On 23 Sep, 03:02, childadvocate  wrote:
> http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/
>
> Proof That Ritual Abuse Exists
>
> 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
>
> (this page also has day care and other child abuse cases at the
> bottom)
>
> List of Satanic Ritual Abuse references -
>
> http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/satanic-ritual-abuse-eviden...
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> http://ritualabusearticles.wordpress.com/category/satanic-ritual-abus...
>
> 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-r...
>
> Ritual Abuse Bibliographyhttp://www.ra-info.org/library/articles/ra_arti1.shtml
>
> Ritual Abuse Statistics & Researchhttp://web.archive.org/web/20071210161357/http://home.mchsi.com/~ftio...
>
> Searchable releases on satanic ritual abusehttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psnews/
>
> Frequently Asked Questions about Ritual Abuse and Mind Controlhttp://www.survivorship.org/faq.html
>
> Satanic Ritual Abuse: The Evidence Surfaces By Daniel Ryder, CCDC, LSWhttp://web.archive.org/web/20080125051057/http://home.mchsi.com/~ftio...
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> 2008 Publications on Ritual Abuse and Mind Controlhttp://www.endritualabuse.org/citation2.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-rese...
>
> Bottoms, Shaver and Goodman in their 1993 study to evaluate ritual
> abuse claims found that in 2,292 alleged ritual abuse cases, 15% of
> the perpetrators in adult cases and 30% of the perpetrators in child
> cases confessed to the abuse. Data from Brown, Scheflin and Hammond
> (1998).”Memory, Trauma Treatment, And the Law” (W. W. Norton) ISBN
> 0-393-70254-5 (p.62) Bottoms, B. Shaver, P. & Goodman, G. (1993)
> Profile of ritual abuse and religion related abuse allegations in the
> United States. Updated findings provided via personal communication
> from B. Bottoms. Cited in K.C. Faller (1994), Ritual Abuse; A Review
> of the research. The American Professional Society on the Abuse of
> Children Advisor , 7, 1, 19-27
>
> On Page 170 (first edition), of Cult and Ritual Abuse – Noblitt and
> Perskin (Praeger, 1995) states “One of the best sources of evaluative
> research on ritual abuse is the article “Ritual Abuse: A Review of
> Research” by Kathleen Coulborn Faller (1994)….in a survey of 2,709
> members of the American Psychological Association, it was found that
> 30 percent of these professionals had seen cases of ritual or religion-
> related abuse (Bottoms, Shaver & Goodman, 1991). Of those
> psychologists who have seen cases of ritual abuse, 93 percent believed
> that the reported harm took place and 93 percent believed that the
> alleged ritualism occurred. This is a remarkable finding. Mental
> health professionals are known to be divergent in their thinking and
> frequently do not agree with one another regarding questions of the
> diagnosis and etiology of psychiatric problems…this level of
> concurrence in a large national sample of psychologists…would be
> impressive….the similar research of Nancy Perry (1992) which further
> supports (the previous findings)…Perry also conducted a national
> survey of therapists who work with clients with dissociative disorders
> and she found that 88 percent of the 1,185 respondents
> indicated”belief in ritual abuse, involving mind control and
> programming” (p.3).”
>
> Journal of Psychology and Theology – Satanic Ritual Abuse: The Current
> State of Knowledgehttps://wisdom.biola.edu/jpt
> Adults who report childhood ritualistic abuse. By: Cozolino, L.J.;
> Shaffer, R.E. Volume 20, Issue 3 Fall 1992 Therapists are finding an
> increasing number of patients uncovering memories of ritualistic forms
> of abuse from childhood. To gain a fuller understanding of this
> phenomenon, twenty outpatients reporting memories of ritualistic abuse
> were interviewed. Questions focused on the nature of the abuse and its
> perceived impact on interpersonal, occupational, and spiritual
> development. Reasons for entering psychotherapy as well as the nature
> and course of treatment were also discussed. Subjects entered therapy
> with similar psychological complaints. Reported psychiatric sequelae
> included dissociative, affective, somatization, and eating disorders.
