Contents of This Webpage.

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• Dangerous Strangers - the gestation of the Satanic Panic
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• Newcastle Nursery Crimes the UK's McMartin
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• Brainwashing Kids - how they created false memories of abuse
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• IICSA promises Mandatory Reporting
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• The Black Museum of Priestly Abuse
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• Did IICSA condemn The Orthodox Churches?
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• The use of religious texts to justify abuse
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• Major finding - No mention of Satanic Abuse in IICSA report
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• Historic Paganism that IICSA missed
  

• Survivors Networks - Why many victims are unwitting imposters
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• The Scam of Christian Counselling therapy
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• How IICSA was infiltrated by Radical Feminists
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• Mandatory Reporting, the Sumum Bonum of child protection?
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• NSPCC Wash Their Hands of Priestly Abuse
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• The Truth about Witch-Children
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• The Real Definition of Neo-Paganism that IICSA does not know
  

• The Death of Jimmy Savile
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• How IICSA tried to blame Paganism for the Crimes of Priests
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• What happens to people who sense accusers are lying?
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• The Commencement of IICSA
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• How Imaginary Survivors Damage Genuine Victims of Abuse
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• The exorcisms of Victoria Climbie
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• Beatrix Campbell and the Cleveland Radfem Mafia
  

• The 2008 Jersey false SRA case
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• Conclusions: Four points on which the IICSA report is sadly lacking.
  

How the NSPCC worked hard to avoid any facts and information which undermined the lies on SRA and then after condemning the SAFF and refusing our evidence had to do an about turn and apologise for its SRA mistakes. 

The following is a non-exhaustive diary of correspondence between the SAFF and the NSPCC right at the start of the Satanic Panic which they promoted, back in 1989.

 Few people now remember that SRA allegations had been sporadically surfacing via Geoffrey Dickens MPs campaign during the previous year but up to this point no sensible child-charity had jumped on the bandwagon.  It was only when the NSPCC issued their July 17th  1989 press release 'rubber stamping' the existence of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse that the hysteria took off across the nation.  The NSPCC caused that hysteria to happen. This diary shows that they had a choice not to, but went ahead with the sensational and unproveable claims anyway, either for the publicity , or the fund raising.   Whatever it was, their despicable actions resulted in the mental torture of 86 innocent children and the splitting up of loving families. In one case a child was taken from his mother and father and kept in care for SIX years!  Remember this when an NSPCC volunteer next shakes a donation tin in your face.

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April  28th 1989:  SAFF sends a copy of the 1989 Occult Census to Allen Gilmour , then Director of the NSPCC, along with a 2  page  letter  which   asks tne NSPCC not to jump on the SRA bandwagon.  SAFF provides a copy of the Home Office letter clearly stating that  THAT  THERE  IS  NO   EVIDENCE TO LINK WITCHCRAFT WITH CHILD ABUSE.  SAFF makes clear to Dr Gilmour  
that  there  is  no  substance  in the SRA allegations and  that  they  are  being   perpetrated  not to save children but to suppress Paganism and  Witchcraft  by   followers of an opposing religion.
 
May  11th 1989:  Christopher Cloke then Policy Information officer replies on Dr  . Gilmour's  behalf  acknowledging receipt of the information  which  has  'been  
placed on file for future reference'. 
(in other words, piss off)
 
July  17th  1989 NSPCC press release is issued supporting the Cook Report. It refers to  ritualised   abuse of children and gave the press the first and only non-fundamentalist support  
of  the occult-crime related allegations. Despite  its  ambiguous  wording  and  generalisation  this NSPCC press release provides  sufficient   righteousness  for the media to claim that the allegations had been  'proved',   even though no evidence was ever presented. 
 
July  25th 1989 SAFF contacts NSPCC and provides them with full and  total   breakdown   of  characters  and  background  to  anti-occult  conspiracy   and   complains to them  about  the NSPCC  statment  in support of Cook  Report.  The  28  page   document SAFF provides reveals the facts and thoroughly contradicts  the NSPCC statement.
 
July 27th 1989:  Alan Gilmour the director of NSPCC replies "Thank you for  your   letter  and its enclosures;  I would like to share these with my  professional  
advisers. "
 (In other words - we're kicking it into the long-grass)

August  10th 1989:  Barrett responds to an enquiry concerning the July 17th  NSPCC   statement by confirming its contents but declining the additional information   added  to it. ' I am not in a position to comment upon the refernce elsewhere in   the article to about 20 cases of this kind of abuse having come to light in the  
past year. I do not know where the journalist obtained such a figure or of any   organisation which might be able to confirm its accuracy.' 
 
October 20th 1989:  On being unable to obtain the promised response   from  the  NSPCC the SAFF instructs its solicitors to write a letter accusing  them  of   collaboration with the Cook Report to promote a myth. The NSPCC acknowledge our solicitor's letter but   it is not replied to. 
 
November 14th 1989:  Our solicitor has written more letters to   the  NSPCC  but  they have only replied that  they 'are  obtaining  legal   advice.'
  
December  1st 1989:  SAFF asks our solicitor to write yet again to  hurry up  the  NSPCC  .
 
December  6th 1989 :  NSPCC answers our solicitor's letter saying that following   legal  advice taken by NSPCC the society was not involved in Cook  Report  and   mentioned  the  programme in its statement ' in passing comment'.  The NSPCC  deny   that  their  statement  supported or condoned The  Cook  Report.    The NSPCC  admit   receiving  SAFF documented evidence concerning anti-occult  conspiracy   and The Occult Census but say that 'a reply was not called for'.  NSPCC say that   they  are not prepared to make comment on that material nor further  documents   now provided to them concerning the falsehood of the anti-occult  allegations.   The NSPCC refuse to comment any further. 
 
December  15th  1989 SAFF introduces itself to Kevin Barrett Policy  Information   Officer of NSPCC.  Educates him about background to conspiracy, confirms SAFF's earlier letters and evidence  and requests a copy of July 17 press statement.  
 
December  19th  1989.  Barrett acknowledges receipt of letter and says  he  will   reply in due course.
 
January  8th  1990  Barrett provides the NSPCC statement at long last  and  says   that  the NSPCC is only looking after the best interests of children and  that   the  NSPCC is not prepared to enter into any detailed observations  concerning  
the allegations.
 
JANUARY  25th  1990:  SAFF  writes to NSPCC concerning  discoveries  that  their   original  July  17 press statement was misinterpreted by The Press  Association  and   that   all   subsequent   press   exposure  included   references   to   Devil  
Worship / Satanism / Witchcraft / Evil / Coven  which words were not included  in  the   NSPCC  statement.    SAFF ask Barrett to disclaim reporting of that statement as   inaccurate  or make the NSPCC position clear as to whether they hold any  evidence  
to support Satanic child abuse theory.  SAFF also asked him to confirm that the  NSPCC  
is  aware  of  the  danger of young Pagan families being  split  up  by  NSPCC   inspectors   who  are  untutored  in  the  dignity  of  Pagan  religion  under   the misaprehension  that  Paganism is Satanism.    SAFF accuse NSPCC  of  harbouring   inspectors  whose  religious bias has interfered with  their  objectivity  and   produce   two  examples  of  NSPCC  inspectors  having  an  anti-occult   pro-fundamentalist  bias  in interviews;  exaggerating truth and  making  unproven   allegations on behalf of NSPCC.   
 
