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DID THE
'DEVIL REPORT'
CONTRIBUTE TO CAROL MYERS' SUICIDE?
Observer Newspaper Ridicules Sinason's SRA Hogwash
....In the medical records, Sinason noted that Carole was her first chronic sadistic-abuse patient. Today, when I ask about her
first patient, Sinason describes the arrival of two medical professionals – a nurse and a psychologist – one of whom was limping.
"I just had that nasty feeling," she says. "It's her, and she's been hurt by them."
"You could tell that from the limp?" I ask.
"Yep."
Soon, we get to the actual satanism. Sinason talks of a popular ritual in which a child is stitched inside the belly of a dying
animal before being 'reborn to satan'. During other celebrations, "people eat faeces, menstrual blood, semen, urine. There's
cannibalism." Some groups have doctors performing abortions. "They give the foetus to the mother and she's made to kill the baby."
"And the cannibalism – that's foetuses?" I clarify.
"Foetuses and bits of bodies."
"Raw or cooked?"
"The foetuses are raw."
"Not even a bit of salt and pepper?" I ask.
"Raw. And handed round like communion. On one major festival, the babies are barbecued. I can still remember one survivor saying how easy
it is to pull apart the ribs on a baby. But adults are tougher to eat."
She describes large gatherings in woodlands and castles, with huge cloths being laid out.
That's normally when there's a sacrifice,"
she notes,
"and because the rapes are happening all over the place. There's a small amount of cannon fodder in terms of runaways, drug
addicts, prostitutes and tramps that are used. There's sex with animals. Horses, dogs, goats. Being hanged upside down. In the woods, on
a tree."
"How do they get an animal to have sex with a human?" I wonder.
Sinason's husband thinks for a moment.
"Well," he says, "plenty of dogs have a go at people's legs."
"True," says Sinason, adding poignantly:
"However horrible it sounds, the dog, at least, is friendly afterwards."
"Because at least the dog's had a good time," I say.
"And the child loves the pet," Sinason nods. "The pet is made to have sex with the child – but the pet, at least, is still their friend."
If there were any evidence needed of the sheer irresponsibility of Satan Hunters in social work and the therapist arena Sinason's
ideas and assertions are it. It is unbelievable to think that, over twenty years after the original claims which caused so
much tragedy at the time, could be rehashed and reused today, to justify the obsessive beliefs of a small but vocal minority of
leading edge therapists and social workers. Read more of the Observer's article
here: to see how
Valerie Sinason admits she used Carole Myers' confabulations in her 'Devil Report'
A week later I ask Sinason if Carole was the patient she'd described, with the limp. She denies this and refuses to answer questions
about her, citing confidentiality. Despite the medical records, she insists she never treated Carole, admitting only to having seen
her as part of a study into ritual abuse for the Department of Health.
Read more about the tragic case of Carol Myers/Felstead
here:
SATANIC ABUSE BACK ON THE AGENDA
Professor La Fontaine demands
explanation from DoH for authorising Devil Report
Government blames Health Authorities for overspend whilst Department of Health
squander £22,000 on another bout of Satanic Abuse madness.
Who's kidding who?
As Tony Blair blamed local health trusts for squandering public money his
own Department of Health was admitting to having spent twenty thousand pounds
of taxpayers money on duplicate research into yet more lurid claims of satanic
ritual abuse! A week beforehand the government agreed to pay out millions
of pounds in compensation payments to victims of child abusers in children's
homes throughout the U.K. yet the same week that the Whitehouse Public Inquiry
was published new claims of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse stole the thunder.
Why, when ordinary child-care is so starved of resources is the Department
of Health paying for duplicate and unnecessary research?
That £22,000.00 could have saved the life of at least one person in
a hospital queue, or paid for an extra social worker in those unglamorous
grass-roots situations which really matter to the dysfunctional families
who need their help but which doesn't make banner headlines like claims of
Satanic abuse.
The world knows that every one of those first satanic ritual abuse claims,
and the judgement of most of the people who promoted them, were utterly
discredited. When the governments' definitive report (The Extent and Nature
of Ritual and Organised Abuse, Prof. Jean La Fontaine 1994) was published,
the truth of the matter was clearly seen.
Her conclusion was that a small number of gullible leading-edge social-work
activists had conjoined with christian fundamentalist agitators to whip up
hysteria in other social workers which had no basis in fact
So why then, are we being treated to another bout of satanic abuse claims?
