Behavioural Harms: Enforced and Survival Tactics in Ritual Abuse-Torture Victimization

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Behavioural Harms: Enforced and Survival Tactics in Ritual Abuse-Torture Victimization - Best practice: Connecting the dots - A walk through a violent like-minded `co-culture' 2009 - Jeanne Sarson, MEd, BScN, RN & Linda MacDonald MEd, BN, RN
Paper Presented at Substance Abuse Librarians & Information Specialists "Setting Sail: Best Practices for the Next Decade" 31st SALIS Conference May 8, 2009, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Ritual abuse-torture (RAT) is committed by pedophilic parents, intergenerational family members, guardians and like-minded adults who abuse, torture and traffic their children using organizing group ritualism (Sarson & MacDonald, 2008a). Ritual abuse-torture is an emerging form of non-state actor-torture (NSAT) meaning that it is torture that occurs in the private or so-called `domestic' sphere such as in homes, cabins, cottages, private buildings, rented spaces, warehouses, barns, or outdoor spaces on farms, for example....women report that RAT perpetrators organize violent family/group gatherings coded in the language of "rituals and ceremonies". "Strategy sessions" were used to plan these violent family/group gathering. Although descriptions of these violent gatherings vary, they did consistently retain the thematic issues as previously identified in the Model of Ritual Abuse-Torture. Contact Information: 361 Prince Street, Truro, NS, Canada, B2N 1E4 Email: flight@ns.sympatico.ca or twin2@eastlink.ca
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