Information on Neil Brick

 

Information on Neil Brick

In 1995,  Neil Brick founded the SMART newsletter.  In 1996, SMART was on the Internet and in 1998 SMART started having ritual abuse conferences.

There are now 187 newsletters online at http://ritualabuse.us/newsletter/

with many conferences with online transcripts and ordering information http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/

Thirty Years of Publishing and Advocacy – Neil Brick

Thirty Years of Publishing and Advocacy – Neil Brick

Ritualistic Abuse Survivors Difficulties Obtaining Services – Neil Brick

Ritual Abuse, Sex Trafficking and Mind Control Presentation – Transcript and Video – Neil Brick https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/ritual-abuse-sex-trafficking-and-mind-control/

The Effects of Social Movements on Survivor Support Systems and Survivor Recovery – Neil Brick

Neil Brick – The Effects of Social Movements on Survivor Support Systems and Survivor Recovery – PowerPoint

Neil Brick will speak about the history of ritualistic abuse and the effects of social movements on survivors. He will present historical information regarding the literature of clinicians and researchers. He will describe the effects of social and historical movements on survivor support systems and survivor recovery.

The Modern False Memory Syndrome Movement in the United States – Neil Brick – SMART Conference 2022

The Modern False Memory Syndrome Movement in the United States – Neil Brick
https://neilbrick.com/articles/the-modern-false-memory-syndrome-movement-in-the-united-states-neil-brick/

The 2021 Online Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference   August 14 – 15, 2021  Speakers include: Dr. Laurie Matthew OBE, Neil Brick, Wendy Hoffman and Ellen Lacter.  Internet conference information:  http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/

Mind Control and How to Stop it – Neil Brick

Mind Control and How to Stop it – Neil Brick (Transcript of PowerPoint)
https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2021-conference/mind-control-and-how-to-stop-it-neil-brick/

The Survivorship Ritual Abuse and Mind Control 2021 Conference Presentations  https://survivorship.org/the-survivorship-ritual-abuse-and-mind-control-2021-conference-presentations/

This year’s presenters: Neil Brick, Wendy Hoffman, Ellen Lacter, Randy Noblitt, Sarah Nelson, Elana Christensen, Eileen Aveni and Annika Lundin

 

Mind Control and How to Stop it Presenter: Neil Brick

Mind Control and How to Stop it – Neil Brick – PowerPoint This presentation explained how mind control and different suggestive techniques work in a variety of individual and public settings. These will include interpersonal relationships, abusive relationships, ritual abuse settings, social media, political manipulation and hypnosis. Ways to expose and prevent mind control will be discussed. Social views of mind control will be presented.

Conferences:
The 2020 Online Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference 

August 8 – 9, 2020 Internet conference information: http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/  

Speakers included: Dr. Laurie Matthew – OBE, Dr Sarah Nelson – Universities of Edinburgh and Dundee, Neil Brick, Kieran Watson (manager with Izzy’s Promise – Dundee, Scotland) and Dr. Randy Noblitt and Pamela Perskin Noblitt.

The 2020 Online Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference Video Presentations and PowerPoints https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2020-conference/2020-conference-video-presentations-and-powerpoints/

Presentation on Izzy’s Promise
Izzy’s Promise offers training and consultancy services; Conducts research into causes of ritual abuse and any ways of preventing or relieving the suffering caused by abuse. Presentation on Ritual Abuse Network Scotland (RANS)
RANS provides information and a safe place to talk for survivors of ritual abuse. https://www.rans.org.uk/

Rebuttals of “Satanic Panic” Theory and “False Memory Syndrome” https://ritualabuse.us/research/rebuttals-of-satanic-panic-theory-and-false-memory-syndrome/

The Survivorship Ritual Abuse and Mind Control 2020 Online Conference
Regular Conference – Saturday and Sunday May 16 – 17, 2020
Clinician’s Conference – Friday May 15, 2020
https://survivorship.org/ritual-abuse-and-mind-control-2020-conference
Speakers Included: Dr. Randy Noblitt and Pamela Perskin Noblitt, Dr. Karol Darsa, Neil Brick and Cristina Mardirossian, LMFT https://survivorship.org/the-survivorship-ritual-abuse-and-mind-control-2020-conference-presentations/

Petition:  Stop Misinformation and Attacks on Survivors of Trauma and Their Helpers by The Satanic Temple’s Grey Faction https://www.change.org/p/trauma-survivors-and-their-helpers-stop-attacks-on-survivors-of-trauma-by-the-satanic-temple-s-grey-faction/ http://chng.it/6H6sfxqR

THE ORGANISED AND RITUALISED ABUSE OF CHILDREN: THE CURRENT INTERNATIONAL SITUATION – February 26, 2020  Dundee, Scotland  https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/the-organised-and-ritualised-abuse-of-children-the-current-international-situation/ 

Misinformation Campaigns Against Survivors – Neil Brick https://neilbrick.com/articles/misinformation-campaigns-against-survivors-neil-brick/

Negative Social Movements
1) Nazism – The Third Reich 1920 – 1945
2) Modern American Right Wing Political Movement
3) The Satanic Temple – Grey Faction and Doug Mesner/Lucien Greaves (both aliases)

Recovered Memories and Dissociative Amnesia – Scientific Evidence and Accuracy Rates   There is scientific evidence in support of the phenomena of dissociation and recovered memory in Holocaust survivors. https://ritualabuse.us/research/recovered-memories-and-dissociative-amnesia-scientific-evidence-and-accuracy-rates/

The 2019 Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference
https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/
August 17 – 18, 2019
DoubleTree near Bradley International Airport  Windsor  Locks, CT

Speakers include: Alison Miller, Neil Brick and Daniel Roemer.
Excellent Child and Ritual Abuse Conference Last Weekend https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/excellent-child-and-ritual-abuse-conference-last-weekend-300903328.html Article about the conference. “Attendees report that it was an excellent conference, highly educational with books, literature, presentations and special performances on Saturday night.”

Possible Hate Groups – How Do They Effect Survivors and Their Resources  https://neilbrick.com/articles/possible-hate-groups-how-do-they-effect-survivors-and-their-resources/

A Survivor’s View of Recovery from Ritual Abuse by Neil Brick
https://neilbrick.com/articles/a-survivors-view-of-recovery-from-ritual-abuse-by-neil-brick/

The Survivorship Ritual Abuse and Mind Control 2019 Conference
https://survivorship.org/ritual-abuse-and-mind-control-2019-conference/

Speakers included: Alison Miller, Randy Noblitt, Eileen Aveni and Neil Brick https://www.einpresswire.com/article/484335351/the-survivorship-ritual-abuse-and-mind-control-2019-conference

Survivorship Conference May 2019 – Promotional Video https://youtu.be/e-BgRG1a300

A Survivor’s View of Recovery from Ritual Abuse by Neil Brick

Recovery from ritual abuse can take many years. Recovery may include working through memories, building functionality and developing more effective ways of interacting and integrating emotions. Every individual has different experiences that lead them through the recovery path. Neil Brick will discuss his long journey healing from severe abuse. This will include ways he has learned more about himself, ways he has learned to develop healthier interactions with others and ways he has helped others along the recovery path.

