Ken Estabrooks may have abused more than 260 victims: investigators
CTV Atlantic Monday, September 30, 2013
A former Saint John police officer is on track to become the most prolific sex abuser in Canadian history.
Private investigators believe Kenneth Estabrooks may have abused more than 260 victims and both the city and investigation company are urging people to come forward.
“Our master investigative list consists of 263 individuals we believe were exposed to and possibly sexually assaulted by Ken Estabrooks,” says investigator Laura Bradbury, who describes the former Saint John police sergeant as a sadistic offender.
Estabrooks was convicted in 1999 of indecent assault against four young people between 1957 and 1982 and served a six-year prison sentence....
http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/ken-estabrooks-may-have-abused-more-than-260-victims-investigators-1.1477055
Monday, September 30, 2013
Sunday, September 29, 2013
The 17th Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference
The 17th Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference
August 15 – 17, 2014
DoubleTree near
Bradley International Airport
16 Ella Grasso Turnpike
Windsor Locks, CT
Internet conference information:
http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/
Conference Goals
- To help stop future occurrences of ritual abuse
- To help survivors of ritual abuse
- To name the groups that have participated in alleged illegal activities
- To unite those working to stop ritual abuse
Conference Registration
(Please read the entire brochure before registering.)
Registration is not guaranteed, please wait for approval before making travel arrangements. Or you can preregister via E-mail at: SMARTNEWS@aol.com Please mail registration form and checks (US Banks only please), money orders (US) to: RA Conference, c/o S.M.A.R.T., P O Box 1295, Easthampton, MA 01027 USA
Name: (please include names and individual addresses of all registrees, thanks.)
___________________________
Agency: ___________________________________
Street: ____________________________
City: ___________________State:______
Zip:________E-mail_________________
Fees
Early registration fees (all fees are per person)
(note: fees must be received by the due date below to get the special prices)
Three day special registration fee (Fri night, full day Saturday and Sunday) paid for by April 1. 2014 – $160
Saturday and Sunday Full Day Registrations
before June 1, 2014 – $185
before July 1, 2014 – $195
before August 1, 2014 – $215
after August 1, 2014 – $225
Paying at conference add $20 to two day and three day fees
(All fees must be received by due dates above.)
Add Friday buffet fee to two day fee – $40.00
New Special for Clinicians Registered for the Friday full day conference – both conferences $200 if paid before April 1, 2014
All conference registrations will include a free lunch for that day, if received before 8/7/14.
(Circle one – Sat – Sun for one day registrations)
_______________________
To add Friday night early registration, get together, deli dinner and dessert – $40.00
Donation to help those on fee waiver (not tax deductible):
_____________
Total Amount Due _____________
special meals needed ____________________
Please make checks payable to S.M.A.R.T. (US banks only, please.)
Refund Policy: Fees will not be refunded after July 14, 2014. Please send us written notice. Refund will be minus $70.00 deposit per registree.
Conference Information
Conference Participants
The conference will include all those either recovering from ritual abuse and/or fighting against ritual abuse. This includes survivors, co-survivors, therapists, other helping professionals, lawyers and all others interested in learning more about ritual abuse.
Members of secret organizations, acting out perpetrators, and/or members of unsympathetic organizations are excluded from the conference. This is for the protection and safety of those in attendance.
People have told us that last year’s conference was the safest conference they have ever been to. But, this conference may not necessarily be safe for all survivors. S.M.A.R.T. recommends that you try to bring a support person that is familiar with mind control techniques and staying with that person or another safe person at all times.
S.M.A.R.T. 2014 Conference Schedule – August 15 – 17
(Fri, Sat. and Sun.)
(Please note : this schedule may be subject to change. Please write us for the latest schedule.)
Friday
7 – 9:00 PM – Meeting, Deli Dinner and Dessert Buffet for Friday Night for Prepaid Registered Attendees
Saturday 9 am – 8 pm
Sunday 9 am – 5 pm
Sponsorship and Co-sponsorship Information
All sponsors and cosponsors have made promotional contributions to the conference. We want to thank them for all their efforts. Please note: Listing these resource organizations does not necessarily constitute our endorsement of them. They are helping to promote the conference and some may be heavy for some survivors, so use caution contacting any resource mentioned in this brochure.
The conference is sponsored by S.M.A.R.T., a newsletter that examines the possible connections between ritual abuse and secretive organizations. SMARTNEWS@aol.com http://ritualabuse.us/
Registration Waivers
Fee waiver application fees are $100.00 for two days and $55 for one day, and are non-refundable. Please do not send fees until your application is accepted. Please add $35 to attend the Friday night early registration, get together and dessert buffet. Applications will not be accepted after July 1, 2014, payment must be made by July 15, 2014. Acceptance will partially be contingent on the number of paid applicants. Fee waiver registrees must volunteer for four hours at the conference. Unfortunately, we cannot afford to pay any travel expenses. Please E-mail or regular mail us for a fee waiver application.
Transportation
There is a free shuttle to and from the airport. Hotel parking is available at no charge for those attending the conference. Conference sponsors, etc. assume no responsibility for ground and/or air transportation arrangements. Conference sponsors cannot assume responsibility for additional expense or losses due to illnesses, cancellation of flights, strikes or other causes.
Accommodations
Room rates at the DoubleTree Hotel at Bradley International Airport (CT) are $94 a day for one person (not incl. tax), please mention the SMART 2014 conference to get the special rate. This rate is guaranteed until 7/14/14 or all rooms at the special rate are gone. Call 860-627-5171 for information. Lunch will be free both days for all conference attendees that register before August 5, 2014. The hotel has no information about the conference, other than room information.
Attendance Policy
Survivors should try to bring a support person with them to the conference. Presentation of a picture ID will be required of all conference participants, unless prior arrangements are made. This is for the protection of all participants. Some of the topics discussed may be very heavy for survivors. The conference is educational and not intended as therapy or treatment. Conference sponsors, cosponsor, speakers, organizers and exhibitors assume no responsibility for any reactions resulting from attending our conference. Statements made and materials exhibited and distributed by attendees, speakers and exhibitors are their own and don’t necessarily represent the policies or views of conference sponsors, cosponsor, speakers, exhibitors, organizers or attendees. Children are not permitted to attend the conference. S.M.A.R.T. and its representatives also reserve the right to remove anyone from the conference at any time. Photographing, audio taping and videotaping without written permission from S.M.A.R.T. are prohibited.
Exhibitors
Tables and half tables will be available for exhibitors. All exhibitors and their materials, etc. must be pre-approved. Write for more information. Whole tables are $25, half tables are $15. Take one table fee is $5.00 per item.
Volunteers
S.M.A.R.T. is currently looking for volunteers to help at the conference. Volunteer need to be registered at the conference. Please let S.M.A.R.T. know if you are interested.
Conference Donations
Please consider sponsoring a full or partial registree, so that all are able to attend the conference. Thank you. (Donations are not tax deductible.)
For those interested in helping to promote the conference, please write smartnews@aol.com to receive a press release to forward to others.
Permission to forward to pro-survivor lists. Reprinted here with permission.
S.M.A.R.T. – Copyright 2013 (Entire Pamphlet and conference name) -
All rights reserved, no reproduction of any material without written permission from S.M.A.R.T.
August 15 – 17, 2014
DoubleTree near
Bradley International Airport
16 Ella Grasso Turnpike
Windsor Locks, CT
Internet conference information:
http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/
Conference Goals
- To help stop future occurrences of ritual abuse
- To help survivors of ritual abuse
- To name the groups that have participated in alleged illegal activities
- To unite those working to stop ritual abuse
Conference Registration
(Please read the entire brochure before registering.)
Registration is not guaranteed, please wait for approval before making travel arrangements. Or you can preregister via E-mail at: SMARTNEWS@aol.com Please mail registration form and checks (US Banks only please), money orders (US) to: RA Conference, c/o S.M.A.R.T., P O Box 1295, Easthampton, MA 01027 USA
Name: (please include names and individual addresses of all registrees, thanks.)
___________________________
Agency: ___________________________________
Street: ____________________________
City: ___________________State:______
Zip:________E-mail_________________
Fees
Early registration fees (all fees are per person)
(note: fees must be received by the due date below to get the special prices)
Three day special registration fee (Fri night, full day Saturday and Sunday) paid for by April 1. 2014 – $160
Saturday and Sunday Full Day Registrations
before June 1, 2014 – $185
before July 1, 2014 – $195
before August 1, 2014 – $215
after August 1, 2014 – $225
Paying at conference add $20 to two day and three day fees
(All fees must be received by due dates above.)
Add Friday buffet fee to two day fee – $40.00
New Special for Clinicians Registered for the Friday full day conference – both conferences $200 if paid before April 1, 2014
All conference registrations will include a free lunch for that day, if received before 8/7/14.
(Circle one – Sat – Sun for one day registrations)
_______________________
To add Friday night early registration, get together, deli dinner and dessert – $40.00
Donation to help those on fee waiver (not tax deductible):
_____________
Total Amount Due _____________
special meals needed ____________________
Please make checks payable to S.M.A.R.T. (US banks only, please.)
Refund Policy: Fees will not be refunded after July 14, 2014. Please send us written notice. Refund will be minus $70.00 deposit per registree.
Conference Information
Conference Participants
The conference will include all those either recovering from ritual abuse and/or fighting against ritual abuse. This includes survivors, co-survivors, therapists, other helping professionals, lawyers and all others interested in learning more about ritual abuse.
Members of secret organizations, acting out perpetrators, and/or members of unsympathetic organizations are excluded from the conference. This is for the protection and safety of those in attendance.
People have told us that last year’s conference was the safest conference they have ever been to. But, this conference may not necessarily be safe for all survivors. S.M.A.R.T. recommends that you try to bring a support person that is familiar with mind control techniques and staying with that person or another safe person at all times.
S.M.A.R.T. 2014 Conference Schedule – August 15 – 17
(Fri, Sat. and Sun.)
(Please note : this schedule may be subject to change. Please write us for the latest schedule.)
Friday
7 – 9:00 PM – Meeting, Deli Dinner and Dessert Buffet for Friday Night for Prepaid Registered Attendees
Saturday 9 am – 8 pm
Sunday 9 am – 5 pm
Sponsorship and Co-sponsorship Information
All sponsors and cosponsors have made promotional contributions to the conference. We want to thank them for all their efforts. Please note: Listing these resource organizations does not necessarily constitute our endorsement of them. They are helping to promote the conference and some may be heavy for some survivors, so use caution contacting any resource mentioned in this brochure.
The conference is sponsored by S.M.A.R.T., a newsletter that examines the possible connections between ritual abuse and secretive organizations. SMARTNEWS@aol.com http://ritualabuse.us/
Registration Waivers
Fee waiver application fees are $100.00 for two days and $55 for one day, and are non-refundable. Please do not send fees until your application is accepted. Please add $35 to attend the Friday night early registration, get together and dessert buffet. Applications will not be accepted after July 1, 2014, payment must be made by July 15, 2014. Acceptance will partially be contingent on the number of paid applicants. Fee waiver registrees must volunteer for four hours at the conference. Unfortunately, we cannot afford to pay any travel expenses. Please E-mail or regular mail us for a fee waiver application.
Transportation
There is a free shuttle to and from the airport. Hotel parking is available at no charge for those attending the conference. Conference sponsors, etc. assume no responsibility for ground and/or air transportation arrangements. Conference sponsors cannot assume responsibility for additional expense or losses due to illnesses, cancellation of flights, strikes or other causes.
Accommodations
Room rates at the DoubleTree Hotel at Bradley International Airport (CT) are $94 a day for one person (not incl. tax), please mention the SMART 2014 conference to get the special rate. This rate is guaranteed until 7/14/14 or all rooms at the special rate are gone. Call 860-627-5171 for information. Lunch will be free both days for all conference attendees that register before August 5, 2014. The hotel has no information about the conference, other than room information.
Attendance Policy
Survivors should try to bring a support person with them to the conference. Presentation of a picture ID will be required of all conference participants, unless prior arrangements are made. This is for the protection of all participants. Some of the topics discussed may be very heavy for survivors. The conference is educational and not intended as therapy or treatment. Conference sponsors, cosponsor, speakers, organizers and exhibitors assume no responsibility for any reactions resulting from attending our conference. Statements made and materials exhibited and distributed by attendees, speakers and exhibitors are their own and don’t necessarily represent the policies or views of conference sponsors, cosponsor, speakers, exhibitors, organizers or attendees. Children are not permitted to attend the conference. S.M.A.R.T. and its representatives also reserve the right to remove anyone from the conference at any time. Photographing, audio taping and videotaping without written permission from S.M.A.R.T. are prohibited.
Exhibitors
Tables and half tables will be available for exhibitors. All exhibitors and their materials, etc. must be pre-approved. Write for more information. Whole tables are $25, half tables are $15. Take one table fee is $5.00 per item.