Those who have observed the antics of Satan Hunters over the past decade
see sensational renewed claims about satanic ritual abuse as a political
device. A timely smokescreen to direct attention away from the appalling
fact that whilst the 'experts' in child care were occupying the DoH's attention
with their repertoire of fringe-scares, HUNDREDS of children were being
systematically and institutionally abused BY SOCIAL WORKERS AND CARE WORKERS
IN THEIR OWN INDUSTRY.
If the public cottoned-on to the fact that the majority of children who are
'in care' are MORE at risk from harm there, than if they were left at home,
the true ineffectiveness of social work would be plain for everyone to see
and the big bucks would dry up.
Hence the ground-breakers in social work have habitually refocussed public
attention on 'star-issues' by exaggerating the risks to children and promoting
a chain of scares to push the public into giving the Child Scare Industry
support. Does anyone remember the 'one in four children have been abused'
claim (a statistical impossibility). Or the 'children never lie' claim? (when
we all know we can lie and if we can do so we must have learned to do so
as kids). Or the 'bogus social worker epidemic' which they said was paedophiles
kidnapping children from home, but actually turned out to be free-lance
do-gooders overstepping their authority and taking the law into their own
hands over prejudiced suspicions about abuse in their locality. These and
many, many more hysterias have been foisted on the British public by the
Child Scare Industry since they came to power in the 1970s.. We believe The
Satanic Child Abuse scare is just the end result of scaremongers having run
out of ideas to justify extra funding or extra charitable donations from
the British public. At least two major child charities asked the public for
money to deal with cases of Satanic Ritual Abuse which did not exist!
Four hundred years ago, when the Catholic church saw its grip on the population
shrinking as protestant faiths developed, the papacy invented the Inquisition
and blamed Satanists for the troubles in society which the churchmen had
themselves created. Today the fundamentalists in social work appear to be
doing the very same thing - blaming the witches for child abuse even if massive
symptoms of repetitive and continual abuse in their own ranks. Consider this;
Why has the Department of Health thrown away 22,000 pounds on research into
supposed claims of Satanic Abuse for a SECOND time, when it has not acted
upon the horrific catalogue of abuses which priests and clergymen are committing
in the U.K. RIGHT NOW under their noses?
The S.A.F.F.'s research on the UNDENIABLE incidence of organised priestly
abuse has spanned a decade and incontrovertibly proves that at least three
new cases of child abuse by the clergy occur EVERY WEEK, year in, year out.
These are not fairy stories, lies or legends; they are genuine proven instances
of Clergy abuse which go through the courts and are fully documented. Real
clergymen, real abuse, real convictions. This is not a hidden or secret
criminality. The social workers and therapists don't need to ferret around
in dark corners for fleeting phantoms here, because, somewhere along the
line, social workers are involved in virtually every one of these cases!
Yet the Child Scare Industry and the DoH appear to have turned a blind eye
to endemic Clergy Abuse in preference to drivelling on about the 'imagined
threat' of Satanic Ritual Abuse. Just as some turned a blind eye to the hundreds
of children who were being systematically abused by their own colleagues
within the governments' care homes. Statistics show that a child is one thousand
times more likely to be abused by a priest than by a satanist! But even more
shocking, if that could be possible, is the fact that our statistics also
show that a child is more likely to be abused by SOCIAL WORKERS, COUNSELLORS
OR THERAPISTS than by satanists! And where, may we ask, are the campaigns
to stop that!
The Child Scare industry keeps you in the dark with exaggerated
tales and bogus statistics. Champions of child welfare appear to point-blank
refuse to address the REAL child abuse which is endemic in this country and
it is a national scandal. SAFF research spanning ten years has highlighted
the type and age of children who are most at risk from priestly abuse but
the DoH will not inform or warn parents of THAT so their sons and daughters
are lead like lambs to the slaughter and put in the trust of paedophile priests
who will destroy their lives. The churches spend more time warning the public
about satanic abuse and the danger of occultism than working with the authorities
to erradicate paedophile priests.
There are plenty of factual instances where
the churches have covered up the 'indiscretions' of their clerlgymen and
secretly placed them in new parishes where the perverts abused another clutch
of children. The child Scare Industry appears to ignore our research in favour
of chasing mythical satanists and is as tight-lipped about the existence
of Clergy Abuse as it is effulgent about the probability of Satanic Ritual
Abuse The DoH has NOT spent 22,000.00 into research on Clergy Abuse! It does
not even mention it in its guidelines - but, as Bruce Clark says in his official
response, their guidelines DO mention the possibility, thoroughly discredited
and ever so slight though the risk may be, of so-called Ritual Abuse. What
kind of 'guidelines' are these?
