BROXTOWE EXCLUSIVE!  Learn the secret history Satan Hunters don't want you to see

The Broxtowe False Satanic Abuse Case

No Doubt About It. The Broxtowe Kids Were Awfully Abused Sexually and Physically But There Was Absolutely No Evidence of Satanism

How a Clique of Satan Hunters tried to take over Nottingham Social Services

This created a conflict between the Social Workers and the Police.  The Satan Hunters in Nottingham were involved in a crusade to 'prove' SRA.  They wanted to feature what they saw as a Satanic Conspiracy to abuse.  The police said it hadn't happened.   After checking all the evidence Nottingham Social Services backed the police view which enraged the Satan Hunters in Team4 (the special social services team set up to oversee the Broxtowe case) who had by that time already made a name for themselves amongst believers in SRA in social work and the child therapy movement.

These crusaders defied the police and their social service director. They began lecturing at Satan Seminars and conferences. They organised a new clique within social work called RAINS (Ritual Abuse Information Network and Support)  a group of radical therapists, social workers and doctors who are active even unto this day in pushing the idea of SRA.  Using sensational media articles both in the national and trade press to ram home their original contention that Broxtowe was a case of Satanic Ritual Abuse. 

The Social Work press of the time, in particular Social Work Today, the magazine of the British Association of Social Workers (BASW), gave Team4 and RAINS members extensive coverage and support for their contentions with no balancing evidence whatsoever.   The cutting from the Guardian (below left) shows Valerie Sinason (a founder member of RAINS) pushing the SRA Myth - she's still doing it today.   The Guardian and other left-leaning newspapers also promoted SRA as part of their feminist bias.     The image on the right shows a two page special which Social Work Today used to promote the idea of SRA to its rank and file.    There was never any balancing reporting of any kind from dissenters in social work who didn't believe in SRA or from representatives of the beliefs which were being accused (Witches and Satanists were never ever consulted). 

 In fact at the time the SAFF was so worried at this bias that we spoke with a member of BASW's committee, Mr Brian Todd and convinced him there was an alternative view. He was so angry at being deceived that he promised that if we put together a report for the next BASW committee he would present it to them on the day.  We did. We wrote, printed and published a 40 page presentation explaining everything about the inner workings of Witchcraft and Satanism.  When Todd tried to present it the contingent of SRA believers on the committee used the race-card to refuse it.  They accused us (falsley and despicably) of being Fascists and said that as BASW rules repudiated fascism they couldn't accept our report.   So 40 copies of an important report from us, with key assertions and proof that SRA did not exist, which might have saved lives, was consigned to the bin!   The BASW committee also refused the SAFF affiliate membership and sent our cheque back!

When we discovered this wicked act we telephoned the secretary of BASW to complain about the untrue Fascism allegation and to find out whether there was any other way we could contribute. He became angry at our persistence and slammed the phone down on us!   These people didn't want the truth, they wanted lies about Satanic Ritual Abuse. Remember this well.  One of the things believers in SRA always say is that nobody but them can understand the implications of SRA because nobody else in their profession knows enough about it.  But when a group like the SAFF or the Pagan Federation who DO know far more than they offer to help they are not only rebuffed but viciously lied about.  They seem to enjoy keeping others in the dark, better it be for them to manipulate the debate.  Back to Broxtowe.

To halt the controversy caused by the crusading of a small number of his social workers the Director of Social Work in Nottingham ordered a full joint social services and police enquiry into how the Broxtowe case had been handled.  This Joint Enquiry Report became known as the JET report. It had a total overview of the situation and went through all the SRA allegations with a fine tooth comb, building a comprehensive view of what had happened using the diaries of the foster mothers, the police witness statements, tape recordings of interviews with the kids and one-to-one interviews with all the people involved.

The JET report was published in December 1989.  It resoundingly criticised the social workers and foster mothers involved for the practices used in interrogating the children and also strongly complained of outside interference from crusading child specialists and the media who combined to import notorious Satanic Abuse Indicators from the U.S. into the case at an early stage which corrupted the disclosure of the children.  The panel below right contains it's main conclusions which are unequivocal. Satanic abuse did NOT occur in the Broxtowe case.

The JET report not only threatened the entire facade of the Satan Hunters it also damaged the justification for the Roger Cook's 'The Devil's Work' programme which had been designed to 'expose' Satanic Abuse to the British Public. The social workers in  Team4 had worked closely with the researcher for the programme and actually manned the helplines after it was broadcast. But at this point everything was being called into question.    The Satan Hunter clique began a campaign to contradict the JET report. They went public in Seminars and conferences to indoctrinate other social workers and therapists with their faulty evidence. Not only that, they also insinuated that there was a police conspiracy to cover up the evidence. 

The Jet Three

How Satan Hunters tried to suppress free speech on the internet

The 'JET Three' saw that history was being re-written and that society was being damaged by it because the JET report (they had been sent a copy of it anonymously) discrediting the first SRA case had been purposefully censored from public view.   This coincided with the explosion of information being uploaded to the then relatively new world wide web. They made a conscious decision to upload the JET report so that the public could read it and judge for themselves.

How The Satan Hunters Conspire to Shuffle Their Evidence

The way that the pro-SRAMist lobby presents its 'evidence' is regularly found to be partial, misleading, manipulative and often economical with the truth. 

