Proof That Ritual Abuse Exists
Ritual abuse exists all over the world. There have been reports,
journal articles, web pages and criminal convictions of these horrific
crimes against children and adults.
(This page also has day care and other child abuse cases at the bottom.)
List of Ritual Abuse references –
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/satanic-ritual-abuse-evidence-with-information-on-the-mcmartin-preschool-case/
http://ritualabusearticles.wordpress.com/category/satanic-ritual-abuse-evidence/
What is Ritual Abuse?
“…is methodical abuse, often using indoctrination, aimed at breaking
the will of another human being. In a 1989 report, the Ritual Abuse
Task Force of the L.A. County Commission for Women defined ritual abuse
as: “Ritual Abuse usually involves repeated abuse over an extended
period of time. The physical abuse is severe, sometimes including
torture and killing. The sexual abuse is usually painful,humiliating,
intended as a means of gaining dominance over the victim.The
psychological abuse is devastating and involves the use of ritual
indoctrination. It includes mind control techniques which convey to the
victim a profound terror of the cult members …most victims are in a
state of terror, mind control and dissociation” (Pg. 35-36) “Safe
Passage to Healing”, by Chrystine Oksana, 1994, HarperCollins, which is
an excellent source for survivor and co-survivors on the topic, though
there is a newer edition out by iuniverse.com (2001)
List of legal cases:
Believe the children (1997). “Conviction List: Ritual Child Abuse”. http://ra-info.org/faqs/ra-convictions/
Web pages proving the existence of ritual abuse:
Noblitt, PhD, J. R. – An Empirical Look at the Ritual Abuse Controversy (2007) http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/an-empirical-look-at-the-ritual-abuse-controversy-randy-noblitt-phd/
Ritual Abuse Bibliography http://ra-info.org/for-researchers/bibliographies/ritual-abuse-primary-and-secondary-source-books/
Ritual Abuse Statistics & Research http://web.archive.org/web/20071210161357/http://home.mchsi.com/~ftio/ra-stats.htm
Searchable releases on satanic ritual abuse http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psnews/
Frequently Asked Questions about Ritual Abuse and Mind Control https://survivorship.org/frequently-ask-questions/
Satanic Ritual Abuse: The Evidence Surfaces By Daniel Ryder, CCDC, LSW http://web.archive.org/web/20080125051057/http://home.mchsi.com/~ftio/ra-evidence-surfaces.htm
2008 Publications on Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
http://endritualabuse.org/publications-on-ritual-abuse-and-mind-control-in-2008/
Lacter, E (2008-02-11). “Brief Synopsis of the Literature on the Existence of Ritualistic Abuse”. http://endritualabuse.org/brief-synopsis-of-the-literature-on-the-existence-of-ritualistic-abuse/
Information on Ellen Lacter and Her Research
https://ritualabuse.us/smart/ellen-lacter/
Information on Valerie Sinason and Her Research
https://ritualabuse.us/smart/valerie-sinason/
Information on Randy Noblitt and His Research
https://ritualabuse.us/smart/randy-noblitt/
Ritual abuse diagnosis research – excerpt from a chapter in: Lacter,
E. & Lehman, K. (2008).Guidelines to Differential Diagnosis between
Schizophrenia and Ritual Abuse/Mind Control Traumatic Stress. In J.R.
Noblitt & P. Perskin(Eds.), Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-first
Century: Psychological, Forensic, Social and Political Considerations,
pp. 85-154. Bandon, Oregon: Robert D. Reed Publishers. quotes: A second
study revealed that these results were unrelated to patients’ degree of
media and hospital milieu exposure to the subject of Satanic ritual
abuse. “In fact, less media exposure was associated with
production of more Satanic content in patients reporting ritual abuse,
evidence that reports of ritual abuse are not primarily the product of
exposure contagion.” Responses are consistent with the
devastating and pervasive abuse these victims have experienced, so often
including immediate family members. http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/ritual-abuse-diagnosis-research-2/
Bottoms, Shaver and Goodman in their 1993 study to evaluate
ritual abuse claims found that in 2,292 alleged ritual abuse cases, 15%
of the perpetrators in adult cases and 30% of the perpetrators in child
cases confessed to the abuse. Data from Brown, Scheflin and
Hammond (1998).”Memory, Trauma Treatment, And the Law” (W. W. Norton)
ISBN 0-393-70254-5 (p.62) Bottoms, B. Shaver, P. & Goodman, G.
(1993) Profile of ritual abuse and religion related abuse allegations in
the United States. Updated findings provided via personal communication
from B. Bottoms. Cited in K.C. Faller (1994), Ritual Abuse; A Review of
the research. The American Professional Society on the Abuse of
Children Advisor , 7, 1, 19-27
On Page 170 (first edition), of Cult and Ritual Abuse – Noblitt and
Perskin (Praeger, 1995) states “One of the best sources of evaluative
research on ritual abuse is the article “Ritual Abuse: A Review of
Research” by Kathleen Coulborn Faller (1994)….in a survey of
2,709 members of the American Psychological Association, it was found
that 30 percent of these professionals had seen cases of ritual or
religion-related abuse (Bottoms, Shaver & Goodman, 1991). Of those
psychologists who have seen cases of ritual abuse, 93 percent believed
that the reported harm took place and 93 percent believed that the
alleged ritualism occurred. This is a remarkable finding.