A DEFINITE and quantifiable threat to this
nations' children from renegade priests is swept under the carpet by the
very government department which is charged with the responsibility of protecting
them. Why? Because upsetting the Christian voters with hard-facts will not
do. Telling Christians that a minority of their priests persistently and
consistently abuse children in horrific ways is beyond the pale! Instead
the institutional prejudice within the DoH panders to the verbosity of Christian
evangelists who blame Satanists and Witches for everything under the sun!
Now the DoH has dolled out more wasted money on an already investigated and
disproved myth of Satanic Ritual Abuse and continued its stonewalling against
Clergy Abuse. How can this be happening in a supposedly civilised and democratic
society?
Was it just coincidance that the DoH's new Devil report hit the headlines
in the same week that the Waterhouse report published the biggest investigation
into child-abuse by carers and social workers in the history of child care?
That's right. Hundreds upon hundreds of cases of repetitive and consistent
abuse in children's homes - and not a Satanist in sight dear reader.
Almost every one of the abused children who gave evidence to the Waterhouse
enquiry had attempted to get the attention and help of other social workers
to stop the continuing abuse but. Perhaps they were too busy chasing scare
stories to do anything about REAL abuse which their own colleagues were
perpetrating?
Is the myth of satanic abuse a get-out-clause for overpressed grass-roots
social workers, and an unnecessary junket for therapists who have become
bored with the humdrum of caring?
Must the Labour government learn by falling for the same mistakes which beset
the Conservatives and wasted over twenty million pounds of taxpayers money
last time?
After you have read the links below you will come to only one conclusion,
far from protecting children from harm, the government and its health department,
consciously or unconsciously, fudge the focus of grass-roots level social
work. The Department of Health appears to be being emotionally blackmailed
over hysteria about child abuse and hasn't the guts or the sense to tell
the Satan Hunters to get lost. Until they do, the poison of the Satanic Ritual
Abuse Myth will continue to infect child care and institutionally abuse children
nationally. The DoH are knowingly or unknowingly institutionalising prejudice
against anyone who is not a WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant).
Since the
Stephen Lawrence enquiry the government is, rightly, highly sensitive against
any form of 'institutionalised racism' yet appears perfectly willing to allow
institutionalised religious discrimination in the department of health. Perhaps
a few unnecessary deaths and an expensive public enquiry into religious
discrimination will be necessary before the witch-hunters in the DoH are
told to disist with their antiquated religious discrimination? These mediaeval
attitudes are utterly inappropriate to Britain today. Is it any wonder that
the Commission for Racial Equality is banging the drum to obtain legislative
powers to protect people who hold minority religious beliefs?
Ends: 31st March 2000
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Sinason's Devil Report -
Over-cooked and Two Years Overdue!
On 5th October 1996, before the ink was dry on the Department of Health's
cheque, news of Valerie Sinason's and Dr Hale's Devil Report was leaked in
front page headlines by the fundamentalist Christian magazine New Christian
Herald. Before the study had even been concluded the NCH crowed
......
The article went on to lambast Professor La Fontaine's report and claimed
that Sinason's report ' will turn on its head the previous findings and is
set to call for a U-turn in Government thinking'.
The front page article,
claimed to be an 'exclusive' was penned by Andrew Boyd. Boyd is a fundamentalist
Christian agitator who has played a key part in promoting the existence of
the Satanic Ritual Abuse Myth for sectarian purposes. He is well known to
the SAFF. He has a background of intense christian sectarian activity including
publishing religious tracts and organising their distribution amongst the
public. He was the producer and presenter of a documentary now known amongst
satan-hunter watchers as the Bogus Devil Video Programme.
Boyd claimed to
present a film showing actual satanic ritual abuse in a Channel 4 Dispatches
programme The claims of the video's existence had believers in the myth rushing
into print with 'told-you-so' articles and demands that the government act
against Satanic Abuse - however they fell strangely silent when it was found
that the 'satanic' video turned out to be a piece of performance art !
Obscure
though the video may have been, it had a film rating and anyone over 1
could walk into music shops in major cities and buy a copy.