For instance, on page 25 of Tim Tate's book Children for the Devil ( Ed: not now available in the U.K. because it was pulped for inaccurate defamatory allegations but widely circulated and referred to by Satan hunters in the U.S. and other areas outside the jurisdiction of the U.K. Courts. See here.)  which he compiled from his close relationship with social workers in Nottingham he has Judith Dawson, leader of the Broxtowe social work Team4, say:

"It was a way for these very young children to explain to us what had happened. But we were very careful to prevent them discussing or agreeing the content between themselves. All the children were in separate foster homes and contact was minimal. "

"Interestingly [John] tells his foster-mother that [Roberta] was wrong about the babies. Of similar age to his sister and in the same foster home with her, his disclosing cannot be separated from [Roberta]'s as it is clear that the foster mother discusses things with them together."

But this is NOT what happened. The JET Report, which had access to the taped interviews, puts it this way.

[Colin]'s speech is never clear and on questioning he answers 'S'Lina' which becomes 'Selina' (because of the significance in the SRA literature of a Selina as a Satanic figure). Likewise he mentions a little puppet but corrects himself, this was translated by social workers into 'poppet' as these are the dolls that witches are supposed to stick pins in.

"The police had investigated locations thoroughly, they were sceptical at the idea of the family murdering children in a semi-detached council house, (particularly after interviewing neighbours). They were aware that the adults (recalling SRA) were totally unreliable, they were suspicious as to the validity of the American literature and they had doubts about the interpretation of the diaries. We were surprised to discover that the Police had actually researched witchcraft and Satanism quite thoroughly. "

In 1989 when Tate was liaising with Team4 and in the middle of preparing his programme on SRA, he went to the occult bookshop in Leeds which he had, months before, targeted as the 'patsy' for his Cook Report on Satanic Ritual Abuse. Tate went there incognito to purchase occult paraphernalia. Paraphernalia which was later used in a mock Satanic Initiation which Tate filmed and put into his programme to 'prove' the prevalence of Satanism in Britain! The manager serving him smelled a rat and asked him outright who the items were for and whether he was a journalist.  Tate, flustered, replied that he worked at a the Keighley News, a parochial local rag.  This was not a lie, because in his past that is where he had worked, but of course it was a key misdirection. If he had been honest and said ' I work for the Cook Report' the manager would have thrown him out minus the paraphernalia and made the 'entrapment' of the shop very much more difficult.  The inset illustration is of the credit-card voucher Tate signed when he made that purchase. (Full Story here).

Poppets? or Puppets? or Witch dolls?
or just NSPCC flim-flam?

The image below shows the Independent on Sunday reported it (Children's games that bred alarm over Satanism).  There was massive publicity about this at the time so that 'Witch Dolls' became a shibboleth of the case just as allowing the kids to watch 'Video Nasties' became the keynote of the Rochdale false SRA case in the minds of the public sometime later.   

What Happened When The Police Checked out the Allegations of Children and Adults at Broxtowe?

So nothing, absolutely nothing, checked out from the allegations of satanism made by the adult victims in the Broxtowe family.  A Big Fat Zero. Nada. Zilch.

To an outsider this interview smacks of a clique of obsessive believers in SRA who are ready to go outside all normal social work rules and regulations to browbeat peoplea child into confirming their obsessive ideas of Satanic Ritual Abuse.  

"I have seen [Mabel] many times over the past few months and she's told me she's been telling the Social Services about witch parties. I know she's telling lies... [Mabel] has told me that if I tell the Social Services about witch parties at big houses I might have a chance of getting my daughter back (June's child is in care) my social worker's told me if I 'tell the truth' I could get my daughter back...

...everything I have told (the social worker) is lies. I've told her the truth more than once but she wouldn't believe me so I just said anything.... the only things I know about witchcraft and magic are the things I've seen on the telly.

What the little Broxtowe Children actually said:

How the Clique of Believers in SRA unconsciously twist the ramblings of children to suit themselves and their narrative.

"Yes. And the details do appear to be very similar across the world. I think the best way of summing it up is the way it was put to me. If children all over the world are giving you identical details of bizarre abuse either you have an international conspiracy of toddlers, which seems unlikely or you have something rather more organised on an adult basis."

Judith Dawson, leader of Team4 also appeared in the same programme backing up Tate and opining her belief in the existence of satanic Ritual Abuse.  Bear in mind two things here: (1) the Broxtowe trial had finalised earlier that year and had proved that there was NO Satanic abuse involved in that case yet the Satan Hunters involved in it were still trying to convince outsiders that there was.  (2) The JET inquiry had opened in July 10th 1989 and had yet to report on how the overall investigation had been undertaken and whether there were any faults in it. 

It was Catherine Gould who developed the very first Satanic Abuse Indicators which listed 29 things which would tell you if your child had been satanically abused. It is infamous for indicating false cases of SRA and causing suffering around the world ; see pic (right)  
Hudson's work amplifed and expanded on that, though neatly left out some bits such as where Gould maintains that 'farting at the dinner table is a sign of Satanic Abuse' and other things which were clearly stupid.

As you can See Gould's list included 29 'indicators', Hudson's  Ritual Child Abuse was an attempt to statistically analyse claimed (but as yet unproven) incidents of SRA around the world to portray a consistency in childrens' claims. She did this through a 'questionnaire' to believers ( which was first distributed in March 1989 almost synchroniously with the Broxtowe trial) and by cross-referencing claimed cases in the U.S. (such as the McMartin pre-school case) which were later, like Broxtowe, proved false.  Hudson came up with 8 primary indicators of SRA: These were:

l .  Compulsive, erotic behaviour, acting out the sex acts.
2  A  sudden extreme fear  of the bathroom, bathing, washing, rain.
3.  Nightmares, Night terrors, Night Sweats.
4.  Extremely high anxiety, fearful of  being separated from parents,  school refusal.
5.  Hyperagression,  temper tantrums,  oppositional behaviour and school disruptiveness.
6.  Sudden eating disorder, refuses meat, catsup (ketchup), spaghetti, tomatoes.
7.  Fearful of going to bed, the dark,  resists bedtime, will  not sleep alone.
8.  Vomiting for  no apparent reason, abdominal pain.

