Reachout Trust Used Nazi Blood Libels that killed Six Million Jews to Smear Today's Pagans.

The following outright untruths are taken from a 10 page printed document published by Reachout in 1988 at the start of the Satanic Ritual Abuse Myth which feigned to offer expert knowledge on  occult practices which Reachout claimed were causing horrific abuse of children in the U.K.  

In fact the Blood Libels Reachout repeated against todays Pagans and Satanists were precisely the same false claims the Nazis made about Jews to whip up the German population against them and which lead to the Final Solution.

The illustration at the top of this column is fromm Der Sturmer! an official Nazi propaganda newspaper, which constantly made the Blood Libel against Jews. The drawing depicts two old Jews catching the blood drained from the throats of Christian babies sacrificed to Jewry.

"Der Stürmer was an anti-Semitic "tabloid style" newspaper published by Julius Streicher from 1923 almost continuously through to the end of World War II. Der Stürmer was viewed by Hitler as playing a  significant role in the Nazi propaganda machinery and a useful tool in influencing the "common man on the street".  [Official Holocaust Research Project]

Compare these two statements:

The first column is from Der Sturmer!  The Second is from The Reachout Trust!

Are we saying that people who work for Reachout are Nazis?  NO! Because the Nazis did not invent the Blood Libel, Christians created those ideas hundreds of years before and the Nazis just capitalised on them. 

The earliest claims that Jews killed children and drank their blood was made by fundamentalist Christians during the first crusades of the 11C but in England Satanic Abuse claims were prevalent as long ago as 1144 when a boy was found dead in Norwich and the Jews were blamed for it:

"In this case, the Jews of Norwich were alleged to have "bought a Christian child [the 'boy-martyr' William] before Easter and tortured him with all the tortures wherewith our Lord was tortured, and on Long Friday hanged him on a rood in hatred of our Lord. "

Subsequent Blood Libel cases were recorded in
Gloucester, England (1168);
Blois, France (1171);
Saragossa, Spain (1182);
Bristol, England (1183);
Fulda, Germany (1235);
Lincoln, England (1255); and
Munich, Germany (1286).
Medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Prioress's Tale" (in The Canterbury Tales) also invokes the blood libel motif, describing Jews as aroused by satanic urges to murder Christian children."
Source:

You will notice that FIVE of the seven recorded instances of this Blood Libel occurred in England. It is the SAFF's intention to show below how Reachout, a group of fundamentalist Christians, knowingly or unconsciously, created another false scare about the same child-sacrifice in 1988.

Reachout accusations are made as bare fact.

Note however that nowhere in any of the statements by Reachout Trust is there any caution or balance.  They didn't say. 

"Children tell us about SRA therefore the claims need investigating because we have no other reliable evidence that it is occurring and don't really know much about Pagan/Satanic ceremonies". 

No. They said,

'Satanic Ritual Abuse exists and children are being abused and killed right now by Satanists and witches in the U.K., We've got to stop them and here's what to watch for and the dates of occult rites when children will be abused and killed.'

This is a sectarian LIE.  So we call Reachout what they are indiscriminate sectarian LIARS.

'Satanic Ritual Abuse' the new Malleus Malleficarum for modern day fundies.

The Reachout text reproduced below, is an extract from just three pages of a document of their's titled
'Satanic Ritual Abuse' which reignited the Blood Libel in the UK.
It was written by Reachout Trust director Maureen Davies , a dental nurse, who had no expertise whatsoever about the real workings of occult beliefs but who had a long history of fundamentalist activity making unproven accusations against New Age philosophies.

Davies was an influential keynote speaker at all the infamous
Satan Seminars in the 1990s .  Afterwards this document was distributed to social workers, therapists, police personnel, and academics. She later posted it to other fundamentalist Christians and anyone else who might request it from Reachout HQ. 

This document therefore formed the backbone of the 1990 Satan Scare
yet it has absolutely no child-protection value and is nothing but a pack of historical Sectarian Suspicions.

Police, Social Workers and therapists actually relied on this document for first-hand 'evidence' and the M.O. of the existence of Satanic Ritual Abusers. Yes, really.

It shows that the Reachout Trust was the major promoter of the myth of Satanic Ritual Abuse in the U.K.  Journalists and others actually took these sectarian lies and used them as a framework for persecuting innocent people.

This subsequently created the mass hysteria which still surrounds child-abuse today.  You will be stunned to read below how such mediaeval and illogical concepts could be rehashed to stampede the UK into the biggest hoax in the 20th century.