Mental health professionals are known to be divergent in their thinking
and frequently do not agree with one another regarding questions of the
diagnosis and etiology of psychiatric problems…this level of concurrence
in a large national sample of psychologists…would be impressive….the
similar research of Nancy Perry (1992) which further supports (the
previous findings)…Perry also conducted a national survey of therapists
who work with clients with dissociative disorders and she found that 88
percent of the 1,185 respondents indicated”belief in ritual abuse,
involving mind control and programming” (p.3).”
Journal of Psychology and Theology – Satanic Ritual Abuse: The Current State of Knowledge
Satanic Ritual Abuse: A Question of Memory
http://journals.biola.edu/jpt/volumes/22/issues/3/articles/167
…Leading memory researchers such as Dr. Bessel van der Kolk of Harvard
Medical School maintain that traumatic memories, which typically are
engraved in the sensorimotor processes, are not subject to the same
kinds of contamination that can affect normal memory. Traumatic amnesia,
described in the dsm-iii-r as psychogenic amnesia, is a phenomenon
which has been known to mental health professionals for more than 100
years. The clinically observed characteristics of traumatic memory
formation and retrieval match precisely the patterns of memory recovery
exhibited by sra survivors, and strongly confirm the reality of their
cult abuse. Author D. McCulley Pages 167 – 172
http://journals.biola.edu/
Adults who report childhood ritualistic abuse. By:
Cozolino, L.J.; Shaffer, R.E. Volume 20, Issue 3 Fall 1992 Therapists
are finding an increasing number of patients uncovering memories of
ritualistic forms of abuse from childhood. To gain a fuller
understanding of this phenomenon, twenty outpatients reporting memories
of ritualistic abuse were interviewed. Questions focused on the nature
of the abuse and its perceived impact on interpersonal, occupational,
and spiritual development. Reasons for entering psychotherapy as well as
the nature and course of treatment were also discussed. Subjects
entered therapy with similar psychological complaints. Reported
psychiatric sequelae included dissociative, affective, somatization, and
eating disorders. Abuse experiences were reported to have affected
every aspect of their adult functioning. Subjects began therapy with
little or no knowledge of the phenomenon of ritualistic abuse, and only
one patient reported vague memories of ritualistic abuse before entering
therapy. Reports from this sample reflect striking convergence among
subjects and with data from previous research and clinical reports. A
composite clinical case study is presented based on these data.
excerpts from the article:
“Skeptics question the legitimacy of these reports,but many factors point to the reality of the phenomenon of ritualistic abuse. First of all, the degree of consistency between reports of individuals from different parts of the country is very high. The
fact that children as young as 2 and 3 report ritualistic abuse
experiences that mirror those reported by adult victims is especially
striking in light of the fact that young children do not have access to
the kind of printed information that might conceivably allow an older
person to fabricate such experiences (Gould, 1987). Second,
experiences of ritualistic abuse reported by victims of all ages are
virtually identical to written historical accounts of Satan worship and
the like (Hill & Goodwin, 1989; Russell, 1972), findings that
substantiate our present-day understanding of Satanism and ritualistic
abuse as intragenerational phenomenon. Third, the symptoms from which
individuals reporting histories of ritualistic abuse tend to suffer are
consistent with our current understanding of post-traumatic stress
disorder and the dissociative disorders. The progression in which
ritualistic abuse survivors respond to psychotherapy places these
victims squarely within the category of individual who have suffered
real-not imagined-trauma.
That is, when memories of the dissociated traumatic event have been
fully surfaced into conscious awareness and re-associated in all their
aspects, the often extremely debilitating symptoms from which the
individual has suffered abate dramatically and over the course of
treatment frequently disappear altogether (Ray & Reagor, 1991).
Comments on study: Shaffer and Cozolino (1992) interviewed 19 women and
one man who reported types and aftereffects of ritualistic abuse
consistent with those reported by Young et al. All subjects reported
witnessing the murder of animals, infants, children and/or adults. All
reported suicidal ideation and half reported suicide attempts. The
majority reported severe and sadistic forms of abuse by multiple
perpetrators. Some reported continued recontact/revictimization into
their adult years.
describes crimes
Journal of Psychology and Theology – Satanic Ritual Abuse: The Current State of Knowledge
Gould, C., & Cozolino, L. (1992). Ritual abuse, multiplicity, and mind control. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 20, 194-196.
As a result of the psychologically intolerable nature of their
early childhood experiences, victims of ritual abuse frequently develop
multiple personality disorder (MPD). Therapists who treat these
victims often assume that all MPD stems from a system of spontaneously
created defenses against overwhelming trauma. As a result, these
therapists tend to focus on treating the post-traumatic stress elements
of the disorder and on integrating alter personalities. Recent
experience with victims of ritual abuse suggests the presence of
“cult-created” multiplicity, in which the cult deliberately creates
alter personalities to serve its purposes, often outside of the
awareness of the victim’s host personality. Each cult-created alter is
programmed to serve a particular cult function such as maintaining
contact with the cult, reporting information to the cult, self-injuring
if cult injunctions are broken, and disrupting the therapeutic process
that could lead to the individual breaking free of the cult. A majority
of ritual abuse victims in psychotherapy may maintain cult contact
unbeknownst to either the host personality or the treating therapist.