It will be clear to all parents that using this checklist 99.9% of children would be diagnosed as having been Satanically abused. It could only have been written by a spinster!   The child who never has nightmares, eats everything put in front of him,  washes and cleans his teeth without being asked, and rushes to go to bed simply does not exist.  Even more telling is the phrase 'Vomiting for no apparent reason' when all mothers know that kids regularly fail to wash their hands after going to the toilet and then suck their fingers afterwards, causing occasional tummy upsets.

In bigging up Hudson and trying to establish the 'pattern' of SRA Tate writes:

"What Hudson was hearing from the children she counselled in 1984 — and still hears today — was a bizarre litany of serious criminal offences apparently committed in the  course of obscene religious ceremonies.  Simultaneously other therapists and law-enforcement agents were picking up remarkably similar stories from children - mostly under school-age — throughout the United States." (Children for the Devil pp2)

This all sounds like a large weight of evidence to suggest that leading edge social workers and child protection groups were discovering a new type of child abuse.  However what Tate fails to mention to his reader is that three years before he published his book Gallant had actually had a public dispute with Pamela Hudson at a 1988 U.S. SRA Conference over the fact that she (Gallant) believed that many of the stories being related were contaminated by preconceived ideas from parents and therapists.

So the police were not in agreement with Pamela Hudson and other Satan Hunters. As early as 1988 Gallant and Hudson clashed on the veracity of the tales.

This is what Gallant actually said:

Q: Is contamination of the witnesses a problem? A: Sandi Gallant:  "I see it as a real serious problem. In fact. at this conference that I spoke at where Pam Hudson was also speaking, we disagreed on that. l feel that it's extremely imperative  that there be little if any contamination of a case; that questions be very broad-based. The children should actually respond in narrative form without really point-blank questions being asked. Hudson feels quite the opposite of that. I also feel it’s very important that parents and adult survivors—even though I think it's very necessary that they have support groups—what concerns me about these groups is that I believe there's a lot of contamination going on, and people feed off of one other, and then what happened to their child yesterday is happening to someone else's child today, because the parents are asking very few questions. Or what happened to adult survivors, that's talked about in the group, tomorrow is happening to another survivor in the group, in the memories, and that concerns me greatly. I don't think it's helping this whole issue at all. I think it‘s just further confusing it.  Source: Green Egg magazine,  October 1988.

Randy Emon's Public Contrition Hereunder Shows How Dangerous Mixing Religious Beliefs and Policing can be. I am personally convinced I helped create the hysteria that put Paul Ingram in jail. In 1986 I participated in a video called AMERICA'S BEST KEPT SECRET in which Mike Warnke also appeared. (Ed: See Timeline for the September 1986 cult-crime seminar at which Gallant spoke alongside fundie Mike Warnke (of Mike Warnke Ministries). Note also that fundie Maureen Davies from the Reachout Trust who was instrumental in propagating the SRA myth in UK during 1988-1994 and who handled the helplines on Tate's ill-fated Cook Report was also in touch with and obtaining 'evidence' from Mike Warnke Ministries).  Because I was a cop and also a Christian I believed other Christians who told horrific satanic stories would certainly not fabricate their accounts. I later taught some 5,000 law enforcement personnel. After about 4-5 years of teaching the existence of satanic criminals rife in America I was challenged to examine the evidence. I realized it was I who had been buffalloed. Prior to that I participated in other video documentaries such as: IN THE NAME OF SATAN; DEVIL WORSHIP, THE RISE OF SATANISM - 1989 Jeremiah Films. (Ed: Maureen Davies also appeared giving 'evidence' in this sectarian propaganda video , as did Audrey Harper, a director of the fundie Reachout Trust who was filmed as an SRA 'victim' on the Cook Report even though her allegations had been fully checked out years previously by Surrey police (TWICE) and found 'no case to answer!) HALLOWEEN TRICK OR TREAT and a few other local documentaries in L.A. When I changed my viewpoint due to the lack of empirical research or physical evidence to support the SRA claims I was quickly ostracised by my colleagues. America has been hoodwinked and many other cops have also bought into this modern myth. Randy Emon: Sergeant (retired) Baldwin Park Police Dept., Calif. [Source:] Reproduced with kind permission of www.skepticfiles.org

Now of course it may be that Tim Tate didn't know that Sandi Gallant had changed her position and had found through her detailed investigation of claimed SRA cases in the U.S. that many of them were based on hysteria.  Tate's universal expertise in this issue as a founder member of the clique that imported the SRA myth to U.K. shores, who injected the Satanic Indicators into the Broxtowe case, who supported and campaigned for Team4, who appeared at satan seminars with them, and who researched and co-produced that despicable Cook Report which unveiled allegations of SRA to the British public in July 1989 but eventually turned out to be wrong in almost all respects, might not have heard about Gallant's scepticism about SRA. 

"America has been hoodwinked and many other cops have also bought into this modern myth".

But did Tate also not hear about the unfortunately named U.S. 'Cult-Cop' Randy Emon's public retraction of his prior beliefs on SRA?  See the panel alongside and weep for the small children sucked into this maelstrom of lying, left to go through life by being brainwashed and traumatised by people who set out to 'help' them.   This is what Emon said:  "America has been hoodwinked and many other cops have also bought into this modern myth".     It does rather undermine the advocacy of Tate's, writings, don't you think, when the SAFF can find SO many instances where his research can be countermanded?  Is it right that he continues to try to persuade readers that there is a PATTERN when in reality no pattern exists save in the minds of  obsessed Satan Hunters? 