Volunteers
S.M.A.R.T. is currently looking for volunteers to help at the conference. Volunteer need to be registered at the conference. Please let S.M.A.R.T. know if you are interested.
Conference Donations
Please consider sponsoring a full or partial registree, so that all are able to attend the conference. Thank you. (Donations are not tax deductible.)
For those interested in helping to promote the conference, please write smartnews@aol.com to receive a press release to forward to others.
Permission to forward to pro-survivor lists. Reprinted here with permission.
S.M.A.R.T. – Copyright 2013 (Entire Pamphlet and conference name) -
All rights reserved, no reproduction of any material without written permission from S.M.A.R.T.
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Request Congressional Investigation: CIA Mind-control of Children - 1977 and 1995 Hearing Videos and Transcripts
- Why are Survivors of CIA Mind-control Claiming Children are Tortured Today?
- Congressional Hearings and Mind Control 1977 and 1995
(links to transcripts and videos of the hearings)
Petitioning The President of the United States
Request Congressional Investigation: CIA Mind-control of Children
Petition by Child Abuse Recovery
In 1977 and 1995 Congressional hearings survivors of CIA mind-control verified that children are being raped and tortured in mind-control experiments. Congress voted not to release results of their investigation and now appears to allow the program to continue. Help us save these abused children. Why are Survivors of CIA Mind-control Claiming Children are Tortured Today? View the documented history of CIA mind-control including prior Congressional investigations at www.ChildAbuseRecovery.com
To:
The President of the United States
The U.S. Senate
The U.S. House of Representatives
The Governor of UT
The UT State Senate
The UT State House
Judy Byington, MSW, LCSW, ret., Child Abuse Recovery
Utah Senator Mike Lee, Utah Senator
We are outraged that survivors were tortured during childhood by US government and military employees performing brainwashing experiments. Survivors claim that our tax payer dollars are still being used to torture children in these illegal mind-control experiments. We request a Congressional investigation.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
http://www.change.org/petitions/request-congressional-investigation-cia-mind-control-of-children
http://goo.gl/dmkBf0
Why are Survivors of CIA Mind-control Claiming Children are Tortured Today?
Judy Byington Saratoga Springs Child Abuse Examiner
September 6, 2013
Survivors of CIA mind-control are sending letters to Capitol Hill requesting a Congressional investigation of the CIA mind-control program that began in 1950 and supposedly shut down in 1964. Survivors hope to bring public awareness for children still subjected to this illegal human experimentation.
http://www.examiner.com/article/why-are-survivors-of-cia-mind-control-claiming-children-are-tortured-today?cid=db_articles
http://goo.gl/rKHOrj
Congressional Hearings and Mind Control 1977 and 1995
(links to transcripts and videos of the hearings)
Congressional Human Radiation Experiment Hearings 1995:
Mind Control Survivors
http://www.tulanelink.com/mind/valeriewolf_box.htm
http://goo.gl/Wrwzid
http://www.tulanelink.com/mind/interview_04a.htm http://www.tulanelink.com/mind/tulane_role_04a.htm http://www.whale.to/b/wolf.html
Valerie Wolf Interview
Valerie Wolf, M.S.W. New Orleans Presentation at Believe the Children Conference, Chicago – April 1997
Mind Control Survivors’ Testimony at the Human Radiation Experiments Hearings: Valerie Wolf — Claudia Mullen — Christine deNicola http://www.whale.to/b/wolf1.html
CKLN-FM Mind Control Series — Part 3
Mind Control Survivors’ Testimony at the Human Radiation Experiments Hearings: Valerie Wolf — Claudia Mullen — Christine deNicola http://www.whale.to/b/wolf3.html
video of 1995: http://vimeo.com/26848915
videos of 1995 and 1997: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6F2BC0851B3D6A4E http://goo.gl/fLZg5D
1997 ACHES-MC video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi8YpYBkYGo&list=PL6F2BC0851B3D6A4E&index=4 http://goo.gl/o0He9F
1977 Congressional MK-ultra hearings: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks.htm
http://goo.gl/jmNl1W
John Marks
http://web.archive.org/web/20130210215221/http://www.michael-robinett.com/declass/c000.htm
http://goo.gl/Ah1lmJ
1977 congressional hearings:
Project MKULTRA, The CIA’s Program Of Research In Behavioral Modification
JOINT HEARING BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
AND THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND SCIENTIFIC
RESEARCH OF THE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES
UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY-FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION
AUGUST 3, 1977 http://lacavernadefilosofia.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/mk11ultra_senatehearings-el-senado-americano-es-informado-del-mk-ultra-en-ingles-documento-oficial.pdf
http://goo.gl/X3pRfK
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/13inmate_ProjectMKULTRA.pdf
http://goo.gl/VN18Sx
- Congressional Hearings and Mind Control 1977 and 1995
(links to transcripts and videos of the hearings)
Petitioning The President of the United States
Request Congressional Investigation: CIA Mind-control of Children
Petition by Child Abuse Recovery
In 1977 and 1995 Congressional hearings survivors of CIA mind-control verified that children are being raped and tortured in mind-control experiments. Congress voted not to release results of their investigation and now appears to allow the program to continue. Help us save these abused children. Why are Survivors of CIA Mind-control Claiming Children are Tortured Today? View the documented history of CIA mind-control including prior Congressional investigations at www.ChildAbuseRecovery.com
To:
The President of the United States
The U.S. Senate
The U.S. House of Representatives
The Governor of UT
The UT State Senate
The UT State House
Judy Byington, MSW, LCSW, ret., Child Abuse Recovery
Utah Senator Mike Lee, Utah Senator
We are outraged that survivors were tortured during childhood by US government and military employees performing brainwashing experiments. Survivors claim that our tax payer dollars are still being used to torture children in these illegal mind-control experiments. We request a Congressional investigation.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
http://www.change.org/petitions/request-congressional-investigation-cia-mind-control-of-children
http://goo.gl/dmkBf0
Why are Survivors of CIA Mind-control Claiming Children are Tortured Today?
Judy Byington Saratoga Springs Child Abuse Examiner
September 6, 2013
Survivors of CIA mind-control are sending letters to Capitol Hill requesting a Congressional investigation of the CIA mind-control program that began in 1950 and supposedly shut down in 1964. Survivors hope to bring public awareness for children still subjected to this illegal human experimentation.
http://www.examiner.com/article/why-are-survivors-of-cia-mind-control-claiming-children-are-tortured-today?cid=db_articles
http://goo.gl/rKHOrj
Congressional Hearings and Mind Control 1977 and 1995
(links to transcripts and videos of the hearings)
Congressional Human Radiation Experiment Hearings 1995:
Mind Control Survivors
http://www.tulanelink.com/mind/valeriewolf_box.htm
http://goo.gl/Wrwzid
http://www.tulanelink.com/mind/interview_04a.htm http://www.tulanelink.com/mind/tulane_role_04a.htm http://www.whale.to/b/wolf.html
Valerie Wolf Interview
Valerie Wolf, M.S.W. New Orleans Presentation at Believe the Children Conference, Chicago – April 1997
Mind Control Survivors’ Testimony at the Human Radiation Experiments Hearings: Valerie Wolf — Claudia Mullen — Christine deNicola http://www.whale.to/b/wolf1.html
CKLN-FM Mind Control Series — Part 3
Mind Control Survivors’ Testimony at the Human Radiation Experiments Hearings: Valerie Wolf — Claudia Mullen — Christine deNicola http://www.whale.to/b/wolf3.html
video of 1995: http://vimeo.com/26848915
videos of 1995 and 1997: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6F2BC0851B3D6A4E http://goo.gl/fLZg5D
1997 ACHES-MC video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi8YpYBkYGo&list=PL6F2BC0851B3D6A4E&index=4 http://goo.gl/o0He9F
1977 Congressional MK-ultra hearings: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks.htm
http://goo.gl/jmNl1W
John Marks
http://web.archive.org/web/20130210215221/http://www.michael-robinett.com/declass/c000.htm
http://goo.gl/Ah1lmJ
1977 congressional hearings:
Project MKULTRA, The CIA’s Program Of Research In Behavioral Modification
JOINT HEARING BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
AND THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND SCIENTIFIC
RESEARCH OF THE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES
UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY-FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION
AUGUST 3, 1977 http://lacavernadefilosofia.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/mk11ultra_senatehearings-el-senado-americano-es-informado-del-mk-ultra-en-ingles-documento-oficial.pdf
http://goo.gl/X3pRfK
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/13inmate_ProjectMKULTRA.pdf
http://goo.gl/VN18Sx
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Survivorship Webinar - Going From Being Split to Having Achieved Full Integration
Saturday, October 5, 2013
12:00 noon Pacific Time
Presenter: Alison
"What it has been/is like for me to go from being split to having achieved full integration."
What it has been/is like for me to go from being split into over 30 parts for the past 30 plus years to having achieved full integration, with a few surprises along the way as of April 15 of this year, and what it's like living as a whole person, after being dissociated and living life as a multiple for the past 38 years. As well as what lies ahead for me now that I am integrated and facing the world from a whole new perspective.
A life long advocate for justice in every facet of society, Alison has consistently refused to take "no" for an answer when the moral imperative shouts "yes," regardless of inconvenience to the status quo. Alison a survivor of inter-generational cult abuse from Canada., diagnosed with MPD/DID at the age of 18, has been determined to live a life free from the fear of being abused in the future, achieved her dream and in 2010, and no longer lives in constant fear for her life. Over the past 3 1/2 years of intensive psycho-therapy, Alison has achieved integration and on April 15th of this year went from being split into multiple different parts to one whole person, and is now in the process of learning to live her life coping with this new reality.
When not working publicly as an activist, she creates and shares music with others, reminding us all that justice and art can hold hands. Alison currently works part-time as a Piano teacher and is a member of her local paper's Community Editorial Board, responsible for writing a bimonthly op-ed column on a topic of her choosing.
REGISTRATION
Registration closes Thursday evening October 3, 2013
To reserve a space in the webinar, e-mail Shamai at shamai@survivorship.org and give her this information:
1. Your name
2. The webinar you wish to attend: What it has been/is like
3. Amount and method of payment (check, PayPal, money order)
4. Your preferred e-mail address (so we can send you instructions)
5. The name you will be using for the webinar. (This does not have to be your real name or your message board screen name.)
You will receive a confirmation email immediately and an invitation link and instructions after the registration closes. Even though you register with Survivorship, please remember to register with the webinar invitation link in order to get all the information you will need.
COST
Webinars are on a sliding scale from $50.00 to full scholarship (while we offer full scholarships for webinars please consider paying whatever you are able to. Even $5 will help to cover the cost of the webinar provider). Please remember to factor in the cost of the telephone call if you don't have a computer headset. The PayPal button is near the bottom of the page at http://www.survivorship.org/webinars.html
If you wish to pay by check please send it to: Survivorship, Family Justice Center, 470 27th Street, Oakland, CA 94612.
UPCOMING WEBINAR
Saturday, November 16, 2013
12:00 noon Pacific Time
Presenter: Christine DesJardins
"Energy Psychology and Muscle Testing, Ensuring You Are in Balance to Do the Work."
A survivor of satanic worship and ritual abuse in the Catholic Church, Chris has spent so much time in therapy that 5 years ago she decided to launch a late life career as a therapist with the intention of finding methods that work for extreme abuse. She spent 30 years as part of a Buddhist community and has a love of meditation that has been helpful in her counseling practice. In her search for a method that works for extreme abuse she has turned to Energy Psychology which recognizes that all trauma has an energetic piece that is held in the body and which needs to be released in order to be free of the traumatic patterns. After dabbling in different methods she found Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT) which works through the chakras. The technique has a calming almost meditative effect which allows difficult material to surface and be let go with relative ease.
Chris will be teaching Kinesiology, Muscle Testing, which is used in AIT to determine if the client is in balance, what issues need to be worked on and in what order. It is based on the idea that the body has an intelligence that can accurately give yes/no answers. She will also demonstrate how to determine if you are neurologically organized or disorganized and give some simple exercise to correct disorganization. The various energy psychology techniques work best if you are neurologically organized.
Everyone gets disorganized at times but Survivors are particularly prone to this and it can lead to frustration if you don't know about balancing.
Chris will explain more about AIT which really needs to be done with a therapist and demonstrate EFT, the Tapping Solution, which has lots of freely available material on the Internet. Also, if you can, work with a partner. If you can't find a partner Chris will demonstrate ways to muscle test yourself.
Chris lives in Covington, Louisiana and works in Mandeville and New Orleans at Northshore and Southshore Counseling and Wellness. She is a graduate of the University of New Orleans in Counselor Education and is presently working on licensure.