January 29th  1990 Barrett acknowledges receipt of SAFF letter.
 
February  5th  1990:  Barrett responds to letter of Jan 25.  "It is not for  the   society  to take any step in connection with an alleged  misinterpretation  by   newspapers  of  the  Society's press release.  
(In other words - we quite like all this publicity and are not going to minimise it!)

The Society  has  always  been  
sensitive to the needs and requirements of members of different social,ethnic  
and  religious  groups.

 The  Society  has no comment  to  make  about  remarks   attributed  to  Mr  Kearns  (fundamentalist inspired  NSPCC  inspector)  in  a  
newspaper published in July 1989." 
 
February  21st  1990 :  SAFF replies insisting upon NSPCC addressing problem  of   funadmentalism  in its ranks.   Reminding Barrett that NSPCC has not  complied   with the request to issue a directive warning its inspectors to take  minority  
beliefs  such as Paganism into account.  SAFF makes point that over two  dozen   vicars  were prosecuted for child-abuse during 1989 and asks NSPCC to  confirm  
that  they  will  inspect their procedures to ensure Pagan  families  are  not   mistreated  through ignorance and prejudice.   The letter also discloses  that  
SAFF  have discovered that the systems operator of a Christian  fundamentalist   bulletin  board  which imports sensational and discredited information on  the  
satanic  child-abuse scare CLAIMS TO BE A SENIOR INSPECTOR FOR THE  NSPCC  and   what do the NSPCC intend to do about this? 
 
March 2nd 1990: Barrett responds that all this has been carefully considered and   that  the  'Society  can  do  no more than to emphasis  what  I  said  in  the   penultimate  paragraph of my last letter to you'
That the NSPCC has no further  
comment to make on fundamentalism within its ranks. 
 
March  12th 1990:  NSPCC  publish  their  annual  report  containing  allegations  of   Ritualised Abuse of children and their National Child Care Officer Jim Harding   (it is he in the cutting at the bottom of the next column headed Children Forced Into Satanic Sex Rituals) Harding talks  of Cult Sacrifice and singles out Witchcraft and Devil Worship for  blame.

March 10th 1991.   The NSPCC eat humble pie after their Rochdale SRA case collapses and they are castigated by the media and lose the highly lucrative 'at-risk' registers.  Harding apologises on behalf of the NSPCC for using 'wild statements' that they cannot substantiate.  The Mail On Sunday headline reads:  A Rethink by The NSPCC.  NSPCC Sorry for 'Wild Statements'.  

Yeah, sure, like a crocodile sheds tears when it is eating its prey.

£100 Million down the drain?

Government mega-inquiry into child abuse in Religion hides the perpetrators, misleads the public and lets the child-scare industry off the hook.

The SAFF published its groundbreaking research into paedophile priests, The Black Museum of Priestly Abuse in 1991. ( See:

Dangerous Strangers - a primal human fear

Many of those trying to convince us that  Satanists sexually abused and murdered children were from churches which had for years covered up thousands of child-abusing priests in their midst.

As time, and the failure of every single allegation of SRA has proved, the dramatic and sensational claims of Satanic Abuse simply did not exist.  It was a mass hysteria, but it set in motion a sequence of events which lead directly to the inauguration of IICSA in 2014.   Here's how that happened:

The 1990 SRA hysteria took five years to subside. It was scotched by the government's own report authored by Prof. Jean La Fontaine and published in 1994 titled The Extent and Nature of Organised and Ritual Abuse  ( http://saff.nfshost.com/fontaine.htm ).  The report found absolutely no evidence of SRA in any of the 86 cases claimed to contain it during the Satanic Panic.  

The report found absolutely no evidence of SRA in any of the 86 cases claimed by the NSPCC and other child-scare industry stalwarts during the Satanic Panic.  

Brainwashing Kids for Hours on end like the Spanish Inquisition.

 On the back of the 1990 Satanic Panic an evil thing happened.  Despite being proven wrong in all the cases they had claimed were Satanic Abuse RAINS and the Radfems refused to say they had been wrong and instead insisted that SRA existed. To 'prove' it  people working in the child-protection world began to seek out vulnerable people and put false memories of SRA into their heads.   

It started originally with the children, whom social workers questioned hour after hour until the poor kids were fed with images and horrific suggestions, which were themselves highly abusive to the mental health of the child,  and then when the exhausted kids  replayed them back to the social workers who had put them there, these crusading social workers, many of whom were ardent Christians,  immediately ignored the other eight hours of negative responses the children had given and selected the SRA suspicions  they were after in the first place!  The yellow panel on the right is a good example of how this worked. Double click on the image to get a larger version to read more easily.  ( Please note that you can enlarge all the images on this web-page to get readable copies in the same way. )   

This brainwashing of kids happened in 86 cases during the early 1990s and the social-services witch-hunt eventually resulted in the seminal Rochdale SRA case ( http://saff.nfshost.com/rochdale.htm ) which, when challenged in court utterly destroyed the SRA allegations that social workers and the child charities like the NSPCC who worked on that case, had originally maintained.   

Social Workers were, rightly condemned in the national press and chastised by judges in family hearings. The clutch of SRA cases (Epping, Ayrshire, Orkney etc) which were already in train, were taken to task in courts across the country and proved nonsense.   All of them failed. SRA was a MYTH driven by sectarian prejudice and money-grubbing charities.

The NSPCC which had driven much of the Satan Scare  ( http://saff.nfshost.com/nspcc.htm ),  lost the highly lucrative 'At Risk Registers' which they maintained at high cost for some local authorities, (£90,000 a time ). Trust in the expertise of the NSPCC and social workers dived to an all time low.

The Satan Hunters retired to lick their wounds and regroup.  They lied and said that it was the media who had pushed the Satanic sensationalism but 'ritual abuse' was real.   The core of people who had started the SRA myth  - the radical feminists who were members of the now infamous RAINS (Ritual Abuse Information Network and Support) continued to hold their Satan Seminars to indoctrinate other people in the child abuse industry,  but this time away from the public glare and media reporting they had earlier coveted so much.  

How the 'Survivors' Movement was created.

The tranche of patients who believed they had been satanically abused were urged by SRA hunting social workers to tell their sensational stories, either on church podiums, or during group-encounter sessions, to the media and at Satan Seminars to convince those in social work and the police who doubted the issue.    You can see this happening from this clip on the SAFF YouTube channel here:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrQRq-y01dc   of Vera diamond using the infamous recovered memory therapy (RMT)

The 'Survivor Movement' became a hotbed of DIY psychiatry. It empowered victims and taught them how to  play to the gallery.  Being mentally vulnerable and impressionable, meant that most SRA 'victims' overdid it and in gilding the lily with even more sensational claims caused them to step away from mainstream therapy into social groups of their own, finally becoming their own therapists using free-style therapeutic methods and then embellishing their sensational horror stories ad infinitum on social media to other 'survivors'.    

Now let us make it perfectly clear here that once the 'Survivor Movement' phenomenon had gained pace many genuine  people claiming to be survivors or ORDINARY sexual abuse started their own groups and one of their main aims was to get attention for institutional shortcomings in Children's homes, churches etc.,  and bring historic abusers to justice. This is of course a major plank of IICSA, a kind of Truth and Reconciliation hearing where victims can tell their stories and get it all of their chest in the hope that it will help themselves and others to gain closure. 

