Sex Crimes Squad charge four men for involvement in an international satanic child sex abuse material ring

 

Sex Crimes Squad charge four men for involvement in an international satanic child sex abuse material ring                                               

 

4 Men Accused of Having 'Satanic' Child Torture Videos Linked to International Ring: 'Ritualistic' -  Officers used a battering ram and shouted, 'Police!' before entering the apartment of the man said to be the leader of the child sex abuse material ring, authorities said By KC Baker December 1, 2025

Four men in Australia are facing criminal charges in connection with their alleged involvement in possessing or distributing child sex abuse material linked to an international satanic child sex abuse ring, authorities said.
Sex Crimes Squad detectives with the New South Wales Police charged the four suspects following an investigation by a special task force into an international satanic child sex abuse material ring, the NSW Police Force said in a statement on Monday, Dec. 1.

On Thursday, Nov. 27, while executing six search warrants around Sydney, officers used a battering ram to enter the Sydney apartment of one of the four suspects, a 26-year-old man who allegedly played a “leading role” in the scheme, according to video released by NSW police, CNN reports.

Dressed in a zebra print top and shorts, the suspect, identified as Landon Germanotta-Mills, 26, by police, the Associated Press reports, was led out of the apartment in the city’s Waterloo section in handcuffs.
He and three others, Stuart Woods Riches, 39, Mark Andrew Sendecky, 42, and Benjamin Raymond Drysdale, 46, were charged with various offenses, with Germanotta-Mills and Drysdale accused of disseminating child abuse material online, police said, per the Associated Press.

While executing the warrants, officers seized electronic devices allegedly containing thousands of videos depicting the abuse of children from babies to 12-year-olds, police said, according to the AP.
Germanotta-Mills was also charged with allegedly disseminating and possessing bestiality material, NSW Police said in the statement.

The arrests came after a lengthy investigation by detectives working in what NSW Police call Strike Force Constantine, which has been looking into the online distribution of encrypted child sexual abuse material involving ritualistic and satanic themes, per the statement.

During the investigation, the task force “uncovered a Sydney-based pedophile network actively involved in possessing, distributing, and facilitating this material through a website administered internationally,” the statement alleges.

“There’s no run-of-the-mill child abuse, it’s all abhorrent child abuse,” Det. Supt. Jayne Doherty told reporters on Monday, the AP reports. “But these,” she continued, “were particularly devastating in that they use symbols and rituals around … their discussions that they were having about abusing children. It had a very ritualistic overview." https://people.com/alleged-satanic-child-abuse-network-four-men-accused-11859871 

Sex Crimes Squad charge four men for involvement in an international satanic child sex abuse material ring Monday, 01 December 2025
Sex Crimes Squad detectives have charged four men following an investigation into an international satanic child sex abuse material ring under Strike Force Constantine.

Strike Force Constantine was established by the State Crime Command’s Child Exploitation Internet Unit to investigate the online distribution of child sexual abuse involving ritualistic or satanic themes.
During the investigation, detectives uncovered a Sydney-based paedophile network actively involved in possessing, distributing, and facilitating this material through a website administered internationally.

Following extensive inquiries, about 7am on Thursday 27 November 2025, strike force detectives – with assistance from Central Metropolitan Region Operational Support Group and the Public Order and Riot Squad – executed six search warrants in Waterloo, Ultimo, and Malabar.

At the Waterloo address, police arrested a 26-year-old man, who police will allege playing a leading role in the group.
He was taken to Mascot Police Station, where he was charged with seven counts of use carriage service make available child abuse, use carriage etc to access child abuse material, three counts of possess etc child abuse data-use carriage service, two counts of person disseminates bestiality material, and person possesses bestiality material....

https://www.police.nsw.gov.au/news/news?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHBzJTNBJTJGJTJGZWJpenByZC5wb2xpY2UubnN3Lmdvdi5hdSUyRm1lZGlhJTJGMTIyMTg0Lmh0bWwmYWxsPTE%3D

Sydney men charged with spreading child sexual abuse videos tied to international ring  By  ROD MCGUIRK December 1, 2025

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Four Sydney men have been charged with criminal offenses over their alleged involvement in the distribution of child sexual abuse material linked to an international child sex abuse ring, police said Monday.

A New South Wales state police task force identified the Sydney-based network while investigating the online distribution of encrypted child sexual abuse material involving ritualistic and satanic themes, Det. Supt. Jayne Doherty said.

“There’s no run-of-the mill child abuse, it’s all abhorrent child abuse,” Doherty told reporters.
“But these ones were particularly devastating in that they use symbols and rituals around … their discussions that they were having about abusing children. It had a very ritualistic overview,” she added.  Police executed multiple warrants around Sydney last Thursday and four men were arrested.....  https://apnews.com/article/australia-ritualistic-child-abuse-sydney-d7847454727d6a74f9731d42367fb6ab 

Jeffrey Epstein on Trump: ‘I know how dirty donald is’

 

 

Jeffrey Epstein on Trump: ‘I know how dirty donald is’ 

 

- Epstein added that a person whose name was redacted in the email but whom the Democrats identified as a victim of his “spent hours at my house with” Trump....

 

 

Jeffrey Epstein on Trump: ‘I know how dirty donald is’ Wed, Nov 12  Dan Mangan 

    Notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said of President Donald Trump, “I know how dirty donald is,” in a 2018 email thread released by House Democrats about Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen pleading guilty to campaign finance violations and agreeing to cooperate in a federal investigation of the president.
    The email thread, which CNBC has not independently verified, is among more than 20,000 documents obtained from Epstein’s estate through a subpoena by Democrats on the House oversight committee, which released them.
    In a 2019 email, Epstein told author Michael Wolff that his ex-friend Trump “knew about the girls.”
    Epstein, in a 2011 email to his now-convicted procurer Ghislaine Maxwell, wrote, “I want you to realize that the dog that hasn’t barked is trump.” Epstein added that a person whose name was redacted in the email but whom the Democrats identified as a victim of his “spent hours at my house with” Trump....

 

The article detailed Cohen’s guilty plea and its implications for Trump, who was then in his first term in the White House. Cohen had pleaded guilty to crimes related to making and facilitating hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal before the 2016 presidential election.
“I thought you’d find interesting,” Ruemmler wrote to Epstein, who had been friends with Trump for years before they had a falling-out in the early 2000s.
She wrote in the same thread, “It makes no difference whether it was his money. Issue is failure to disclose. Plus, fact that he lied his ass off about it makes it clear that he knew it was illegal.”

Epstein replied, “You see, I know how dirty donald is.”
“My guess is that non lawyers ny biz people have no idea. what it means to have your fixer flip,” Epstein added....

In an April 2019 email released by House Democrats, Epstein wrote to author Michael Wolff that Trump “knew about the girls,” according to a copy of that message purportedly between the two men.
It is unclear what the phrase “knew about the girls” meant.

In another newly released email that Epstein wrote to his now-convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell in April 2011, Epstein wrote, “I want you to realize that the dog that hasn’t barked is trump.”
Epstein added in that same email that a person whose name was redacted in the email but whom the Democrats identified as a victim of his “spent hours at my house with” Trump....

In an email exchange in December 2015, when Trump was seeking the Republican nomination for the White House, Wolff wrote to Epstein, “I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you — either on air or in scrum afterwards.”

Epstein replied, “if we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?”
Wolff answered: “I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency.”

“You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt,” Wolff added. “Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he’ll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.”
Trump has denied that he knew about Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls and women. The president has never been charged with wrongdoing in connection with Epstein.

The release came two days after Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee issued a statement saying, “Whistleblower information provided to the Committee also indicates that Ghislaine Maxwell is working on filing a ‘Commutation Application’ with the Trump Administration.”
Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for crimes related to procuring underage girls to be abused by Epstein.....
Scores of women have said Epstein sexually abused them when they were underage girls or young women.

Democrats on the House oversight committee said the emails that they obtained raise “serious questions” about Trump’s involvement with Epstein.
The three emails related to Trump are among thousands written by Epstein and obtained by the Democrats.

“The more Donald Trump tries to cover up the Epstein files, the more we uncover. These latest emails and correspondence raise glaring questions about what else the White House is hiding and the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the President,” said Rep. Robert Garcia, a California Democrat who is the ranking member of the House oversight committee.
“The Department of Justice must fully release the Epstein files to the public immediately,” Garcia said. “The Oversight Committee will continue pushing for answers and will not stop until we get justice for the victims.”

Trump and the DOJ have been criticized for months for reneging on promises by Trump administration officials to release criminal investigative files about Epstein.  Trump said in July that he threw Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida and cut ties with him years ago because “he stole people who worked for me.”.... https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/trump-jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-emails-house-democrats.html 

Thousands of new Epstein documents released, with some emails mentioning Trump  Thomas Mackintosh

We've spent the last few hours combing through a batch of more than 20,000 pages of documents, images and emails released by the House Oversight Committee relating to the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Three emails - initially published by Democrats on the committee - featured exchanges between Epstein and his long-time associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and separately with the author Michael Wolff.

One of the emails - from Epstein to Maxwell in April 2011 - reads: "I want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump.. [Victim] spent hours at my house with him".
Although the contents contain Trump's name, none of the emails are to or from Trump directly - and he has always denied wrongdoing.

The White House came out in defence of the US president, and accused Democrats of "selectively leaking emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump" ....  https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c2dr3z9egljt 

SMART Newsletter #185 - November 2025 - Information on Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre

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Information in this issue includes:
– SMART is celebrating our 30th anniversary.
– The Survivorship Trafficking and Extreme Abuse Online Conference May 2026
– Trauma, Dissociation, and Surviving a Psychopathic Father
– Prince Andrew to give up Duke of York title and honors amid Jeffrey Epstein developments
– Email calling Epstein a ‘supreme friend’ adds new fuel to royal scandal
– Virginia Giuffre Family’s Emotional Statement After Prince Andrew Stripped of Title: ‘Today, She Declares Victory’
– Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts Giuffre (Author) discusses Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
– Virginia Giuffre did not name former prime minister she claimed raped her, for fear of murder
– What is ‘ritual abuse’? Sky News given exclusive access to call centre helping victims
– AI fuelling a new one age of child abuse – 600,000 victims in Britain alone
– Archdiocese agrees to $230M settlement in clergy sex abuse case, attorneys say – New Orleans Archdiocese
– “Unlocking Buried Secrets” story of surviving a multigenerational Satanic Cult/Mind Control/Masons.
– Bishop Kortu Brown Calls for Africa-wide Campaign to End Ritualistic Killings at Pepperdine University Human Trafficking Colloquium in Nigeria
– Sanwo-Olu Leads African Leaders to Unite Against Human Trafficking, Ritual Abuse, Sacrifice
– Sex Abuse, Satanic Rites Described in Charges against Gilroy Foster Mom

SMART is celebrating our 30th anniversary this year. This is our 185rd newsletter. Our first issue (online https://ritualabuse.us/2008/10/issue-1-march-1995/ discussed the book Ritual Abuse What it is, Why it Happens and How to Help by Margaret Smith. It covered a thesis on Masonic Ritual Abuse called “Ritual Abuse, its Effects and the Process of Recovery Using Self Help Methods and Resources, and Focusing on the Spiritual Aspect of Damage and Recover.” Over the years, SMART expanded its scope to cover institutionalized abuse, clergy abuse, government mind control and sex trafficking issues. SMART has had yearly conferences since 1997. SMART has become one of the largest ritual abuse resource information providers on the Internet

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Trauma, Dissociation, and Surviving a Psychopathic Father
Personal Perspective: A journey that includes dissociative identity disorder.
June 3, 2025 – Adrian Fletcher Psy.D., M.A., Reviewed by Kaja Perina

My father was a psychopath. He trafficked me. He subjected me to ritual abuse and mind control from a young age. It’s difficult to write those words—even now—as a licensed psychologist, a speaker, a writer, and someone who is nationally recognized for my work in the field of dissociative disorders. But I share them because they are the truth. And because for decades, I was forced to live in silence.
In 2018, when my mother died, the dam finally broke. That loss triggered the surfacing of memories that had long been held by other parts of me—parts I didn’t yet fully know or understand. It was then I came to realize I had Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Not because I had been misdiagnosed (though I had), not because of a label, but because my system had kept me alive through something the mind should not have to bear.
DID is a creative, protective response to chronic, severe trauma, often beginning in early childhood. It’s not a character flaw. It’s not rare. It is rarely recognized—especially by clinicians who are under-trained and misinformed. And it is not the sensationalized, dangerous caricature that Hollywood continues to promote.