Neil Brick presented at: The 2018 Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference
August 18 – 19, 2018 in Connecticut https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/

His topic: Changes in Awareness of Severe Abuse and Child Abuse Crimes Over Twenty Five Years

The awareness of severe abuse and child abuse crimes has changed over the last 25 years. In the early 1990s, severe abuse survivors were often believed and supported. Then a backlash started and severe abuse survivors and their supporters were harassed and attacked. The child abuse survivor movement changed and adapted. Ten years ago, research began again to help expose severe abuse crimes. More recently, first in the UK and Australia and now in the United States, a variety of child abuse, severe abuse, sexual harassment and rape cases are bringing public awareness again to the mainstream media of severe abuse crimes. This presentation will discuss the changes of the last 25 years, with an emphasis on the more recent exposures of organized child abuse crimes and social systems that have been part of the cover up of these crimes. https://neilbrick.com/articles/neil-brick-conference-presentation-2018-changes-in-awareness-of-severe-abuse-and-child-abuse-crimes-over-twenty-five-years/

Changes in Awareness of Severe Abuse and Child Abuse Crimes Over Twenty Five Years Presenter: Neil Brick
https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2018-conference/changes-in-awareness-of-severe-abuse-and-child-abuse-crimes-over-twenty-five-years/

Child and Ritual Abuse Conference Helps Educate Survivors and Their Helpers; Speakers included Dr. Randy Noblitt and Neil Brick
https://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=227656

Neil Brick is a survivor of ritual abuse and mind control. His work continues to educate the public about child abuse, trauma and ritual abuse crimes. His child abuse and ritual abuse newsletter S.M.A.R.T. https://ritualabuse.us has been published for over 23 years. https://neilbrick.com

Articles by Neil Brick
https://neilbrick.com
http://neilbrick.blogspot.com
https://ritualabuse.us/smart/neil-brick/
https://independent.academia.edu/neilbrick
https://plus.google.com/+stopritualabusetoday
https://twitter.com/neil_brick

Neil Brick has worked hard to build a research base for child abuse and ritual abuse survivors.  Neil Brick has worked to develop advocacy efforts to help survivors and their helpers.

There are online articles with inaccurate information about Neil Brick.  This web page responds to factual errors about Neil Brick and his work.

Those interested in contacting Neil for an interview may write smartnews@aol.com for more information.

Neil Brick has always been a strong advocate for people thinking for themselves. Neil Brick has encouraged people to use their critical thinking skills and fully research topics.

In one presentation, Neil Brick stated :

“Please use your own judgment and research everything as fully as possible. Don’t accept anything anyone says simply because they say it is true or claim to be an expert. Try to check it out for yourself.”

Several of Neil Brick’s articles (listed below) provide readers information on how to avoid being mind controlled and encourage readers to find out for themselves about topics from as many sources as possible.

Advocacy Alert

Petition to Stop Attacks Against Child Abuse and Ritual Abuse Survivors and Neil Brick
https://neilbrick.com/articles/petition-to-stop-attacks-against-child-abuse-and-ritual-abuse-survivors-and-neil-brick/

Please sign at:
https://www.change.org/p/protect-child-abuse-survivors-petition-to-stop-attacks-against-child-abuse-and-ritual-abuse-survivors-and-neil-brick

Please sign this petition to show support for child abuse and ritual abuse survivors. One may use the check box below the signature area to keep your name confidential.  We are asking everyone to sign this petition and let others know about it. Let’s stop the attacks against child abuse survivors and their helpers.

Neil Brick’s conference presentation transcripts:
Neil Brick – Survivorship Conference 2017 – How to Avoid Being Mind Controlled at a Conference
https://youtu.be/GGoaYw3pEZs

Neil Brick – Survivorship Conference 2017 – Freedom from Mind Control
https://youtu.be/SxBO2HU4R_M

How to Avoid Being Mind Controlled at a Conference and Freedom from Mind Control – 2017 Presentation by Neil Brick
https://neilbrick.com/articles/how-to-avoid-being-mind-controlled-at-a-conference-and-freedom-from-mind-control/
Topics include:
Neil Brick, Satanic Temple, Grey Faction, Doug Mesner, Lucien Greaves, mind control, propaganda, hypnosis, ritual abuse

The Urban Legends of Those Attacking Ritual Abuse Theories and the False Logic of False Memory Proponents and Their Occultist Supporters – Presentation at the 2016 Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference
Second half of the article discusses the Grey Faction, a part of the Satanic Temple and Lucien Greaves/Doug Mesner.   https://neilbrick.com/articles/the-urban-legends-of-those-attacking-ritual-abuse-theories/

How to Avoid Being Mind Controlled at a Conference  https://neilbrick.com/articles/how-to-avoid-being-mind-controlled-at-a-conference/

The Battle to Stop Ritual Abuse by Neil Brick
https://neilbrick.com/articles/the-battle-to-stop-ritual-abuse/

Doing the right thing and getting stronger at the same time, a survivor’s path to recovery and helping others by Neil Brick
https://neilbrick.com/articles/doing-the-right-thing-and-getting-stronger-at-the-same-time-a-survivors-path-to-recovery-and-helping-others/

Recent Child Abuse Crimes and Efforts to Unite Survivors by Neil Brick  https://neilbrick.com/articles/recent-child-abuse-crimes-and-efforts-to-unite-survivors/

Always Getting Stronger: Giving Survivors a Voice in the World by Neil Brick
https://neilbrick.com/articles/always-getting-stronger-giving-survivors-a-voice-in-the-world/

The Myth of Panic – Exposing Theories Used to Cover Up Ritual Abuse Crimes by Neil Brick
https://neilbrick.com/articles/the-myth-of-panic-%E2%80%93-exposing-theories-used-to-cover-up-ritual-abuse-crimes/

Fighting the Spin : The Truth about Child Abuse Cases by Neil Brick https://neilbrick.com/articles/fighting-the-spin-the-truth-about-child-abuse-cases/

The Move from Blame the Victim to Blame the Helper by Neil Brick http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2010-conference/the-move-from-blame-the-victim-to-blame-the-helper/

Ritual Abuse, the trenches of the stopping child abuse movement by Neil Brick https://neilbrick.com/articles/ritual-abuse-the-trenches-of-the-stopping-child-abuse-movement/

Debating The Non-Believers – Getting equal time for Survivors’ Views by Neil Brick  https://neilbrick.com/articles/debating-the-non-believers-getting-equal-time-for-survivors-views/

Stopping Ritual Abuse – What can we do today by Neil Brick
http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/conf07/stopping-ritual-abuse-what-can-we-do-today/

The 12-step Healing Process and Survivor Advocacy by Neil Brick
http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/conf06/the-12-step-healing-process-and-survivor-advocacy/

How healing from ritual abuse and mind control works by Neil Brick
http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/conf05/how-healing-from-ritual-abuse-and-mind-control-works/

How can we advocate for survivors of ritual abuse by example and advocacy? by Neil Brick
http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/conf04/how-can-we-advocate-for-survivors-of-ritual-abuse-by-example-and-advocacy/

Stopping Mind Control and Healing by Neil Brick
http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/conf03/stopping-mind-control-and-healing/

My healing and helping others by Neil Brick
http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/conf2002/my-healing-and-helping-others/

My Most Recent Memories and My Personal Growth by Neil Brick
http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/conf2001/my-most-recent-memories-and-my-personal-growth/

Trigger management and conference safety presentation by Neil Brick
http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/conf1999/trigger-management-and-conference-safety-presentation/

Other papers, articles and transcripts written by Neil Brick

Evolving as a Movement – Taking a Step Forward
https://neilbrick.com/articles/evolving-as-a-movement-taking-a-step-forward/

How Childhood Sexual Abuse Affects Interpersonal Relationships by Neil Brick  http://ritualabuse.us/research/sexual-abuse/how-childhood-sexual-abuse-affects-interpersonal-relationships/

The Etymological Antecedents of and Scientific Evidence for the Existence of Dissociative Identity Disorder by Neil Brick
http://ritualabuse.us/research/did/the-etymological-antecedents-of-and-scientific-evidence-for-the-existence-of-dissociative-identity-disorder/

The Neurological Basis for the Theory of Recovered Memory by Neil Brick
http://ritualabuse.us/research/memory-fms/the-neurological-basis-for-the-theory-of-recovered-memory/

The Alleged Ethical Violations of Elizabeth Loftus in the Case of Jane Doe by Neil Brick http://ritualabuse.us/research/memory-fms/the-alleged-ethical-violations-of-elizabeth-loftus-in-the-case-of-jane-doe/

Propaganda & Mind Control by Neil Brick http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/

Ritual Abuse and Its Political Implications by Neil Brick http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/ritual-abuse-and-its-political-implications/

Solidarity in the fight against Ritual Abuse and Torture by Neil Brick
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/solidarity-in-the-fight-against-ritual-abuse-and-torture/

Advocacy and Saving Lives by Neil Brick
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/advocacy-and-saving-lives/

Ritual Abuse/Mind Control Presentation by Neil Brick
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/ritual-abusemind-control-presentation/

Data proving the existence of recovered memory, ritual abuse, mk-ultra and information on the backlash by Neil Brick
http://ritualabuse.us/research/data-proving-the-existence-of-recovered-memory-ritual-abuse-mk-ultra-and-information-on-the-backlash/

How Cues and Programming Work in Mind Control and Propaganda by Neil Brick http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/how-cues-and-programming-work-in-mind-control-and-propaganda/

Video on youtube –
Proof ritual abuse and Satanic ritual abuse exists by Neil Brick http://www.youtube.com/user/stopritualabuse

Information on harassment of Neil Brick and SMART

Neil Brick’s response to attacks and harassment by false memory proponents.