Selected quotes:
“Ritual abuse is conducted on behalf of a cult whose purpose is to
establish mind control over the victims. Thus, these perpetrators have a
conscious motive for the abuse beyond compulsively repeating their own
childhood abuse in an effort to gain mastery over the original trauma.
Most victims state that they were ritually abused as part of satanic
worship, for the purpose of indoctrinating them into satanic beliefs
(Los Angeles County Commission for Women, 1989). Mind control is
originally established when the victim is a child under 6 years old.
During this formative stage of development, perpetrating cult members
systematically combine dissociation enhancing drugs, pain, sexual
assault, terror, and other forms of psychological abuse in such a way
that the child dissociates the intolerable traumatic experience. The
part of the child that has been split off to handle the overwhelming
trauma is maximally open to suggestion as the abuse is occurring. The
cult perpetrators exploit the vulnerability of the child who is being
tortured by directing the child to create a new personality who is to
answer to a particular name as well as to other specific cues. During
the abuse, the newly formed alter personality is imbued with particular
qualities and functions by the cult programmer. Alter personalities
which are structured by the ritually abusing cult in this fashion are
created to serve particular cult functions. These functions usually lie
outside of the awareness of the core (or host) personality.
Such cult functions typically include, but are not limited to,
maintaining contact with the cult, reporting information to the cult,
self-injuring if the cult injunctions are broken, and disrupting the
therapeutic process that could lead to the individual breaking free of
the cult (Neswald, 1991).
Ritualistic child abuse, psychopathology, and evil. By: Cozolino, L.J. – Journal of Psychology and Theology Volume 18, Issue 3 Fall 1990 p.218
Ritualistic abuse is an extreme form of psychological, physical, and
sexual maltreatment of children in the context of “religious” ceremony.
The clinical presentation of the victims of such abuse is complex and
raises many issues related in the diagnosis and treatment of
psychopathology as well as the importance of spiritual counseling. The
acknowledgment of belief systems so repugnant to the Judeo-Christian
world view and the addressing of our own negative emotional reactions to
the reality of ritualistic abuse are important first steps in
responding to these issues. The phenomenon of ritualistic child abuse
forces us to consider the relationship between theological notions of
evil and psychological concepts of psychopathology. This article
addresses the phenomenon of ritualistic child abuse, the psychological
sequelae of victimization, and possible motivations for this form of
abuse.
Psychological sequelae in adult females reporting childhood ritualistic abuse
Kathy J. Lawrence, Louis Cozolino and David W. Foy – Child Abuse &
Neglect Volume 19, Issue 8, August 1995, Pages 975-984
doi:10.1016/0145-2134(95)00059-H
Abstract: The present study sought to increase current scientific
knowledge about the controversial issue of subjectively reported
childhood ritualistic abuse by addressing several key unresolved issues.
In particular, the possibility that those reporting ritualistic abuse
may be characterized primarily by the severity of their abuse histories
or the severity of their present psychological symptoms, rather than the
veridicality of the ritualistic events, was explored. Adult female
outpatients reporting childhood sexual abuse with ritualistic features
were compared with a second group of women who reported childhood sexual
abuse without ritualism. Measures included characteristics of childhood
sexual and physical abuse, current posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
diagnostic status and symptom severity, and severity of current
dissociative experiences. Women reporting ritualistic features scored significantly higher on measures of childhood sexual and physical abuse.
Neither PTSD diagnostic status nor severity for PTSD nor dissociative
experiences were significantly different between the groups. While
preliminary in nature, these results suggest that it may be helpful to
conceptualize reported childhood ritualistic abuse as indicative of the
need to assess carefully for severe abuse and its predictable sequelae
within existing traumatic victimization conceptual frameworks.
http://www.nctsnet.org/nctsn_assets/Articles/115.pdf
Why Cults Terrorize and Kill Children – LLOYD DEMAUSE
The Journal of Psychohistory 21 (4) 1994
describes graphic crimes of abuse
“Cult abuse is increasing, only that-as with the increase in all child
abuse reports-we have become more open to hearing them. But it seemed
unlikely that the surge of cult memories could all be made up by
patients or implanted by therapists. Therapists are a timid group at
best, and the notion that they suddenly begin implanting false memories
in tens of thousands of their clients for no apparent reason strained
credulity. Certainly no one has presented a shred of evidence for
massive “false memory” implantations.”