PAST WEBINARS
Survivorship members may listen to past webinars in the members' section.
We strive to present all webinars in our archives, and sometimes, for technical reasons, we are unable to.
For information on joining Survivorship, go to http://www.survivorship.org/about/membership.html
Complete details on all our webinars are at http://www.survivorship.org/webinars.html
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact Shamai@survivorship.org
12:00 noon Pacific Time
Presenter: Alison
"What it has been/is like for me to go from being split to having achieved full integration."
What it has been/is like for me to go from being split into over 30 parts for the past 30 plus years to having achieved full integration, with a few surprises along the way as of April 15 of this year, and what it's like living as a whole person, after being dissociated and living life as a multiple for the past 38 years. As well as what lies ahead for me now that I am integrated and facing the world from a whole new perspective.
A life long advocate for justice in every facet of society, Alison has consistently refused to take "no" for an answer when the moral imperative shouts "yes," regardless of inconvenience to the status quo. Alison a survivor of inter-generational cult abuse from Canada., diagnosed with MPD/DID at the age of 18, has been determined to live a life free from the fear of being abused in the future, achieved her dream and in 2010, and no longer lives in constant fear for her life. Over the past 3 1/2 years of intensive psycho-therapy, Alison has achieved integration and on April 15th of this year went from being split into multiple different parts to one whole person, and is now in the process of learning to live her life coping with this new reality.
When not working publicly as an activist, she creates and shares music with others, reminding us all that justice and art can hold hands. Alison currently works part-time as a Piano teacher and is a member of her local paper's Community Editorial Board, responsible for writing a bimonthly op-ed column on a topic of her choosing.
REGISTRATION
Registration closes Thursday evening October 3, 2013
To reserve a space in the webinar, e-mail Shamai at shamai@survivorship.org and give her this information:
1. Your name
2. The webinar you wish to attend: What it has been/is like
3. Amount and method of payment (check, PayPal, money order)
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UPCOMING WEBINAR
Saturday, November 16, 2013
12:00 noon Pacific Time
Presenter: Christine DesJardins
"Energy Psychology and Muscle Testing, Ensuring You Are in Balance to Do the Work."
A survivor of satanic worship and ritual abuse in the Catholic Church, Chris has spent so much time in therapy that 5 years ago she decided to launch a late life career as a therapist with the intention of finding methods that work for extreme abuse. She spent 30 years as part of a Buddhist community and has a love of meditation that has been helpful in her counseling practice. In her search for a method that works for extreme abuse she has turned to Energy Psychology which recognizes that all trauma has an energetic piece that is held in the body and which needs to be released in order to be free of the traumatic patterns. After dabbling in different methods she found Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT) which works through the chakras. The technique has a calming almost meditative effect which allows difficult material to surface and be let go with relative ease.
Chris will be teaching Kinesiology, Muscle Testing, which is used in AIT to determine if the client is in balance, what issues need to be worked on and in what order. It is based on the idea that the body has an intelligence that can accurately give yes/no answers. She will also demonstrate how to determine if you are neurologically organized or disorganized and give some simple exercise to correct disorganization. The various energy psychology techniques work best if you are neurologically organized.
Everyone gets disorganized at times but Survivors are particularly prone to this and it can lead to frustration if you don't know about balancing.
Chris will explain more about AIT which really needs to be done with a therapist and demonstrate EFT, the Tapping Solution, which has lots of freely available material on the Internet. Also, if you can, work with a partner. If you can't find a partner Chris will demonstrate ways to muscle test yourself.
Chris lives in Covington, Louisiana and works in Mandeville and New Orleans at Northshore and Southshore Counseling and Wellness. She is a graduate of the University of New Orleans in Counselor Education and is presently working on licensure.
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Monday, September 23, 2013
Ariel Castro's son carries the burden of a name and suffers the sins of his father
Ariel Castro's son carries the burden of a name and suffers the sins of his father
By Phillip Morris, The Plain Dealer September 20, 2013
COLUMBUS....
That’s when the son’s heart sank. That’s when Ariel Castro, the son, said he understood that his father, his namesake, had been unmasked as something far worse than he could have ever imagined.
That’s when he began to have flashbacks. He remembered as a boy also running out of the house to get help for his mother who was being beaten, yet again.
He suddenly remembered making a similar emergency call to Cleveland police 20 years earlier, when Castro inflicted a savage Christmas Day beating on Grimilda "Nilda" Figueroa, two months after she had come home from brain surgery.
"When I heard Amanda Berry’s voice … when I heard her say his name, I knew that he was guilty. I mean who would make that up? Who would come up with a name like Ariel Castro or invent that kind of story?"
Since that fateful day in May, Castro’s life has been a continuing series of painfully-refreshed childhood memories and haunting questions. He continues to recall incidents and behaviors that long foreshadowed his father’s crimes.
"My father was always very secretive. Growing up on Seymour Avenue there were parts of the house we weren’t allowed in. He kept a lock on the attic and on the basement door, on the garage. He nailed the windows shut. It didn’t seem so weird at the time."
But now that the three captive women are free, now that the elder Castro is dead, having hung himself one month into his life sentence, sordid truths about his possessive and savage nature are being revealed.
Up until Nilda Figueroa found the strength to finally leave Seymour Avenue with young Ariel and the couple’s three daughters in tow, Castro, whom she never married, would often lock her in the house when he was away.
Because of his own jealousies, he would literally incarcerate her, making wild, ungrounded accusations alleging infidelity to justify her home detention. She was his first prisoner.
The son says he now understands that his mother, who died in 2012 in Indiana, stayed with Castro as long as she could out of fear for her life. But she also stayed out of loyalty and compassion for her children.
Memories of the fear he often felt as a boy, whenever his father’s car pulled into the Seymour Avenue driveway at night have returned – a daily homecoming fear that he says he suspects Gina, Amanda, and Michelle undoubtedly confronted for the better part of a decade.
He remembers now how fiercely he determined as a young boy not to become anything like his father....
Perhaps there is sociopathic irony in the fact that Castro took three girls captive. Before Nilda left with their three daughters in the late 90’s, Castro reportedly doted on his girls – while heaping regular physical abuse on the son and the mother....
"When my father used to beat me, he would sometimes tell me how fortunate I was to have a father. He always said he didn’t have one. But the whole time, I would be thinking, ‘I wish I didn’t have one either.’ "....
http://www.cleveland.com/morris/index.ssf/2013/09/ariel_castros_son_carries_the.html
Ariel Castro's son struggles to remember the father he never really knew: Ariel Anthony Castro
By Special to The Plain Dealer on September 21, 2013
The last time I saw my father was about five months ago. I was in Cleveland for the weekend, and he asked me to stop by his house before I hit the road back to Columbus.
When I pulled up, he poked his head out from the back of the house and waved me to the backyard. I remember commenting to him that another of the neighboring houses looked freshly boarded up, and we recalled memories of my childhood friends who lived there decades ago. Today, the houses themselves are just memories, and so is my father, Ariel Castro.
I'm still shell-shocked from the way these past several months unfolded. Instantly, my father became one of the most hated men alive. In no time, reporters from around the world demanded to know who this man was and what kind of background he came from. Just like that, my father went from captured to convicted to imprisoned to dead....
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/09/ariel_castos_son_struggles_to.html
Ariel Castro's son: 'I am not my father and I can't explain his actions' 9/23/13
By Chris Francescani, Reuters
The son of Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro has described in detail the overwhelming horror he felt when his father's crimes were revealed to the world.
"I'm still shell-shocked from the way these past several months unfolded," Ariel Anthony Castro wrote in an essay published late on Saturday in the Cleveland Plain Dealer....
"I was horrified and disgusted and angered when I got the news of the unthinkable crimes my father committed," he said.
"I still am. He deserved to pay for his actions, everyday of those 1,000 years he could possibly serve. My anger with him kept me from visiting him in prison, even when he was moved to a facility just 20 minutes away from my doorstep."
Still, Castro said he does not hate his father.
"I learned long ago that it's not worth the effort to actively hate someone who will always be in your life."
Castro's mother died a year ago. "Both of my parents are gone now, and my father's punishment is between he and his Maker. Hate isn't going to do anyone any good."
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/23/20653775-ariel-castros-son-i-am-not-my-father-and-i-cant-explain-his-actions
By Phillip Morris, The Plain Dealer September 20, 2013
COLUMBUS....
That’s when the son’s heart sank. That’s when Ariel Castro, the son, said he understood that his father, his namesake, had been unmasked as something far worse than he could have ever imagined.
That’s when he began to have flashbacks. He remembered as a boy also running out of the house to get help for his mother who was being beaten, yet again.
He suddenly remembered making a similar emergency call to Cleveland police 20 years earlier, when Castro inflicted a savage Christmas Day beating on Grimilda "Nilda" Figueroa, two months after she had come home from brain surgery.
"When I heard Amanda Berry’s voice … when I heard her say his name, I knew that he was guilty. I mean who would make that up? Who would come up with a name like Ariel Castro or invent that kind of story?"
Since that fateful day in May, Castro’s life has been a continuing series of painfully-refreshed childhood memories and haunting questions. He continues to recall incidents and behaviors that long foreshadowed his father’s crimes.
"My father was always very secretive. Growing up on Seymour Avenue there were parts of the house we weren’t allowed in. He kept a lock on the attic and on the basement door, on the garage. He nailed the windows shut. It didn’t seem so weird at the time."
But now that the three captive women are free, now that the elder Castro is dead, having hung himself one month into his life sentence, sordid truths about his possessive and savage nature are being revealed.
Up until Nilda Figueroa found the strength to finally leave Seymour Avenue with young Ariel and the couple’s three daughters in tow, Castro, whom she never married, would often lock her in the house when he was away.
Because of his own jealousies, he would literally incarcerate her, making wild, ungrounded accusations alleging infidelity to justify her home detention. She was his first prisoner.
The son says he now understands that his mother, who died in 2012 in Indiana, stayed with Castro as long as she could out of fear for her life. But she also stayed out of loyalty and compassion for her children.
Memories of the fear he often felt as a boy, whenever his father’s car pulled into the Seymour Avenue driveway at night have returned – a daily homecoming fear that he says he suspects Gina, Amanda, and Michelle undoubtedly confronted for the better part of a decade.
He remembers now how fiercely he determined as a young boy not to become anything like his father....
Perhaps there is sociopathic irony in the fact that Castro took three girls captive. Before Nilda left with their three daughters in the late 90’s, Castro reportedly doted on his girls – while heaping regular physical abuse on the son and the mother....
"When my father used to beat me, he would sometimes tell me how fortunate I was to have a father. He always said he didn’t have one. But the whole time, I would be thinking, ‘I wish I didn’t have one either.’ "....
http://www.cleveland.com/morris/index.ssf/2013/09/ariel_castros_son_carries_the.html
Ariel Castro's son struggles to remember the father he never really knew: Ariel Anthony Castro
By Special to The Plain Dealer on September 21, 2013
The last time I saw my father was about five months ago. I was in Cleveland for the weekend, and he asked me to stop by his house before I hit the road back to Columbus.
When I pulled up, he poked his head out from the back of the house and waved me to the backyard. I remember commenting to him that another of the neighboring houses looked freshly boarded up, and we recalled memories of my childhood friends who lived there decades ago. Today, the houses themselves are just memories, and so is my father, Ariel Castro.
I'm still shell-shocked from the way these past several months unfolded. Instantly, my father became one of the most hated men alive. In no time, reporters from around the world demanded to know who this man was and what kind of background he came from. Just like that, my father went from captured to convicted to imprisoned to dead....
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/09/ariel_castos_son_struggles_to.html
Ariel Castro's son: 'I am not my father and I can't explain his actions' 9/23/13
By Chris Francescani, Reuters
The son of Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro has described in detail the overwhelming horror he felt when his father's crimes were revealed to the world.
"I'm still shell-shocked from the way these past several months unfolded," Ariel Anthony Castro wrote in an essay published late on Saturday in the Cleveland Plain Dealer....
"I was horrified and disgusted and angered when I got the news of the unthinkable crimes my father committed," he said.
"I still am. He deserved to pay for his actions, everyday of those 1,000 years he could possibly serve. My anger with him kept me from visiting him in prison, even when he was moved to a facility just 20 minutes away from my doorstep."
Still, Castro said he does not hate his father.
"I learned long ago that it's not worth the effort to actively hate someone who will always be in your life."
Castro's mother died a year ago. "Both of my parents are gone now, and my father's punishment is between he and his Maker. Hate isn't going to do anyone any good."