WHAT GOES ON IN THE RITUALS IN BRITAIN TODAY?

"Wherever we come across ritual abuse, the same evil practices occur again and again. The following list contains activities reported to me by the children themselves, and these reports are backed up by people I know personally, who have come out of Satanism." [Ed: Maureen Davies said later that this was not true, she had not had these things reported to her by the children. (see Telegraph article in next column )

"1. Children are given drugs,‘by injection, medicine, or in drinks that are laced. This to is either to sedate them or cause them to hallucinate. Muscle relaxants are also given, so that 'if they are young they can still be used in the sexual activities of participants without causing too much physical damage." (Ed: There has not been any case in 30 years where any child has been given drugs to sedate them so they can be abused in a Satanic ceremony, )

"2. Candles are laced with drugs to give the ‘effects mentioned above. Also incense that excites the emotions is used to induce sexual arousal. " (Ed: In 30 years no instances have ever been found of candles being mixed with drugs. The few Witches and Satanists who might take drugs are unlikely to mix it in their candles.   If incense could cause sexual arousal church pews might be fuller than they actually are. )

"3. Some are taught self-hypnosis. and  have a trigger word that starts an abnormal fear." (Ed: The concepts of secret 'trigger-words' is utterly unfounded. In 30 years there has not been one claimed SRA case where a child was subjected to 'trigger-words'. See:  http://saff.nfshost.com/triggerw.htm )

"After the sacrifice they take out the heart, spleen, and. eyes and eat them. The children are also taught how to remove these parts of the body. The children state how bodies are chopped up. What is not eaten of the foetus is stored. Some of the bodies are melted down. The fat is used for candles and the bones are ground down and the powder is used as an aphrodisiac."
 (Ed. Someone is making this up. Firstly in sympathetic magic the world over anthropologists' research has shown that aphrodisiac potions are exclusively made from the sexual parts, not from heart, spleen, eyes or bones!
Secondly, the idea that babies' fat is melted down to form candles is an  historic lie first used during the 14c witch trials to justify burning innocent old women alive.    There has never been any evidence historically or in modern times to suggest that human fat was so used.  In the Nazi period human fat from Jewish inmates exterminated in the camps was used in a project to produce SOAP but not candles.  Horrific untrue claims like this are frequent from Satan Hunters like Davies and have been made in previous centuries by other ardent Christians. Dianne Core of the Childwatch charity, ( a colleague of Maureen who attended many of the same Satan seminars) ,  actually stated on film that Satanists strung finger bones from children they had sacrificed on cord and wore them around their necks.  Where is the evidence?  None exists!  No such bones or candles have ever been found. It's all part of the Blood Libel. )

"What I have reported so far is only a partial picture. I know that there are other types of rituals which I have not mentioned. From our information a lot of these rituals are videoed by the people involved"  .(Ed: Are they?
In which case why have none of these many hundreds of videos turned up? Why has Reachout not found one to show us? 30 years have now passed since Maureen Davies made this claim and not one example of any such 'snuff movie' has ever been found. There is no evidence whatsoever for those vicious claims but Reachout and their friends did try hard on this one, witness the Channel 4 Beyond Belief documentary which tried to pass extracts from a 1970s Performance Art video off as actual footage of Satanic Abuse.  SAFF found the complete video and it was all shown to be Sectarian Lies. See:
http://saff.nfshost.com/devilvid.htm  )

Note: The above is a three-page extract from 'Satanic Ritual Abuse' which states the main accusations by Reachout against Witchcraft, Paganism and Satanism.
The other 7 pages of this document are equally in error.  Anyone interested in seeing the full document can email us on

and we will send them a copy.

THE REACHOUT TRUST : 

THE FULL STORY YOU WON'T SEE ANYWHERE ELSE

A group of Christian Fundamentalists intent on unfairly discrediting  New Age beliefs and alternative religions through the promotion of falsehoods about Satanic Ritual Child Abuse

The Reachout Trust was a sectarian Christian charity originally established in the 1980s to discredit Jehovah's Witnesses whom its leader Doug Harris (deceased) believed was a 'cult' .   They 'refined' their later technique of slanderous accusations against other religions by libellous tracts against the JWs and by exaggerating the supposed negative mental effects of remaining a JW. They set up support and safe havens for any  ex-JW 'survivors'.  Observers of the recent false-accusation phenomenon will see in Reachout a prototype of the 'survivor' movement.   Although largely hidden from view to all but the most persistent inquirer Reachout's intent was not psychological help but SPIRITUAL help,
their main 'therapy' was Deliverance Ministry a buzzword for EXORCISM.

