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Ritual Abuse Statistics & Research
NUMBERS OF SURVIVORS A single survivor advocate reports direct contact
with more than 3,000 survivors. [ StarDancer as quoted by David
McCulley, Satanic Ritual Abuse: A Question of Memory, 1993]
CORRECTION: During Personal conversation with StarDancer for update
and verification, she stated, "I would feel comfortable saying I’ve
met or spoken with more than 1,000 people who identify themselves as
survivors…Our estimate of the people who have read and used
Survivorship is 3,000."
I talked to one of the leaders in the Los Angeles County Task Force on
Ritual Abuse, who estimate that there have been more than a hundred
California preschools implicated in ritual abuse. [James Friesen,
Uncovering the Mystery of MPD, 1991]
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]
At a 1991 Utah workshop, thirty-two mental health therapists reported
treating 360 separate survivors of ritual abuse. By early 1992 the
following statement had been signed by sixty-six Utah therapists: "We,
the undersigned mental health professional, have each heard memories
of ritual abuse recounted by some patients, as have therapists across
the nation. We believe these patients’ allegations to have basis in
fact. We are dismayed by accusations that therapists brainwash their
patients or collude to create a mental health problem where none
existed. We urge our public officials to take appropriate actions to
counter ritual crimes." The names on the signed petition, affirming
the above statement, are given in the 1992 report of the Utah
Governor’s Task Force on Ritual Abuse. [A. Horton, B. Harrison & B.
Johnson, editors, Confronting Abuse, 1993]
Of the sixty victims with whom I have met, fifty-three are female and
seven are male. Eight are children. The abuse occurred in the
following places: Utah (37), Idaho (3), California (4), Mexico (2),
and other places (14). Fifty-three victims are currently living in the
state of Utah . All sixty individuals are members of the Church. Forty-
five victims allege witnessing and/or participating in human
sacrifice. The majority were abused by relatives, often their parents.
All have developed psychological problems and most have been diagnosed
as having multiple personality disorder or some other form of
dissociative disorder. [Bishop Glenn L. Pace, " LDS Church Report to
the Strengthening Church Members Committee," 1990]
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 than 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. [Catherine Gould, Cultural and Economic Barriers to
Protecting Children from Ritual Abuse and Mind Control, 1995]
Published 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. [Finkelhor,
William and Burns, 1988] An ‘ad hoc’ study on Ritual Abuse in Germany
done by Ulla Fröhling, journalist and author of "Vater unser in der
Hoelle" - "Our father which art in hell" - called the "first in-depth
German study of a DID-patient with a background of severe home abuse,
child prostitution, and sadistic ritual abuse;" and Michaela Huber in
1997. They sent 355 questionnaires throughout Germany , 126 returned
and 113 have been evaluated. Every 'maybe' or 'perhaps' was excluded,
which led to a total of 354 cases in treatment -- 299 in current
treatment – of Ritual Abuse in Germany. These patients or clients were
treated at 61 locations in Germany . [Thorsten Becker, "Ritual Abuse:
A German Cult-Counsellors Perspective," Presentation at the Symposium
on Psychic Trauma and Dissociation, Utrecht [ Netherlands ], October
28. 1999]
In 1993, Boon and Draijer described the clinical phenomena of 71 Dutch
DID patients. Follow up data on this cohort of patients indicate that
38.8% of the patients (N = < 27) had mentioned some form of SRA in the
course of treatment (Boon & Draijer, 1993b). These patients lived in
different regions in the Netherlands and they were treated by 19
different clinicians (Boon and Draijer 1993b). In this study,
spontaneously given accounts of SRA and drawings on the subject showed
a striking resemblance to those of North American patients (cf Young
et al. 1991). [Onno van der Hart, "Reports on Ritual Abuse in European
Countries: A Clinician’s Perspective," 1998]
A survey done in June 2000, at the National Victim Assistance Academy
in Fresno , CA , 82 questionnaires given out, 44 criminal justice
professionals responded to the questions, "Have you or a co-worker
ever worked with a client/victim that claimed to be a victim of
satanic ritual abuse?" Seventeen, 38% of respondents, had worked with
clients who claimed to be victims of satanic ritual abuse or had co-
workers who had worked with these clients. [Dawn Mattox, Butte
County , CA , District Attorney’s Office, 2000]
MEMORY REPRESSION