The Scam of Christian Counselling.

We are not in any way criticising the rights of such groups to exist, we are pointing out that these type of groups had their origins in the pseudo-therapy of 'counselling' which was originally invented by Christian evangelists to missionise to nominal Christians and act as a recruiting platform for SRA victims.  It is an organised form of 'Confirmation Bias'.

This can be clearly seen by the publication in  Spring of 1994, just before La Fontaine's report was published, of this article alongside, 'Caring for Ritual Abuse Survivors' in 'Counselling magazine, an outreach of the Waverley College.  Note that Waverley was a key participant in defining and organising professional qualifications for counselling for the UK government.  

The article was  written by Maureen Davies, an out and out bible-thumping fundamentalist Christian who was a key player in foisting the Satanic Ritual Abuse Myth onto Britain (see: http://saff.nfshost.com/reachout.htm ) and actually taught a new generation of police top-brass mediaeval concepts akin to the Spanish Inquisition, during training sessions at Bramshill Police College in 1990.    It is due to her obsessive work against the devil, and the efforts of other fundamentalist agent-provocateurs , that the Metropolitan Police eventually caved in and started new Satanic Seminars for their child-protection officers in 2004 and ended up making a fool of themselves over human sacrifice claims. ( see: http://saff.nfshost.com/winebald.htm )

Simply put, what happened was that fundamentalists hi-jacked the growing 'therapy' movement and snatched the initiative away from mainstream psychiatry.

The government found 'counselling' attractive because it was so cost-effective. Whenever any tragedy occurred, be it crime or accidental death through train crashes or other disasters, the government could rely on an army of do-gooders trained as 'counsellors' at Christian centres like the Ellel Grange Trust, just outside Preston in Lancashire,  to give the victims a shoulder to cry on.  In the vast majority of cases the counsellors were volunteers who did it for free.   What's not to like?  You shall soon see the dangers. 

Ellel Grange is unashamedly Christian fundamentalist.  Being a Christian was the ONLY qualification required to sit their weekend course in Counselling abused people, after which the evangelicals who attended were given 'counselling credentials' to go out and discover more SRA!    It was a kind of religious pyramid sell, preying upon vulnerable people, like Jennifer, a mousey woman who was 'counselled' by Ellel Grange into claiming that she had given birth to a baby which had been killed by a Satanic Coven.  She was the 'star witness' in the 1992 Bogus Devil Video Hoax, which other fundies foisted on Channel 4 TV who dutifully broadcast an hour of abject lies which cemented the phantom of SRA in the minds of the populace, only to have the SAFF overturn every single part of the 'evidence' produced within days.  Jennifer was found and confessed that she was programmed to lie about the baby which never existed by Ellel Grange and then transferred to the fundie producer of Beyond Belief as a 'witness' to make false claims of murder.  ( See http://saff.nfshost.com/devilvid.htm )

The way that fundamentalist Christians hi-jacked therapy can clearly be seen in the 2020 case of child-kidnappers Wilfred Wong and Janet Stevenson.  Stevenson is a Christian counsellor who together with Wong conspired to abduct an 8 year old child from Anglesey in Wales because they believed (wrongly) that the father was a Satanic Abuser.  See ( http://saff.nfshost.com/wilfredwongkidnap.htm ) 

Wong inculcated vulnerable folk into believing that SRA existed through multiple interviews he gave on the internet 'diagnosing' what he believed to be SRA.  When people got in touch with him for information about SRA, he passed them to Janet Stevenson who used Christian counselling to 'confirm' that they had been satanically abused!   This is little more than what Ellel Grange had inaugurated in 1990. 

You will notice in the extract from Ellel Grange's course (see image right - double click on it to get a larger version to read more easily ) that the most innocuous everyday things are reinterpreted as indications of Satanic Ritual Abuse, which means any and every vulnerable person who falls into their clutches will be brainwashed with those false ideas and end up becoming a 'survivor' of SRA.   

Notice that Ellel Grange add the additional technique of EXORCISM to their MPD/DID treatments!   People like these should've been prosecuted and stopped by the authorities but they are still flogging this stuff today. The government and the police won't touch them because they claim to be Christians.    

Imaginary Survivors damage real victims of abuse

This problem of a phalanx of imaginary 'survivors' within the regular survivor movement can clearly be seen in the way that Alexis Jay had to publicly rule a woman's (codenamed WM-A5) evidence of being a victim of Satanists in High Places as bunkum.   The woman's story fell apart in half a dozen key places, all outlined by Private Eye. We attach just one extract from WM-A5's evidence alongside.   WM-A5's submission to IICSA was easily disproven as unreliable fantasies. Such fake evidence may have convinced Alexis Jay to reject outright any evidence related to the then current Westminster strand SRA accusations which she struck from IICSA's agenda in January 2018.

By 2007 the mentally disturbed patients in the SRA victim-imposter stable had worked-up their stories to begin to include VIPs and celebrities.   Joan Coleman, founder member of RAINS, compiled a 'Who's Who' of Satanic Abusers in high places, known as the Helen-G List  the origins and contents of which you can see here: http://saff.nfshost.com/rainscoleman.htm 

The SAFF were the first to expose this previously secret list which had been passed surreptitiously around the SRA believers' network.   The utterly false allegations in the Helen-G list were amassed from victim-imposters in the RAINS therapy circuit and were distributed to all RAINS members.  It dramatically corrupted many police investigations which followed and wasted £2M in Operation Conifer run by Wilts Police and other investigations.  Ted Heath was mentioned and falsely accused in the Helen-G list. The SAFF have traced these fantasies back to Jim Phillips 'stable' of SRA victim imposters in 1993 where Phillips and Vera Diamond (RAINS member) got headlines also accusing the Royal Family of being Satanists (see: http://saff.nfshost.com/panoramavip.htm#1993origins ) .   You can see how Phillips created victim imposters from a group of chronically mentally ill patients which mainstream psychiatry had jettisoned in this clip on our SAFFutube Channel ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrQRq-y01dc  )

Within a short time VIPs mentioned in the Helen-G list were dutifully investigated by the police which had, under pressure from radical feminists, adopted a process of believing everything that any accuser said about their claimed abuse even before an investigation to establish the facts had been undertaken!    As time passes the mistakes of the authorities in these cases has faded into history but not quite gone from view yet,  as the Daily Mail newspaper recently published a series of articles on how those falsely accused VIPs are fighting back to demand the resignation of the Met's Chief Constable for incompetence.  See here:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9971255/Victims-Met-Police-corruption-incompetence-malpractice-tell-Boris-ditch-Cressida-Dick.html 

The comedian Jimmy Tarbuck was one of those unfairly dragged into this nonsense.    Another name on this list of dozens of supposed Arch Satanists was Ted Heath (former UK prime-minister).  Celebrity/VIPabuse had arrived! 

The 2008 Jersey SRA Hysteria

By 2008 another SRA high-point was hit when allegations of Satanic Abuse in Jersey created yet another national panic which included claims of the finding of a 'child's skull'. This turned out on analysis to be a piece of coconut! ( see  http://saff.nfshost.com/hautgarone.htm )    Again, following a lengthy police and government inquiry the Jersey SRA case ws found to be nonsense and quietly faded from view but the initial scaremongering yet again reinforced the untrue idea of SRA and abuse in the minds of the unquestioning populace.  