'Reachout...works alongside churches in what it calls it's work of Deliverance.   "We avoid the emotive word 'exorcism' said national organiser Mr Dough Harris. 'The sufferer says: I want to be delivered in the name of Jesus' There's no pummelling.
The demons react to that.
It is they who throw people to the ground." '

North Wales Weekly News, March 1988

Reachout's philosophy was that everything which is not strictly of god is a symptom of the Devil's Work and thus possessed the souls of adults and children who bought into it.  At first Reachout therefore campaigned against stupid things, like Hypnosis, Transcendental Meditation, Tarot Cards, Christian Spiritualists, Halloween, Fantasy Games, Rock Music and later on even Harry Potter books. At this point they were just run-of-the-mill  hyper-sensitive fundie troublemakers and had NO expertise whatsoever of child-protection or child-abuse. But then came Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens and his 'Children abused in witchcraft ceremonies' lies. This was a platform too good to miss.  Reachout Trust was the first fundie group to jump on that bandwagon and their 'knowledge' of demonology enabled them to pretend to know all about Satanism and Witchcraft to child-charities like the NSPCC and Childline, NCH etc. who were clamouring for more insight after the first false claims were made. 

Reachout's swift move to monopolise the supply of information on Witchcraft, Paganism and Satanism (to exclude ACTUAL representatives of today's REAL Witches and Satanists ) was very clever and very successful. You might be interested to hear that  the SAFF tried over many months to provide GENUINE information on current occult beliefs to the NSPCC at the same time as the charity was listening to Reachout  . The NSPCC actively dodged any contact with us and refused information from us, leading us a dance in the process.  We wrote frequently to Ian Gilmour (then Director of the NSPCC) and offered help and insight. We kept up consistent communication with their Press Officer Kevin Barrett. We even offered to come down to their HQ and do a presentation for them on the True nature of Paganism etc., but they simply would not listen.  After dozens of letters over the space of many months and being rebuffed every single time, sometimes snidely, the SAFF wrote one last time and told them that we were going to publish our train of correspondence with the NSPCC to show the public how the charity appeared to be censoring facts about SRA to suit the SRA narrative which was giving them lots of free advertising and coverage.   The NSPCC immediately ordered blue-chip barristers Mischon de Reya to threaten the SAFF with legal action to stop us from telling the world what they'd done.   Naturally we told them to get lost and have made a point of often reminding the public of the dastardly actions of the country's 'most treasured child charity' in respect of pushing the SRA myth for all it was worth.  You can find it here: http://saff.nfshost.com/nspcc.htm

As Reachout Trust became almost the sole go-to for Media, Social Workers, Therapists and Police it meant of course that nobody in social work or child-protection was getting any REAL facts about what witches and satanists actually did. Allegations about abusing and sacrificing children was simply age-old lies. This closed shop of belief was bound to result in false allegations against innocent people in a modern witch-hunt and it did so in spades destroying the lives of many children and their parents.  86 children were kidnapped from their parents, some for over a decade. Some children were actually put into permanent adoption. It was a despicable period which need not have happened had the government and the police and social workers listened to the S.A.F.F.  What we had here was an extreme fundamentalist Christian group dictating mediaeval dogma to destroy any group or philosophy which was not aligned with Christian Holy Writ.

Dough Harris had networked amongst the thousands of fringe Christian groups in the U.K., many from the 'House Church' movement which was fashionable at the time. These 'House Churches' were cells of 'renegade' Christians, who ran parallel to the orthodox churches, holding small religious meetings in their homes, usually consisting of hard-line fundamentalists, who were not welcome in the orthodox churches. The types that accost you in city centres with loud speakers, pushing tracts into the hands of passers by.  In this hierarchy adamance rates highly and the most radical Christians rise to the top. Eventually Harris built a small coterie of  Christian evangelists which included Maureen Davies (a dental nurse from Rhyl who from an early age 'put religious tracts on car wind shields and complained about astrology books in WHSmiths), Audrey Harper, the prototype Victim-Imposter,  and a renegade CofE vicar called Kevin Logan, an ex Coal-Board journalist who had campaigned to get a giant crucifix erected on the top of Pendle Hill to 'counter' it's use by Satanists due to its historical connection with the 17th century Lancaster Witch Trials!  In short Reachout amounted to a core of extreme fundie activists.  How would anyone take this bunch seriously?  You will find out below how influential they were at twisting history.