> Abuse experiences were reported to have affected every aspect of their
> adult functioning. Subjects began therapy with little or no knowledge
> of the phenomenon of ritualistic abuse, and only one patient reported
> vague memories of ritualistic abuse before entering therapy. Reports
> from this sample reflect striking convergence among subjects and with
> data from previous research and clinical reports. A composite clinical
> case study is presented based on these data.
> excerpts from the article:
> “Skeptics question the legitimacy of these reports,but many factors
> point to the reality of the phenomenon of ritualistic abuse. First of
> all, the degree of consistency between reports of individuals from
> different parts of the country is very high. The fact that children as
> young as 2 and 3 report ritualistic abuse experiences that mirror
> those reported by adult victims is especially striking in light of the
> fact that young children do not have access to the kind of printed
> information that might conceivably allow an older person to fabricate
> such experiences (Gould, 1987). Second, experiences of ritualistic
> abuse reported by victims of all ages are virtually identical to
> written historical accounts of Satan worship and the like (Hill &
> Goodwin, 1989; Russell, 1972), findings that substantiate our present-
> day understanding of Satanism and ritualistic abuse as
> intragenerational phenomenon. Third, the symptoms from which
> individuals reporting histories of ritualistic abuse tend to suffer
> are consistent with our current understanding of post-traumatic stress
> disorder and the dissociative disorders. The progression in which
> ritualistic abuse survivors respond to psychotherapy places these
> victims squarely within the category of individual who have suffered
> real-not imagined-trauma.
> That is, when memories of the dissociated traumatic event have been
> fully surfaced into conscious awareness and re-associated in all their
> aspects, the often extremely debilitating symptoms from which the
> individual has suffered abate dramatically and over the course of
> treatment frequently disappear altogether (Ray & Reagor, 1991).
> Comments on study: Shaffer and Cozolino (1992) interviewed 19 women
> and one man who reported types and aftereffects of ritualistic abuse
> consistent with those reported by Young et al. All subjects reported
> witnessing the murder of animals, infants, children and/or adults. All
> reported suicidal ideation and half reported suicide attempts. The
> majority reported severe and sadistic forms of abuse by multiple
> perpetrators. Some reported continued recontact/revictimization into
> their adult years.
>
> describes crimes
> Journal of Psychology and Theology – Satanic Ritual Abuse: The Current
> State of Knowledge
> Gould, C., & Cozolino, L. (1992). Ritual abuse, multiplicity, and mind
> control. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 20, 194-196.
> As a result of the psychologically intolerable nature of their early
> childhood experiences, victims of ritual abuse frequently develop
> multiple personality disorder (MPD). Therapists who treat these
> victims often assume that all MPD stems from a system of spontaneously
> created defenses against overwhelming trauma. As a result, these
> therapists tend to focus on treating the post-traumatic stress
> elements of the disorder and on integrating alter personalities.
> Recent experience with victims of ritual abuse suggests the presence
> of “cult-created” multiplicity, in which the cult deliberately creates
> alter personalities to serve its purposes, often outside of the
> awareness of the victim’s host personality. Each cult-created alter is
> programmed to serve a particular cult function such as maintaining
> contact with the cult, reporting information to the cult, self-
> injuring if cult injunctions are broken, and disrupting the
> therapeutic process that could lead to the individual breaking free of
> the cult. A majority of ritual abuse victims in psychotherapy may
> maintain cult contact unbeknownst to either the host personality or
> the treating therapist.
> Selected quotes:
> “Ritual abuse is conducted on behalf of a cult whose purpose is to
> establish mind control over the victims. Thus, these perpetrators have
> a conscious motive for the abuse beyond compulsively repeating their
> own childhood abuse in an effort to gain mastery over the original
> trauma. Most victims state that they were ritually abused as part of
> satanic worship, for the purpose of indoctrinating them into satanic
> beliefs (Los Angeles County Commission for Women, 1989). Mind control
> is originally established when the victim is a child under 6 years
> old. During this formative stage of development, perpetrating cult
> members systematically combine dissociation enhancing drugs, pain,
> sexual assault, terror, and other forms of psychological abuse in such
> a way that the child dissociates the intolerable traumatic experience.