The NSPCC 'helped' the police by trawling for 'victims' in the Jersey SRA case. They found many people who claimed to be victims but in the end there was only one prosecution of historic physical abuse by a teacher who had long since retired. There was no sexual abuse and no Satanists were involved.
 
By March 2011, the RAINS mob were on a high, campaigning to re-establish the use of MPD and get government funding for it, by the devious practice of simply renaming MPD which had by then become tainted by its links to false SRA allegations, and calling it DID (Dissociate Identity Disorder ).  They succeeded - in 2019 they got just short of a million pounds. 

The MPD/DID circus was churning out 'victims'  and the whole  idea of Victimhood, pushed by radfems in academe, had become an 'accepted fact' because  the general consensus was that to repudiate a victim's tale would be to add insult to injury .  Radical feminists insisted this would be mental abuse in itself and the government and police bought into it.  The logic was poor because many of those who were self-declaring themselves as 'victims' were doing so using false memories.  The traditional police method was to take down their statements without comment and then check out the locations and people involved to see if any of it gelled.   The new method, promoted by Keir Starmer and the College of Policing, was to believe instantly that the accuser HAD been abused and make allowances which corrupted the investigation, for instance, having their 'therapist' alongside them giving them cues when at the police station and constantly replacing and expanding on their statement when they had invented more!  As most of these victims were already networking with survivor groups on social media the contamination of stories was immense.   See ( http://victimhood.nfshost.com )

The Death of Jimmy Savile

 Later that same year (October 2011) a watershed occurred;  the death of Jimmy Savile.   The Savilemonster hysteria was another sensational replay of the 1990 Satanic Panic.  See ( http://saff.nfshost.com/savilemonster.htm ).   Again the media lead the witch-hunt . With an accused who was now dead there was no accountability and hacks and 'victims' could make any allegations they liked and many did.  
Savile's fanbase found dozens of inaccuracies and fake allegations in the accusations from people who came forward but the tsunami of hatred in the media overwhelmed these.   See. http://jimcannotfixthis.blogspot.com/  for perhaps the best examples of the inside story about Savile ).

 The NSPCC, never one to miss an opportunity, organised the trawling for Savile victims and he became the most hated figure since Hitler in the minds of the populace.   They ended up with 450 Savile victims. Months later it was revealed that 239 of these were fake and their cases were refused compensation.   This could be taken to indicate that 50% of all historic abuse allegations may be false.  

Some of Savile's 'victims' said they had been abused by him in Satanic Ceremonies. Close-cropped photos appeared on the internet of him wearing a Satanic Green  Robe (see alongside)  but the full uncropped photo showed it to be a flamboyant vestment he wore when he regularly attended St John's Church, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire,  where he was an honorary church warden!  Savile's good work for this church had somehow been inverted to become evidence of Satanism!

The media entirely forgot the millions Savile had raised for kids and the underprivileged, his 'clunk-click' campaign to persuade people to wear seat-belts which saved literally tens of thousands of lives before becoming compulsory in 1983.  Neither did the media mention the fact that he had raised enough money to establish Stoke Mandeville Hospital which had helped thousands of sick people.   And so as not to tarnish their demonisation they completely omitted from their narrative the fact that he did such good work for people in need of help that he was invited to meet the Pope and given an award by him.  

Only when the hysteria had abated and official inquiries had looked into the claims made by people against Savile did it become clear  that this was another Satanic Witch-hunt by any other name and a direct development of the SRA myth melded with Celebrity/VIPabuse which RAINS had itself created.    The same people who were behind the 1990 Satanic Panic were also involved in the Savile SRA allegations. They had bided their time and polished up their propaganda for an opportunity like this. 

Completely bowled over by the sheer vituperance of the media and the populace combining in anger against the abomination called Savile, whom they had earlier lionised and lauded for most of his life, and,  on the back-foot due to several detailed previous inquiries into abuse in children's homes the government and the BBC were open to claims that 'they didn't do enough' .  In response the BBC inaugurated an independent inquiry (The Smith Inquiry) into why they hadn't spotted 'the world's most prolific abuser' during his 40 year reign at the BBC.  Theresa May then announced the final, be-all-and-end-all mega-child-abuse inquiry of them all ;   IICSA!   
IICSA would gather witness accounts, hear evidence from people involved in accused institutions, delve in detail into historic cases and get to the bottom of it once and for all.
But it didn't get off to a good start.

The Commencement of IICSA

The UK government then went to Australia to find another person who this time had no connection whatsoever with the past history of the UK child-scare-industry or its government.  Justice Lowell Goddard was imported to handle the job.  She commenced work and in November 2015 published a list of the organisations from which she would take evidence.  However  the political ramifications of this inquiry were quickly becoming apparent and the radical feminists did not appear to like Goddard's independent approach. 

In early March 2016 the UKCSAPT (UK Child Sex Abuse People's Tribunal) sent a presentation to Goddard which mentioned Satanic Ritual Child Abuse 32 times in a 36 page presentation!    In response the SAFF wrote to Justice Goddard in late March sending a presentation exposing the links between the SRA hunters in Britain, some of whom were queuing up to present evidence to her.   In July 2016 the Daily Mail revealed that the chair of IICSA would be paid two and a half million pounds over five years.  

By August 2016 Goddard had resigned her post stating that the conflicting pressures and political chicanery attached to IICSA  were 'insurmountable'.  

 Later that year (November) BBC Newsnight reported a relative avalanche of resignations from IICSA:

"BBC Newsnight understands that Aileen McColgan has quit because of serious concerns over the inquiry's leadership.   She was the barrister leading the inquiry's investigations into the Anglican and Catholic Churches.  The inquiry said that lawyers come and go according to their professional obligations - and a spokeswoman declined to "comment on specifics".

It is understood Aileen McColgan had concerns over the competency of the inquiry's leadership and the way it had previously responded to the resignation of lawyers instructed by it. As well as working on the inquiry, she is also a Professor of Law at King's College London.

It is understood that two other barristers have told the inquiry of their desire to leave because of similar concerns.

The inquiry has suffered a series of setbacks in recent months, including the departures of a number of senior lawyers.

So a satisfactory chairperson was eventually found who was also acceptable to the Radical Feminists;   Prof. Alexis Jay, the woman who had authored the 2014 Rotherham Asian Gangs report estimating 1,400 children had been raped there.  She was definitely on the side of the victims,  and was well qualified to do the job.

In making her the chair of IICSA the government may have thought they had pacified everyone. 
How foolish of them. 

Much later in the middle of the inquiry in February 2018 Private Eye Magazine revealed that Jay had attended a November 2017 meeting of the ESTD (European Society for Trauma and Dissociation) an umbrella group for MPD/DID therapists whose journal carried articles promoting Satanic Ritual Abuse and featured lectures on SRA at this  conference, including contributions by Valerie Sinason, a founder member of RAINS!     Wasn't this a clear conflict of interest?     Jay's team  said she had been invited to observe proceedings and dismissed it as irrelevant.