THE 'PATTERN' OF SRA

Tim Tate has spent considerable time in interviews and in his own writings insisting that there is a 'pattern' which proves the existence of SRA but there wasn't any pattern at all.  There wasn't a 'Conspiracy of Toddlers' but a conspiracy of therapists and hysterical parents pushed ever onwards by media voracious for sensational stories. We will show you it now, below.

Further on in his book Tate is upbeat when he introduces Pamela Klein on page 266. He describes her as

'a highly respected Chicago-based child sexual-abuse therapist.' 

Do you believe him?
If Klein is respected it is only within the confines of the obsessive SRA clique because in 1989 she gave a lecture to Social Workers in Nottingham about SRA in the same month her 'commrade in arms'  Jacquie Balodis who had earlier joined with Klein to give a lecture on SRA to Kansas City police officers, was telling the UK Sunday Sport that she had 'Skinned her Baby for Satan'. It was of course a lie. 



I'm afraid Klein's own work on SRA didn't turn out too good in the long run 

"...in the Chicago area, Pamela Klein conducted over 50 interviews with a young girl, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Fittanto.  Their daughter revealed to Pamela Klein vivid details of their parents' involvement in satanic cannibalism, including mutilation.  The judge ruled that Ms. Klein was not a bonafide therapist and that she was responsible for teaching the child to believe the horrendous fantasies.  The father was charged with molestation, but the charges were later dropped.  John Fittanto subsequently filed a million dollar lawsuit against Pamela Klein. Source:

Perhaps Tate thought a lot of Klein because she had been used as a consultant by the Cook Report to advise on his trashy Devil's Work' programme screened on July 17th 1989?

In fact Klein was very active in the 1990s - she helped export the SRA myth to Australia and to New Zealand.  Look what the Mail on Sunday said about her activities:
The cutting on the right came from the Daily Mail 25th April 1994, they didn't think much of Klein's expertise in SRA either.

To convince readers of his 'Pattern' Tate  then unveils extracts from one the Broxtowe foster-mother's diaries (The foster mothers had been told to keep diaries by the Wardship judge ) where they recorded conversations with the children in a casual manner.  The child's words are in Red, the foster-mother's in black and Tate's comment is in Green.

"Wednesday, 17 May 1989

’When Mr Pooh-pants goes to the witch parties — well, he’s
horrible.’

’Why?’

‘ ’Cause he’s the boss. We have to call him “High Man".’

’Do you?’

“Yes, and Mr Brown [a coloured adult male identified by several
children] because they say, “Children - come here.” ’

“’Children come here?" — what do you mean?’

’Well, Mr Pooh-pants says to me: “Number One, come here." We
have numbers — but Mr Pooh-pants and Mr Brown don't have
numbers."

Tate infers that a coloured adult male has been categorically identified by three children independently as a 'High Man'. The implication is that 'Brown' is some kind of 'Man in Black' for the Broxtowe 'coven'; an outsider who runs things, but when the evidence Tate does NOT tell his reader about is revealed it shows that this is a step too far. The JET report states:

"The style of the diaries changes with the foster parents taking an interrogative approach in a desire to elicit more information and using many leading questions e.g. Have you been to this big house?  Do you know Tony? Is Mr. Brown there? Have you ever been to a farm?"

Tate appears to ignore the fact that children, particularly young children who may not yet be totally in control of their own bowels frequently mention poo. Tate says that 'the conversation he quoted could have been replicated 3,000 miles away'.  PRECISELY!

Tate appears not to notice two things. Firstly the significance between 'a number one' and 'a number two' being common questions to not-quite-potty-trained children, as is 'wee-wee' and 'poo-poo'. Secondly  he also overlooks the fact that the NSPCC unit which therapised these children had a model of Pooh Bear that they played with along with the Monsters and Witch Costumes! Mister Pooh!

It is often difficult to take to task the accusations made by the advocates of SRA because of the secrecy and confidentiality of the documents they are privy to.  Tate for instance appears to have access to the foster mothers' diaries and other insider information from Team4 whereas we are denied it, but thankfully some of the SRA crowd reveal their hands. In Beatrix Campbell's discredited documentary Listen to the Children (which you can see extracts from here )  there are momentary shots of some of the scrappily written 'diaries' which the foster mothers completed, including the one Tate refers to. When we checked that page we found that Tate had omitted some of the conversation,  because the child went on to say:

— but Mr Pooh-pants and Mr Brown don't have numbers, but my mum and my family all do"

"What number is your mum?

"Number 1"

So although the child has contradicted itself in the course of the conversation the contradiction is either ignored or censored. Firstly he says he is No.1. Then in the bit Tate did not record he says that his Mum is No1.  Now, the child's evidence is either all to be relied on, or all NOT to be relied on, one cannot pick or choose to prove one's point but Tate appears to be doing exactly that.

By overlooking the fact that only one child (the most voluble where SRA motifs were concerned) volunteered information about 'Mr Brown' but the rest of the children were asked leading questions about 'Mr Brown' by the foster mothers, and then by omitting the full conversation Tate manages, accidentally or not, to give 'the High Man' a significance which it does not deserve.   There may well have been a Mr Brown who was involved in the 'regular' abuse of these children but the police couldn't find him and there is absolutely no indication that he was a leader of satanists. In any event Satanists do not give their members numbers!  