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-IIIR as
psychogenic amnesia, is a phenomenon which has been known to mental
health professionals for more than 100 years. [Dr. Bessel van der
Kolk, Harvard Medical School , as quoted by David McCulley, Satanic
Ritual Abuse: A Question of Memory, 1993] Two disparate responses to
trauma have been noted by researchers. In some instances the memory is
hyper-potentiated and the event remains unforgettably vivid. When
severe, repeated trauma occurs early in life, the stress of the
experience may overload the circuitry of the brain’s limbic system,
preventing the information from reaching the hippocampus. Instead, the
trauma is engraved in the sensorimotor processes and is dissociated
from the victim’s conscious awareness. [van der Volk as quoted by
David McCulley, Satanic Ritual Abuse: A Question of Memory, 1993]
Only when a triggering circumstance breaks through the amnestic
barrier does the person retrieve, often it bits and pieces, the memory
of the traumatic event…When the suspended encounter is triggered, the
threatening event is experienced as happening now, in full present
time. [Ivor Browne as quoted by David McCulley, Satanic Ritual Abuse:
A Question of Memory, 1993]
In a 1991 informal survey, 93% of APA therapists who have personal
experience with adult SRA survivors stated they believe the memories
of SRA are accurate. Contrary to accusations, many have been skeptical
at first. [James Quan, Consolidation of SRA and False Memory Data,
1996]
Blisters and scars sometimes reappear and fresh blood may flow from
tissues ravaged long ago. Clinicians who witness these abreactive
episodes are not likely to challenge van der Volk’s dictum that the
body cannot lie. [van der Volk as quoted by David McCulley, Satanic
Ritual Abuse: A Question of Memory, 1993]
A new McLean Hospital study suggests that contrary to popular belief,
psychotherapy does not frequently play a role in recalling forgotten
memories of childhood abuse. Moreover, the study found that there is
often independent corroboration of the abuse memories. In addition,
most study participants believed that they recovered memories without
any suggestion by therapists or others. [Associated Press, Belmont ,
MA , June 2, 1999 ]
FMSF
There is no diagnosis of "false memory syndrome" in the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual. It is a term created for maximum media impact,
serving those who have the most to lose if the truth is revealed.
[Anne Hart, California Therapist]
What percentage involve false accusations of familial abuse, and which
are merely the self-serving protestations of pedophiles and ritual
abusers? No one knows. Further, all of the research they cite, such as
the experiments of Elizabeth Loftus, deal not with traumatic memory
but with normal, or explicit memory. What studies of normal memory
demonstrate is a high degree of malleability and potential distortion
over time. [David McCulley, Satanic Ritual Abuse: A Question of
Memory, 1993]
MEMORY REPRESSION STUDIES
129 women with documented histories of childhood sexual assault
participated in extensive individual interviews. The most significant
finding was that 38% of the women in the sample reported no
recollection of the index event, even though it was firmly documented
by hospital records. Children who had a close relationship with the
perpetrator were more likely to develop psychogenic amnesia than those
abused by strangers. [Linda Meyer Williams, University of New
Hampshire as quoted by David McCulley, Satanic Ritual Abuse: A
Question of Memory, 1993]
In a sample of 53 women who disclosed memories of abuse for which they
had been amnestic, 74% of the subjects were able to find independent
confirmation from family members, pornographic photos or diaries.
[Judith Herman and Emily Schatzow as quoted by David McCulley, Satanic
Ritual Abuse: A Question of Memory, 1993]
DID/MPD
Current research shows that DID(MPD) may affect 1% of the general
population and perhaps as many as 5-20% of people in psychiatric
hospitals, many of whom have received other diagnoses. The incidence
rates are even higher among sexual abuse survivors and individuals
with chemical dependencies. These statistics put DID(MPD)/DD in the
same category as schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety, as one of the
four major mental health problems today. [Sidran Foundation, DID/MPD
Brochure, 1994]
The typical alters that are found in a person with MPD include: a
depressed, depleted host; a strong, angry protector; a scared, hurt
child; a helper; and, an embittered internal persecutor who blames (or
persecutes) one or more alters for the abuse that has been suffered.
While there may be other types of alters in any given MPD individual,
most of them will be variations on the theme of these 5 alters.
