Satanic Ritual Abuse: The Evidence Surfaces
childadvocate
http://web.archive.org/web/20080125051057/http://home.mchsi.com/~ftio/ra-evidence-surfaces.htm
"As much as we don’t want to believe it as a society -- Satanic ritual
abuse is a reality. And, as was done by the parents in the McMartin
Day Care Center case, we need to be rolling up our sleeves and digging
deeper to get at the whole truth."
Satanic Ritual Abuse: The Evidence Surfaces
By Daniel Ryder, CCDC, LSW
The following lyrics are from a song about Satanic ritual abuse off
Joan Baez’s latest album, Play Me Backwards. Incidentally, it’s the
lead song.
"You don’t have to play me backwards
To get the meaning of my verse.
You don’t have to die and go to hell
To feel the devil’s curse."
It's not only the "devil’s curse" survivors of Satanic ritual abuse
have been feeling of late. They have also been feeling the curse of a
pronounced societal backlash. In some circles now, the stories of some
of the most heinous abuse imaginable - sexual abuse, brainwashing,
torture, murder/sacrifice - are being labeled as "patently false."
Therapists are being accused of planting these memories. And, for
instance, the FBI has come out debunking the phenomenon, saying,
unequivocally, there is no tangible evidence organized Satanic ritual
abuse exists at all.
However, my research shows it does exist. And indications are we are
only seeing the tip of the iceberg of a social phenomenon that, when
totally exposed, will rock the core of societal beliefs.
For the last four years, I have crises-crossed the country
interviewing cult researchers, ritual crime investigators, task force
members, therapists, investigative reporters, cult survivors...as part
of an in-depth investigation on the issue of Satanic ritual abuse.
And, the research has yielded some extremely eye-opening things.
The most eye-opening hasn’t been the mutilated backwoods remains of a
cult victim’s body in Massachusetts. It wasn’t the bloody pentagram
carved into a cult victim’s corpse in San Francisco. The most eye-
opening, has been a widely cited Law Enforcement Perspective report
out of the FBI’s Behavioral Science Center in Quantico, Virginia.
The report was written by supervisory special agent Kenneth Lanning.
It has gone out to law enforcement agencies around the country; and
has been cited consistently throughout the media the last several
years.
The report states, in regards to "organized" Satanic ritual abuse
homicide (that is, two or more Satanic cult members conspiring to
commit murder): "The law enforcement perspective can’t ignore the lack
of physical evidence (no bodies, or even hairs, fibers, or fluids left
by violent murders."
No bodies?
The following is an excerpt from a March 13, 1981, UPI article:
"Fitchburg, Mass. -- The alleged leader of a devil worship cult was
found guilty of first degree murder Friday in the ritual killing of a
young Fall River, Mass. prostitute last year. Carl Drew, 26, stood
pale and expressionless as the verdict was announced. He was
immediately sentenced to life imprisonment by superior court judge
Francis W. Keating...Miss Marsden was allegedly killed, mutilated and
beheaded by Drew and two others in a blood-soaked night time ritual in
a wooded area because she wanted to leave the cult."
In 1993, House Bill 1689 was introduced in the Massachusetts
Legislature. It is a bill prohibiting "Certain Ritualistic Acts." Some
of these acts include: ritual mutilation, dismemberment, torture, the
sacrifice of animals, humans...(A similar bill was passed in Idaho in
1990).
Also, in the 1993 Avon Books release: Raising Hell, author/
investigative reporter Michael Newton writes, "While some cult
apologists may be forgiven their ignorance of current events, (FBI)
Agent Lanning -- with access to nationwide police files -- should know
better. As this volume amply demonstrates, cult related killers stand
convicted of murder in 23 states and at least nine foreign countries.
Numerous other occultists are now serving time for practicing their
"faith" through acts of arson, rape, assault, cruelty to animals, and
similar crimes."
The organization, Looking Up, founded initially as a nationwide
support/referral program for incest survivors, serves approximately
15,000 people a year, 40% of whom now are reporting they are dealing
with ritualistic or cult related abuse. According to a spokesperson
for JUSTUS Unlimited in Denver, a non-profit referral and resource
center, they are currently receiving more than 7,000 Satanic ritual
abuse related calls a year. (What’s more, they are also hearing from
all over the world: Australia, New Zealand, England, The Netherlands,
Germany, Israel, Canada...)
Given the tangible evidence now surfacing, and given the volume of
people reporting Satanic cult related abuse, it would seem curious the
FBI would come out with such a definitive stance attempting to
discredit the increasing phenomenon. Of course, then again, it was the
same FBI that for more than the first half of this century
consistently said there was no evidence whatsoever of another type of
"organized" criminal activity. That is -- Mafia related crime.
Actually, Satanic cults are somewhat similar to Mafia crime families.
There is, for instance, extreme secrecy through code of silence
programming. This is usually initiated with the signing of a "blood"
contract. Wendell Amstutz, author of Satanism in America, said these
contracts are generally signed in the initiate’s own blood. The
contract, said Amstutz, usually demands life-long obedience. And
breaking it means death.
And that'’s exactly what it meant for the four California Satanic cult
defectors one fateful night in 1990. The defectors were tracked to an
apartment on, of all places, Elm Street in the small town of Salida.
The defectors were beaten and stabbed. Finally, they were
decapitated.
What was left behind rivaled the carnage of the Tate-LaBianca crime
scene.
The trail led back to five Satanic cult members, and the story began
to unfold...
The five who were indicted were part of a 55-member Satanic cult that
was operating out of a compound in Salida. Cult members stretched
across a three-county are, with a number of them holed-up in a Salida
compound (homes and trailers), somewhat similar to Waco’s Branch
Davidian complex. Except for one thing: What was going on in the
Salida compound for the most part made what was going on in Waco seem
like a Disney production.
Randy Cerny, Director of the Northern Chapter of California’s Ritual
Crime Investigator’s Association, had followed the cult closely. And
after the indictments, he interviewed several of the cult members and
reviewed extensive diaries they’d kept.