> The part of the child that has been split off to handle the
> overwhelming trauma is maximally open to suggestion as the abuse is
> occurring. The cult perpetrators exploit the vulnerability of the
> child who is being tortured by directing the child to create a new
> personality who is to answer to a particular name as well as to other
> specific cues. During the abuse, the newly formed alter personality is
> imbued with particular qualities and functions by the cult programmer.
> Alter personalities which are structured by the ritually abusing cult
> in this fashion are created to serve particular cult functions. These
> functions usually lie outside of the awareness of the core (or host)
> personality.
> Such cult functions typically include, but are not limited to,
> maintaining contact with the cult, reporting information to the cult,
> self-injuring if the cult injunctions are broken, and disrupting the
> therapeutic process that could lead to the individual breaking free of
> the cult (Neswald, 1991).https://wisdom.biola.edu/jpt
>
> Ritualistic child abuse, psychopathology, and evil. By: Cozolino, L.J.
> – Journal of Psychology and Theology Volume 18, Issue 3 Fall 1990 p.
> 218
> Ritualistic abuse is an extreme form of psychological, physical, and
> sexual maltreatment of children in the context of “religious”
> ceremony. The clinical presentation of the victims of such abuse is
> complex and raises many issues related in the diagnosis and treatment
> of psychopathology as well as the importance of spiritual counseling.
> The acknowledgment of belief systems so repugnant to the Judeo-
> Christian world view and the addressing of our own negative emotional
> reactions to the reality of ritualistic abuse are important first
> steps in responding to these issues. The phenomenon of ritualistic
> child abuse forces us to consider the relationship between theological
> notions of evil and psychological concepts of psychopathology. This
> article addresses the phenomenon of ritualistic child abuse, the
> psychological sequelae of victimization, and possible motivations for
> this form of abuse.https://wisdom.biola.edu/jpt
>
> Psychological sequelae in adult females reporting childhood
> ritualistic abuse Kathy J. Lawrence, Louis Cozolino and David W. Foy –
> Child Abuse & Neglect Volume 19, Issue 8, August 1995, Pages 975-984
> doi:10.1016/0145-2134(95)00059-H
> Abstract: The present study sought to increase current scientific
> knowledge about the controversial issue of subjectively reported
> childhood ritualistic abuse by addressing several key unresolved
> issues. In particular, the possibility that those reporting
> ritualistic abuse may be characterized primarily by the severity of
> their abuse histories or the severity of their present psychological
> symptoms, rather than the veridicality of the ritualistic events, was
> explored. Adult female outpatients reporting childhood sexual abuse
> with ritualistic features were compared with a second group of women
> who reported childhood sexual abuse without ritualism. Measures
> included characteristics of childhood sexual and physical abuse,
> current posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnostic status and
> symptom severity, and severity of current dissociative experiences.
> Women reporting ritualistic features scored significantly higher on
> measures of childhood sexual and physical abuse. Neither PTSD
> diagnostic status nor severity for PTSD nor dissociative experiences
> were significantly different between the groups. While preliminary in
> nature, these results suggest that it may be helpful to conceptualize
> reported childhood ritualistic abuse as indicative of the need to
> assess carefully for severe abuse and its predictable sequelae within
> existing traumatic victimization conceptual frameworks.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V7N-3YB56D...
>
> Why Cults Terrorize and Kill Children – LLOYD DEMAUSE
> The Journal of Psychohistory 21 (4) 1994
> describes graphic crimes of abuse
> “Cult abuse is increasing, only that-as with the increase in all child
> abuse reports-we have become more open to hearing them. But it seemed
> unlikely that the surge of cult memories could all be made up by
> patients or implanted by therapists. Therapists are a timid group at
> best, and the notion that they suddenly begin implanting false
> memories in tens of thousands of their clients for no apparent reason
> strained credulity. Certainly no one has presented a shred of evidence
> for massive “false memory” implantations.”http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/why-cults-terrorize-and-ki...
>
> The Dark Tunnels of McMartin – Dr. Roland C. Summit
> The opportunity came in April, 1990 with permission from the new owner
> of the preschool to search for the tunnels before he demolished the
> building and redeveloped the property. These soiled but solid citizens
> managed to find what the district attorney had disclaimed: solid,
> scientific evidence that someone had not only dug tunnels under the
> preschool, but also had taken the trouble to try to undo them. The
> results of this definitive excavation are described in meticulous
> detail in the 185 page Report of the Archaeological Excavation of the
> McMartin Preschool Site by E. Gary Stickel, Ph.D., the UCLA
> archaeologist commissioned to do the study….Dr. Stickel’s report (p.