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/23/20653775-ariel-castros-son-i-am-not-my-father-and-i-cant-explain-his-actions
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Congressional Hearings and Mind Control 1977 and 1995
Congressional Human Radiation Experiment Hearings 1995:
Mind Control Survivors http://www.tulanelink.com/mind/valeriewolf_box.htm
http://goo.gl/Wrwzid
http://www.tulanelink.com/mind/interview_04a.htm
http://www.tulanelink.com/mind/tulane_role_04a.htm
http://www.whale.to/b/wolf.html
Valerie Wolf Interview
Valerie Wolf, M.S.W. New Orleans Presentation at Believe the Children Conference, Chicago - April 1997
Mind Control Survivors' Testimony at the Human Radiation Experiments Hearings: Valerie Wolf -- Claudia Mullen -- Christine deNicola http://www.whale.to/b/wolf1.html
CKLN-FM Mind Control Series -- Part 3
Mind Control Survivors' Testimony at the Human Radiation Experiments Hearings: Valerie Wolf -- Claudia Mullen -- Christine deNicola http://www.whale.to/b/wolf3.html
video of 1995: http://vimeo.com/26848915
videos of 1995 and 1997: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6F2BC0851B3D6A4E http://goo.gl/fLZg5D
1997 ACHES-MC video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi8YpYBkYGo&list=PL6F2BC0851B3D6A4E&index=4
http://goo.gl/o0He9F
1977 Congregational MK-ultra hearings: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks.htm http://goo.gl/jmNl1W
John Marks http://web.archive.org/web/20130210215221/http://www.michael-robinett.com/declass/c000.htm
http://goo.gl/Ah1lmJ
1977 congressional hearings:
Project MKULTRA, The CIA's Program Of Research In Behavioral Modification
JOINT HEARING BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
AND THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND SCIENTIFIC
RESEARCH OF THE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES
UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY-FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION
AUGUST 3, 1977 http://lacavernadefilosofia.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/mk11ultra_senatehearings-el-senado-americano-es-informado-del-mk-ultra-en-ingles-documento-oficial.pdf
http://goo.gl/X3pRfK
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/13inmate_ProjectMKULTRA.pdf
http://goo.gl/VN18Sx
Mind Control Survivors http://www.tulanelink.com/mind/valeriewolf_box.htm
http://goo.gl/Wrwzid
http://www.tulanelink.com/mind/interview_04a.htm
http://www.tulanelink.com/mind/tulane_role_04a.htm
http://www.whale.to/b/wolf.html
Valerie Wolf Interview
Valerie Wolf, M.S.W. New Orleans Presentation at Believe the Children Conference, Chicago - April 1997
Mind Control Survivors' Testimony at the Human Radiation Experiments Hearings: Valerie Wolf -- Claudia Mullen -- Christine deNicola http://www.whale.to/b/wolf1.html
CKLN-FM Mind Control Series -- Part 3
Mind Control Survivors' Testimony at the Human Radiation Experiments Hearings: Valerie Wolf -- Claudia Mullen -- Christine deNicola http://www.whale.to/b/wolf3.html
video of 1995: http://vimeo.com/26848915
videos of 1995 and 1997: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6F2BC0851B3D6A4E http://goo.gl/fLZg5D
1997 ACHES-MC video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi8YpYBkYGo&list=PL6F2BC0851B3D6A4E&index=4
http://goo.gl/o0He9F
1977 Congregational MK-ultra hearings: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks.htm http://goo.gl/jmNl1W
John Marks http://web.archive.org/web/20130210215221/http://www.michael-robinett.com/declass/c000.htm
http://goo.gl/Ah1lmJ
1977 congressional hearings:
Project MKULTRA, The CIA's Program Of Research In Behavioral Modification
JOINT HEARING BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
AND THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND SCIENTIFIC
RESEARCH OF THE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES
UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY-FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION
AUGUST 3, 1977 http://lacavernadefilosofia.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/mk11ultra_senatehearings-el-senado-americano-es-informado-del-mk-ultra-en-ingles-documento-oficial.pdf
http://goo.gl/X3pRfK
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/13inmate_ProjectMKULTRA.pdf
http://goo.gl/VN18Sx
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Cyber-blackmailers 'abusing hundreds of UK children'
Cyber-blackmailers 'abusing hundreds of UK children'
20 September 2013
Hundreds of British children are being blackmailed into performing sex acts online, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre has warned.
Abusers posing online as children talk victims into sexual acts or sharing of images, then threaten to send pictures to the child's family and friends.
Ceop said in 12 cases over two years, 424 children had been blackmailed in this way - 184 of them in the UK.
Deputy chief executive Andy Baker said the abuse "escalates really quickly"....
The biggest case, known as Operation K, involved 322 children around the world being blackmailed, including 96 in the UK.
The victims were mainly boys aged 11 to 15, who were targeted by a gang from a non-European country. The suspects are due to stand trial in the coming weeks.
Fake profiles
The gang used more than 40 fake online profiles and more than 40 different email addresses to carry out their abuse.
Scott Freeman: "You need to educate your children"
The network of abuse was exposed after a social networking site noticed suspicious activity and a British child told their parents....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24163284
20 September 2013
Hundreds of British children are being blackmailed into performing sex acts online, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre has warned.
Abusers posing online as children talk victims into sexual acts or sharing of images, then threaten to send pictures to the child's family and friends.
Ceop said in 12 cases over two years, 424 children had been blackmailed in this way - 184 of them in the UK.
Deputy chief executive Andy Baker said the abuse "escalates really quickly"....
The biggest case, known as Operation K, involved 322 children around the world being blackmailed, including 96 in the UK.
The victims were mainly boys aged 11 to 15, who were targeted by a gang from a non-European country. The suspects are due to stand trial in the coming weeks.
Fake profiles
The gang used more than 40 fake online profiles and more than 40 different email addresses to carry out their abuse.
Scott Freeman: "You need to educate your children"
The network of abuse was exposed after a social networking site noticed suspicious activity and a British child told their parents....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24163284
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Historic child abuse inquiry opens in Australia
Historic child abuse inquiry opens in Australia
By Amy Coopes
Published September 15, 2013
SYDNEY (AFP) – An Australian inquiry into church and institutional child abuse began public hearings Monday, with warnings that widespread and "shocking" allegations would be heard against places of worship, orphanages, community groups and schools.
Justice Peter McClellan opened the hearings in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, announced by the government last November, saying that thousands of people had so far come forward.
"It is now well known that the sexual abuse of children has been widespread in the Australian community, however the full range of institutions in which it has occurred is not generally understood," McClellan said in an address....
The inquiry was established by former prime minister Julia Gillard in response to a series of child sex abuse scandals involving paedophile priests, though she insisted the probe would be much broader than the Catholic Church....
McClellan said a hotline set up for survivors of abuse to contact the commission had so far received 4,301 relevant calls....
the first of five public sessions to be held before the end of the year, will examine the "case study" of convicted paedophile Steven Larkins, who headed an Aboriginal children's charity and was also a Scout leader.
Larkins pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting two boys -- aged 11 and 12 -- in separate incidents in 1992 and 1997, and is currently in jail for child pornography offences and forging a declaration of his fitness to work with juveniles.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/15/historic-child-abuse-inquiry-opens-in-australia/
By Amy Coopes
Published September 15, 2013
SYDNEY (AFP) – An Australian inquiry into church and institutional child abuse began public hearings Monday, with warnings that widespread and "shocking" allegations would be heard against places of worship, orphanages, community groups and schools.
Justice Peter McClellan opened the hearings in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, announced by the government last November, saying that thousands of people had so far come forward.
"It is now well known that the sexual abuse of children has been widespread in the Australian community, however the full range of institutions in which it has occurred is not generally understood," McClellan said in an address....
The inquiry was established by former prime minister Julia Gillard in response to a series of child sex abuse scandals involving paedophile priests, though she insisted the probe would be much broader than the Catholic Church....
McClellan said a hotline set up for survivors of abuse to contact the commission had so far received 4,301 relevant calls....
the first of five public sessions to be held before the end of the year, will examine the "case study" of convicted paedophile Steven Larkins, who headed an Aboriginal children's charity and was also a Scout leader.
Larkins pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting two boys -- aged 11 and 12 -- in separate incidents in 1992 and 1997, and is currently in jail for child pornography offences and forging a declaration of his fitness to work with juveniles.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/15/historic-child-abuse-inquiry-opens-in-australia/
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Huronia institution cemetery a painful reminder of neglect and abuse
Huronia institution cemetery a painful reminder of neglect and abuse
As part of the $35 million settlement with former residents of Huronia Regional Centre, Ontario will offer a formal apology and a promise to maintain the cemetery and create a registry of all those buried there.
By: Rachel Mendleson News reporter, Published on Tue Sep 17 2013
Most of the 2,000 children and adults buried in the unkempt field across from Huronia Regional Centre were laid to rest in unmarked graves.
Others are identified by numbers scrawled on small slabs of concrete hidden amid overgrown grass.
For former residents of the government-run institution for the developmentally delayed in Orillia, the cemetery has served as a painful reminder of the neglect and abuse they have long insisted occurred there.
But that may soon change. On Tuesday, the Ontario government settled a historic class-action lawsuit with former residents of Huronia. The terms include $35 million, a formal apology — and a promise to maintain the cemetery and create a registry of all those buried there....
Under the terms of the settlement, 65,000 documents — including internal government documents, police reports, eyewitness accounts and letters from concerned parents — will also be made public.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/09/17/former_residents_settle_huronia_lawsuit_for_35m.html
As part of the $35 million settlement with former residents of Huronia Regional Centre, Ontario will offer a formal apology and a promise to maintain the cemetery and create a registry of all those buried there.
By: Rachel Mendleson News reporter, Published on Tue Sep 17 2013
Most of the 2,000 children and adults buried in the unkempt field across from Huronia Regional Centre were laid to rest in unmarked graves.
Others are identified by numbers scrawled on small slabs of concrete hidden amid overgrown grass.
For former residents of the government-run institution for the developmentally delayed in Orillia, the cemetery has served as a painful reminder of the neglect and abuse they have long insisted occurred there.
But that may soon change. On Tuesday, the Ontario government settled a historic class-action lawsuit with former residents of Huronia. The terms include $35 million, a formal apology — and a promise to maintain the cemetery and create a registry of all those buried there....
Under the terms of the settlement, 65,000 documents — including internal government documents, police reports, eyewitness accounts and letters from concerned parents — will also be made public.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/09/17/former_residents_settle_huronia_lawsuit_for_35m.html
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
US priest sentenced to 50 years for child porn, Man in kid-cannibalism case to be sentenced
US priest sentenced to 50 years for child porn
Friday Sep 13, 2013
A priest whose case led to a criminal conviction against his bishop will likely spend the rest of his life in a federal prison after being sentenced to 50 years on Thursday for producing or trying to produce child pornography.
The Rev. Shawn Ratigan pleaded guilty in August of last year to five counts one for each of his five young victims. He was charged in May 2011 after police received a flash drive from his computer containing hundreds of images of children, most of them clothed, with the focus on their crotch areas....
A computer technician working on Ratigan's laptop in December 2010 found hundreds of troubling images of young girls and reported it to officials with the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. Instead of turning the photos over to police or reporting suspicions about Ratigan, Bishop Robert Finn sent him away for psychiatric evaluation and later ordered him to stay at a convent where he could say Mass for the sisters and stay away from children.
The photos were given to police in May 2011 after Ratigan violated Finn's orders.
Jackson County prosecutors charged Finn and the diocese in October 2011 with one misdemeanor charge each of failing to report suspected child abuse, because of the five-month delay between when the photos were found on Ratigan's computer and when the diocese reported him to police.
Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said Finn and the diocese were required under state law to report the discovery to police because the images gave them reason to believe a child had been abused.
Finn was convicted of one count last September and sentenced to two years of supervised probation. The charge against the diocese was dropped....
Complaints against Ratigan, who was ordained in 2004 at the age of 38, began piling up in 2009 as parents became concerned he was spending too much time with children and taking too many photos of the youths while they played and participated in church events.
A May 19, 2010, letter from St. Patrick School Principal Julie Hess mentioned how several people had complained that Ratigan was taking compromising photos of children and allowed them to sit on his lap and reach into his pocket for candy.
Vicar General Robert Murphy, who received the letter, spoke with Ratigan about setting boundaries with children, then gave a summary to the bishop. Finn later acknowledged that Murphy had briefed him on the memo, but he didn't read it until a year later.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11124012
Man in kid-cannibalism case to be sentenced
Geoffrey Portway pleaded guilty last May
By Laura Ly CNN Sep 16, 2013
(CNN) —The Boston-area man who planned to kidnap children, rape and eat them is awaiting sentencing Tuesday and is seeking a prison term of 18 years followed by lifetime supervised release, according to court documents.
Geoffrey Portway, 40, who pleaded guilty in May to distribution and possession of child pornography and solicitation to commit a crime of violence, submitted a document through his attorney to Massachusetts District Court on Friday, providing information to be used in imposing a sentence "sufficient but not greater than necessary," the court document says.
