Witch Hunt Mania
Recommences in Scotland Despite NEW
SATANIC ABUSE TRIAL FAILURE
The sensational headlines on the banner above
look like they came from the 1990 Satanic Panic, but
despite 35 years of failed court cases and not a single
conviction for Satanic Ritual Abuse in all that time,
despite knowing the dangers to innocents who have been falsely
accused, the British Media still cannot show
restraint and rush to sensationalise thread-bare claims as
though fact. Satanic Abuse refuses to die because the
Media love the click-bait sensationalism and the sectarian
lynch-mob expects it.
Within hours of the
announcement of this new Satanic Abuse trial on 3 August
2022, the internet was rife with rumour and speculation. The
'trigger-words' used in the press headlines set in motion an
instantaneous wave of hatred from all those believers in SRA
who were certain that the Glasgow trial
would, at long last, prove the existence of Satanic
Ritual Abuse ; A typical selection of the thousands of
irate tweets is alongside. [Double
click on any image on this web page for a larger version
to read more easily.]
The trial was slated to begin in September 2023
but at a pre-trial hearing in January of that year the defense
lawyers complained to the judge about a TikTokvideo recorded
by SRA conspiracyloons on location outside Glasgow High
Court which also featured photographs of the accused and
revealed other information which breached sub-judicae
laws.
The defence asked the judge to order the police to remove it
and any other infringements. It was the very same
jump-to-condemn which hallmarks all previous Satanic
Panics. The SRA lynch-mob was on the bandwagon again.
As soon as the trial indictments 'confirmed' the links to
Satanism and Witchcraft, the Satan Hunter lobby in Scotland
had swung into action with a mob gathering around the homes of
two of the accused who were taken away by the police 'for
their own safety'. The court, the Crown Prosecution
Service and the police MUST have realised the panic and
hysteria that would have been caused by the use of the terms
Witchcraft and Satanism in this trial yet they brazenly
publicised those allegations all the same.
Similar videos on the case are still up on Tik-Tok today. For
example, the group #exposescotland , a set of SRA vigilantes,
is just one of the many SRA-hunter outfits which jumped on the
Glasgow trial to spread the false notion that
here at last was vindication that the Satanic Ritual
Abuse of children did exist. In the video a self-appointed
Scottish Satan-hunter with a Glaswegian accent tells her
followers it's a done deal: [
Source] No need for a
Trial, or a Jury. Let's Just hang the Witch!
The
Scottish Legal Establishment and Press breached the
religious rights of Pagans without a thought.
The condemnation of today's Pagans was so great
that the Times actually reported
hate crimes against Scottish Witches;
'Scotland's Pagans are facing
threats and discrimination after their religion was linked
with a court case alleging that a Satanic child sex ring
was operating in Glasgow, the Scottish Pagan Federation
said today.
Source: Times 5 November 2022 ]
The Trial Begins:
Amidst this roiling hatred reminiscent of
fifteenth century Scottish Witch-trials, the prosecution of
the 11 accused began on 6 September 2023 with warnings from
the judge that it could take six to eight weeks to complete.
The Media and the Satan Hunters readied themselves for a
Satan-Fest of enormous proportions... but
then on the 13th of October the Witchcraft and Satanic
Components of the trial began to collapse:
*
* The indictment
claimed adults made the children participate in Witchcraft
classes and seances but it was
UNTRUE!
* The
CPS lawyers said the defendants were Witches and used Ouija
Boards and Wands - Untrue!
The people accused
were not Witches or Satanists.
The
Satan-hunter rabble-rousers who had, once again, pinned
their hopes on getting 'proof' of Satanic Ritual Child
Abuse, were stunned. For the umpteenth time a case
sensationalised by the Media had been pounced upon by the
lynch-mob and this one had seemed so cut-and-dried, so
incontrovertible. It had so many expected motifs. The
indictments appeared SO believable; but they
were false, as in every other case in the past.
The SRA
lynch-mob had made up their minds long before they knew
the facts. Yet as the SAFF has been telling folk for the
past three decades tales of SRA are a MYTH, a witch-hunt,
and those who jump to condemn will look as foolish as
those people do now on Twitter and TikTok and
other social media platforms who got sucked-in by the
seemingly 'obviously true' shock headlines.
There was no real forensic evidence
of any form of Satanic Ritual Abuse
As the trial
progressed it became clear that the very slight injuries
shown to the court in photographs of the childrens'
bodies, were typical of those in accidents and non-abusive
incidents. They could not in any way be said to have
been evidence of 'Ritual Abuse' and they did not
constitute any sort of evidence of a link with
Witchcraft or Satanism.
The
Prosecution's case relating to the Witchcraft and Satanic
claims was tissue-thin and unprovable, as we shall show
below. After the Defence objected, the judge halted
the trial and conferred with the Prosecution which
agreed to withdraw ALL eight of the charges related to
Witchcraft and Satanism. This was NOT a case
of SRA. There was NO Satanism or Witchcraft involved in
any of it.
The
Media and the on-line pundits were WRONG. This was
not a real case of SRA after all - there was no
Satanism or Witchcraft involved in any of it.
The case
continued as a 'conventional' trial of 'regular' child sex
abuse but SAFF believe that the inclusion of false claims
of ritual abuse has damaged the prosecution's case to a
point at which the veracity of the children's testimony on
'regular' abuse is now also in question, making an appeal
against the convictions a racing certainty.
Yet even as the jury delivered their verdict
of guilty on 8 of the accused the witless British Press
could not resist re-inserting made-up claims of Witchcraft
and Satanism into their reports regardless of the fact
that the Judge and the Prosecution itself had said they
were untrue - Just like they did in the 1990
Satanic Panic. Almost every news report contained the
phrase
An allegation that the
accused used a Ouija board to “call on spirits and
demons” causing the child victims to “believe that
they could see, hear and communicate with spirits and
demons” and making them take part in “witchcraft”, was
dropped by prosecutors during the trial.
If the court had found this
untrue, which it had,
then why include it?
If the court had dropped claims of using a Ouija
Board, which it had,
then why mention it?
If the court had rejected claims that the paedophiles
had 'called on spirits and demons' in 'witchcraft'
ceremonies, which it had,
then why recall it?
It is like some
mediaeval compulsion the British Press cannot resist - to
restate untruths in order to abominate people who have
committed crimes beyond the pale. Saying these people are
evil isn't enough. Relating their terrible crimes is
insufficient - we must say they are DEMONS too and rile
the baying mob to a crescendo.
Ironically the worst offender in the
Tabloid excesses was the Daily Mail. Back
in the 1990s The Daily Mail & Sunday Mail
were proper newspapers which had lead the press to
challenge the claims of Satanic Abuse in the Rochdale and
Orkney
cases and helped this country to break free from
the grip of a mediaeval hysteria. They
spent tens of thousands on legal actions taking
Rochdale and Orkney councils to the high court to
force them to reveal case documents which showed just
how badly and on what flimsy pretexts the Scottish
Social Services had kidnapped kids from their innocent
parents and how the social workers had tried to
cover-up their mania about Satanic Abuse.
This long
tradition of all that is best in British Journalism has
now apparently sunk to an all time low as a new generation
of hacks who are completely ignorant of the good work
their newspaper did before, quickly jumped on the SRA
bandwagon in 2023. The completely inaccurate headline
alongside says it all. The defendants did not 'pose as
witches and wizards' All references to
witches and wizards were false and removed from the
court on the 13th October.
Even worse, having attempted to make this a
case of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse when it was no
such thing, Natasha Anderson and Eirian Jane Prosser then
go on to use these choice untruths:
Throughout the trial the group
was described as a satanic coven - a mixture of 'Witches
and Wizards' They were accused of getting the children
involved in ' practices' casting 'spells' and turning
them into animals.
This is
utterly untrue. These terms were used in the
original court indictments and were dropped by the
Prosecution a week into the trial on the 13th
October. Clearly these two hacks were transfixed by the
same early shock-horror headlines that marked the start of
this trial and just ASSUMED that the 'Devil Worship' was
real.
Not only is
that statement untrue but it is also moronic. Let's
educate Anderson and Prosser shall we? Witches and
Satanists do not mix - they are completely different
beliefs as we outline in detail below.
1. There were no spells.
2. These despicable people were not charged
with being Witches or Satanists.
3. They were not members of any occult group
or society.
4. They did not use any known form of
Witchcraft or Satanic rituals.
5. They did not own any ceremonial
paraphernalia from either the Witchcraft / Pagan or the
Satanic traditions.
6. They did not even claim to be Witches or
Satanists.
The evil
abusers are dross who would never be accepted into a
genuine Coven, whether it was Witchcraft or Satanic. Yet
Anderson and Prosser just throw the lie in to the mix to
enrage the baying mob anyway.
As if the
actual facts of the abuse that these depraved individuals
had meted out to these poor children wasn't bad enough to
report, the Mail had to excoriate into the stratosphere
with:
The horrendous ordeals
only emerged after the brave victims revealed what
they had suffered to a couple they got to know,
documenting accounts of depraved abuse, witchcraft
and slaughtering of dogs in the dirty city hovel.
Witches do
not abuse anyone, adults or children. Neither do they
kill or harm animals. All witchcraft claims were
dropped early in this trial when the defence first
challenged them.
Anderson and
Prosser may not know it but Witchcraft is a bona-fide
religion across the world. Witches are not 'dirty' and
they do not live in 'hovels'. These descriptors are the
same kind of untruths which caused the death of six
million Jews in Nazi Germany and here Prosser and Anderson
glibly trot them out to demonise another section of the
community even though Pagans and Witches have religious
rights which make those statements a hate crime.
The stupendously
ignorant inclusion of Witchcraft in that statement in a
society which is now paranoid about diversity can be more
readily seen if the word Witches were changed to Jews.
Would Anderson and Prosser DARE say that Jews killed dogs
and abused children? Because amongst many blood libels,
that's what they've been accused of by Jew haters since
the 12th century! Where do these hacks get off changing
the truth and haphazardly incorporating casual hatred into
their journalism, just because they think they can get
away with it?
And then, right
at the bottom of their article, as a kind of legal
absolution, Anderson and Prosser add:
Prosecutors had
withdrawn witchcraft allegations during the trial.
In other words,
pandering to the conspiracyloons as though inferring that
the Satanic content was somehow censored or banned when in
fact, nothing they had written in relation to defamatory
attacks on Witches and Satanists has been true and if
anyone complains about their religious rights to the IPCC,
the Mail's legal eagles will point to this disclaimer.
Nice.
 The entire history
of the Satanic Ritual Abuse Myth, its horrendous
cost to society, the tens of thousands of innocent people
who have had their lives destroyed, and the thousands of
little children who have suffered being split from their
families for years, sometimes forever, for no good reason,
occurred PRECISELY because of sloppy self-serving
journalism such as that written by these two hacks from
the Mail.
Back in 1991 the SAFF worked intensely with the Mail
on Sunday team and the Daily Mail over many
months providing contacts, unique documents, insight and
rare evidence to show that the Rochdale and Orkney
claimed Satanic Abuse cases were not just tragic
mistakes but an organised campaign by Marxist politicians
and fundamentalist troublemakers to foist the Satanic
Ritual Abuse Myth onto Britain.
Our founder
undertook many extensive conversations with the late MoS
editor, Iain Walker, about false accusations of SRA .
SAFF evidence was crucial in the newspaper's
award-winning campaign to clear the Rochdale families
. Poor Iain will be turning in his grave at
the drivel Prosser and Anderson have produced today,
for there is a far bigger, more extensive and more
shocking story in the Glasgow SRA case which these dolts
have utterly missed! A story which might have
enshrined their careers but instead they run with this
gibberish.
 Now do not get us
wrong here, our criticism of the Glasgow SRA trial is not
an attempt to minimise the suffering of the poor
children involved, nor are we denying the evil
machinations of this group of perverts who abused them. We
are concerned only with the false attribution of this
case as one of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse when it was
nothing of the kind.
The SAFF was
the FIRST organisation to identify SRA claims as a myth
and we are the only group to have tracked this
dangerous myth of SRA continuously for over three
decades. Despite the many thousands of historians,
sociologists, criminologists, anomolists and other
specialists whose opinions on the Satanic Panic now litter
the internet regurgitating the 'received opinion' only the
SAFF has the on-the-ground, true inside track, which can
make sense of it all.
How It All Began
The very first claimed case of SRA was in
Broxtowe,
Nottingham in 1988. That involved multiple perpetrators in
an extended family, just like the Glasgow Case. The
Broxtowe case also involved almost identical claims from
young children about animal and baby sacrifice which
were worked-up by Satan Hunters in Nottinghamshire
Social Services.
But, as in
the Glasgow case, the police investigating Broxtowe
could find not a single forensic fact to support the
claims of SRA and concluded there was no Satanic Ritual
Abuse in the case. [see full story in the
newspaper cutting above Satanic Inquisitors From The
Town Hall - double click to get a larger version to
read]
The
perpetrators, (for just as in the Glasgow case, the
children were abused terribly), were successfully
prosecuted through the courts and given large sentences
for their heinous abuse of children. The Nottinghamshire
police not only publicly said that there wasn't a shred of
evidence of Satanic Abuse in the case, but to quell the
hysteria the chief constable actually published a report
ramming home that fact, which was sent to the Home
Office. Even so, hacks in the media ran with
the SRA memes from the Satan Hunters just as they did
today and it caused a mania over Satanic Abuse
which has lasted 35 years. Obviously the hacks Anderson
and Prosser know nothing of this or they would perhaps
have chosen their words more carefully.
The SAFF
predict that the Glasgow case is the start of a new bout
of SRA hysteria in Scotland. You will watch it happen
over the next few months. Many of the SRA hunters in
social work whose belief in SRA was eventually
discredited in England moved to Scotland and have been
sensitising police and the social services there to
ridiculous claims of SRA ever since.