Grey Faction, Satanic Temple and Lucien Greaves Fact Sheet:
For almost a decade Douglas Misicko using several aliases (including Douglas Mesner and Lucien Greaves) has harassed groups helping child abuse, rape and trauma survivors. He has also harassed groups providing research in support of child abuse, rape and trauma survivors.
In 2013, he and others created a group called the Satanic Temple. One part of this group is called the Grey Faction. The Grey Faction states they “invade” conferences. These conferences  are provided to help and educate child abuse, rape and trauma survivors and their helpers.
https://neilbrick.com/articles/grey-faction-satanic-temple-and-lucien-greaves-fact-sheet/

Exposing Doug Mesner/Lucien Greaves – co-founder of the Satanic Temple and Grey Faction presenter
https://neilbrick.com/articles/exposing-doug-mesnerlucien-greaves-co-founder-of-the-satanic-temple-and-grey-faction-presenter/

Reply to the Grey Faction’s Petition to Revoke the License of Neil Brick
https://neilbrick.com/articles/reply-to-the-grey-factions-petition-to-revoke-the-license-of-neil-brick/

Alison Miller’s reply to Evan Anderson, Grey Faction Director of The Satanic Temple (TST)’s Grey Faction

“The reason I discontinued my membership in the College of Psychologists has nothing to do with the Grey Faction’s harassing complaint about my writings and online videos. I left the College because I am 78 years old. I retired two years ago.”  – Alison Miller

“That is why I resigned, not because I was about to be found guilty of promoting unscientific conspiracy theories. Anderson has posted his complaint and the College’s response, distorting the story by omitting the College’s letter to me and my response to it. As for not being allowed to call myself a “psychologist,” that is the situation for every retired psychologist. It is similar for other health professions, and it does not indicate that the work I did was inferior or that I was found guilty of unethical behavior.”  – Alison Miller
https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/alison-millers-reply-to-evan-anderson-grey-faction-director-of-the-satanic-temple-tsts-grey-faction/

Reply to the Satanic Temple’s Grey Faction online guest post
https://neilbrick.com/articles/reply-to-the-satanic-temples-grey-faction-online-guest-post/

Rebuttal to the Grey Faction Lucien Greaves presentation about SMART and additional Grey Faction information about Neil Brick
https://neilbrick.com/articles/rebuttal-to-the-grey-faction-lucien-greaves-presentation-about-smart-and-additional-grey-faction-information-about-neil-brick/

Douglas Misicko alias Douglas Mesner update 7 – Radio Interview Rebuttal
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/douglas-misicko-alias-douglas-mesner-update-7-radio-interview-rebuttal/

Douglas Misicko alias Douglas Mesner update 6 – Examiner.com article
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/douglas-misicko-alias-douglas-mesner-update-6-examiner-com-article/
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/douglas-misicko-alias-douglas-mesner-update-5/
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/douglas-misicko-alias-douglas-mesner-update-4/
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/douglas-misicko-alias-douglas-mesner-update-3/
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/douglas-misicko-alias-douglas-mesner-update-2/
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/douglas-misicko-alias-douglas-mesner-update/
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/douglas-misicko-alias-douglas-mesner/
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/harassment-by-false-memory-proponents/
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/rebuttal-to-the-report-from-the-smart-2009-conference/

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SMART Ritual Abuse Newsletter - January 2025

 

Issue 180 – January 2025

copied with permission

(Stop Mind control And Ritual abuse Today)
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Issue 180 – January 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: The Survivorship Trafficking and Extreme Abuse Online Conference 2025, Ritual Abuse, Demystifying Mind Control and Ritual Abuse: A Manual for Therapists, Alison Miller, Karnac Books,  psychotherapy, ritualabuse.us, The Survivorship Trafficking and Extreme Abuse Online Conference 2025, Ritual Abuse, Demystifying Mind Control and Ritual Abuse: A Manual for Therapists, Alison Miller, Karnac Books,  psychotherapy, ritualabuse.us, bill giving ritualistic abusers more time in prison, Utah bill to heighten punishment for child torture, CIA Behavior Control Experiments, MKULTRA Program, Sidney Gottlieb’s CIA Personnel File, Mind Control, Drug Experiments , BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, experiments using drugs hypnosis isolation sensory deprivation, George White, Velma “Val” Orlikow victim of CIA-sponsored projects, Dr. Ewen Cameron Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal, John Marks, Freedom of Information Act requests, The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences, National Security Archive, CIA’s 1963 KUBARK interrogation manual, LSD, CIA psychologist John Gittinger, MKULTRA subprojects, Geschickter Fund for Medical Research, run by Dr. Charles Geschickter, a professor of pathology at Georgetown University, Human Ecology Society, Nazi doctors, torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, MKNAOMI, MKDELTA, MKSEARCH, Frank Olson, Congressional hearings and testimony, CIA’s reading room, daycare paedophile Ashley Paul Griffith, Pelicot trial, aggravated rape, Paris Hilton-backed child abuse bill, oversight of the ‘troubled teen’ industry, Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act, Las Cruces daycare co-owner federal child abuse charges

Lawmakers working to introduce bill giving ritualistic abusers more time in prison by Paul Nelson, KUTVWed, November 20th 2024 Lawmakers are getting closer to introducing a bill that could give convicted abusers — especially ritualistic abusers — more time in prison.

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Lawmakers are getting closer to introducing a bill that could give convicted abusers — especially ritualistic abusers — more time in prison. Child abuse prevention advocates call ritualistic child abuse an “evil practice,” and one that happens in Utah far more often than people may think. On Capitol Hill Wednesday, lawmakers talked about a bill that could give convicted abusers more time in prison….

When people hear the word “ritual,” many people think of religious ceremonies, but investigators say those aren’t the only kinds and that ritualistic abuse may involve many different things. One woman, Cara Baldree, said she endured this kind of abuse when she was young. She can remember being groomed by her abuser when she was just six years old — her abuser would frequently take her out of school to attack her. She said, “He had threatened to kill me and my family so severely. He told me if he ever showed up at my school then I had to go with him or he would kill people.”

Feeling like her loved ones’ lives were in her hands, she said she did as she was told and was abused many, many times, physically and mentally. Baldree said her abuser would constantly tell her she was “God’s mistake,” and that her attacker would add a religious element to the abuse. “He would use scriptures. He would connect things like, ‘This is like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden,” Baldree said.

At the time, no one knew what was happening to her. She said she could disassociate from the abuse, so when she returned to class she would appear as if nothing happened. Decades later, memories of her abuse came flooding back. As far as she knows, her abuser was never arrested or charged….
Randall said, “A ritualistic abuser is going to be somebody who will use whatever tools they have, whether that’s school, whether that’s church, whether it’s work, whatever tool they have to set up a plan to keep the victim quiet.” If the bill passes, ritualistic abuse charges would be used to enhance the sentences against someone convicted of child abuse, meaning they could spend more time in prison. It would also require law enforcement to go through the latest child abuse prevention training to spot the signs of possible ritualistic abuse….