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/why-cults-terrorize-and-kill-children-lloyd-demause-the-journal-of-psychohistory/
The Dark Tunnels of McMartin – Dr. Roland C. Summit
The opportunity came in April, 1990 with permission from the new owner
of the preschool to search for the tunnels before he demolished the
building and redeveloped the property. These soiled but solid citizens
managed to find what the district attorney had disclaimed: solid,
scientific evidence that someone had not only dug tunnels under the
preschool, but also had taken the trouble to try to undo them. The
results of this definitive excavation are described in meticulous detail
in the 185 page Report of the Archaeological Excavation of the McMartin
Preschool Site by E. Gary Stickel, Ph.D., the UCLA archaeologist
commissioned to do the study….Dr. Stickel’s report (p.95) concludes:
There is no other scenario that fits all of the facts except that the
feature was indeed a tunnel. The date of the construction and use of the
tunnel was not absolutely established, but an assessment of seven
factors of data all indicate that it was probably constructed, used and
completely filled back in after 1966 (the construction date of the
preschool). This age assessment has also been corroborated by the
consulting Geologist for the project, Dr. Don Michael.
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/the-dark-tunnels-of-mcmartin-dr-roland-c-summit-journal-of-psychohistory/
Common Programs Observed in Survivors of Satanic Ritualistic Abuse
describes crimes of abuse and programming techniques
Increasingly, cases of Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) and Satanic
Ritualistic Abuse (SRA) are being reported in the psychotherapeutic
community. Though controversy concerning authenticity remains, such
cases are slowly gaining in acceptability as a genuine social and
psychopathological phenomenon. Concurrently, the etiological
underpinnings and treatment demands of these special patients are being
unraveled and understood as never before. As a result, it is becoming
increasingly clear that perhaps the most demanding treatment aspects of
such cases concern the problems posed by what is known as “cult
programming.”
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/common-programs-observed-in-survivors-of-satanic-ritualistic-abuse/
Report of the Ritual Abuse Task Force – Los Angeles County Commission for Women
Ritual abuse is a brutal form of abuse of children, adolescents, and
adults, consisting of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, and
involving the use of rituals. Ritual does not necessarily mean satanic.
However, most survivors state that they were ritually abused as part of
satanic worship for the purpose of indoctrinating them into satanic
beliefs and practices. Ritual abuse rarely consists of a single episode.
It usually involves repeated abuse over an extended period of
time….Mind control is the cornerstone of ritual abuse, the key element
in the subjugation and silencing of its victims. Victims of ritual abuse
are subjected to a rigorously applied system of mind control designed
to rob them of their sense of free will and to impose upon them the will
of the cult and its leaders. Most often these ritually abusive cults
are motivated by a satanic belief system [only on the surface.] The mind
control is achieved through an elaborate system of brainwashing,
programming, indoctrination, hypnosis, and the use of various
mind-altering drugs. The purpose of the mind control is to compel ritual
abuse victims to keep the secret of their abuse, to conform to the
beliefs and behaviors of the cult, and to become functioning members who
serve the cult by carrying out the directives of its leaders without
being detected within society at large.
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/report-of-the-ritual-abuse-task-force-los-angeles-county-commission-for-women/
Believing Rachel JEANNE HILL The Journal of Psychohistory 24 (2) Fall 1996
describes graphic crimes of abuse
Rachel’s story is one of suffering, courage and hope. As a young child
she was the victim of unspeakable crimes, but because she received
therapy and the support of a loving family, she has emerged intact. I
hope that parents of other abused children will be reassured by our
story. When I look at the strong, confident young woman my daughter is
becoming, I know that believing Rachel was the right thing to do.
Believing Rachel made her whole.
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/believing-rachel-jeanne-hill-the-journal-of-psychohistory/
Denying Ritual Abuse of Children – Catherine Gould
The Journal of Psychohistory 22 (3) 1995
The evidence is rapidly accumulating that the problem of ritualabuse is
considerable in scope and extremely grave in its consequences.Among
2,709 members of the American Psychological Association who responded to
a poll, 2,292 cases of ritual abuse were reported(Bottoms, Shaver,
& Goodman, 1993). In 1992 alone, Childhelp USA logged 1,741 calls
pertaining to ritual abuse, Monarch Resources of Los Angeles logged
approximately 5,000, Real Active Survivors tallied nearly 3,600, Justus
Unlimited of Colorado received almost 7,000, and Looking Up of Maine
handled around 6,000. Even allowing for some of these calls to have been
made by people who assist survivors but are not themselves survivors,
and for some survivors to have called more that one helpline or made
multiple calls to the same helpline, these numbers suggest that at a
minimum there must be tens of thousands of survivors of ritual abuse in
the United States.
Evidence also continues to accumulate that the ritual abuse of children
constitutes a child abuse problem of significant scope. In1988,
Finkelhor, Williams and Burns published the results of a nationwide
study of substantiated reports of sexual abuse in day care involving
1,639 young child victims. Thirteen percent of these cases were found to
involve ritual abuse. Other studies of ritually abused children have
been relatively small. Kelly (1988; 1989; 1992a; 1992b;1993) report-ed
on 35 day care victims of ritual abuse, Waterman et al.(1993) reported
on 82 children complaining of ritual abuse in preschool, Faller (1988;
1990) studied 18 children who had disclosed ritual abuse in their
preschool, and Bybee and Mowbray (1993) from the Michigan State
Department of Mental Health identified 62 children alleging ritual abuse
in their preschool and 53 children who reported seeing others be
ritually abused. Snow and Sorenson (1990) studied 39 children reporting
ritual abuse in five neighborhoods in Utah, and Jonker and Jonker-Bakker
(1991) reported on a total group of 98 children, at least 48 of whom
were believed to be victims of ritual abuse.