He said the cult worshipped Satan, followed the teachings of renowned
Satanist Aleister Crowley, engaged in sexual abuse, ritual torture
including electric shock, child abuse, murder...In other words, many
of the same things Satanic ritual abuse survivors have been
consistently reporting.
Cerny also said it was reported cult members were from all walks of
life. This even included a dentist, a minister, and a woman enrolled
in a law enforcement class at a local community college. (Satanic cult
members aren’t, by any means, always tattooed teen bikers who have
listened to one too many Metallica albums, Often, Satanic ritual abuse
survivors report their cult perpetrators are respected members of the
community: doctors, law enforcement officials, PTA members, little
league coaches...This all, apparently, is part of the facade.)
One of the Matomoros cult members responsible for some of the 13
grisly murder/sacrifices in Mexico a few years back, was majoring in
law enforcement at Texas Southmost College at the time she was
arrested.
"The California cult was a very secretive, close-knit, sophisticated
group," said Cerny.
The Satanic cult was run under the iron fist of charismatic leader,
high priest, Gerald Cruz. And, as David Koresh had done in Waco, Cruz
used sleep deprivation, brainwashing, torture...to keep members in
line. At a trial in Oakland in December, 1992, cult expert and
psychologist, Daniel Goldstine, would characterize Cruz as "evil and
sadistic."
The jury thought so too. Cruz and two other cult members were
sentenced to death for the murders. Two other cult members got life.
"Now let’s project this 20 to 25 years down the road," Cerny
continued. "Say someone walks into a police department or therapist’s
office and says, ‘I’m starting to have memories that my dad was a
leader of this Satanic cult in California. And they would brainwash
people, torture them with electric shock, sexually abuse me, sacrifice
animals, kill people...’ "
Cerny wondered if that would all be passed off as a "false memory."
Nationally syndicated columnist Molly Ivins might well have passed it
off as just that. In a May, 1994, column, Ms. Ivins wrote: "...social
workers who deal with child abuse have nightmares about the people who
come up with patently false recovered memories of Satanic ritual
abuse."
Monika Beerle seemed to be nobody’s "false recovered memory." The
following is a February 18, 1992, Newsday article excerpt:
New York -- Members of a cult here killed ballerina Monika Beerle in
August, 1989, and then dismembered her and fed her flesh to the
homeless as part of a Satanic ritual, law enforcement sources said
yesterday after arresting a cult member in connection with the
slaying. "The public isn’t generating enough momentum to get police
mobilized around this (Satanic ritual abuse) issue at this point,"
explained Akron, Ohio Police Captain Jerry Foys. And John Hunt,
Sherman, Texas ritual crime investigator says that "because of the FBI
report, the stigma around Satanism and other factors have made it hard
to get internal police department support in following up on the
ritual aspects of a crime."
Hunt and Foys both said they believe the Satanic ritual abuse is quite
widespread -- and extremely dangerous.
It definitely proved dangerous for an alcoholic drifter known only as
John Doe No. 60, whose body was found in San Francisco. According to a
May 6, 1988, San Francisco Chronicle article:
"The victim had a pentagram carved into his chest, lash marks across
his buttocks, a stab wound to his neck, wax in his right eye and hair,
and a sliced lip. The naked body was virtually drained of blood."
Clifford St. Joseph, 46, was eventually convicted and sentenced to 34
years to life for the killing.
In his book, Raising Hell, Michael Newton writes when police came to
St. Joseph’s apartment nine days after the body was found, they found
St. Joseph dressed in a black robe, companion Michael Bork, 26,
stripped to the waist, his face daubed with cosmetics, and another
man, Edward Spela, 26, passed out from drugs. In the middle of the
room was a 19-year old man, who was laying on the floor, handcuffed
and surrounded by candles.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle:
"Investigators said that St. Joseph appeared to be part of a Satanic
cult that involved men of means in San Francisco’s gay community."
Again, John Doe No. 60’s mutilated body was real. It was nobody’s
false memory.
A term popular culture has latched onto tightly in the last couple of
years is the very clinical sounding, false memory syndrome. It is a
term coined by the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based False Memory
Syndrome Foundation (FMSF), which is an advocacy group for people
whose children have accused them of either sexual abuse and/or Satanic
ritual abuse.
Despite its scientific sounding title, there is actually no such thing
as a clinically acknowledged category for "false memory syndrome,"
reports Judith Herman, an associate clinical professor of Psychiatry
at Harvard Medical School, and author of the book, Trauma and
Recovery. "The very name FMSF is prejudicial and misleading," said Dr.
Herman. "There is no such syndrome, and we have no evidence reported
memories are false. We only know they are disputed."
Many professionals dealing with Satanic ritual abuse believe we are
seeing the beginnings of a phenomenon that might well mushroom into
staggering proportions. And they draw a parallel to the amazing
evolution of the sexual abuse field.
"As recently as the 1970s," said Herman, "rape was considered rare,
and incest was regarded as a universal taboo. Less than twenty years
ago, for example, the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry estimated
the prevalence of all forms of incest at one case per million
population. And popular and professional literature [as in the case
with SRA survivors now] routinely questioned the character of victims,
and disparaged the credibility of women who made claims of assault.
Today, however, widespread sexual abuse/incest has been extensively
documented."
In the case of false memory allegations, perhaps we should be spending
a bit more time actually questioning the character of some of those
accusing the "alleged" victims of confabulation. And perhaps we should
start at the False Memory Syndrome Foundation itself.
The following is an excerpt from a February 29, 1992, FMSF Newsletter
where the organization claims it is:
"...not in the business of representing pedophiles...We are a good-
looking bunch of people: graying hair, well-dressed, healthy,
smiling...Just about every person is someone you would likely find
interesting and want to count as a friend."
Joan Baez's song goes on:
Let the night begin
There’s a pop of skin
And a sudden rush of scarlet
There’s a little boy riding on a
goat’s head
And a little girl playing the harlot
It’s a sacrifice in an empty church
Sweet little baby Rose...