Although IICSA originally took 'evidence' on the Westminster/VIP abuse strand, (which included allegations of Satanic abuse by Ted Heath and others ) by January 2018 they ruled it beyond IICSA's remit.  This Wise decision begs the question why did Alexis Jay attend the ESTD conference three months earlier when it was clear to any informed observer that the ESTD was a hotbed of believers in the 1990 Satanic Panic and harboured key players active in that scare? 

At the time the police had begun to investigate a key witness in SRA claims made against Ted/Edward Heath (RAINS list)  for perverting the course of justice.  It was Carl 'Nick' Beech's testimony which had driven the media frenzy on VIP/Westminster abuse (See http://saff.nfshost.com/panoramavip.htm ).   However, on 22nd Jan 2019 this key witness,  Carl 'Nick' Beech,  admitted downloading kiddie porn;  by 18 July 2019 he stood trial for perverting the course of justice and was sentenced to 18 years in prison for lying about his abuse to gain compensation money.    This sequence of events shows clearly how false accusations drove the survivor narrative which was at the heart of IICSA,  both in the press and in the political arena.

Beatrix Campbell and the Cleveland Radfem Mafia.

Other strands of the inquiry were also apparently being compromised.  IICSA took evidence from Beatrix Campbell, a feminist Marxist activist who had been heavily involved in both the Cleveland Scandal and the Satanic Ritual Child Abuse scare of the 1990s. 

On 26th February 2018 Campbell was given an IICSA  platform to rewrite history and complain that Baroness Butler Sloss's 1988 Cleveland inquiry (fully accepted as accurate and professional by the government at the time) had reached the wrong conclusions.  

Not only was IICSA content to listen to this re-writing of history and allow it to go unchallenged but IICSA also hosted a seminar titled 'Social and Political Narratives about Child Sexual Abuse' of which the keynote speaker was none other than Beatrix Campbell!  

Campbell's presentation repeated her now tiresome Marxist chant that there was a hidden epidemic of abuse against children orchestrated by The Patriarchy and that it would continue to cover it up unless the Patriarchy was dismantled and women were put in charge. Or words to that effect, as you can see by this SAFF bio of Campbell's political activities here and in the U.S.   http://saff.nfshost.com/bcamp.htm

Beatrix Campbell's obsessive belief In Satanic Ritual Abuse lead to her involvement in the very first claimed SRA case in the UK in Broxtowe, Nottingham ( http://saff.nfshost.com/broxtowe.htm )  in 1988 whilst the Cleveland controversy was still ongoing over the disgusting actions of the despised Marietta Higgs and Wyatt and Wynn.  

You can see Campbell's take on SRA in a documentary 'Listen to the Children' here ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEr0LzkZqJg ) which Campbell produced and narrated on the Broxtowe case to promote the acceptance of the idea that Satanists were abusing the children.  Campbell was closely involved with Team 4 at Notts Social Services and they insisted that Broxtowe was the FIRST example of SRA which had been uncovered in Britain.   Campbell's documentary turned out to be misleading and perpetuated falsehoods in major aspects as is noted in comments to this video.

With claims and counter-claims the controversy over Broxtowe lasted years and became a cause celebre for radical feminists nationally and the lobby of therapists  who believed in the existence of SRA.  Unfortunately for them, Broxtowe was officially declared NOT to have any Satanic Content in 1997 when Nottingham's JET inquiry report explained how Tim Tate (the producer/researcher of the Cook Report) and Ray Wyre (a Baptist preacher turned paedophile therapist who ran courses to 're-program'  Christian Priestly abusers who had reoffended after the churches had backed them ) had inveigled their way into Team 4, given leading-edge SRA materials including a now notorious false SRA indicator list from the U.S. to foster parents looking after the children.  The children had been in care for over a year without mentioning SRA but It was only after this SRA information was presented to the foster-mothers that the children began talking about witches and ghosts in response to the foster mothers' questions.  When the teenage victims in the case reversed their earlier statements  of what happened and explained that they had originally been threatened with social work power shadow if they didn't confirm the smaller children's accounts, the full story came out.   

Nursery Crimes.

Was IICSA infiltrated by Radical Feminists

Had IICSA been hijacked and taken over by radical feminists who had first promoted the idea of non-existent Satanic Ritual Child Abuse?

 When Tom Watson, then deputy leader of the Labour Party began his campaign to smear leading Conservatives with allegations related to the false Westminster/VIP abuse allegations in 2015  he was subsequently roundly condemned in parliament and forced to apologise.  His scurrilous attacks on Lord Brittan, based solely on the allegations of  Carl 'Nick' Beech (whose testimony was proven false and fraudulent in 2019) was even criticised by the Guardian.   See:  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/11/deserved-downfall-tom-watson-leon-brittan?CMP=share_btn_tw  

One of the few people who came out publicly in support of Watson in TV interviews and discussions was Beatrix Campbell.

Mandatory Reporting

How Dangerous is Mandatory Reporting?

"As of 2013, there had been a huge increase of reporting over the decades with enormous numbers of unsubstantiated cases.^[7][8] Referrals increase each year, but the actual substantiated cases remain low and are approximately the same or decline each year.^[9] Media and commentators often take the number of referrals to be synonymous with the number of cases of actual child maltreatment, which makes the problem appear larger than it actually is.^[10]

The figures clearly show that whilst ACTUAL cases are diminishing in number False Allegations of child-abuse increased astronomically year on year. 

Nationwide, there was a 2,348% increase in hotline calls from 150,000 in 1963 to 3.3 million in 2009.^[8] In 2011, there were 3.4 million calls.^[9] From 1992 to 2009 in the US, substantiated cases of sexual abuse declined 62%, physical abuse decreased 56% and neglect was down 10%.  About 1% of the child population are substantiated victims of abuse.^[11]

NSPCC = NKVD?

You can see this harvesting of victims happening today with the NSPCC's Childline telephone line reporting system where  in 2014 more than a million (1,200,000) children phoned the Childline free phone service.     The really crucial figure of course is how many of these children received help and were saved from abuse?  That simple statistic is never ever disclosed because, as with the US experience of  Mandatory Reporting, the actual abuse statistics remain fairly static, it is the astronomical number of false allegations which increase because telephone call-in services spend a fortune advertising themselves to children to encourage them to call in for absolutely any reason which makes them feel 'unhappy'. 

As you can see, Childline is a similar method of recruiting victims and of falsely accusing suspects.  It has been working now since the mid 1970s.  I have yet to see any statistics to show how effective the scheme is in saving the suffering of children who are in abusive situations.  We doubt if more than a few hundred have actually been helped during that entire time and challenge the NSPCC to release statistics on their success rate . 

Of course the NSPCC lists all these calls as 'evidence of abuse' and refers them all to local child-protection departments, when it is clear that many kids telephone Childline because they need a friend or someone to talk to, are subject to teeange angst, or are just up for the jape to see how they can manipulate gullible adults on the other end of the phone. 

The seriousness and severity of each call is rated by NSPCC staff, mostly volunteers, who have a vested interest in eagerly defining abuses.   Ironically,  in December 2017 the Daily Telegraph revealed that  Carl 'Nick' Beech, the pervert who plead guilty to having kiddie-porn and who was subsequently given 18 years in prison for lying about Satanic child-murder ( and causing a £2M Police investigation after fraudulently accusing several innocent people of child abuse which never happened), had volunteered as a Child-Line phone answerer, giving advice to children whom he deemed had been abused!    This is the man who tricked the Metropolitan Police into besmirching the reputations of MPs, Ministers and leaders in Westminster by making invented false accusations to obtain abuse compensation of £22,000.00 by fraud!    A classic example of the dangers of Mandatory Reporting.

