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>> Ritual Abuse
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>> copied with permission
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>> Ritual abuse exists all over the world. There have been reports,
>> journal articles[1][2][3], web pages[4][5][6][7][8][9] and criminal
>> convictions of crimes against children and adults [10][11][12].
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>> Contents
>> * 1 Definition
>> * 2 Origins of the term
>> * 3 Evidence
>> * 4 References
>> * 5 Bibliography
>> * 6 External Links
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>> Definition
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>> Ritual abuse has been defined as:
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>> 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. The
>> physical abuse is severe, sometimes including torture and killing. The
>> sexual abuse is usually painful, sadistic, and humiliating, intended
>> as means of gaining dominance over the victim. The psychological abuse
>> is devastating and involves the use of ritual/indoctrination, which
>> includes mind control techniques and mind altering drugs, and ritual/
>> intimidation which conveys to the victim a profound terror of the cult
>> members and of the evil spirits they believe cult members can command.
>> Both during and after the abuse, most victims are in a state of
>> terror, mind control, and dissociation in which disclosure is
>> exceedingly difficult.[13]
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>> and as
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>> WHAT IS RITUAL ABUSE? (BROAD DEFINITION) Ritual abuse is the abuse
>> of a child, weaker adult, or animal in a ritual setting or manner. In
>> a broad sense, many of our overtly or covertly socially sanctioned
>> actions can be seen as ritual abuse, such as military basic training,
>> hazing, racism, spanking children, and partner-battering. Some abuse
>> is private...some public. Public ritual abuse may be either open or
>> secret. WHAT IS RITUAL ABUSE? (NARROW DEFINITION) The term ritual
>> abuse is generally used to mean prolonged, extreme, sadistic abuse,
>> especially of children, within a group setting. The group's ideology
>> is used to justify the abuse, and abuse is used to teach the group's
>> ideology. The activities are kept secret from society at large, as
>> they violate norms and laws.[14]
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>> Origins of the term
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>> Pazder introduced the term "ritualized abuse" in 1980, describing the
>> experiences of an adult survivor that was disclosing satanic abuse
>> memories. He defined the phenomenon as "repeated physical, emotional,
>> mental, and spiritual assaults combined with a systematic use of
>> symbols, ceremonies, and machinations designed and orchestrated to
>> attain malevolent effects." Later definitions came mostly from
>> professionals addressing ritual abuse in child care settings.
>> Finkelhor, Williams, Burns, and Kalinowski elaborated on Pazder's
>> definition, defining ritual abuse as "abuse that occurs in a context
>> linked to some symbols or group activity that have a religious,
>> magical or supernatural connotation, and where the invocation of these
>> symbols or activities are repeated over time and used to frighten and
>> intimidate the children." Kelley referred to ritual abuse as the
>> "repetitive and systematic sexual, physical, and psychological abuse
>> of children by adults as part of cult or satanic worship"[15].
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>> Evidence
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>> There is a great deal of evidence supporting the existence of ritual
>> abuse crimes as a worldwide phenomenon. Bottoms, Shaver and Goodman
>> found in their 1993 study evaluating ritual abuse claims 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[16]. "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....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”[17].
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>> Recently an online survey[18] of over one thousand people answered
>> questions about ritual abuse and extreme abuse crimes. In a summary of
>> the survey [19], it was found that ritual abuse/mind control is a
>> global phenomenon. Fifty-five percent stated they were abuse in a
>> Satanic cult. Seventy-seven percent of the adult survivors that
>> responded "had been threatened with death if they ever talked about
>> the abuse." Also, "257 respondents reported that secret mind control
>> experiments were used on them as children." Eighty-two percent
>> reported being sexually abused by multiple perpetrators.
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>> Anne Johnson Davis in her book Hell Minus One reported that her
>> parents confessed to her abuse in writing and verbally to clergymen,
>> and to the detectives from the Utah Attorney General’s Office. Her
>> suppressed memories started when she was in her mid-30s, which were
>> fully substantiated by her mother and stepfather[20][21].