> 95) concludes: There is no other scenario that fits all of the facts
> except that the feature was indeed a tunnel. The date of the
> construction and use of the tunnel was not absolutely established, but
> an assessment of seven factors of data all indicate that it was
> probably constructed, used and completely filled back in after 1966
> (the construction date of the preschool). This age assessment has also
> been corroborated by the consulting Geologist for the project, Dr. Don
> Michael.http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/the-dark-tunnels-of-mcmart...
>
> Common Programs Observed in Survivors of Satanic Ritualistic Abuse
> describes crimes of abuse and programming techniques
> Increasingly, cases of Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) and Satanic
> Ritualistic Abuse (SRA) are being reported in the psychotherapeutic
> community. Though controversy concerning authenticity remains, such
> cases are slowly gaining in acceptability as a genuine social and
> psychopathological phenomenon. Concurrently, the etiological
> underpinnings and treatment demands of these special patients are
> being unraveled and understood as never before. As a result, it is
> becoming increasingly clear that perhaps the most demanding treatment
> aspects of such cases concern the problems posed by what is known as
> “cult programming.”http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/common-programs-observed-i...
>
> Report of the Ritual Abuse Task Force – Los Angeles County Commission
> for Women
> Ritual abuse is a brutal form of abuse of children, adolescents, and
> adults, consisting of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, and
> involving the use of rituals. Ritual does not necessarily mean
> satanic. However, most survivors state that they were ritually abused
> as part of satanic worship for the purpose of indoctrinating them into
> satanic beliefs and practices. Ritual abuse rarely consists of a
> single episode. It usually involves repeated abuse over an extended
> period of time….Mind control is the cornerstone of ritual abuse, the
> key element in the subjugation and silencing of its victims. Victims
> of ritual abuse are subjected to a rigorously applied system of mind
> control designed to rob them of their sense of free will and to impose
> upon them the will of the cult and its leaders. Most often these
> ritually abusive cults are motivated by a satanic belief system [only
> on the surface.] The mind control is achieved through an elaborate
> system of brainwashing, programming, indoctrination, hypnosis, and the
> use of various mind-altering drugs. The purpose of the mind control is
> to compel ritual abuse victims to keep the secret of their abuse, to
> conform to the beliefs and behaviors of the cult, and to become
> functioning members who serve the cult by carrying out the directives
> of its leaders without being detected within society at large.http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/report-of-the-ritual-abuse...
>
> Believing Rachel JEANNE HILL The Journal of Psychohistory 24 (2) Fall
> 1996
> describes graphic crimes of abuse
> Rachel’s story is one of suffering, courage and hope. As a young child
> she was the victim of unspeakable crimes, but because she received
> therapy and the support of a loving family, she has emerged intact. I
> hope that parents of other abused children will be reassured by our
> story. When I look at the strong, confident young woman my daughter is
> becoming, I know that believing Rachel was the right thing to do.
> Believing Rachel made her whole.http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/believing-rachel-jeanne-hi...
>
> Denying Ritual Abuse of Children – Catherine Gould
> The Journal of Psychohistory 22 (3) 1995
> The evidence is rapidly accumulating that the problem of ritualabuse
> is considerable in scope and extremely grave in its consequences.Among
> 2,709 members of the American Psychological Association who responded
> to a poll, 2,292 cases of ritual abuse were reported(Bottoms, Shaver,
> & Goodman, 1993). In 1992 alone, Childhelp USA logged 1,741 calls
> pertaining to ritual abuse, Monarch Resources of Los Angeles logged
> approximately 5,000, Real Active Survivors tallied nearly 3,600,
> Justus Unlimited of Colorado received almost 7,000, and Looking Up of
> Maine handled around 6,000. Even allowing for some of these calls to
> have been made by people who assist survivors but are not themselves
> survivors, and for some survivors to have called more that one
> helpline or made multiple calls to the same helpline, these numbers
> suggest that at a minimum there must be tens of thousands of survivors
> of ritual abuse in the United States.