How many other 'therapists' and SRA 'survivors' believe these points?  How many times have they told 'victims' that SRA has been proven because all cases are part of a 'pattern'. A pattern which never really existed except in the minds of fundamentalist Christians and therapists?  

Having followed Tate's pronouncements on these issues and noted the failure of dozens of the historic cases he originally claimed were evidence of SRA  see here  along with the errors and chicanery in The Cook Report  see here we find the 'certainty' he employs when writing about SRA completely unacceptable.

"The Police were highly suspicious of the involvement of the media and Mr. Ray Wyre, particularly after they discovered that they ( the Cook Report ) wanted to make a good T.V. programme and had supplied Ray Wyre with the Satanic indicators that he used when briefing the foster parents. The Police speculated that the Social Services Department had been manipulated.

On 9.2.88 Ray Wyre, having been contracted to Social Services as an expert, gave a presentation to the foster parents using the Satanic Indicators of an alleged American Expert. . These were passed around the foster parents. One foster parent claims great stress was laid upon them and they were told what to look for. These indicators emphasize transportation to other places, animal sacrifices, drinking of blood, eating flesh, defiling children with urine and faeces, monsters and ghosts, a mysterious church, killing of children etc.

[Laura] was aged 5 years..... In the diaries for November, December 1987 and January she is consistent with [Colin], [Roberta] and [John] in identifying home and the family, except that she talks about parties but not specifically witches. The main content during this period is of the family at home burning her with sticks. After Ray Wyre's  presentation to the Foster-mothers on the 9th February 1988 [Laura] talks on the 19th February 1988 about the murder of babies and the bath being full of blood.

(iv) Interviews with Experts previously used by Social Services

Our fourth approach was to check upon the basis for the experts' views. As Ray Wyre was paid as a consultant by Social Services and used the Satanic indicators to brief the foster parents we interviewed him first. In our view he was extremely vague and evasive and could give no evidence to support his assertions beyond a few cases that we subsequently checked with negative results.

All this is very pertinent. Ray wire was a key instigator of belief in SRA in Broxtowe though he kept a respectable distance from most of the sensational 'victim imposters' (like Jacquie Balodis and others) who were providing quotes for shocking headlines in the British media at the time.  Occasionally Wyre would give one paragraph quotes within articles in the social work press, or in the Broadsheets but he never gave a lengthy interview on his SRA beliefs.    How surprising then to find that in the middle of 1989 when he was being circumspect in the U.K. media he appeared on the Australian TV documentary series 'Sixty Minutes' talking at length about Broxtowe and about another U.K. case of a 15 year old girl who Sixty Minutes chose to call 'Theresa' but who was actually a girl given the pseudonym 'Natalie' when she was shown in silhouette in the Cook Report 'The Devil's Work' which went out around the same time in Britain!  

Did Wyre have any evidence of SRA?  The JET people said clearly that he could not produce any but here we find him giving an interview intended for Australia which is categoric in its insistence that children are being killed in Satanic Rituals.  Wyre, an ex Baptist minister, opened his Gracewell Clinic to amongst other things, 'rehabilitate' Priests who had sexually abused children so they could go back into the church.  He had found and therapised plenty of abusive priests but had never ever personally come across any Satanic Abusers, yet here he was stating categorically that they killed children even though no dead children had ever been found.  You can see him make his astonishing claims by clicking on the TV image above.

 In hindsight of course 'Natalie's' Cook Report claims were all found to have nothing to do with Satanists, but at the time she convinced many as she tearfully pleaded on camera. 

Strangely Wyre did not appear in the Cook Report but as you can see from the JET report and the Timeline on this webpage and the photograph left, he was actively involved with Tim Tate who researched and co-produced it and Wyre was also there behind the scenes assisting with the 'help-lines' after broadcast

The Australian Sixty Minutes documentary ended with the interviewer asking whether Wyre thought there might be some abusing Satanists in Australia. Wyre said 'undoubtedly' but then again, in the programme so did Audrey Harper from The Reachout Trust who also claimed to be a 'victim' of Satanists on the Cook Report, along with her friend Maureen Davies, director of The Reachout Trust who worked with the Cook Report and along with Wyre handled the helplines afterwards, she sat next to Judith Dawson leader of Team4 from Broxtowe.  Beginning to see the pattern now? 

Predictably, by May of the following year (1990) Pamela Klein had introduced her 'Satanic Indicators' to police in New Zealand and a rash of SRA cases then ensued, all of which were proven false in the passage of time.

Witch Drawings. 

Of course very young kids can't say "Well, this man turned up, put on a robe, set up an altar with candles, placed a baby on it and slit it's throat, then we all ate bits of it."  One way to get children to open up is to let them play-act things out. Another is to allow them to draw what they are thinking.  Of course, if you let the children know that you want them to draw, scenes of witches and devils, then this is what you get:

 Of course REAL witches aren't wicked and don't wear pointy hats. Neither do real Satanists, which brings us to the fundamental point that although Team4 and the Broxtowe foster mothers prattled on about Satanists, the children's comments were all about WITCHES.  They were simply mirroring back the stereotypical kind of 'wicked witch' stories that appear in children's TV stories and books.  

The only people who would today confuse Witchcraft, the prehistoric pagan religion of the British Isles,  who believe in a pantheon of gods, with Satanism which believes in a single divinity, are fundamentalist Christians who believe in the devil.  Witches do not believe in a devil figure, never have; never will. They have no devil in their cosmology.  BASW would have known this if they had read our report that they had earlier binned.   Only Christians believe in the devil and therefore technically only lapsed Christians can become Satanists. Neither witches nor Satanists abuse children as part of their rites.  Assuming that they kill and abuse kids because a 4 year old can draw a witch 'to order'  is absolutely bonkers.