[Divided Hearts Website FAQ, 1999] Studies indicate that approximately
25% of those with MPD in North American have been subjected to SRA,
and SRA is why they developed MPD in the first place. The dissociation
of MPD is the best way children have of dealing with the trauma. In my
discussions with Southern California MPD therapists, I have found a
consensus that 25% is a low estimate. Many of us believe the
percentage is much higher, at least in our own region. I have heard
estimates as high as 50 to 60%. It is hard to believe, but there may
be 100,000 people or more in the United States who were subjected to
SRA as children. [James Friesen, Uncovering the Mystery of MPD, 1991]
The idea that MPD is under-diagnosed is related to the notion that few
mental health professionals know how to make the diagnosis and because
the patients with MPD frequently cope with it through denial. This
argument is similar to the point of view of many alcohol treatment
specialists, who allege that alcoholism is frequently underdiagnosed
because professionals do not typically know how to correctly make the
diagnosis and because most alcoholics are in denial. [Noblitt &
Perskin, Cult and Ritual Abuse, 2000]
Two studies about the early lives of multiples came up with the same
percentages – 97% have been subjected to serious child abuse as
youngsters. Another study found that 88% has been abused sexually,
with 83% having been sexually penetrated as young children. [James
Friesen, Uncovering the Mystery of MPD, 1991]
The onset of multiple personality generally occurs in childhood,
although the condition is not usually diagnosed until adolescence or
early adulthood. The sex incidence is about 85% female…Although
multiple personality was thought to be quite rare, recently it has
been reported to be more common. [Philip Coons, Child Abuse and
Multiple Personality Disorder]
Multiple personality most often presents with depression and
suicidality rather than personality changes and amnesia which are
obvious clues to dissociation…The original personality is usually
amnesiac for the secondary personalities while the secondary
personalities may have varying awareness of one another…Generally the
original personality is rather reserved and depleted of affect. The
secondary personalities usually express affects or impulses
unacceptable to the primary personality such as anger, depression, or
sexuality…Headaches are extremely common as are hysterical conversion
symptoms and symptoms of sexual dysfunction. [Philip Coons, Child
Abuse and Multiple Personality Disorder]
Probably about 25% of children have a Dissociative Ability high enough
to use dissociation for relief from chronic sexual or physical abuse.
When these children grow up they develop MPD if they have been abused.
In comparison, SRA is so much more terrible a kind of abuse that it
causes dissociation in a much higher percentage of its victims, maybe
as high as 75% or even more. [James Friesen, Uncovering the Mystery of
MPD, 1991]
A history of trauma has been found to be an almost universal etiology
of such extreme chronic dissociative disorders as multiple personality
disorder. [D. Spiegal as quoted by David McCulley, Satanic Ritual
Abuse: A Question of Memory, 1993]
Abuse suffered by multiple personality patients tends to be far more
sadistic and bizarre than that suffered by most victims of child
abuse. [Frank Putnam, MD, Diagnosis and Treatment of MPD]
Accepted theory held that multiplicity developed reactively. Infants
or young children used their innate capacity and ingenuity to create a
cluster of "personalities" to cope with the conflicting demands of a
dangerous environment far too overwhelming for one little person.
Pamela Reagor and Steven Ray discovered solid psychological evidence
that besides the above "natural" features of MPD, certain patients
presented some additional critical characteristics. "We saw
sophisticated external implantation, by someone other than the
subject, of hundreds of complex personality fragments," Reagor noted,
in the 1991 sixth issue of Beyond Survival magazine. These external
implantations, including suicidal ones, were arranged in what appeared
to be a complex system. Ray suspected that the programming acted like
DNA, encoding specific dissociative patterns within the MPD system. It
was revolutionary - and sinister – concept. Reagor defined their
discovery as structured MPD as opposed to the commonly understood
reactive MPD. [Craig Lockwood, Other Altars, 1993]
There is a natural progression in the relationship among alters:
The alters learn about one another and learn to recognize one
another.
The alters learn to negotiate with one another, even if there is
mutual dislike.
The alters learn to cooperate with one another for the common good.
The alters appreciate and take care of one another.
The alters come to love one another and recognize that they are part
of one another.
The alters join forces. [C.W. Duncan, The Fractured Mirror, 1994]
Patients in this study who integrated personality states during
treatment became increasingly certain that their reports of ritual
abuse reflected actual memories. The patients who remained fragmented
were less inclined to be certain about what really happened.[Walter C.