Maureen  Davies wrote a fundamentalist Christian training manual entitled 'How to Deal with the Occult in your Area' which was distributed by Reachout as both a pamphlet and an audio recording taped during one of her many visits to other Churches to enthuse and train-up erstwhile fundie recruits. She taught them how to complain to schools and local councils and generally object to anything in the area that was not Holy Writ.

It was Maureen Davies (director of Reachout's specialist department on Satanic Ritual Child Abuse) who acted as the 'expert' on SRA in an attempt to convince unbelievers, starting around 1988.

She got so good at it that she was invited to lecture to the police officer training college at Bramshill!  (Cue a generation of infected leaders of the police some of whom just happen to also be evangelical Christians -  http://saff.nfshost.com/prayercops.htm   )

Maureen Davies appeared as a star keynote speaker promoting false ideas about Satanic Abuseat  every one of the notorious  Satan Seminars held for police, social workers, aligned Christian groups, child-care charities and therapists during that time.   Not one of her claimed cases proved to be what she said it was and her invented stories of the 'Satanic Method'  were utterly in error, being a rehashing of details from the Inquisitors' 14C Malleus Maleficarum rather than an overview of what modern Satanists and Pagans actually did. .

Despite her manic claims of SRA she and Reachout never had ANY real cases. All the supposed cases of claimed SRA which Reachout highlighted failed in the course of time.  SAFF can dispense with every single one of them. Give us the dates and names and we will explain how every one failed (see Pennel case below for a classic example)

REACHOUT DIRECTOR AUDREY HARPER

One of the key players in the Reachout Trust was Audrey Harper, An ex-Bernardo's girl who became a member of the Moravian church.
Harper began telling anyone who would listen that she'd been present at the ritual murder of a baby whose throat had been cut in a Satanic ceremony. 

Harper had plied this unprovable claim prior to linking up with the Reachout Trust.  Note that one component of it was the location she gave of the supposed 'sacrifice' , Virginia Water, right next to the Queen's Windsor Estate ( cue mad claims of later Royal Satanic Goings on by Jim Phillips - see below ) 

During her pre-Reachout days Harper's 'witnessing' or rather religious grandstanding at various church meetings caused the Surrey police to investigate her claims.
They found no case to answer. 

When Harper joined Reachout she soon began  promoting her SRA story.   Unlike the unreliable anecdotal third and fourth hand false claims from others which made up much of Reachout's 'evidence' her story was first-hand and she repeated it interminably in dozens of newspaper articles all over the country.   She appeared in so many newspaper articles they actually used a silhouetted photo of her and gave her a pseudonyms;  perhaps in case people began to question whether she was the only first-hand SRA 'witness' ? 

All this Reachout publicity caused a SECOND investigation into Harper's  false claims by the Police.  The SAFF corresponded with the Chief Constable of Surrey Police at the time, alerting him to the earlier investigation and asking for a detailed statement about the second.  He point blank refused to communicate any details to us other than there was
'no case to answer'.   

How fundamentalists work to a tacit agenda which few outsiders see:

We point out that many of the 'cases' Reachout used were from other fundamentalist Christians, who worked-up situations which did not exist or exaggerated and misinterpreted innocuous situations. They often told third and fourth hand stories which had no basis in fact.   The Pennels case from the North East was a classic example. In March 1988 they claimed their cat had been sacrificed by Satanists because the Pennels were high-profile Christians. A local newspaper report of the incident actually said local youths had done it and implied that the Pennels were hypersensitive, they actually used the term 'bible thumpers'! 

The Pennel's uncorroborated testimony about Satanic cat sacrifice was printed in their local newspaper alongside an article containing allegations of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse and included an interview with the committed Christian and anti-Witchcraft campaigner Geoffrey Dickens MP. Dickens had that month made his first announcement in the Commons about his campaign against what he termed child abuse within witchcraft, making the perennial mistake that all bigots make of confusing Satanism (a sub-text of the Christian belief) with Paganism (the original religion of prehistory which covered the globe millennia before Christianity was thought of).

At around the same time Dianne Core of Childwatch , one of the most obsessive early believers in the doctrine, who had claimed that 4,000 children a year were being sacrificed to Satan, visited the Pennel's locality to investigate allegations of Satanic Abuse.  Dianne Core is an ardent Christian. Geoffrey Dickens was her 'parliamentary representative' and she was his close 'aide'. A great deal of the information in Dicken's Dossier came through her and she helped organise his anti-occult campaign. Dianne Core was in close touch with and regularly worked with the directors of the Reachout Trust.