Randall disagreed, saying his office has investigated multiple claims of ritualistic abuse in recent years. “One of the biggest aspects of this bill is the acknowledgment that these things have happened in the past, so that these victims come forward and we can get them services. We can get them help,” Randall said.

The bill got unanimous support from the Judiciary Committee, so it can go straight to the House floor when the legislative session starts. https://kjzz.com/news/local/lawmakers-working-to-introduce-bill-giving-ritualistic-abusers-more-time-in-prison

New bill proposed for Utah to heighten punishment for child torture by Paul Nelson, KUTVWed, November 13th 2024

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Prosecutors and lawmakers in Utah have said they were stunned to learn there was essentially no law against child torture in the state, adding that two high-profile abuse cases in Utah convinced them that needs to change.

If a new bill passes, it would give serious prison time to anyone convicted of torturing a child. However, some supporters have doubts that it would actually prevent cases like this from happening in the first place.

Supporters of a bill being drafted said aggravated child abuse may sound like a very serious charge, but it’s just a second-degree felony. When it comes to the constant torture that victims like Ruby Franke’s children went through, they don’t believe abusers get enough time behind bars….

Clarke said, “100 percent. I feel like what happened in that case was torture of those children.” He’s drafting a bill that would make child torture a stand-alone first-degree felony, with a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison. When does a case of abuse cross the line into torture?

Dr. Antoinette Laskey, Primary Children’s Hospital’s Child Abuse Medical Director, said, “Child torture cases are cases that often involve multiple different kinds of child abuse over an extended period of time. They can include physical abuse, confinement, starvation and severe psychological abuse.”

Laskey said abusers all over the country are using many of the same tactics, like binding kids with ropes or handcuffs, starving children, physical abuse and excessive athletic exercise. Plus, she said many of them are documenting what they’re doing.

“These are caregivers that are video taping and literally have their children on security cameras 24 hours a day and are capturing footage of what is happening to them,” she said. Laskey said her team has treated 12 child torture patients since 2020, which is far more than she ever saw during the first 15 years of her career — and they don’t know why it’s happening.
“What’s really upsetting is that, nationally, we’re seeing this as a trend that we don’t really understand. While we’re seeing it here in Utah, this is not a unique-to-Utah phenomenon. I’ve had a number of cases that come from surrounding states that are remarkably similar,” Laskey said.

Kevin Franke, Ruby Franke’s former husband, supports the bill, believing child welfare laws need a major overhaul in Utah. He said, “The child welfare laws that we have in this state, right now, tend to strongly protect parents, parents’ privacy and parents’ rights as opposed to children, children’s rights, children’s protections, children’s safety and well-being.”….

District 29 Sen. Don Ipson is sponsoring the bill, which he believes has strong support. It’s hard to predict whether the bill will be enough to convince abusers to stop targeting kids. “I think it’s hard to decide what’s going to be a deterrent to someone who has that sick of a mind. What is the deterrent, for them? But, we’ve got to try, and we’ve got to make penalties if it’s not a deterrent,” Ipson said. Along with ten years in prison, anyone convicted of child torture would also be placed on the Sex, Kidnap and Child Abuse Offender Registry if the bill passes. Ipson said they’re going to keep fine-tuning the bill before they present it to the legislature.
https://kutv.com/news/2news-investigates/new-bill-proposed-for-utah-to-heighten-punishment-for-child-torture#

CIA Behavior Control Experiments Focus of New Scholarly Collection

National Security Archive Publishes Key Records on Infamous MKULTRA Program Agency Sought Drugs and Behavior Control Techniques to Use in “Special Interrogations” and Offensive Operations

Sidney Gottlieb’s CIA Personnel File, 1983 Deposition Testimony, Among Newly Available Documents1

Washington, D.C., December 23, 2024 – Today, the National Security Archive and ProQuest (part of Clarivate) celebrate the publication of a new scholarly document collection many years in the making on the shocking secret history of the CIA’s mind control research programs. The new collection, CIA and the Behavioral Sciences: Mind Control, Drug Experiments and MKULTRA, brings together more than 1,200 essential records on one of the most infamous and abusive programs in CIA history.

Under code names that included MKULTRA, BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE, the CIA conducted terrifying experiments using drugs, hypnosis, isolation, sensory deprivation, and other extreme techniques on human subjects, often U.S. citizens, who frequently had no idea what was being done to them or that they were part of a CIA test.

Today’s announcement comes 50 years after a New York Times investigation by Seymour Hersh touched off probes that would bring MKULTRA abuses to light. The new collection also comes 70 years since U.S. pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Company first developed a process to streamline the manufacture of LSD in late 1954, becoming the CIA’s chief supplier of the newly discovered psychoactive chemical central to many of the Agency’s behavior control efforts.
Highlights of the new MKULTRA collection include:
A DCI-approved plan in 1950 for the establishment of “interrogation teams” that would “utilize the polygraph, drugs, and hypnotism to attain the greatest results in interrogation techniques.” (Document 2)

A 1951 memo that captures a meeting between CIA and foreign intelligence officials about mind control research and their shared interest in the concept of individual mind control. (Document 3)

A 1952 entry from the daily calendar of George White, a federal narcotics agent who ran a safehouse where the CIA tested drugs like LSD and performed other experiments on unwitting Americans. (Document 5)

A 1952 report on the “successful” use of ARTICHOKE interrogation methods that combined the use of “narcosis” and “hypnosis” to induce regression and later amnesia on “Russian agents suspected of being doubled.” (Document 6)

A 1956 memo in which MKULTRA chief Sidney Gottlieb signs off a project that would “evaluate the effects of large doses of LSD-25 in normal human volunteers” on federal prisoners in Atlanta. (Document 13)

The 1963 report from the CIA’s inspector general, which led CIA leadership to reexamine the use of unwitting Americans in their covert drug testing program. (Document 16)

The 1983 deposition of MKULTRA chief Sidney Gottlieb in a civil case brought by Velma “Val” Orlikow, a victim of CIA-sponsored projects conducted by Dr. Ewen Cameron at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal. (Document 20)

The challenges facing this documentation project were considerable, as CIA director Richard Helms and longtime MKULTRA chief Sidney Gottlieb destroyed most of the original project records in 1973. It is a story about secrecy—perhaps the most infamous cover-up in the Agency’s history. It is also a history marked by near-total impunity at the institutional and individual levels for countless abuses committed across decades—not during interrogations of enemy agents or in wartime situations, but during ordinary medical treatments, inside prison hospitals, addiction clinics, and juvenile detention facilities, and in many cases led by top figures in the field of the behavioral sciences. Despite the Agency’s efforts to erase this hidden history, the documents that survived this purge and that have been gathered together here present a compelling and unsettling narrative of the CIA’s decades-long effort to discover and test ways to erase and re-program the human mind.

The bulk of these records were drawn from records compiled by John Marks, the former State Department official who filed the first Freedom of Information Act requests on the subject and whose 1979 book, The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences (New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1979) remains the single most important source on this episode. Marks later donated his FOIA documents and other research papers to the National Security Archive….
The legacy of MKULTRA goes far beyond the various “subprojects” described in these documents and that were largely shut down by the mid-1970s. As author Stephen Kinzer points out, the CIA’s behavior control research programs “contributed decisively to the development of techniques that Americans and their allies used at detention centers in Vietnam, Latin America, Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, and secret prisons around the world.”