Young, MD, "Patients Reporting RA in Childhood: A Clinical Syndrome,
Report of 37 Cases"]
BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER BPD is characterized by deeply
conflicted emotions, running the gamut from rage to terror, from
depressed apathy to turbulent agitation. Patients with BPD often
experience self-loathing that alternates and coexists with self-
absorption and narcissism. Their frequent acts of self-
destructiveness, including self-mutilation and suicide attempts,
bewilder and frighten their families, friends, and caregivers. These
individuals typically have deeply unsatisfying interpersonal
relationships and appear to alienate those who care for them, while at
the same time expressing fears that they will be abandoned. Patients
with this disorder often appear uncooperative in therapy and are
frequently accused of sabotaging their own treatment. The condition of
such patients is considered chronic with intermittent self-destructive
episodes. Curiously, these patients often respond in unusual or
unpredictable ways to psychiatric medications. [Noblitt & Perskin,
Cult and Ritual Abuse, 2000]
CHILDREN
In Europe , Great Britain is the country wherein most reports on SRA
of children are being made. The National Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is alarmed about the increasing number of
cases coming to its attention. Towns and areas mentioned are Hull ,
Surrey , Wolverhampton , Telford , Portsmouth , Manchester , and
Shrewsbury , among others (Bartlett 1989; Tate 1991). Reports of SRA
are typically made by social workers involved in ordinary child abuse
cases or by foster parents of child victims of sexual and physical
abuse. Within the context of an enduring relationship with an adult
whom these children trust, they disclose information that, when
recognized as such, points to SRA. Typically, children>s reports
include adults carrying candles, wearing robes and masks or dressing
up as clowns, and chanting; children being defecated on, forced to eat
body wastes, locked in cages or boxes, or sexually abused on crosses
or inside stars and circles; drinking blood; sacrificing animals;
torturing, killing, and consuming babies; being filmed by cameras with
lights on; using drugs; and adults threatening children in order to
discourage disclosure. Tate (1991), who examined a number of these
British cases and compared them to North American and Dutch cases
(Hudson 1991; Jonker and Jonker-Bakker 1991; Snow and Sorenson 1990),
was struck by the similarities. Because many of these children
reported SRA without attending adults encouraging them, Tate concluded
that either there exists a worldwide conspiracy among toddlers or the
children are speaking the truth. [Onno van der Hart, "Reports on
Ritual Abuse in European Countries: A Clinician’s Perspective," 1998]
It is very telling that in every case in which the symptomatology of
the ritually abused children was compared to the symptomatology of the
sexually abused children, the ritually abused children showed
considerably more symptoms of trauma…Not only do ritually abused
children appear more disturbed than sexually abused children on the
traditional instruments like the Achenbach, they also demonstrate
symptoms which relate in direct and obvious ways to the abuse
experiences they describe. [Catherine Gould, Cultural and Economic
Barriers to Protecting Children from Ritual Abuse and Mind Control,
1995] From these first few reported cases the symptoms characteristic
of childhood multiple personality begin to emerge and reveal some
marked differences when compared to adults. In the childhood form of
multiple personality the difference between personalities are quite
subtle. In addition the number of personalities is fewer. So far an
average of 4 (range 2-6) personalities have been reported in children,
while the average number of personalities reported in adults is about
13 (range 2 to 100+). Symptoms of depression and somatic complaints
are less common in children but the symptoms of amnesia and inner
voices are not decreased. Perhaps most importantly, the therapy of
children with multiple personality is usually brief and marked by
steady improvement. In adults therapy may last anywhere from 2 to over
10 years, while in children therapy may only last a few months.
[Philip Coons, Child Abuse and Multiple Personality Disorder]
PROGRAMMING
The term programming is sometimes used two ways…Most commonly, the
term refers to any coercive persuasion whether it is experienced in a
destructive, an established religion, the armed services, or any other
group or organization. A second usage for this term is…the
manipulation or traumatization of alter personalities, fragments or
dissociated mental states or entities for the purpose of mind control.
[Noblitt & Perskin, Cult and Ritual Abuse, 2000]
SRA SYMPTOMATOLOGY
Adult survivors I know alternately crave/refuse read meat and sauces.