Each part of me—of my system—holds pieces of our story. Our strength. Our survival. DID is not chaos; it is order in the face of terror. It is the nervous system doing its job to keep a child alive when no one else would.
The path from there to here has been long. Treatment has been complex, nonlinear, and life-saving. And even now, as a psychologist and trauma specialist, speaking about my story in public spaces comes with emotional cost. There is risk in telling the truth when the world still struggles to believe survivors.
But I also know the cost of silence. So I speak—not only for myself, but for the many others who cannot, who are still in hiding, who are still being harmed by disbelief, by stigma, by systems not built to support them.
I have gone from silenced to stage. From a hidden, shattered inner world to a nationally recognized voice in trauma and dissociation. I’ve presented at conferences, trained clinicians across the country, and written for organizations I once only dreamed of. And yet, I am still often met with skepticism, stigma, and discomfort—especially when I name the realities of trafficking, ritual abuse, or DID.
We need to do better. Mental health professionals must be educated about complex trauma and dissociation—not just in theory, but in practice. Survivors need clinicians who can recognize the signs, who won’t pathologize their adaptations, and who will believe them.
DID is not an attention-seeking disorder. It is not created by suggestion. It is a human response to inhuman circumstances….
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/keeping-it-real-and-resilient/202506/trauma-dissociation-and-surviving-a-psychopathic-father

Prince Andrew to give up Duke of York title and honors amid Jeffrey Epstein developments King Charles III’s brother said that “the continued accusations about me” were distracting from the work of the royal family. Oct. 17, 2025 By Nick Duffy
Britain’s Prince Andrew will stop using his Duke of York title after facing fresh questions over his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew, King Charles III’s younger brother, said in a statement issued via Buckingham Palace that he would “no longer use my title or the honours which have been conferred upon me.” The decision was taken “in discussion with The King, and my immediate and wider family,” he said, after concluding that “the continued accusations about me distract from the work of His Majesty and the Royal Family.
“As I have said previously, I vigorously deny the accusations against me,” Andrew said. His former wife, Sarah Ferguson, will no longer be known as the Duchess of York. Andrew stepped back from public duties in 2019 and returned his military affiliations and later royal patronages in January 2022, after his lawyers failed to persuade a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of sexual abuse.
He later paid a substantial sum to Epstein abuse survivor Virginia Giuffre, who alleged that Andrew sexually abused her when she was 17. Andrew has repeatedly denied the allegation….
Last month, a 2011 email surfaced from Ferguson to Epstein describing the disgraced financier as a “supreme friend,” just weeks after she had publicly distanced herself from him….
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/united-kingdom/prince-andrew-give-duke-york-title-honors-jeffrey-epstein-developments-rcna238242

Email calling Epstein a ‘supreme friend’ adds new fuel to royal scandal
A spokesperson for Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, said the email was sent to counter a threat Epstein had made to sue her for defamation. Sept. 21, 2025 By Freddie Clayton
LONDON ….Just days after Trump, the royals and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer largely skirted questions about Jeffrey Epstein that had threatened to complicate the sunny spectacle of his trip, the British press offered new revelations.
A newly surfaced email revealed that Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, described Epstein, the disgraced financier, as a “supreme friend” despite his conviction for sex offenses.
The email was published in two newspapers Sunday. It was sent by the duchess — the former wife of Prince Andrew, the Duke of York — in 2011, just weeks after she had publicly distanced herself from Epstein.
A spokesperson for the duchess said the email was sent to counter a threat Epstein had made to sue her for defamation. But the duchess was dropped as a patron of several U.K. charities after the email was published. Both cited her correspondence with Epstein as the reason.
And the story will add new fuel to damaging media coverage about royal links to Epstein, which have centered on Andrew’s own close relationship and a lawsuit accusing him of sexual abuse — he denied the allegations by Virginia Giuffre and settled out of court. Giuffre died by suicide this year.
In a 2011 interview, the duchess said her involvement with Epstein — who was jailed in 2008 for soliciting prostitution from a minor — had been a “gigantic error of judgment,” promising she would never have anything to do with him again. “I abhor pedophilia and any sexual abuse of children,” she said at the time, adding that what Epstein did was “wrong and for which he was rightly jailed.”
But “The Sun” and “The Mail on Sunday” reported that shortly after the interview, Ferguson emailed Epstein to reassure him she had not used the word “pedophilia” in reference to him.

“As you know, I did not, absolutely not, say the ‘P word’ about you but understand it was reported that I did,” she wrote. “I know you feel hellaciously let down by me. You have always been a steadfast, generous and supreme friend to me and my family.” The duchess was “taken in” by Epstein’s lies, her spokesperson said Sunday.
“As soon as she was aware of the extent of the allegations against him, she not only cut off contact but condemned him publicly, to the extent that he then threatened to sue her for defamation for associating him with pedophilia.”…
Andrew returned his military affiliations and royal patronages in January 2022 after his lawyers failed to persuade a U.S. judge to dismiss Giuffre’s lawsuit.
Andrew later paid a substantial sum to Giuffre, who alleged he abused her when she was 17. Andrew has repeatedly denied the allegation….
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/united-kingdom/email-calling-epstein-supreme-friend-adds-new-fuel-royal-scandal-rcna232705

Virginia Giuffre Family’s Emotional Statement After Prince Andrew Stripped of Title: ‘Today, She Declares Victory’
Giuffre, 41, who died by suicide in April, “never stopped fighting for accountability for what had happened to her and to countless other survivors like her,” her family says By KC Baker and Liz McNeil October 30, 2025
The family of the late Virginia Giuffre is speaking out about Prince Andrew losing all of his royal titles in an unprecedented move by King Charles
In their emotional statement, they praise Giuffre for how she “brought down” the former prince, who will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor
The decision comes amid renewed scrutiny of Andrew’s ties to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and ongoing controversy surrounding past allegations…
Andrew has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
In 2022, he reached an out-of-court settlement with Giuffre, which included a statement in which he expressed regret for his association with Epstein, but contained no admission of liability or apology, per the BBC.

In her memoir, Giuffre detailed how she met Andrew on March 10, 2001, in Maxwell’s London home and recalled posing for a now-infamous picture with him taken on her Kodak FunSaver. After going out to dinner and dancing at a club, Maxwell allegedly told her, “When we get home, you are to do for him what you do for Jeffrey,” she wrote.
“Back at the house, Maxwell and Epstein said goodnight and headed upstairs, signaling it was time that I take care of the prince. In the years since, I’ve thought a lot about how he behaved. He was friendly enough, but still entitled – as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright.” The third time she claimed she was made to have sex with Andrew was with Epstein and eight other young girls on the 72-acre island Epstein owned in the U.S. Virgin Islands, she wrote….
Giuffre’s family says that they, along with Virginia’s “survivor sisters,” will continue her battle and “will not rest until the same accountability applies to all of the abusers and abettors connected to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.”
https://people.com/virginia-giuffre-family-statement-prince-andrew-stripped-of-title-victory-11840799

Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice – October 21, 2025 by Virginia Roberts Giuffre (Author)
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The unforgettable memoir by the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the woman who dared to take on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
“Make no mistake: this is a book about power, corruption, industrial-scale sex abuse and the way in which institutions sided with the perpetrator over his victims. . . . But it is also a book about how a young woman becomes a hero. . . . Important [and] courageous.” —The Guardian
The world knows Virginia Roberts Giuffre as Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s most outspoken victim: the woman whose decision to speak out helped send both serial abusers to prison, whose photograph with Prince Andrew catalyzed his fall from grace. But her story has never been told in full, in her own words—until now….
Here, Giuffre offers an unsparing and definitive account of her time with Epstein and Maxwell, who trafficked her and others to numerous prominent men. She also details the molestation she suffered as a child, as well as her daring escape from Epstein and Maxwell’s grasp at nineteen. Giuffre remade her life from scratch and summoned the courage to not only hold her abusers to account but also advocate for other victims. The pages of Nobody’s Girl preserve her voice—and her legacy—forever.
Nobody’s Girl is an astonishing affirmation of Giuffre’s unshakable will—first, to claw her way out of victimhood, and then to shine light on wrongdoing and fight for a safer, fairer world. Equal parts intimate and fierce, it is a remarkable narrative of fortitude in the face of depravity and despair.
https://www.amazon.com/Nobodys-Girl-Surviving-Fighting-Justice/dp/0593493125

Virginia Giuffre did not name former prime minister she claimed raped her, for fear of murder Bill Bowkett 10/30/2025 Virginia Giuffre omitted the name of a former prime minister who allegedly raped her from memoir because she feared he would kill her, according to her ghost-writer. Amy Wallace, who spent four years working on the autobiography, said Prince Andrew’s accuser was constantly worried about her “physical safety and threats”.
In April, Ms Giuffre — who won an undisclosed payout from the disgraced royal after claiming she was forced to have sex with him aged 17 — died by suicide at her farm in Australia, aged 41.
In the book, Ms Giuffre described being under the control of the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his associates, including allegations against Andrew which he vigorously denies.
“In my years with them, they lent me out to scores of wealthy, powerful people. I was habitually used and humiliated – and in some instances, choked, beaten, and bloodied,” Ms Giuffre wrote. “I believed that I might die a sex slave.”
In the US edition, Ms Giuffre claims she was sexually assaulted by a man whom she had “taken pains to describe in my legal filings only as a ‘well-known Prime Minister.’” Passages in the British version are nearly identical but refer to the unnamed individual as a “former minister”. Ms Wallace, an American journalist, declined to identify the ex-PM, but described him as not just a rapist, but a “sadist”.
https://m.independent.ie/world-news/britain/virginia-giuffre-did-not-name-former-prime-minister-she-claimed-raped-her-for-fear-of-murder/a63446952.html

What is ‘ritual abuse’? Sky News given exclusive access to call centre helping victims Sky’s Alice Porter has spoken to experts at the National Association for People Abused in Childhood. Supervisor Sam Booth recalls the types of abuse she has come across, including ‘Satanic ritual abuse’. Tuesday 23 September 2025
https://news.sky.com/video/what-is-ritual-abuse-massive-rise-in-child-on-child-sexual-abuse-recorded-by-experts-13436383

AI fuelling a new one age of child abuse – 600,000 victims in Britain alone
British children are enduring a ‘shocking pandemic’ of child sexual abuse with nearly 1 in 20 raped or sexually assaulted and 1 in 10 exposed to sexually unwanted online content By Lucy Johnston, Health and Social Affairs Editor of the Sunday Express Sun, Oct 12, 2025
British children are enduring a ‘shocking pandemic’ of child sexual abuse with nearly 1 in 20 raped or sexually assaulted and 1 in 10 exposed to sexually unwanted online content a new study has revealed.
The research indicates 608,763 youngsters been raped or sexually assaulted before the age of 18 and over a million have been groomed, coerced, exploited or exposed to unwanted sexual content online – including AI-generated sex abuse images of children.
The study, carried out by University of Edinburgh based Childlight Global Child Safety Institute, suggests an epidemic of abuse taking place both behind closed doors and on screens, where children are being sexually exploited – often by people they know.
The UK figures have been drawn from Childlight’s major new study ‘Into the Light’ – published this week. It comes as research reveals there has been a 1,325 percent surge in AI-generated child sexual abuse material since 2023. Images now include “deepfakes” of children’s faces placed onto naked bodies or blended synthetic-real abuse videos.
The institute warns that many abusers are family members or trusted adults, who coerce children into creating sexual content or sharing explicit photos as part of grooming rituals. These images are then traded through encrypted networks, private messaging apps and even mainstream social media.
Professor Elena Martellozzo, Director of Childlight’s European Hub, said: “We are experiencing a shocking pandemic of sexual assault, rape and sexual abuse among children. Estimates show around half of the perpetrators are known to the children – either family members or friends. Some of these figures highlight increased reporting of the problem, but we know that online abuse has risen sharply. Many perpetrators groom their own children or those known to them or their families to provide images in order to access networks of other online offenders.”….