MKULTRA techniques were cited in the CIA’s 1963 KUBARK interrogation manual that was the basis for prisoner interrogations in Vietnam and later in anti-communist dictatorships in Latin America.[1]
While many of the MKULTRA projects were conducted in hospitals, laboratories, or other institutional settings, others were carried out in clandestine CIA safehouses staffed not by doctors or clinicians but by hard-nosed federal narcotics agents like George Hunter White. Under the direction of Gottlieb, White adopted the persona of a bohemian artist named “Morgan Hall” to lure unsuspecting victims to his “pad” where he and his CIA collaborators secretly experimented on them and recorded their behavior. An OSS veteran who had worked on “truth drug” development for the Army in World War II, White surreptitiously dosed many of his victims with LSD, a drug that the CIA had in abundance thanks to Eli Lilly, which had developed the capacity to produce the drug in “tonnage quantities” and had agreed to become the Agency’s supplier. Gottlieb, his deputy Robert Lashbrook, and CIA psychologist John Gittinger are among the CIA officials who frequently visited White’s safehouses….

Although MKULTRA was approved at the highest levels, it operated with virtually no oversight. As Marks notes, the initial MKULTRA budget authorization “exempted the program from the normal CIA financial controls” and “allowed TSS to start up research projects ‘without the signing of the usual contracts or other written agreements.’”[3] With little accountability, boundless resources, and the backing of CIA covert operations chief Richard Helms, Gottlieb and his staff at TSS developed a series of bizarre experiments that they believed would enhance covert intelligence operations while at the same time improving the Agency’s defenses against the use of similar techniques by enemy forces.

By the time Gottlieb arrived at CIA in 1952, Project BLUEBIRD, which explored “the possibility of control of an individual by application of Special Interrogation techniques,” was already well underway.[4] Led by Office of Security chief Morse Allen, the early BLUEBIRD experiments were performed by teams that included polygraph experts and psychologists and were conducted on detainees and suspected informants at secret U.S. interrogation facilities in Japan and Germany.

The elevation of Allen Dulles to deputy director of central intelligence in 1951 led to an expansion of BLUEBIRD programs under a new name, ARTICHOKE, and under the direction of Gottlieb at TSS. The new program was to include, among other projects, the development of “gas guns” and “poisons,” and experiments to test whether “monotonous sounds,” “concussion,” “electroshock,” and “induced sleep” could be used as a means to gain “hypnotic control of an individual.”[5]

It was under ARTICHOKE that the Agency first began to more systematically recruit the top researchers and court the most prestigious institutions to collaborate in its mind control research. One of the first to participate was the deputy director of Boston Psychopathic Hospital, Dr. Robert Hyde, who in 1949 was the first American to “trip” on LSD after the hospital acquired samples of the drug from Sandoz laboratory in Switzerland. In 1952, the CIA began to fund the hospital’s LSD research, under which Hyde used himself, his colleagues, student volunteers, and hospital patients as his subjects. Hyde would work on four MKULTRA subprojects over the next decade.

Shortly after Dulles became DCI in 1953, he authorized MKULTRA, expanding the Agency’s behavior control research and refocusing it on the development of “a capability in the covert use of biological and chemical materials” in “present and future clandestine operations.”[6] Many of the 149 MKULTRA subprojects were carried out through well-regarded universities like Cornell, Georgetown, Rutgers, Illinois, and Oklahoma. Dr. Carl Pfeiffer, the chairman of the Department of Pharmacology of Emory University, directed four MKULTRA subprojects, all of which involved the use of drugs, including LSD, to induce psychotic states. The horrifying series of experiments left many of his subjects—including prisoners at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary and juveniles housed at a detention facility in Bordentown, New Jersey—scarred for life.

Many other MKULTRA subprojects were established through grants from false foundations funded by the CIA. One of these, the Geschickter Fund for Medical Research, run by Dr. Charles Geschickter, a professor of pathology at Georgetown University, steered millions of CIA dollars into research programs at Georgetown and other institutions. As part of the agreement, the CIA gained access to a medical safehouse at the newly constructed Gorman Annex of Georgetown University Hospital along with a ready supply of patients and students to use as subjects for MKULTRA experiments.

Another prominent MKULTRA “cutout” foundation, the Human Ecology Society, was run by Cornell Medical Center neurologist Dr. Harold Wolff, who wrote an early study of communist brainwashing techniques for Allen Dulles and later partnered with the CIA to develop a combination of drugs and sensory deprivation that could be used to erase the human mind. Among the most extreme MKULTRA projects funded through Wolff’s group were the infamous “depatterning” experiments conducted by Dr. D. Ewen Cameron at the Allan Memorial Institute, a psychiatric hospital at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Cameron’s methods combined induced sleep, electroshocks, and “psychic driving,” under which drugged subjects were psychologically tortured for weeks or months in an effort to reprogram their minds.

These records also shed light on an especially dark period in the history of the behavioral sciences in which some of the top physicians in the field conducted research and experiments usually associated with the Nazi doctors who were tried at Nuremberg. While some medical professionals engaged by the CIA apparently struggled with the ethical issues raised by conducting harmful tests on unwitting human subjects, others were eager to participate in a program in which, according to one 1953 memo, “no area of the human mind is to be left unexplored.”[7] Just as CIA psychologists later oversaw the torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and at CIA “black sites,” during the first decades of the 21st century, many of the doctors and clinicians recruited for MKULTRA work were leaders in the field, whose participation boosted the prestige of the program and drew others into it. Scholars and researchers looking at the involvement of psychologists and other medical professionals in the horrific U.S. detention and interrogation programs that have been exposed in recent years will find parallels and historical antecedents throughout this collection….
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/dnsa-intelligence/2024-12-23/cia-behavior-control-experiments-focus-new-scholarly

Digital National Security Archive (DNSA): CIA and the Behavioral Sciences: Mind Control, Drug Experiments and MKULTRA

This collection explores the Central Intelligence Agency’s foray into behavioral and mind control experiments in the 1950s and 1960s. Most commonly known as Project MKULTRA, which refers to the research carried out by the CIA and affiliated institutions between 1953-1963, this codename came to be used as an umbrella term for an array of scientific, psychological, and military endeavors that began well before the official start of MKULTRA in 1953 and that continued in the years after the project officially ended. In this collection, researchers will find many documents relating to MKULTRA as well as its predecessors, Project BLUEBIRD and Project ARTICHOKE, and its various sister projects and successors, including MKNAOMI, MKDELTA and MKSEARCH. This collection also contains records relating to investigations into the CIA’s mind control program, both by the Agency itself and Congress, during the mid to late 1970s. The set has been carefully curated to highlight the clearest, most substantive documents available on MKULTRA and to focus on those records that provide insight into the scope and purpose of the Agency’s mind control program.

Most of the documents were donated to the National Security Archive by John Marks, the author of The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, a book widely considered to be the most authoritative recounting of the CIA’s involvement in behavior and mind control experiments. They consist primarily of CIA records Marks obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Another source for the collection are documents that the CIA released to the family of Frank Olson, an Army biochemist who died in 1953 after he was secretly administered LSD by a CIA employee and then fell from a 10th-story window. Congressional hearings and testimony and the CIA’s reading room were also researched to supplement the collection. https://proquest.libguides.com/dnsa/64

CIA’s 1963 KUBARK interrogation manual
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB27/docs/doc01.pdf

Deposition of Sidney Gottlieb, PhD, in Civil Action No. 80-3163, Mrs. David Orlikow, et al., Plaintiffs, vs. United States of America, Defendant, May 17, 1983, 174 pp. Date May 17, 1983

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This is the second of three depositions of Sidney Gottlieb by attorneys representing Velma “Val” Orlikow, a former patient of the Allan Memorial Institute, where CIA-backed staff performed horrific experiments on psychiatric patients during the 1950s and 60s.

Asked whether he was involved in “domestic field experimentation” with LSD, Gottlieb said, “If by what you mean ‘field experimentation’, is experiments that involve – that are taking place outside of Washington, D.C., and if by my personal involvement, you mean, was I aware of them or did I have something to do with their instigation, the answer is yes.” When Gottlieb is shown a document indicating that he had personally conducted an interrogation, he claims confusion before admitting that he had indeed been involved in “between one and five” interrogations…..
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/32736-document-20-deposition-sidney-gottlieb-phd-civil-action-no-80-3163-mrs-david-orlikow

Notorious daycare paedophile Ashley Paul Griffith sentenced to life in prison for abusing children in Australia and Italy By Eden Gillespie 11/29/2024
One of Australia’s most notorious paedophiles has been sentenced to life in prison after confessing to raping and abusing scores of children in daycare centres in Australia and overseas.