Why did the Crown Prosecution
Service chance it?
One has to
ask WHY the Crown Prosecution Service persisted with
tagging flimsy claims of Satanic Ritual Child
Abuse onto this case after three decades of
getting it wrong so many times on SRA before? An
inquiry must now be held about how and why the CPS
lawyer who decided to list archaic charges of Witchcraft
against the accused was allowed to do so.
There was no forensic evidence of Witchcraft or
Satanism.
There were no black-books or manuals found,
No robes or other paraphernalia were ever
discovered.
No photos
No videos
No incense
No ritual tools.
No Pagan or Satanic network unearthed.
No bodies of sacrificed animals.
No baths of blood.
And there was
absolutely no evidence that those accused had
anything at all to do with any Witchcraft sect or
coven. The only thing the Prosecution
had was the tales told to them by the children, which, just
as in every case in the past , were fantasies as
the dropping of the indictments shows.
False tales of horrific occult ritual abuse, worked up
by consistent questioning of children were at the root
of every single false case of Satanic Abuse in the 1990
panic. The children are not 'lying' they are
simply being lead to fabricate memories, or exaggerate
memories by crusading social workers and
pseudo-therapists on the make who continue to pester
them with questions until they make something up.
There is absolutely
undeniable evidence of this happening in all the
court records and tape recordings of the
'disclosure' questioning of children by social
workers at the time.
Could it be that, in the
Glasgow case evidence was so thin that the CPS believed
that tagging on claims of Witches and Satanists would sway
the jury? Maybe; SAFF has research which shows how
the occult and devil-worship is sometimes dragged into
weak trials to abominate the accused in the eyes of
juries. Tragically it is a legal strategy that sometimes
works. But not in this case for here actual Witch
Crimes were claimed - even though they did not exist and
the court threw them out.
So, once again,
allegations of Satanic Ritual Abuse have been proven
untrue in a British court. Yet again, after dozens of
failed past instances. The
myth of Satanic Ritual Abuse has been dashed a
thousand times and proved to be sheer nonsense a
thousand times - but still it will not die.
Satanic
Abuse Will not Die
Why
is this so? Why do millions of evangelical Christians
become obsessed with it and end up looking like fools?
Why do Social Work Departments country-wide still make
idiots of themselves with claimed cases of SRA which
collapse? Simple. They want it to be true. It
is a confirmation of their own belief in God. We
shall explain it all in detail below.
Some readers may have difficulty in believing the
factual information we present about how this state of
affairs has come to pass and how Courts, Police and the
Crown Prosecution Service have time after time
been made to look foolish over considering the myth of
Satanic Ritual Abuse to be real.
The SAFF has documented
evidence of this manic belief in a phantom which has
caused failure after failure happening consistently over
the last 35 years in UK courts, particularly in
Scotland. It brings the whole of our Justice System
into disrepute and the Law Lords should ensure it
never allows British Justice to be opened to ridicule
in this way ever again.
We
have published reproductions of documents as proof, on
this web-page below.
It
Was Only A Matter Of Time
It
was therefore only a matter of time before the clique of
satan hunters who started the 1990 Satanic Panic
interfered with and corrupted yet another case with
false tales. With the latest SRA trial of eleven people
which opened on 5 September 2023 at the High Court in
Glasgow, the foolishness of the high and mighty who
run Scotland returned to persecute more people for
supernatural crimes which never existed.
It's like being transported back to the Satanic Panic of
the 1990s, or Salem in 1692. The very same mistakes, false
claims, exaggerations and incorrect suppositions are
being repeated by a new generation of half-wits in the
police, judiciary, social services and Media. The
charge-sheet of the 2023 Glasgow trial reads like a
re-run of all the other failed Scottish SRA cases.
 Ayr, Orkney,
Isle of Lewis,
Remember
them?
Did you know most of
the extreme cases of SRA also occurred in Scotland?
Did you know that
the first public instance of the 1990 Satanic Panic
began not in England, but in Dundee, in September
1988?
A witty SAFF volunteer
just said that instead of being nicknamed 'Beano
Town', Dundee should be called Devil Town. Devil Town
Dundee! It has a certain ring to it does it not, for
Dundee University is still a centre of academic
dissemination of mediaeval nonsense on Witches and
Satanists.
The demonology of Scottish Witchcraft appears to be
deeply embedded in the fundamentalist psyche in
Scotland. Irretrievably so it would seem. Look at these
motifs which are, after decades of the Media promoting
them, now seen as a component part of all Satanic Abuse
allegations (even though no case has ever been
prosecuted which has confirmed any of them):
- Drinking Blood
- People wearing 'Devil'
Masks,
- Robes,
- Snakes
- Spiders
- Animal sacrifice,
- Child Sacrifice,
- Ouija Boards,
- Child Porn,
- Snuff Movies,
- Torture,
- Ritual dancing,
- Trapping victims in
small spaces, Cages, Caves
- Crucifying or Hanging
on hooks,
- Cooking victims in
microwave ovens,
- Baths full of blood.
It was all back on the agenda for this Glasgow case in
2023! And of course the media were salivating at
the prospect of hysterical overload.
The
Satanic Footprint
Note that all of these things in the above list are
simply the inner fears and phobias of children and
adults which rise up in their minds when they are
asked to imagine horrific things to do with
'witches'.
In 1991 the SAFF first published a monograph titled
The
Satanic Footprint which compared motifs
and memes across dozens of claimed cases of SRA
which had occurred during the early part of the 1990
panic. Our intention was to provide a method for
social workers and police to profile 'Satanic'
claims to see if there was any truth in them at the
outset and avoid false cases.
What
our report showed was that because children and
their interrogators are by and large ignorant of
what Witches do, and consistently fed with
improperganda about Witches in fairy stories,
legends and in the Media, that the memes which
predominated were a result of stereotypical
phobias.
For
example drawings of Witches with Pointy Hats (see
illustration to the right which comes from an actual
case of claimed SRA) which is a media stereotype -
Witches and Satanists do not wear pointy
hats! These claimed motifs
had no importance in the traditional worship and
cosmology of Pagans/Witches - they are residual
images from Fairy Stories told to children and
pushed by the Media.
In short what the Satan Hunters claim Satanists
and Witches do has nothing to do with what Witches
or Satanists actually do, but epitomises what they
THINK witches do after watching TV cartoons,
Movies and listening to Fairy Tales about
'wicked-witches'.
The Evil of Microwave
Ovens and the NSPCC
Microwave ovens are an example of how apocryphal
rumour is embellished and added to the
demonisation of Witches and Satanists. Claims
of children being killed in Microwave Ovens
are a key feature in the 2023 Glasgow SRA
case. The story of the incorporation of
Microwave ovens into the SRA myth is therefore
worthy of inspection
Microwave
ovens featured as a (false) claim in the very
FIRST Satan Seminar held in Devil Town Dundee
in 1988. Watch the circular Scottish links
folks! The assembled throng of several hundred
delegates from social work departments, the
police and childrens' charities, who attended
that Satan Seminar in Dundee were told that
Satanists put babies in microwave ovens to
cook them alive and then eat their flesh as a
modern form of sacrifice! In the
current Glasgow case the claim was that they
had put children in a microwave to kill them
but the implication was clearly 'sacrifice'.
The first
public knowledge of the Microwave oven claim was
in the despicable NSPCC Press Release put
out on the 17th July 1989 which largely started
the Satanic Panic in the UK. The NSPCC
called a press conference at their HQ to
announce that they had 'discovered'
that Satanists were horribly abusing and
killing children in occult rites in the UK.
It was a
SENSATIONAL statement which, at a stroke, backed
up and confirmed the worst fears of social work
agitators, cult hunters and fundamentalist
provocateurs. It was also untrue, but
the backing of the NSPCC for these ludicrous
allegations was a key confirmation of what
RAINS (Ritual Abuse Information Network
Support, a coterie of leading-edge feminists
in social work) had been claiming for
months previously and therefore the
NSPCC's backing authoritatively
rubber-stamped a belief in the existence of
SRA in the minds of the public.
Such an august and respected national treasure
as the NSPCC would never lie about something
like this would it? Well yes
actually it did, as we will show below.
More than
anything else it was when the NSPCC jumped on
the SRA bandwagon that the 1990 Satanic Panic
took off and the panic itself could be said to
have begun on that day. Prior to July 1989
coverage of SRA had been over-the-top articles
in the Tabloids which had printed false, but
supposedly first-hand accounts of Satanic Abuse
from deluded Christian fundamentalists. This was
a relatively new psychological syndrome which
occurred alongside similar claims of Alien
Abduction ( see The Self Victimisation
Syndrome (J Schnabel) 1993 ) in
which psychiatrists and psychologists were
reporting thousands of people stepping forward
to claim that they had been abducted by aliens
or Satanists and sexually abused, with stories
which were completely untrue but held as a firm
reality by the patients themselves).
When the
NSPCC ('the Nation's Favourite Charity') stepped
up to confirm their twisted opinion that an SRA
threat existed, the Media went into
overdrive. The Microwave claim was
subsequently cut out of the NSPCC press
release at the last moment, but as
Melanie Phillips of the Guardian said in
her write up:
'References in their briefing notes to a human
sacrifice and a baby in a microwave were deleted
from their remarks although the Daily Mirror got
hold of them and duly plastered them across its
front page. The charity's press manager said
these claims were deleted because they were
uncorroborated. But since all the other
claims were similarly unsubstantiated, what's
the difference? ( Guardian, 16 March
1990.)
 The way in which the NSPCC
mislead the British public over Satanic Ritual
Abuse was wicked, it happened during a period
when donations had fallen considerably and some
journalists began to question motives. By
March 10th of the following year the NSPCC was
back-tracking big-time and told the Daily
Mail that they were 'sorry for their
wild statements' (see
image right double click for a large version
to read)
What the
public did not know was that the SAFF had been
in constant communication with the NSPCC over
false claims of Satanic Ritual Child
Abuse as far back as April 1989 when we
had conducted correspondence with Ian Gilmour
the Director of the NSPCC to warn him of the
dangers of them jumping on the SRA
bandwagon!
We offered
our expertise and training assistance to the
society to avoid problems. He handed the
correspondence over to Kevin Barrett, the NSPCCs
Policy Information Officer who played
catch-as-catch-can with our sincere attempts to
educate and inform the society. After patiently
trying for months to get the NSPCC to see sense
and being given the run around we suspected that
SRA was just too good a cause for the NSPCC to
miss. We said we would
tell the public how the NSPCC had dodged the
issue and devalued our evidence which showed
that SRA was a Myth. The response of the
NSPCC was shocking. They ordered
Mischon de Reya, their blue-chip lawyers, to
write a letter to us threatening to take the
SAFF to court if we did! In
response we called the NSPCC's legal bluff
and went ahead and published the
correspondence (see
rightmost column for full details).
Later, when
the NSPCC decided to jettison the idea of Satanic
Ritual Child Abuse in March 1990 after
their key actions in creating the scandalous Rochdale
false SRA case, their weasel words were
far less sensational than the false claims they
had made in July 1989. 'Britain's Favourite
Charity' then began to sit on the fence about
SRA. This is what Kevin Barrett of the NSPCC (
the same one that had given the SAFF the
run-around BEFORE Rochdale ) told
the Guardian's Catherine Bennett:
Not until allegations of
organised satanic abuse in Rochdale and the
Orkney cases had been investigated and
dropped for lack of evidence did the flood
of child cases begin to subside. The NSPCC
which in 1990 indulged the media's appetite
for satanic horrors, with stories of blood
drinking and animal sacrifice, began a
dignified retreat into agnosticism. "We're
not saying it doesn't exist" is the latest
position from the NSPCC's policy director
Kevin Barratt. " We're saying we don't have
evidence of it from our workers and the
families we've worked with". [Guardian:
Satanic Verses, 10 Sept 1994]
So the
NSPCC top-brass knew ( four months before they
went public with claims of SRA ) that the
allegations were suspect and the people they
were liaising with (RAINS, Reachout et al who,
we told them, were providing false
information, even lies, yet they
continued to jump on the SRA bandwagon and
terminally disgrace their organisation
anyway.
How hard
did the NSPCC try to avoid SAFF evidence that
Satanic Ritual Child Abuse did not exist? Very
Hard. In the rightmost column of this
webpage you will see a diary of correspondence
between the SAFF and the NSPCC right at the
start of the Satanic Panic and the arrogance and
dismissiveness of those who lead the NSPCC at
that time is abundantly clear. Obviously
SRA was an advertising opportunity too good to
miss.
When you
read their weasel words you have to ask yourself
how many children the NSPCC really save from
hurt every year to qualify for their £125
Million pound budget and six figure salaries.
Almost every year they start some new initiative
on child-protection to generate funds from the
British Public but there is absolutely no
scientific evidence to prove that more funds
mean more children are saved by them. In the
case of NSPCC's backing of Satanic Ritual
Child Abuse and involvement in all the key
cases which failed, 86 children in the UK had
their young lives destroyed by supporters of
this fanatical belief, not saved.
The Genesis of Satanic
Abuse
Few people
now remember that SRA allegations had been
sporadically surfacing via Tory MP Geoffrey
Dickens' madcap campaign during 1988, 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. Yet what kind of
in-depth research was it that made the NSPCC
decide to go for the Satanic Child Abuse
Myth? Let us tell you; they
sent out a questionaire to their 66
branches around the UK. Seven of these
local branches said they were working with cases
which could involve claims of Satanic
Abuse and another 7 branches said they were
aware of the 'threat' of SRA (whatever that
meant considering no cases had so far been found
to prove the fanciful allegations).