>> Many scientific journals articles have discussed the reality of ritual
>> abuse and its effect on its victims. Some of these articles have
>> discussed the extreme nature of these crimes[22], proof of the reality
>> of the ritual abuse phenomenon and victims' symptoms[23], the
>> connection between ritual abuse, multiple personality disorder and
>> mind control[24] and the connections between ritual abuse reports and
>> the higher levels of symptoms of childhood sexual and physical
>> abuse[25]. Several additional studies and organizations have compiled
>> research on the reality of ritual abuse crimes[26][27][28].
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>> Ritual abuse and mind control crimes have also been confirmed in other
>> books[29][30].
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>> A study which identified 270 cases of sexual abuse in day care
>> settings found that allegations of ritual abuse occurred in thirteen
>> percent of the cases[31]. Additional evidence of ritual abuse in day
>> care and child abuse cases has been found in news reports, journal
>> articles and legal transcripts[32][33][34][35][36][37].
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>> Ritual abuse occurrences have also been found in the
>> Netherlands[38]and England[39]. Reports of ritual abuse have also been
>> found in multiple personality disorder sufferers[15]. Kent believes
>> that intergenerational satanic accounts are possible and that rituals
>> related to them may come from a deviant interpretation of religious
>> texts[40][41]. Others have stated that the theories and research
>> around recovered memory "strongly confirm the reality of...cult abuse"
>> of SRA survivors[42].
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>> References
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>> 1. Satanic Ritual Abuse evidencehttp://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/satanic-ritual-abuse-evid en...
>> 2. 2008 Publications on Ritual Abuse and Mind Controlhttp://www.endritualabuse.org/citation%202.htm
>> 3. Lacter, E (2008-02-11). “Brief Synopsis of the Literature on
>> the Existence of Ritualistic Abuse”.http://endritualabuse.org/Brief%20Synopsis.htm
>> 4. http://ritualabuse.us
>> 5. http://www.ritualabusetorture.org/
>> 6. http://www.ra-info.org
>> 7. http://www.survivorship.org
>> 8. http://web.archive.org/web/20080116175648/http://theawarenesscenter.o...
>> 9. http://www.endritualabuse.org/
>> 10. Believe the children (1997). “Conviction List: Ritual Child
>> Abuse”.http://www.ra-info.org/resources/ra_cases.shtml
>> 11. The Satanism and Ritual Abuse Archivehttp://www.endritualabuse.org/ritualabusearchive.htm
>> 12. Noblitt, PhD, J. R. - An Empirical Look at the Ritual Abuse
>> Controversy (2007)http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/an-empirical-look-at-the-r...
>> 13. Report of the Ritual Abuse Task Force - Los Angeles County
>> Commission for Women "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...
>> 14. Survivorship - Frequently Asked Questionshttp://www.survivorship.org/faq.html
>> 15. Van Benschoten, Susan C. (1990). Multiple Personality Disorder
>> and Satanic Ritual Abuse: the Issue Of Credibility Dissociation Vol.
>> III, No. 1 "A large number of adult MPD patients in psychotherapy are
>> reporting memories of explicitly satanic ritual abuse beginning in
>> childhood. The authors of two limited surveys, conducted with a select
>> group of MPD therapists, suggest the percentage of reported satanic
>> ritual abuse in the MPD population to be 20% (Braun & Gray, 1986) and
>> 28% (Braun & Gray, 1987). A survey by Kaye and Klein (1987) reveals
>> that 20 of the 42 MPD patients in treatment with seven Ohio therapists
>> describe a history of satanic ritual abuse. Ilopponen (1987) states
>> that 38 of the more than 70 MPD patients she has treated report
>> memories of "satanic-type ritualized abuse " (p. 11). Two inpatient
>> facilities specializing in the treatment of MPD report that
>> approximately 50% of their patients disclose memories of satanic
>> ritual abuse (Braun, 1989a; Ganaway, 1989). Similar accounts of
>> satanic ritual abuse are being reported by personally unrelated MPD
>> patients from across the United States (Braun, 1989b; Braun & Sachs,
>> 1988; Kahaner, 1988; Sachs & Braun, 1987). In addition, according to
>> Braun (1989b), the reports of patients in this country are similar to
>> data collected from adult survivors in England, Holland, Germany,
>> France, Canada, and Mexico...Brown (1986), noting many similar
>> allegations in child and adult satanic ritual abuse accounts, suggests
>> that reports are not only comparable across geographical and personal
>> boundaries, but across generations as well."http://www.empty-memories.nl/dis_90/vanbenschoten_sra.pdf
>> 16. 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
>> 17. Noblitt, J.R.; Perskin, P. (2000). Cult and Ritual Abuse: Its
>> History, Anthropology, and Recent Discovery in Contemporary America p.