A Fall 1989 Cleveland Plain Dealer article excerpt reads:
Three Norwalk area residents charged with opening two graves,
beheading the corpses and stealing the skulls, were part of a cult
that had recently gotten instructions on how to sacrifice babies to
Satan, Norwalk police said yesterday. "We’re taking this very
seriously," he [Police Chief Gary Dewalt] said."
Maybe society should take the police chief's lead, in a lot of
different areas regarding this problem. For one, many youth are
bombarded with Satanic symbols, images, lyrics...One area where it is
probably the most prevalent is in the heavy/black metal music scene.
For instance, the heavy metal band Venom sings:
"Candles glowing, altars burn
Virgin’s death is needed ther
Sacrifice to Lucifer my master
Bring the chalice, raise the knife
Welcome to my sacrifice..."
Just a passing phase kids go through? Just lyrics?
May 5, 1993 -- Three eight year old boys were riding their bikes down
a country road in West Memphis, Arkansas. Suddenly they were forced
off the road and horribly killed. One of the suspects accused in the
murders, Jessie Lloyd Miskelly, Jr., 17 according to wire service
reports, told police that the murders were tied to a teen Satanic cult
sacrifice. "Miskelly said the children were lured into a wooded area
of West Memphis known as Robin Hood Park, choked until they were
unconscious, then brutalized in various ways -- including rape..."
According to a March 8, 1994 article on the trial appearing in the
West Memphis The Commercial Appeal: "A witness last week told him
Baldwin (one of the accused) told him he sucked the blood from one
victim after he mutilated him."
Diaries indicated the Satanic cult in Salida, California, followed the
teachings of renowned Satanist Aleister Crowley. In his book, Magick
in Theory and Practice, Crowley wrote, "The blood is the life...any
living thing is the storehouse of energy...at the death of the animal
this energy is liberated suddenly. The animal should therefore be
killed within the Circle, or Triangle, so that it’s energy cannot
escape...For the highest spiritual working one must accordingly choose
that victim which the greatest and purest force. A male child of
perfect innocence is the most satisfactory and suitable victim."
There'’s a good bet that seven year old Yvando Caetano, like most
seven year olds, was living a life in "perfect innocence" in the small
town of Guaratuba, Brazil. This may well have been the precipitating
factor in his death. According to a July 28, 1992, Cable News Network
(CNN) report/transcript, Yvando was found in a shallow grave. His arms
and legs had been dismembered, his internal organs cut out. Ritual
implements used during the ceremony were also found near the body.
Investigator Jose Moscic Favetti said police believed the mayor’s wife
and daughter were involved with a Satanic cult, and that the wife had
paid five cult members to sacrifice Yvando to Satan -- in return for
the mayor having a good political year.
"The stories (about different aspects of cult rituals) are very much
the same, whether it’s someone reporting about a ceremony in
Melbourne, Australia, Vermont, Utah..." said Dr. Judianne Densen-
Gerber. "This leads me to believe, not only are the cults all over,
but because of the similarities, many are also networked."
Dr. Densen-Gerber is a New York Psychiatrist who has treated a number
of SRA survivors since 1980. She also has a law degree, and is the
founder of PACT (Protect America’s Children Today).
Are American children in danger because of these Satanic cults? Well,
the small town in Brazil might provide some clues. Besides the death
of 7-year old Yvando in July, 10 other children had come up missing in
Guarutuba since January of that year.
According to Brandon Perez, initial Development Director of the
National Missing Children’s Center, based in Houston, Texas, there are
currently some 4000,000 abductions a year in the United States of
which, said Perez, almost 50% of the children are never found. Perez
added that many of these cases are not adequately tracked.
In his book, The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder
in Nebraska, author and former Nebraska State Senator John DeCamp
interviewed 28 year veteran FBI agent Ted Gunderson. Since his
retirement from the FBI, Gunderson has been actively investigating
reports of Satanic ritual abuse.
DeCamp writes:
"Evidence from Gunderson’s investigations has convinced him tens of
thousands of children or young people disappear from their homes each
year, and that many of them are ritualistically sacrificed...nobody
knows the true figure because the FBI doesn’t keep count. Gunderson
observes, ‘The FBI has an accurate count on the number of automobiles
stolen every year. It knows the number of homicides, rapes, and
robberies, but the FBI has no idea of the number of children who
disappear every year. They simply do not ask for the statistics.’
Gunderson goes onto say he believes they don’t ask for the statistics,
simply, because they don’t want to see them. "They would be confronted
with an instant public outcry for action, because the figures would
show a major social problem that would demand action.’"
And it’s not just the tragedy of the missing children that come up
dead as a result of this savage cult abuse -- there are many children
that are "walking wounded."
Pamela Hudson, LCSW, a child therapist with a county health outpatient
department in northern California began to identify the symptoms of
SRA in several children who had been referred to her in 1985. What was
to follow was a most frightening phenomenon. Throughout the remainder
of 1985 and into 1986, twenty-four children, all from the same day
care center, all exhibiting varying degrees of ritual abuse symptoms,
were brought to her by concerned parents. (What was even more amazing,
said Hudson, was that the cases came to her individually, without the
parents initially talking among each other.)
Some of the symptoms included frequent night terrors, night sweats,
extreme separation anxiety, uncontrolled vomiting, 3,4, and 5 year
olds acting out sexually in bizarre, sadistic manners...all indicators
of significant trauma. As Hudson continued to work with the children,
the Satanic ritual abuse stories started to surface: the children
reported being locked in cages, buried for short periods in coffins,
injected with drugs, defecated and urinated on, sexually abused,
forced to watch animal and human sacrifice...
Hudson took the information to authorities, but the District
Attorney’s office decided not to prosecute. A disappointed Hudson said
she attributes the decision to the lack of physical evidence, and the
children being perceived as too young, and also considered too
emotionally traumatized for the stories to appear credible to a jury.
However, several years later, a jury in Austin, Texas, did find
children’s stories of sexual and Satanic ritual abuse credible enough
to put Fran’s Day Care directors, Fran and Dan Keller, in prison for
extended sentences. (The Kellers aren’t eligible for parole until
2004.)