The figures are based on a synthesis of 14 UK studies and show, that 4.4 percent of British children – roughly 608,763 out of the 13.8 million aged 0–17 – have been raped or sexually assaulted before adulthood….
A separate UK-based analysis found that 11 percent of children aged 5–17 – about 1,126,027 young people – had been exposed to unwanted sexual content online in the past year. And 2,006,375 children – or 20 percent – are estimated to face online grooming when they are often pressured into sharing sexual images.
Globally, relatives are thought to be responsible for over half of child sexual abuse material, with fathers producing an estimated 900,000 images in 2024 alone…. Across Western Europe, Childlight estimates around 7 percent of children – roughly five million – are raped or sexually assaulted before 18, with rates more than twice as high for girls (9.7 %) as boys (3.9 %).
About one in five children (19.6 %) report experiencing online solicitation or grooming, equivalent to nearly 15 million victims. One in seven say it happened in just the last year. The study analysed 48 surveys from 19 European countries and found wide variations – but a consistent upward trend as mobile phones and social media become the “new front line” of abuse. Childlight’s Into the Light report – analysing 94 population-based studies on rape and sexual assault and 77 on online exploitation – is the largest known dataset of its kind…. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2120428/AI-fuelling-a-new-one-age-of-child-abuse-600-000-victims-in-Britain-alone

Archdiocese agrees to $230M settlement in clergy sex abuse case, attorneys say The New Orleans Archdiocese has agreed to a $230 million settlement for survivors of clergy sexual abuse By JACK BROOK /REPORT FOR AMERICA Associated Press September 8, 2025
NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Archdiocese on Monday agreed to a $230 million proposed settlement for survivors of clergy sexual abuse, attorneys for some of the survivors said Monday. The agreement paves the way for a final resolution to yearslong negotiations amid a series of similar settlements from the Catholic Church….
Survivors have until late October to vote on whether or not to approve the settlement. If approved by two-thirds of survivors, payments could begin disbursement by next year. “At this point, I’m not aware of a single attorney for an abuse survivor that opposes the plan,” said Brad Knapp, an attorney for a committee representing abuse survivors. “With all the abuse survivors’ attorneys supporting it, I think there’s much less chance that it gets voted down.”
The archdiocese’s bankruptcy is one of the longest running and most contentious of more than a dozen ongoing Catholic Church bankruptcy cases in the U.S. related to sex abuse, according to Terence McKiernan, president of the nonprofit BishopAccountability.org. ….
“I remain very hopeful and committed to bringing this bankruptcy to a conclusion that benefits the survivors of abuse,” said New Orleans Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond in a Monday statement. “Please know that I pray for the survivors of abuse every day and look forward to the opportunity to meet with them to hear their stories…”
Aymond has resisted the chorus of survivors calling for his resignation over the church’s failure to take action on allegations against priests for decades. The accusations of archdiocese clergy abuse triggered a sweeping FBI probe and a cascading crisis for the Catholic Church, which drew on help from New Orleans Saints executives to help behind the scenes with damage control, an AP investigation revealed. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/new-orleans-archdiocese-agrees-230-million-settlement-clergy-125381349

“Unlocking Buried Secrets” is a story of surviving a multigenerational Satanic Cult/Mind Control/Masons. The book is an autobiography in chronological order of the abuse. “I left home at 16 yrs of age and began my healing process. My book is very graphic in nature describing the abuse that I endured. I have included a lot of nightmares, flashbacks and memories as well as some poetry that I wrote during the crisis period when I was flooded with memories and flashbacks. This book covers the abuse, traumatic memories, dissociation, mind control, brainwashing and programming. My book covers the ages of 6-33 yrs of age. I have used a pseudonym to ensure my privacy. My hope is that my story will inspire as well assist the survivor in his or her healing journey.” https://www.victoriousheartinc.ca/

Bishop Kortu Brown Calls for Africa-wide Campaign to End Ritualistic Killings at Pepperdine University Human Trafficking Colloquium in Nigeria October 27, 2025
Brewerville – Faith leaders have been challenged to become agents of change by organizing themselves into a Campaign across the Continent of Africa to ward-off the practice of ritualistic killing and human sacrifice.
The call was made by Bishop Kortu K. Brown, the president of Liberia Council of Churches in Lagos, Nigeria on Friday, October 24, 2025 during a 2-day Colloquium organized by the Sudreau Global Justice Institute at Pepperdine University based in California, USA and Nigeria’s Lagos State Ministry of Justice in the inaugural 2025 Africa Colloquium Against Human Trafficking: A United Front Against Ritual Abuse and Sacrifice.
Bishop Brown who spoke at the fourth session of the colloquium which was intended to explore the role of faith leaders and civil society in combating ritual abuse and sacrifice. The session examined the spiritual dimensions of the practice, including the influence of mysticism and the involvement of traditional healers, witch doctors and diviners in the act of ritual abuse and sacrifice….
“One of the elements of culture that trigger ritual abuse and sacrifice is the belief that the acts bring benefits”, he said, arguing that “many people believe that ritual abuse and sacrifice can bring them good fortunes, children, appease deities for opportunities, good harvest, victory during electoral processes, etc”
“In Liberia”, he argued, “every time there is an election, stories of ritualistic killings and missing people abound everywhere”. He referenced the campaign he led about four years ago in the country when reports of missing persons were being reported everywhere….

The organizers, in a statement to participants, hope that the event will mark a critical moment for the future of human trafficking on the African continent. The Executive Director of Sudreau Global Justice Institute, Prof. Cameron McCollum and Attorney General & Commissioner for Justice of Lagos State of Nigeria, Honorable Lawal Pedro San, FCIArb further hoped that the colloquium provided a space for leaders, advocates, practitioners and policymakers to develop strategies to eliminate ritual abuse and sacrifice in Africa and beyond.
The conference was attended by about 200 persons from more than 15 countries in Africa and the United States. The results of the colloquium will be analyzed and reviewed by participants to final a roadmap to deterring ritual abuse and sacrifice across the continent.
https://frontpageafricaonline.com/news/bishop-kortu-brown-calls-for-africa-wide-campaign-to-end-ritualistic-killings-at-pepperdine-university-human-trafficking-colloquium-in-nigeria/

Sanwo-Olu Leads African Leaders to Unite Against Human Trafficking, Ritual Abuse, Sacrifice 23 October. 2025
The Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu has called on African leaders to form a united front against human trafficking, ritual abuse, and human sacrifice, as he declared open the Inaugural 2025 Africa Colloquium Against Human Trafficking, currently holding at the Radisson Blu Hotel between Thursday, 23rd to Friday, 24th October, 2025.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, the Governor, represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Barr. Abimbola Salu-Hundeyin, described the colloquium as a defining moment for Africa’s collective conscience, urging governments and communities to work together to dismantle the networks enabling human trafficking and ritual exploitation.
“This evil knows no boundaries. We must confront and defeat the dangerous myths that fuel ritual abuse – myths that wrongly link power or success to the taking of human life. Our people are not for sale, our children are not sacrifices, and our future will never be built on fear or blood,” he said….
Representing the Hon. Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, represented by Ezine Nwokoro, commended the organisers for addressing ritual trafficking, describing it as a “deeply disturbing layer” to human exploitation. He reaffirmed the Federal Government’s commitment to legislative reforms, stronger partnerships with NAPTIP, and enhanced international cooperation to prevent and prosecute trafficking in persons.
Delivering a keynote speech earlier, Lagos Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Lawal Pedro, SAN, described the colloquium as a “continental call to conscience,” noting that ritual killings and trafficking have become organised, commercialised, and transnational crimes.
“Africa must rise; not in rhetoric but in responsibility, from prevention to prosecution, we must transform policies into laws and laws into action for the protection and rehabilitation of victims”, he said. He further revealed that between 2022 and 2024, over 4,700 victims of trafficking were rescued and supported in Lagos, while the State enacted the Organ Harvesting Prohibition Law (2024) to tackle the illegal trade in human organs for ritual and exploitative purposes….

Binta urged participants to break the culture of silence, strengthen victim support systems, and promote regional and global collaboration, adding that “the lives of our children, women, and men are too precious to be sacrificed at the altar of greed, culture, or superstition”.
Lagos Solicitor-General and Permanent Secretary, Mr. Hameed Oyenuga, called for a better framework that will protect the most vulnerable children, women and young people from exploitation.
The colloquium, themed: “A United Front Against Ritual Abuse and Sacrifice,” was convened by the Lagos State Ministry of Justice in collaboration with the Sudreau Global Justice Institute of Pepperdine University (USA) and supported by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
The two-day colloquium will feature breakout sessions and discussions on the Foundation and identification of ritual abuse and Sacrifice, Victims and Survivors, Investigation and Prosecution, the role of faith leaders and Community and probable solutions in curbing the menace of Rituals abuse and human trafficking in Africa.
https://lagosstate.gov.ng/news/all/view/68fc7d1188319a643b69dfb5

Sex Abuse, Satanic Rites Described in Charges against Gilroy Foster Mom By Vicente Vera September 24, 2025 describes abuse allegations
A Gilroy day care operator stalked and sexually molested her foster child and engaged in Satanic rituals, according to allegations in court documents. Santa Clara County officials filed a July 31 criminal complaint that details the charges against Christina Jean Johnson, 60, who faces five 15 years-to-life sentences for oral copulation or sexual penetration of a child 10 years of age or younger…..
Court documents refer to the victim as “Jack Doe,” who told investigators Johnson punched his “weanie” and subjected him to digital penetration at least 20 times between Jan. 1, 2023 and Oct. 4, 2024. Doe told police his foster mother was “evil” and forced him to watch “creepy, weird sex” on TikTok during the sexual abuse. He also said his foster mother took him to a basement with candles, prayed to the devil and blew smoke on him—leading the 7-year-old to believe he was “possessed.”
After a court transferred custody of the child to his biological grandmother, who lives 300 miles away, Johnson rented a nearby apartment in a suburb of Redding, California to stalk him, prosecutors allege. While in Shasta County, Johnson left her Hastings Place day care business in the hands of unlicensed workers….
State officials closed the day care facility on June 29, 2024, after discovering an open pool gate and inexperienced workers, including a minor, supervising children. It was more than a year after the first complaints came in about Johnson, and months after her stalking arrest. The case caught the attention of Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen’s office after Doe revealed new and more detailed accusations. Based on body-worn camera-recorded videos and interviews taken during his investigation, Gilroy police detective Michael Cupak detailed the trauma and behavioral changes in the child as a result of Johnson’s abuse….
The first complaint arrived at the Department of Social Services on April 28, 2023, more than two years ago. It alleged that Johnson made inappropriate comments to a child, and that a child was left unsupervised without an adult present. The licensing agency investigated but could not substantiate the complaint.