>> 269, Greenwood Publishing Group.http://books.google.com/books?id=zJkTTpfyJ-8C
>> 18. Extreme Abuse Surveyhttp://extreme-abuse-survey.net/
>> 19. Understanding ritual trauma: A comparison of findings from
>> three online surveyshttp://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas-studies/understanding-ritual-t r...
>> 20. 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 - 2008http://hellminus1.com/
>> 21. Hell Minus One - signed verified confessions of satanic ritual
>> abusehttp://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/survivor-stories/hell-minus-one-sig. ..
>> ‘
>> 22. Cozolino, L.J. (1990). “Ritual child abuse, psychopathology, and
>> evil”. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 18(3):218-227 "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"https://wisdom.biola.edu/jpt
>> 23. Cozolino, L.J.; Shaffer, R.E (Fall 1992) "Adults who report
>> childhood ritualistic abuse." Special Issue: Satanic ritual abuse: The
>> current state of knowledge. Journal of Psychology and Theology 20(3)
>> "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."https://wisdom.biola.edu/jpt
>> 24. Gould, C., & Cozolino, L. (1992) “Ritual abuse, multiplicity,
>> and mind-control.” Special Issue: Satanic ritual abuse: The current
>> state of knowledge. Journal of Psychology and Theology 20(3):194-6 "As
>> a result of the psychologically intolerable nature of their early
>> childhood experiences, victims of ritual abuse frequently develop
>> multiple personality disorder (MPD)....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."https://wisdom.biola.edu/jpt
>> 25. Lawrence, K.J.; Cozolino, L.; Foy, D.W. (1995). Psychological
>> sequelae in adult females reporting childhood ritualistic abuse. Child
>> Abuse & Neglect 19 (8): 975-984. doi:10.1016/0145-2134(95)00059-H.
>> "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." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V7N-3YB56D.. .
>> 26. Gould, C. (1995). Denying ritual abuse of children. Journal of
>> Psychohistory, 22(3), 329-339. "The evidence is rapidly accumulating
>> that the problem of ritual abuse 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 arc 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. In 1988, 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) reported 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. The latter case is the only one cited here which was conducted
>> outside of the United States."http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/denying-ritual-abuse-of-ch...
>> 27. Paley, K. (June 1992). Dream wars: a case study of a woman with
>> multiple personality disorder(PDF). Dissociation 5 (2): 111-116.
>> "Apologists believe that reports of satanic cult abuse either must or
>> could be true. There is some evidence to support the apologists. In
>> 1986, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in Commonwealth v.
>> Drew (397 Mass. 65) upheld the conviction of Carl H. Drew for the
>> murder of Karen Marsden. There was evidence that Drew conducted
>> satanic ritual meetings and that he had killed Marsden "because she
>> wanted to leave the cult " (Commonworth v. Drew, 1986, p. 66). Marsden
>> had gone to the police and reported a human sacrifice. Scott
>> Waterhouse was convicted of the murder of a twelve year-old girl, and
>> the conviction was upheld in the State of Maine v. Scott Waterhouse
>> (513 A. 2d 862, Me. 1986). It was ruled that the trial court's
>> introduction of the defendant's satanic beliefs was relevant in
>> establishing motive and intent. In a study of hundreds of day care
>> centers, Finkelhor and Williams found that "... [c] lear-cut
>> corroboration of ritualistic practices was available in a few cases,
>> such as Country Walk [in Miami], where ritual objects were found by
>> police and where the female perpetrators did admit to some of the
>> sadistic practices alleged in the children's stories" (1988, pp.
>> 59-60). Greaves (1992) describes a video made by the Chicago Police
>> Department of two sites allegedly used for satanic ceremonies. He was
>> struck by the similarity of the material to descriptions he had heard
>> from many of his clients.
