatened. About 10 years ago, Rick's wife had been in "Sexual Child Abuse Rescue" (in Evansville). He mentioned that "justice was not something seen very often" and the "offenders were in a revolving door system." They were starting to see multiple victim cases. They eye witnessed through binoculars and heard children's accounts of what may have been sadistic pornography....Rick helped a lot of children at that tine. "Satanic ritual abuse was going on all over the country." "At that time, 1,000 families were on the run from this judicial system." He mentioned that nothing legal was being done in the justice system. He alleges that, most of the people involved in the ritual abuse cases were Masons.
http://ritualabuse.us/2008/10/issue-8-may-1996/
American Family Receives Asylum in Europe - A battered woman ...fled the United States with her children to protect them from abuse. They were granted Asylum in the Netherlands. We told our Mom that our father was still hurting us and she believed us. We would show our mother the bruises when we returned from our fathers and we would beg her not to send us again. She pleaded with the court to protect us but they refused. When my father appeared at our home to pick us up I would cry so hard that I would throw up. Many times my mother would also cry and sometimes she couldn't bear to make us go with him, but then my father would call the police. The policemen would enter our home and search for us. My brother and I would hide in the closets or under our beds. It was terrifying. The police would pull us out from underneath our beds and hand us over to this man who was beating us as we were kicking, screaming and begging for help. My father filed for a custody reversal based on Parental Alienation Syndrome and used the police reports as evidence that our mother was interfering in his relationship with his children. Even though the judge found that our father was abusive, in the very same order he issued a reversal of custody, citing that our mother was too traumatized from the abuse to care for us. I was 7 years old when a court officer arrived with my father and pried my fingers loose from my mothers dress. I was fighting with everything I had. http://www.americanchildrenunderground.blogspot.com/
webpage describes graphic crimes - Chapters from THE EGYPTIAN MASONIC - SATANIC - CONNECTION - By David L. Carrico and Donna M. Carrico FOLLOWERS OF JESUS CHRIST MINISTRIES P. O. Box 4174, Evansville, IN 47724-4174 (812) 477-6338 E-mail: FOJCMinistries@cs.com includes : CHAPTER 6 - EGYPTIAN SATANISM - CHAPTER 7 - SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE (The author of Chapter 7 is Rick Doninger) - DRAWINGS BY SURVIVORS OF SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE - CHAPTER 9 - FREEMASONRY AND SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE "Our suspicions were first aroused that there could be a connection between Freemasonry and SRA during our involvement in the "Blue House SRA case in Evansville, Indiana. The children in Evansville alleged that they were taken from school and subjected to Satanic abuse in a blue house. According to Rick Doninger, the leading children's advocate for the `blue house children', all of the `blue house children' claimed that they were abused by Masonic perpetrators. Mr. Doninger also informed us that the police who investigated the `blue house case' also were Freemasons. No arrests resulted from the investigation." http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/books/chapters-from-the-egyptian-masonic-satanic-connection/
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Rick Doninger - Blue House Case - Rick talked about the famous "Blue House" case in Vanderburg County (Evansville), Indiana in 1990, where several children were taken out of school and allegedly (the allegedly is mine) ritually abused. Even though there was a great deal of evidence, the case never even made it to a grand jury. The attorney that attempted to bring the case to trial was fighting a lot of political power. He once told his son that he had been threatened. About 10 years ago, Rick's wife had been in "Sexual Child Abuse Rescue" (in Evansville). He mentioned that "justice was not something seen very often" and the "offenders were in a revolving door system." They were starting to see multiple victim cases. They eye witnessed through binoculars and heard children's accounts of what may have been sadistic pornography....Rick helped a lot of children at that tine. "Satanic ritual abuse was going on all over the country." "At that time, 1,000 families were on the run from this judicial system." He mentioned that nothing legal was being done in the justice system. He alleges that, most of the people involved in the ritual abuse cases were Masons.
http://ritualabuse.us/2008/10/issue-8-may-1996/
Sunday, February 1, 2009
The extreme abuse survey - Child Sexual Abuse findings
http://extreme-abuse-survey.net/
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HAND-OUT for Karriker, Wanda. (2008, April). Child Sexual Abuse and Beyond: Findings From a Series of International Extreme Abuse Surveys. Paper presented at the Fourteenth Annual Northern California Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Conference: Sacramento, CA. Karriker, Wanda. (2008, April).
Selected Responses from the EAS
My memories of abuse include incest. 1122 70%
I had memories of incest before I sought therapy/counseling. 985 64%
I was ritually abused in a satanic cult.* 986 55%
I had memories of ritual abuse before I sought therapy/counseling. 977 48%
Secret government-sponsored mind control experiments were
performed on me as a child. 1000 26%
I have been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder (DID or MPD). 1007 65%
I am a therapist/counselor/clergy for RA/MC survivors. 965 10%
*Of the 257 EAS respondents who reported that secret mind control experiments were used on them as children, 69% (177) reported having been abused in a satanic cult. Of the 543 respondents who reported that they had been abused in a satanic cult, 33% (179) reported having been used in secret mind control experiments as children.
http://d.scribd.com/docs/1skli77hxmq3o3x3qsgz.pdf
describes crimes
HAND-OUT for Karriker, Wanda. (2008, April). Child Sexual Abuse and Beyond: Findings From a Series of International Extreme Abuse Surveys. Paper presented at the Fourteenth Annual Northern California Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Conference: Sacramento, CA. Karriker, Wanda. (2008, April).
Selected Responses from the EAS
My memories of abuse include incest. 1122 70%
I had memories of incest before I sought therapy/counseling. 985 64%
I was ritually abused in a satanic cult.* 986 55%
I had memories of ritual abuse before I sought therapy/counseling. 977 48%
Secret government-sponsored mind control experiments were
performed on me as a child. 1000 26%
I have been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder (DID or MPD). 1007 65%
I am a therapist/counselor/clergy for RA/MC survivors. 965 10%
*Of the 257 EAS respondents who reported that secret mind control experiments were used on them as children, 69% (177) reported having been abused in a satanic cult. Of the 543 respondents who reported that they had been abused in a satanic cult, 33% (179) reported having been used in secret mind control experiments as children.
http://d.scribd.com/docs/1skli77hxmq3o3x3qsgz.pdf
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