Belonging, Ritual Abuse in Africa, Ritual Abuse and DID, Satanic Child Abuse Ring, Human Trafficking Data Collection
- BELONGING three generations - poems
- Efforts to Address Ritual Abuse and Sacrifice in Africa Subcommittee Hearing
- Unmasking Ritual Abuse, DID, and the Threat of Suicide
- Girl ‘raped while satanic child abuse ring that held seances and used Ouija boards clapped and cheered’
- Human Trafficking Data Collection Activities
BELONGING three generations - poems by Wendy Hoffman poems Kelsay Books, $20
One person’s cooking can keep a clashing family together. Poems in Wendy Hoffman’s Belonging describe recipes and cooked-from-scratch food carried in the grandmother’s memory from the Old Country to the New Land. Love baked into this heritage-food keeps this generational mind controlled family holding on. The poems weave their way through the women’s ordinary days with hints and whispers of another realm of abuses within its characters. Three generations of women: grandmother, mother and daughter-poet each try to come to terms with her past, present and future. The maternal grandmother was an immigrant from Belarus, the mother was born in America and formed during the Depression, the younger daughter distances but still feels genetic connection and buried longing. The poems encompass the surface of the women’s everyday lives and also the contradictory truth of their traumatic hidden ones. The poems mix imagery, prose, allusion and metaphor with frankness to achieve gripping and fleeing moments that are hard to hold onto but stick.
About the author: Wendy Hoffman is the author of four published memoirs about dissociation and mind control—one has been translated and published in Germany, a co-authored book of essays with Alison Miller, and a first book of poetry. https://kelsaybooks.com/products/belonging-three-generations https://ritualabuse.us/smart/wendy-hoffman
Efforts to Address Ritual Abuse and Sacrifice in Africa Subcommittee Hearing
09.19.2023 10:00am 2200 RHOB Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBgLaL-ByL8&t=3s
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/efforts-to-address-ritual-abuse-and-sacrifice-in-africa/
09.19.2023 10:00am 2200 RHOB Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBgLaL-ByL8&t=3s
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/efforts-to-address-ritual-abuse-and-sacrifice-in-africa/
Dissociation
Unmasking Ritual Abuse, DID, and the Threat of Suicide
On Dissociative Identity Disorder and suicide awareness.
Adrian A. Fletcher Psy.D., M.A. Keeping It Real and Resilient
Updated September 27, 2023
Unmasking Ritual Abuse, DID, and the Threat of Suicide
On Dissociative Identity Disorder and suicide awareness.
Adrian A. Fletcher Psy.D., M.A. Keeping It Real and Resilient
Updated September 27, 2023
Key points
Ritual abuse is a seldom-discussed and deeply unsettling topic.
Dissociative Identity Disorder is highly stigmatized, and denying the existence of DID is of global concern.
Secrecy perpetuates ritual abuse, and awareness is essential for prevention....
Defining Ritual Abuse (RA)
Ritual abuse fuses the concept of a ritual—a structured procedure to attain a transformation—with the malevolent nature of abuse, which encompasses any act that harms an individual's physical, emotional, sexual, mental, or spiritual development. It's crucial to grasp that ritual abuse is systematic and engineered to break a person's will.
Chrystine Oksana, in Safe Passage to Healing: A Guide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse (2001), elucidates that ritual abuse manifests in diverse forms, driven by various motivations such as religion, preoccupation with the supernatural, power, financial gain, or sadomasochistic drives. Disturbingly, it often intertwines with the underworld of prostitution, pornography, and trafficking. I, too, fell victim to ritual abuse as a result of my father’s involvement in organized crime.
Programming in the Alters/Parts of a DID System That Has Endured RA
One disturbing facet of my ordeal was the "programming" of certain parts of my identity, compelling them to perform specific actions based on the rituals imposed upon me. This included programming parts to contemplate suicide for "telling" or breaking the code of silence.
The Role of Clinicians
For clinicians working with DID clients, especially when the abuse history is concealed initially, it's imperative to acknowledge that survivors may harbor parts programmed to return to abusers or inflict self-harm. This heartbreaking reality underscores the necessity for all practitioners claiming to be "trauma-informed" to possess a deep understanding of Dissociative Identity Disorder.
