Satanism Linked To Scores of U.S. Child Abuse Cases, International Council on Cultism and Ritual Trauma
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Satanism Linked To Scores of U.S. Child Abuse Cases Edward W.
Lempinen. San Francisco Chronicle 11/5/87 p. A1 Satanism and cult
rituals have been linked to scores of child-molestation cases
nationwide in the past five years, including dozens in California.
Children as young as 2 and 3 years old have come forward with
harrowing tales of drinking blood, animal sacrifices and sexual abuse
as part of rituals, according to law enforcement investigators, child
abuse experts and parents. Others have even talked of cannibalism and
ritual sacrifice of children. After hearing similar tales over and
over from people across the country, many investigators and child
abuse experts now have come to believe in the unbelievable....In San
Francisco, police confirmed last week that they are investigating
reports by a 3-year-old girl who claimed that she was taken from a day-
care center at the Presidio Army base and driven to a home where she
was molested by two men in costumes. Police suspect that the home was
the headquarters of the Temple of Set, a Nazi-Satanic group, and they
have listed the temple's high priest as a possible suspect. No arrests
have been made. Investigators and parents have declined to give
details of the cases of at least 58 children who attended the Presidio
Child Development Center, fearing that they might jeopardize the
prosecution of a former day-care worker. But in other cases across the
nation, experts say there is striking evidence of ritualized sexual
abuse that recurs in case after case: -- At West Point, N.Y., Army
families have pressed an investigation into widespread child abuse at
a military day-care center in 1983 and 1984....But an increasingly
influential group of legal, psychological and medical experts say they
are beginning to amass considerable testimony and circumstantial
evidence of cult and Satanic abuse nationwide - and dating back four
generations or more. Sandi Gallant, an intelligence officer with the
San Francisco police and one of the nation's most influential experts
on cults, cautions that many cases are proving unfounded. But she says
that there have been 60 to 70 "solid" cases of ritual sexual abuse in
the past few years nationwide. She and others have heard hundreds of
children and adult - people who have never met and who live a
continent apart - tell stories that are fundamentally the same.
"Independently, the victims are describing incredibly similar
circumstances," said Catherine Gould, a clinical psychologist in the
Los Angeles district of Encino who has counseled dozens of children
who claim they were molested in rituals.
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