The document includes background on the case, cites similar cases, and reasons for why Portway agrees to a term of 18 years, with a maximum of 21 years and 10 months. Such reasons included the contention that he "never engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with a minor," that Portway will be required to register as a sex offender upon his release, limiting his future employment options, and there was "no evidence that (Portway) ever acted out any of his fantasies."
Portway, a former computer operator, also agreed to pay $10,000 in restitution fees.
Federal authorities are recommending that he go to prison for at least 27 years, according to other court documents filed last week.
"Portway has pled guilty to some of the most vile and heinous crimes known to our society," federal prosecutors wrote in a sentencing recommendation....
http://www.kcra.com/news/national/Man-in-kid-cannibalism-case-to-be-sentenced/-/11797450/21969264/-/epp26j/-/index.html
Friday Sep 13, 2013
A priest whose case led to a criminal conviction against his bishop will likely spend the rest of his life in a federal prison after being sentenced to 50 years on Thursday for producing or trying to produce child pornography.
The Rev. Shawn Ratigan pleaded guilty in August of last year to five counts one for each of his five young victims. He was charged in May 2011 after police received a flash drive from his computer containing hundreds of images of children, most of them clothed, with the focus on their crotch areas....
A computer technician working on Ratigan's laptop in December 2010 found hundreds of troubling images of young girls and reported it to officials with the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. Instead of turning the photos over to police or reporting suspicions about Ratigan, Bishop Robert Finn sent him away for psychiatric evaluation and later ordered him to stay at a convent where he could say Mass for the sisters and stay away from children.
The photos were given to police in May 2011 after Ratigan violated Finn's orders.
Jackson County prosecutors charged Finn and the diocese in October 2011 with one misdemeanor charge each of failing to report suspected child abuse, because of the five-month delay between when the photos were found on Ratigan's computer and when the diocese reported him to police.
Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said Finn and the diocese were required under state law to report the discovery to police because the images gave them reason to believe a child had been abused.
Finn was convicted of one count last September and sentenced to two years of supervised probation. The charge against the diocese was dropped....
Complaints against Ratigan, who was ordained in 2004 at the age of 38, began piling up in 2009 as parents became concerned he was spending too much time with children and taking too many photos of the youths while they played and participated in church events.
A May 19, 2010, letter from St. Patrick School Principal Julie Hess mentioned how several people had complained that Ratigan was taking compromising photos of children and allowed them to sit on his lap and reach into his pocket for candy.
Vicar General Robert Murphy, who received the letter, spoke with Ratigan about setting boundaries with children, then gave a summary to the bishop. Finn later acknowledged that Murphy had briefed him on the memo, but he didn't read it until a year later.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11124012
Man in kid-cannibalism case to be sentenced
Geoffrey Portway pleaded guilty last May
By Laura Ly CNN Sep 16, 2013
(CNN) —The Boston-area man who planned to kidnap children, rape and eat them is awaiting sentencing Tuesday and is seeking a prison term of 18 years followed by lifetime supervised release, according to court documents.
Geoffrey Portway, 40, who pleaded guilty in May to distribution and possession of child pornography and solicitation to commit a crime of violence, submitted a document through his attorney to Massachusetts District Court on Friday, providing information to be used in imposing a sentence "sufficient but not greater than necessary," the court document says.
The document includes background on the case, cites similar cases, and reasons for why Portway agrees to a term of 18 years, with a maximum of 21 years and 10 months. Such reasons included the contention that he "never engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with a minor," that Portway will be required to register as a sex offender upon his release, limiting his future employment options, and there was "no evidence that (Portway) ever acted out any of his fantasies."
Portway, a former computer operator, also agreed to pay $10,000 in restitution fees.
Federal authorities are recommending that he go to prison for at least 27 years, according to other court documents filed last week.
"Portway has pled guilty to some of the most vile and heinous crimes known to our society," federal prosecutors wrote in a sentencing recommendation....
http://www.kcra.com/news/national/Man-in-kid-cannibalism-case-to-be-sentenced/-/11797450/21969264/-/epp26j/-/index.html
Monday, September 16, 2013
rapist Ariel Castro's death left victim Gina DeJesus' dad 'speechless', Explosive tell all book by Jimmy Savile's nephew
Cleveland kidnapper, rapist Ariel Castro's death left victim Gina DeJesus' dad 'speechless'
09/16/2013 By: Associated Press
LORAIN, Ohio - The father of one of three Cleveland women held captive for a decade says his family is "speechless" and surprised by the kidnapper's suicide in prison.
The Chronicle-Telegram in Elyria reports Felix DeJesus made the brief comments before appearing Saturday at the Hispanic Heritage parade in Lorain.
He said he and his wife were attending the parade along with one of the other victims, Michelle Knight, to draw attention to other kidnapping cases and efforts to reduce human trafficking....
http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/oh_lorain/cleveland-kidnapper-rapist-ariel-castros-death-left-victim-gina-dejesus-dad-speechless
Explosive tell all book by Jimmy Savile's nephew
JIMMY SAVILE'S nephew is to reveal shocking details of how the DJ’s famous friends helped hide his decades of sex abuse.
By Ciaran Hannah/Published 15th September 2013
Guy Marsden, 59, is writing a book with broadcaster and author Tony Horne about his disgraced uncle.
Now Savile’s circle of celebrity pals are living in fear of being named in the book.
Guy will reveal fresh details of the secret paedophile parties the BBC star hosted, some attended by his showbiz friends.
He will claim that Savile had influential members of the British legal system in his back pocket to allow him to act without fear of prosecution.
And he will also expose Savile’s secret links with members of foreign royal families – suggesting he could have abused countless victims from overseas.
Roofer Guy from Leeds, West Yorks, decided to write the book after staying silent for years over the Jim’ll Fix It star’s shameful secret life.
He said: “I have written a book based on all my experiences of my uncle from the age of 13. I couldn’t live with the guilt of knowing so much and staying silent any longer....
A joint police and NSPCC report published in January declared that, with at least 450 victims, Savile, who died in 2011 aged 84, was one of Britain’s most prolific sex offenders.
Metropolitan Police Commander Peter Spindler said Savile “groomed the nation” by raising millions for charity while using his status as a platform for abuse.
In July police discovered the names and sexual details of hundreds of girls scrawled across a wall of a Manchester record shop....
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/338683/Explosive-tell-all-book-by-Jimmy-Savile-s-nephew
09/16/2013 By: Associated Press
LORAIN, Ohio - The father of one of three Cleveland women held captive for a decade says his family is "speechless" and surprised by the kidnapper's suicide in prison.
The Chronicle-Telegram in Elyria reports Felix DeJesus made the brief comments before appearing Saturday at the Hispanic Heritage parade in Lorain.
He said he and his wife were attending the parade along with one of the other victims, Michelle Knight, to draw attention to other kidnapping cases and efforts to reduce human trafficking....
http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/oh_lorain/cleveland-kidnapper-rapist-ariel-castros-death-left-victim-gina-dejesus-dad-speechless
Explosive tell all book by Jimmy Savile's nephew
JIMMY SAVILE'S nephew is to reveal shocking details of how the DJ’s famous friends helped hide his decades of sex abuse.
By Ciaran Hannah/Published 15th September 2013
Guy Marsden, 59, is writing a book with broadcaster and author Tony Horne about his disgraced uncle.
Now Savile’s circle of celebrity pals are living in fear of being named in the book.
Guy will reveal fresh details of the secret paedophile parties the BBC star hosted, some attended by his showbiz friends.
He will claim that Savile had influential members of the British legal system in his back pocket to allow him to act without fear of prosecution.
And he will also expose Savile’s secret links with members of foreign royal families – suggesting he could have abused countless victims from overseas.
Roofer Guy from Leeds, West Yorks, decided to write the book after staying silent for years over the Jim’ll Fix It star’s shameful secret life.
He said: “I have written a book based on all my experiences of my uncle from the age of 13. I couldn’t live with the guilt of knowing so much and staying silent any longer....
A joint police and NSPCC report published in January declared that, with at least 450 victims, Savile, who died in 2011 aged 84, was one of Britain’s most prolific sex offenders.
Metropolitan Police Commander Peter Spindler said Savile “groomed the nation” by raising millions for charity while using his status as a platform for abuse.
In July police discovered the names and sexual details of hundreds of girls scrawled across a wall of a Manchester record shop....
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/338683/Explosive-tell-all-book-by-Jimmy-Savile-s-nephew
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Lifetime effects of child abuse, Mind-Control Survivors Breaking Their Silence
New report finds that effects of child abuse and neglect, if untreated, can last a lifetime
By Brigid Schulte, Published: September 12, 2013
In the first major study of child abuse and neglect in 20 years, researchers with the National Academy of Sciences reported Thursday that the damaging consequences of abuse can not only reshape a child's brain but also last a lifetime.
Untreated, the effects of child abuse and neglect, the researchers found, can profoundly influence victims' physical and mental health, their ability to control emotions and impulses, their achievement in school, and the relationships they form as children and as adults.
The researchers recommended an "immediate, coordinated" national strategy to better understand, treat and prevent child abuse and neglect, noting that each year, abuse and neglect costs an estimated $80 billion in the direct costs of hospitalization, law enforcement and child welfare and the indirect costs of special education, juvenile and adult criminal justice, adult homelessness, and lost work productivity....
The report, produced at the request of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, found that while rates of physical and sexual child abuse have declined in the past 20 years, rates of emotional and psychological abuse, the kind that can produce the most serious long-lasting -effects, have increased. Rates of neglect have held fairly steady. Researchers said they do not know why....
Every year, child-protection agencies receive 3 million referrals for child abuse and neglect involving about 6 million children, the report found, though with unreported instances, the actual number is probably much higher, the researchers said. And, the report noted, about 80 percent of the children in investigated abuse and neglect cases are not removed from the home.
Child victims are equally likely to be male or female, the report found. The majority are younger than 5. About 80 percent of the perpetrators are parents, the vast majority biological parents. More than half of the perpetrators are female.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/new-report-finds-that-untreated-the-effects-of-child-abuse-and-neglect-can-last-a-lifetime/2013/09/12/1edc0bdc-1bc7-11e3-82ef-a059e54c49d0_story.html
Are Mind-Control Survivors Breaking Their Silence?
Judy Byington Saratoga Springs Child Abuse Examiner
September 14, 2013
Survivors of the CIA mind-control program are speaking out about their childhood torture. They are outraged that as children, they were emotionally, physically and sexually abused by US government and military employees in brainwashing experiments, claim our tax payer dollars are still being used to exploit children and are requesting a Congressional investigation.
Several survivors have agreed to testify, although after the 1977 and 1995 Congressional hearings, testimonies were hushed up. http://goo.gl/i8uTbG http://goo.gl/xLm4kf http://goo.gl/tGuKg8
To support the petition "Request Congressional Investigation: CIA Mind-control of Children" addressed to President Obama and members of the US Senate and House of Representatives go to:
http://www.change.org/petitions/us-congress-survivors-request-investigation-cia-mind-control-of-children ....
The petition requesting Congress for an investigation is sponsored by a coalition of child abuse advocates: Neil Brick, Stop Mind Control and Ritual Abuse Today (SMART http://ritualabuse.us ), Judy Byington, Child Abuse Recovery (CAR http://ww.ChildAbuseRecovery.com ) and Kevin Annett, International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS http://www.itccs.org .
http://www.examiner.com/article/are-mind-control-survivors-breaking-their-silence
By Brigid Schulte, Published: September 12, 2013
In the first major study of child abuse and neglect in 20 years, researchers with the National Academy of Sciences reported Thursday that the damaging consequences of abuse can not only reshape a child's brain but also last a lifetime.
Untreated, the effects of child abuse and neglect, the researchers found, can profoundly influence victims' physical and mental health, their ability to control emotions and impulses, their achievement in school, and the relationships they form as children and as adults.
The researchers recommended an "immediate, coordinated" national strategy to better understand, treat and prevent child abuse and neglect, noting that each year, abuse and neglect costs an estimated $80 billion in the direct costs of hospitalization, law enforcement and child welfare and the indirect costs of special education, juvenile and adult criminal justice, adult homelessness, and lost work productivity....
The report, produced at the request of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, found that while rates of physical and sexual child abuse have declined in the past 20 years, rates of emotional and psychological abuse, the kind that can produce the most serious long-lasting -effects, have increased. Rates of neglect have held fairly steady. Researchers said they do not know why....
Every year, child-protection agencies receive 3 million referrals for child abuse and neglect involving about 6 million children, the report found, though with unreported instances, the actual number is probably much higher, the researchers said. And, the report noted, about 80 percent of the children in investigated abuse and neglect cases are not removed from the home.