As with the case in California, the children talked of extreme forms
of abuse: being threatened with guns, being buried alive, forced to
make pornographic movies, watch an infant sacrifice...
In addition, my research has also turned up similar day care and
school SRA cases in Florida, several more in California,
Massachusetts, New Jersey, and in Christchurch, New Zealand.
The longest trial in American history, California’s McMartin Day
School case, was one of the first day care center cases to claim
Satanic ritual abuse. There were some 500 separate reports filed at
the Manhattan Beach Police Department in connection with the case. The
children’s stories matched those of other cases cited. However, there
was an additional component to the McMartin case. The children
consistently talked of being abused in an underground tunnel below the
day care center.
A highly qualified archaeologist, hired by the children’s families,
talked about a series of what he says were highly questionable
incidents in the search for the elusive tunnels.
Archeologist Gary Stickle, Ph.D., has worked extensively in the United
States and in Europe, including heading the largest underwater
archeological sonar survey ever conducted in Europe. In addition, he
has been a consultant to Lucas Films in the development of the Indiana
Jones movie series. He has also been professor of Archeology at the
University of California at Long Beach. Stickle said initially a
private investigator went to the day care center site and did some
preliminary informal digging. It is reported, said Stickle, that this
investigator found some rabbit bones in the soil. (The children talked
about rabbits being sacrificed.) However, the day before he was to
testify, the private investigator was found dead from a gun shot
wound. It was determined to be a suicide. But Stickle said that
determination was questioned by more than a few people, given the
timing. Eventually, said Stickle, the prosecution hired an
archeological firm that dug seven pits clustered outside of the
building. (This was curious, said Stickle, because the children were
reporting the abuse had gone on in tunnels below the building.)
Stickle said a remote sensing device was also used at the time, but it
was reported that no tunnels were found. That was 1985.
The lack of a tunnel damaged the credibility of the children’s stories
tremendously.
Stickle’s firm was hired by the parents in 1990. Using a sophisticated
ground penetrating radar, Stickle said a tunnel was found, right where
some of the children had told his staff it would be.
However, even though evidence of the tunnel was found in May of 1990,
while the trial was still in progress -- the evidence was never
introduced in court, said Stickle.
"Finding such a tunnel was highly relevant (to the case)," said
Stickle. "Because it (prior lack of physical evidence of a tunnel) was
a major thing used to discredit the children."
The accused McMartin Day Care Center staff were eventually acquitted.
However, some of the McMartin parents haven’t quit fighting. A two
hundred page report on the tunnel findings has recently been released
by the parents, in an ongoing effort to keep the case before the
public.
As with these children, it is becoming more and more apparent that
there are many adult SRA walking wounded as well. As a result of the
trauma, these are people often afflicted with things like severe
paranoia, schizophrenia, multiple personalities. They are people
almost off the scales in terms of addictions/compulsions, depression,
self-mutilating behavior...
However, an advancing therapeutic field has developed highly
sophisticated techniques to help survivors. And the prognosis for
recovery is often good.
In addition, parts of society are also rallying around these
survivors. The County Commission for Women has a Ritual Abuse Task
Force in Los Angeles; there is a state-wide Minnesota Awareness of
Ritual Abuse group; Jireh, headquartered in Arlington, Texas, is a
national program to create safe-houses for cult survivors breaking
away; The International Council on Cultism and Ritual Trauma, in
Richardson, Texas, and a number of cult survivor resource and referral
organizations; ritual abuse twelve-step programs are evolving.
As much as we don’t want to believe it as a society -- Satanic ritual
abuse is a reality. And, as was done by the parents in the McMartin
Day Care Center case, we need to be rolling up our sleeves and digging
deeper to get at the whole truth.
May 25, 1994 was designated National Missing Children’s Day. Those
postcards that come to our homes so very often don’t represent
anybody’s "false memories." Those are real children, with real fates.
Daniel Ryder, CCDC, LSW, an investigative journalist and a counselor,
is the author of Breaking the Circle of Satanic Ritual Abuse. The
above article is based on material from Mr. Ryder’s newest book, Cover-
up of the Century (Satanic Ritual Crime and Conspiracy).
Lorrie S.
"childadvocate" <smar...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:0c592613-b35a-48f9...@x14g2000yqk.googlegroups.com...
childadvocate
Satanic Ritual Abuse
Satanic ritual abuse exists all over the world. There have been
reports, journal articles, web pages and criminal convictions of these
horrific crimes against children and adults.
There has also been an attempted cover up of these crimes by child
pornographers, those with pro-pedophilia philosophies and those
defending child molesters in the public or legal arena
List of Satanic Ritual Abuse references -
http://ritualabusearticles.wordpress.com/category/satanic-ritual-abuse-evidence/
What is Ritual Abuse?
“…is methodical abuse, often using indoctrination, aimed at breaking
the will of another human being. In a 1989 report, the Ritual Abuse
Task Force of the L.A. County Commission for Women defined ritual
abuse as: “Ritual Abuse usually involves repeated abuse over an
extended period of time. The physical abuse is severe, sometimes
including torture and killing. The sexual abuse is usually
painful,humiliating, intended as a means of gaining dominance over the
victim.The psychological abuse is devastating and involves the use of
ritual indoctrination. It includes mind control techniques which
convey to the victim a profound terror of the cult members …most
victims are in a state of terror, mind control and dissociation” (Pg.