The following year, the home was subject of multiple complaints that included allegations of an unsafe environment and that the operator’s conduct posed a risk to children’s safety. No action was taken in response to the complaints.
However, during a routine annual inspection on May 10, 2024, the facility was cited for two technical violations: failing to document infant sleep check every 15 minutes and not completing mandated reporter training, which requires day care workers to report abuse to authorities.
In June 2024, a Notice of Closure for the Temporary Suspension Order was issued—five months after Johnson was jailed for two days on charges that she stalked the 7-year-old child and violated a no-contact order, then failed to inform regulatory officials of her arrest. https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/sex-abuse-satanic-rites-described-in-charges-against-gilroy-foster-mom/

Prince Andrew to give up title - Epstein, DID, Ritual Abuse and Mind Control, AI fueling child abuse - 600,000 victims

 

 

 - Prince Andrew to give up Duke of York title and honors amid Jeffrey Epstein developments

- Email calling Epstein a 'supreme friend' adds new fuel to royal scandal

- Trauma, Dissociation, and Surviving a Psychopathic Father - DID, Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

- What is 'ritual abuse'? Sky News given exclusive access to call centre helping victims  

- AI fuelling a new one age of child abuse – 600,000 victims in Britain alone

 

Prince Andrew to give up Duke of York title and honors amid Jeffrey Epstein developments

King Charles III's brother said that "the continued accusations about me" were distracting from the work of the royal family.   Oct. 17, 2025 By Nick Duffy

Britain's Prince Andrew will stop using his Duke of York title after facing fresh questions over his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Andrew, King Charles III's younger brother, said in a statement issued via Buckingham Palace that he would "no longer use my title or the honours which have been conferred upon me."

The decision was taken "in discussion with The King, and my immediate and wider family," he said, after concluding that "the continued accusations about me distract from the work of His Majesty and the Royal Family.

"As I have said previously, I vigorously deny the accusations against me," Andrew said.

His former wife, Sarah Ferguson, will no longer be known as the Duchess of York.

Andrew stepped back from public duties in 2019 and returned his military affiliations and later royal patronages in January 2022, after his lawyers failed to persuade a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of sexual abuse.

He later paid a substantial sum to Epstein abuse survivor Virginia Giuffre, who alleged that Andrew sexually abused her when she was 17. Andrew has repeatedly denied the allegation....

Last month, a 2011 email surfaced from Ferguson to Epstein describing the disgraced financier as a "supreme friend," just weeks after she had publicly distanced herself from him....

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/united-kingdom/prince-andrew-give-duke-york-title-honors-jeffrey-epstein-developments-rcna238242 

 

 

Email calling Epstein a 'supreme friend' adds new fuel to royal scandal

A spokesperson for Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, said the email was sent to counter a threat Epstein had made to sue her for defamation.

Sept. 21, 2025 By Freddie Clayton

LONDON ....Just days after Trump, the royals and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer largely skirted questions about Jeffrey Epstein that had threatened to complicate the sunny spectacle of his trip, the British press offered new revelations.

A newly surfaced email revealed that Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, described Epstein, the disgraced financier, as a “supreme friend” despite his conviction for sex offenses.

The email was published in two newspapers Sunday. It was sent by the duchess — the former wife of Prince Andrew, the Duke of York — in 2011, just weeks after she had publicly distanced herself from Epstein.

A spokesperson for the duchess said the email was sent to counter a threat Epstein had made to sue her for defamation.

But the duchess was dropped as a patron of several U.K. charities after the email was published. Both cited her correspondence with Epstein as the reason.

And the story will add new fuel to damaging media coverage about royal links to Epstein, which have centered on Andrew's own close relationship and a lawsuit accusing him of sexual abuse — he denied the allegations by Virginia Giuffre and settled out of court. Giuffre died by suicide this year.

In a 2011 interview, the duchess said her involvement with Epstein — who was jailed in 2008 for soliciting prostitution from a minor — had been a “gigantic error of judgment,” promising she would never have anything to do with him again.

“I abhor pedophilia and any sexual abuse of children,” she said at the time, adding that what Epstein did was "wrong and for which he was rightly jailed.”

But “The Sun” and “The Mail on Sunday” reported that shortly after the interview, Ferguson emailed Epstein to reassure him she had not used the word “pedophilia” in reference to him.

“As you know, I did not, absolutely not, say the ‘P word’ about you but understand it was reported that I did,” she wrote. “I know you feel hellaciously let down by me. You have always been a steadfast, generous and supreme friend to me and my family.”

The duchess was “taken in” by Epstein’s lies, her spokesperson said Sunday. 

“As soon as she was aware of the extent of the allegations against him, she not only cut off contact but condemned him publicly, to the extent that he then threatened to sue her for defamation for associating him with pedophilia.”...

Andrew returned his military affiliations and royal patronages in January 2022 after his lawyers failed to persuade a U.S. judge to dismiss Giuffre’s lawsuit.

Andrew later paid a substantial sum to Giuffre, who alleged he abused her when she was 17. Andrew has repeatedly denied the allegation....

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/united-kingdom/email-calling-epstein-supreme-friend-adds-new-fuel-royal-scandal-rcna232705 

 

Trauma, Dissociation, and Surviving a Psychopathic Father
Personal Perspective: A journey that includes dissociative identity disorder.
June 3, 2025 - Adrian Fletcher Psy.D., M.A., Reviewed by Kaja Perina

My father was a psychopath. He trafficked me. He subjected me to ritual abuse and mind control from a young age. It’s difficult to write those words—even now—as a licensed psychologist, a speaker, a writer, and someone who is nationally recognized for my work in the field of dissociative disorders. But I share them because they are the truth. And because for decades, I was forced to live in silence.

In 2018, when my mother died, the dam finally broke. That loss triggered the surfacing of memories that had long been held by other parts of me—parts I didn’t yet fully know or understand. It was then I came to realize I had Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Not because I had been misdiagnosed (though I had), not because of a label, but because my system had kept me alive through something the mind should not have to bear.

DID is a creative, protective response to chronic, severe trauma, often beginning in early childhood. It’s not a character flaw. It’s not rare. It is rarely recognized—especially by clinicians who are under-trained and misinformed. And it is not the sensationalized, dangerous caricature that Hollywood continues to promote.

Each part of me—of my system—holds pieces of our story. Our strength. Our survival. DID is not chaos; it is order in the face of terror. It is the nervous system doing its job to keep a child alive when no one else would.

The path from there to here has been long. Treatment has been complex, nonlinear, and life-saving. And even now, as a psychologist and trauma specialist, speaking about my story in public spaces comes with emotional cost. There is risk in telling the truth when the world still struggles to believe survivors.

But I also know the cost of silence. So I speak—not only for myself, but for the many others who cannot, who are still in hiding, who are still being harmed by disbelief, by stigma, by systems not built to support them.

I have gone from silenced to stage. From a hidden, shattered inner world to a nationally recognized voice in trauma and dissociation. I’ve presented at conferences, trained clinicians across the country, and written for organizations I once only dreamed of. And yet, I am still often met with skepticism, stigma, and discomfort—especially when I name the realities of trafficking, ritual abuse, or DID.

We need to do better. Mental health professionals must be educated about complex trauma and dissociation—not just in theory, but in practice. Survivors need clinicians who can recognize the signs, who won’t pathologize their adaptations, and who will believe them.
DID is not an attention-seeking disorder. It is not created by suggestion. It is a human response to inhuman circumstances....
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/keeping-it-real-and-resilient/202506/trauma-dissociation-and-surviving-a-psychopathic-father 

What is 'ritual abuse'? Sky News given exclusive access to call centre helping victims  Sky's Alice Porter has spoken to experts at the National Association for People Abused in Childhood. Supervisor Sam Booth recalls the types of abuse she has come across, including 'Satanic ritual abuse'.  Tuesday 23 September 2025
https://news.sky.com/video/what-is-ritual-abuse-massive-rise-in-child-on-child-sexual-abuse-recorded-by-experts-13436383 

AI fuelling a new one age of child abuse – 600,000 victims in Britain alone
British children are enduring a ‘shocking pandemic' of child sexual abuse with nearly 1 in 20 raped or sexually assaulted and 1 in 10 exposed to sexually unwanted online content  By Lucy Johnston, Health and Social Affairs Editor of the Sunday Express Sun, Oct 12, 2025
British children are enduring a ‘shocking pandemic’ of child sexual abuse with nearly 1 in 20 raped or sexually assaulted and 1 in 10 exposed to sexually unwanted online content a new study has revealed.

The research indicates 608,763 youngsters been raped or sexually assaulted before the age of 18 and over a million have been groomed, coerced, exploited or exposed to unwanted sexual content online - including AI-generated sex abuse images of children.
The study, carried out by University of Edinburgh based Childlight Global Child Safety Institute, suggests an epidemic of abuse taking place both behind closed doors and on screens, where children are being sexually exploited - often by people they know.

The UK figures have been drawn from Childlight’s major new study ‘Into the Light’ - published this week. It comes as research reveals there has been a 1,325 percent surge in AI-generated child sexual abuse material since 2023. Images now include “deepfakes” of children’s faces placed onto naked bodies or blended synthetic-real abuse videos.
The institute warns that many abusers are family members or trusted adults, who coerce children into creating sexual content or sharing explicit photos as part of grooming rituals. These images are then traded through encrypted networks, private messaging apps and even mainstream social media.

Professor Elena Martellozzo, Director of Childlight’s European Hub, said: “We are experiencing a shocking pandemic of sexual assault, rape and sexual abuse among children. Estimates show around half of the perpetrators are known to the children - either family members or friends. Some of these figures highlight increased reporting of the problem, but we know that online abuse has risen sharply. Many perpetrators groom their own children or those known to them or their families to provide images in order to access networks of other online offenders.”....

The figures are based on a synthesis of 14 UK studies and show, that 4.4 percent of British children - roughly 608,763 out of the 13.8 million aged 0–17 - have been raped or sexually assaulted before adulthood....

A separate UK-based analysis found that 11 percent of children aged 5–17 - about 1,126,027 young people - had been exposed to unwanted sexual content online in the past year. And 2,006,375 children - or 20 percent - are estimated to face online grooming when they are often pressured into sharing sexual images.

Globally, relatives are thought to be responsible for over half of child sexual abuse material, with fathers producing an estimated 900,000 images in 2024 alone....
Across Western Europe, Childlight estimates around 7 percent of children - roughly five million - are raped or sexually assaulted before 18, with rates more than twice as high for girls (9.7 %) as boys (3.9 %).

About one in five children (19.6 %) report experiencing online solicitation or grooming, equivalent to nearly 15 million victims. One in seven say it happened in just the last year.
The study analysed 48 surveys from 19 European countries and found wide variations - but a consistent upward trend as mobile phones and social media become the “new front line” of abuse.

Childlight’s Into the Light report - analysing 94 population-based studies on rape and sexual assault and 77 on online exploitation - is the largest known dataset of its kind....  https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2120428/AI-fuelling-a-new-one-age-of-child-abuse-600-000-victims-in-Britain-alone 

 

 

Survivorship Notes for September/October https://survivorship.org/notes-and-journal/

 

Survivorship Notes for September/October is online at: https://survivorship.org/notes-and-journal/

Articles in this issue include:

Organised ritual abuse and its wider context: Degradation, deception and disavowal  A research review and analysis by Dr Elly Hanson Commissioned by the Hydrant Programme and NAPAC (National Association for People Abused in Childhood) July 2025

How a Christian college ministry glorified a sex offender and enabled him to keep abusing students  

Daughter of NJ police chief accuses him, others of ‘ritualistic’ abuse, years of sexual assault: court docs

Knesset panel meeting reveals testimonies of ritual abuse on minors

 

 

Videos and PowerPoints May 2025 online conference:  The Survivorship Trafficking and Extreme Abuse Online Conference 2025 Presentations https://survivorship.org/the-survivorship-trafficking-and-extreme-abuse-online-conference-2025-presentations/

Presenters included: Dr. Laurie Matthew, Dr. Lynn Brunet, Dr. Randy Noblitt, Dr. Rainer Hermann Kurz and Neil Brick 

The 2025 SMART Conference Video Presentations and PowerPoints are now online at:  https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2025-conference/2025-conference-video-presentations-and-powerpoints/

None of the material on this page, on linked pages or at the conference is meant as therapy, or to take the place of therapy.