Awareness and Validation
To combat ritual abuse, we must first acknowledge its existence. Like incest, ritual abuse thrives in secrecy, and survivors can only heal when society grants them recognition and validation. Similarly, the denial of DID's existence leaves countless people suffering and, in some cases, facing the specter of suicide.
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Girl ‘raped while satanic child abuse ring that held seances and used Ouija boards clapped and cheered’ One girl was chased by people wearing devil masks, hung by her clothing from a nail on the wall and shut in a microwave and fridge, court heard Amy-Clare Martin Crime Correspondent Tuesday 05 September 2023
Children were forced to take part in witchcraft and seances, and were sexually assaulted while members of a satanic child abuse ring watched, a court has heard.
Eleven people are standing trial at Glasgow High Court, accused of a string of crimes, with a number facing rape and sexual assault charges, while five are accused of attempted murder.
Iain Owens, 45, Elaine Lannery, 39, Lesley Williams, 41, Paul Brannan, 41, Marianne Gallagher, 38, Scott Forbes, 50, Barry Watson, 47, Mark Carr, 49, Richard Gachagan, 45, Leona Laing, 50, and John Clark, 46, deny all the charges, involving four children.
All eleven are accused of forcing children to participate in seances and use an Ouija board or similar object to “call on spirits and demons”, at various addresses in the Glasgow area.
The children were also allegedly made to participate in classes involving witchcraft, spells and wands which made them believe that they had “metamorphosed into animals”, court documents show.
One girl was chased by people wearing devil masks, hung by her clothing from a nail on the wall, shut in a microwave, an oven, a fridge, a freezer and cupboards, the court heard.
Owens, Lannery, Williams, Brannan, Clark are also charged with attempting to murder the girl, who was also allegedly made to act like a dog and eat dog food.
The group, which is also charged with stabbing and abusing dogs, also made one child dress in lingerie and “dance in a sexualised manner” on various occasions between 1 October 2018 and 19 June 2019, the indictment claims, before she was raped by male members of the group.
The women are accused of watching, with the indictment adding that they did “clap, cheer and verbally encourage” the abuse, with some filming the attack.
Children were also allegedly forced to repeatedly sexually abuse each other with household items.
On two occasions between 1 January 2019 and 23 March 2019, the group is alleged to have forced a boy to masturbate in front of them and then forced him to have sex with some of the women, while the men watched.
In one horrifying charge, a young child was restrained in her cot as men raped her, while others cheered and took video recordings, the court heard....
Jurors were told on Tuesday that the case, which has a 10-page indictment featuring 32 charges over a 10-year period from 2010 to 2020, could last more than six weeks.
Https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/child-abuse-rape-satanic-witchcraft-glasgow-b2404939.html
Human Trafficking Data Collection Activities, 2023 NCJ Number 307345
Date Published October 2023 Publication Series Human Trafficking Data Collection Activities Description
Human Trafficking Data Collection Activities, 2023 NCJ Number 307345
Date Published October 2023 Publication Series Human Trafficking Data Collection Activities Description
This report details ongoing and completed efforts to measure and analyze the nationwide incidence of human trafficking, to describe characteristics of human trafficking victims and offenders, and to describe criminal justice responses to human trafficking offenses. The report provides information on human trafficking suspects referred to and prosecuted by U.S. attorneys, human trafficking defendants convicted and sentenced to federal prison, and admissions to state prison for human trafficking.
Highlights
A total of 2,027 persons were referred to U.S. attorneys for human trafficking offenses in fiscal year 2021, a 49% increase from the 1,360 persons referred in 2011.
The number of persons prosecuted for human trafficking more than doubled from 2011 to 2021 (from 729 persons to 1,672 persons, respectively).
Of the 1,197 defendants charged in federal court for human trafficking offenses in fiscal year 2021, 92% were male and 60% were white. Of the 201 defendants charged with peonage, slavery, forced labor, and sex trafficking in fiscal year 2021, 77% were male and 58% were black.
At year end 2021, 1,657 persons were in the custody of a state prison serving a sentence for a human trafficking offense.
https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/human-trafficking-data-collection-activities-2023
