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

Issue 185 – November 2025

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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

The Survivorship Trafficking and Extreme Abuse Online Conference 2026 https://survivorship.org/the-survivorship-trafficking-and-extreme-abuse-online-conference-2026/
Survivor Conference – Saturday and Sunday May 16 – 17, 2026
Clinician’s Conference – Friday May 15, 2026
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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/

Jeffrey Epstein ‘She was so dangerous’: where in the world is the notorious Ghislaine Maxwell?

Jeffrey Epstein    
‘She was so dangerous’: where in the world is the notorious Ghislaine Maxwell?          

 

In the months since Jeffrey Epstein died in prison, his former partner has disappeared. Will she ever return to face her accusers?

Emine Saner Thu 12 Dec 2019

 

....It was the mid-90s and this was the second time the two had met. Farmer had encountered Maxwell and her friend Jeffrey Epstein at her New York Academy of Art graduate show. She would go on to work for the pair for a year, at the front desk of Epstein’s Manhattan mansion. She was perfectly placed to see who came to the house – and says she witnessed young teenagers being brought through the doors by Maxwell. Following an alleged sexual assault by Maxwell and Epstein, Farmer went to the police. She was ignored.

 

More than 20 years on, her account – along with the testimonies of several other women, including an allegation of abuse from her younger sister, Annie, who was 16 at the time – has helped to create a picture of Epstein as a prolific sex offender, who abused countless underage girls. It is a scandal that has drawn in other powerful men, most notably Prince Andrew. One woman, Virginia Giuffre, says she was trafficked by Epstein to have sex with Andrew on three occasions. He has repeatedly denied the allegations, most recently in his disastrous TV interview.

 

In July, Epstein was charged with sex trafficking, and in August he killed himself in his prison cell while awaiting trial. Since then, attention has turned to Maxwell, 57, his right-hand woman. Yet Maxwell has seemingly vanished. “From what we know, Ghislaine Maxwell was a principal enabler to Jeffrey Epstein when he was alive,” says the lawyer Dan Kaiser. Kaiser is representing Jennifer Araoz, one of the women who says she was raped by Epstein, and who is suing his estate, Maxwell and three other “enablers”.

 

“She was integral in maintaining the sex trafficking ring,” says Kaiser. “She provided important administrative services in terms of the hiring of recruiters, and management of those employees, the making of appointments and dates for interactions between Mr Epstein and the underage girls that were providing sexual services to him. She also maintained the ring by intimidating girls, by ensuring their silence.”

 

Kaiser continues: “Jeffrey Epstein couldn’t have done what he did for as long as he did it without the services of somebody like Ghislaine Maxwell. She is as culpable, in my judgment, as Jeffrey Epstein himself.” Maxwell has always denied the allegations and has never faced criminal charges. Her lawyer has not responded to a request for comment....

 

Her social standing was such that it would probably be easier to list the influential people to whom Maxwell was not connected. She was close to Bill Clinton and attended Chelsea Clinton’s wedding; she donated to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. There are photographs of Maxwell with Arianna Huffington, Elon Musk and Michael Bloomberg. She knew Donald Trump and members of the Kennedy family. She was connected to the British royal family through Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. Maxwell and Epstein – who loaned Ferguson money to pay off debts – were guests of Andrew at events, including some at Windsor castle, Balmoral and Sandringham.

 

Prince Andrew, in his recent Newsnight interview, said guests at the parties and dinners in Epstein’s New York mansion included “academics, politicians, people from the United Nations”. But we know now that it was not just influential friends Maxwell cultivated. One of her friends, Euan Rellie, told Tatler: “Every single interesting, pretty, new girl to arrive in New York would end up going for tea with Ghislaine, then being introduced to Jeffrey. She was the acceptable face of a rather mysterious billionaire.”

 

....She was charming initially, says Farmer. “Everyone [was] like: ‘This woman is so intelligent and interesting.’ She had a really great personality when you first met her.” But it didn’t take long for her to become verbally abusive towards the staff, she says. “I was one of the staff. I would have to go to Jeffrey and say: ‘Ghislaine’s verbally abusing me again.’ Then he would scream at her. It was all like ‘good cop, bad cop’, and they loved playing that game with everybody.”

 

Once, she says, Ivana Trump visited. “Quite often, with people like Ivana – powerful [people] – Ghislaine would say ‘Hop in the car, you can go on a ride with us’ and it was supposed to be my special little treat.” Then, as soon as they were back at the mansion, Maxwell would switch and shout at her, she says. She also says she could be threatening. “They had video cameras everywhere [in the house], and Ghislaine liked to intimidate by talking about the cameras. She’d say: ‘They’re watching you.’”

 

Farmer alleges that Maxwell would bring in a steady stream of young girls to the mansion, often saying she was casting for Victoria’s Secret, the lingerie company owned by Leslie Wexner, a close friend of Epstein. “It was really weird to me. I’m like [the] ‘models are so young’, and she said: ‘Yeah, but they need these models for Victoria’s Secret. They go as young as 13 now in modelling.’” Farmer alleges Maxwell would recruit teenagers from schools on the Upper East Side and in Central Park.

 

....It is alleged that Maxwell was not only an enabler for Epstein’s abuse, but took part in it. In her Panorama interview, Giuffre, then known as Virginia Roberts, recounted how Maxwell and Epstein abused her at his Palm Beach house after Maxwell had recruited her from her job working as a spa attendant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. In 1996, Farmer says Maxwell and Epstein sexually assaulted her. She went to the police as well as more than one FBI agent, none of whom took action. She also spoke to Ward in 2002 for a Vanity Fair profile – Ward has since said that the then-editor Graydon Carter cut out the entire part about Farmer and her sister after being pressured by Epstein. A spokeswoman for the magazine has said: “Epstein denied the charges at the time and since the claims were unsubstantiated and no criminal investigation had been initiated, we decided not to include them in what was a financial story.”

 

....Ransome, who says she was kept for six months on Epstein’s private island and claims she was raped several times a day, said: “They were never like a couple. Jeffrey and Ghislaine were best friends, or like brother and sister. Never holding hands or kissing. And she wasn’t his employee.”

 

When Maxwell found that Farmer had spoken out, she made threatening calls – Farmer says she has been in hiding “for many years”. “Ghislaine kept threatening my life. She found out where I was living, and she would send messages to me or I would get a call and I would have to move again. Most of her threats were veiled, like: ‘You better look over your shoulder because there’s someone coming for you.’ She told me she was going to burn all my paintings, my career was burned.”

 

In 2015, Giuffre sued Maxwell for defamation, after Maxwell said she was lying about the allegations she had made. The case was settled out of court and Maxwell began retreating from public view.

 

She was no longer seen in public with Epstein after his 2008 conviction for soliciting an underage girl for prostitution. For this, he was given an 18-month prison sentence, in a sweetheart plea deal that saw an investigation into his abuse of more than 30 underage girls (for which he could have been given a life sentence) shut down. He served just 13 months, much of it on day release.

 

Maxwell with (from left) Donald Trump, Melania and Epstein, in 2001, at Mar-a-Lago. Photograph: Davidoff Studios/Getty Images
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Maxwell (in green dress) at Royal Ascot in 2000, with Prince Andrew (second from left) and Jeffrey Epstein (far right). Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/12/she-was-so-dangerous-where-in-the-world-is-the-notorious-ghislaine-maxwell