 

 

SMART Ritual Abuse Newsletter Issue 184 - September 2025

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Issue 184 – September 2025

The purpose of this newsletter is to help stop secretive organizations and groups from abusing others and to help those who allege they have been abused by such organizations and groups. This newsletter is not a substitute for other ways of recovering from ritual abuse. Readers should use caution while reading this newsletter. If necessary, make sure other support systems are available during and after reading this newsletter.

Important:
The resources mentioned in this newsletter are for educational value only. Reading the books cited may or may not help your recovery process, so use caution when reading any book or contacting any resource mentioned in this newsletter. Some may have a religious or other agenda that may be separate from your own recovery process. Others may have valuable information on secretive organizations, but have triggers or be somewhat sympathetic to those organizations. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, the views expressed in this newsletter constitute expressions of opinion, and readers are cautioned to form their own opinions and draw their own conclusions by consulting a variety of sources, including this newsletter. Resources listed, quoted and individual articles, etc. and their writers do not necessarily support all or any of the views mentioned in this newsletter. Also, the views, facts and opinions mentioned in this newsletter are solely the opinions of the authors and are not necessarily the opinions of this newsletter or its editor.
Copyright 2025 – All rights reserved. No reproduction of any material without written permission from the editor and individual authors.

Information in this issue includes:
– SMART is celebrating our 30th anniversary.
– Thirty Years of Publishing and Advocacy – Neil Brick
– The Mind Controlled Brain – Wendy Hoffman
– Videos, PowerPoints and transcripts from our 2025 conference
– Self’s Stony Soil, by Wendy Hoffman
– “Masonic Themes and Trauma in the Novels of William Golding (1911–1993)” Lynn Brunet (PhD)
– Recovery from Extreme Abuse – Randy Noblitt
– Thirty Years of Publishing and Advocacy – Neil Brick
– Organised ritual abuse and its wider context: Degradation, deception and disavowal A research review and analysis by Dr Elly Hanson Commissioned by the Hydrant Programme and NAPAC (National Association for People Abused in Childhood) July 2025
– Hydrant Programme – Ritualistic abuse
– Investigating and responding to ritualistic abuse, including witchcraft and spirit possession Operational Briefing Commissioned by the Hydrant Programme and NAPAC July 2025
– Houses of the Holy: A Nightmare Web of Hate, Crime, Corruption and Child Abuse — a shocking true story of organized ritual abuse and systemic betrayal.
– How a Christian college ministry glorified a sex offender and enabled him to keep abusing students Daniel Savala, Chi Alpha members
– ‘He’s helping himself to your kids by the help of Chi Alpha leadership’: Student organization put Aggies, minors in contact with sex offender
– Former youth pastor arrested after allegedly sexually abusing at least 6 teens The alleged abuse at the pastor’s home and at an Assemblies of God church in Baltimore County, Maryland, authorities said.
– Daughter of NJ police chief accuses him, others of ‘ritualistic’ abuse, years of sexual assault: court docs
– Knesset panel meeting reveals shocking testimonies of ritual abuse on minors Multiple women came forward to testify about the sexual abuse they suffered as victims of organized ritual abuse when they were minors during a Sunday Knesset committee meeting.
– Survivors testify: MKs participated in sadistic sexual ‘rituals’ involving minors ‘Doctors, educators, police officers, and past and present members of the Knesset were involved in these abuses,’ survivor says.

SMART is celebrating our 30th anniversary this year. This is our 183rd newsletter. Our first issue (online https://ritualabuse.us/2008/10/issue-1-march-1995/ discussed the book Ritual Abuse What it is, Why it Happens and How to Help by Margaret Smith. It covered a thesis on Masonic Ritual Abuse called “Ritual Abuse, its Effects and the Process of Recovery Using Self Help Methods and Resources, and Focusing on the Spiritual Aspect of Damage and Recover.” Over the years, SMART expanded its scope to cover institutionalized abuse, clergy abuse, government mind control and sex trafficking issues. SMART has had yearly conferences since 1997. SMART has become one of the largest ritual abuse resource information providers on the Internet.

Thirty Years of Publishing and Advocacy – Neil Brick
Neil Brick discussed how and why he created the SMART Newsletter. He talked about how the newsletter and the field of ritual abuse have changed over the years. He discussed the importance of advocacy and public education. Ideas for the future growth of the field were discussed.
Neil Brick is a survivor of ritualistic abuse. His work continues to educate the public about child abuse, trauma and ritualistic abuse crimes. His child abuse and ritualistic abuse newsletter S.M.A.R.T. https://ritualabuse.us has been published for over 30 years. http://neilbrick.com
Parts of this presentation may be triggering and may describe abuse or violence. All accusations are alleged. https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2025-conference/thirty-years-of-publishing-and-advocacy-neil-brick/

The Mind Controlled Brain – Wendy Hoffman
Please note: This article may be triggering for survivors.
The mind controlled brain is the core of satanic ritual abuse. If you are a victim of mind control, your brain has been stolen. Satanic cults thrive on controlling other people’s brains. But you can get your brain back. This theft doesn’t have to be permanent. You can leave the life your perpetrators imposed on you….
https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2025-conference/the-mind-controlled-brain-wendy-hoffman/

The 2025 Online Annual Ritual Abuse and Mind Control Information – If you are interested in getting on a mailing list, please write: smartnews@aol.com Internet conference information: https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2025-conference/

Videos, PowerPoints and transcripts from our 2025 conference https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2025-conference/2025-conference-video-presentations-and-powerpoints/
Please use caution while reading this information. It may be triggering for survivors.
Self’s Stony Soil, by Wendy Hoffman
A novella, written in free style poetry and flash fiction, Self’s Stony Soil is about the sexual trafficking of children. They are packed tight into cages, taken by airplanes to other countries, abused by politicians, the wealthy, royalty, and known people in the world. It tells the story of a child’s only friend, a doll, and how much she needed it. A trafficked person had amnesia until late in life. Remembering began the healing of deep scars. She began to find her true self. This is her story and unfortunately the story of many more. It is also about memory and healing from these horrendous acts. Wendy will talk about how the book came about and read from some of its passages.
Wendy Hoffman has published four memoirs: The Enslaved Queen, White Witch in a Black Robe, A Brain of My Own and After Amnesia. The Enslaved Queen has been translated and published in Germany. Her book of poetry, Forceps, was also published along with a book of essays, From the Trenches, co-authored with Dr. Alison Miller. Her second poetry book Belonging was nominated for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. The Theft, a novel, is forthcoming. She does consultations for therapists working in the field of dissociative disorders and presentations internationally.
“Masonic Themes and Trauma in the Novels of William Golding (1911–1993)” Lynn Brunet (PhD)
The English novelist William Golding is the author of Lord of the Flies (1954), a book that was studied by school children around the English-speaking world; his oeuvre of a further twelve novels cemented his reputation to the extent that he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. But he was also an author who struggled with terrifying but inexplicable childhood experiences, so much so that they haunted his dreams right throughout his life. This talk will look at one of his novels, The Spire (1964), set in the Middle Ages with the building of a new spire on a cathedral, but where the foundations are completely inadequate to support it. Through a stream-of-consciousness technique, the novel shows the gradual psychological disintegration of the protagonist, the Dean whose lofty project this is. This talk will demonstrate that Golding has encoded into this novel multiple features of the Masonic Royal Arch rite. He also appears to be making connections between the Royal Arch rite and his own traumatic childhood memories. From this perspective The Spire can be seen to be a critique of the Church of England’s close connection with Freemasonry. His disdain for this link is summed up with his description of The Spire as “this great finger sticking up”.
Lynn Brunet (PhD) is an Australian art historian, artist and survivor of Masonic ritual abuse. Her research examines the coupling of trauma and ritual in modern and contemporary Western art and literature. In particular, it traces the connection between Masonic and other fraternal initiation rites and complex trauma in the work of so-called ‘tortured’ artists and writers.
Recovery from Extreme Abuse – Randy Noblitt
This presentation is about some of the ways people recover from extreme abuse. Some survivors seek therapy, but others do not. Psychotherapy is expensive and not always available to all abuse survivors. Graduate schools and other training programs typically do not teach their students about extreme abuse.
My best teachers were the survivors who were seeking psychological treatment from me, and who were willing and able to communicate what they had been through, and how these traumas had happened. I have also learned from survivors who have not participated in trauma-informed therapy, and how some have made progress using other resources. Many have told their stories in books, other publications, or though internet postings.
Randy Noblitt is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Alliant International University in Los Angeles and a licensed psychologist in Texas and New Mexico.
Thirty Years of Publishing and Advocacy – Neil Brick
Neil Brick will discuss how and why he created the SMART Newsletter. He will talk about how the newsletter and the field of ritual abuse have changed over the years. He will discuss the importance of advocacy and public education. Ideas for the future growth of the field will be discussed.
Neil Brick is a survivor of ritualistic abuse. His work continues to educate the public about child abuse, trauma and ritualistic abuse crimes. His child abuse and ritualistic abuse newsletter S.M.A.R.T. https://ritualabuse.us has been published for over 30 years. http://neilbrick.com

Organised ritual abuse and its wider context: Degradation, deception and disavowal A research review and analysis by Dr Elly Hanson Commissioned by the Hydrant Programme and NAPAC (National Association for People Abused in Childhood) July 2025…. describes abuse

The organised sexual, physical and psychological abuse of children (and often adults) by a group of individuals who use rituals as a form of prolonged and repeated torture (often alongside other forms of abuse) with the aim of controlling, silencing and terrorising their victims. As part of this control, perpetrators train children into a supernatural belief system, which they may or may not believe themselves. Ritualised abuse typically involves family members (for example, parents and their associates abusing their children) and starts when children are young (the UK National Police Chiefs’ Council definition of ritualistic abuse, used within the Complex and Organised Child Abuse Database – COCAD)….

In the UK, there have been at least 14 cases in which people have been convicted of sexually abusing children and their use of ritualistic practices in this process was widely acknowledged, either within the criminal or family courts.6 Nine of these involved more than one perpetrator. In addition, there have been convictions for sexual abuse similar in nature to organised ritualistic abuse, involving multiple family members sadistically sexually abusing and/or torturing their children, as well as forcing them to have sex with others, over the course of their childhoods.7….
In 1982, couple Malcolm and Susan Smith together with Susan’s sister and husband, Albert and Carole Hickman, were convicted for crimes relating to the sexual abuse of four children ranging in age from one to 15 years old. Malcolm Smith convinced the children he was ‘Lucifer’, and this was said to be ‘largely a subterfuge by which children and young girls were ensnared’ (The Guardian, 1982). …

In 1998, the daughter and stepson of a convicted sex offender, Michael Horgan, came forward to speak out in detail about the abuse that he had subjected them to, in protest at him being released after having served only half of his ten-year sentence (McMullan & Revell Walton, 1999). He had been prosecuted alongside five others in 1992 for the organised, ritualistic abuse of several children, the youngest being two, yet media attention appears to have been scant at that time….

In 1992, an extensive investigation was launched in Wales following a ten-year-old boy’s disclosures to his foster carers of sexual abuse of himself and other children by his father and other adults. Other children corroborated his allegations, leading to a trial of 12 individuals, of whom six were convicted. The jury heard that children aged from two years old upwards were sexually abused in isolated barns and sheds in Pembrokeshire and subjected to a terrifying mix of violence, threat and ritualistic practices….