Jerry Simandl and Microwaved Babies Who Never Were

The Jet Report says that [Norman] was the child who first spoke about Microwaving Babies.

"Coincidentally he made this disclosure within a week of social work staff attending the Reading Conference on child abuse and learning there from Jerry Simandl (who produced the second set of Satanic indicators used by Social Services) that children in the USA had reported babies being cooked in microwave ovens.

  "Perhaps the  most important conference for spreading Satanic Abuse hysteria, was at Reading University, on 15-17 September 1989. The organisers  were Norma Howes, an ‘independent social worker’, and Pamela Klein, the American who had introduced the ‘Satanic  indicators’ to Britain.     The star speaker was Detective Robert J. (‘Jerry’) Simandl of the Chicago police. He held up a plastic sheet, of the  type which he said was 'used to wrap the bodies of children sacrificed at Satanic rituals' and described how the body would be buried in a freshly-dug grave the day before a genuine funeral. He told harrowing tales of sexual abuse of children in caves and underground tunnels, and of one case in which a child had been cooked in a microwave oven. 
Among other speakers were Pamela Klein, as well as Maureen Davies, Dianne Core, and Marietta Higgs. Others noted as having made a considerable impression were Nottingham social workers Christine Johnston and Judith Dawson, who recorded their "ritual" interpretation of the recent abuse case there. "  Source: Drammatis Personnae website.

An illustration of the utter lack of discernment in these Satan Seminars is when Simandl held up a plastic sheet and told the conference that Satanists used plastic sheets 'like this' to wrap the bodies of children they had sacrificed.  An ahhhh went around the conference hall.  Nobody said. "There hasn't ever been a case of a child's body being sacrificed, how would you know what plastic sheets they used?"

A year later, Mr Simandl was interviewed by the  Mail on Sunday (16 September 1990). He reportedly said:

‘My superiors and colleagues are sceptical when I tell them these stories.   But it is so interesting being in England and Scotland and  talking to people there. The rooms were packed, and everyone wanted to know more and more what was going on’. "                 

I Bet they did!  Over 230 delegates attended that Satan Seminar to have their minds poisoned by rubbish like this and from it most of the other false SRA cases in Britain occurred, including the scandals of  Rochdale, and Orkney.   Interestingly in January 1990 Ker Khulan an American police investigator attended a US presentation by Simandl. This is what he wrote:

Simandl showed some films by Cavalcade Productions an  outfit run by fundamentalist Christian Dale McCulley:  "Ritual Crime: Guidelines for Identification" and  "Identification of the Ritually Abused Child." Some of  Simandl's therapist associates appear in these films.

FUNDIE and RADFEM CONNECTIONS:

How The Battle Was Won For The Lord - with the help of the NSPCC

The NSPCC had been working-up justification for going public with claims of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse since April 1988 when Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens first made his announcement in the House of Commons about Witches Abusing children , see https://www.saff.nfshost.com/dickens.htm
At that time his claims were thought so ludicrous that other MPs ridiculed him and actually joked about his allegations with Labour members saying that witchcraft 'was in number 10!' in disrespectful japes against the then P.M. Margaret Thatcher.  What they didn't know was that secretly Satan-Hunters in Social Work and Radical Feminists had lined up the ongoing Broxtowe case to be the first case of SRA in the UK and Dickens was tied in with them.  As the children were wards of court Dickens could only refer to the case obliquely without breaching Contempt but he made references such as, when he was cornered on the James Whale Show on 8th October 1988 and challenged that he had no evidence that SRA existed, said 'You wait until early next year, there's a case in Nottingham that will prove it!' 

 The caucus of Satan-Hunters in social work who were driving the myth first coalesced around The Cleveland Mass-Lifts scandal, where 121 children were suddenly diagnosed as having been abused and in despicable dawn-lifts were kidnapped by Cleveland Social Services. It was a national disgrace and one of the worst excesses of Radfem interference in child-protection.  After protracted controversy caused by this caucus of Radical Feminists creating a group of activists to fight for Marietta Higgs and the witch-pricker 'Anal Dilation Syndrome' a public inquiry found them all at fault and returned the kids to their innocent parents. It was this caucus which then moved on to involve themselves with the  Broxtowe case and try to redefine it as Satanic Abuse.  Many of those involved in this caucus were active members of the BASPCAN (British Association for the Study and Prevention of child Abuse and Neglect) which was a radical scion of the NSPCC which funded it.  Though, as the report above shows,  by 3rd December 1988 it appears that Higgs' reputation was too hot for BASPCAN to handle. 

BASPCAN steered the NSPCC towards SRA and this coterie gelled when they learned that the Cook Report series was planning an hour-long special exposing Satanic Ritual Child Abuse.   Biased and false information on Satanism and Witchcraft was cycled around this coterie from early 1988 and culminated in the NSPCC first going public about the 'threat' of SRA on 17th July 1989 with a sensational presser which was reported on in hundreds of national and local newspapers.  The Cook Report broadcast its documentary that evening to coincide with and reinforce the NSPCC's dangerous conclusions! ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37FlWtg0Kzo )  This combination of publicity and sensationalism is, undoubtedly, what caused the Satanic Panic which lasted a further five  years until the government's official inquiry into it by Prof. Jean La Fontaine concluded, in June 1994,  that there was no evidence of Satanic involvement in any of the 84 claimed cases which this caucus and the NSPCC had backed to the hilt.