Child victims are equally likely to be male or female, the report found. The majority are younger than 5. About 80 percent of the perpetrators are parents, the vast majority biological parents. More than half of the perpetrators are female.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/new-report-finds-that-untreated-the-effects-of-child-abuse-and-neglect-can-last-a-lifetime/2013/09/12/1edc0bdc-1bc7-11e3-82ef-a059e54c49d0_story.html
Are Mind-Control Survivors Breaking Their Silence?
Judy Byington Saratoga Springs Child Abuse Examiner
September 14, 2013
Survivors of the CIA mind-control program are speaking out about their childhood torture. They are outraged that as children, they were emotionally, physically and sexually abused by US government and military employees in brainwashing experiments, claim our tax payer dollars are still being used to exploit children and are requesting a Congressional investigation.
Several survivors have agreed to testify, although after the 1977 and 1995 Congressional hearings, testimonies were hushed up. http://goo.gl/i8uTbG http://goo.gl/xLm4kf http://goo.gl/tGuKg8
To support the petition "Request Congressional Investigation: CIA Mind-control of Children" addressed to President Obama and members of the US Senate and House of Representatives go to:
http://www.change.org/petitions/us-congress-survivors-request-investigation-cia-mind-control-of-children ....
The petition requesting Congress for an investigation is sponsored by a coalition of child abuse advocates: Neil Brick, Stop Mind Control and Ritual Abuse Today (SMART http://ritualabuse.us ), Judy Byington, Child Abuse Recovery (CAR http://ww.ChildAbuseRecovery.com ) and Kevin Annett, International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS http://www.itccs.org .
http://www.examiner.com/article/are-mind-control-survivors-breaking-their-silence
Friday, September 13, 2013
How MP Cyril Smith got away with child abuse
How MP Cyril Smith got away with child abuse
Thursday 12 September 2013 UK
During his lifetime Cyril Smith was one of the UK's best-known politicians. But a new investigation shows that security services held on to a file with evidence of the Liberal MP's child abuse.
But an investigation by Channel 4's Dispatches programme shows that UK security services held on to evidence of the Liberal MP's child abuse.
Ready to prosecute
In the late 1960s Lancashire police carried out several investigations into Smith's behaviour, compiling an 80-page file. The suggestion is that police were ready to prosecute.
However, veiled threats from local Liberals - including Jack McCann, Smith's predecessor as MP for Rochdale, who spoke to the DPP on Smith's behalf - meant the case was dropped and the file locked away in a safe at Special Branch, which has responsibility for national security.... http://www.channel4.com/news/cyril-smith-child-abuse-mi5-rochdale-elm
Thursday 12 September 2013 UK
During his lifetime Cyril Smith was one of the UK's best-known politicians. But a new investigation shows that security services held on to a file with evidence of the Liberal MP's child abuse.
But an investigation by Channel 4's Dispatches programme shows that UK security services held on to evidence of the Liberal MP's child abuse.
Ready to prosecute
In the late 1960s Lancashire police carried out several investigations into Smith's behaviour, compiling an 80-page file. The suggestion is that police were ready to prosecute.
However, veiled threats from local Liberals - including Jack McCann, Smith's predecessor as MP for Rochdale, who spoke to the DPP on Smith's behalf - meant the case was dropped and the file locked away in a safe at Special Branch, which has responsibility for national security.... http://www.channel4.com/news/cyril-smith-child-abuse-mi5-rochdale-elm
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Survivors Ask Congress to Investigate CIA Mind-control of Children, Former Radio One DJ Chris Denning re-arrested by Jimmy Savile detectives
Survivors Ask Congress to Investigate CIA Mind-control of Children
Judy Byington Saratoga Springs Child Abuse Examiner September 11, 2013
From ages four through fourteen Chris DeNicola testified that she was subjected to radiation, drugs, electrodes, plus endured sexual and other abuses. The torture was directed by head of the CIA mind-control program, a Dr. Green. Tests were designed to split her young mind into parts, create multiple personalities and train her to be an assassin. http://goo.gl/tGuKg8
Survivors of CIA mind-control experiments are requesting Congress to investigate. The petition can be signed by going to: http://www.change.org/petitions/request-congressional-investigation-cia-mind-control-of-children
....According to survivors, the torture of children is continuing today. There are 21 mind-control survivors, therapists and supporters including Actress and Activist Roseanne Barr who signed a letter to members of Congress asking for an investigation of the CIA mind-control program. http://www.ChildAbuseRecovery.com
....The CIA employed doctors and psychologists to monitor its "enhanced interrogation" of detainees at Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram and other US detention sites. These professionals may even have committed unlawful human experimentation according to a medical ethics watchdog, the Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). Their concerns are recorded in an April 2013 leaked report by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
....The Nuremberg Code states that voluntary consent of subjects is essential and that all unnecessary physical and mental suffering should be avoided. Two years after the Nuremberg Code 195 countries ratified the Geneva convention which banned medical experiments on prisoners. Evidently, children haven't been accorded this same basic protection. Survivors of CIA mind-control talk of being sold by relatives into the CIA mind-control program to suffer a childhood of rape, torture and witness to murder.
http://www.examiner.com/article/survivors-ask-congress-to-investigate-cia-mind-control-of-children
Former Radio One DJ Chris Denning re-arrested by Jimmy Savile detectives
THE police squad behind the Jimmy Savile sex abuse investigation have re-arrested former Radio One DJ Chris Denning, it emerged this evening.
By: Dion Dassanayake Published: Tue, September 10, 2013
Operation Yewtree, the squad set up after allegations against the Jim'll Fix It star emerged, re-arrested 72-year-old Denning at an East London address.
The former radio presenter, who was bailed until October, was originally arrested on June 3 2013 on suspicion of sexual offences and then released....
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/428399/Former-Radio-One-DJ-Chris-Denning-re-arrested-by-Jimmy-Savile-detectives
Judy Byington Saratoga Springs Child Abuse Examiner September 11, 2013
From ages four through fourteen Chris DeNicola testified that she was subjected to radiation, drugs, electrodes, plus endured sexual and other abuses. The torture was directed by head of the CIA mind-control program, a Dr. Green. Tests were designed to split her young mind into parts, create multiple personalities and train her to be an assassin. http://goo.gl/tGuKg8
Survivors of CIA mind-control experiments are requesting Congress to investigate. The petition can be signed by going to: http://www.change.org/petitions/request-congressional-investigation-cia-mind-control-of-children
....According to survivors, the torture of children is continuing today. There are 21 mind-control survivors, therapists and supporters including Actress and Activist Roseanne Barr who signed a letter to members of Congress asking for an investigation of the CIA mind-control program. http://www.ChildAbuseRecovery.com
....The CIA employed doctors and psychologists to monitor its "enhanced interrogation" of detainees at Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram and other US detention sites. These professionals may even have committed unlawful human experimentation according to a medical ethics watchdog, the Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). Their concerns are recorded in an April 2013 leaked report by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
....The Nuremberg Code states that voluntary consent of subjects is essential and that all unnecessary physical and mental suffering should be avoided. Two years after the Nuremberg Code 195 countries ratified the Geneva convention which banned medical experiments on prisoners. Evidently, children haven't been accorded this same basic protection. Survivors of CIA mind-control talk of being sold by relatives into the CIA mind-control program to suffer a childhood of rape, torture and witness to murder.
http://www.examiner.com/article/survivors-ask-congress-to-investigate-cia-mind-control-of-children
Former Radio One DJ Chris Denning re-arrested by Jimmy Savile detectives
THE police squad behind the Jimmy Savile sex abuse investigation have re-arrested former Radio One DJ Chris Denning, it emerged this evening.
By: Dion Dassanayake Published: Tue, September 10, 2013
Operation Yewtree, the squad set up after allegations against the Jim'll Fix It star emerged, re-arrested 72-year-old Denning at an East London address.
The former radio presenter, who was bailed until October, was originally arrested on June 3 2013 on suspicion of sexual offences and then released....
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/428399/Former-Radio-One-DJ-Chris-Denning-re-arrested-by-Jimmy-Savile-detectives
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Almost a quarter of men 'admit to rape in parts of Asia'
By Tulip Mazumdar Global health reporter
9 September 2013
Almost a quarter of men surveyed in a UN report looking at violence against women in parts of Asia have admitted to committing at least one rape.
Rape was particularly common within relationships. However, one in 10 men admitted raping a woman who was not their partner.
Ten thousand men from six countries took part in the survey.
It is the first multi-country study to examine how widespread violence against women is and the reasons behind it.
Of those who admitted rape, just under half said they had done so more than once.
The prevalence of rape varied between countries.
In Papua New Guinea, more than six out of 10 men surveyed admitted forcing a woman to have sex.
It was least common in urban areas of Bangladesh, where it was just under one in 10 and Sri Lanka where it was just over one in 10.
In Cambodia, China and Indonesia it ranged from one in five to almost half of all men surveyed.
Percentage of men admitting rape
Papua New Guinea Bougainville Island - 62%
Indonesia Papua Province - 48.6%
Indonesia urban - 26.2%
China urban/rural - 22.2%
Cambodia - 20.4%
Indonesia rural - 19.5%
Sri Lanka - 14.5%
Bangladesh rural - 14.1%
Bangladesh urban - 9.5%
Source: United Nations
Part of the research has been published in The Lancet Global Health.
Sexual entitlement
Nearly three quarters of those who committed rape said they did so for reasons of "sexual entitlement".
Report author Dr Emma Fulu said: "They believed they had the right to have sex with the woman regardless of consent....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24021573
By Tulip Mazumdar Global health reporter
9 September 2013
Almost a quarter of men surveyed in a UN report looking at violence against women in parts of Asia have admitted to committing at least one rape.
Rape was particularly common within relationships. However, one in 10 men admitted raping a woman who was not their partner.
Ten thousand men from six countries took part in the survey.
It is the first multi-country study to examine how widespread violence against women is and the reasons behind it.
Of those who admitted rape, just under half said they had done so more than once.
The prevalence of rape varied between countries.
In Papua New Guinea, more than six out of 10 men surveyed admitted forcing a woman to have sex.
It was least common in urban areas of Bangladesh, where it was just under one in 10 and Sri Lanka where it was just over one in 10.
In Cambodia, China and Indonesia it ranged from one in five to almost half of all men surveyed.
Percentage of men admitting rape
Papua New Guinea Bougainville Island - 62%
Indonesia Papua Province - 48.6%
Indonesia urban - 26.2%
China urban/rural - 22.2%
Cambodia - 20.4%
Indonesia rural - 19.5%
Sri Lanka - 14.5%
Bangladesh rural - 14.1%
Bangladesh urban - 9.5%
Source: United Nations
Part of the research has been published in The Lancet Global Health.
Sexual entitlement
Nearly three quarters of those who committed rape said they did so for reasons of "sexual entitlement".
Report author Dr Emma Fulu said: "They believed they had the right to have sex with the woman regardless of consent....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24021573
Monday, September 9, 2013
Michele Knight's first public appearance since Ariel Castro's suicide, Savile researcher at abuse conference in Belfast
Cleveland Browns game: Michele Knight's first public appearance since Ariel Castro's suicide
The Cleveland kidnapping victim beamed with her family at FirstEnergy Stadium nearly a week after Castro hanged himself with a bed sheet in his jail cell.
By Michael Walsh / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
In life, Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro robbed a decade of Michele Knight's happiness. In death, he will not have that power — not if she has anything to do about it.
Knight, 32, was all smiles in her first public appearance since Castro....offed himself in a jail-cell last week after receiving life in prison without parole plus 1,000 years.
The brave woman smiled widely with her family at the Cleveland Browns football game against the Miami Dolphins Sunday afternoon....
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/michelle-knight-public-appearance-ariel-castro-suicide-article-1.1449489
Savile researcher at abuse conference in Belfast
Jimmy Savile The conference will allow experts to share understanding of child sex abuse 9 September 2013
The man who unmasked Jimmy Savile as one of the UK's worst paedophiles will be among the speakers at a conference on child abuse being held in Belfast.
Former detective Mark Williams-Thomas is a child protection expert, criminologist, and TV presenter.
Mr Thomas researched and presented the ITV documentary that exposed Savile's history of sexual abuse.
Also speaking will be Peter Spindler, the former lead officer on Operation Yewtree, the police investigation sparked by the Savile revelations.
Speakers will address issues such as the motivations, influences and deterrents to offending. Other talks will look at how paedophiles infiltrate schools, charities and sporting bodies to gain opportunity and access to children....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-24007180
The Cleveland kidnapping victim beamed with her family at FirstEnergy Stadium nearly a week after Castro hanged himself with a bed sheet in his jail cell.
By Michael Walsh / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
In life, Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro robbed a decade of Michele Knight's happiness. In death, he will not have that power — not if she has anything to do about it.