In 1998, eight people based in Devon were convicted for a total of 100 years for sexual abuse offences spanning 35 years. This abuse was intergenerational, involving grandparents who had taught their children to abuse their own, and sadistic, involving razor blades, pick-axe handles, pitch forks and knitting needles (the latter used in abortions) (Lakeman, 1998; Lindy Brown, interview). These abusers not only raped the children (aged 3-15 years old), but also invited friends and neighbours to do so….
In 2023, eight individuals in Glasgow were found guilty of crimes of child sexual abuse and/or other forms of child maltreatment, and in early 2025 seven of them were given life sentences for this abuse.9 Five of these individuals were found guilty of attempting to murder a young girl…. Four children in total had been subjected to sexual abuse, gang rapes and violence by the group. Two individuals were also found guilty of child neglect….

3. The nature of research into organised ritualistic (and related) abuse. It was in the late 1980s that research into organised ritualistic child abuse first really began, and over the course of the 1990s a sizeable number of studies were published, primarily case series of therapists’ patients who reported this abuse (for example, Coleman, 1994; Fraser, 1990; Young et al., 1991), but also including analyses of state and voluntary sector organised abuse cases (including those involving ritual), as well as professional surveys and an analysis of helpline data (for example, Gallagher et al., 1996; Scott, 1993). Since then, it appears studies have been less frequent, although three research projects have substantially deepened insight and understanding. In 2001, Sara Scott published a seminal study involving twelve in-depth life history interviews with survivors of ritual abuse, following a wider survey completed by 36 (Scott, 2001). This was followed in the early 2010s by Michael Salter’s research of similar methodology with 21 survivors of organised child abuse (16 of whom reported ritualistic elements) and professionals supporting this client group (Salter, 2011, 2012, 2013a, 2013b, 2017, 2019).10 And then more recently, in Germany a research group has explored the issue through survivor and professional surveys alongside analysis of submissions on this topic to the German Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual abuse, all-in-all resulting in eight academic papers (for example, Schröder et al., 2018, Schröder, Nick et al., 2020). In addition, case series, surveys and other analyses continue to be published, contributing to the broader body of knowledge….

4. Lives navigating ‘everyday’ abuse and cruelty Most survivors of organised ritualistic abuse report adult family members as their primary perpetrators (Salter, 2012; Schröder et al., 2018; Schröder, Behrendt et al., 2020a; Scott, 2001). Looking across life histories recounted by this group of survivors, we see both striking diversity and commonality. On the one hand, there is wide socioeconomic variance – some describe families that are highly affluent and well-connected, whilst others those that are struggling with poverty and debt. In addition, some are highly regimented and project an image of ‘the perfect family’ whilst in others there is chaos and mental health difficulty visible to the outside eye. However, across practically all the recorded accounts of survivors of intrafamilial organised ritual abuse, there are common themes of dominance and control (usually exerted most forcefully by fathers); neglect of children’s emotional (and often physical) needs; and routine cruelty towards them – especially towards girls (Scott, 2001; Salter, 2013a). Essentially these survivors report navigating childhoods in which those tasked to care for and protect them were instead colossal and constant sources of danger.12 The abuse this group of survivors recount includes routine sexual abuse from family members that typically started in their early years, often involved sadistic elements, and interweaved with other forms of abuse as well as neglect….

5. The dimensions of commercial and imaged child sexual abuse Alongside this ‘everyday cruelty’ many victims of organised and ritual abuse are also bought and sold to be raped (pimped and trafficked) and have their sexual abuse photographed and filmed (to make child sexual abuse material: CSAM). In their survey study of 165 self-reported survivors of organised abuse (88% of whose included ritual),16 Schröder, Nick et al. (2020) found that 91% reported commercial sexual exploitation, and 90% reported that their abuse involved CSAM production. And in their parallel survey of healthcare professionals who support survivors of organised/ritual abuse, even higher proportions reported that their clients’ abuse included these elements (96% and 94% respectively). Complementing these findings, a study that instead focussed on CSAM survivors found that many reported this CSAM abuse to be driven by organised groups, often involving family members (Canadian Centre for Child Protection: C3P, 2017). Of the 150 international survivors of CSAM they surveyed, 74 (49%) reported organised abuse. This group experienced sexual abuse that on average started younger and lasted longer than the other respondents – 82% reported that their abuse started when they were aged four or younger, and 51% reported it lasting 16 or more years, followed by 22% reporting it lasting 11-15 years. In 82% of these cases, the primary abuser was reported to be a family member, most typically the victim’s father (38%) followed by both parents (19%). Nearly a third (31%) of this group reported abuse by a person in a position of authority (of these, 35% mentioned a doctor or more; 30% teacher(s); 26% police; and 26% clergy), and 51% respondents mentioned at least one adult woman as an offender….

Historically, research into CSAM has often neglected the organised and intrafamilial dimensions to much of its production (Itzin, 1997; Salter & Wong, 2023), and similarly efforts to tackle children being bought and sold for rape (also known as child sex trafficking) have not always paid due regard to how much of this is driven by family members and paedophilic abuse groups (Itzin, 2001; Pacheo et al., 2023; Raphael, 2020). As noted above, this commercial sexual exploitation (pimping and the rapes that follow) is often reported by ritual abuse survivors as another horrific part of their maltreatment. Survivors describe how these elements of their abuse involving filming and/or being sold to others often involve humiliation, shame, cruelty and sadism, and the profound degradation of being so objectified and commodified (for example, C3P, 2017; Pacheo et al., 2023; Raphael, 2020; Salter & Woodlock, submitted)….

6. The nature and dynamics of organised ritual abuse When organised abuse involves rituals and supernatural narratives, what do these comprise? How are the rituals consistent with victims’ wider experience of abuse, and how are they set apart? What offender-victim dynamics do they involve and what offender strategies are at play? This section explores these and related questions, with the aim of developing a deeper understanding of the nature of this abuse and the psychology at play. Rituals in the broadest sense are practices that follow a convention or habit. Often however, the term ‘ritual’ is used to more specifically mean what are termed in sociology ‘special collective ritual events’ (Knottnerus, 2014). These rituals (from here on in, how ‘ritual’ is used in this report) involve multiple participants engaging in activities with a distinctive form, at set times and separated from everyday social practices (Knotterus, 2014).

Examples of such rituals include religious ceremonies, political rallies, and commemorations of important historical events. They are central to the human experience and occur across history and cultures. These ritual events, entwined with the narratives that support them, have particular power and so are frequently designed and used by those with nefarious intentions to control others (see for example, Delano & Knottnerus’ (2018) analysis of the Khmer Rouge’s use of ritual). And this appears to be a primary purpose of the rituals and related ideologies of ritual abuse, alongside their related use as justification and inspiration for extreme cruelty.17

Survivors of ritual abuse generally report this abuse as being less frequent to the other forms of abuse they were experiencing – taking place as organised ceremonies; often on specific calendar dates; involving an immediate circle of abusers or larger numbers (essentially paedophile rings coming together); and comprising a series of extreme tortures and abuses that are given ideological or religious justification (for example, a family pet being ‘sacrificed’) (Behrendt et al., 2020; Salter, 2013a; Sarson & MacDonald, 2008; Schröder, Nick, et al., 2020; Scott, 2001)….

6.1 Ideologies and themes
Schröder, Nick, et al. (2020) surveyed 165 adults reporting a history of organised abuse, 88% of whom named the involvement of ideology / ritual within it.18 Of this group, 72% reported Satanic ideology, 35% racist or fascist, and 30% ‘religious or free church’ (this category included Christianity, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Freemasonry). Smaller numbers reported Germanic, witchcraft, military or Kaballah narratives.19 These proportions were roughly similar to those reported in a parallel survey of therapists who worked with survivors of ritual abuse, who were asked what ritual ideologies their clients disclosed (Schröder et al., 2020). In Scott’s (2001) smaller survey of 36 survivors in Britain, 20 indicated that their abuse involved Satanic ideology; five named Mormonism, Roman Catholicism, Fundamentalist Christian, Masonic, neo-Nazi or Wicca (one naming two of these); and the remaining 11 were split between not knowing and being unwilling or too fearful to answer. The ideologies perpetrators draw upon will in large part reflect their cultural backdrop – mainstream beliefs and practices provide material that is co-opted and twisted into an abusive belief system, working to add credibility and power to it….

6.3 Acts of abuse and torture
What behavioural shape does this cruelty typically take? What abusive practices do these supernatural ideologies enable and these rituals comprise? In the survey of 165 survivors in Germany conducted by Schröder et al. (2020) discussed above, 96% reported that they were subjected to near-death experiences and 93% reported isolation with sensory deprivation. Similar percentages of the 174 surveyed therapists reported hearing disclosures of these forms of abuse in their work with survivors (97% and 95% respectively). And such experiences are also recounted by survivors in interviews (Scott, 2001; Salter, 2013a), heard in some court cases (for example see Lakeman, 1998; Miller, 1995; Scott, 2023), and documented in clinical case and helpline reports (Sarson & Macdonald, 2008; Scott, 1993). In their review of 37 patients with dissociative disorders who reported ritual abuse, Young et al. (1991) found that all of them reported near death experiences as part of the abuse, and 27 disclosed that they had been buried alive in coffins or graves….

10.3 Practices of disbelief and silence
The discourse of disbelief is inseparable from the practices that follow from it – practices that interactively work to keep it in place in a vicious spiral (Nelson, 2016). Such ‘practices of disbelief’ include hostility towards people who persist in calling attention to the issue, and their derogation and ridicule. To do so therefore carries significant reputational risk and so is understandably necessarily avoided by many. Relatedly, there is the practice of societal silence – around organised child abuse generally and ritual abuse in particular – from the media, from academia, and relevant societal institutions (notwithstanding notable exceptions) (Salter & Woodlock, 2023). Despite survivors continuing to disclose to helplines, therapists and trusted researchers, their experiences are rarely heard publicly. As noted, after the mid-1990s, research publications have declined. In tandem, the rigorous in-depth research that has been published has largely been ignored (Scott, personal communication). In the UK, statutory multi-agency child protection guidance went from including a definition of organised child abuse in 1991 to removing all mention of it by 2013 (Davies, 2014, 2016). The latest edition (HM Government, 2023) continues with this omission, and while it gives a definition of ‘extra-familial harm’ which includes the example of ‘modern slavery and trafficking’, it provides no definition of intrafamilial harm, let alone the organised and ritual abuse that this can include.57 This may encourage, or at least colludes with, statutory services applying higher thresholds to the investigation of this abuse (also see section below on disclosure and professional responses).

The principle seemed to be ‘let’s try not to investigate’; I thought ‘how much evidence do you want before we do?’ – it was far beyond what we’d usually need

Former Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll on how allegations of ritualized abuse were approached within a UK police force
Organised intrafamilial and/or ritual abuse cases that do reach the courts are afforded scant media coverage, whilst in parallel the rehearsed story of ‘satanic panic’ is routinely used as a cautionary tale by commentators drawing attention to more modern (alleged) hysterias (for example, see Barnes, 2024; Joyce, 2021). Podcasts, documentaries and online sources such as Wikipedia58 continue to highlight and challenge conspiracy fictions, whilst giving no airtime to established cases and perpetuating the false dichotomy that ritual abuse must either be the product of conspiracy fantasies or non-existent (for example, Mostrous et al., 2022)….