So can you trust in conclusions and opinions made by people in the child-scare industry?  Well, way back in August 1990 a national conference on child abuse was held in Harrow, England.  One section of this conference unveiled the then very new claims about Satanic Ritual Child Abuse.  The conference was one of the first Satan Seminars.  Amongst the attendees was Valerie Howarth, then director of Childline.   On the subject of 'Child abuse linked to Satanic Cults' she told The Guardian newspaper:

'Valerie Howarth a former local authority director of social services told the conference on Monday that there was no stereotype of child victims of abuse .   I particularly want to commend what Sue Hutchinson has to say, said Miss Howarth a director of Childline, the child abuse phone service. " I will vouch for Sue and her sisters" 
Guardian Wed August 8th 1990

What Happens to People Who Sense Accusers are Lying?

 Mandatory Reporting will be a new form of Stalinist child-protection with extensive ramifications illustrated by the awful case of  Head teacher Kathryn Bell who refused allegations from a pupil which she considered to be mischeivous and was subsequently crucified and lost her job because of it. (see image right).

 See the image below right from the change.org petition for Daniel Pelka. This is instrutive because it  clearly shows what is going to happen if Mandatory Reporting is put into law.  Daniel Pelka was murdered by his parents and this petition clearly lays the cause of that at the feet of his teachers for not reporting his abuse.  

Like most statistics and cases opportunised by the child-scare industry it is another blame-swapping exercise,  for Daniel's family had been under social services care for FOUR YEARS before he was beaten to death. He had a long history of referrals and problems which so-called child-protectionists missed or misinterpreted.

In 2011, a year before Daniel's death, he was taken to hospital with broken bones and bruises whereupon lazy social service personnel in charge of his case allowed a doctor's estimation that the break could have occurred by accident to rule their better judgement and they returned him to the parents who eventually killed him.  As you can see Daniel Pelka's death had nothing to do with his teachers.  It is the social services, doctors and police who should be blamed for his murder. Yet this petition misuses Daniel's death for its own purposes and tries to convince readers that Daniel could have been saved if Mandatory Reporting was on the law books. It is utterly false.

 If this case is the best that Paula Barrow can come up with to persuade people to adopt Mandatory Reporting  it doesn't gel. She claims Mandatory Reporting would 'Better protect vulnerable children'  but the Pelka case is actually an indictment of how the child-scare industry constantly seeks to  blame avoidable tragedy on others to cover their own failings in caring for vulnerable children.   The Pelka case is not an example of a child being abused, spotted and then ignored, which is the worst-case-scenario Mandatory Reporting advocates always claim, for in fact Daniel's school did notice and referred Daniel several times early on in the case.  It wasn't the

teachers who let Daniel down,  the entire panoply of child safeguarding systems let him down.  The police, the social services, his doctors, his school - everyone.  He died because they all failed to do their duty, he didn't die because teachers did not report his abuse and it is wicked to suggest it.   In short Mandatory Reporting would have done nothing to save his life.

 Here, teachers who left Daniel Pelka's plight to social workers who made crucial mistakes in their duty of care,  are being persecuted by the child-scare industry for not doing child-protections job for them!  They and poor Daniel are being used as a scapegoat in a campaign to get Mandatory Reporting on the UK statute books.     

But Daniel Pelka's case is not the only one in which a child who was under the 'care' of child-protectionists ends up dead because they can't do their job right. The  tragic case of 8 year old Victoria Climbie in February 2000 condemned the entire child-scare industry. 

Victoria Climbie's Death.

Victoria had been under social services and NSPCC family unit care for seven months yet was still beaten to death by her vicious guardians in what is perhaps the first recorded case in the UK of Witch-Children. (Note:   'witch-children' have nothing to do with witchcraft or Satanism, it is a product of the fevered mind of Christian fundamentalists seeking out Satan and blaming misbehaving children of being possessed by devils. The children are then beaten to drive the devil out of them and some die. The SAFF's unique expose of the phenomenon can be seen here: http://saff.nfshost.com/stobart.htm  and we comment at length on it below here:  ) .   Mandatory Reporting would not have saved poor Victoria Climbie's life either but less hypocrisy in the NSPCC and social services might have.  Here's how Angus Stickler reported the Inquiry into Victoria's  death for the BBC.

"The Public Inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbie has heard damning evidence about the role of the NSPCC in events leading up to the little girls death. The eight-year-old was murdered by her great aunt Marie Therese Kouao and Kouao's boyfriend.

She was regularly beaten, trussed up in a bin liner and left in a freezing bath-tub.
Victoria was referred to a centre run by the NSPCC, which worked with problem families, it was an urgent case, but no action was taken for nearly seven months. Confidential documents shown to this programme also prove that crucial details on files were changed after Victoria's death. Members of staff were questioned during the inquiry about whether they had falsified documents to hide the truth. And the charity itself has been criticised for providing the inquiry with doctored photocopies rather than original documents.

The NSPCC is keen to promote an image of slick professionalism at the cutting edge of child protection. But this is at odds with evidence heard by the public inquiry into the death of eight year old Victoria Climbie. She was referred to one of the charity's Family Centres in North London on the 5th of August 1999, nearly seven months before her death. There were concerns about poor hygiene, inappropriate dress and that she seemed anxious around her great aunt. She was a child in desperate need. But even though she was referred to the project as an urgent case, staff were preparing for a party. It was a week before she was allocated a social worker. And even then, no one at the project ever went to see her. During the inquiry NSPCC staff admitted that the centre was a shambles, a project in crisis, where the difficulties were so entrenched that it was unable to provide a quality service...."  (Source: BBC Radio 4 'Features' 29 January 2002 )

IICSA Promises Mandatory Reporting

H.2: Matters to be explored further by the Inquiry
36. The Inquiry will return to a number of issues that emerged during this investigation,
including but not limited to:
•     mandatory reporting;
•     vetting and barring;
•     regulation of the voluntary sector in respect of religious organisations and settings;
and
•     introducing primary legislation to provide that voluntary settings adhere to basic
child protection standards.
We anticipate these issues will be addressed in our final report

The Black Museum of Priestly Abuse and the Selective Cognisance of IICSA

Having followed the IICSA circus since its inception the SAFF have tried to obtain input to the proceedings and we have sent documentation to it but IICSA have assiduously avoided any direct contact with us or any consideration of SAFF historical research on the subject of child protection.   After reading the above insider information you might now know why a £100M inquiry-to-end-all-enquiries has never responded to any documents the SAFF have sent them, nor any tweets we have made on their timeline.

The Publication of the SAFF's Black Museum of Priestly Abuse (BM1) in 1991  (see here:  http://saff.nfshost.com/sickvics.htm  ) was a watershed which was resisted tooth and nail by the great and the good in the child-scare industry.  They simply refuted it.

We updated those statistics to get confirmation of BM1 in 1996 when we published BM2.  (see: http://saff.nfshost.com/blackmus2.htm ) 

We then took both of these ground-breaking studies to the NSPCC in 1997 with a request for them to add the threat of Priestly Abuse to their established pie-chart of risks to children to warn parents.