> Evidence also continues to accumulate that the ritual abuse of
> children constitutes a child abuse problem of significant scope.
> In1988, Finkelhor, Williams and Burns published the results of a
> nationwide study of substantiated reports of sexual abuse in day care
> involving 1,639 young child victims. Thirteen percent of these cases
> were found to involve ritual abuse. Other studies of ritually abused
> children have been relatively small. Kelly (1988; 1989; 1992a; 1992b;
> 1993) report-ed on 35 day care victims of ritual abuse, Waterman et al.
> (1993) reported on 82 children complaining of ritual abuse in
> preschool, Faller (1988; 1990) studied 18 children who had disclosed
> ritual abuse in their preschool, and Bybee and Mowbray (1993) from the
> Michigan State Department of Mental Health identified 62 children
> alleging ritual abuse in their preschool and 53 children who reported
> seeing others be ritually abused. Snow and Sorenson (1990) studied 39
> children reporting ritual abuse in five neighborhoods in Utah, and
> Jonker and Jonker-Bakker (1991) reported on a total group of 98
> children, at least 48 of whom were believed to be victims of ritual
> abuse.http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/denying-ritual-abuse-of-ch...
>
> McCulley, D. “Satanic ritual abuse: A question of memory.” Journal of
> Psychology and Theology Fall 1994 22(3) p.167-172
> In spite of reports by thousands of adults who describe satanic ritual
> abuse in their backgrounds, the Special Issue of the Journal of
> Psychology and Theology reveals obdurate skepticism regarding their
> credibility on the part of several contributors. Some of these
> disbelievers currently are citing experiments demonstrating extreme
> malleability for human memory as evidence that survivor accounts,
> especially those involving delayed memory, are fantasies implanted by
> incompetent clinicians. However, leading memory researchers such as
> Dr. Bessel van der Kolk of Harvard Medical School maintain that
> traumatic memories, which typically are engraved in the sensorimotor
> processes, are not subject to the same kinds of contamination that can
> affect normal memory. Traumatic amnesia, described in the DSM-III-R as
> psychogenic amnesia, is a phenomenon which has been known to mental
> health professionals for more than 100 years. The clinically observed
> characteristics of traumatic memory formation and retrieval match
> precisely the patterns of memory recovery exhibited by SRA survivors,
> and strongly confirm the reality of their cult abuse.
> Quotes: If satanic ritual abuse is a question of memory, the data
> redound to the credibility of those thousands of individuals who
> identify themselves as SRA survivors. All the scientific studies of
> memory under trauma indicate that the bimodal response described by
> van der Kolk (1994), whether hyperpotentiated or dissociative,
> heightens the reliability of recall. The phenomenon of recovered
> memory is not a new therapeutic fad created by irresponsible clinical
> experimentation, but a well established aspect of trauma. The
> connection between trauma and memory disturbance is made clear by the
> definition of psychogenic amnesia in the DSM-III-R (1987) which states
> that “The predominant disturbance is one or more episodes of inability
> to recall important personal information, usually of a traumatic or
> stressful nature, that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary
> forgetfulness” (p. 273).
> Further, there often is corroboration for these retrieved memories.
> Judith Herman and Emily Schatzow (1992) found that in a sample of 53
> women who disclosed memories of abuse for which they had been amnesic,
> 74% of the subjects were able to find independent confirmation from
> family members, pornographic photos, or diaries. Ivor Browne (1990a)
> found the “internal consistency of the traumatic account” persuasive,
> and also discovered that in the sizeable minority of cases where there
> was an available witness that “in every instance, the traumatic
> events . turn out to be true” (p. 30).
> There is no longer room for denial and disbelief – for evading the
> grim reality of SRA – by recourse to memory research which simply does
> not apply. Solid scientific inquiry does not allow us that luxury;
> neither should Christian conscience.https://wisdom.biola.edu/jpt
>
> Jonker, F; Jonker-Bakker, I “Reaction to Benjamin Rossen’s
> Investigation of Satanic Ritual Abuse in Oude Pekela” Journal of
> Psychology and Theology 1992 20(3) p.260-262
> quotes: The authors, Jonker and Jonker-Bakker, respond to Benjamin
> Rossen’s criticisms of their handling of an alleged satanic ritual
> abuse incident in Oude Pekela, The Netherlands.