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/denying-ritual-abuse-of-children-catherine-gould/
McCulley, D. “Satanic ritual abuse: A question of memory.” Journal of Psychology and Theology Fall 1994 22(3) p.167-172
In spite of reports by thousands of adults who describe satanic ritual
abuse in their backgrounds, the Special Issue of the Journal of
Psychology and Theology reveals obdurate skepticism regarding their
credibility on the part of several contributors. Some of these
disbelievers currently are citing experiments demonstrating extreme
malleability for human memory as evidence that survivor accounts,
especially those involving delayed memory, are fantasies implanted by
incompetent clinicians. However, leading memory researchers such as Dr.
Bessel van der Kolk of Harvard Medical School maintain that traumatic
memories, which typically are engraved in the sensorimotor processes,
are not subject to the same kinds of contamination that can affect
normal memory. Traumatic amnesia, described in the DSM-III-R as
psychogenic amnesia, is a phenomenon which has been known to mental
health professionals for more than 100 years. The clinically observed
characteristics of traumatic memory formation and retrieval match
precisely the patterns of memory recovery exhibited by SRA survivors,
and strongly confirm the reality of their cult abuse.
Quotes: If satanic ritual abuse is a question of
memory, the data redound to the credibility of those thousands of
individuals who identify themselves as SRA survivors. All the scientific
studies of memory under trauma indicate that the bimodal response
described by van der Kolk (1994), whether hyperpotentiated or
dissociative, heightens the reliability of recall. The phenomenon of
recovered memory is not a new therapeutic fad created by irresponsible
clinical experimentation, but a well established aspect of trauma. The
connection between trauma and memory disturbance is made clear by the
definition of psychogenic amnesia in the DSM-III-R (1987) which states
that “The predominant disturbance is one or more episodes of inability
to recall important personal information, usually of a traumatic or
stressful nature, that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary
forgetfulness” (p. 273).
Further, there often is corroboration for these retrieved memories.
Judith Herman and Emily Schatzow (1992) found that in a sample of 53
women who disclosed memories of abuse for which they had been amnesic,
74% of the subjects were able to find independent confirmation from
family members, pornographic photos, or diaries. Ivor Browne (1990a)
found the “internal consistency of the traumatic account” persuasive,
and also discovered that in the sizeable minority of cases where there
was an available witness that “in every instance, the traumatic events .
turn out to be true” (p. 30).
There is no longer room for denial and disbelief – for evading
the grim reality of SRA – by recourse to memory research which simply
does not apply. Solid scientific inquiry does not allow us that luxury; neither should Christian conscience. https://wisdom.biola.edu/jpt
Jonker, F; Jonker-Bakker, I “Reaction to Benjamin Rossen’s Investigation of Satanic Ritual Abuse in Oude Pekela” Journal of Psychology and Theology 1992 20(3) p.260-262
quotes: The authors, Jonker and Jonker-Bakker, respond to Benjamin
Rossen’s criticisms of their handling of an alleged satanic ritual abuse
incident in Oude Pekela, The Netherlands.
This response in turn criticizes the quality of Rossen’s scientific
work, especially in respect to his judgments made without having had
direct contact with the children or their parents, or other principals
in the incident….All Rossen’s statements about the children and their
parents, about Professor Mik, about school teachers and about ourselves
were based on no contact whatsoever with any of us. https://wisdom.biola.edu/jpt
Ritual Abuse-Torture Within Families/Groups
Authors: Jeanne Sarson, Linda MacDonald DOI: 10.1080/10926770801926146
Published in: Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, Volume
16,Issue 4 July 2008, pages 419 – 438 Abstract – Case studies provide
insights into identifying 10 violent thematic issues as components of a
pattern of family/group ritual abuse-torture (RAT) victimization.
Narratives from victimized women suggest that victimization generally
begins in infancy or soon thereafter. A visual model of RAT displays the
organization of the co-culture. Examples of the family/group gatherings
known as “rituals and ceremonies” provide insights into how these
gatherings are used to normalize pedophilic violence. Global activism
afforded the first effort ever to track RAT and human trafficking.
Recognizing RAT as an emerging form of non-state actor torture,
discontinuing the use of language that sexualizes adult-child
relationships, and promoting human rights education are suggested social
solutions.
Available at : http://www.informaworld.com/index/903766904.pdf
html article : http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ftinterface~content=a903766904~fulltext=713240928
Organized abuse and the politics of disbelief –
Michael Salter (p.243 – 283) Faculty of Law – Faculty of Medicine –
University of New South Wales in Proceedings of the 2nd Australian &
New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 19 – 20 June 2008 Sydney,
Australia – Presented by the Crime & Justice Research Network and
the Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Network Edited by
Chris Cunneen & Michael Salter – Published by The Crime and Justice
research Newtork University of New South Wales December, 2008 http://www.academia.edu/2042170/Organised_abuse_and_the_politics_of_disbelief ISBN: 9780646507378 (pdf)
“Since the 1980s, disclosures of organised abuse have been
disparaged by a range of activists, journalists and researchers who have
focused, in particular, on cases in which sexually abusive groups were
alleged to have behaved in ritualistic or ceremonial ways…Whilst these
authors claimed to be writing in the interests of science and social
justice, what has emerged from their writing are a familiar set of
arguments about the credibility of women and children’s testimony of
sexual violence; in short, that women and children are prone to a range
of memory and cognitive errors that lead them to make false allegations
of rape. This paper argues that this body of literature has
systematically misconstrued allegations of organised abuse, and used
organised abuse as a lens through which the debate on child abuse could
be re-envisioned along very traditional lines, attributing victim status
to accused men and constructing liars out of women and children
complaining of sexual abuse.”