Of course as there had been literally thousands
of column inches in the tabloid press  with uncorroborated false claims
of SRA during the previous year the seven
branches who reported knowing about the 'threat'
could be ignored, almost everyone had heard
about it. The seven branches which
reported actual cases were working on
the first celebrated cases claimed to have been
SRA in the UK. Broxtowe, Rochdale, Epping,
Ayrshire etc., which the NSPCC had a hand
in influencing.
The NSPCC had financed a clique of radical
feminist Marxists in its ranks under the
sub-group of BASPCAN (British Association for
the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and
Neglect - since 2014 known as TACPP ( The
Association of Child Protection Professionals )
which held its 2015 and 2016 conferences in
Edinburgh under the aegis of the University of
Edinburgh. BAPSCAN published key
'papers' on SRA for 'child welfare
professionals' during 1988 and 1989, all of
which concluded that SRA was a threat and these
must have influenced the NSPCC's approach to
it. So the NSPCC was simply presenting
experimental theories and claims as a reality
when they were untested. Yet that is not
what they told the public. They told the
public that '
." The NSPCC said a major fear
must now be that some children
have been killed during
ceremonies and that others were
seriously at risk " (Press Association
report of the NSPCC 17 July
1989 Press Conference
confirming the existence of
Satanic Abuse )
SRA Cases. Now You See It -
Now You Don't.
People
forget entirely that prior to 1988 there
was no concept of Satanic Ritual Abuse in UK
social work. The phenomenon was
simply not recorded.
It wasn't overlooked, missed or otherwise
ignored; It simply did not exist.
The police did not stumble on any SRA cases.
Social Services did not see or discover any SRA
cases in the thousands of instances of abuse
they dealt with every year.
No journalists or broadcasters exposed SRA
cases.
SRA cases simply did not exist until the
privatisation of the child-scare industry
created a hyper-vigilance which resulted in
fantasies about SRA.
SAFF
believe that the NSPCC caused embryonic SRA
suspicions to turn into a manic nationwide
hysteria. The diary of our correspondence
with the NSPCC shows that they had a choice not
to, but went ahead with the sensational and
unprovable claims anyway, either for the
publicity , or the fund raising, or the wish to
follow leading-edge thinking in social work.
Whatever it was, their actions effectively
resulted in the mental torture of 86 innocent
children and the splitting up of innocent
families. In one case a child was taken
from his mother and father and kept in care
for SIX years! SIX YEARS.
Remember this when an NSPCC volunteer next
rattles a donation tin in your face and
uses gingoistic slogans like 'Not one More
Child'. 
By March
10th 1991 the NSPCC was forced to eat humble-pie
after their Rochdale SRA case had collapsed and
they were castigated by the media.
They began
to lose the highly lucrative 'at-risk' registers
worth £140,000 per annum from Manchester alone
(today's value nearly half a million pounds).
The NSPCC had the contracts for at-risk
registers in most large cities and their
obsession with SRA was now seen as
irresponsible.
Jim Harding
apologised on behalf of the NSPCC for using
'wild statements' that they could not
substantiate. The Mail On Sunday headline
reads: A Rethink by The NSPCC. NSPCC Sorry
for 'Wild Statements'.
The
child scare industry is big business, in 2023 the
NSPCC turned over £123M (£125M if you add in
Childlying which the NSPCC owns) NSPCC Staff
Salaries and pensions soaked up £60M of that and
they still ended up with a £20M surplus to stick in
the bank after operating expenses.
What Was Happening In
Scotland?
Yet despite this
apparent public contrition over SRA claims by the
NSPCC in England , just four days later at 7pm on the
14th March 1991 a coterie of SRA hunters, some of whom
had influenced the NSPCC, were interviewed on BBC
SCOTLAND radio "FOCUS" ( a current affairs programme )
about 'Ritual Abuse', pushing the idea of SRA and implying
it was a threat to children in Scotland. The
list of participants makes interesting reading. Here
they are:
Mhairi
Trickett, (Chairperson of Orkney Islands
Social Services during the Orkney SRA case - )
Christine Johnson
Second in command of Team 4, the Nottingham Social
Services team which took charge of the Broxtowe
false SRA case. She and her team insisted that
they had found the first case of SRA in Britain.
Note that the Broxtowe case had already been
pronounced false in Nottinghamshire council's JET
Report Inquiry during the previous April 1990 (
nearly a year before Johnson was interviewed here
about the existence of SRA.) The JET report
put paid to continuing false claims of SRA made by
Team 4 in relation to Broxtowe. Additionally, the
Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire provided the
Home Office with his own official report which
concluded that there was no Satanic Ritual Abuse
in the Broxtowe case. This was sent to the
Home Office on 4th November 1990, six months prior
to Johnson's interview being broadcast.
Also present or
interviewed in this BBC Scotland programme were
 Geoffrey
Dickens MP (fundamentalist lay preacher and
parliamentary Representative of Childwatch in
Hull, whose director, Dianne Core, claimed 4,000
children a year were being sacrificed to Satan -
see image to the right) .
Ian Gilmour (
former acting director of social work, Glasgow
Council and president of ADSW 1991/2 Chair West of
Scotland Child Protection Consortium)
Norman Dunning
from the RSSPCC ( Royal Scottish Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the Scottish
counterpart to the NSPCC since 1995 renamed
'Children First'). The RSSPCC was later
heavily criticised in Lord Clyde's Public
Inquiry Report of the Orkney SRA Scandal.
Jan Van
Vagdendonk [ He is Introduced as a
development consultant for Child
Sexual Abuse with National Children's
Home, with the words.
"he has seen 20 cases of
ritualistic abuse in the past 2 yrs
( This
must be a reference to the 21 cases of SRA which
Tim Tate claimed to have found in the Cook
Report broadcast in July 1989 - every single one
of which failed in the course of time ).
"
Tim Tate &
Ray Wyre - colleagues and
first-believers in SRA who helped import the myth
from the USA. They worked together on the Broxtowe
false SRA case with Team 4 and other SRA
crusaders. According to the JET report, It was
they who gave the scandalous Satanic Indicators
invented by Catherine Gould to Social Work Team 4.
The
JET report said that SRA claims did not
exist in the case until after the foster mothers
and Team 4 were given the infamous Satanic
Indicators. Later, modified
'indicators' from this original list were to be involved in almost ALL
the early claimed cases of SRA. They were read by social workers
who imposed their prejudice upon the children they were supposedly
'helping' by asking leading questions related to the 'indicators'.
Tate and Wyre had collaborated
on the Cook Report's July 1989 'The
Devil's Work' , a hysterically sensational
and inaccurate hour long 'documentary' which
unleashed the Satanic Panic on the unsuspecting
British public in tandem with the NSPCC's own
public announcement.
You would think that after
the failures over Broxtowe,
the scandal of Rochdale
and the about-turn of the NSPCC
the people interviewed in this BBC Scotland
current affairs programme would have been
more cautious about their prognostications
about a phenomenon which despite acres of
newsprint still had not produced a
single genuine case to prove the existence
of SRA in a nationwide hunt which had
lasted three years, but the
following extracts from this 20 minute BBC
Focus programme make it clear that whilst
the NSPCC was back-tracking on SRA in England, in
the Scottish Capital, Satan Hunters were selling
Satanic Ritual Child Abuse as though
the failures of Broxtowe, Epping, Ayrshire and the
Rochdale investigations had never ever happened.
Norman Dunning big-wig from the RSSPCC,
chair of West Scotland Child Protection
Consortium, appeared alongside Ian Gilmour, acting
director of social work for Glasgow Council and
president of ADSW (Association of Directors of
Social Work) , and said:
NORMAN DUNNING: "The easiest thing
to say is that we are beginning to learn about
this problem of ritualistic and satanic abuse and
to some extent we are still unsure of what we are
speaking about. I mean the Societies' knowledge
of this comes, in the first place, because people
who are now adults have begun to tell us
things that happened to them in their childhood
which at one time we might have dismissed
as fantasy but we are now beginning to
realise that they telling us quite factually what
their experiences were. And we have also
had one or two contacts with children more
recently where we have assisted with
investigations and we believe that these children
might have been involved in some really
quite worrying widespread central practices
involving groups of people and there may have been
a ritual element to this.
JAN VAN
VAGDENDONK: "The ritual is
used to scare children into silence and
also in a sense to make sure
that when they do tell their story it is
so unbelievable that nobody in their
right minds, almost, decide that the
children are telling the truth. An
example of this is a child, a
2 year old, who is talking about
having been abused by a
lion and it makes absolutely no sense to
people until a nine or
ten year old child says yes that
actually happens but I knew it wasn't a
real lion because there were
zips round its paws. So we now
know that the child was likely
to have been abused by a person dressed up
as a lion.
CHRISTINE JOHNSON: Is
introduced as leader of Team 4 and founder of RAINS:
She says: "I don't think there is a
recognised definition of ritual abuse for social
workers. When we came across the issue in
Nottingham we worked out our own definition
which was that ritual abuse is the severe sexual
and physical and emotional abuse of children set
in a context of symbols and activities which
appear to be religious or magical or have
supernatural overtones and where these are
repeated over a length of time in order to
intimidate or frighten children."
This is a good example
of how crusaders against non-existent Satanic Abuse
worked the language to suit themselves and convince
an audience that their worries are not the
hysterical reactions they really are.
SAFF know this definition as the 'Lone Ritualist
Definition' and RAINS repeated it many times
when they wanted to imply that they were hunting
lone paedophiles who used occult imagery to frighten
children into compliance, but this is just a
convenient lie which happens to co-incide with 10
cases of regular child-abuse which had some
peripheral Occult content which Reachout Trust and
Tim Tate had dredged up from the thousands of child
abuse prosecutions over a ten year period which,
when tortuously squeezed to mis-portray some kind of
occult connection, were published and then held by
the rest of RAINS as 'proof' that
paedophiles were using the cloak of Satanism
for their perverted desires. The SAFF had already
exposed and discredited these faux cases in 1990
with our publication
The Truth and The Tales ( which clearly showed
how the caucus of Satan Hunters had mislead a
parliamentary committee in the House of Commons ) ,
and also in our 1991 expose of Tim Tate's collection
of 'SRA cases' here: http://saff.nfshost.com/tatebkli.htm
As you will see if you
read the above links, the 'proven cases of SRA'
which RAINS are quoting are anything but evidence of
Satanic Abuse. By widening the definition out in
this way it allows almost any peripheral occult
happening, quote, or location to be used to
designate the case as 'Satanic' and up the numbers,
but this is just semantic flim-flam.
When speaking to a
'sold' audience RAINS are absolutely clear that what
they are talking about is a pan-global
network of multiple abusers who are part of an
international Satanic Sex Cult and whose sole
motive for supposedly abusing children is to
defile them in the eyes of Satan and turn them
into perpetual slaves of the sex-cult.
This network
simply does not exist but it does not
stop RAINS from waxing lyrical about it as though it
does, as you can see from the extract below from a
Guardian article in 1994 where the prime mover of
RAINS, Joan Coleman, makes it perfectly clear
that she is not talking about perverts dressed up in
lion costumes.
Isn't it astonishing just
how easily these Satan Hunters build entirely
fictitious ideas and reasoning from the outpourings of
their mentally unstable patients even though
they are clearly instances of Factitious
Disorder/ Munchaussen's Syndrome.
These crusading shrinks rationalise and
sequentialise their patients' outpourings to make
them sound cohesive but they are anything but
that. What the Guardian reader does not
see is the way that the story was created in a
patchwork of out-of-sequence claims over months of
'therapy' where the SRA obsessed therapist uses
leading questions to elicit further 'proof' and the
patient dutifully makes something up. The
'therapist' then collates it all and presents it as an
accurate profile of SRA and by omitting anything which
does not align with current RAINS collective thinking,
produces a 'consensus' which supports and encourages
other 'therapists' to interrogate their own patients
about key motifs, later 'confirming' that they too
have experienced the same things which become a
completely fictitious modus-operandi for
SRA. If you want a
blow-by-blow account of how this is done see http://saff.nfshost.com/colemanrains.htm
Now back to the BBC Focus programme: MHAIRI TRICKETT; who had overseen much of
the social work involvement with the W children in
Orkney, said:
'The police and social work department
were in receipt of information which made it
essential to take these [Orkney Case] children to a
place of safety. Not to take any action could have
been construed as negligence."
What these self-styled SRA 'experts' were
saying was first broadcast on the BBC on 14 March 1991
when the Orkney SRA scandal had exploded in the
Scottish and UK press. The month previously the
RSSPCC (the counterpart to the NSPCC in
Scotland) had obtained legal permission to raid and
lift 9 children from their parents on false
allegations of Satanic Ritual Abuse in Orkney!
On the morning of 27th February 1991 raids were
made on accusations from children at least one of whom
had already retracted his fantasies, but it made no
difference. Nine children were taken away from four
innocent families and it took 18 months for their
parents to get them back home out of the clutches of
the wicked Scottish Social Services.
The other 7 children involved in false
allegations of SRA in Orkney never did get back home.
They had been in the clutches of Orkney social
services since 1989 for 'ordinary' abuse and their
family was simply destroyed, as you can read in
the right most column, (see
Orkney 7 Action Group)
Like a crocodile sheds tears when it is
eating its prey the child-scare industry did its
worst whilst claiming to be looking after the best
interests of children. When you read what they did
to the W family you will be incensed. The Orkney
case is pivotal to all that has since gone wrong in
child-care in Scotland. As the current Glasgow case
proves, the canker of false tales of Satanic
Ritual Abuse was never cut, out despite
several costly Inquiries.