When the people
who made the video turned up on Right to Reply to challenge Boyd he admitted
that he DID know the true origins of the film, there were many people in
the Establishment with egg on their faces, including Channel 4 TV who have
still to this day not apologised for foisting what was essentially sectarian
propaganda upon the British public.
The Obscene Publications Squad carried
out a raid on a South Coast address on the strength of Boyd's claims. That
investigation simply proved the video was not what Boyd said and no prosecutions
followed.
Boyd also networked with the star fundamentalist christian agitators
involved in the 1988/89 scare some of whom were publicly disgraced by media
exposes when their true sectarian intentions became known.
Boyd has written
books attacking the occult which are published and distributed by Christian
publishing outfits.
He was/is a leading member of an American based fundamentalist
Christian outreach called Prophetic World Ministries which has as its declaration
of intent enforced acceptance of the bible as the word of god.
The Prophetic
World Ministries magazine has in the past carried what we see as clearly
racist (anti-muslim) and anti-semitic articles.
Boyd used to edit an off-the-wall
pull-out supplement to PWM's magazine called God's Word Now which he also
supplied in bulk to fundamentalist activists for distribution on the streets.
At the time of writing the above article Boyd was the acting editor of The
New Christian Herald. We do not doubt Mr Boyd's sincerity in his own beliefs,
but there is absolutely no way that Mr Boyd can be described as anything
other than a fundamentalist christian missionary agitator who spends the
majority of his time promoting christianity at the expense of other beliefs.
Boyd is a key member of the Satan Hunter clique yet there are MANY more like
him, pressing the DoH for, as Bruce Clark has already admitted, they funded
Sinason's research because people who believed in Satanic Ritual Abuse
complained!
Here, clearly, right at the outset of the Sinason-Hale research
is indisputable evidence of the old links to the anti-occult sectarian agenda
and pre-digested conclusions from the FIRST satan scare which caused so much
trouble in the U.K.
This is PRECISELY what Professor La Fontaines' report
warned the government had caused the first hysteria in 1988. Social work
therapists using unproven methodology getting into bed with Christian activists
with a sectarian axe to grind. The question therefore has to be asked:
Why was Boyd so close to Sinason that he became the first journalist to scoop
this 'exclusive' and announce the report to the thirty thousand evangelical
Christians who read his newspaper?
Probably because the general media weren't interested in such silly claims
after being bitten before in 1988/89. But there could be another possibility.
SAFF research has shown that 90% of those who claim to have been abused by
Satanists have been routed through Christian evangelical groups and
organisations. Was this mega-sensational article a recruitment drive for
more data for the Devil Report or simply Boyd's way of recovering the ground
lost in his Bogus Devil Video debacle?
During 1999 Sinason appeared on TV
in a series based at the Tavistock Clinic which she helps run. The six programmes
covered many therapeutic aspects and showed many patients in therapy but
never once covered Sinason's research into satanic abuse nor did it include
any of the 50 cases which Boyd claimed were the basis of her research.
In 1996 Boyd claimed that Sinason's Devil Report was due out in the next
three months - four years later it has not been released to public view.
Yet the satan-hunters have repetitively reaped propaganda from the data claimed
to be within it.
Two years ago (29 May 1998) the SAFF presented yet another paper directly
to the DoH on the dangers of their stated intention of embodying the term
'ritual abuse' within the DoH Guidelines. The DoH had asked for comments
on their proposed change. We believed that the change was forced by a cabal
of satan-hunters within the DoH whose intention was to re-hike the scare.
The same cabal which was involved with the original scare in 1988/89. Our
published paper in response (DANGERS POSED TO CHILDREN IF THE DEPARTMENT
OF HEALTH ALLOW THE TERM RITUAL ABUSE TO BE INCOPRORATED WITHIN PROPOSED
NEW WORKING TOGETHER GUIDELINES FOR SOCIAL WORKERS) warned the responsible
DoH officer, and his colleagues that this would provide the thin end of the
wedge for the Satan Hunters and that they would then increase their efforts
to revitalise the original scare.
The bias in the Department of Health against
information disproving the satan scare was proved when they did not even
have the decency or fairness to acknowledge our paper or comment on our data,
but you can obtain a copy by sending us 3.95 (U.K) and see just how accurate
and prophetic our research has been.
Just Who, exactly, will consult over the flawed Devil Report?