The organisation which had been the front-runner in scaring parents with false tales of non-existent Satanic Abuse in nationwide headlines in the 1990 Satanic Panic actually REFUSED to include Priestly Abuse in their pie-chart of risks to children when the SAFF met them. (see image right - double click on it to get a large version to read).  We asked the @NSPCC to alert parents but they refused!   SAFF calculate that  nearly 5,000 more children have been abused by priests in the years following our publication of BM1.  

However, although not taking any part in the condemnation of abusive priests the NSPCC were later found trawling for victims of Jimmy Savile and bigging-up his abuses.   In the end despite the mass hysteria about Savile there were 211 'official'  Savile victims. This is shocking but nowhere near as shocking as the THOUSANDS of child victims of paedophile priests which the NSPCC was ignoring.  

NSPCC Wash Their Hands of Priestly Abuse

innocent children had been horribly abused by clergymen,  their suffering was being ignored entirely by the chattering classes in the Child Scare Industry.

THIRTY YEARS after the SAFF's unique work on this issue which everyone else wanted to sweep under the carpet, the government's turgid Historical Child Abuse Inquiry (IICSA) questioned the churches and their victims. What were  IICSA's conclusions? 

They came out with the weakest and most mealy-mouthed semi-condemnations of thousands of undeniable cases of the clearest child-abuse imaginable on a far greater scale than any of the other strands in their inquiry.  Far greater than children's' homes, far, far greater than Celebrity Abuse, far, far, far greater than VIPabuse and any of the other strands IICSA is pursuing.    After learning of the THOUSANDS of undeniable instances of Clergymen abusing kids what do IICSA have to say? 

"The report, which is the latest in a series of publications from the IICSA, said 390 clergy members and other church leaders were convicted of abuse between the 1940s and 2018."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54433295 

Did IICSA condemn the orthodoxies?

The ONS survey of religions by percentage of population taken from census data concludes that:

59% of people in Britain are classified as Christian. 
Only 5% are Muslim.
Just 1.6% are Hindu and
0.5% are Jewish.
Buddhist and Sikh populations are also around 0.5%. 
All these beliefs are lumped together in IICSA's survey of religions, including Paganism of which there is at last count an estimated 200,000 which is approx 0.1% of the population.

Clearly the impact of abuse in Christian churches is phenomenal when compared with  other faiths where instances of abuse is a drop in the ocean. Whilst it would be remiss of IICSA not to include observations and recommendations from all religions,  treating them all as part of the same problem is just nonsense and can only be seen as a tacit cover-up of enormous proportions.   Forcing Buddhist temples to set up child safeguarding rules which are never used will not stop abusive Priests or Clergymen from their consistent proven continuous abuse of children in mainstream churches.   

For instance, the Catholic Church alone was calculated to harbour over 40,000 child-abusing priests when the Ryan and Murphy reports concluded their investigation in Ireland in May 2009 .  

Yes dear reader, most other Western countries have also undertaken similar long-term inquiries into failures in their own child-protection systems and they did so much earlier than we did in the UK.

The Irish public inquiry roundly berated the Catholic church not only for ignoring the damage that their abusive priests had caused but for hiding abusive priests in other jurisdictions to avoid their cases getting out into the public domain. 
Additionally the Ryan report specifically condemned the Vatican for refusing to cooperate with it and provide information on cases only they held.   

In the U.S. where thousands of cases occurred many diocese were bankrupted by the compensation claims from an avalanche of historic cases. 

However, in Britain IICSA has been very limp-wristed in its dealings with the churches showing the usual deference which allows them to escape accountability.   The SAFF have logged literally THOUSANDS of instances of abuse by Catholic Priests and Church of England vicars and clergymen in the UK.   But when trying to obscure this undeniable avalanche of abuse by clergymen IICSA resorts to paying, of all people, the NSPCC to do 'research' into the use of religious texts and beliefs in minority religions to see if they had been mis-used in abuses to children. 

Remember that the NSPCC were the ones who REFUSED to address the problem of Priestly Abuse when the SAFF first alerted them to it!  All part of the heady 'incestuous' circle of the child-scare industry.
What did the NSPCC find?

C.4: The use of religious texts and beliefs

13. For many, religious beliefs are strongly held and deeply ingrained. Abusers have been
known to take advantage of a victim’s faith in order to facilitate their abuse, and to ensure
their silence.

14. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) analysed serious
case reviews involving religious organisations and settings, and undertook work in 2017 in
relation to Hindu and Buddhist communities. It identified that the use of religious texts and
teaching affected attitudes and behaviours in safeguarding children.

SHOCK!  In a 6 year long investigation into UK child abuse there is no mention whatsoever of Satanic Ritual Abuse in this IICSA report!

As we mentioned above, the SAFF identified the utter falsity of  'witch-children' back in 2006 when ANOTHER government inquiry into child-abuse, the Stobart report, was set up to chart the rise of incidences of abuse of children in church exorcism ceremonies ( see http://saff.nfshost.com/stobart.htm and   http://saff.nfshost.com/nspcc.htm  and  http://saff.nfshost.com/witchild.htm ). 

Because the name 'witch-children' caught-on in the Media, leading to exaggerated headlines, it was useful for the child-abuse industry to maximise the hysteria and like the Satanic Abuse allegations which had served their purpose a decade before, it falsely reinforced in the minds of the populace that somehow Witchcraft and the people who believed in Witchcraft (i.e. Pagans) were at it again!  

 It mattered little to the press, to the TV;  and to IICSA it would seem,  that Pagans were diametrically opposed to Satanists in their liturgy and philosophy and had never abused any children.  What mattered to everyone, it seemed, was blaming the 'untermensch' again for child-abuse when it was actually happening right under their noses in Christian Churches!

Of everything IICSA has dealt with in its inquiries the 'witch-children' hysteria of 2006  is proof positive of the fact that the entire child-abuse system was refusing to look at the TRUTH of a situation because the bald truth was unpalatable to those involved in assessing it who were, because the UK is a majority Christian country, mostly Christians who would not condemn the crimes against children occurring in a religion they had chosen. The additional fact of it being specific to BLACK Christian churches, i.e. racially specific,  made them recoil from the truth even further.  How much easier for them to just blame the Witches eh? 

The Witch-Child hysteria showed the vicious feedback cycle of abuse in some Christian Churches.    Whilst blaming Satanists for abusing children in the most horrendous ways the very Churches themselves had worked-up a belief in the reality of the Devil in their congregation to hysterical proportions.  This caused superstitious evangelical Christians to see the devil in their wayward children and blame them for everything negative in their lives.

These churchmen accused small children in front of the entire church of being possessed with devils and they tortured and beat the poor kids to drive the Devil out.  Some of them died. Many ended up needing medical help.  How clear can it be?  The very churches who invented the Satanic Panic and promoted it also condemned small children to suffering and in some instances, like that of poor Victoria Climbie, death.  And in both instances blamed Satanists for doing it whilst the stupid British Media took the lie and ran with it.   But this was not clear to the great and the good who populate IICSA I'm afraid.  Here's what their misguided report said:

20. There is a governmental national action plan, on which the Department for Education
is taking the lead, to tackle child abuse linked to faith and belief, which provides information
about child abuse linked to belief in spirit possession, demons or the devil, the ‘evil eye’,
djinns (in the Islamic faith context), dakinis (in the Hindu context), and rituals related to magic
Child protection in religious organisations and settings: Investigation Report
and witchcraft. Such beliefs are not confined to one faith, nationality or ethnic community.
There are examples recorded in Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Pagan faiths, among others.
While only a small minority of those who hold such beliefs go on to abuse children, such
abuse is seen as being under-reported.  There is relatively little known about the nature,
scale and frequency of this type of abuse.