Journal of Child and Youth Care – ISSN 0840-982X – SPECIAL ISSUE 1990 – CONTENTS
A Case of Multiple Life-Threatening Illnesses Related to Early Ritual Abuse
Rennet Wong and Jock McKeen
Ritual Child Abuse: A Survey of Symptoms and Allegations
Pamela S. Hudson
Satanic Ritual Abuse: A Cause of Multiple Personality Disorder
George A. Fraser
Differentiating Between Ritual Assault and Sexual Abuse
Louise M. Edwards
The Choice – Gerry Fewster
http://www.cyc-net.org/Journals/jcyc/jcycSpecial1990.html
Recent worldwide survey of ritual abuse
The Extreme Abuse Survey final results are online with
findings,questionnaires and presentations for download as pdf-files.
More than 750 pages of documentation http://extreme-abuse-survey.net/
Understanding ritual trauma: A comparison of findings from three
online surveys – Handout for Karriker, Wanda. (2008, November).
Understanding ritual trauma: A comparison of findings from three online
surveys. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Society for
the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, Chicago, IL.
10 Extreme Abuse Survey Findings Helpful to Understanding Ritual Trauma
1. Ritual abuse/mind control (RA/MC) is a global phenomenon.
2. A diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder is common for persons who report histories of
RA/MC. (84% of EAS respondents who answered that they have been
diagnosed with DID [N=655] reported that they are survivors of RA/MC).
3. Ritual abuse (RA) is not limited to SRA, i.e., satanic ritual abuse, sadistic abuse, satanist abuse.
4. RA is reported to involve mind control techniques.
5. Some extreme abuse survivors report that they were used in government-sponsored mind control experimentation (GMC).
6. RA/MC is reported to be involved in organized “known” crime.
7. RA/MC is reported to be involved in clergy abuse.
8. Most often reported memories of extreme abuse are similar across all surveys.
9. Most often reported possible aftereffects of extreme abuse are similar across all surveys.
10. In rating the effectiveness of healing methods, therapists tend to
favor stabilization techniques; survivors are more open to alternative
ways to cope with indoctrinated belief systems.
http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas-studies/understanding-ritual-trauma-a-comparison-of-findings-from-three-online-surveys
MEDIA PACKET – Torture-based, Government-sponsored Mind Control
Experimentation on Children – Documentation that
torture-based,government-sponsored mind control (GMC) experimentation
was conducted on children during the Cold War. Data from two
international surveys that give voice, visibility, and validation to
survivors of these crimes against humanity….SURVEYS – EAS: Extreme Abuse
Survey for Adult Survivors (An International Online Survey for Adult
Survivors of Extreme Abuse) January 1 – March 30, 2007 with 1471
respondents from 31named countries. P-EAS: Professional – Extreme Abuse
Survey (An nternational Online Survey for Therapists, Counselors,
Clergy, and Other Persons Who Have Worked Professionally with at Least
One Adult Survivor of Extreme Abuse) April 1 – June 30 2007 with 451
respondents from 20 named countries. Contact: Wanda Karriker, PhD
sandime@twave.net http://my.dmci.net/~casey/GovernmentSponsoredMindControlExperiments-MediaPacket.pdf
Rutz, C. Becker, T., Overkamp, B. & Karriker, W.
(2008).Exploring Commonalities Reported by Adult Survivors of Extreme
Abuse:Preliminary Empirical Findings. In Ritual Abuse in the
Twenty-first Century: Psychological, Forensic, Social and Political
Considerations,J.R. Noblitt & P. S. Perskin (Eds), pp. 31- 84.
Brandon, Oregon:Robert D. Reed Publishers.
Becker, T., Karriker, W., Overkamp, B. Rutz, C. (2008). The Extreme
Abuse Survey: preliminary findings regarding dissociative identity
disorder. In A. Sachs & G. Galton (Eds.), Forensic Aspects of
Dissociative Identity Disorder, pp. 32-49. London: Karnac.