The inside
story of the W family Is in the rightmost column
of this page. See Orkney 7 Action Group Press
Release:
 How Stupid People Who Lead
Scotland Put Children At Risk
Look
at these hysterical headlines. The Great and
the Good promised you they would never again fall
for these mad SRA stories epitomised by the
headlines on the right but
they have and
false allegations of Satanic Ritual Abuse are back
to haunt us all in 2023.
Look at those terrible headlines again. With
the national outrage following the 1991 Orkney Satanic
Ritual Abuse fiasco and the £6M Public Inquiry to put
it right, you might think that the Scottish Government
would have rushed to educate their social workers,
child-care specialists, police and judiciary to never
again fall for the lies pushed by obsessed believers
in the Satanic Ritual Abuse Myth, but they did
the precise opposite as we shall reveal.
The Scottish educational establishment,
knowingly or unknowingly made room for these evil
Satan Hunters to do their worst. They have for
decades paid some of them nice salaries as
self-styled 'experts' to proselytise the 'dangers'
of non-existent Satanic Ritual abuse in
Scottish universities and encouraged them to 'train'
Scottish social workers and community groups in
re-designating mentally vulnerable people as victims
of Satanic Abuse which does not exist.
Scotgov has thrown resources at small charities
run by fundamentalists specifically set up to
perpetuate sectarian lies about Satanic Ritual Child
Abuse (SRA) which damaged so many innocent Scottish
children and their families in the 1990s. Now, 30
years later, in the Glasgow 2023 SRA case,
another generation of gullible people in the police,
judiciary and social services have suckered in to one
of the most persistent and damaging social myths of
the 21st century. We will tell you how they did it.
It is unique information that you will find nowhere
else. 
The 'experts' who got
194 things wrong.
Lord Clyde's
Public Inquiry into the Orkney False Satanic
Ritual Abuse case made one hundred and ninety
four recommended changes. It was a REQUIREMENT
put upon the devolved authorities because of
the hysteria which had taken hold of
Child-protection in Scotland. Lest we
forget; these obsessive SRA hunters in
social services ended up kidnapping children
from their innocent families in despicable
dawn raids and kept them in care for YEARS
without any evidence whatsoever except for
mindless prejudice.
These Do-gooders
didn't 'save' children - they ruined their
lives.
Nobody was safe. Every parent had
nightmares of it happening to them. One family
was implicated simply because they had a
Dennis Wheatley novel on their bookshelf!
Wheatley wrote many successful novels on
Witchcraft and published 50 MILLION copies of
his books. Yet stupid policemen saw it as
'evidence' of Satanic Ritual Abuse!
A completely innocent church
Minister was falsely accused of embroiling children
in Satanic Ceremonies in BLACK ROBES where chanting
occurred (As if all ministers did not normally
wear black surplices and chant in church!)
The hysteria caused gullible
Scots police and social services to break up loving
families and even sought to permanently foster
the daughters of one mother who had been falsely
accused - as a form of punishment for resisting
the power shadow of the Nazi SS in Orkney.
It is impossible now to feel
the terror and fear struck into the hearts of those
innocent children at being snatched from their beds;
nor the long-term trauma they suffered at the hands
of self-righteous do-gooders in Scotland who
were actually being paid to alleviate the
suffering of children but ended up doing the
reverse.
The end result was that the misuse of
child-protection laws and the despicable
subsequent attempt at a legal cover-ups
caused social work in Scotland to be reviled
by the public
The result of the vicious machinations of believers in
Satanic Abuse was to cause a complete lack of faith in
social work in Scotland, yet here they are doing it
again in the Glasgow case!
During the Clyde Inquiry the key personnel who
believed in SRA and who had started the Orkney fiasco
and then retreated behind 'case confidentiality' to
avoid the public seeing what they had done, were made
to stand in the witness box and admit their
malpractice. The extent of the lunacy which had
infected Scottish Social Work was then exposed. Some
children were continually interrogated to get them to
say any foolish thing which confirmed the prejudice
and suspicions of the social services crusaders.
The children were horribly questioned 40 (forty)
times in 13 days. That is child abuse in itself!
From people whose sole job is to save the suffering
of small children!
It Was The Satanic
Turtles What Did it!
 Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles is a media creation for kids which had
been popularised in film, in magazines and on TV at the
time. The Orkney Inquiry records that children were shown
posters of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and
from what the kids fantasised about this the 'experts'
deduced that Satanic Abuse had occurred! Cowabunga!
The madness was clear! Lord Clyde's Inquiry found 194 faults
with the way Orkney Social Service Department and
the RSSPCC had dealt with it all. So, after
originally sitting back and not only allowing these
travesties of justice to occur but cooperating with and
supporting believers in Satanic Abuse, the Scottish
government, and anyone remotely criticised over the scandal
(and there were MANY) became contrite,
promising to the rafters that they would make those 194
needed changes to ensure that the Satanic Ritual Abuse
Myth could not again harm innocent children and their
familiess. There
will be NO more 'Dawn Lifts', they said. We shall learn
from our mistakes, they said. But did they?
After the Orkney Inquiry did you believe that the
predilection for believing in the Devil had been
exorcised from Scottish Social Services? Then you
would be Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
 Despite the
self-flagellation no-one was ever sacked from Orkney
Social Services. A handful resigned and walked away
with their 'honour' intact.
The RSSPCC, which was heavily involved,
virtually collapsed. Heads of Orkney SS retired early
with nice pensions. But not one single social
worker was actually made to pay for their numerous
errors and victimisation of the innocent families.
'Liz MacLean (see right) has no regrets
about her role in the Orkney child abuse case
despite being a prime target of criticism in the
343-page inquiry report by Lord Clyde.'... '
Janette Chisolm her working partner shares much of
the same feelings..the two have hit out at the
Public Inquiry three weeks after its conclusions
were published .' ....
(Sunday Times. 22: November
1992 )
Liz MacLean was mentioned 372 times in Lord Clyde's
Inquiry report. One of them was that she had not kept
proper records of the crucial disclosure sessions with
the children from which allegations of SRA were
suspected, thus it was impossible for outsiders to see
what the children had really said about the abuse and
gauge how relevant those allegations were.
Inconsistencies between the RSSPCC, MacLean
and the Orkney SS department were evident as
the Inquiry records:
13:16 Such distortion may well have
occurred in the present case. The account
conveyed over the telephone by Mrs Liz MacLean
to Mrs Susan Millar on 13th February was one of
penetrative abuse by all the adults of all the
children. When Mrs MacLean addressed the social
workers on 26th February the picture she
conveyed was one where all the adults had abused
all the children and the indication given of the
kind of abuse was that it was penetrative. But
while that appears to have been the
understanding on the part of the social workers
that was not the understanding which the Police
had obtained from the information given to them.
It is by no means clear from Constable
Williamson’s record of the interviews that all
the adults had been engaged in abuse and it
could indeed be questioned whether even if each
of the children had been drawn into the circle
each child had suffered such abuse. The absence
of a full transcript of the critical interviews
makes it impossible to ascertain with any
certainty precisely what the W children had said
or to assess the reliability of the account
which they had given. At least it can be noticed
that there was a significant inconsistency in
the accounts given by the interviewers of the
allegations of abuse.
Liz MacLean, then the chief investigator for the
RSSPCC, was made redundant in June 1992 along with 22
other RSSPCC staff. She had helped interview
the W children 40 times. The Clyde report shows that
she was involved in major decisions such as refusing
to allow the children to have any letters and cards
sent by their parents when they were taken into care.
This basically cut the kids off from their parents at
the most traumatic time and can only have been a
result of the RAINS madcap theory that
Satanists could impose trigger-words and
trigger symbols in letters, birthday cards, etc. which
would strike childrens' minds into a zombified state,
frighten them or stop them speaking about their abuse.
See: http://saff.nfshost.com/triggerw.htm
 MacLean, who
was also connected with Scotland's longest running
case in Scottish criminal history ( the failed
Ayrshire Satanic Ritual Abuse case in 1990)
'disappeared' sometime later according to this
clipping. - see cutting right -. Anyone know
what she's doing today?
How SRA Hysteria Grew
The clique of believers in
manic tales of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse
which had formed around the very first
allegations by RAINS in England linked
to the Broxtowe
case in 1988, pushed out the idea across the
land in articles in the social work press and
in The Guardian which was rather too
supportive of Satan Hunters' claims.
 All
this activity soon produced the first mass
case of suspected Satanic Abuse in Scotland
in Ayr in June 1990 when eight children were
kidnapped by the state. The Dawn
Lifts of the Ayrshire case children occurred
just weeks after the Rochdale false SRA case
had started in England but just before the
Orkney claims surfaced.
The twisted minds of the social
workers, who had been converted to believe
in SRA, ensured that the poor children who
were taken from their innocent parents were
not returned for years. If you want to see
just how perfidious Social Workers can be
look at this:
The last boy released by their SS
captors in Rochdale was sent back home
in December 1996
SIX YEARS after being snatched from
his bed in those evil dawn raids
Yet he and his parents had been pronounced
innocent by the police in September 1990
after their inquiries had ended with no
case to answer.
He was kept captive by Rochdale
Social Services for six long years AFTER
the police had exonerated his parents!
The Ayrshire case began when in
the summer of 1990 four boys and four girls,
aged 10 months to 11 years were given initial
social services examinations which indicated
abuse and were removed into care by social
workers using place-of-safety orders at an
initial hearing in Ayr in August 1990. It
finally concluded five years later in
1995 when sheriff Colin Miller produced a 430
page official report which roundly criticised
the social workers involved, including Lyn
Gilmour and June Gardiner.
The history of SRA in the UK is tainted by the
fact that not a single social worker or police
officer has ever been prosecuted for the
malpractice they have committed against
hundreds of innocent families. Every single
one of them did their worst and walked away
with fat pensions. Some made a successful
lifelong career out of persisting in their
discredited allegations, as we will outline
below. Some have actually been 'honoured' by
the State!
'The parents bitterly
criticised the social workers whose
investigations in 1990 led to the initial
care orders. The Strathclyde social work
department had failed to learn the lessons
of the Cleveland child sex abuse scandal
in 1987, they said. "Like other parents, I
handed my girl to these people for tests,"
the girl's father said. "They said I
would get her back in two or three days
- and it was five YEARS. Five
years in which she was crying in the
dark." '
[source: independent
Newspaper 28 February 1995 ]
Five
Years in Which my little daughter
was crying alone and in the dark
How the RAINS
clique Manipulated Scottish child care
on Satanic Abuse
Most of the
public may have believed the weasel words of
the authorities when the spotlight of
publicity was upon them, but what did the
great and the good in Scotland actually do? They
allowed the mischievousness of Satan Hunters
to continue and even gave grants and funding
to groups such as RANS (Ritual Abuse
Information Network Scotland) which
was a clique connected to the lobby which
had helped start the 1990 Satan Myth in
England and Wales. '
No. The Scottish government did not rid social
work of these Satan Hunters, instead they
continued to encourage a clique of obsessive
believers in SRA despite the errors of
Orkney and Ayrshire. It was only a
matter of time before the Satan Hunters did it
again and that was in the Isle of Lewis
case which began in 2003, ten years
after the Orkney Scandal had fallen from
public view and had been conveniently
forgotten by those in Scotland whose job it is
to protect children and their families
The Isle of Lewis
case - another travesty of police and
social service judgement based on
ridiculous untrue claims of Satanic Ritual
Abuse
In October 2003 thirteen adults
were arrested and accused of the abuse of
three children on the Isle of Lewis in the
Inner Hebrides, Scotland.
The combined police and social services
investigation began earlier in July when a
young person began making bizarre claims
about ritual sex and the inquiry quickly
grew into another hysterical panic with
claims of an 'island wide Satanic
paedophile ring'. Yes folks, we were
here again witnessing hyper-vigilant child
protectionists having a hysterical fit over
the non-existent threat of SRA. Rochdale had
been forgotten, Ayr had been, ignored ;
Orkney and it's £6M inquiry had been chucked
out the window.
One falsely accused family, The Campbell's,
were among 11 people arrested that October
morning in dawn raids on homes on Lewis; but
others were arrested as far away as
Leicestershire, West Yorkshire and Dorset.
We remind readers that the Social
Services Inspectorate had specifically
banned the use of 'dawn lifts' of children
after they had been used in the Rochdale
SRA Case in 1990. Yet here we are,
after the tragic mistakes of Orkney, with
Scottish social workers and police doing it
again in 2003. What it shows is that
providing self-regulating rules to stop
social workers and police who believe in
SRA from incriminating innocent people
does not work.
After Rochdale
the government imposed a blanket ruling that
any social workers who came across any
suggestions or claims of Satanic Ritual
Abuse MUST before they take any
action, report it to their Directors of
Social Work. This stopped crusading social
workers from starting mass-abuse cases based
on hysteria. Obviously today that rule has
been forgotten!
In the Ayrshire case eight people were
charged with sexual offences against
children which police said had occurred over
a period of six years between 1995 and 2001.
The national and international press went
wild with claims of ritual abuse and Satanic
ceremonies, yet again trotting out the
false claims of believers in SRA in
RAINS.
Once the details began to be revealed in the
media a nationwide uproar ensured. The
Western Isles police and social services
soon began to tone down their SRA claims and
avoided using the Satan word. Then in
July 2004 the Crown Office abruptly
dropped ALL charges against ALL those
arrested and ruled that no further action
would be taken. There was NO Satanic
Abuse in the Ayrshire case and no kids
were ever abused in any way.
CPS dropped
all charges - there was no Satanic Abuse
involved in the Ayrshire case
Are you, dear reader, beginning to get the
gist of how this myth prospers yet?
Can you see the direct parallels with the
Glasgow case trial yet?