> This response in turn criticizes the quality of Rossen’s scientific
> work, especially in respect to his judgments made without having had
> direct contact with the children or their parents, or other principals
> in the incident….All Rossen’s statements about the children and their
> parents, about Professor Mik, about school teachers and about
> ourselves were based on no contact whatsoever with any of us.https://wisdom.biola.edu/jpt
>
> Ritual Abuse-Torture Within Families/Groups Authors: Jeanne Sarson,
> Linda MacDonald DOI: 10.1080/10926770801926146 Published in: Journal
> of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, Volume 16,Issue 4 July 2008,
> pages 419 – 438  Abstract – Case studies provide insights into
> identifying 10 violent thematic issues as components of a pattern of
> family/group ritual abuse-torture (RAT) victimization. Narratives from
> victimized women suggest that victimization generally begins in
> infancy or soon thereafter. A visual model of RAT displays the
> organization of the co-culture. Examples of the family/group
> gatherings known as “rituals and ceremonies” provide insights into how
> these gatherings are used to normalize pedophilic violence. Global
> activism afforded the first effort ever to track RAT and human
> trafficking. Recognizing RAT as an emerging form of non-state actor
> torture, discontinuing the use of language that sexualizes adult-child
> relationships, and promoting human rights education are suggested
> social solutions.
> Available at :http://www.informaworld.com/index/903766904.pdf
> html article :http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ftinterface~content=a903766904~fullt...
>
> Organized abuse and the politics of disbelief - Michael Salter (p.243
> – 283) Faculty of Law – Faculty of Medicine – University of New South
> Wales in Proceedings of the 2nd Australian & New Zealand Critical
> Criminology Conference 19 – 20 June 2008 Sydney, Australia – Presented
> by the Crime & Justice Research Network and the Australian and New
> Zealand Critical Criminology Network Edited by Chris Cunneen & Michael
> Salter – Published by The Crime and Justice research Newtork
> University of New South Wales December, 2008http://www.cjrn.unsw.edu.au/critcrimproceedings2008.pdfISBN:
> 9780646507378 (pdf)
>
> “Since the 1980s, disclosures of organised abuse have been disparaged
> by a range of activists, journalists and researchers who have focused,
> in particular, on cases in which sexually abusive groups were alleged
> to have behaved in ritualistic or ceremonial ways…Whilst these authors
> claimed to be writing in the interests of science and social justice,
> what has emerged from their writing are a familiar set of arguments
> about the credibility of women and children’s testimony of sexual
> violence; in short, that women and children are prone to a range of
> memory and cognitive errors that lead them to make false allegations
> of rape. This paper argues that this body of literature has
> systematically misconstrued allegations of organised abuse, and used
> organised abuse as a lens through which the debate on child abuse
> could be re-envisioned along very traditional lines, attributing
> victim status to accused men and constructing liars out of women and
> children complaining of sexual abuse.”
>
> Journal of Child and Youth Care - ISSN 0840-982X – SPECIAL ISSUE 1990
> – CONTENTS
> A Case of Multiple Life-Threatening Illnesses Related to Early Ritual
> Abuse
> Rennet Wong and Jock McKeen
> Ritual Child Abuse: A Survey of Symptoms and Allegations
> Pamela S. Hudson
> Satanic Ritual Abuse: A Cause of Multiple Personality Disorder
> George A. Fraser
> Differentiating Between Ritual Assault and Sexual Abuse
> Louise M. Edwards
> The Choice – Gerry Fewsterhttp://www.cyc-net.org/Journals/jcycSpecial1990.html(This website may
> have a virus, use updated virus protection if visiting.)
>
> 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 documentationhttp://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-tr...
>
> 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
> sand...@twave.net  http://my.dmci.net/~casey/GovernmentSponsoredMindControlExperiments-M...
>
> 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%201...