35-36) “Safe Passage to Healing”, by Chrystine Oksana, 1994,
HarperCollins, which is an excellent source for survivor and co-
survivors on the topic, though there is a newer edition out by
iuniverse.com (2001)
Lists of legal cases:
Believe the children (1997). “Conviction List: Ritual Child Abuse”.
http://www.ra-info.org/resources/ra_cases.shtml
The Satanism and Ritual Abuse Archive contains 92 cases as of February
12, 2008. http://www.endritualabuse.org/ritualabusearchive.htm
Web pages proving the existence of ritual abuse:
Noblitt, PhD, J. R. - An Empirical Look at the Ritual Abuse
Controversy (2007)
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/an-empirical-look-at-the-ritual-abuse-controversy-randy-noblitt-phd/
Ritual Abuse Bibliography http://www.ra-info.org/library/articles/ra_arti1.shtml
Ritual Abuse Statistics & Research
http://web.archive.org/web/20071210161357/http://home.mchsi.com/~ftio/ra-stats.htm
Searchable releases on satanic ritual abuse http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psnews/
Frequently Asked Questions about Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
http://www.survivorship.org/faq.html
Satanic Ritual Abuse: The Evidence Surfaces By Daniel Ryder, CCDC, LSW
http://web.archive.org/web/20080125051057/http://home.mchsi.com/~ftio/ra-evidence-surfaces.htm
2008 Publications on Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
http://www.endritualabuse.org/citation 2.htm
Lacter, E (2008-02-11). “Brief Synopsis of the Literature on the
Existence of Ritualistic Abuse”. http://endritualabuse.org/Brief%20Synopsis.htm
Ritual abuse diagnosis research - excerpt from a chapter in: Lacter,
E. & Lehman, K. (2008).Guidelines to Differential Diagnosis between
Schizophrenia and Ritual Abuse/Mind Control Traumatic Stress. In J.R.
Noblitt & P. Perskin(Eds.), Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-first Century:
Psychological, Forensic, Social and Political Considerations, pp.
85-154. Bandon, Oregon: Robert D. Reed Publishers. quotes: A second
study revealed that these results were unrelated to patients’ degree
of media and hospital milieu exposure to the subject of Satanic ritual
abuse. “In fact, less media exposure was associated with production of
more Satanic content in patients reporting ritual abuse, evidence that
reports of ritual abuse are not primarily the product of exposure
contagion.” Responses are consistent with the devastating and
pervasive abuse these victims have experienced, so often including
immediate family members. http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/ritual-abuse-diagnosis-research-2/
Bottoms, Shaver and Goodman in their 1993 study to evaluate ritual
abuse claims found that in 2,292 alleged ritual abuse cases, 15% of
the perpetrators in adult cases and 30% of the perpetrators in child
cases confessed to the abuse. Data from Brown, Scheflin and Hammond
(1998).”Memory, Trauma Treatment, And the Law” (W. W. Norton) ISBN
0-393-70254-5 (p.62) Bottoms, B. Shaver, P. & Goodman, G. (1993)
Profile of ritual abuse and religion related abuse allegations in the
United States. Updated findings provided via personal communication
from B. Bottoms. Cited in K.C. Faller (1994), Ritual Abuse; A Review
of the research. The American Professional Society on the Abuse of
Children Advisor , 7, 1, 19-27
On Page 170 (first edition), of Cult and Ritual Abuse - Noblitt and
Perskin(Praeger, 1995) states “One of the best sources of evaluative
research on ritual abuse is the article “Ritual Abuse: A Review of
Research” by Kathleen Coulborn Faller (1994)….in a survey of 2,709
members of the American Psychological Association, it was found that
30 percent of these professionals had seen cases of ritual or religion-
related abuse (Bottoms, Shaver & Goodman, 1991). Of those
psychologists who have seen cases of ritual abuse, 93 percent believed
that the reported harm took place and 93 percent believed that the
alleged ritualism occurred. This is a remarkable finding. Mental
health professionals are known to be divergent in their thinking and
frequently do not agree with one another regarding questions of the
diagnosis and etiology of psychiatric problems…this level of
concurrence in a large national sample of psychologists…would be
impressive….the similar research of Nancy Perry (1992) which further
supports (the previous findings)…Perry also conducted a national
survey of therapists who work with clients with dissociative disorders
and she found that 88 percent of the 1,185 respondents
indicated”belief in ritual abuse, involving mind control and
programming” (p.3).”
Recent worldwide survey of ritual abuse
The Extreme Abuse Survey final results are online with
findings,questionnaires and presentations for download as pdf-files.
More than 750 pages of documentation http://extreme-abuse-survey.net/
Understanding ritual trauma: A comparison of findings from three
online surveys - Handout for Karriker, Wanda. (2008, November).
Understanding ritual trauma: A comparison of findings from three
online surveys. Paper presented at the meeting of the International
Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, Chicago, IL.
10 Extreme Abuse Survey Findings Helpful to Understanding Ritual
Trauma
1. Ritual abuse/mind control (RA/MC) is a global phenomenon.
2. A diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder is common for persons
who report histories of
RA/MC. (84% of EAS respondents who answered that they have been
diagnosed with DID [N=655] reported that they are survivors of RA/MC).
3. Ritual abuse (RA) is not limited to SRA, i.e., satanic ritual
abuse, sadistic abuse, satanist abuse.
4. RA is reported to involve mind control techniques.
5. Some extreme abuse survivors report that they were used in
government-sponsored mind control experimentation (GMC).
6. RA/MC is reported to be involved in organized “known” crime.
7. RA/MC is reported to be involved in clergy abuse.
8. Most often reported memories of extreme abuse are similar across
all surveys.
9. Most often reported possible aftereffects of extreme abuse are
similar across all surveys.
10. In rating the effectiveness of healing methods, therapists tend to
favor stabilization techniques; survivors are more open to alternative
ways to cope with indoctrinated belief systems.
http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas-studies/understanding-ritual-trauma-a-comparison-of-findings-from-three-online-surveys
MEDIA PACKET - Torture-based, Government-sponsored Mind Control
Experimentation on Children - Documentation that torture-
based,government-sponsored mind control (GMC) experimentation was
conducted on children during the Cold War. Data from two international
surveys that give voice, visibility, and validation to survivors of
these crimes against humanity….SURVEYS - EAS: Extreme Abuse Survey for
Adult Survivors (An International Online Survey for Adult Survivors of
Extreme Abuse) January 1 - March 30, 2007 with 1471 respondents from
31named countries. P-EAS: Professional - Extreme Abuse Survey (An
nternational Online Survey for Therapists, Counselors, Clergy, and
Other Persons Who Have Worked Professionally with at Least One Adult
Survivor of Extreme Abuse) April 1 - June 30 2007 with 451 respondents
from 20 named countries. Contact: Wanda Karriker, PhD
san...@twave.net http://my.dmci.net/~casey/GovernmentSponsoredMindControlExperiments-MediaPacket.pdf
Rutz, C. Becker, T., Overkamp, B. & Karriker, W. (2008).Exploring
Commonalities Reported by Adult Survivors of Extreme Abuse:Preliminary
Empirical Findings. In Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-first Century:
Psychological, Forensic, Social and Political Considerations,J.R.