>> 28. Report of Utah State Task Force on Ritual Abuse Utah Governor’s
>> Commission for Women and Families (1992)https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/dspace/bitstream/1794/1646/1/Diss_5_...
>> 29. 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 "“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
>> 30. Rutz, Carol (2001). A Nation Betrayed. Grass Lake, MI:
>> Fidelity Publishing. ISBN 0-9710102-0-X. http://my.dmci.net/~casey/
>> 31. Sexual Abuse in Day Care: A National Study - Executive Summary -
>> March 1988 - Finklehor, Williams, Burns, Kalinowskihttp://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage _01/...
>> "“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.”
>> 32. Day Care and Child Abuse Cases 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, the Little Rascals Day Care Center case,
>> Fran’s Day Care case, the Baran case and the Halsey casehttp://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/day-care-and-child-abuse-c.. .
>> 33. McMartin Preschool Case - What Really Happened and the Coveruphttp://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/mcmartin-preschool-case-w h...
>> 34. Archaeological Investigations of the McMartin Preschool Site
>> 35. deMause, Lloyd, Why Cults Terrorize and Kill Children The
>> Journal of Psychohistory 21 (4) 1994 [4]"
>> "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...
>> 36. Summit, R.C. (1994). The Dark Tunnels of McMartin Journal of
>> Psychohistory 21 (4): 397-416. “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-m cmart...
>> 37. Tamarkin, C. (1994a). Investigative Issues in Ritual Abuse
>> Cases, Part I. Treating Abuse Today, 4 (4): 14-23. Tamarkin, C.
>> (1994b). Investigative Issues in Ritual Abuse Cases, Part II. Treating
>> Abuse Today, 4 (5): 5-9.http://abusearticles.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/investigative-issues-in.. .
>> 38. Jonker, F.; Jonker-bakker, P. (1991). “Experiences with
>> ritualist child sexual abuse: a case study from the Netherlands”.
>> Child Abuse and Neglect 15: 191-196. doi:10.1016/0145-2134(91)90064-K.
>> PMID 2043971 "The case of apparent ritual sexual abuse of children in
>> a community in the Netherlands is described in terms of the children's
>> stories, behaviors, and physical symptoms and the community's reaction
>> to reactions of police and other professionals."http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detail...
>> 39. Sinason, V (1994). Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse. New
>> York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-10543-9. Major publications by Valerie
>> Sinasonhttp://www.valeriesinason.com/PublicationsVSinason.htm
>> 40. Kent, Stephen. (1993). “Deviant Scripturalism and Ritual
>> Satanic Abuse Part One: Possible Judeo-Christian Influences”. Religion
>> 23(23):229-241.
>> 41. Kent, Stephen. (1993). “Deviant Scripturalism and Ritual
>> Satanic Abuse. II: Possible Masonic, Mormon, Magick, and Pagan
>> influences”. Religion 23(4):355-367
>> 42. McCulley, D. “Satanic ritual abuse: A question of
>> memory.”Journal of Psychology and Theology Fall 1994 22(3) p.167-172
>> "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....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)...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
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>> Bibliography
>
>> * Brown, Scheflin and Hammond (1998).”Memory, Trauma Treatment,
>> And the Law” (W. W. Norton) ISBN 0-393-70254-5
>> * Cook, C. (1991). Understanding ritual abuse: A study of thirty-
>> three ritual abuse survivors. Treating Abuse Today, 1(4), 14-19.
>> * Gould, Catherine. (1992) “Ritual abuse, multiplicity, and mind-
>> control.” Special Issue: Satanic ritual abuse: The current state of
>> knowledge. Journal of Psychology and Theology 20(3):194-6
>> * Hersha, C.; Hersha, L.; Griffis, D.; Schwarz, T (2001). Secret
>> Weapons. Far Hills, NJ: New Horizon Press. ISBN 0-88282-196-2.
>> * Hill, J. “Believing Rachel” The Journal of Psychohistory 24 (2)
>> Fall 1996
>> "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." http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/believing-rachel-jeanne-hi...
>> * Johnston, Jerry (1989). The Edge of Evil - The Rise of Satanism
>> in North America. Dallas: Word Publishing. ISBN 0-8499-0668-7.