ANOTHER
official inquiry was set up into what had
gone wrong in social work with these
interminable false claims of SRA. It was
headed by Alexis Jay (later renowned for her
discovery of 10,000 victims of Asian Gang
Rapes in Rotherham; and subsequently made
head of the government's six-year long
mega-Inquiry into Historic Abuse of Children
and Adults - IICSA). Jay's
Isle of Lewis case report was
published in August 2005 and was a very
strange affair as the 170 page report
did not mention Satanism at all,
it did not use any ritual or occult
terminology,
it did not mention ceremonies or Witches
once; as though that mad belief which had
lain behind the original hysterical police
reaction, had not ever occurred.
The report ran to 55,000 words but there
was only one single unqualified mention of
'rituals' quickly passed over as an aside
in paragraph 304.
Even more mysteriously the report was
not titled 'An investigation into
allegations of Satanic Abuse in the Isle
of Lewis 2003' as one might
expect, but rather someone chose to use the
Gaelic name of Eilean Siar
instead. The title of the report became: '
An inspection into the care and
protection of children in Eilean Siar'
A moniker guaranteed to have the report
mouldering in the archives and lost to
public and historical attention forever!
Is it not amazing how these
Satan hunters rush headlong into these cases
shouting loudly and seeking the smallest
insinuation of Satanism to 'confirm' their
worst fears and then go public with
horrendously sensational claims about SRA,
yet, when they are proved to have abdicated
their professional responsibility to the
children and the parents, they simply fade
away into the background quietly, like
ghosts blending back into the Scottish mist.
But they didn't get away entirely scott
free. The press were unreservedly
critical of the whole investigation, the
police operation and the report itself. The
best overview of 'yet another Orkney' which
the authorities in Scotland had promised you
would NEVER happen, was by award winning
journalist Rosie Waterhouse in her article
in the Guardian here:
https://www.theguardian.com/
society/2004/jul/16/childprotection
, which has a blow by blow account of the
errors the police and social services made.
And, as if we needed a postscript on the
lunacy of Ayrshire social services, less
than a year later the 'SRA victim' at the
centre of the allegations just up and
admitted that she had lied all along!
In 2006 the main
female witness in the Isle of Lewis case,
who had been believed utterly by social
services and the police admitted
she had made up all the Satanic false
allegations against the accused. None
of it had ever happened.
The parents who
were falsely accused could easily have
gone to prison for a 'life' sentence
and it was only luck that they didn't.
Surely THIS was the last straw which
would finally terminate the Satan Myth
in Scotland?
NOPE! Read on...
 The people who run
Edinburgh and Dundee universities
allowed their courses to be infected
with false allegations of 'ritual abuse'
and a host of unfacts so that students
on social work courses would be tainted
with the Satanic Abuse lies for the
future.
Did you
know that 1650 Residents of Edinburgh
have been Satanically abused?
Are Edinburgh university students actually
being taught that 1650 citizens in Edinburgh
have been Satanically Abused (double
click on the image left to get a large
version to read).
Clearly NO
inhabitants of Edinburgh have ever been
Satanically Abused. Edinburgh
university has allowed this unfact ( an
insult to the city's inhabitants) to
continue without censure or correction. Note
that when the SAFF informed Edinburgh
University of this fact they simply ignored
us as though it didn't matter. Maybe the
Truth does not matter to this educational
institution? They even made key players
in promoting the idea of Satanic Ritual
Abuse in Scotland their go-to 'experts'
for local press and social services!
Microwaved Babies,
Again.
The Microwaved Baby rumour actually
began in the 1960s. Snopes covers it here
, and it started as a moral tale
on the dangers of drug usage.
Astonishingly more recently there has
been a case where a baby was killed in
an oven (not a microwave, see
clipping on the right) but this was
nothing whatsoever to do with
Satanists or Witches or the occult.
SAFF researches show that there have
also been several instances of
microwaved pets. In 2013 a thirteen
year old girl microwaved to death her
pet hamster in front of a group of
friends. She told her parents it had
died of natural causes and buried it
in the back garden. She was later
overheard bragging about it. The RSPCA
found out and she ended up in court
here. One would hope that this
girl is now under social services
watch as she may or may not make a
good parent in future! Whatever, the
girl was NOT a Satanist and no
Satanists or Witches have ever
microwaved pets or babies. It is
not a required part of their liturgy.
Witches and Satanists DO NOT
sacrifice living things, they are
animal lovers like everyone else.
In the 2023 Glasgow SRA case this
microwave meme has been modified, the
indictment says that children were
'put inside' a microwave oven. The
'experts' are so obsessed with their
'satanic significators' that
they didn't see how foolish what they
were saying is. There are no
microwave ovens big enough to trap
an 8 year old child inside yet they
insist on making this one of the
official charges in court. Why? Is
it because microwaves were a key
significator in the 1990 Satanic
Panic which has been carried over as
a given by the clique of Satan
Hunters? Are people
connected with those who created
the demonology of the 1990 panic
reasserting their nonsense in this
case by repeating earlier claims,
the source of which has been
forgotten? SAFF think so.
In the press-briefing Police Scotland
held following the trial verdict
Detective Inspector Nicola Kilbane
said:
Since the
investigation began we worked
closely with a range of partners
in social work , health,
education, Crown Office, and Third
Sector to protect and support the
victims. ... there was well
over 1,000 lines of inquiry
progressed by the investigation team
using all available resources but we
could not have done it by ourselves
and it has taken us working
alongside our partners in Social
Work, Health, Education and the
Third Sector to be able to do so.
In other-words many
groups involved in child-protection,
in both the professions, and the
voluntary sector had input. For
those unfamiliar with the term
'third sector':
You may have heard
other terms used to describe
organisations [ now collectively
known as the Third Sector ] – the
voluntary sector, non-governmental
organisations, non-profit
organisations – charities, support
groups,
Presumably any person or
any group which claimed to have
expertise in the facets of the
Glasgow SRA case. Which would of
course include those groups and
individuals who claim to have
insider knowledge about Satanic
Ritual Abuse.
This apparently
included a man and his wife, both
church-workers , who questioned
the children about Satanism and
Witchcraft numerous times. This
Man gave evidence in court the
day before all the Witchcraft
charges were dropped. This
is how his testimony was reported
in BBC News on line.
'The children were
said to have made allegations to a
man who took notes and then sent
them to police and social workers.
The man said he had got to know
the children through his work and
church and often saw them with his
wife.
The girl, who would have been of
pre-school age at the time of the
alleged abuse, is one of a number
of complainers who are aged under
13.
She was alleged to have said in
her statement to the man: "I
didn't like it when all the
witches pointed their wands at
me." The older alleged victims
said there was a large group of
witches and wizards in a room
who put a spell on the girl
every day to make her a
different animal.
The older children were also
alleged to have told the man that
the group referred to as "the
coven" killed dogs in front of
them and got them to stab the dogs
themselves.
It was further alleged that the
group had a ouija board that was
used to talk to dead people and
spirits.
Under cross examination the man agreed
with a lawyer for one of the accused
that he had not heard a whisper
about abuse and witchcraft in the
considerable time he had known the
children before these allegations
were said to have been made.
The SRA allegations appear to have
started in 2021 a year after the
perpetrators were arrested. The
bulk of the accusations relating to
SRA seem to have come from one teenage
boy.
A boy told a police
officer that he ate a heart, drank
blood and killed a budgie, a
witchcraft and child sex abuse
trial has heard.
"The child made the claims to
detective constable Brian Hamilton
when quizzed by police in December
2021 in a series of 15 interviews
and stated that he and fellow
'wizards' passed around and
consumed the heart and a wine
glass of blood while in a circle.
He earlier told the officer that
he was held under a bath of blood
and killed a budgie as part of an
initiation to become a wizard.
The boy claimed he then received a
wand which he and the other
wizards later used to cast a
'spell' on a young girl. The group
also contacted demons, spirits and
a 'beast with horns on their head'
using a Ouija board when he was
aged between seven and nine, the
boy claimed.
He stated that he was aged six or
seven when he was submerged in a
bath of blood. The boy said: 'I
was just held under the bath, I
just remember seeing it and it was
all blood. I remember going in but
I don't remember what happened.
'I just remember being drowned, I
feel like I nearly drowned when
this was happening. 'That's why
they put me in the bath of blood
and to kill the budgie - it was
like an initiation. 'One of them
said one day everyone will be
doing witchcraft. Everyone said
that I was a wizard.'
The boy recalled killing a budgie
with a knife either on the same
day as the bath incident or a
later date. He said: 'I just
remember someone holding it and me
having to kill it - sometimes I
still get nightmares about it.
DC Hamilton asked the boy who gave
him the knife and he replied: 'I
don't know. The boy later said:
'They day I killed the budgie,
they gave me a wand...it was like
a brown stick made of wood.' He
went on to tell the officer that
he and the wizards would gather in
a circle to eat a heart and drink
blood. The boy said: 'People would
pass it around and have a bit and
pass it on to the next
person...that's when I took it. I
had a bit of the heart and took
blood.' He stated that the blood
was in a 'special wine glass' with
a 'special rim'.
He stated demons named Henrik,
Fredrick, George, Molly and Dark
Wyat attached themselves to
particular people. He said: 'They
would just talk to us, at the time
I enjoyed it but now I'm
frightened of it.' He added that
the group and the demons sometimes
spoke in English but different
languages as well.
The boy recalled the group wearing
cloaks 'down to their knees' and
that he and the wizards lined up
and cast a spell on a young girl
aged around two or three to turn
her into a wolf cub."
[Source: BBC online. 12 Sept.
2023.]
Of course this testimony appears
fantastic because it is fantasy.
1. The average bath
holds about 150 litres or 260 pints
(sufficient to immerse a child as
was claimed). The average human body
contains about 8 pints of blood, thus
to fill a bath the accused would
have needed to sacrifice and
dispose of THIRTY TWO adult
victims or around SIXTY
children! It is
just farcical that the police would
even consider this statement
anything other than fantasy.
2. There are no demons in occult
terminology with the names Fredrick,
George, Molly and Dark Wyat - he
simply made them up. (viz: Dictonary
of Devils, Demons and Demonologists
(Fred Gettings) 1988. Et al)
3. Entities evoked through a Ouija
Board do not turn up and talk to
those present. They communicate
through the Ouija Board which
spells out what they are saying.
That is why a Ouija Board is used.
To believe the child's Ouija-Board
testimony we would need to also
believe that discarnate entities
exist and can transmogrify
themselves into physical reality,
because that is what the boy is
saying he experienced. Clearly
fantasy.
4. For blood to be drinkable it must
be consumed immediately after the
kill, before it clots, which takes
place within minutes. Raw hearts are
90% muscle and impossible to chew,
they would have to be cooked first
at the very least. The claim is
contradictory and largely
impossible. Why did Police Scotland
simply accept it?
5. Where did the 'witches' gather to
drink blood and eat hearts? Did the
police not ask? Did they not check
for forensic evidence at that
location? Did the boy not say?
Was he asked?
6. The ancient Satanic rite of
Sacrificing a Budgie simply doesn't
exist. It is quite possible that
these depraved people may have
forced the kids to kill animals in
some way but it wasn't part of an
occult ceremony.
7. Where is the chalice with a
'special rim'? How is it
special?
Where is the knife he killed the
budgie with? What happened to it?
Where is the wooden wand?
Where is the Ouija Board?
Where are the knee length cloaks?
Where was the bath full of blood
located - were forensic samples
taken from the bath to confirm it?
What did the alleged perpetrators do
with the remains of the heart and
blood and the bodies of the many
victims?
Where did the coven meet in a
circle? Has that location been
forensically checked by police?
Where is the girl who was turned
into a wolf cub? If she
can't be found to corroborate it
then where is the wolf cub?
There is not a single piece of
forensic evidence to support
these occult claims. That is
why the Prosecution dropped all
references to the occult, Satanism
and Witchcraft on 13th October
2023. it is the usual
nonsense a child fantasises about
what they think Witches do. If
SAFF investigators could talk to him
for 30 minutes we would be able to
discover exactly which scenes from
the Harry Potter films he had
regurgitated. The truth is
that Witches do not do anything of
the kind suggested by this boy's
testimony. But there are plenty
of examples in SAFF annals of the
flights of fancy of small children
being used in court in false cases
of SRA. It is in fact a given.
In the classic book
Wrongful Imprisonment: Mistaken
Convictions and Their
Consequences. by Brandon
and Davies, ( an academic review of
ambiguities in the law which
generate injustices ), there is a
chapter on Witnesses,
Credible and Incredible
which touches on the difficulties of
child testimony in court. Parallel
to the rise of claims of SRA (and
often driven by clamour from
believers in it) changes have been
made to the way that children and
women give evidence to avoid them
having to stand in the witness box
and be cross-examined. As Alisdair
Palmer predicted in the Sunday
Telegraph 13 February 2000 during
another law change which
disadvantaged the falsely accused:
The lawyers who
piloted this change, Like the
psychiatrists and social workers
who lobbied for it,argued the
goal of punishing real
child-abusers justified the risk
- it is in fact a certainty
- of punishing a number of
imaginary ones. But relaxing the
rules of evidence sets an
alarming precedent. If those who
believe in satanic abuse get
their way, the law will
eventually be changed to make
uncorroborated testimony
sufficient for conviction. That
is why we should be deeply
alarmed..."
And of course that is exactly
what has happened. There has
been a steady rise in the number of
people sent to prison for the abuse
of children which parallels the rise
in the number of appeals from the
wrongfully imprisoned. Alisdair
Palmer's full article, along with a
section from Wrongful Imprisonment
is at the foot of the rightmost
column. Mark our words. We are not
in any way saying that these
children in the Glasgow case were
lying about their abuse. They
were however, clearly dissembling
about the Satanic Ritual Abuse
content.