Former childcare worker Ashley Paul Griffith pleaded guilty in September to more than 300 charges against 69 children in early learning centres in Brisbane and Italy over almost two decades.

Griffith will have a non-parole period of 27 years, with Judge Paul Smith describing his offending as “depraved”. He won’t be eligible to apply until 2049….

He said Griffith’s “risk of re-offending would be high” if he was released into the community. “This was very serious, offending in terms of length and scale. The victims were very vulnerable, and there was a significant breach of trust,” Judge Smith said. Judge Smith said the case warranted the maximum penalty due to the length of the offences, the number of victims, their age and vulnerability, the planning involved, and the fact that he uploaded the abuse online….

Griffith was initially charged with more than 1,000 offences by the AFP in 2022 after they found thousands of photographs and videos related to his abuse on the dark web.

Hundreds of charges were later dropped. The 307 offences against 69 children occurred between 2003 and 2022.
They include 190 counts of indecent treatment, 28 counts of rape, 67 counts of making child exploitation material, four counts of producing child abuse material outside of Australia, and 15 counts of repeated sexual conduct with a child.

Most of the victims were aged between two and five years old, but one could have been as young as one. Ashley Paul Griffith is being sentenced in the District Court in Brisbane after pleading guilty to 307 charges against 69 children at early learning centres in Brisbane and Italy. Griffith’s sentencing began on Thursday, with victims sharing harrowing statements about how his abuse had impacted them.

The court heard he had offended against his victims while they were awake and asleep. When they were awake, he often gave them an iPad to distract them. Some of the abuse lasted up to 30 minutes and occurred when other children were nearby.

The court heard he filmed much of the abuse and would regularly go back and review the footage he made for his own sexual gratification. He would also upload the abuse to a child exploitation site on the dark web and left comments advising other people how they could abuse children….
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-29/daycare-paedophile-ashley-paul-griffith-sentencing/104663114

Here’s what you need to know about the Pelicot trial Paul Kirby BBC 12/19/2024 Judges in the French city of Avignon have sentenced Dominique Pelicot to 20 years in prison for aggravated rape after he drugged and abused his then wife, Gisèle Pelicot, and invited dozens of strangers to rape her. Dominique stood accused alongside 50 other men. Of the 50 co-defendants found guilty, 46 were found guilty of rape, two guilty of attempted rape, and two guilty of sexual assault.

For almost a decade, Gisèle Pelicot was unknowingly given sedatives by her ex-husband, who has admitted to raping her and inviting men he had recruited online to have sex with her in her bed at home while she was unconscious and unaware. Although Dominique Pelicot admitted the charges against him, most of the other men on trial denied what they did was rape.

It was Gisèle’s decision to waive her anonymity and throw this trial into the open – in her words, making “shame swap sides” from the victim to the rapist – something which has turned the 72-year-old into a feminist icon. Dominique has also been found guilty of attempted aggravated rape of the wife of one of the co-accused, Jean-Pierre Marechal – who admitted drugging and raping his own wife, Cillia, and inviting Dominique to rape her too. Marechal was found guilty of attempted rape and aggravated rape. Dominique Pelicot was further convicted of taking indecent images of his daughter, Caroline, and his daughters-in-law, Aurore and Celine.

“I am a rapist,” he previously told the judges. “I acknowledge all the facts [of the case] in their entirety.” He had begged his ex-wife and three children for forgiveness, but his actions have torn the Pelicot family apart. Prosecutors had asked for jail sentences for the defendants ranging from four years to 20 years, the maximum sentence for a charge of aggravated rape….

From 2011 to 2020, Dominique Pelicot plied his wife with tranquilising drugs and sleeping pills without her knowledge, crushed them into powder and added them to her food and drink. Gisèle Pelicot suffered memory loss and blackouts because of the drugs and she has spoken of 10 years of her life that have been lost. He was eventually caught because a security guard reported him to police for taking photographs under women’s skirts in a supermarket.
“I thought we were a close couple,” she once told the court. Instead, her husband was going on a notorious but now banned website called Coco.fr to invite local men to their home to have sex with her while she was comatose….
Not only has this case been held in full view of the public, but the evidence against all the accused was recorded on video by Dominique Pelicot at the time and then played out in court. Gisèle Pelicot, who has divorced her husband, said the men “treated me like a rag doll”. “Don’t talk to me about sex scenes. These are rape scenes,” she said. Therefore none of those accused has been able to challenge the allegation that they were in Gisèle Pelicot’s room while she was comatose….

Gisèle Pelicot has attended almost every day of the trial, appearing at the court in her sunglasses just before nine o’clock. Her decision to waive her anonymity is highly unusual, but she has stood firm at every moment. “I want all women who have been raped to say: Madame Pelicot did it, I can too.”…. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c390d8nd4n4o

Paris Hilton-backed child abuse bill headed to Biden’s desk for signature The measure requires more federal oversight of the ‘troubled teen’ industry. ByIsabella Murray December 18, 2024

The House passed the Paris Hilton-championed Stop Institutionalized Child Abuse bill on Wednesday, a sweet victory for the celebrity hotel heiress after the nearly three years she’s spent lobbying politicians in Washington on the issue of reform in the “troubled teen” industry.

The measure that would require more federal oversight into these facilities for troubled minors passed by a vote of 373-33. All those who voted against the legislation were Republican, most from the far-right faction of the party….
The Senate passed the bill a week ago with unanimous support. It now heads to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature…. Hilton for years has been an advocate for reform in congregate care facilities and residential treatment programs for “troubled” minors. She’s brazenly described her own traumatizing experience at Provo Canyon School in Utah when she was a teenager.

Hilton also testified before the House Ways and Means Committee in June, emotionally recounting her experience being at Provo Canyon School as a teen. “These programs promised healing, growth, and support, but instead did not allow me to speak, move freely, or even look out a window for two years,” she testified in 2023. “I was force-fed medications and sexually abused by the staff. I was violently restrained and dragged down hallways, stripped naked, and thrown into solitary confinement.”

The Provo school in Utah, which is still operating today, released an updated statement in June 2024 saying they couldn’t comment on the operations or student experiences at the school prior to August 2000, when it had changed ownership shortly after Hilton’s stint there. Provo said it did not “condone or promote any form of abuse,” in their statement.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/paris-hilton-backed-child-abuse-bill-headed-bidens/story?id=116917971

Paris Hilton Celebrates Congress Passing Her Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act: ‘This Is a Day I’ll Never Forget’ “This moment is proof that our voices matter, that speaking out can spark change,” the reality TV star said By Angel Saunders Updated on December 18, 2024 Paris Hilton is celebrating a huge milestone after using her celebrity and personal experience to enact protections for institutionalized youth. “Today is a day I will never forget,” the celebrity DJ, 43, began as the caption to a 20-photo Instagram carousel on Wednesday, Dec. 18. “After years of sharing my story and advocating on Capitol Hill, the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act has officially passed the U.S Congress,” she said.

The bill regulates best practices regarding the health and safety, care, treatment and appropriate placement of youth in boarding schools, boot camps and other youth centers, according to Congress and the organization’s website….

Hilton continued with her caption, adding, “This moment is proof that our voices matter, that speaking out can spark change, and that no child should ever endure the horrors of abuse in silence. I did this for the younger version of myself and the youth who were senselessly taken from us by the Troubled Teen Industry.”….

Hilton first opened up about her experience in her 2020 documentary, This Is Paris. “It was supposed to be a school, but [classes] were not the focus at all,” Hilton previously told PEOPLE about the behavioral health center her parents sent her to as a teen. “From the moment I woke up until I went to bed, it was all day screaming in my face, yelling at me, continuous torture.”….

