re: turkey sold 1000s of children mainly survivors of the eq in 1999 to Jeffery Epstein's isla

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Now the first empirical study of its actual prevalence, based on information from district attorneys, social service workers, police officials and psychotherapists, suggests these tales are usually just that - figments of imagination.Athough the survey found occasional cases of lone abusers who used ritualistic trappings, it found no substantiated reports of well-organized satanic rings of people who sexually abuse children.

In a survey of more than 11,000 psychiatric and police workers throughout the country, conducted for the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, researchers found more than 12,000 accusations of group cult sexual abuse based on satanic ritual, but not one that investigators had been able to substantiate. The organizers of the survey say it is the first authoritative national survey on the subject.

The Utah attorney general's office is also preparing a report on satanic abuse but, as yet, has released no details.

Accusations of molesting by cults have been made in thousands of cases over the past decade, and in retrospective claims by adult patients in psychotherapy who say they were abused as children.

Combined with sensationalistic press coverage, these lawsuits and other reports have led many people to believe that there is a nationwide network of satanic groups preying on the young.

"After scouring the country, we found no evidence for large-scale cults that sexually abuse children," said Dr. Gail Goodman, a psychologist at the University of California at Davis, who directed the survey.

"Since the McMartin preschool case there have been claims of ritualistic and sadistic child abuse in cases all over the country, and we've been concerned," said David Lloyd, director of the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. "The survey was to see just how well-founded these concerns are - if these are just based on mistaken perceptions or there is some firm evidence."

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But Goodman said her group did find "convincing evidence of lone perpetrators or couples who say they are involved with Satan or use the claim to intimidate victims." She added that they "unearthed a few cases where there were confessions or photographs."

One of the best-documented cases, reported by a district attorney in the South, involved four boys and a girl whose grandparents are accused of molesting them from age four into early adolescence; the case came to light when the children refused to visit their grandparents. "The grandparents had black robes, candles and Christ on an inverted crucifix - and the children had chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease, in their throats," said Goodman, citing the district attorney's report.

But the overall results show little or no support for the more extreme claims, Goodman said. "While you would not expect to find corroborating evidence in many sexual abuse cases, you would expect it when people claim the rituals involved murders, and the reported cases come from district attorneys or police," said Goodman.

"If there is anyone out there with solid evidence of satanic cult abuse of children, we would like to know about it," she said.

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Nonetheless, previous smaller studies done by the Michigan State Police, the Virginia Crime Commission and a study by the British government had similar findings.

In Britain, for example, of 80 cases where extensive, ritualized abuse was alleged, no evidence of any organized group involvement was found, although in a handful of the cases lone child molestors used "black magic" or satanic trappings to scare their victims.

Many psychotherapists who have been vocal about a supposed epidemic of sexual abuse by well-organized satanic rings have grown more cautious of late. "There's clearly been a contagion, a contamination of what people say in therapy because of what they see on TV or read about satanic ritual abuse," said Dr. Bennet Braun, a psychiatrist who heads the Dissociative Disorders Unit at Rush-North Shore Medical Center in Chicago. Braun used to lecture on ritual satanic abuse to psychotherapy groups, but stopped because of growing doubts of such abuse.

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This whole thread is fricking sick to read. Wtf

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Daniel Goleman, New York Times 

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Outside of small isolated incidents (which typically involve major mental illness and not sincere religious belief), none of these large organized occult/Satanic groups who engage in this type of terrible crimes have been found.

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When 1 million babies are killed by their own mothers every single year in this country, it's not that far of a stretch to think someone may enjoy harming other people's babies.

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1000’s of children?

Sensationalized numbers

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