Karriker, Wanda (November, 2007). “Helpful healing methods: As rated
by approximately 900 respondents to the “International Survey for
AdultSurvivors of Extreme Abuse (EAS).” http://endritualabuse.org/data-on-survivors-of-ritual-abuse-mind-control-and-healing-methods/
Karriker, W. (2008, September). Torture-based mind control as a
global phenomenon: Preliminary data from the 2007 series of Extreme
Abuse Surveys. In Torture-based mind control: Empirical research,
programmer methods, effects and treatment. Workshop conducted at the
13th International Conference on Violence, Abuse and Trauma, San
Diego,CA. http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas-studies/torture-based-mind-control-as-a-global-phenomenon/
http://eassurvey.wordpress.com/extreme-abuse-survey-final-results/
Other organizations with data proving the worldwide existence of ritual abuse
http://www.ra-info.org
http://www.survivorship.org
http://web.archive.org/web/20071218103952/http://www.aches-mc.org/
http://www.endritualabuse.org/
http://nonstatetorture.org/
A Nation Betrayed – The Chilling True Story of Secret Cold War Experiments Performed on our Children and Other Innocent People by Carol Rutz http://www2.dmci.net/users/casey
Pepinsky, H – PEACEMAKING – Reflections of a Radical Criminologist
by Hal Pepinsky – The University of Ottawa Press ISBN10: 0776606409
2006 “I have mentioned that since 1993 I have come to know many people
whom I believe to be genuine survivors of “ritual abuse.”
http://critcrim.org/sites/default/files/Pepinsky_proofs_0.pdf
Craighead, W. E.; Corsini, R.J.; Nemeroff, C. B. (2002) The Corsini
Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science Published by John
Wiley and Sons ISBN 0471270830 – Sadistic Ritual Abuse (p.1435 – 1438) http://books.google.com/books?id=JQMRmyOfpJ8C&pg=PA1435&lpg=PA1435&focus=viewport&vq=ritual+abuse&output=html
Books on Ritual Abuse
Johnson Davis, Anne “Hell Minus One: My Story of Deliverance From Satanic Ritual Abuse and My Journey to Freedom” Transcript Bulletin Publishing – ISBN 978-0-9788348-0-7 – 2008 “Anne’s
parents confessed their atrocities—both in writing and verbally—to
clergymen, and to detectives from the Utah Attorney General’s Office.
Anne’s suppressed memories, which erupted when she was in her mid-30s,
were fully substantiated by her mother and stepfather….The
book’s foreword was written by Lt. Detective Matt Jacobson, who was the
lead investigator with the Utah Attorney General’s Office on Anne’s case
in 1995.” http://www.HellMinusOne.com
Hell Minus One – signed verified confessions of satanic
ritual abuse – Anne’s parents confessed their atrocities – both in
writing and verbally.
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/survivor-stories/hell-minus-one-signed-verified-confessions-of-satanic-ritual-abuse/
An Interview With the Author of Hell Minus One http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/survivor-stories/interview-with-the-author-of-hell-minus-one/
Epstein, O., Schwartz, J., Schwartz, R. Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs 2011 Karnac Books. London ISBN 1-85575-839-3 http://www.karnacbooks.com/Product.asp?PID=29482 Google Books Version http://books.google.com/books?id=xU6GZ28gGy4C&dq=Ritual+Abuse+and+Mind+Control:+The+Manipulation+of+Attachment+Needs&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Karriker, Wanda (2003). Morning, Come Quickly. Catawba, NC: Sandime, LTD. ISBN 0-9717171-0-9.
Noblitt, J.R.; Perskin, P. S. (eds) (2008). Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-first Century: Psychological, Forensic, Social and Political Considerations. Bandor, OR: Robert Reed, 552. ISBN 1-934759-12-0.
Noblitt, JR; Perskin PS (2000). Cult and ritual abuse: its history, anthropology, and recent discovery in contemporary America. New York:Praeger. ISBN 0-275-96665-8. http://books.google.ca/books?id=zJkTTpfyJ-8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0
Cult and Ritual Abuse – James Randall Noblitt – Chapter 6 – Empirical Evidence of Ritual Abuse http://books.google.com/books?id=zJkTTpfyJ-8C&printsec=frontcover#PPA55,M1
Rutz, Carol (2001). A Nation Betrayed. Grass Lake, MI: Fidelity Publishing. ISBN 0-9710102-0-X.
Ryder, Daniel. (1992). Breaking the Circle of Satanic Ritual Abuse: Recognizing and Recovering – CompCare Pub.
Oksana, Chrystine (2001). Safe Passage to Healing – A Guide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse.com. ISBN0-595-201000-8. 1994 pub. HarperPerennial.
Raschke, Carl A. (1990). Painted Black. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-104080-0
Smith, Margaret. (1993). Ritual Abuse: What it Is, why it Happens, and how to Help by Margaret – HarperCollins
Sinason, V (1994). Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-10543-9. http://valeriesinason.co.uk/index.html
Scott, S. (2001). The politics and experience of ritual abuse:beyond disbelief. Open University Press. ISBN 0335204198. http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Experience-Ritual-Abuse/dp/0335204198
Secret Weapons – Two Sisters’ Terrifying True Story of Sex, Spies and Sabotage
by Cheryl and Lynn Hersha with Dale Griffis, Ph D. and Ted Schwartz.