The
Dangers of Believing The
Children
It is one thing for police to react
sympathetically to a situation when
a very young child says 'Father
Kelly made me play with his tail'.
Which is a possible crime where
there may be no other witnesses and
no chance of any real forensic
evidence. It is quite another thing
when that child relates a confused
tale about being put in a bath of
blood, by a ring of abusers in robes
who raped the child , made the child
sacrifice an animal with a special
knife, made to drink blood from a
special chalice and then made to
kill babies whilst it was all filmed
but in which NO forensic evidence
is found to support any of it.
The trail of forensic evidence
after crimes of that kind would be
immense.
As Special Agent Kenneth Lanning
wrote in his definitive FBI report
on the 1990 Satanic Panic:
Not only are no
bodies found, but also, more
importantly, there is no
physical evidence that a murder
took place. Many of those not in
law enforcement do not
understand that, while it is
possible to get rid of a body,
it is even more difficult to get
rid of the physical evidence
that a murder took place,
especially a human sacrifice
involving sex, blood, and
mutilation. Such activity would
leave behind trace evidence that
could be found using modern
crime scene processing
techniques in spite of
extraordinary efforts to clean
it up.[Investigators
guide to Allegations of Ritual
Child Abuse, National Center
For the Analysis of Violent
Crime, Quantico, Virginia.]
Thus insisting that we must 'believe
the children' when claims of SRA are
wheedled out of small children by
crusading social workers is a
superfluous argument if professional
policing is used to discover
forensic evidence. The lack of
forensic evidence in all and every
instance of such cases, including
the Glasgow case, is a clear
warning sign.
Back to
Microwave Ovens
The failed
Glasgow SRA case was not the first
SRA case which included claims of
putting children in microwaves.
The first such allegations began in
1988 in the U.S. and were
neatly imported from there into
the first British Satan Seminar
for social workers in Dundee in
late 1988.
Robert
Kelly, owned the Little
Rascals daycare centre
(nursery). He was falsely accused
in the usual hysteria which SRA
hunters love to create. The claims
were again nonsensical. After
continued questioning by SRA
hunting social workers the little
children claimed to have been 'put
inside' a microwave oven.
Again, nobody questioned whether
you could get a 3 or 4 year old
child into a microwave oven. Most
microwave ovens can't even hold a
Turkey. The incongruity of what the kids were saying ( the
children's testimony said they had
been taken out afterwards and had
not been killed, so could
tell their story) was brushed
aside also.
Eventually, like all the other
cases, the Little Rascals SRA
case fell through and
Robert Kelly was thoroughly
exonerated of all charges. Robert
Kelly was not a Satanist, nor was
he a Witch. The SRA hunters had
yet again failed to establish
their nightmare mind-set, but
fears of microwave-ovens became
a part of the demonology of SRA,
and were brought into Britain in
1988, even though complete
fiction. Here we 37 years later and they pop up again in the Glasgow SRA trial
in 2023. They were one of
the main allegations in the
indictments related to Satanism
and Witchcraft. The microwave-oven claims made
extensive headlines across the UK.
But they are still being repeated by the press in relation to the Glasgow trial
on the 13 October 2023.
What Other inconsistencies
appear in the Glasgow Trial
indictment?
The court indictment, as reported
by the news agencies, reveals some
very strange statements. This, for
instance:
"All eleven are accused of
forcing children to
participate in seances and use
an ouija board or
similar object to “call on
spirits and demons”, at various
addresses in the Glasgow
area" (The Independent, 5
September 2023)
 Why was this
indictment included?
Playing with Ouija-Boards may be
highly inappropriate for children
but is not illegal and neither is
trying to make contact with the
spirit world which happens every
Sunday in church.
What are we supposed to take from
this statement?
What is the Prosecution trying to
tell us?
Is it being implied that seances and
calling up spirits is a form of
child-abuse?
If that is the case, then be careful
Judge, there are literally thousands
of Christian Baptist churches and
plenty of Muslim preachers who
include children in exorcism
ceremonies to drive 'demons' from
them.
You can see it happening in this
clip on the SAFF's Youtube channel
here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZLNfgWD1Pc
Will these thousands of good
Christians be dragged into Scottish
courts for 'forcing their
children to participate in seances
and use a ouija board'?
We think not!
All Christian spiritualist churches
hold seances virtually every time
they meet, it is a component part of
their religious service. The 2021
Census noted that there are over
33,000 Christian spiritualists in
Britain.
Is the court denying these people
their religious rights?
Is it indicating that they cannot
pass their religious beliefs onto
their offspring because the court
has redefined it as a form
of child-abuse?
If so it would directly conflict
with parental rights under the British
Human Rights Act 2000 and
would interfere with almost all
other extant religions as well.
There would be uproar and protests
if they even tried it.
What this part of the indictment
reveals to us here at the SAFF is
an inherent bigotry and prejudice
in the thinking behind this trial.
Witchcraft
is as Witchcraft does?
Another strange
inconsistency was in the very
dangerous confusion in the
indictments between the religion of
Witchcraft and the religion of
Satanism, which could not have done
anything other than confuse the jury
and corrupt its conclusions.
Here's just one example from the
indictment:
'Children
were forced to take part in
witchcraft and seances, and were
sexually assaulted while members
of a satanic child abuse ring
watched, a court has heard.
In
other words it is insisting that
Witchcraft and Seances are a
component part of
Satanism.
Other headlines said that the
Witches 'chanted and laughed' as
they raped the children.
That meme caused much hatred in the
population as is shown in the Tweets
and comments on social media. As
we have shown, the terms
Witchcraft and Satanism were used
by the court interchangeably but
this is a factually incorrect
error which occurs in other parts
of the indictment too
Witchcraft
and Satanism are not the
same thing.
The truth is that Witchcraft
(Paganism) and Satanism are two
completely different things
and could not co-exist in one group,
as is being implied in court. The
SAFF has been telling the courts and
the police this for 35 years but
they just don't listen.
Paganism
is the State Religion of Iceland and
Paganism is recognised around the
world where indigenous pagan beliefs
are protected. From the Saami of
Norway, Sweden and Finland to the
Aboriginal / Torres Straight
Islanders of the antipodes, the
tribes of the Amazon basin etc.
Decades
ago the SAFF undertook detailed work
with the United Nations
Association raporteur on
Religion and Belief and obtained
a confirmation that a belief in
European Witchcraft / Paganism is
a valid religion under the meaning
of that word. The religious
rights of Pagans / Witches are
recognised in the U.S. and many
other countries and covered by the
British Human Rights Act 2000.
Witchcraft / Paganism is the
original religion of mankind and has
been represented across the globe.
It is recognised by the United
Nations as such and accepted
as a genuine religion in many
countries.
Witchcraft/Paganism has nothing to
do with the Christian idea of a
'Devil'.
There is no Devil figure in Pagan
/ Witchcraft cosmology.
Witches do not 'worship the
devil'
Regardless of what that idiot James
VI said.
Most Witches actually decry Satanism
for it is seen by many of them as a
corrupted form of Christianity
dependent entirely upon Christian
beliefs. Remember that
Paganism predated Christianity by at
least 10,000 years
(viz: Gobekli
Tepi Temple). prior
to the inauguration of the Christian
Religion and ALL areas of the world
had pagan civilisations before
Christian ones . In short to be a
Satanist you must perforce be a
lapsed Christian. It is the
Christians' idea of a Devil which
Satanists are supposed to worship.
Witches do not need to attack,
undermine, besmirch or ridicule
anyone else's beliefs as theirs are
far more established going back into
prehistory. All other religious
beliefs evolved from Paganism and
many Christian legends and symbols
were taken from Paganism, along with
Pagan Holy Days and festivals,
renamed to suit the Saints.
Witches therefore do not conflict
with the Christian church, it is the
Christian church which has a history
of conflicting with Witches/Pagans
to silence and suppress dissenters.
Witches do not employ
Ouija-Boards which are a 19c
invention from the Seance Craze of
Victorian times. Many witches
actually decry the impromptu use of
Ouija boards for technical reasons.
Witches are certainly NOT
Satanists.
Witches and Satanists do not
work together.
Often there is enmity between them
caused by such differing
philosophies.
Satanists on the other hand are
mostly hedonistic atheists who see
all religion as an opium of the
masses which perpetuates the kind of
ignorance which appears in this
indictment, to wit;
misunderstandings and errors which
disable humans from reaching their
full potential. Satanists may
decry both Christianity AND
Witchcraft just like other
atheists do which is why
Witches and Satanists cannot and
do not work
together.
Satanists do not have a belief
in 'spirits' (they are atheists
remember) so they do not use
ouija-boards either.
Whichever way you look at it the
Court was mislead.
So who then is the indictment
talking about?
Is it saying that the accused are
Witches or is it saying they are
Satanists?
Is it saying that they were
pretending to be Witches or / and
Satanists?
What 'ouija board' did they use?
Where is it?
What 'rituals' is the indictment
referring to? It cannot be one in
which both Satanists and Witches
participated, as it claims, for as
we have just shown there is no
such ceremony ever recorded.
These are crucial matters which
could interfere with the course of
justice. It smells bad to us and
this was again confirmed when on
13th October 2023 the Judge
threw out the claims of rape in
Witchcraft and Satanic
ceremonies because there was
absolutely no supporting
evidence of it.
Are the
accused Witches?
Are the accused Satanists?
In fact it appears that none of the
defendants have actually been
formally named as BEING Satanists or
Witches. If none of them have
claimed to be a Witch or a
Satanist why is both Witchcraft
and Satanism being dragged into
the trial?
We hoped their defence would
make it clear by asking them
formally in court whether they are,
or are not, Witches or Satanists,
instead of the court simply accusing
them of it based on the fantasies of
witnesses. However that was not done
because the prosecution withdrew
those Witchcraft / Satanic
allegations before they could be
cross-examined.
As the trial progressed it
became clear that the
prosecution could not portray
the accused as Witches OR
Satanists because they simply
were not Witches or Satanists,
and this part of the indictment
was also dropped by the
Prosecution on the 13th October
2032.
SENTENCING:
This trial was protracted.
2012 - 2019: The offences, against three children, occurred.
March 2020: Police Investigation ( Operation Woodwhite ), begins.
03 Jan 2023: The First hearing to set a trial for Sept 2023.
05 Sep 2023: Trial Starts at Glasgow High Court. All the defendants denied the charges.
14 Nov 2023 Trial ends. 11 accused Found guilty, 3 other people, two men and a woman, were acquitted.
09 Jan 2024: Sentencing was deferred by Lord Beckett for risk assessments.
27 Jan 2025: Sentencing concluded
Owens: He was jailed for 20 years
Lannery: She was jailed for 17 years
Brannan: He was guilty of attempted murder, sexual assault, rape, class A drugs; got 15 years.
Williams: She was guilty of attempted murder, assault, rape, supplying drugs: given 14 years.
Clark: He was found guilty of rape and sexual assault and given 10 years,
Watson: He was found guilty of rape and sexual assault, was given nine years and six months
Forbes: He was found guilty of rape and got eight years.
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And then at the bottom of this
BBC Article we see a
perfunctory:
'Charges
related to causing the
children to take part in
seances and witchcraft were
dropped during the two-month
trial'.
Big change from the BBC's
earlier gung-ho headlines which
helped cause a wave of
revulsion against innocent
believers in Paganism in
Scotland.
There was no Witchcraft or
Satanism involved in the Glasgow
trial.
It had nothing whatsoever to do
with witchcraft, paganism,
Satanism or any occult method or
belief .
There were no 'wands'
brandished.
There were no baths of blood,
There were no hearts eaten.
Yet how many of those lying
headlines which peppered the
British media at the start of the trial will reside in the
memories of mad social workers,
fundamentalist agitators and SRA
vigilantes to be evoked again the
next time someone in the British
Media cannot resist writing a
lubricious headline? The
conspiracyloons will snarl
at the result of the Trial,
they will nod at each other'
; 'It's happened again' they
will say, 'another SRA
cover-up!'
And go blithely on acting as
though the Glasgow case really
was a case of Satanic Abuse
after all, writing their books
on Satanic Abuse and quoting
the false claims in the
Glasgow case as though somehow
they add proof to the weight
of evidence showing that SRA
exists. They will attend Satan
Seminars and mention it as the
'latest' proof, and they will
persist in publishing fake
news about SRA on the internet
from the wicked mind of
'someone who knew the brother
of man who was the cousin of a
schoolmate of one of the
victims' who will insist that
the Judge was corrupt, and
that the police were all
Freemasons!
That is what this kind of
reporting gets you - 36 years
of delusion and unfact which
has tortured thousands of
innocent men, women and
children. A slow-burn
witch-hunt spanning 36 years.
The indictments in
the Glasgow case were read out in
court and reported thus
It is alleged
one of the girls was shut in
a microwave in an attempt to
kill her. (Daily Record)
How did this statement get into
the court papers without anyone
actually realising it was false? There
is no microwave in existence big
enough to contain a 10 year
girl! As five of the
defendants are indicted on charges
of attempted murder ( which may
very well rest on this claim ),
the truth behind this statement is
crucial to understanding the kind
of evidence being accepted at
face-value by the team bringing
the case to court, and it doesn't
look good.
Was the Satanic / Witchcraft
content of this trial worked-up by
superstitious cretins which the
authorities simply repeated, or
was it a cynical attempt to sway
the jury with ancient stereotypes?
Could it be interference in the
process of justice from the clique
of Satan-Hunters who now populate
Scotland? The following may help
you decide;
Videos, Videos everywhere
and not a one to see
During the trial it was stated
that the victims were made to film
their abuse or that various
accused had filmed the abuse.