36 adults (97%) presented survivor guilt, 35 (94%) described
Indoctrinated beliefs, 31 adults (83%) performed "bizarre self-abuse",
and 23 (62%) were involved in substance abuse. [James Quan, A
Consolidation of SRA and False Memory Data, 1996]
EVIDENCE
The definition of "evidence" used herein to support the existence of
ritual abuse is…The presence of the following multiple independent
indicators:
Disclosures with post-traumatic presentation,
Profound similarities between such disclosures in which the
similarities outweigh the normal occurrence of conflicting details,
Occult objects found at the scene consistent with such disclosures,
Structural or decorative details consistent with disclosures, but
unknowable outside the reported abuse scenarios, and/or
Victim descriptions of the video and/or still photography of abuse
scenarios…sometimes including a discovery of child pornography. [James
Quan, A Consolidation of SRA and False Memory Data, 1996]
If one wishes to criticize the arguments supporting the existence of
ritual abuse, then one must accurately identify them. These arguments
may be summarized as follows:
There is ample historical and anthropological evidence that ritual
abuse has occurred in a variety of cultures throughout history. Among
those groups where traumatizing rituals have reportedly been used,
there have also been some accounts of dissociation, amnesia, and
alterations of the individual’s identity.
In modern times, reports of ritual abuse have been made by people who
claim to be survivors of such abuse both in North America and in other
geographic locations…
Some perpetrators of ritual abuse and other criminal activity
associated with cults are self-confessed.
Other witnesses to cult criminal activity have come forward…
There have been convictions in criminal cases in response to
allegations of ritual abuse.
Civil cases won against individuals accused of ritual abuse.
Cases of ritual murder (e.g, at Matamoros ) are a matter of public
record.
The abusive acts of some cults (e.g., the People’s Temple of Guyana ,
Branch Davidians, Order of the Solar Temple , Aum Supreme Truth) are
publicly known.
The great majority of therapists who work with patients reporting
ritual abuse tend to believe that the allegations of ritual abuse are
true…
In a series of workshops and in group and individual professional
supervision conducted by Noblitt, the facilitator has publicly
demonstrated that many of these survivors respond to preprogrammed
cues with switching to alter personalities and trance responses. The
patients were not trained to respond to these cues in therapy, and
videotapes of patients who have never before seen Noblitt show them
responding to these cues (which are alleged by some patients to be
used in cult programming). [Noblitt & Perskin, Cult and Ritual Abuse,
2000]
HISTORY
The worship of Satan, as the symbol of the Judeo-Christian concept of
pure evil, appears to result from the First Century C.E. as a reaction
to Judeo-Christian spiritual domination. The practice of sexual and
sacrificial rites pre-dates that era, however, and eventually extended
to all geographical regions. [Gail Carr Feldman, "SRA: A chapter in
the History of Human Cruelty," Journal of Psychohistory, Winter 1995]
Further back in history yet are the results of a survey conducted by
Hill and Goodwin (1989) of pre-inquisition historical documents
describing Satanism and satanic practices. They compiled a list of 11
elements of satanic ritual: 1) secret nocturnal feasting around a
special table or altar; 2) ritual orgiastic sex involving incest,
homosexuality, and anal intercourse; 3) imitations and reversals of
the Christian mass; 4) ritual use of blood, semen, urine or excrement;
5) sacrifice of embryos and infants often using knives followed by
cooking in a cauldron and/or ritual cannibalism; 6) ritual use of
animals; 7) ritual use of torches, candles and darkness; 8) chanting,
especially of names of demons; 9) drinking a drug or potion; 10)
dancing backwards in a circle or other ritual use of the circle; and
11) dismemberment of corpses and extraction of the heart. [James Quan,
A Consolidation of SRA and False Memory Data, 1996]
Two things are clear from the cases cited. First satanic crimes are
being perpetrated in the U.S. , as well as in other countries. Second,
human sacrifice and cannibalism are still being practiced. As reports
of satanic ritual abuse continue to emerge, ten characteristic
reported abused have been described by Young et al. (19991) and Young
(1992): 1. Childhood sexual abuse, 2. Witnessing and receiving
physical abuse and torture, 3. Witnessing animal mutilations and
killings, 4. Death threats, 5. Forced drug usage, 6. Witnessing and
forced participation in human adult and infant sacrifice, 7. Forced
cannibalism, 8. Ceremonial "marriage" to Satan, 9. Being buried alive
in coffins or graves…and 10. Forced impregnation and sacrifice of own
child. [Gail Carr Feldman, "SRA: A chapter in the History of Human
Cruelty," Journal of Psychohistory, Winter 1995] In some area, there
has not been much need for secrecy. In our country, grown men in long
robes have murdered at night, often in the southern states, with
extraordinary impunity. And the Nazis, who often practiced Satanism,
according to the PBS documentary, "The Occult History of the Third
Reich," made a slaughterhouse out of their country earlier this
century. Cults in Jonestown and Waco , in the present day, demonstrate
that children are being subjected to religious horrors. Numerous
recent convictions of day care abuses with ritual allegations are
documented. This is not a small problem. Nor is it new behavior. [Anne
Hart, California Therapist]
Survivors today are disclosing that abuse occurs in groups that claim
to be Christian, Catholic, Moslem, Jewish, Masonic, Celtic, Druidic,
Nordic occult, Nazi, African- and Afro-Caribbean-based religions.