Conspiracy theorising and logical errors in the discourse of disbelief
Claims that organised ritual abuse does not exist in the Western world must somehow deal with the evidence that it does. Several strategies are employed in this endeavour including:
• Simple omission – claiming that evidence which does exist does not (for example, convictions for ritual abuse)
• Applying a false dichotomy, as discussed above (‘either it’s a conspiracy theory or it doesn’t exist’ – rather than logically acknowledging that real cases and conspiracy theories can co-exist). In this endeavour, the views of those who take it seriously are misrepresented or caricatured
• Dismissing all recovered memories as false memories, despite the psychological and forensic evidence to the contrary59
• Holding a suspicion of Dissociative Identity Disorder and its origins in trauma, despite all the evidence to the contrary
• Asserting widespread malpractice by social workers. They are said to manipulate children into ritual abuse allegations because they see it everywhere, having been ‘contaminated’ by workshops and self-professed experts. A large scale review of referrals to police and social services (involving information from a diversity of sources) could find no evidence of such practice (Gallagher, 2001).
• Similarly, presupposing that huge numbers of therapists are applying methods that lead their clients to develop whole libraries of false memories (this is usually required to explain the numbers of people disclosing ritual abuse in anonymous surveys, on helplines, and the like). Not only do we lack substantive evidence that this is even possible (Brewin & Andrews, 2016),60 it would entail multiple therapists risking their reputation and livelihood (by going against professional codes of conduct) for no obvious gain….
https://www.hydrantprogramme.co.uk/assets/NPCC-Organised-ritual-abuse-and-its-wider-context-Degradation-deception-and-disavowal-July-2025-v2.pdf

Hydrant Programme – Ritualistic abuse
Today (Thursday 3 July) the National Police Chiefs’ Council in partnership with the National Association for People Abused in Childhood (NAPAC) is publishing Organised ritual abuse and its wider context: Degradation, deception and disavowal Ritualistic abuse – A research review and analysis by Dr Elly Hanson. The report unpacks the nature of organised ritual abuse, its motives and dynamics, the harm it causes and the barriers survivors face in speaking out. It also looks at the discourse of disbelief and conspiracy fictions which have kept it hidden for so long.
Humans have the potential to treat one another with extreme cruelty and this report deals with behaviour of this worst kind. To identify and surface the nature of ritual abuse and the abuses surrounding it, Dr Hanson draws extensively on primary research – this then providing the basis for a set of recommendations that lay out a whole system approach necessary to respond rightfully to this most horrific of crimes. https://www.hydrantprogramme.co.uk/our-work/ritualistic-abuse

Investigating and responding to ritualistic abuse, including witchcraft and spirit possession Operational Briefing Commissioned by the Hydrant Programme and NAPAC July 2025 https://www.hydrantprogramme.co.uk/assets/NPCC-Operational-Briefing-Investigating-and-responding-to-ritualistic-abuse-including-witchcraft-and-spirt-possession-July-2025-v4.pdf

Houses of the Holy: A Nightmare Web of Hate, Crime, Corruption and Child Abuse — a shocking true story of organized ritual abuse and systemic betrayal. When former special operations pilot Mark Harris sought to protect his children, he uncovered a hidden network of religious extremists, white supremacists, corrupt Freemasons, and government collusion. His efforts cost him everything. Supported by extensive documents and firsthand testimony, this explosive memoir reveals deep-rooted corruption in courts, churches, law enforcement, and politics. Houses of the Holy is both a survivor’s account and an urgent call for truth, justice, and accountability. https://books.google.com/books/about/Houses_of_the_Holy.html?id=im1JEQAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description

How a Christian college ministry glorified a sex offender and enabled him to keep abusing students Daniel Savala urged generations of Chi Alpha members to get naked in his Houston sauna. Why did Assemblies of God pastors keep bringing teenagers to his home? A revered missionary challenged his young followers to live for Jesus; it was all part of his plot to get them undressed, he confessed later.
Article describes abuse
Aug. 4, 2025 By Mike Hixenbaugh HOUSTON — Daniel Savala leans back in a cloth armchair, raises his right hand and swears before God that what he’s about to say is the truth. Looking into the camera, the Pentecostal missionary speaks in slow, measured sentences, describing how, for decades, he gained the trust of college students who came to his ivy-draped bungalow in search of spiritual guidance. Using scripture, he convinced them they could open up about uncomfortable topics like pornography and masturbation. Then he would strike, touching their penises and pressuring them to touch his, all under the guise of bringing them closer to Jesus. “I knew that I was wrong,” Savala says in the video, filmed by a lawyer in 2023. “But I did it anyway.” …. In the two years since Savala recorded that confession at his home in Houston, lawyers, activists and whistleblowers have worked to untangle how a convicted sex offender with an eighth-grade education managed to convince scores of pastors and young Christians to put their faith in him — and why church officials repeatedly failed to stop him.

In police reports, lawsuits, online forums and interviews with NBC News, dozens of boys and young men have described how Savala spun his own twisted version of the Gospel. He taught them that seeing each other naked in his backyard sauna was essential to becoming true brothers in Christ — or, as he put it, “nudity is unity.” For those struggling with lustful temptation, he offered a counterintuitive solution: group masturbation, sometimes while listening to Christian worship music. He pushed some of his disciples further; in lawsuits, signed statements and criminal filings, at least 10 have accused him of sexually abusing them.
“He would say things like, ‘Hey, you know it’s OK to masturbate,’” said Joseph Cleveland, who says Savala groomed and sexually abused him for a decade beginning in 2004, when he was 15. “‘Because we’re brothers, we can do it together.’”

The pastors who shepherded hundreds of high school and college students to Savala’s home were part of Chi Alpha, a Christian ministry that evangelizes on university campuses. Students seek out Chi Alpha to connect with God and each other, through small Bible studies and rollicking worship services — and, for more than 30 years, through Savala. Generations of Chi Alpha leaders hailed him as a spiritual savant who could answer life’s deepest mysteries.
The boys and young men who devoted themselves to Savala called him “Papa Daniel,” “God’s vagabond” and “the holiest man alive.” At his direction, teams of students built the backyard sauna that became the site of his alleged crimes. So wrapped up in his teachings, his followers often didn’t see themselves as victims until years or decades later. At least one of the college students Savala sexually exploited later became a pastor and brought his own boys to learn from his master inside his darkened sauna. The reward for that minister’s devotion: Like Savala, he now faces the possibility of life in prison.
Savala’s ministry collapsed in early 2023 when several men came forward, some anonymously, to accuse him and some of his protégés of sexual abuse and exploitation, triggering a wave of criminal charges, lawsuits and pastor dismissals. Savala was arrested, and at least six Chi Alpha pastors, leaders and students who studied under him were charged with sexual abuse…. It wasn’t the first time officials with the Assemblies of God, the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination, have been accused of mishandling sex abuse allegations. In May, an NBC News investigation revealed how church leaders dismissed repeated abuse allegations against a charismatic children’s pastor named Joe Campbell in the 1980s, allowing him to remain in ministry for years as more alleged victims came forward….

Chi Alpha had a clear opportunity to break ties with Savala in 2012, when authorities in Alaska charged him with sexually abusing boys as a youth minister in the 1990s. Instead, ministry leaders in Texas rallied to his defense, sending a staff member to Alaska to pay his bail and — after Savala pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of a minor — organizing a letter-writing campaign to ask the judge for leniency. After a stint in jail, Savala went right back to hosting Chi Alpha students at his home in Houston….
In the decade that followed, at least half a dozen people contacted Assemblies of God officials in Texas and at the denomination’s national headquarters in Springfield, Missouri, alerting them that Chi Alpha was exposing students to a sex offender. These whistleblowers wrote emails, made phone calls and spoke up at internal meetings. Again and again, they were dismissed or ignored, NBC News found….
In a statement to NBC News, the Assemblies of God said it directed Chi Alpha leaders to stay away from Savala after receiving a report about him in 2018. Five years later, after receiving “reports of sexual abuse,” the denomination said it “took appropriate actions,” leading to the dismissal of more than a half dozen ministers with ties to Savala…..

In the summer of 2012, Eli Stewart, one of the top Chi Alpha pastors at Sam Houston State, wrote an urgent plea to ministry leaders and alumni: “Our dear friend Daniel needs you.”
Savala had recently been indicted in Alaska after he was accused of sexually abusing several boys at a church in the 1990s. Two of the boys, now men, had filed police reports, and Savala traveled there to face charges. Chi Alpha leaders had already dispatched a junior staff member to Alaska to pay Savala’s $10,000 bail and hired a lawyer to defend him. Now Stewart was calling for collective action.
Describing the allegations as “an absolute attack of the devil,” Stewart wrote that Savala was preparing to take a plea deal — not to reduce his sentence, but to protect the families of the men falsely accusing him. He called on his Chi Alpha brothers to write letters to the judge: “If you have children and would be comfortable having Daniel stay in your home or having your children at Daniel’s house, the judge needs to know that.”….
Savala’s victims have come to view his 2012 conviction as a line of demarcation. With his abuses out in the open, it was the moment when ministry leaders should have broken free from Savala’s influence, but instead chose the opposite path….
Over the next decade, the pattern repeated again and again. People came to church leaders with concerns about Savala, and those warnings went unheeded.

Ron Bloomingkemper Jr. had quit Chi Alpha at Sam Houston State in the late 1990s after he says Savala asked him to masturbate together. He was outraged years later, in 2013, when he learned of Savala’s child sex abuse conviction and continued connection to the ministry. Bloomingkemper said he called Tim Barker, a pastor and the superintendent of the Assemblies of God regional council that oversees the denomination in south Texas. Barker seemed concerned, Bloomingkemper said, and he promised to investigate. After a few months, Bloomingkemper called again. “I said, ‘I’m following up about the Daniel thing.’ And he goes, ‘I completely forgot about that.’” That’s when Bloomingkemper said he realized: “They’re not going to do anything about this.” Frustrated, he said he dropped the issue and tried to move on…. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/thomas-pinkerton-youth-pastor-arrested-sex-abuse-baltimore-maryland-rcna224311

‘He’s helping himself to your kids by the help of Chi Alpha leadership’: Student organization put Aggies, minors in contact with sex offender Nicholas Gutteridge May 1, 2023 https://thebatt.com/news/chi-alpha-organization-took-students-to-church-with-links-to-a-sex-offender-article_793cdc2e-e876-11ed-907b-d33f4dd8cad8-html/

Former youth pastor arrested after allegedly sexually abusing at least 6 teens
The alleged abuse occurred from 2006 to 2010 at the pastor’s home and at an Assemblies of God church in Baltimore County, Maryland, authorities said.
Aug. 11, 2025 By Elizabeth Chuck and Mike Hixenbaugh
This article is part of “Pastors and Prey,” a series investigating sex abuse allegations in the Assemblies of God. Thomas Pinkerton Jr. used to tell children in his youth group in Maryland that it was normal for a pastor to kiss boys on the lips, because that’s how Jesus greeted his disciples, according to an arrest warrant made public last week. Kissing was just the beginning, several men from Pinkerton’s former youth group told police.

Pinkerton, 52, a youth minister known as Pastor Tommy, is being held without bond following accusations that he sexually abused six teens from 2006 to 2010 while working at Central Christian Church, an Assemblies of God church in Baltimore County. He was extradited from his home state of Georgia to Maryland last Wednesday to face 24 felony and misdemeanor counts in Baltimore County. His attorney, Justin Hollimon, said he pleaded not guilty.
An arrest warrant said the alleged abuse included inappropriate touching and kissing of six teenagers in Maryland, who ranged in age from 13 to 19. The warrant said the alleged abuse happened at the church and at Pinkerton’s former home in Maryland. A seventh man reported abuse by Pinkerton in Georgia, according to the warrant, and that report was referred to authorities there, officials in Baltimore County said. Pinkerton, who has worked as a traveling evangelist in recent years, was “completely shocked” by the charges, his attorney said Monday….
Detectives believe there may be more victims and have asked anyone with information to come forward…. Pinkerton’s arrest comes as the Assemblies of God, the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination, with nearly 3 million members across 13,000 churches in the United States, is grappling with a string of child sex abuse allegations.