Knight, 32, was all smiles in her first public appearance since Castro....offed himself in a jail-cell last week after receiving life in prison without parole plus 1,000 years.
The brave woman smiled widely with her family at the Cleveland Browns football game against the Miami Dolphins Sunday afternoon....
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/michelle-knight-public-appearance-ariel-castro-suicide-article-1.1449489
Savile researcher at abuse conference in Belfast
Jimmy Savile The conference will allow experts to share understanding of child sex abuse 9 September 2013
The man who unmasked Jimmy Savile as one of the UK's worst paedophiles will be among the speakers at a conference on child abuse being held in Belfast.
Former detective Mark Williams-Thomas is a child protection expert, criminologist, and TV presenter.
Mr Thomas researched and presented the ITV documentary that exposed Savile's history of sexual abuse.
Also speaking will be Peter Spindler, the former lead officer on Operation Yewtree, the police investigation sparked by the Savile revelations.
Speakers will address issues such as the motivations, influences and deterrents to offending. Other talks will look at how paedophiles infiltrate schools, charities and sporting bodies to gain opportunity and access to children....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-24007180
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Survivorship Webinar - October 5 - “What it has been/is like for me to go from being split to having achieved full integration.”
Another great webinar coming up!
Survivorship webinars are open to everybody, not just Survivorship members, and are easy to join. If you can make a telephone call and click a button you are technically savvy enough to attend a Webinar. They are informal and survivor-friendly. You can take breaks if you need or ask for on-line or e-mail support if you get overwhelmed. They are informative and a great way to feel less isolated and they are totally private. There is no camera and you can choose any user name you wish. CEUs may be available upon request.
Saturday, October 5, 2013
12:00 noon Pacific Time
Presenter: Alison
“What it has been/is like for me to go from being split to having achieved full integration.”
What it has been/is like for me to go from being split into over 30 parts for the past 30 plus years to having achieved full integration, with a few surprises along the way as of April 15 of this year, and what it’s like living as a whole person, after being dissociated and living life as a multiple for the past 38 years. As well as what lies ahead for me now that I am integrated and facing the world from a whole new perspective.
A life long advocate for justice in every facet of society, Alison has consistently refused to take “no” for an answer when the moral imperative shouts “yes,” regardless of inconvenience to the status quo.
Alison a survivor of inter-generational cult abuse from Canada., diagnosed with MPD/DID at the age of 18, has been determined to live a life free from the fear of being abused in the future, achieved her dream and in 2010, and no longer lives in constant fear for her life. Over the past 3 1/2 years of intensive psycho-therapy, Alison has achieved integration and on April 15th of this year went from being split into multiple different parts to one whole person, and is now in the process of learning to live her life coping with this new reality. When not working publicly as an activist, she creates and shares music with others, reminding us all that justice and art can hold hands. Alison currently works part-time as a Piano teacher and is a member of her local paper’s Community Editorial Board, responsible for writing a bimonthly op-ed column on a topic of her choosing.
REGISTRATION
Registration closes Thursday evening October 3, 2013
To reserve a space in the webinar, e-mail Shamai at shamai@survivorship.org and give her this information:
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If you wish to pay by check please send it to: Survivorship, Family Justice Center, 470 27th Street, Oakland, CA 94612.
PAST WEBINARS
Survivorship members may listen to past webinars in the members’ section.
We strive to present all webinars in our archives, and sometimes, for technical reasons, we are unable to.
For information on joining Survivorship, go to http://www.survivorship.org/about/membership.html
Complete details on all our webinars are at http://www.survivorship.org/webinars.html
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact Shamai@survivorship.org
Survivorship webinars are open to everybody, not just Survivorship members, and are easy to join. If you can make a telephone call and click a button you are technically savvy enough to attend a Webinar. They are informal and survivor-friendly. You can take breaks if you need or ask for on-line or e-mail support if you get overwhelmed. They are informative and a great way to feel less isolated and they are totally private. There is no camera and you can choose any user name you wish. CEUs may be available upon request.
Saturday, October 5, 2013
12:00 noon Pacific Time
Presenter: Alison
“What it has been/is like for me to go from being split to having achieved full integration.”
What it has been/is like for me to go from being split into over 30 parts for the past 30 plus years to having achieved full integration, with a few surprises along the way as of April 15 of this year, and what it’s like living as a whole person, after being dissociated and living life as a multiple for the past 38 years. As well as what lies ahead for me now that I am integrated and facing the world from a whole new perspective.
A life long advocate for justice in every facet of society, Alison has consistently refused to take “no” for an answer when the moral imperative shouts “yes,” regardless of inconvenience to the status quo.
Alison a survivor of inter-generational cult abuse from Canada., diagnosed with MPD/DID at the age of 18, has been determined to live a life free from the fear of being abused in the future, achieved her dream and in 2010, and no longer lives in constant fear for her life. Over the past 3 1/2 years of intensive psycho-therapy, Alison has achieved integration and on April 15th of this year went from being split into multiple different parts to one whole person, and is now in the process of learning to live her life coping with this new reality. When not working publicly as an activist, she creates and shares music with others, reminding us all that justice and art can hold hands. Alison currently works part-time as a Piano teacher and is a member of her local paper’s Community Editorial Board, responsible for writing a bimonthly op-ed column on a topic of her choosing.
REGISTRATION
Registration closes Thursday evening October 3, 2013
To reserve a space in the webinar, e-mail Shamai at shamai@survivorship.org and give her this information:
1. Your name
2. The webinar you wish to attend: What it has been/is like
3. Amount and method of payment (check, PayPal, money order)
4. Your preferred e-mail address (so we can send you instructions)
5. The name you will be using for the webinar. (This does not have to be your real name or your message board screen name.)
You will receive a confirmation email immediately and an invitation link and instructions after the registration closes. Even though you register with Survivorship, please remember to register with the webinar invitation link in order to get all the information you will need.
COST
Webinars are on a sliding scale from $50.00 to full scholarship (while we offer full scholarships for webinars please consider paying whatever you are able to. Even $5 will help to cover the cost of the webinar provider). Please remember to factor in the cost of the telephone call if you don’t have a computer headset. The PayPal button is near the bottom of the page at http://www.survivorship.org/webinars.html
If you wish to pay by check please send it to: Survivorship, Family Justice Center, 470 27th Street, Oakland, CA 94612.
PAST WEBINARS
Survivorship members may listen to past webinars in the members’ section.
We strive to present all webinars in our archives, and sometimes, for technical reasons, we are unable to.
For information on joining Survivorship, go to http://www.survivorship.org/about/membership.html
Complete details on all our webinars are at http://www.survivorship.org/webinars.html
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact Shamai@survivorship.org
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Ariel Castro describes abduction during FBI interrogation, Police free teens caught up in sex trafficking ring
Nightly News September 06, 2013
Ariel Castro describes abduction during FBI interrogation
In video obtained of Ariel Castro’s FBI interrogation, the now deceased kidnapper of three Ohio women describes the chilling details of their capture and how he came close to getting caught on several occasions. NBC’s Kate Snow reports.
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/52942356/#52942356
NBC News September 06, 2013
Police free teens caught up in sex trafficking ring
Three adults are accused of running a teen prostitution ring out of a Kentucky massage parlor. WAVE’s Sherrell Hubbard reports.
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbc-news/52937533/#52937533
Ariel Castro describes abduction during FBI interrogation
In video obtained of Ariel Castro’s FBI interrogation, the now deceased kidnapper of three Ohio women describes the chilling details of their capture and how he came close to getting caught on several occasions. NBC’s Kate Snow reports.
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/52942356/#52942356
NBC News September 06, 2013
Police free teens caught up in sex trafficking ring
Three adults are accused of running a teen prostitution ring out of a Kentucky massage parlor. WAVE’s Sherrell Hubbard reports.
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbc-news/52937533/#52937533
Friday, September 6, 2013
Why are Survivors of CIA Mind-control Claiming Children are Tortured Today?, Bill expanding child abuse victims' rights to sue heads to governor, nabbed for aborted ritual killing
Why are Survivors of CIA Mind-control Claiming Children are Tortured Today?
Judy Byington Saratoga Springs Child Abuse Examiner September 6, 2013
Survivors of CIA mind-control are sending letters to Capitol Hill requesting a Congressional investigation of the CIA mind-control program that began in 1950 and supposedly shut down in 1964. Survivors hope to bring public awareness for children still subjected to this illegal human experimentation.
Survivors claim that beginning at age four or even in infancy and for the purpose of creating "CIA Super Spies," they were subjected to chemicals, radiation, drugs, hypnosis, electric shock, isolation, sleep, food and other deprivations, along with verbal, emotional and sexual abuse.
These survivors of child abuse so severe it created Dissociate Identity Disorder or multiple personalities, are brave to speak out. In the 2007 Extreme Abuse Surveys there were 147 survivors who answered "yes" when asked if they were currently being accessed or abused against their will by government mind-control perpetrators. http://extreme-abuse-survey.net/ ....
Survivors are banding together under the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS http://www.itccs.org ), Child Abuse Recovery (CAR http://www.ChildAbuseRecovery.com ) and Stop Mind Control and Ritual Abuse Today (SMART http://ritualabuse.us ) to ask members of Congress.... http://www.examiner.com/article/why-are-survivors-of-cia-mind-control-claiming-children-are-tortured-today
Malawi woman, boy nabbed for aborted ritual killing
By Collins Mtika, Nyasa Times September 5, 2013
Police in the northern region district of Chitipa have arrested a 29 year old woman and a 14 year old boy for an aborted ritual killing of a five year old child.
Northern Region Police Spokesperson Norah Chimwala confirmed the arrests saying the incident happened at Kamphoyo Village, Traditional Authority Nthalire.
The duo will answer charges of kidnapping contrary to Section 260 of the Penal Code and attracts a maximum sentence of 10 years,
The first suspect Wezzie Mbambala of Nthalire Village, Traditional Authority Nthalire in the district had promised the boy (name withheld) MK15,000 if he could deliver the Heart of a young boy.
Mbambala wanted to sell the Heart to a businessman who would then use it for charms to enrich him, she claimed in her warn and caution statement....http://www.nyasatimes.com/2013/09/05/malawi-woman-boy-nabbed-for-aborted-ritual-killing/
Bill expanding child abuse victims' rights to sue heads to governor By Patrick McGreevy September 6, 2013
SACRAMENTO -- The Senate approved a measure Friday that would make it easier for some child abuse victims to sue private or nonprofit employers for failing to protect them from molesters.
The bill, which is opposed by the Catholic Church, squeaked by on a 21-8 vote and now heads to the governor. The bill would allow some child abuse victims more time to file lawsuits against private institutions such as parochial schools, but would not apply to public schools. Some victims for whom the statute of limitations has expired would get a new one-year window during which they could bring a lawsuit.
Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) disclosed during the floor debate that he was a victim of child abuse by a family member. He said the legislation is needed because it sometimes takes decades for people to admit they were molested.
“I was alone trying to understand what happened to me for many years,” Lara said. “I couldn’t go to anyone.”....http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-senate-supports-extending-statute-of-limitations-for-child-abuse-victims-20130906,0,4906855.story
Judy Byington Saratoga Springs Child Abuse Examiner September 6, 2013
Survivors of CIA mind-control are sending letters to Capitol Hill requesting a Congressional investigation of the CIA mind-control program that began in 1950 and supposedly shut down in 1964. Survivors hope to bring public awareness for children still subjected to this illegal human experimentation.
Survivors claim that beginning at age four or even in infancy and for the purpose of creating "CIA Super Spies," they were subjected to chemicals, radiation, drugs, hypnosis, electric shock, isolation, sleep, food and other deprivations, along with verbal, emotional and sexual abuse.
These survivors of child abuse so severe it created Dissociate Identity Disorder or multiple personalities, are brave to speak out. In the 2007 Extreme Abuse Surveys there were 147 survivors who answered "yes" when asked if they were currently being accessed or abused against their will by government mind-control perpetrators. http://extreme-abuse-survey.net/ ....
Survivors are banding together under the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS http://www.itccs.org ), Child Abuse Recovery (CAR http://www.ChildAbuseRecovery.com ) and Stop Mind Control and Ritual Abuse Today (SMART http://ritualabuse.us ) to ask members of Congress.... http://www.examiner.com/article/why-are-survivors-of-cia-mind-control-claiming-children-are-tortured-today
Malawi woman, boy nabbed for aborted ritual killing
By Collins Mtika, Nyasa Times September 5, 2013
Police in the northern region district of Chitipa have arrested a 29 year old woman and a 14 year old boy for an aborted ritual killing of a five year old child.
Northern Region Police Spokesperson Norah Chimwala confirmed the arrests saying the incident happened at Kamphoyo Village, Traditional Authority Nthalire.