Noblitt & P. S. Perskin (Eds), pp. 31- 84. Brandon, Oregon:Robert D.
Reed Publishers.
Becker, T., Karriker, W., Overkamp, B. Rutz, C. (2008). The Extreme
Abuse Survey: preliminary findings regarding dissociative identity
disorder. In A. Sachs & G. Galton (Eds.), Forensic Aspects of
Dissociative Identity Disorder, pp. 32-49. London: Karnac.
Karriker, Wanda (November, 2007). “Helpful healing methods: As rated
by approximately 900 respondents to the “International Survey for
AdultSurvivors of Extreme Abuse (EAS).”
http://www.endritualabuse.org/Karriker%20ISSTD%20Paper%20November%2012,%202007.pdf
Karriker, W. (2008, September). Torture-based mind control as a global
phenomenon: Preliminary data from the 2007 series of Extreme Abuse
Surveys. In Torture-based mind control: Empirical research, programmer
methods, effects and treatment. Workshop conducted at the 13th
International Conference on Violence, Abuse and Trauma, San Diego,CA.
http://members.aol.com/smartnews/torture_08.htm
http://eassurvey.wordpress.com/extreme-abuse-survey-final-results/
Other organizations with data proving the worldwide existence of
satanic ritual abuse
http://www.ritualabusetorture.org/
http://theawarenesscenter.org/ritualabuse.html
http://www.endritualabuse.org/
A Nation Betrayed - The Chilling True Story of Secret Cold War
Experiments Performed on our Children and Other Innocent People by
Carol Rutz http://www2.dmci.net/users/casey
Books on Ritual Abuse
Karriker, Wanda (2003). Morning, Come Quickly. Catawba, NC: Sandime,
LTD. ISBN 0-9717171-0-9.
Noblitt, J.R.; Perskin, P. S. (eds) (2008). Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-
first Century: Psychological, Forensic, Social and Political
Considerations. Bandor, OR: Robert Reed, 552. ISBN 1-934759-12-0.
Noblitt, JR; Perskin PS (2000). Cult and ritual abuse: its history,
anthropology, and recent discovery in contemporary America. New
York:Praeger. ISBN 0-275-96665-8.
http://books.google.ca/books?id=zJkTTpfyJ-8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0
Rutz, Carol (2001). A Nation Betrayed. Grass Lake, MI: Fidelity
Publishing. ISBN 0-9710102-0-X.
Ryder, Daniel. (1992). Breaking the Circle of Satanic Ritual Abuse:
Recognizing and Recovering - CompCare Pub.
Oksana, Chrystine (2001). Safe Passage to Healing - A Guide for
Survivors of Ritual Abuse. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse.com.
ISBN0-595-201000-8. 1994 pub. HarperPerennial.
Raschke, Carl A. (1990). Painted Black. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN
0-06-104080-0
Smith, Margaret. (1993). Ritual Abuse: What it Is, why it Happens, and
how to Help by Margaret - HarperCollins
Sinason, V (1994). Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse. New York:
Routledge. ISBN 0-415-10543-9.
Scott, S. (2001). The politics and experience of ritual abuse:beyond
disbelief. Open University Press. ISBN 0335204198.
http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Experience-Ritual-Abuse/dp/0335204198
Secret Weapons - Two Sisters’ Terrifying True Story of Sex, Spies and
Sabotage by Cheryl and Lynn Hersha with Dale Griffis, Ph D. and Ted
Schwartz. New Horizon Press, P O Box 669 Far Hills, NJ 07931 -
ISBN0-88282-196-2 Is a well-documented, verifiable account of not one,
but two childrens’ long untold stories of being CHILD subjects of
Project MKUltra. Quotes from the book: “By the time Cheryl Hersha came
to the facility, knowledge of multiple personality was so complete
that doctors understood how the mind separated into distinct ego
states,each unaware of the other. First, the person traumatized had to
be both extremely intelligent and under the age of seven, two
conditions not yet understood though remaining consistent as factors.
The trauma was almost always of a sexual nature…” p. 52 “The
government researchers,aware of the information in the professional
journals, decided to reverse the process (of healing from hysteric
dissociation). They decided to use selective trauma on healthy
children to create personalities capable of committing acts desired
for national security and defense.” p. 53 - 54 The book also contains
a variety of documents on mk-ultra and different projects as well as
reports to the Presidential Committee on Radiation and Mind Control,
including information on the five Canadians’ lawsuit against the U.S.
Government.
Another much maligned case is the McMartin Preschool Case - Child
pornographers, those with pro-pedophilia philosophies and those
defending child molesters in the public or legal arena have attempted
to cover up the crimes against these children.
The McMartin Preschool Case - What Really Happened and the Cover-up
verification of the accuracy of the book “Michelle Remembers“by
Michelle Smith and Lawrence Pazder, MDfrom the book “A NOTE FROM THE
PUBLISHER” pages xi - xiii”
“Dr. Pazder’s credentials are impressive. He obtained his M.D. from
the University of Alberta in 1961; his diploma in tropical medicine
from the University Liverpool in 1962; and in 1968, his specialist
certificate in psychiatry and his diploma in psychological medicine
from McGill University. In 1971, he was made a fellow of Canada’s
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is a member of three
Canadian professional associations and of the American Psychiatric
Association as well. He practiced medicine in West Africa and has
participated in medical task forces and health organizations. He has
been chairman of the Mental Health Committee of the Health Planning
Council for British Columbia. A member of the staff of two hospitals
in Victoria, British Columbia -the Royal Jubilee and the Victoria
General-he is in private practice with a group of five psychiatrists.