The DoH personnel who have been involved in authorising Sinason's Devil Report
consider it a 'consultative document' which they intend to use as justification
to decide upon future funding and action against Satanic Ritual Abuse'. (
Pause whilst single parents, new-age travellers, everyone in Orkney, and
Rochdale as well as the millions of people with non-Christian beliefs gasp
for breath and check the door bolts.) We give notice to the Department of
Health that we are watching. Responsible officials will NOT be allowed to
merge into the shadows, when the satan-hunters arise again to destroy the
lives of innocent children and their families a second time.
We shall be
watching and the British Public will Know. The ONLY organisation which has
had its finger on the pulse of these allegations is the SAFF. We have conducted
diligent, accurate and essential work behind the scenes for over a decade,
to avoid religious discrimination infecting the institutions of state. Unique
work from which everyone in society benefits. The Satan-hunters would like
to ignore the SAFF. They would like us to go away and leave them free to
work their wickedness.
The nameless officials hate us because we actually
work on behalf of the best interests of ALL the people and illustrate the
shortcomings in the system. This society does not know the half of it, yet
the SAFF has been the ONLY organisation to see the satanic ritual abuse myth
for what it really is. Right from the start, back in 1988 it was clear to
our founder that the Satanic Ritual Abuse myth was an attack on religious
freedom of expression and individuality. A new Dark Ages where the future
of society is not decided by the democratic process but by people who pretend
to be working in everyones' best interests but who seek to connive behind
closed doors to their own personal and sectarian agendas.
You have been warned.
Ends: 31st March 2000
LATEST NEWS!...
THE FARCE CONTINUES -
NOW YOUR NHS FOOTS THE BILL
FOR SATAN HUNTING ........
SATANIC PANIC
Devil woman
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An unregistered and unregulated clinic for disturbed and mentally ill children and adults, run by a woman who believes in
Satanic ritual abuse, is being solely funded by the NHS. The Clinic for Dissociative Studies in Harley Street, London,
is run by Valerie Sinason (Eyes passim), who describes herself as a "poet, writer, child psychotherapist and adult
psychoanalyst" and treats victims of "ritual abuse and mind control". Sinason is prominent among a small
but vocal international network of believers in the existence of Satanic ritual abuse, despite hundreds of police
investigations having found no evidence of it and government inquiries in the US and UK in the
mid-1990s concluding it was a myth.
Sinason and fellow believers - including psychotherapists, psychologists and psychiatrists - specialise in treating
patients they claim suffer from dissociative identity disorder (DID), a controversial diagnosis formerly known
as multiple personality disorder, supposedly suffered after extreme childhood trauma. Patients are encouraged
to recover "repressed" memories in order to heal but critics argue this leads to false memories of abuse which
never occurred.
Sinason's first "Satanic abuse" patient in the UK was Carol Felstead, whose nightmarish story was detailed
last November in Eye 1302. She died , in mysterious circumstances after 20 years of being treated as a
victim of Satanic abuse. Her parents were supposed to have been the high priest and priestess of a
Satanic cult that dug up graves and performed ritual sacrifices, including murder -
allegations police established were all demonstrably false
(see www.justiceforcarol.com).
"Where helpful, we can offer clinical supervision and even treatment via telephone or webcam."
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With the NHS logo on every page, the website of Sinason's clinic states:
"As an Independent Provider to the NHS it is commissioned by Clinical Commissioning Groups, former
PCTs (Primary Care' Trusts), mental health trusts and local authorities nationally to provide diagnosis,
outpatient treatment, clinical supervision and training... The clinic does not treat patients privately but
only via NHS referral."
The Eye asked the Department of Health (DoH) by what process the clinic had been vetted as an "independent provider" to the
NHS, how much it had paid the clinic over the years, and by what process and by whom it was registered and regulated.
Incredibly it was not apparently vetted and is not registered or regulated by anyone.
The last government was committed to introducing statutory regulation of the "talking therapies" including psychotherapists
but this was dropped by the coalition. A system of voluntary registration, accredited by the Council for Healthcare
Regulatory Excellence, comes into effect on 1 December.
A DoH statement said: "The department does not recommend the use of recovered memory
therapy and it is not a treatment
recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. Deciding what services NHS patients have
access to has been the responsibility of local organisations since the mid-2000s. It is up to the funding
organisations to ensure that a service is safe. If we have evidence patients are being referred for inappropriate
services the local NHS will investigate."
by Rosie Waterhouse
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