[Craig Lockwood, Other Altars, 1993] This dramatic rise in disclosures
must be examined within the context of the enormous shifts in the
cultural perceptions of child abuse and the broad acceptance of
counseling. [James Quan, A Consolidation of SRA and False Memory Data,
1996]
MIND CONTROL
Project Monarch could be best described as a form of structured
dissociation and occultic integration, in order to compartmentalize
the mind into multiple personalities within a systematic framework.
During this process, a Satanic ritual, usually including Cabalistic
mysticism, is performed with the purpose of attaching a particular
demon or group of demons to the corresponding alter (s). Of course,
most skeptics would view this as simply a means to enhance trauma
within the victim, negating any irrational belief that demonic
possession actually occurs. Another way of examining this convoluted
victimization of body and soul is by looking at it as a complex
computer program: A file (alter) is created through trauma, repetition
and reinforcement. In order to activate (trigger) the file, a specific
access code or password (cue or command) is required. The victim/
survivor is called a "slave" by the programmer/handler, who in turn is
perceived as "master" or "god." About 75% are female, since they
possess a higher tolerance for pain and tend to dissociate easier than
males. Subjects are used mainly for cover operations, prostitution and
pornography; involvement in the entertainment industry is notable… A
majority of the victims/survivors come from multi-generational Satanic
families (bloodlines) and are ostensibly programmed "to fill their
destiny as the chosen ones or chosen generations" (a term coined by
Mengele at Auschwitz ). Some are adopted out to families of similar
origin. Others used in this neurological nightmare are deemed
"expendable one" (non-bloodliners), usually coming from orphanages,
foster care homes, or incestuous families with a long history of
pedophilia. There also appears to be a pattern of family members
affiliated with government or military intelligence agencies. Many of
the abused come from families who use Catholicism, Mormonism, or
charismatic Christianity as a "front" for their abominable activities
(though members of other religious groups are also involved. Victims/
survivors generally respond more readily to a rigid religious
(dogmatic, legalistic) hierarchical structure because it parallels
their base programming. [Ron Patton, Project Monarch, Nazi Mind
Control, 1996]
MOTIVE
When we understand the fact that ritual abuse is usually perpetrated
by groups which are deeply involved in organized crime, the underlying
incentives of these cult/perpetrators groups becomes clear. While
ritual abuse is certainly an integral part of some kinds of satanism,
it is most likely that the deeper reason for the prevalence of ritual
abuse is that, simply put, it reliably creates a group of people who
function as unpaid slaves to the perpetrator group. [Catherine Gould,
Cultural and Economic Barriers to Protecting Children from Ritual
Abuse and Mind Control, 1995]
SYSTEM RESPONSE
Another interesting fact is the quite clear amount of disinformation.
Take Hamburg for example: the police reported zero cases, therapists
have 47 cases in treatment. The sexual crime unit of the police had
reported about 12 cases; as they told me in a personal conversation,
none of these cases made their official way to the commission. This is
not surprising for those working in the field of Ritual abuse.
[Thorsten Becker, "Ritual Abuse: A German Cult-Counsellors
Perspective," Presentation on the symposium on Psychic Trauma and
Dissociation, Utrecht [ Netherlands ], Oktober 28. 1999] |
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