Ahead of the bill being passed, Hilton shared an open letter on Instagram earlier this week, stating that she was “physically restrained, sexually abused, isolated, overmedicated, and stripped of my dignity” as a teenager at Provo Canyon School. The mother of two urged “every member of the House” to “think of the children who can’t speak for themselves.” The Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act was passed “unanimously” by the Senate on Dec. 11, before the House also voted in its favor. Next, it will go to President Biden before it can be signed into law.
https://people.com/paris-hilton-celebrates-congress-passing-her-stop-institutional-child-abuse-act-8763937

Las Cruces daycare co-owner faces federal child abuse charges A Target 7 Investigation has revealed that federal authorities believe the owner may be tied to claims made decades ago Dec 18, 2024 Aliyah Chavez

LAS CRUCES, N.M. — A Las Cruces daycare co-owner has been charged in connection with sexually abusing a minor in his care. And now a Target 7 Investigation has revealed that federal authorities believe the owner may be tied to claims made decades ago. The case has led to the closure of the daycare and a call for any additional victims to come forward.

Federal Charges and Allegations
Juan Jose Cardiel, 79, co-owner of the home-based Cardiel Childcare Services, was arrested earlier this year on state charges related to allegations of child sexual abuse. Despite prosecutors wanting to hold him until trial, a judge ordered he could be released on a $7,500 bond. However, just weeks ago, federal prosecutors added charges of attempted enticement of a minor, which carries significant penalties. He is now being held in jail on the federal charges. “These are incredibly serious charges. This person could be facing life in prison if convicted,” said KOAT legal expert and former prosecutor John Day. According to court documents, a 4-year-old child reported inappropriate behavior by Cardiel, including being shown explicit content and being asked to engage in inappropriate acts. Officials noted that the use of electronic devices in the alleged crimes made the case eligible for federal charges.

Legal Proceedings
After being charged federally, Cardiel chose not to contest being held, ensuring he will remain in custody until trial. Day explained that this decision might reflect the weight of the evidence against him. “There’s no benefit to the defendant to challenge detention when the evidence is strong,” Day said.

History of Allegations
While Cardiel has no prior criminal convictions, federal prosecutors noted he was involved in a 1996 civil case at the New Mexico School for the Visually Handicapped, which included allegations of abuse involving other potential victims. That case was settled out of court. Additionally, court records show a domestic violence order of protection was filed against Cardiel, alleging another potential victim. “There was no criminal history. But this investigation will show other court filings that indicate the potential of other victims,” said U.S. Attorney Alexander Uballez.

Daycare Closure
Cardiel Childcare Services has been shut down, and its daycare license has been suspended by the state. Authorities expressed gratitude to the child who came forward and encouraged other potential victims to report their experiences.
“These cases come to us from the strength of victims and children who speak up about things that are happening that are wrong. Often, that’s the only way we find out,” Uballez said….
https://www.koat.com/article/las-cruces-daycare-co-owner-child-abuse-case/63232515

The Survivorship Trafficking and Extreme Abuse Online Conference 2025 – Survivor Conference will be on Saturday and Sunday May 18 – 19, 2025. This year’s topic is “Celebrating the Gains Fighting Ritual Abuse.” The Clinician’s Conference will be Friday May 17, 2025. This year’s topic is “Progress Against Extreme Abuse.” Please write info@survivorship.org for more information. The Conference Web Page is at https://survivorship.org/the-survivorship-trafficking-and-extreme-abuse-online-conference-2025 Updates will be posted when available.

Book: Demystifying Mind Control and Ritual Abuse: A Manual for Therapists – Alison Miller      Karnac Books  July 2024 Paperback ISBN 13 : 9781800132658  ISBN 10 : 1800132654 Dr. Miller spoke at the 2024 Online Annual Ritual Abuse and Mind Control Conference – August 10 – 11, 2024.  Information is at https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/
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This book was written to meet the need of therapists: a succinct, thorough, practical, clear, down-to-earth handbook to which a therapist can refer as needed. Many, if not most, therapists have encountered a victim of complex mind control and ritual abuse, and most therapists feel deskilled in this work. Working with such clients is a challenge for therapists, given the extreme and prolonged nature of the clients’ trauma, the severity of their dissociative disorders, the complexity of the mind control they have experienced, and the reality of organised perpetrator groups who follow up on their victims. Every therapist needs to know the basics of this work.

Chapter 1 defines and explains dissociation, ritual abuse, and mind control. It lists indicators which suggest a client may be a victim, and recommends developing ‘reflective belief (or possibly) disbelief’ rather than maintaining ‘therapeutic neutrality’. Chapter 2, The therapeutic relationship, describes victims’ training to not form bonds, the parental nature of the therapeutic bond with such clients, and practical ways to relate to someone dealing with internal multiplicity. Chapter 3, The life of a mind control survivor, describes victims’ planned experiences from infancy all the way through adulthood.

Chapter 4, Engineered personality systems, describes the most common forms of training or programming, and the ‘jobs’ of inner parts of the victim. Chapter 5, Stabilisation and internal safety, explains the way in which some parts punish the victim for disloyalty by creating destabilising symptoms. Chapter 6, Working with the personality system, describes internal hierarchies and how to work with them. Chapter 7, Present-day physical safety, looks at the ongoing torture and harassment of many victims by perpetrator groups, and describes the training of various parts to return to the perpetrators, report to them, and be available for further abuse. Chapter 8, Working through the traumatic memories, gives guidelines regarding how to help a client work through the numerous traumatic training memories.

Chapter 9, Confronting the spiritual issues in ritual abuse, describes the perpetrators’ spiritual/moral abuse and simulation of spiritual entities. It discusses the question of demonic possession, and looks at the real spiritual issues which victims and therapists must deal with. Chapter 10, Healing for our clients and ourselves, discusses victims’ emotional healing, grieving, developing self-esteem and integration, and therapists’ intimidation and vicarious traumatisation.

‘Alison Miller’s latest book, Demystifying Mind Control and Ritual Abuse, is a tour de force in advanced psychotherapy for the most difficult of clients, those who have been subjected to torture since before birth and throughout their childhood in order to create compliant slaves without walls. She is a knowledgeable, tough, and compassionate guide who takes a clear-eyed look at what it really takes for therapists to do this work and gives us the tools to do so. She calmly addresses a topic that most find unbearable to acknowledge, that children can and are routinely used to serve the darkest desires of humanity. She lays out many practical tips; each chapter could almost be its own book. Any therapist who finds themselves confounded and feeling deskilled by a victim of organized abuse that is cult related, ritually abused and/or mind controlled will find helpful tips and resources in these pages. This book should be required reading for all therapists.’ Susan Pease Banitt, LCSW, psychotherapist and consultant specialising in trauma and extreme abuse, sought-after speaker, and award-winning author .

‘Having worked in this difficult field for several decades, Alison Miller has found a further way of passing on her knowledge of mind control and ritual abuse. What’s more, she does so in the most honed, processed way. This is a handbook which is easy to read despite the fearfulness of its subject. It is filled with wise information culled from decades of experience. It will aid the newcomer and the experienced clinician alike.’ Valerie Sinason PhD, founder and patron, Clinic for Dissociative Studies, and author of The Orpheus Project

‘Demystifying Mind Control and Ritual Abuse: A Manual for Therapists delivers just what Dr. Miller promises – a book for therapists “who need a succinct, practical, down-to-earth guide for this challenging work.” She describes the strategies that mind control abusers apply to victims, beginning in infancy, to induce dissociated identities to form, to manipulate them, and to then set them up against each other for long-term, often lifetime control. These abusers hope to prevent victims from ever consciously accessing their memories, from being able to receive the help of a psychotherapist, and from ever defying and escaping their mental controls. Then Dr. Miller offers step-by-step therapeutic guidance in troubleshooting all of these obstacles so that survivors may discover their own minds and exercise agency over their own lives. This is a wonderful reference book to help psychotherapists navigate this toughest-of-all courses of psychotherapy.’  Ellen Lacter, PhD, psychologist, USA