New Horizon Press, P O Box 669 Far Hills, NJ 07931 – ISBN0-88282-196-2
Is a well-documented, verifiable account of not one, but two childrens’
long untold stories of being CHILD subjects of Project MKUltra. Quotes
from the book: “By the time Cheryl Hersha came to the facility,
knowledge of multiple personality was so complete that doctors
understood how the mind separated into distinct ego states,each unaware
of the other. First, the person traumatized had to be both extremely
intelligent and under the age of seven, two conditions not yet
understood though remaining consistent as factors. The trauma was almost
always of a sexual nature…” p. 52 “The government researchers,aware of
the information in the professional journals, decided to reverse the
process (of healing from hysteric dissociation). They decided to use
selective trauma on healthy children to create personalities capable of
committing acts desired for national security and defense.” p. 53 – 54
The book also contains a variety of documents on mk-ultra and different
projects as well as reports to the Presidential Committee on Radiation
and Mind Control, including information on the five Canadians’ lawsuit
against the U.S. Government.
Twenty-Two Faces – Inside the Extraordinary Life of Jenny Hill and Her Twenty-Two Multiple Personalities Judy Byington MSW, LCSW, ret. Tate Publishing May, 2012 ISBN-13: 978-1620240328
Saved by an angel from certain death, Jenny Hill utilizes prayer,
forgiveness and her multiple personalities to triumph over a Nazi mind
controller attempting to mould her into a Manchurian Candidate.
Twenty-Two Faces documents how the only known survivor-intended-victim
of a modern-day human sacrifice ceremony six year-old Jenny Hill,
overcomes multiplicity resulting from brainwashing, her perpetrators
having subjected the child to insidious mind-control techniques culled
from Nazi Germany. As is the case for thousands of children across the
globe unfortunate enough to be born into families still practicing these
aberrant religious rites. Using a lone resource: faith in God, Jenny
tries to make sense of a life where she jumps from one day to the next.
Eventually with help of a psychologist: she takes charge of her divided
mind by facing alter personalities and their traumatic repressed
memories, overcomes family-society rejection, confronts and forgives
abusers, showing an ability of the human spirit to overcome against all
odds, profound emotional shock and miraculously healing from severe
childhood trauma. http://22faces.com/
22 Faces revives ritual sexual abuse controversy by Stephen Dark 2012-06-25 CityWeekly
excerpts
A new book, Twenty Two Faces: Inside the Extraordinary Life of Jenny
Hill and Her Twenty-two Multiple Personalities, by retired, Saratoga
Springs-based psychiatrist Judy Byington, tells the story of Hill, who,
according to Byinton, was the victim of sexual assaults by both her
father and by neighborhood boys. Hill told Byington that on June 21,
1965, in Garden Grove, Calif., she was tortured on an altar and forced
to watch the murder of a 6-year-old by a satanic coven, only to be saved
by the intervention of an angel.
Subsequently, Hill was subjected to mind control experiments which
resulted, Byington says, in Hill having 22 personalities. Hill moved to
Utah County and ended up spending a year in the Utah State Hospital
under the care of Weston Whatcott between 1984 and 1985. In a press
release by the book’s publisher, Whatcott acknowledges that Hill’s
multiple personalities were a result of childhood trauma, “namely
repeated sexual assaults coupled with ritual abuse.”
Byington says Hill “really wanted her story told.” Byington drew on
journals Hill and some of her other personalities kept from when she was
5 to 24. “We could all be multiple personalities if we have gone
through all the trauma that these people have gone through,” Byington
says.”Children under tremendous torture, their minds can separate into
different personalities.”
Hill went to the FBI looking for the parents of the child she had seen
killed, Byington says. While an FBI agent who looked at Hill’s medical
records told Byington that there was confirmation that horrendous
torture had occurred, “he wouldn’t open up a case for her.”
Byington has also investigated local satanic covens in Utah, she says,
and talked to a special-investigations unit at the Utah Attorney
General’s office in 2006 on ritual abuse cases. “”It’s still very much
of a problem,” Byington says. “These covens are very active and it’s
very difficult to prove what’s going on.”
The McMartin Preschool Case – What Really Happened and the Cover-up
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/mcmartin-preschool-case-what-really-happened-and-the-coverup/
Day Care and Child Abuse Cases
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/day-care-and-child-abuse-cases/
This page has information on the McMartin Preschool Case, Michelle
Remembers, the Fells Acres – Amirault Case, the Wenatchee, Washington
Case, the Dale Akiki Case, the Glendale Montessori – Toward case, the
Little Rascals Day Care Center case, Fran’s Day Care case, the Baran
case, the Halsey case, the West Memphis 3 case, the Friedman’s case and
the Christchurch Civic Creche sex abuse – Peter Ellis case.
Sexual Abuse in Day Care: A National Study – Executive Summary – March 1988 – Finklehor, Williams, Burns, Kalinowski “The
study identified 270 “cases” of sexual abuse in day care meaning 270
facilities where substantiated abuse had occurred involving a total of
1639 victimized children….This yielded an estimate of 500 to
550 reported and substantiated cases and 2500 victims for the three-year
period. Although this is a large number, it must be put in the context
of 229,000 day care facilities nationwide service seven million
children….allegations of ritual abuse (“the invocation of
religious, magical or supernatural symbols of activities”) occurred in
13% of the cases.” The authors divided these cases into “true
cult-based ritual,” pseudo-ritualism” with a primary goal of sexual
gratification and ritual being used to intimidate the children from
disclosing and “psychopathological ritualism” the activities being
“primarily the expression of an individuals obsessional or delusional
system.” https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/113095NCJRS.pdf