'The women are
accused of watching the abuse,
with the indictment adding
that they did “clap, cheer and
verbally encourage” the abuse,
with some filming the attack.'
(Independent)
'Another child was
allegedly raped within the
same time period, with the
group accused of filming it.'(Times
5 Sept. 2023)
'Owens and Brannan go
on to face an accusation of
raping the boy. The duo along
with Lannery and Williams are
also said to have made him
watch a video of one of the
girls being attacked.'
(Daily Record)
Clearly if the prosecution
actually had a single one of these
films the accused would have been
caught red-handed, yet they have
all pleaded not-guilty. In short,
as with many earlier cases of
SRA, claims of filmed abuse were
central yet came to nothing.
In all earlier cases there never
were any films found to back up
what the SRA victims claimed. It
appears there are none in this
trial either.
The idea of perpetrators filming
the abuse of their victims and
then selling the films into the
porn industry was a prejudiced
assumption first made in 1988 when
the fundamentalist activists who
started the Satanic Panic began
pretending to have inside
information and were subsequently
allowed to present fictional
'criminal profiles' of supposed
Satanic Abusers to police forces
in the UK in what amounted to
highly prejudiced and unconfirmed
conjecture based on ecclesiastical
records which depicted confessions
gained under torture during the
15c and 16c Witch-trials which
disgraced Europe. NOT ONE OF THEIR
CLAIMS TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE.
The first
mention of Satanic Snuff
Movies was in early 1988 in a
keynote speech given by The
Reachout Trust
in Britain's first
Satan
Seminar in Dundee
which infected local churches and social workers and police.
The similarities with the
guff eventually thrown out of the
Glasgow case on 13th September is
amazing. Back in 1988 the Reachout
Trust baldly stated:
'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. 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.' Maureen
Davies, Director Reachout
Trust, 'Satanic Ritual Abuse'
lecture, 1988.
Presumably Reachout's director,
Maureen Davies, was doling out
similar untruths to attendees at
the other Aberdeen and Dundee Satan
Seminars held in the early 1990s?
To see how irrational these
claims, which were based solely on
the manic testimony of mentally
ill patients who fell into the
hands of Reachout and who
gleefully confirmed what Reachout
wanted to hear, please view the
five minute clip of Maureen Davies
being interviewed on camera by
Martin Bashir for BBC's Panorama
special on Satanic Abuse, in
December 1992 in which Davies'
'expertise' about Satanic Abuse (
which had for 3 years previously
underpinned and encouraged a
belief in SRA throughout the
police and social services )
evaporate like the smoke and
mirrors it really was, under a few
minutes of direct questioning.
(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAUyGdzsWnw - clip starts
33.00 minutes in. )
In the intervening 35 years
which has covered over 80
cases of claimed SRA there has
not been one film, photo,
recording or tape ever found
which backed up these claims.
Despite hundreds of cases here and
overseas, film of 'Satanic Abuse'
has never been discovered, but see
how utterly false claims of
'eating hearts' has also made its
way through from 1988 to impinge
upon the Glasgow SRA trial in
2023!
So adamant were these earlier
Satan Hunters that Satanists must
have filmed their rituals
that they hoaxed the entire
population of Great Britain, in
February 1992 ,when a group of
them headed by fundamentalist
agitator Andrew Boyd persuaded
Channel 4 Television to broadcast
what was billed ( with nationwide
press fanfare) as 'an actual
film of satanic abuse happening'
in an hour long documentary,
which included an interview with
a woman, Jennifer, who claimed
to be a previous member of the
cult who claimed that they had
made her kill her own baby!
The public uproar at this
'evidence of SRA' lasted for a few
hours until the SAFF found the
original recording and proved that
it was a performance art video by
a well-known rock-group, on open
sale and given an 18 rating by the
BBFC in which various avant garde
celebrities took part. The
producers of the documentary
had lied. It was NOT a film of
actual Satanic Abuse and
proved nothing of the kind.
By this time Scotland Yard had
been stampeded into busting the
rock-group's headquarters and took
away tons of music videos and
other documents. They
found absolutely NO SRA videos
or illegal videos of any kind
and no charges followed. It
was all fundamentalist
generated hysteria.
Furthermore the woman 'informer'
who claimed to have killed her own
baby turned out to be a confused
mentally fragile individual who
had been indoctrinated with the
'baby killing' idea during
Recovered Memory therapy at a
Christian healing seminary which
had been heavily involved in
pushing SRA at the time (a
representative of this group -
Ellel Grange - was actually
invited to speak at Reachout's
Dundee SRA Seminar in 1988!
See
http://saff.nfshost.com/devilvid.htm.
for the full story.
Getting the picture
yet? The words 'Police',
'Lead' and Nose' come to
mind.
The fact is, there has never
been a film recovered in any
case where Satanic Ritual Abuse
had been claimed during the 35
years the myth has been ongoing.
Even so the 'satanists filmed
their abuse' meme was given
a new spin in 2014 when two groups
of Satan Hunters in Scotland,
one of which had direct links to
the 1990 Satanic Panic,
drummed up shocking publicity by
claiming children were being
killed in Satanic snuff movies.
Despite decades of failed claims
about Snuff movies which many
ordinary folk think just MUST have
happened somewhere, the facts
are that it is an apocryphal
rumour which has no basis in
fact. Here,
Snopes takes the unfact apart
in detail. There
have never been any Satanic
Snuff Movies.
Note that the Scottish child
charities pushing the Snuff Movie
unfact, ( Izzy's Promise
and Break The Silence )
used the same memes that had
earlier been presented to police
and government back in the 1990
Satanic Panic (and were proven
false way back then, but which
have since become part of 'the
demonology' of SRA within satan
hunter circles ). Unbelievably,
people running the Scottish
police and government agencies
quickly fell for those Satanic
Snuff Movie lies again in 2014!
Just how foolish is
Police Scotland? The
obsessed SRA-hunters shout
'jump' and Police Scotland
respond by asking 'how
high?'. The SRA obsessives
have done it a zillion
times in 35 years and each time
they come up with new twists to
their manic claims the cops
knee-jerk into action searching
for phantoms. 
The lie about Snuff Movies being
involved in SRA cases (or any
other cases for that matter) was
given a hail of publicity in the
1990s when Ray Wyre, a key player
in the promotion of SRA during the
1990 Satanic Panic,
( see Broxtowe.htm ) and a
close colleague of Tim Tate,
producer of the Cook Report, was
quoted in an article as saying he
had personally witnessed a
child killed in a Snuff
Movie. This was
sensational! However
when Wyre was challenged about this
he retracted saying that it
was a movie which simulated
a murder
 When
contacted about the possibility of
Snuff Movies (Satanic or
otherwise) both the FBI and
Scotland Yard said Snuff Movies
did not exist. You can decide
for yourself how much the
irresponsible British Media
perpetuates untruths of this kind
about SRA by looking again at the
Daily Express's despicable
report above, and estimate for
yourself the total amount of
police resources which were
squandered on this issue in the UK
over the past three decades. It
runs into tens of millions of
pounds, most of it wasted in
Scotland with the £6 MILLION cost
of the Lord Clyde Public Inquiry
to tidy up the unnecessary Orkney
SRA case which was a travesty of
Police and Social Service
malpractice.
Wyre's glib original insistence
that he had watched a child being
killed in a snuff movie, which he
later retracted when challenged,
can be compared with his 1989
interview on Australia's 'Sixty
Minutes' series about early
Claims of Satanic Abuse. Whilst
somewhat more careful of his
pronouncements in the UK, once in
Australia he clearly told millions
of Aussies that Satanists were
torturing and killing kids in
Australia when he had absolutely
no factual evidence that this was
the case in Australia or anywhere
else in the world.
You can see how Wyre also lies
about the Broxtowe case and
includes the '21 cases' which
featured in the Cook Report's
The Devil's Work, (for which
he acted as an advisor). See him
look straight into the camera and
lie. You can view this clip from
Sixty Minutes here: Servants
of Satan. Wyre is a lying
toad yet is billed by Sixty
Minutes as the world's most
experienced expert on Satanic
Ritual Child Abuse!
Really? Not in our neck of
the woods he isn't.
By the way, Theresa, a
self-proclaimed SRA victim, who
was also interviewed by Sixty
Minutes ended up giving evidence
in court at the Old Bailey in
London a month before this Oz
programme was broadcast. After
three days in court the judge
threw the case out and exonerated
the people she had falsely accused
of Satanic Abuse. Some people make
good liars and some people lie for
God. Wyre had completed a course
at Baptist Bible College before he
jumped on the SRA bandwagon.
After the hysteria of the Satanic
Panic of the 1990s had faded, Ray
Wyre moved from being a
child-protection professional to
being a professional poker player.
Apparently he was very good at
bluffing. From Bible thumper to
Satanic Abuse Expert to Gambler.
What a life trajectory! If
you want to see just how the
Satanic Panic in the UK was
exported to Australia and New
Zealand then this well-researched
history of the scare from the
Australian side, gives a
blow-by-blow account and you will
find that 90% of the people who
'discovered SRA' in Australia were
the same ones who foisted it on
Britain! History
of SRA in Australia and New
Zealand
These two organisations who began
pushing rumours of Snuff Movies in
2014, ( Izzy's Promise and
Break The Silence ), are
contributors to the Scottish
government on
child-protection! One of
them Break The Silence has
a delegate who sits on the
Holyrood Committee on Adult
Survivors of Childhood Sexual
Abuse. I wonder what she's
telling them?
The Daily Express (which has
a long-running campaign to hype
and sensationalise tall tales of Satanic
Ritual Abuse and is always
ready to print any old
headline-grabbing tosh) questioned
Police Scotland about the snuff
movies. Police Scotland said
they are taking the claims
seriously. See how these
unrepresentative groups can
manipulate the police and
judiciary with unfact?
Today, a decade on from those
2014 snuff movie claims, it can
be seen that there were of
course NO films and NO snuff
movies and NO children at risk
despite what these two groups
said in 2014.
Izzy's Promise and Break
The Silence have not
produced a single piece of
evidence to back up their claims
but got full page headlines for
them in a national newspaper
anyway. Neither of them, to our
knowledge, has apologised or
qualified their false statements
about SRA Snuff Movies.
It is interesting to see how
easily these lies were seeded
into the minds of cops at Police
Scotland after having been
completely discredited 35 years
previously.
After the Ayreshire SRA
Scandal
After the Orkney SRA Scandal.
After the government's 1994 report
proving SRA did not exist.
After Lord Clyde's Public Inquiry
which castigated believers in SRA
in social work.
After the 194 rule changes.
After the terrible errors of the
Isle of Lewis SRA case where the
main witness admitted she lied.
And after every other police force
in the UK had investigated claimed
SRA cases and found them
FALSE.
Here we are now a decade after the
Daily Express printed what
were at best paranoid fears on
Snuff Movies and at the worst
manipulative grifting, neither of
those two organisations have been
able to produce even one example
of a Satanic Snuff Movie!
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/533158/Child-abusers-filmed-murder-claims-charity
And the salient point here is
that neither of these groups
have ever been challenged about
those lies which tens of
thousands of members of the
public read and were horrified
by. If you carefully
read the false claims made in this
ten year old Daily Express
report you will astonishingly see
an almost word for word rendition
of what appears today in the
indictment in the current Glasgow
case. It is as though Police
Scotland used it as a template!
Could it be possible that the
drip, drip, of SRA propaganda from
the coterie of Satan Hunters who
have coalesced in Scotland around
Dundee and Edinburgh and who have
become a focus for Satan Hunters
nationwide for their insistence
that Satanic Ritual Child
Abuse exists, has actually
infected the Scottish Justice
system with new tales of SRA? Were
some of these Third Sector
groups involved in Police
Scotland's' 1000 lines of
inquiry' over the the Glasgow
SRA trial we wonder?
Izzy's
Promise
Izzy's
Promise is a registered charity
and has been encouraged for
decades by the Scottish
Government. They began as an
offshoot of the infamous RAINS
group which was the prime
mover behind ALL the early
claimed cases of SRA in the UK
from 1988 onwards. You can see
more on the evil activities of
RAINS and how they were behind
the hysteria about Edward Heath
being a Satanic Abuser, below
and here: The
Truth About the Westminster
Satanic Abuse Ring
Laurie Matthews, the founder,
set up a scion of RAINS to
promote the idea of SRA in
Scotland. She called it RANS (Ritual
Abuse Network Scotland).
Many Satanic Panic activists and
groups were members of RAINS and
RANS, the two were virtually
indistinguishable networking
points for Satan Hunters in the
UK.
The SAFF exposed the workings of
RANS back in 2002 ( http://saff.nfshost.com/rans.htm
) but such is the desire amongst
the child-scare lobby to foster
false ideas about Satanic Child
abuse that they've done quite
well since.
After a rename from RANS
to Izzy's Promise the
organisation apparently
flourished. To the right you
will see a flyer for their 2011
Satan Seminar in Devil Town
(Dundee) and it clearly
illustrates the pyramid selling
techniques that all these groups
tend to use.
By promising to heal or help
mentally disturbed people they
proffer therapy and then also
work to train the 'survivor
network' of therapists and
counsellors who therapise the
self-identified victims of SRA.
The demand is a self-fulfilling
feedback loop.
People who are mentally-ill come
in with or without tales of SRA,
get therapised using recovered
memory therapy ,which the NHS
should ban, and many come out
with false memories of Satanic
Abuse.
These self-styled SRA victims
are used as 'evidence' of the
existence of SRA. After a
while some of the victims turn
to being trained in DID therapy
themselves when they are trained
to 'help' (i.e. seek out) other
SRA 'victims' to draw into the
cycle. It is a perfect
exercise in paranoia.