‘Dr. Alison Miller’s new book, Demystifying Mind Control and Ritual Abuse: A Training Manual for Therapists, is the most comprehensive book written to date on this topic. Dr. Miller discusses all of the techniques needed to help survivors of these crimes. Her book is easy to read and understand. It explains ways to work with trauma survivors in a compassionate, respectful, and comprehensive manner. Her many years of experience and research provide a unique guide into helping mind control and ritual abuse survivors. I have been proud to work with Dr. Miller in both Survivorship (survivorship.org) and SMART (ritualabuse.us). Every time I attend one of her workshops or webinars or read one of her books, I learn more about our field, myself, and ways to help other survivors.’ Neil Brick, editor and conference coordinator for SMARTNews at https://ritualabuse.us

The Survivorship Trafficking and Extreme Abuse Online Conference May 2024

 

The Survivorship Trafficking and Extreme Abuse Online Conference 2024

Survivor Conference - Saturday and Sunday May 4 - 5, 2024

Clinician's Conference - Friday May 3, 2024

https://survivorship.org/the-survivorship-trafficking-and-extreme-abuse-online-conference-2024

Special Low Prices:

Register and pay before April 20, 2024:

Fri: $150 - clinician’s conference

Sat: $100 regular price - $50 low income survivors

Sun: $100 regular price - $50 low income survivors

 

Conference Speakers

 

Recovery Tips for and by Survivors

Survivors and their helpers have developed a variety of techniques toward healing from traumatic experiences. This presentation will encourage an open discussion of these techniques. Techniques will include those used in individual and group therapy and in survivors’ personal lives. This will be an open discussion for survivors and their helpers. The moderators will be Dr. Randy Noblitt and Neil Brick.

 

Teaching Trauma and Dissociation in Higher Education

Randy Noblitt PhD

 

Clinicians can contribute to the well being of extreme abuse survivors directly by providing competent professional services. We can also assist by training graduate students who will become future clinicians. Folz and colleagues (2023) found deficits in trauma-informed training in their sample of 193 APA-accredited clinical psychology programs. Only 5% required a course relevant to trauma-informed care, resulting in only 8% of graduates receiving such formal training. We will discuss opportunities for being a college or university guest speaker, adjunct faculty and core faculty member. Participants will also discuss leading topics and trends in the contemporary trauma and dissociation literature.

 

Randy Noblitt is a professor of Clinical Psychology at Alliant International University, Los Angeles and a licensed psychologist in Texas. He has evaluated and treated extreme abuse survivors clinically since 1979. He has authored three editions of the book Cult and Ritual Abuse with Pam Noblitt (1995, 2000, 2014). Together they also edited Ritual Abuse in the 21st Century (2008) and they have authored a recent book, Navigating Social Security Disability Programs: A Handbook for Clinicians and Advocates (2020). https://ritualabuse.us/smart/randy-noblitt/

 

Tackling Complex Trauma Assessment Problems with Cybernetic Big 5 Theory Dr. Rainer Hermann Kurz

 

This presentation draws on contemporary personality assessment theory to illustrate opportunities and risks when using psychometric questionnaires in situations where extreme abuse has been alleged. DeYoung (2015) outlined a comprehensive ‘Cybernetic Big 5 Theory’ that revolves around the Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality that psychologists converged on (e.g. Digman, 1990). Digman (1997) found that Conscientiousness, Agreeableness and Low Neuroticism form a meta-factor ‘Alpha’ whereas Extraversion and Openness form a meta-factor ‘Beta’. DeYoung refers to these as Stability and Plasticity respectively and associates them with serotonergic and dopaminergic systems. Furthermore, DeYoung differentiates two Aspects for each of the Big 5. Johnson (2014) developed public domain versions of the ‘gold standard’ Big 5 personality questionnaire NEO which can be used free-of-charge: https://drj.virtualave.net/IPIP/index.html

 

The application of NEO IPIP and NEO-PI-3 to challenge poor assessment practice in a case of alleged organized child sexual abuse/exploitation will be illustrated including item level nuances (Stewart et al., 2022). Another case study will illustrate results of a multi-tool assessment of a self-identified survivor of extreme abuse using the Big 5 as an organizing framework in line with Bainbridge et al. (2022). A third case study will illustrate the use of Great 8 Totals (Kurz, 2014) as a proxy for the General Factor of Personality (Musek, 2008), conceptually the opposite of the general factor of psychopathology (Forbes et al., 2021), to challenge misleading results on the Millon MCMI questionnaire. The presentation shows how Cybernetic Big 5 Theory can help to overcome complex psychological assessment practice problems.

 

Rainer Kurz is a Chartered Psychologist based in London. Since 1990 Rainer has worked in Research & Development roles for leading test publishers. His PhD dissertation was on enhancing the validity and utility of ability testing. Rainer developed 50+ psychometric tests and authored more than 100 publications. He is a Consultant Editor for Test Reviews at the Psychometric Testing Centre (PTC) of the BPS. Rainer has been investigating complex trauma assessment problems since 2012. He presented 30+ posters on trauma, dissociation and healing at international peer-reviewed conferences that are available here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rainer_Kurz2

 

Ritual Abuse, Sex Trafficking and Mind Control Neil Brick

 

This presentation will explain how ritual abuse, mind control, and different suggestive techniques work to control sex trafficking survivors (Karriker, 2008). The presenter will describe different historical examples of how mind control and ritual abuse have been used. Legal cases will also be discussed from various parts of the world (McGonigle, 1999; New York Times, 1988). Research studies, like the Extreme Abuse Survivors Survey, will be presented, as well as examples of different cults and their techniques (Hassan, 2018).

 

Mental health diagnoses, like Dissociative Identity Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and their origins in sex trafficking survivors will be explained. The presenter will discuss his personal experiences of being in a cult as a child experiencing torture, sexual abuse, and mind control techniques. The forced development of these diagnoses and their symptoms will be connected to how they are used to control sex trafficking survivors. Ways to expose and prevent ritual abuse, mind control, and sex trafficking will be discussed. Finally, there will be a discussion of the future of advocacy efforts to stop ritual abuse, sex trafficking, and mind control.

 

Masonic Ritual Abuse: Its Characteristics, Prevalence and Expression in Western Art and Culture. Dr. Lynn Brunet

This presentation will examine the subject of Masonic ritual abuse. Based on the presenter’s personal experience and accumulated art historical research over the last two decades it asks a series of questions about its prevalence, how it is similar and different to other forms of ritual abuse, how it is expressed in art and culture and what its implications are for us today. Freemasonry is sometimes described as the ‘cult of the establishment’ and there is a great deal of material available about it and its rituals that can enable research into its practices, which is not necessarily the case for other cults.

 

The research, to date, suggests that the children of Freemasons are particularly vulnerable to abuse, but while they might be struggling internally with something inexplicably profound, disturbing or terrifying, they may not necessarily appear at a therapist’s office as many of them are encouraged by their abusers to express their trauma in creative ways. Driven to obsessively release the effects of the trauma, this can become a lifelong way of coping, resulting in the creation of cultural artefacts that are imbued with the traces of cruel ritual practices without the creators themselves being consciously aware of their source.

 

Uses of Art Therapy, Sensory Awareness and EMDR in Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)  Patricia Quinn

 

This presentation will describe the fluid uses of art therapy, Sensory Awareness and EMDR in treating Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). The didactic portion will entail justification for using each modality, the benefit if the client being able to choose a treatment modality themselves, and examples of their clinical use with two clients with very different levels of access to memories of their past trauma. This effective, responsive healing approach will be useful for all counselors and therapists working in a variety of settings. The general descriptions of client responses may contain triggering content. The presentation contains a calming experiential that combines a body-based relaxation and use of art to counter-act traumatic memory.

 

We recommend that survivors bring a safe support person to the online conference who is familiar with the issues ritual abuse survivors may need help with.

 

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.

 

https://survivorship.org/the-survivorship-trafficking-and-extreme-abuse-online-conference-2024