During this hiatus of false accusations and sectarian malice the SAFF wrote to literally hundreds of journalists, key social workers, MPs, commentators, police forces, government departments, directors of social work and of course the NSPCC itself, numerous times, to try to stop the hysteria and save the suffering of small children dragged into the scare by obsessed social workers.  Sadly to the Press's eternal discredit only a few journalists wanted to listen. The sensationalism of the scare was far too good copy to miss!  

One of the first proper journalists to listen to reason was Rosie Waterhouse, who worked on the Sunday Times, Independent on Sunday, BBC Newsnight and Mail on Sunday. An  award winning journalist and a former Director of the MA in Investigative Journalism at City University, London.   Like many journalists, and most of the population, it probably never occurred to Ms Waterhouse that the NSPCC could ever make such atrocious accusations if there wasn't incontrovertible proof to support them.  The first article she wrote on SRA was for the Independent on Sunday, headlined A Satanic Litany of Children's Suffering' on 18 March 1990 following the NSPCC doubling down on their totally unproven SRA allegations, in a second press conference ( held a few days previously on 12th March 1990) which maintained to the absolute astonishment of all, that 14 of it's 66 branches had reported suspicions of SRA and 7 of those were handling cases with Satanic motifs, which suggested that the Satanic Ritual Abuse of Children was real and taking place across the country.   She and her co-writer Jenny Cuffe spoke to 'insiders' (including the Reverend Kev Logan, pictured) who 'confirmed' the threat of SRA.  Logan was a director of the Christian activist group The Reachout Trust ( https://saff.nfshost.com/reachout.htm ).  Waterhouse and Cuffe took their narrative on good faith and wrote it up as you can see in the image on the right.  

But after looking at the 'evidence' Rosie Waterhouse was uneasy and became one of the first journalists to actually contact the very people who were being demonised to get their response. The information that the SAFF provided confirmed her fears and her next article 'The Making of a Satanic Myth' on the 12th August 1990 was the first in-depth national newspaper article to begin to challenge and question the NSPCC's narrative; asking questions nobody had hitherto thought to ask. 

This was a crucial turning point but the hive of activity from believers in the myth of Satanic Abuse had, over the past two years, obtained its own momentum.  A series of 'Mind Wars' then took place where under the aegis of a group called RAINS ( Ritual Abuse Information Network & Services  (https://saff.nfshost.com/colemanrains.htm    which included the coterie of Cleveland Scandal veterans ) , conferences of SRA 'experts' were held around the UK and missionised to social services and police forces to get them to accept their contention that a pan-global network of Satanists were sadistically sexually and physically abusing, and killing children.  At the same time skeptics were demanding proof which never materialised.  Supposed SRA cases were being artificially generated by obsessed believers based on the testimony of three year olds whom they had interrogated for days on end with leading questions to elicit some imagined witchy connection or other,  but which then always failed in the courts.  Ayrshire, Epping, Liverpool, Pembrokeshire, and many others.

It took several years for the hysteria to subside and the turning point in the myth came when the eruptions caused by two scandalous cases which dragged social services into national disrepute and turned the population against the NSPCC and the Satan-hunters it had prospered; these were the 1990 Rochdale case and the 1991 Orkney case.  https://saff.nfshost.com/rochdale.htm    
 https://saff.nfshost.com/orkney.htm

But we are getting ahead of ourselves. The NSPCC's second press briefing was the second detonator for the Satanic Panic of the 1990s. It got MASSIVE coverage across the country and kick-started many local controversies. The massed hatred towards anyone even slightly involved in the esoteric was immense following this NSPCC press release.    To give you an indication of how deep it ran, one spiritualist church in Hull actually took a display advert in their local newspaper explaining that Spiritualism was a Christian belief and should not be confused with Satanism!   Within days the British public had been utterly convinced that SRA existed by headlines like the one on the left from the Daily Mirror. The scare extended to the whole of society and of course was soon picked up by mainstream politicians.  On March 13th under the headline

Thatcher Outrage Over Children in Satanic Rites

"The Prime Minister today expressed outrage at reports that children as young as five are being forced by adult sex abuse rings to take part in satanic rites. At Commons question time Mrs Thatcher urged anyone with evidence to take it to the police to enable offenders to be prosecuted. Her comments followed yesterday's warning by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children of child involvement in ritualistic abuse. Tory John Bowis (Battersea) asked if Mrs Thatcher had seen the NSPCC report "linking satanism practices with child abuse". To cheers from all sides, he demanded: "Will you do everything possible in the Government's power to support the police and child welfare agencies, to stamp out this loathsome practice?"

There was a complete and unquestioning acceptance of the allegations made by the NSPCC. Why would such an august body even say something like that if they were not absolutely sure? But of course, as we maintained at the time, and as we have proven since, the NSPCC opportunistically maximised the SRA myth. There was NO evidence from their branches. It was the result of an unscientific questionnaire sent by the radical wing of the NSPCC, mostly crusading feminists influenced by the SRA panic which had already occurred in the U.S. The NSPCC 'research' asked subjective questions about whether any of the cases handled by that branch might align with the 'Satanic Indicators' which had been imported from the U.S.A. Of course, as we have shown above, the 'indicators' proved that anyone and everything was a result of Satanic Abuse and so many of the questionnaires came back 'positive'. This was all the excuse the NSPCC required to start a national panic.