You will see a cutting on the right about the Pennels campaigning for the banning of the religions of Satanism and Paganism, and, just to add another fundamentalist hatred,  a repeal of the laws permitting homosexuality as well!  You can see from this letter how opportunist Christian fundamentalist activists will do anything to try to suppress competing religions.  Personally I wouldn't believe a word they said.

 Even though the Pennels' 'cat case' was hearsay it was sent to Geoffrey Dickens MP (Christian lay-preacher ) as though a genuine Satanic attack and formed part of his now infamous 'dossier' on SRA which SRAhunters today love to quote as 'evidence' but which was SO appallingly weak and unsubstantiated that it was never sent to the Home Office as Dickens promised it would be.

Ordinary folk often see the over-egged claims from Christian evangelicals as societal aberrations. They think that loopy fundies are just whistling in the dark and nobody takes them seriously.  However when the dots are joined things can look far more sinister.  For instance on April 15th 1988, less than a month after the Pennells sent their letter to the Home Secretary demanding a change in the law to ban witchcraft, Geoffrey Dickens announced in parliament that he would be seeking to introduce amendments to the Criminal Justice Bill, then in process, to ban children from any Satanic or Pagan ceremony. 

One report of this by Associated Press, (see left) interviewed Dickens who, to provide 'evidence' to support his amendment, quoted from a statistical survey saying that 87% of schoolchildren had dabbled in the occult (see last paragraph of the cutting). That 'survey' was actually undertaken by Rev. Kevin Logan for the Reachout Trust and has been widely quoted in the media since as 'proof' of the insidious nature of occultism snaring youngsters, yet it was all a con. A form with leading questions provided to a single CofE school in Blackburn which teenage pupils were forced to fill in. It included 'An interest in Rock Music' and 'fantasy games', and TV programmes like 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch'  as a positive indicator of occult involvement!  I ask you, which teenager do you know who DOESN'T like pop music and electronic games?  As statistical research it was absolutely worthless yet these false 'results' went around the world and the survey was seriously quoted as 'proof' that there was a problem with the way Pagan parents were bringing up their kids and that their offspring may be at risk.   This is a classic example of the way that fundamentalist troublemakers create conflict in the media without either the public, or the journalists who report on it, knowing they are acting as their shills. 

The SAFF put up a powerful fight against Dicken's amendment based on the U.N. declaration of Human Rights which protects the right of parents to pass on their religious beliefs to their offspring.  After a great deal of work and correspondence with the Home Office, plus a lot of publicity and lobbying, the SAFF won the day for all free-thinkers. Parliament's lawyers told Dickens that his amendment would be unconstitutional and so it was dropped.   The evil man promised to reframe it and try again but fortunately died before he could do so.  

Just to give you an extra flavour of the chummy network behind the false SRA claims, Dickens later wrote the Foreward to a reprint of Audrey Harper's book Dance with The Devil, an autobiography of her time as a 'witch'.  He said:

'With the support of Christ I am glad Audrey Harper has has the strength to tell her story'

 THE SCANDAL OF ROCHDALE AND ORKNEY

"It is said that. she (Davies) spoke to a group of Scottish social workers shortly before the first children were taken from the Orkneys. It was also claimed that she became involved in the Rochdale saga.  She denies this. She says she addressed a Scottish,conference organised by church leaders but does not know whether social workers were in the audience. "In the Rochdale,. case, if anything I was on the side of the parents" she says.- Mrs Davies says she can back up her claims of widespread satanic abuses with evidence from the mouths of the abused, from adults desperate to get out of the "hundreds of sects”, and from occult magazines.  She refers to cases of babies and virgins being sacrificed on altars, of urination and defecation on victims, and of blood- drinking. She says she has never had to deal with anyone younger than a teenager. But in one of the Beacon Foundation's pamphlet ” handed out " to social workers and at the mainly church-organised  meetings she addresses she writes; "The following list contains, activities reported to me by the  children themselves...".
Sunday Telegraph 7th April 1991 

But that statement by Davies wasn't quite true.  She must have forgotten how she was filmed in Kevin Logan's church by the Cook Report attending the exorcism of young children who had, the programme claimed, been affected by Satanic Abuse.  Here's a clip from the Devil's work showing Davies stood next to Audrey Harper , dressed in blue.

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3 Grosvenor Avenue,  Rhyl,  LL18 4HA
Helpline:  01745 343600

National telephone helpline for survivors of ritual abuse and those supporting them. Also act as a referral point in the North Wales area for survivors of sexual abuse.

Last Updated:  16/07/2007
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