As part of an ongoing investigation into the denomination’s handling of abuse claims, NBC News published an investigation last week based on interviews, emails, court filings and police reports that examined how an Assemblies of God college ministry guided hundreds of students to the home of Daniel Savala, a convicted sex offender lauded by some as “the holiest man alive.” Days later, Assemblies of God leaders addressed the issue of sex abuse in the denomination during a biennial gathering in Orlando, defending their handling of the Savala case while also pledging to make changes to prevent similar abuses in the future. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/thomas-pinkerton-youth-pastor-arrested-sex-abuse-baltimore-maryland-rcna224311

Daughter of NJ police chief accuses him, others of ‘ritualistic’ abuse, years of sexual assault: court docs By Priscilla DeGregory and Alex Oliveira July 10, 2025
The daughter of a New Jersey police chief claims he repeatedly raped her for more than a decade as part of a “ritualistic” cult allegedly involving their neighbors, according to a shocking lawsuit she filed. Courtney Tamagny’s allegations against Leonia Police Chief Scott Tamagny, his neighbor Kevin Slevin and others have starkly divided the small Bergen County borough. Both men say that the claims were thoroughly investigated as high as the federal government and determined to be unfounded. Slevin has even countersued Courtney for defamation.

Courtney Tamagny, 20, alleges her father, Leonia Police Chief Scott Tamagny, sexually assaulted her and her sisters for years in a lawsuit. But Courtney has taken her claims public — appearing on podcasts and social media to describe the alleged sex abuse in detail, and sparking a Change.org petition to suspend her top cop dad.
The 20-year-old claims her father and Slevin heinously abused her in their home, alongside “ritualistic” worshippers in the woods near their house — and that the father allegedly threatened to murder her mother if she ever spoke up, according to court docs.
“[Courtney was brought] into the woods in Rockland County New York, and there was what appeared to be other middle-aged men present with masks on their faces,” the lawsuit claimed. “She recalls there being fire and animals being burned, and they would chant as if ritualistic.”
“She was sexually assaulted in those woods by defendant Slevin, defendant father, and some of the other men present,” it further claimed. The alleged abuse began in 2009 when Courtney was around 4 years old, with the lawsuit claiming it continued until 2020, when she was 15. Both of Courtney’s sisters were also allegedly subjected to abuse, according to the lawsuit, with their father allegedly using drugs to sedate them before assaulting them when their mother was either away or asleep with earplugs in a downstairs bedroom. The mother, Jeanne Tamagny, joined Courtney as a plaintiff on the lawsuit and is in the process of divorcing her husband….

Courtney claimed on the podcast that the neighborhood cultists had “tunnels” they would use to covertly operate their rituals, which allegedly included “taking kids’ blood,” “drum circles” and “burnings” that would last all night. “Burnings of animals, animal skins, humans as well,” she said on the show, claiming that much of the alleged violence was intended to terrify victims into silence. “What scared us the most is ‘OK, we’re doing this to these people we’ve trafficked, why wouldn’t we do this to you? Because we just did that to this young girl or this young boy,’” she continued to relay on the episode, adding that the alleged cult was part of a national cabal of satanists engaged in child trafficking. Other alleged cult activities she outlined on the podcast included sick “games” that always ended with kids being assaulted. …

Courtney also claimed on the podcast that her father used his position in local law enforcement to trap her in a world of abuse, and that anytime she reached out for help, she was rebuffed. In addition to suing her father and Slevin, Courtney also named the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, the State of New Jersey, various state child protective services and others. Chief Tamagny and Slevin have both vehemently denied the claims….
Slevin’s countersuit accuses Courtney of defamation, claiming her allegations have left him “exposed to public ridicule and held in disrepute,” and “extreme embarrassment and humiliation and severe mental distress.” Chief Tamagny’s attorney shared similar sentiments, calling the allegations “completely false and defamatory.”…. https://nypost.com/2025/07/10/us-news/daughter-of-nj-police-chief-accuses-him-others-of-ritualistic-abuse-years-of-sexual-assault-court-docs/

Knesset panel meeting reveals shocking testimonies of ritual abuse on minors
Multiple women came forward to testify about the sexual abuse they suffered as victims of organized ritual abuse when they were minors during a Sunday Knesset committee meeting. By KESHET NEEV JULY 28, 2025
The following contains sensitive material, reader discretion is advised.
Several women came forward to testify about the sexual abuse they suffered as victims of organized ritual abuse when they were minors during a Sunday Knesset committee meeting.
The meeting examined and questioned the response of state authorities to such incidents of ritual abuse. MKs criticized the attending police and government representatives for not taking enough action to investigate the matter…
The Sunday meeting came in the wake of the investigation opened on Friday against MK Hanoch Milwidsky (Likud) into sexual misconduct and obstruction of justice. Accusations against him include rape and witness tampering….
“I was a small child, five years old, and suffered four years of unbearable abuse,” she began. “Other children were present – I hear their screams in my head. They said I was born broken and needed fixing, or the world would suffer. They tied me in every possible way, used whips and electric shockers, and raped in bizarre ways,” she continued.

Another survivor, under the pseudonym “A,” described the abuse she endured between the ages of four and 20. At the age of 15, she said that she “was tied to a torture bed in Tel Aviv basements. They held a snake, inserted it into me, and I saw it covered in blood.”
“They slaughtered it into a vessel, mixed its blood with mine, and drank it. They said I was now a sacred gate. I believe one of my parents was involved. They picked me up from school. In my case, the police were empathetic, but the prosecutor closed the case, saying that it wasted too much time,” she explained. A. also criticized the Education Ministry for not doing enough to help her. “The Education Ministry could have helped. In seventh grade, they realized something was wrong,” she said.

An additional testimony by victim Yael Ariel described how she was forced to harm other victims. “We underwent training and paid a very heavy price for leaving. For years, we lived broken and lost. There were boys who were also harmed. I’m certain some victims committed suicide. Others are hospitalized in psychiatric wards,” she said. “There was the rape of children. Some children witnessed murders. I have around 60 testimonies from all sectors of society. I had approached the police,” Ariel said….
The representatives said that there have been ongoing investigations conducted by the police’s Lahav 105 unit, in charge of investigating crimes against minors. “It’s clear that Israel does not treat cults as it should,” Tamano-Shata said.
“You need to bring legislation on cults. It must come from the Justice Ministry, and it keeps falling through,” the committee chairwoman told the representatives.

Hearing the testimonies of the victims, Tamano-Shata called on Israel Police to “move themselves.” She also explained to the attending state representatives the importance of going back at least a decade to break down the sexual offense reports from each year while investigating to find ritual abuse.
During the meeting, Lazimi also underscored to the representatives the importance of looking into the ritual aspect of sexual abuse crimes…. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-862528

Survivors testify: MKs participated in sadistic sexual ‘rituals’ involving minors
‘Doctors, educators, police officers, and past and present members of the Knesset were involved in these abuses,’ survivor says. By ELIAV BREUER
JUNE 3, 2025 17:06 (Warning: The following contains sensitive material, reader discretion is advised.) Several women on Tuesday testified in the Knesset about sexual abuse they suffered as minors as part of religious ritual ceremonies. The testimonies came during a joint meeting of the Knesset’s Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality, chaired by MK Pnina Tameno-Shete (National Unity), and the Special Committee on Young Israelis, chaired by MK Naama Lazimi (The Democrats)…. Yael Ariel, one of the abuse survivors, shared: “I experienced ritual abuse over many years until my late teens and was forced to harm other children. I chose to speak out and make my voice heard. I received threats after revealing my story. From age five to age 20, I was harmed in these ceremonies.”
According to Ariel, she received testimonies from several women who claimed that doctors, educators, police officers, and past and present members of the Knesset were involved in these abuses. “I filed a complaint with the police that was closed after a few months, and I know of other cases that were closed. Speaking out today in the Knesset is a historic moment,” she said.
Another survivor, Yael Shitrit, testified: “You have no idea what ritual abuse is. The human brain cannot comprehend it. You can’t imagine what it means to program a three-year-old girl through rape and sadism so they can do whatever they want without anyone knowing.

“Their trafficking of me happened all over the country. They moved me from ceremony to ceremony. Naked men stood in a circle. My therapist, her husband, and her son harmed me, and there were dozens of other girls and boys who harmed me.
“There were ceremonies and rituals meant to make me forget,” Shitrit continued. “The police have known about this for a year, but they don’t have the tools to deal with it. The people who will fall are very, very senior figures. These people run communities and government agencies. They threaten us. I have children I need to protect. Something needs to be set up that can deal with this….
“Several years ago, I received descriptions of sadistic abuse of children,” Goldberg said. “The accounts sounded absurd. [But] the testimonies kept coming and would not let up. They described gang rape by men, and sometimes by women. The abuse was filmed, and drugs were used. There were ritual practices and symbolism.

“I presented the police with written testimonies from five women. To this day, no one has contacted me. Since the report, additional testimonies have surfaced,” Goldberg said. A representative of the Israel Police, Ch.-Supt. Anat Yakir, said that there was a national unit reviewing all cases and that the complaints were “a top priority in the intelligence division.”….
One testified that a cousin trafficked her beginning at age 11. “At 14, he took me to sadistic clubs. I endured torture and starvation at the hands of well-known and prominent individuals. I suffered harm in endless ways.
“There were public events, and there were internal ceremonies where I was tied to a tall post with handcuffs. Around me, there were other handcuffed victims with rituals of drinking menstrual blood and the slaughter of cats and other animals. They told me no one would believe me if I spoke out.”
She continued that she filed a complaint with the police five years ago. “The prosecution closed the case due to lack of evidence, so I appealed, and it was accepted. I came to testify while on pregnancy bed rest, but the case was closed again due to lack of evidence. “They said I was imagining things. I presented a recorded testimony from someone who admitted to harming me, but she was never summoned for questioning…. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-856407

‘Bottom of darkness’: Children raped in ritual ceremonies expose the horrors Multiple women recount organized abuse including ritual ceremonies conducted by people they knew, even close family members – after months of interviews with victims, their families, treatment professionals and experts in Israel and abroad, a disturbing picture emerges with descriptions difficult to read. by Noam Barkan 04-23-2025
“I suffered painful sodomy, truly felt like I was splitting in two. It’s a terrible experience, but there’s something about these things, perhaps in their strangeness, that’s like… maybe the hardest component is that if you tell people about these things, they’ll think you’re crazy. I remember many types of severe sexual abuse, but there’s something about these ritualistic abuses that makes them the bottom of darkness.”
In direct words and with a clear voice, Emunah (pseudonym, like all victims’ names in this article) describes the severe abuse she allegedly experienced in her childhood. Organized sexual abuse that included “ceremonies” with supposed religious significance. Horrifying ceremonies in which religious people, some from her own family, sacrificed her as an offering for spiritual transcendence or redemption.

Emunah is not alone. More than ten women between the ages of 20-45 with whom we spoke describe a severe phenomenon raising serious concern that in Israel, like many countries worldwide, organized sexual abuse of children is occurring right under everyone’s nose. “Perhaps the world knows that rape occurs, that incest exists, but this the world doesn’t know,” Emunah said. “These acts have been kept secret for years, perhaps because of their insanity… it was always very, very strange. As if there was an internal logic, but it was so crazy… very strange things happen there, normalized in a ritualistic and orderly manner. There’s a specific time, there’s when to say this verse and when to say that verse, there’s an order as if things are supposed to be done this way…”
Each woman we interviewed during our investigation has a different life story. They come from different areas of the country, from north to south. Each is at a different place in her life. Some are students, others work and manage careers and family lives, and there are also young women barely surviving, clinging to life by their fingernails.

These women did not know each other previously, grew up in different communities, and come from different sectors and religious streams. Yet the ritual abuse stories they describe are similar in ways that compel us to listen and not turn a blind eye. Some were harmed in early childhood educational settings or in girls’ schools, others in their family homes, yeshivas or synagogues. In this article, we present only a very small sample from many hours of interviews and information, and some descriptions in this article are difficult to read. The great fear expressed by everyone who spoke with us is that organized sexual abuse of children continues even today…. Https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/04/23/bottom-of-darkness-children-raped-in-ritual-ceremonies-expose-the-horrors/