- Victim of notorious cult The Family is taking the infamous group's elderly
leader to court
- Verification of the accuracy of the book “Michelle
Remembers“
- Ritual abuse exists all over the world. There have been
reports, journal articles, web pages and criminal convictions of crimes against
children and adults.
'I want to dethrone her, and take away
her money': Victim of notorious cult The Family is taking the infamous group's
elderly leader to court
Leanne Creese spent 16 years trapped in
the Melbourne-based cult
She hopes to remove leader Anne Hamilton-Byrne's
legal guardians
The Family's assets are said to be worth upwards of $10
million
The action will be heard before the Victorian Civil and
Administrative Tribunal
By Matilda Rudd For Daily Mail Australia
4
September 2017
....The children, who had their hair bleached blonde and
shaped into the same bob, were allegedly beaten, starved and injected with LSD
by Hamilton-Byrne (pictured right) and other cult leaders
In total the
cult's assets are said to be worth up to $10 million, with properties in the
Dandenong Ranges near Melbourne and the United States.
Ms Creese, who
has previously shined light on the abuse and use of drugs inside the cult, told
The Age: 'I want to dethrone her, and take away her
money.'....
Hamilton-Byrne (pictured), one of very few female cult
leaders, was under the influence of LSD when she began collecting children in
Lake Eildon in central Victoria in the 1970s and 1980s in preparation for what
she believed was an apocalyptic war....
Police dramatically rescued the
traumatised children from the sect property in 1987 after three young women
managed to escape and alert police, survivor Ben Shenton previously told The
Today Show.
'What Anne indoctrinated people with, she took them as
vulnerable people and came up with a system which was very abusive. If they
disagree they were bullied, intimidated, people were separated from their
families,' Mr Shenton said....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4849392/Leanne-Creese-takes-Melbourne-cult-Family-court.html
Verification of
the accuracy of the book “Michelle Remembers“
by Michelle Smith and
Lawrence Pazder, MD from the book “A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER” pages xi –
xiii”
“Dr. Pazder’s credentials are impressive. He obtained his M.D. from
the University of Alberta in 1961; his diploma in tropical medicine from the
University Liverpool in 1962; and in 1968, his specialist certificate in
psychiatry and his diploma in psychological medicine from McGill University. In
1971, he was made a fellow of Canada’s Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons.
He is a member of three Canadian professional associations and of the American
Psychiatric Association as well. He practiced medicine in West Africa and has
participated in medical task forces and health organizations. He has been
chairman of the Mental Health Committee of the Health Planning Council for
British Columbia. A member of the staff of two hospitals in Victoria, British
Columbia -the Royal Jubilee and the Victoria General-he is in private practice
with a group of five psychiatrists. His professional papers include a study of
the long-term effects of stress upon concentration-camp victims.
Two
experienced interviewers journeyed to Victoria and talked to Dr. Pazder’s
colleagues, to the priests and the bishop who became involved in the case, to
doctors who treated Michelle Smith when she was a child, to relatives and
friends. From local newspaper, clergy, and police sources they learned that
reports of Satanism in Victoria are not infrequent and that Satanism has
apparently existed there for many years. Satanism in Western Canada flourished
in many areas with activities far more ominous than some of the innocuous groups
now found in parts of the United States who claim some connection with
Satanism.
The source material was scrutinized. The many thousands of
pages of transcript of the tape recordings that Dr. Pazder and Michelle Smith
made of their psychiatric sessions were read and digested; they became the basis
of this book. The tapes themselves were listened to in good measure, and the
videotapes made of some of his sessions were viewed. Both the audio and video
are powerfully convincing. It is nearly unthinkable that the protracted agony
they record could have been fabricated.”
Thomas B. Congdon, Jr New
York April 22, 1980
https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/day-care-and-child-abuse-cases/
Copied with permission from ChildAbuseWiki.org
Ritual
abuse exists all over the world. There have been reports, journal articles,
web pages and criminal convictions of crimes against children and
adults.
Definition
Ritual abuse has been defined as:
a
brutal form of abuse of children, adolescents, and adults, consisting of
physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, and involving the use of rituals.