>
> Karriker, W. (2008, September). Torture-based mind control as a global
> phenomenon: Preliminary data from the 2007 series of Extreme Abuse
> Surveys. In Torture-based mind control: Empirical research, programmer
> methods, effects and treatment. Workshop conducted at the 13th
> International Conference on Violence, Abuse and Trauma, San Diego,CA.http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas-studies/torture-based-mind-cont...
>
> 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://www.ra-info.org
>
> http://www.survivorship.org
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/20071218103952/http://www.aches-mc.org/
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/20080116175648/http://theawarenesscenter.o...
>
> 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 Rutzhttp://www2.dmci.net/users/casey
>
> Pepinsky, H – PEACEMAKING – Reflections of a Radical Criminologist by
> Hal Pepinsky – The University of Ottawa Press ISBN10:  0776606409 2006
> “I have mentioned that since 1993 I have come to know many people whom
> I believe to be genuine survivors of “ritual abuse.”http://critcrim.org/sites/default/files/Pepinsky_proofs_0.pdf
>
> Books on Ritual Abuse
>
> Johnson Davis, Anne  “Hell Minus One: My Story of Deliverance From
> Satanic Ritual Abuse and My Journey to Freedom” Transcript Bulletin
> Publishing – ISBN 978-0-9788348-0-7 – 2008  “Anne’s parents confessed
> their atrocities—both in writing and verbally—to clergymen, and to
> detectives from the Utah Attorney General’s Office.  Anne’s suppressed
> memories, which erupted when she was in her mid-30s, were fully
> substantiated by her mother and stepfather….The book’s foreword was
> written by Lt. Detective Matt Jacobson, who was the lead investigator
> with the Utah Attorney General’s Office on Anne’s case in 1995.”http://www.hellminusone.com/
>
> Hell Minus One – signed verified confessions of satanic ritual abuse –
> Anne’s parents confessed their atrocities – both in writing and
> verbally.http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/survivor-stories/hell-minus-one-sig...
>
> An Interview With the Author of Hell Minus Onehttp://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/survivor-stories/interview-with-the...
>
> 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&sour...
>
> Cult and Ritual Abuse – James Randall Noblitt – Chapter 6 – Empirical
> Evidence of Ritual Abusehttp://books.google.com/books?id=zJkTTpfyJ-8C&printsec=frontcover#PPA...
>
> 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
>
> http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/mcmartin-preschool-case-wh...
>
> Archaeological Investigations of the McMartin Preschool Site by E.
> Gary Stickel, Ph.D. This is the final report, written by Dr. E. Gary
> Stickel, describing his findings at the McMartin preschool site in
> Manhattan Beach, California.http://www.scribd.com/doc/10252626/Archaeological-Investigations-of-t...
>
> Day Care and Child Abuse Cases
>
> http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/day-care-and-child-abuse-c...
>
> This page has information on the McMartin Preschool Case, Michelle
> Remembers, the Fells Acres – Amirault Case,the Wenatchee, Washington
> Case, the  Dale Akiki Case, the Glendale Montessori – Toward case and
> the Little Rascals  Day Care Center case.
>
> Sexual Abuse in Day Care: A National Study – Executive Summary – March
> 1988 – Finklehor, Williams, Burns, Kalinowski “The study identified
> 270 “cases” of sexual abuse in day care meaning 270 facilities where
> substantiated abuse had occurred involving a total of 1639 victimized
> children….This yielded an estimate of 500 to 550 reported and
> substantiated cases and 2500 victims for the three-year period.
> Although this is a large number, it must be put in the context of
> 229,000 day care facilities nationwide service seven million
> children….allegations of ritual abuse (”the invocation of religious,
> magical or supernatural symbols of activities”) occurred in 13% of the
> cases.” The authors divided these cases into “true cult-based ritual,”
> pseudo-ritualism” with a primary goal of sexual gratification and
> ritual being used to intimidate the children from disclosing and
> “psychopathological ritualism” the activities being “primarily the
> expression of an individuals obsessional or delusional system.”http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/...

i know this might be a bit contreversial in the field of ritual child
abuse survivors/supporters, but i reckon that this `horror occult`
thing is distictivly 'western' in nature basically, and is the anti
occult/real religion mechanism that is inherent to the reality that
is, well, *you* possible!