His professional papers include a study of the long-term effects of
stress upon concentration-camp victims.
Two experienced interviewers journeyed to Victoria and talked to Dr.
Pazder’s colleagues, to the priests and the bishop who became
involvedin the case, to doctors who treated Michelle Smith when she
was a child, to relatives and friends. From local newspaper, clergy,
and police sources they learned that reports of Satanism in Victoria
are not infrequent and that Satanism has apparently existed there for
many years. Satanism in Western Canada flourished in many areas with
activities far more ominous than some of the innocuous groups now
found in parts of the United States who claim some connection with
Satanism.
The source material was scrutinized. The many thousands of pages of
transcript of the tape recordings that Dr. Pazder and Michelle Smith
made of their psychiatric sessions were read and digested; they became
the basis of this book. The tapes themselves were listened to in good
measure, and the videotapes made of some of his sessions were viewed.
Both the audio and video are powerfully convincing. It is nearly
unthinkable that the protracted agony they record could have been
fabricated.”
Thomas B. Congdon, Jr New York April 22, 1980
Fells Acres - Amirault Case
http://web.archive.org/web/20010719201703/http://www.vocal-nasvo.org/hardoon.htm
Letters to the Editor: The Real Darkness Is Child Abuse WALL STREET
JOURNAL (J) 02/24/95
excerpts:
As the chief prosecutor of both of the Amirault cases I am writing to
prevent the public from being misled into believing that an injustice
occurred as Dorothy Rabinowitz alleges in her Jan. 30 editorial-page
piece “A Darkness in Massachusetts.”
Her suggestion that the convictions were based on “some of the most
fantastic claims ever presented” presumptuously ignores the reality of
the cases. The three Amiraults — Gerald, Violet and Cheryl - were
convicted after two trials before different judges and juries almost
one year apart. They were represented by able and well-known defense
counsel. The convictions were upheld after review by state and federal
appellate courts. The McMartin case in California was the result of a
botched legal system and Kelly Michaels’s conviction was overturned
because of legal errors. Contrary to Ms. Rabinowitz’s implication, the
Amirault convictions were neither of these.
Studies show, as did testimony from a nationally recognized pediatric
gynecologist, that most sexually molested young children have
absolutely normal physical examinations. However, in Amirault, the
majority of the female children who testified had some relevant
physical findings, as did several female children involved in the
investigation who did not participate in the trial. The findings
included labial adhesions and hymenal scarring of the sort present in
avery small percentage of non-sexually abused children.
Ms. Rabinowitz’s article is a superficial, one-sided look at a case
handled extensively and carefully by the legal system. The victims and
their families in these cases have been irrevocably harmed by what was
done to them by the Amiraults. Every argument raised by Ms. Rabinowitz
was ably presented by the defense at the trials. The juries, by their
verdicts, rejected these arguments. Justice was done.
see for actual case evidence http://abusearticles.wordpress.com/category/commonwealth-vs-amirault/
http://abusearticles.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/common-vs-amirault-424-mass-618-page-624.jpg
http://abusearticles.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/common-vs-amirault-424-mass-618-page-622.jpg
“All nine children testified in a broadly consistent way…The children
testified to numerous instances of sexual abuse. Some of the children
testified that they were photographed during this abuse, describing a
big camera with wires, a red button, and pictures which came out of
the camera. The children testified that the defendant threatened them
and told them that their families would be harmed if they told anyone
about the abuse….The Commonwealth also presented a pediatric
gynecologist and pediatrician who examined five of the girls who
testified…She made findings consistent with abuse in four of the
girls.”
Amirault’s accusers reveal their faces, and their pain Boston Herald -
Boston, Mass. - Peter Gelzinis - Aug 7, 2001
Mass. Victims Fight Commutation Plea By Leslie Miller, Associated
Press Writer
excerpts:
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Victims in the Fells Acres child abuse case
broke down Thursday as they described their pain publicly for the
first time in hopes of keeping the last person convicted in the case
behind bars. Victims urged her to keep Amirault in prison. “During
counseling meetings as a child, I would speak of a tall man touching
me and taking pictures of me,” Phaedra Hopkins, 20, said at an
emotional news conference. “So many times, Mr. Amirault hovered over
me, touched me and hurt me and committed many disgusting acts of
abuse.” Those children, now adults, stood by their testimony Thursday.
“This family raped me, molested me and totally ruined my life,’’said
Jennifer Bennett, who was 3 1/2 years old when she started at Fells
Acres. “We weren’t coaxed. We weren’t lying. We’re telling the truth
and we always will,” said Bennett, 22. “I was there. None of you were
there. We weren’t coaxed, nor were we ever ever ever
brainwashed.”Brian Martinello, 21, said he was sexually abused by
Amirault. His mother, Barbara Standke, claims her son came home from
the day care with sores on his genitals and other people’s underwear.
“I think it’s an absolute disgrace to let anyone out of prison for
such a disgusting crime,” Martinello said.
Paul Ingram - Thurston County Washington Case
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - June 8, 1996 - News, Pg. B1 - Son of
Deputy Says He Was Sexually Abused ; Dramatic Report in Testimony to
Clemency Panel -: Rachel Zimmerman P-I Capitol Bureau - Olympia
excerpts:
The son of Paul Ingram, a former Thurston County deputy sheriff who
confessed to raping his daughters during nightmarish satanic rituals
but later recanted, said for the first time yesterday that he was
physically and sexually abused by his father for eight years. Chad
Ingram, 27, told the state Pardons and Clemency Board that his father,
who is serving 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to six counts
of third-degree rape - crimes he now says never happened - said he was
abused by his father from ages 4 to 12. “He would put himself on top
of me and I would perform oral sex on him,” Chad Ingram said.
Thurston County Sheriff Gary Edwards, though the case never went to
trial, it was subject to intense judicial scrutiny, “all the way up to
the Ninth Circuit.” Edwards added, “This case was not perfect but it
had complete judicial review. “Paul Ingram did commit these crimes; he
plead guilty to these crimes. I have no problem shaving in the
morning. I can look myself in the mirror.”