Of course, crusading Christians were absolutely thrilled with all this. They had already been on-board and cultivating the SRA lie since the spring of the previous year when Geoffrey Dickens MP (the parliamentary representative of Childwatch) had announced Satanic Abuse as a reality in parliament in April 1988. Childwatch was run by Dianne Core, an ardent Christian. Dickens and Core had joined up with Kevin Logan, a fundamentalist ex-Coal Board journalist who had taken holy orders and become a vicar of a Blackburn church a stone's throw from Dickens constituency.

Logan had for years been active in the fundie circuit specialising in creating discord between Christians and anyone involved in the New Age or Neo-Paganism. One of his successes was to arrange a 'questionnaire' for children at the local church school containing leading questions similar to the Satanic Indicators. Had children ever played 'fantasy games' or listened to 'heavy metal music'? When most of them said yes he drew up a report saying that 87% of schoolchildren were being inculcated into occultism! And got lots of press coverage for it.

Davies was in direct touch with manic fundamentalist SRA hunters in the U.S. and based a lot of her 'knowledge' about SRA on what she imported from them. Particularly that from Mark Warnke Ministries, Randy Emon's COIN organisation, Patricia Pulling's BADD (Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons - a popular 1980s fantasy game which Pulling maintains pushes kids into suicide because of occult characters) and in particular the Cult-Crime Impact Network which we have exposed elsewhere in this article. The Logan and Davies fundie double-act was so close that they were almost inseparable. In almost every anti-occult newspaper and magazine article in which Logan appeared, so did Davies - (she was quoted in the Ban These Evil Games article above).

"Mr Logan is also a member of the Evangelical Alliance which was formed a year ago following reports of child,abuse,rape,animal and human sacrifice in satanic rituals."

Dr Checkley concludes: ’Such things as ouija boards and tarot cards can definitely harm. They open up the mind to outside forces.’

'I have seen someone who as a result of one experiment with an ouija board, suffered frightening experiences outside his control'.   

 In Doorways to Danger  Checkley waxes to this theme by reportedly  saying

'I have seen patients whose involvement with relatively minor forms of the occult has caused them to suffer mental illness.  I have seen someone who as a result of one experiment with a ouija board suffered frightening experiences outside his control, including automatic handwriting. He found himself writing frightening messages to himself,’

You can see much more about the machinations surrounding the infamous Doorways to Danger leaflet on this website here: http://halloweenchoice.nfshost.com/halloweenharding.htm

But what follows next is almost too wacky to believe. Dr Stuart Checkley, admitted in an interview in the Mail On Sunday (16th June 92) to having performed an exorcism in hospital on a patient who was threatening suicide. 

Earlier, on 17th October 1988, and much more pertinently in respect of the Broxtowe case , the Independent newspaper reported that:

'Dr Checkley is convinced that the occult can have very harmful consequences. " Sometimes you cannot explain it in a psychiatric way...The occult has harmful effects through unknown mechanisms'. He has seen people who, following lengthy and unproductive psychiatric treatment, will recover after being helped by the Church'.

After Stuart Checkley retired from his psychiatric work he began travelling around churches lecturing to christian audiences about spiritual healing and prayer healing of the mentally sick. In September 2006 he lectured in Exeter under the aegis of Exeter Anglican Diocese on Healing the soul via Dreams:

" They (Checkley and his wife) have many years’ experience of praying for inner healing, and have worked closely with Leanne Payne, who is well known in the area of healing, and whose books and ministry on this subject are internationally respected. For twelve years they have run conferences similar to hers, and they have both taken early retirement to be able to spend more time on this ministry"

The situation becomes even more astonishing when you realise that a year later in July 1990 the Evangelical Alliance began distributing a video version of their leaflet Doorways to Danger, entitled Doorways to Danger The Video - in which Judith Dawson personally took part talking about SRA and Broxtowe in clear evangelical terms. This is some of what she said:

"We've had to be taken beyond belief because what we've learned is that children are not only sexually abused but that they are also ritualistically abused that means that we have learnt that some families some adults get involved with satanic groups whose main aim is to destroy everything that is good everything that is good about human life and human values, and one particular target in that would be that they should hurt and defile children. As you are probably aware Christ said 'Touch not one hair of this child's head', satanists believe that they should do the opposite of that. "

Were there other sectarian influences in Nottingham at the time?  Well yes there was. The Deputy Director of Nottingham Social Services, Andy Croall was a vituperative fundamentalist who said that abortions (legal abortions) were a form of Child Abuse. He made this statement in a TV interview right in the middle of the SRA debate. His statement caused uproar in the ranks of Nottingham social workers and he was suspended. Shortly thereafter Croall resigned and took up a high-profile position in Caring Professions Concern, the Christian fundamentalist body acting as a forum for doctors and therapists and psychiatrists to which Stuart Checkley and Russel Blacker were allied. Croall later travelled around the U.K. giving lectures on Satanic Ritual Abuse.

It is absolutely impossible for anyone involved in Broxtowe to now deny that the case wasn't  infested with Sectarian prejudice and that fundamentalist lies and liars had been imported from the U.S. to corroborate the SRA aspects of the case by those who wanted to find them there, despite the fact that the police after extensive investigations found no forensic evidence ever existed. It is the worst example of a witch-hunt in modern British history.

The Timeline in the leftmost column gives all the references and sources for this article but if anyone wants further clarification then they are invited to contact us at the email address below.

Tony Rhodes and John Freedom,
Mortlake.
Summer Solstice 2016

Ends:

Here's some links which will help you understand the 'Broxtowe Conspiracy' further.

Cook Report Man dredges up Cleveland Mass Lift Scandal

RAINS Satanic Evidence is Worthless - how adult victim-imposters are manufactured

Author of Governments' 1994 reporton SRA explains why it won't go away.