Ritual does not necessarily mean satanic. However, most survivors state that
they were ritually abused as part of satanic worship for the purpose of
indoctrinating them into satanic beliefs and practices. Ritual abuse rarely
consists of a single episode. It usually involves repeated abuse over an
extended period of time. The physical abuse is severe, sometimes including
torture and killing. The sexual abuse is usually painful, sadistic, and
humiliating, intended as means of gaining dominance over the victim. The
psychological abuse is devastating and involves the use of
ritual/indoctrination, which includes mind control techniques and mind altering
drugs, and ritual/intimidation which conveys to the victim a profound terror of
the cult members and of the evil spirits they believe cult members can command.
Both during and after the abuse, most victims are in a state of terror, mind
control, and dissociation in which disclosure is exceedingly
difficult.
and as
WHAT IS RITUAL ABUSE? (BROAD DEFINITION)
Ritual abuse is the abuse of a child, weaker adult, or animal in a ritual
setting or manner. In a broad sense, many of our overtly or covertly socially
sanctioned actions can be seen as ritual abuse, such as military basic training,
hazing, racism, spanking children, and partner-battering. Some abuse is
private...some public. Public ritual abuse may be either open or secret. WHAT IS
RITUAL ABUSE? (NARROW DEFINITION) The term ritual abuse is generally used to
mean prolonged, extreme, sadistic abuse, especially of children, within a group
setting. The group's ideology is used to justify the abuse, and abuse is used to
teach the group's ideology. The activities are kept secret from society at
large, as they violate norms and laws.
Origins of the term
Pazder
introduced the term "ritualized abuse" in 1980, describing the experiences of an
adult survivor that was disclosing satanic abuse memories. He defined the
phenomenon as "repeated physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual assaults
combined with a systematic use of symbols, ceremonies, and machinations designed
and orchestrated to attain malevolent effects." Later definitions came mostly
from professionals addressing ritual abuse in child care settings. Finkelhor,
Williams, Burns, and Kalinowski elaborated on Pazder's definition, defining
ritual abuse as "abuse that occurs in a context linked to some symbols or group
activity that have a religious, magical or supernatural connotation, and where
the invocation of these symbols or activities are repeated over time and used to
frighten and intimidate the children." Kelley referred to ritual abuse as the
"repetitive and systematic sexual, physical, and psychological abuse of children
by adults as part of cult or satanic worship".
Evidence
There is a
great deal of evidence supporting the existence of ritual abuse crimes as a
worldwide phenomenon. Bottoms, Shaver and Goodman found in their 1993 study
evaluating ritual abuse claims that in 2,292 alleged ritual abuse cases, 15% of
the perpetrators in adult cases and 30% of the perpetrators in child cases
confessed to the abuse. "In a survey of 2,709 members of the American
Psychological Association, it was found that 30 percent of these professionals
had seen cases of ritual or religion-related abuse (Bottoms, Shaver &
Goodman, 1991). Of those psychologists who have seen cases of ritual abuse, 93
percent believed that the reported harm took place and 93 percent believed that
the alleged ritualism occurred....The similar research of Nancy Perry (1992)
which further supports (the previous findings)…Perry also conducted a national
survey of therapists who work with clients with dissociative disorders and she
found that 88 percent of the 1,185 respondents indicated ”belief in ritual
abuse, involving mind control and programming."
An online survey of over
one thousand people answered questions about ritual abuse and extreme abuse
crimes. In a summary of the survey, it was found that ritual abuse/mind control
is a global phenomenon. Fifty-five percent stated they were abuse in a Satanic
cult. Seventy-seven percent of the adult survivors that responded "had been
threatened with death if they ever talked about the abuse." Also, "257
respondents reported that secret mind control experiments were used on them as
children." Eighty-two percent reported being sexually abused by multiple
perpetrators.
Anne Johnson Davis in her book Hell Minus One reported that
her parents confessed to her abuse in writing and verbally to clergymen, and to
the detectives from the Utah Attorney General’s Office. Her suppressed memories
started when she was in her mid-30s, which were fully substantiated by her
mother and stepfather....
A study which identified 270 cases of sexual
abuse in day care settings found that allegations of ritual abuse occurred in
thirteen percent of the cases. Additional evidence of ritual abuse in day care
and child abuse cases has been found in news reports, journal articles and legal
transcripts.
Ritual abuse occurrences have also been found in the
Netherlands and the United Kingdom. A ritual abuse case in the United States in
2006 had a confession and convictions. The case included up to 25 children.
http://childabusewiki.org/index.php?title=Ritual_Abuse
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