>> * Jonker, F and Jonker-Bakker, I. (1997). “Effects of Ritual
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>> Neglect 21(6):541-556
>> * Kent, Stephen. (1994). “Diabolic Debates: A Reply to David
>> Frankfurter and J. S. La Fontaine,” Religion 24: 135-188.
>> * Kent, Stephen. (1993). “Deviant Scripturalism and Ritual Satanic
>> Abuse Part One: Possible Judeo-Christian Influences”. Religion 23(23):
>> 229-241.
>> * Kent, Stephen. (1993). “Deviant Scripturalism and Ritual Satanic
>> Abuse. II: Possible Masonic, Mormon, Magick, and Pagan influences”.
>> Religion 23(4):355-367
>> * Leavitt, Frank. Measuring the impact of media exposure and
>> hospital treatment on patients alleging satanic ritual abuse. Treating
>> Abuse Today 8(4) 1998 pp. 7-13 "This study provides evidence that
>> clients who report SRA exhibit a set of associations to SRA-related
>> words that cannot be explained by exposure to the popular media or
>> from inpatient treatment."http://web.archive.org/web/20000306224228/http://idealist.com/tat/lea...
>> * Neswald, D., Gould, C., & Graham-Costain, V. (1991). Common
>> programs observed in survivors of Satanic ritual abuse. The California
>> Therapist, 3 (5), 47 50. "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...
>> * Noblitt, J.R.; Perskin, P. (2000). Cult and Ritual Abuse: Its
>> History, Anthropology, and Recent Discovery in Contemporary America p.
>> 269, Greenwood Publishing Group.http://books.google.com/books?id=zJkTTpfyJ-8C
>> * Noblitt, R.; Perskin, P. (2008). Ritual abuse in the 21st
>> century p. 552, Bandon, OR: Reed Publishers.http://www.rdrpublishers.com/catalog/item/6339393/5820690.htm
>> * Pike, P.L.; Mohline, R.J.(Eds.). Ritual abuse and recovery:
>> Survivors' personal accounts. Journal of Psychology and Theology
>> Spring 1995 23 (1) p.45-55https://wisdom.biola.edu/jpt
>> * Sachs, A. & Galton, G. (Eds) (2008). Forensic Aspects of
>> Dissociative Identity Disorder London: Karnac. Chapters include
>> discussions on ritual abuse, dissociative identity disorder, mind
>> control, extreme abuse, survivor accounts and criminal convictionshttp://www.karnacbooks.com/product.php?PID=25876http://books.goo gle.c...gs&hl=en&ei=702fSbmpOo_ftgfe5eSVDQ&sa=X&oi=book_res ult&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA142,M1
>> * 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/033520 4198
>> * Smith, Margaret. (1993). Ritual Abuse: What it Is, why it
>> Happens, and how to Help by Margaret - HarperCollins
>> * Waterman, Jill; Kelly, Robert J.;Oliveri, M. K.;and McCord, Jane
>> (1993). Behind the Playground Walls - Sexual Abuse in Preschools. New
>> York, London: The Guilford Press, 284-8. ISBN 0-89862-523-8.
>> * Young, Walter C., Sachs, Roberta G., Braun, Bennett G., and
>> Watkins, R. T. (1993) “Patients reporting ritual abuse in childhood: A
>> clinical syndrome. Report of 37 cases.” Child Abuse and Neglect 15(3):
>> 181-9
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>> * An Empirical Look at the Ritual Abuse Controversyhttp://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/an-empirical-look-at- the-r...
>> * Ritual Abuse articleshttp://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/satanic-ritual-abuse-evid en...
>> * Ritual Abuse Caseshttp://www.ra-info.org/resources/ra_cases.shtml
>> * Extreme Abuse Surveyhttp://extreme-abuse-survey.net/
>> *http://www.ritualabusetorture.org/
>> *http://www.ra-info.org
>> *http://www.survivorship.org
>> *http://theawarenesscenter.org/ritualabuse.html
>> * Ritual Abuse Statistics & Researchhttp://web.archive.org/web/20071210161357/http://home.mchsi.com/~ft io...
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> Thats alot like when gav abused my love tunnel with his strap-on.
This one hits too close to home for 'ole marqueer !!
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