The duo will answer charges of kidnapping contrary to Section 260 of the Penal Code and attracts a maximum sentence of 10 years,
The first suspect Wezzie Mbambala of Nthalire Village, Traditional Authority Nthalire in the district had promised the boy (name withheld) MK15,000 if he could deliver the Heart of a young boy.
Mbambala wanted to sell the Heart to a businessman who would then use it for charms to enrich him, she claimed in her warn and caution statement....http://www.nyasatimes.com/2013/09/05/malawi-woman-boy-nabbed-for-aborted-ritual-killing/
Bill expanding child abuse victims' rights to sue heads to governor By Patrick McGreevy September 6, 2013
SACRAMENTO -- The Senate approved a measure Friday that would make it easier for some child abuse victims to sue private or nonprofit employers for failing to protect them from molesters.
The bill, which is opposed by the Catholic Church, squeaked by on a 21-8 vote and now heads to the governor. The bill would allow some child abuse victims more time to file lawsuits against private institutions such as parochial schools, but would not apply to public schools. Some victims for whom the statute of limitations has expired would get a new one-year window during which they could bring a lawsuit.
Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) disclosed during the floor debate that he was a victim of child abuse by a family member. He said the legislation is needed because it sometimes takes decades for people to admit they were molested.
“I was alone trying to understand what happened to me for many years,” Lara said. “I couldn’t go to anyone.”....http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-senate-supports-extending-statute-of-limitations-for-child-abuse-victims-20130906,0,4906855.story
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Ariel Castro's lawyer says suicide not 'happy ending' as victims remain silent, A Big Win for Child Crime Victims
Ariel Castro's lawyer says suicide not 'happy ending' as victims remain silent By Lateef Mungin, CNN Thu September 5, 2013
(CNN) -- The reactions to Ariel Castro's death have ranged from tears to calling him a coward to demands for an investigation. But the three women who suffered in his control for about decade remained silent.
While there were strong opinions about Castro from many, a spokeswoman said Wednesday the three women would not make a statement.
Maria Castro-Montes, Castro's cousin, said she cried when she heard the news and immediately thought of the victims. Would they be glad or angry about Castro's death?
"I just hope these victims can move past this now. I know they wanted him to live out a life sentence, but really, was he suffering behind bars?" She said. "I mean, getting meals, sleeping in a nice, warm, soft bed. You know, those girls didn't even have that luxury when they were being held captive in his home. They were being raped. They were being tortured. They were being beaten."
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/05/justice/ariel-castro-cleveland-kidnapper-death/index.html
A Big Win for Child Crime Victims
By James R. Marsh on September 2, 2013
In a groundbreaking decision, a Florida federal court recently handed crime victims a significant victory, ruling for the first time that victims are entitled to confer with an assistant United States attorney before the Government enters a pre-charging, non-prosecution agreement with a defendant. Jane Doe v. United States, 08-cv-80736-KAM (S.D. Fla.). The case involved billionaire hedge fund operator Jeffrey Epstein, who induced minors to prostitute themselves, and then was granted what appears to be a special, sweetheart deal by the Feds without any victim notification or input, much less approval....
A. Facts
Jane Doe (a pseudonym used to protect her identity) is a victim of Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire hedge fund operator, who induced her and other minors to prostitute themselves. The FBI investigated Epstein and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida accepted it for prosecution.
In the summer of 2007, the government sent standard victim notification letters to Jane Doe and other victims. Shortly thereafter, it entered into a non-prosecution agreement with Epstein, but “without first conferring with [his victims] and without alerting [them] to the existence of the agreement either before or promptly after the fact.” Id. *1.
It was a sweetheart deal smacking of special privilege for a wealthy and well-connected political donor.
Epstein agreed to plead guilty to two state court charges—solicitation of prostitution and solicitation of minors to engage in prostitution—and received an 18 month sentence (of which he served only 13). Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, a defendant convicted of promoting commercial sex with a minor under these circumstances would be sentenced to significantly more time, at least two and probably three or four times what Epstein received in Florida state court. The non-prosecution agreement also contained a special provision in which the federal prosecutor and Epstein expressed their “anticipat[ion]” that the “agreement will not be made part of any public record.” Id....
http://www.childlaw.us/2013/09/a-big-win-for-child-crime-vict.html
(CNN) -- The reactions to Ariel Castro's death have ranged from tears to calling him a coward to demands for an investigation. But the three women who suffered in his control for about decade remained silent.
While there were strong opinions about Castro from many, a spokeswoman said Wednesday the three women would not make a statement.
Maria Castro-Montes, Castro's cousin, said she cried when she heard the news and immediately thought of the victims. Would they be glad or angry about Castro's death?
"I just hope these victims can move past this now. I know they wanted him to live out a life sentence, but really, was he suffering behind bars?" She said. "I mean, getting meals, sleeping in a nice, warm, soft bed. You know, those girls didn't even have that luxury when they were being held captive in his home. They were being raped. They were being tortured. They were being beaten."
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/05/justice/ariel-castro-cleveland-kidnapper-death/index.html
A Big Win for Child Crime Victims
By James R. Marsh on September 2, 2013
In a groundbreaking decision, a Florida federal court recently handed crime victims a significant victory, ruling for the first time that victims are entitled to confer with an assistant United States attorney before the Government enters a pre-charging, non-prosecution agreement with a defendant. Jane Doe v. United States, 08-cv-80736-KAM (S.D. Fla.). The case involved billionaire hedge fund operator Jeffrey Epstein, who induced minors to prostitute themselves, and then was granted what appears to be a special, sweetheart deal by the Feds without any victim notification or input, much less approval....
A. Facts
Jane Doe (a pseudonym used to protect her identity) is a victim of Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire hedge fund operator, who induced her and other minors to prostitute themselves. The FBI investigated Epstein and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida accepted it for prosecution.
In the summer of 2007, the government sent standard victim notification letters to Jane Doe and other victims. Shortly thereafter, it entered into a non-prosecution agreement with Epstein, but “without first conferring with [his victims] and without alerting [them] to the existence of the agreement either before or promptly after the fact.” Id. *1.
It was a sweetheart deal smacking of special privilege for a wealthy and well-connected political donor.
Epstein agreed to plead guilty to two state court charges—solicitation of prostitution and solicitation of minors to engage in prostitution—and received an 18 month sentence (of which he served only 13). Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, a defendant convicted of promoting commercial sex with a minor under these circumstances would be sentenced to significantly more time, at least two and probably three or four times what Epstein received in Florida state court. The non-prosecution agreement also contained a special provision in which the federal prosecutor and Epstein expressed their “anticipat[ion]” that the “agreement will not be made part of any public record.” Id....
http://www.childlaw.us/2013/09/a-big-win-for-child-crime-vict.html
Monday, September 2, 2013
Police break up 'drug-fueled orgy' at Masonic Lodge, Are Children Being Tortured in CIA Mind-Control Experiments?
Police break up 'drug-fueled orgy' at Masonic Lodge after finding women dancing naked on stage and men filming sex acts By Daily Mail Reporter 1 September 2013
Police in Michigan have broken up a shocking 'drug-fueled orgy' being hosted at a secretive Masonic Lodge - and this wasn't the first time it's happened, authorities warn.
Officers were called to the prominent building in downtown Battle Creek, Michigan - which sits across a park from police headquarters - about 2.15am Sunday. They found five women dancing on stage naked.
They also reportedly discovered a couple having sex in the lodge and several men standing around filming the action.
....Police sources told WWMT that officers found a 'drug-fueled sex party' in the building and sent the revelers home.
The Battle Creek Freemasons refused to comment on camera for the TV station, but insisted that the orgy was not part of the secret society's rituals. They said the party was not sponsored by their group at all.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2408655/Police-break-drug-fueled-orgy-Masonic-Lodge-finding-women-dancing-naked-stage-men-filming-sex-acts.html
Are Children Being Tortured in CIA Mind-Control Experiments?
September 1, 2013
Did the 1995 President's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments do nothing when victims testified that children were being kidnapped, raped and tortured in CIA mind-control experiments?
If the CIA mind-control program MKULTRA ended in 1964, then why are there mind-control survivors claiming that after 1964 they were tortured in government experimentation?
Why are survivors claiming that even today the US government is exploiting children in mind-control experiments?....
Survivors are holding a Press Conference to request a Congressional Investigation on Wednesday, September 4th at 7 PM at the Henry George School of Social Science 121 East 30th Street New York, NY 10016.
Child abuse survivors are uniting under Kevin Annett's International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS http://www.itccs.org ) to fight child exploitation networks. Among those joining Annett will be Neil Brick of Stop Mind Control and Ritual Abuse Today (SMART http://ritualabuse.us ) and Child Abuse Recovery (CAR http://www.ChildAbuseRecovery.com ).
http://www.examiner.com/article/are-children-being-tortured-cia-mind-control-experiments#sthash.XjflOYCQ.dpuf
Police in Michigan have broken up a shocking 'drug-fueled orgy' being hosted at a secretive Masonic Lodge - and this wasn't the first time it's happened, authorities warn.
Officers were called to the prominent building in downtown Battle Creek, Michigan - which sits across a park from police headquarters - about 2.15am Sunday. They found five women dancing on stage naked.
They also reportedly discovered a couple having sex in the lodge and several men standing around filming the action.
....Police sources told WWMT that officers found a 'drug-fueled sex party' in the building and sent the revelers home.
The Battle Creek Freemasons refused to comment on camera for the TV station, but insisted that the orgy was not part of the secret society's rituals. They said the party was not sponsored by their group at all.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2408655/Police-break-drug-fueled-orgy-Masonic-Lodge-finding-women-dancing-naked-stage-men-filming-sex-acts.html
Are Children Being Tortured in CIA Mind-Control Experiments?
September 1, 2013
Did the 1995 President's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments do nothing when victims testified that children were being kidnapped, raped and tortured in CIA mind-control experiments?
If the CIA mind-control program MKULTRA ended in 1964, then why are there mind-control survivors claiming that after 1964 they were tortured in government experimentation?
Why are survivors claiming that even today the US government is exploiting children in mind-control experiments?....
Survivors are holding a Press Conference to request a Congressional Investigation on Wednesday, September 4th at 7 PM at the Henry George School of Social Science 121 East 30th Street New York, NY 10016.
Child abuse survivors are uniting under Kevin Annett's International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS http://www.itccs.org ) to fight child exploitation networks. Among those joining Annett will be Neil Brick of Stop Mind Control and Ritual Abuse Today (SMART http://ritualabuse.us ) and Child Abuse Recovery (CAR http://www.ChildAbuseRecovery.com ).
http://www.examiner.com/article/are-children-being-tortured-cia-mind-control-experiments#sthash.XjflOYCQ.dpuf
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Italian politicians to meet with Kevin Annett and ITCCS to plan "comprehensive campaign to de-secularize" the Vatican
“Spiritual Assembly” to convene on September 22 in Rome and twenty one countries
Posted on August 26, 2013 by itccs
Italian politicians to meet with Kevin Annett and ITCCS to plan "comprehensive campaign to de-secularize" the Vatican
Rome -
The campaign for justice by victims of the Roman Catholic Church took a major step forward this past weekend when two political parties in Italy agreed to meet with ITCCS officials in September.
The meeting will plan what an internal statement calls "a comprehensive political and legal campaign to de-secularize the church and bring it under the rule of law and democratic control".
This campaign will include as its aim the annulment of the so-called Lateran Treaty between Italy and the Vatican which protects the church from prosecution for its crimes against humanity.
Inspired by the August 4 Brussels Declaration of the ITCCS that proclaimed the Roman Catholic Church to be a transnational criminal body under international law, the Italian parties agreed that the time has arrived for "decisive political action in Italy on behalf of all the victims of the papacy"....
http://itccs.org/2013/08/26/spiritual-assembly-to-convene-on-september-22-in-rome-and-twenty-one-countries/
Posted on August 26, 2013 by itccs
Italian politicians to meet with Kevin Annett and ITCCS to plan "comprehensive campaign to de-secularize" the Vatican
Rome -
The campaign for justice by victims of the Roman Catholic Church took a major step forward this past weekend when two political parties in Italy agreed to meet with ITCCS officials in September.
The meeting will plan what an internal statement calls "a comprehensive political and legal campaign to de-secularize the church and bring it under the rule of law and democratic control".
This campaign will include as its aim the annulment of the so-called Lateran Treaty between Italy and the Vatican which protects the church from prosecution for its crimes against humanity.
Inspired by the August 4 Brussels Declaration of the ITCCS that proclaimed the Roman Catholic Church to be a transnational criminal body under international law, the Italian parties agreed that the time has arrived for "decisive political action in Italy on behalf of all the victims of the papacy"....
http://itccs.org/2013/08/26/spiritual-assembly-to-convene-on-september-22-in-rome-and-twenty-one-countries/
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