The Facade of Scientific Documentation: A Case Study of Richard
Ofshe’s Analysis of the Paul Ingram Case” by Karen Olio and William
Cornell. APA’s journal “Psychology, Public Policy, and Law,” (1998,
Vol. 4, No. 4, 1182-1197) “The case of Paul Ingram, a man who pleaded
guilty to sexually abusing his daughters, has received widespread
media attention. Richard Ofshe (1992, 1994) set forth a narrative of
the case which included his account of an experiment to test the
veracity of Ingram’s confessions and concluded that the inadvertent
use of hypnosis during Ingram’s interrogation resulted in the creation
of pseudomemories that convinced Ingram of his guilt. On the basis of
an examination of the original source documents, the authors discusses
the errors of fact, methodological flaws, and confounding factors in
Ofshe’s rendering of this case of alleged child abuse. They also cite
examples of the extent to which Ofshe’s imperfect narrative of this
case and pseudoscientific conclusions have been uncritically accepted
and repeated in the literature…”
Harvard Society for Law & Public Policy, Inc. Harvard Journal of Law &
Public Policy - Spring, 1999 - 22 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 523 The
Guilty and the “Innocent”: an Examination of Alleged Cases of Wrongful
Conviction from False Confessions by Paul G. Cassell -”According to
the authors (Leo and Ofsche), in twenty-nine of these cases the false
confession resulted in the wrongful conviction of an innocent person.”
“examines nine of these twenty-nine cases in detail. Based on review
of original trial court records and other similar sources, the part
concludes that each of these nine persons were, in all likelihood,
entirely guilty of the crimes charged against them.”"Leo and Ofshe
rely in large measure on secondary sources for the descriptions of the
evidence against the defendants in their collection….For many cases,
court records are available only in the local courthouses where the
trial took place, while media accounts are often readily accessible in
computerized databases. Relying on secondary sources, however, poses
the risk of inaccurate recounting of the evidence. Examining primary
sources for the cases in Leo and Ofshe’s collection reveals that this
is a very real problem.” “The problems with the subjective
determination of “innocence” in the Leo-Ofshe collection, like similar
problems elsewhere, suggests that reliance on second-hand sources
combined with understandable enthusiasm for the enterprise of
discovering miscarriages may produce more such cases than really
exist.” “Only a relative handful of Leo and Ofshe’s cases would
satisfy the criterion of undisputed wrongful conviction.”
http://www.kspope.com/memory/facade1a.php
Wenatchee, Washington Case
http://abusearticles.wordpress.com/category/articles-on-wenatchee/
information from articles :
At the trial, one girl showed “definite medical signs of sexual abuse”
while “it could not be ruled out for two others.
In 1996, a consultant, retired Bellevue Police Chief D.P. Van
Blaricom, hired by a city insurer who looked into how the Wenatchee
police ran the child abuse investigations stated that the cases were
handled properly. A U.S. Department of Justice investigation also
found that there was no evidence of civil rights violations.
Cops Win Wash. State Sex Ring Case - June 29, 1998 - Aviva L. Brandt
AP Online - Seattle “A jury on Monday rejected claims of police
misconduct brought by four people who say they were falsely accused of
child rape and molestation. After deliberating for more than five
days, the King County Superior Court panel decided that the central
Washington town of Wenatchee, the town’s police officials and three
members of the Douglas County sheriff’s department did not violate the
civil rights of the four, who said they were falsely accused in
1994-95. Douglas County Sheriff Dan LaRoche said the verdict allows
police to keep investigating sex abuse and molestation cases without
fear of lawsuits.
Debate Rages Over Wenatchee Sex-Ring Allegations - November 6, 1995-
Aviva L. Brandt, Associated Press Writer - Wenatchee, Wash.
Excerpts:
A line divides this town. On one side are those who believe dozens of
children were raped and molested over seven years by adults in two
loosely organized sex rings. On the other are those who assert a rogue
cop and obsessed social workers created a whirlpool of sexual
hysteria- coaxing children into accusations and bullying bewildered,
poorly educated adults into confessions. Gov. Mike Lowry, petitioned
by critics who believe the case is a witch hunt, has asked for a
Justice Department review and is awaiting a decision from U.S.
Attorney General Janet Reno. Authorities say as many as 50 children
were forced to have sex with adults since 1988 - sometimes alone,
sometimes in groups. In the last year, 28 adults have been charged
with child rape and sexual abuse. Five have been convicted, 10 have
pleaded guilty.
“Every female victim had physical evidence of sexual abuse and the
majority of the males did,” Smith said. “Clearly it’s pretty good
evidence to show that this is occurring.”
Douglas County Prosecutor Steve Clem sounded frustrated when asked
about allegations that his office hasn’t bothered to look for the
truth. “The defense attorneys are using what I’m sure … some day in
the future will be called the O.J. defense, where they sling mud, make
wild accusations and see conspiracies all around them,” he
said.”There’s physical evidence consistent with the stories they (the
children) tell. There’s more than one person talking about the very
same things going on,” said Tim Abbey, a regional supervisor with the
state Child Protective Services. “And there are a lot of
confessions,and many times they’re confessing to more than the kids
said happened.”
damo...@gmail.com
people with absolutely no argument or data to support their position
immediately start with ad homonym attacks (like poor, poor little
Lorrie here) or the classic, "everybody knows..." line that means they
soaked it up on some ADHD ridden 5 second sound bite? It must be sad
to be so susceptible to mind numbing propaganda. Go watch a little
more TV. It would be just wrong for you to do a little OBJECTIVE
research. You seem so much happier to just keep sticking your fat
little fingers in your ears and saying, “LA LA LA LA LA” in that adult
manor of yours. Sorry I used some words you probably don’t understand
but then it is really hard to write at a kindergarten level. You
still haven't gotten beaten up on the playground for name calling???
Mark B.
custody and child support payments. They put the kids up to lying about
being molested by their fathers. And by the way, there is no Satan and no
such thing as magic either.
<damo...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:5b7f9cd4-4eb5-4d3b...@a26g2000prf.googlegroups.com...