There is relatively little known about it?   EVERYTHING is known about it!  
The SAFF and Stepping Stones Charity ( now known as 'Safe Child' ( http://www.safechildafrica.org/  )  have known about  'Witch-Children' for nearly 20 years!   How in good conscience can Alexis Jay's inquiry act as though little is known about  witch-children whilst refusing input from SAFF and Stepping Stones?
We know that the exorcism of  children is a form of child abuse which can lead to torture and death.  
We know that it is predominantly practised in Black African evangelistic churches. 
We know that despite a handful of cases occurring in Islam, Hinduism and other minority beliefs the over-arching cause is a belief in spirit possession engendered by the Christian Church.

Indeed the SAFF exposed the dangers of Christian Exorcisms of all kinds way back in 2002 and we actually publicly blamed and condemned the BBC Religious Affairs department and churches of promoting harmful exorcism. We warned them what harm it would cause to adults and children.  (see :  http://saff.nfshost.com/everyman1.htm  )

Yet the BBC and MSM's promotion of Exorcism as a valid form of therapy lead to the Archbishop of York,  John Sentamu, actually calling in the House of Lords for the government to provide Exorcism therapy on the NHS!  (see rightmost image) 

Yes, you heard that right.  In 2011 four years after the Witch-Children hysteria had manifested, one of the pillars of the Church of England demanded that adults and children be exorcised as a form of therapy and exampled the fact that he had himself conducted an exorcism on 'a young girl'.   Are you getting this Alexis Jay?    Who have you got working for you there at the IICSA, a bunch of amateurs or what?   Here at the SAFF we are all volunteers but we are top notch at what we do.  If we can research and log all these cases why can't IICSA find them? Why did IICSA conclude falsely that 

It is very difficult for people who believe in the goodness of Christianity to even consider how Christ's teaching can be misconstrued and used to abuse children so the SAFF uploaded a rare film of mass exorcisms in a Black London church in the mid 1990s ( See:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZLNfgWD1Pc    ).    Some of the children you see in this clip from the BBC are likely to have been physically abused and tortured in exactly the same way that Victoria Climbie was in 2000, and may have, like her, died from it.   IICSA would have done well to watch this clip and learn but they obviously didn't did they! 
That's why, like the three Brass Monkeys,  they can make the blatant lie that :

And of course they tried to blame Paganism again didn't they?

25. There were other organisations that made informal spiritual or pastoral support
available, but this support is often not systematic or well publicised. For example, Mr Michael
Stygal, President of the Pagan Federation, said that it:
“has not been directly involved in the provision of pastoral support to victims
of child sexual abuse, partly because of the lack of recent allegations, and also
because we do not have a pool of volunteers trained to provide such support.”

Pagan is as Pagan does

Paganism:   A polytheistic or pantheistic nature-worshipping religion.

Paganism:  The prehistoric religion of mankind.  The first religious philosophy known in history involving pantheism and the worship of nature.

Today's Neo-Paganism

Neo-Paganism is the style of Paganism which was reconstituted following the change in the law in 1951 which repealed the age-old Witchcraft Act which had for centuries driven it underground.   Strains of Paganism, Pagan folklore, natural healing wisdom and other liberating perspectives which had been held secretly in families and stored away in little known documents and manuscripts were then unearthed by Neo-Pagans and reprinted to capture the enthusiasm of a new generation of young people who found Neo-Paganism a fine philosophy which respected the planet and all creatures on it.  They reconstituted the Old Ways and in the process repudiated the old sectarian lies from Christianity about the supposed dangers of Witchcraft and Paganism.  This age-old conflict is at the base of all of today's claims of sexual abuse of children in Paganism, Witchcraft and Satanism so you think IICSA would have made efforts to get it right.

This true history is instead apparently ignored by IICSA.  Their sanitised throw-away one-liner definition is so unfocused it would apply not only to Neo-Pagans but also to Hindusim, which of course is one of the few religions going back to prehistoric times and therefore more Pagan than modern Neo-Paganism itself.

There are many other sects which have animistic propensities, including the oldest religion in the world - Zoroastrianism.  And these beliefs don't abuse kids either!

 IICSA's perfunctory definition is NOT therefore a proper definition of Paganism, it demeans Paganism - but what would they care - they're only producing a historic national inquiry into harm caused in religious groups in today's Britain.

Had IICSA asked SAFF we would have referred them to the Pagan Credo, a statement of the philosophy of Neo-Paganism first published in 1990 by the SAFF in conjunction with the Pagan Federation, and several leading lights in the Neo-Pagan movement at the time.  

Conclusions

Charities like the NSPCC, the NCH and others which offer a lot and deliver little,  should be looked at by the Charity Commission and millions of pounds of taxpayer's money distributed to them via government and local authorities should be checked to see where it is going and whether it is giving good value or simply powering a massive PR machine to benefit the charity itself.    

Damaging and dangerous therapies such as DID and MPD should be banned for perpetuating the patient's sickness and trapping them in a Bizzaro world for life.   If they are allowed to prosper then government funding should be withdrawn from them immediately.

Lastly, if IICSA wants to recommend a new law then it should forget Mandatory Reporting and instead recommend a law for the removal of the indemnity which local authorities, the NHS and professional bodies extend to their employees and members. At the moment any doctor, policeman, social-worker or therapist can do his or her worst and get off scot-free, damages claims are aimed at the organisation or local authority, not the person who caused them.  This just encourages bad practice.   That protection indemnity should be removed so that, at last, patients whose lives have been destroyed by pseudo-psychiatry and tragedies caused by obsessive religious beliefs of social workers, can gain redress through the courts by suing the person who persecuted them.   This would be an easy move and in an instant change the landscape of child-protection for the better whilst saving taxpayers millions of pounds a year.

Above:  March 1990 'NSPCC say five year olds are being forced into Satanic Rituals involving sexual abuse animal sacrifices and drinking blood.    One year later:  March 1992.  Rochdale Case, which the NSPCC was involved in, crashes. There was no Satanic Abuse and the NSPCC recant 'We are sorry for our wild statements'.   
Are they?   During 1990 the SAFF wrote to the director of the NSPCC multiple times offering our expertise, insight and research on SRA showing that it did not exist.  They gave us the run-around. We offered to come down and give their staff a presentation on the subject. They messed us about. Clearly delaying and refusing our input.  We threatened to go public. The NSPCC then paid for their blue-chip barristers  Mischon de Reya to threaten to sue us for libel if we did. 
We replied that you can't be done for libel if you are telling the truth.
The NSPCC ACTIVELY manipulated the situation to avoid any diminution of their chosen false message that SRA existed and was a threat to children.  So you can see how the child-scare industry lie and cheat we have appended a diary of correspondence with the NSPCC in the leftmost column.  Note that this is only a partial list of information we sent, it is not exhaustive.