How do the RAINS mob manage to
work their SRA magic in plain
sight? Well they disguise their
satan-hunting behind the term
'Ritual Abuse'. When
talking to 'straights' they
hardly ever use the word
'Satanism', yet it is
concomitant with all their
claims.
Of course there is no such thing
as 'Ritual Abuse' , the
term means nothing and cannot be
adequately defined in
psychiatry. The compulsive
washing of hands by people
suffering from OCD could be
termed 'a ritual' but repetitive
actions like this are not the
kind of Rituals the SRA hunters
are talking about. They are
talking of a pan-global network
of Satanists who are supposed to
ceremonially sadistically and
sexually abuse children and then
kill and eat them. They
are just bonkers.
When you get right down to it,
the activities of these people
are very much like rolling Tent
Crusades picking up converts to
SRA as they go; and of course
most of these groups are run by
fundamentalist Christians to
save souls. Why, some of
these Third Sector groups even
provide an on-line SRA
self-identification form in
which mentally imbalanced
people can validate themselves
as victims of SRA from the
comfort of their own
sofa! You can become a
victim of Satanic Abuse in
minutes on line, just tick
the boxes!
Izzy's Promise's Yearly
activity report to the Scottish
Charity Commission for 2010
makes interesting reading:
This month has been one of
the busiest this year with
even more survivors dropping
in for face-to-face support,
phoning, emailing and
texting for support and with
more referrals from other
support agencies. We sent
out questionnaires and
consultations to more than
700 abuse support
organisations in the UK by
post and email to make them
aware of all the services we
offer to ritual / organised
abuse survivors. We provided
consultancy services to 8
abuse support agencies via
email and phone. Some of the
agencies needed more
information on how to
support ritual / organised
abuse survivors. We were
approached by 2 agencies to
deliver awareness training
on how to support ritual
abuse survivors. We have two
upcoming training
opportunities for people and
organisations working with
ritual/organised abuse
survivors taking place on
the 7th and 8th July 2010
www.izzyspromise.org.uk.
When they say 'provided
consultancy services to abuse
support agencies', they do
not preclude local authority
social work departments, child
safeguarding departments, police
and other official bodies. In
short they have a direct line
to confuse, corrupt and
misdirect Scottish child care
with unproven assumptions
about SRA and mad claims about
Snuff Movies.
 I am
sure that these do-gooders think
they are doing something useful
and helping people escape from
some horror or other but history
shows that crusading Satan
Hunters in the past usually
cause suffering to children and
vulnerable adults not cure them.
As in the 1990 scare the
foolish police and social
services rarely seem
to question what these
groups say. They rarely ask
anyone who does not believe in
SRA what their take on the
situation is. SRA therefore
becomes a self-fulfilling
prophecy.
The claims of Satanic Abuse are
as grotesque as can be; RANS
even inferred that Satanists
were sacrificing seals by
shooting them in the seas around
Orkney!
They made this claim at the
height of the Orkney scandal, it
was as if their intention was to
'confirm' the existence of abusing
Satanists in Orkney and support
the allegations in the Orkney
Case which we all now know were
utterly false in every
respect.
Clearly anyone who knows about
coastal communities realises
that inshore fishermen HATE
seals. There is a glut of them
and they take all their catch,
therefore, although illegal, the
culling of seals by fishermen
does occasionally happen and
will be reported; but
it has absolutely nothing to
do with Satanists or Witches.
Claims of Satanic Animal
Sacrifice are a perennial
allegation in SRA circles.
The SAFF
discredited such claims many
times with this research
here:
http://saff.nfshost.com/animals.htm
You can see more of the kind of
stuff that Izzy's Promise
have been doling out for
decades, here: http://saff.nfshost.com/rans.htm
but this what they said in the
article:
“I
recently spoke with a lady
near here who couldn’t stop
crying. She had been through
it all and said she couldn’t
live with the things she’d
done. She was telling about
everything that had happened
to her, drugs, abuse,
watching others being
abused, sacrifices, animal
sacrifices, being raped,
being forced to conceive and
then abort the child for
sacrifice. At one point she
says she may have killed a
young child because she was
forced to strangle the
child. That’s the sort of
power the perpetrators have
on their victims.”
Lumbasi, Izzy's Promise,
Statement to the Daily
Express 9 Nov 2014.
Er, excuse us but; that's the
sort of power therapists
have over mentally vulnerable
women who come to them for help
and instead have false memories
pushed into their heads about
non-existent Satanic
crimes! These are the same
false claims made by 'victims'
during the 1990 Satanic Panic
and which were completely
discredited in every single case
in the course of time. Word for
Word.
Breeders
and Killing Babies
The idea of sacrificing of
aborted babies in Satanic
ceremonies was imported directly
from the U.S. where the SRA myth
had established itself a year or
two before it was imported from
there into the UK's first Satan
case, in Broxtowe,
Nottingham in 1987.
In the US they called children
whom they claimed had been
impregnated to produce babies to
abort and sacrifice as
'breeders'. It never ever
happened either here or in the
US. Satanic Child
Abuse is of course a parable
for anti-abortionists which
demonises empowered women
(witches) as evil and portrays
non-Christian men who condone
abortion as devil worshippers.
It
is of course a parable for
anti-abortionists which
demonises empowered women
(witches) as evil and
portrays irreligious men as
devil worshippers.
These people are stretching it
to be continuing these lies in
this day and age and the last
thing the authorities should do
is give any of them credence,
yet they get tax breaks by being
Scottish Charities. Trouble
makers are always rewarded, it
would seem. No matter how
moronic what they say is, they
always seem to end up being
listened to. In the case of SRA
it would appear nothing succeeds
like excess. 
Satanic Abuse will not die
because believers like them keep
stoking the flames.
Look at these activities in
S.M.A.R.T.'s, Ritual Abuse Pages
(see graphic to the right -
double-click to open a large
size version).
RANS, Izzy's Promise, from
Devil Town Dundee and Sarah
Nelson from Edinburgh
University ( Remember her?
'1650 people in Edinburgh have
been satanically abused')
appear alongside each other on
S.M.A.R.T.'s website so all
the world can see that
Scotland is a hive of abusing
Satanists, when it is nothing
of the kind.
Or more accurately,
Scotland has a clique of Satan
Hunters who have claimed that
Scotland is ridden with Satanic
Abusers without ever having been
able to produce even one example
in 35 years of warning about it.
The
Network of Carping
Satan-Hunters in Scotland
Have Spent 35 Years Warning
About it Without Being Able
to Produce a Single Example.
The Daily Express's
hysterical piece on Snuff Movies
and of Ritual killings in
Scotland got a bad reception in
academe. Within days
Professor Chris French (the Head
of the Anomalistic
Psychology Research Unit at
University of London and a
specialist in false cases of
SRA) disputed the whole idea and
took it to task in the Guardian,
suggesting the police were
on another wild-goose-chase. Nine
years later we all now know
that he was right and Police
Scotland were chasing
phantoms. https://www.
theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/18/satanic-child-abuse-false-memories-scotland
Hollie Greig: This is What
Scotland Gets when it
suffers evil Satan
Hunters...
But this is not the first
time Satan Hunters in
Scotland began a hysterical
scare that gave the Scottish
Legal system the run-around.
Another hiatus of Satan
Hunting began in 2009 but
it was hardly covered in
the Scottish Press so the
public are largely unaware
of it. If you read
what follows, you will be.
In 2012,
after 3 years of vigilante
attacks, self-appointed SRA
crusader Robert Green was
jailed for his part as leader
of a campaign of lies and
persecution which had created
an Internet sensation by
falsely accusing several
judges and legal VIPs in
Scotland of being part of a
Satanic Paedophile Ring at a
high level in the Scottish
Justice system. Many
thousands of Scottish
conspiracyloons still believe
in this cabal of Satanic
abusers within the Scottish
judiciary, discussing and
reinforcing belief in it on
the internet.
Robert Green's campaign
concerned a Downs Syndrome
girl (now an adult) called
Hollie Greig, whose mother
maintained, had claimed to
have been abused in Satanic
Rituals by 26 people. These
completely false accusations
occurred first in 2009 and
also included the public
doxing of several innocent
members of Hollie Greig's
extended family who were
persecuted terribly on the
internet and locally. The
false claims about Hollie
Greig were taken up by that
conspiracyloon David
Icke. He backed Green's
campaign and brought thousands
more SRA vigilantes into the
mix.
Two extensive Police Scotland
investigations into claims
made by Hollie Greig's mother proved
that there was no truth in
them but the vicious Satan
Hunters would not stop. This
hiatus was ongoing at the same
time as England was suffering
it's own VIP abuse accusations
which eventually lead to the
investigation of the late
prime-minister Edward Heath
for Satanic murder. It concluded saying that nothing
of the kind had ever occurred.
One of those at the top of the
Scottish legal system who was
falsely accused of being part
of the VIP abuse ring
cover-up, was Lord
Advocate Elisha
Angiolini. She was
hounded on the internet to
such degree by Green that she
eventually sought a lifetime
non-harassment order against
him in 2012.
Green had falsely claimed
Angiolini had covered up an
"establishment paedophile
ring" in Scotland. It followed
the granting of similar
non-harassment orders against
Green given to 15 (fifteen)
other people whom he and his
campaign had vindictively and
falsely persecuted for
imagined Satanic Crimes on the
internet by, for example,
revealing the registration
numbers and details of their
vehicles so vigilantes could
attack them, and the
distribution of poisoned pen
leaflets designed to drum up
hatred against falsely accused
people by posting them through
the letter boxes of their
neighbours to get them to turn
on the falsely accused. Some
of Green's victims, though
completely innocent, were
forced to move home. One had
to close down his business.
You probably want to ask how
did Green and this Mob get
away with all this hateful
activity but watching the
authorities turn a blind-eye
to dangerous false claims of
Satanic Ritual Abuse is a
constant occurrence throughout
the last three decades. Their
aloof arrogance in ignoring
the pernicious affects on
those falsely accused of SRA
is why we have ended up still
chasing the same phantoms 35
years later! The authorities
seem to think it is beneath
them to address this issue, as
though anyone with any
common-sense can see that
these false accusers are
nutters and not worth
attention, yet isn't it just
the same twisted
fundamentalist psychological
beliefs which have created
terrorism across the Western
world and how much time,
effort and resources do the
government, police and local
authorities spend on that?
There are now hundreds of
thousands of believers in
Satanic Ritual Abuse in the UK
and they network with each
other very successfully on the
internet. We have far more
believers in SRA than we have
people supporting Islamic
Jihad yet it is still treated
as a Cinderella subject.
The full story of Green's
despicable actions and bigoted
vigilantism is outlined here:
https://www.
heraldscotland.com/news/13062006.one-devastating-fantasy-impact-internet-scandal
'One Devastating
Fantasy' written for
the Scottish Herald by
David Leask, was a masterful
analysis of a complex run of
events for which he is to be
congratulated, however a
crucial aspect is missing from
it - Green's previously
unrevealed connections with
the coterie of activists who
had started the 1990 Satanic
Panic and Green's networking
with RAINS and other SRA
survivor groups behind all
the earlier SRA cases which
hit the headlines.
Only the SAFF could give you
the full insight into this and
here it is below:
The Helen G List [Also
known as The RAINS
List]
This long list of suspicions
about VIPs who were imagined
to be involved in a
child-abuse ring at high
levels in the British
Establishment, came from RAINS
director Joan Coleman. It
outed famous people, MPs,
Police Chiefs, Celebrities
from the world of
entertainment, and others in
high-places based solely on
fantasy, fiction, gossip, and
guesswork.
Do you remember the
controversy over TV celebrity
abuse? The persecution of
Cliff Richard, Paul
Gambaccini, Jimmy Tarbuck, Jim
Davidson, Coronation Street's
William Roache, and many more?
All of these people were
falsely accused through rumour
and false allegations during a
time of hysteria about VIP
abuse. Tarbuck was
libelled in the Helen-G
List long before the
police investigated him and
found him innocent.
The belief that there were
hidden paedophile VIP rings at
the heart of the British
Establishment was old gossip
going back to 1977 when a
political group called PIE (Paedophilia
Information Exchange)
campaigned to reduce the age
of consent for homosexuals and
received local and government
funding from the Home Office
between 1977 and 1980.
Of course pressure from the
Gay lobby did eventually
result in the dropping of the
age of consent to 16 years
later in 2001 but decades
earlier PIE's attempts to do
this ended up with very
negative consquences.
Some members of PIE were
involved in the Westminster
bubble, particularly linked to
the Labour party. Then a
package of child pornography
was found on a London omnibus
with links to PIE.
 A
detailed police investigation
was inconclusive (left-wing
political support for
homosexual rights and
membership of PIE was not
evidence of being a
paedophile) but Tom O'carroll,
the organiser of PIE was
successfully prosecuted. Ten
people were arrested. Most of
these were dealt with under
their own names but unwisely,
in an obvious attempt to avoid
a scandal, a top
diplomat and member of PIE,
Sir Peter Hayman, was allowed
to use a pseudonym to escape
opprobrium.
Private Eye magazine was the
first to expose this but the
man was not named until 1981
when after an ongoing police
inquiry it was leaked to
Geoffrey Dickens MP, he
named Hayman in parliament
under parliamentary privilege
(MPs can say anything they
like in the chamber and are
immune from being sued ) The
resulting publicity was
widespread and made Dickens
something of a 'children's
champion'.
Five years later Dickens
'outed' someone on the floor
of the house a second time.
This time, a doctor was
alleged to have raped a child.
The police investigated and
found it untrue.
Persisting, Dickens worked
with the SUN newspaper who
paid for a private prosecution
of the doctor. The
trial found the doctor
completely innocent.
 Unabashed,
rent-a-quote Dickens moved
into demanding that gay vicars
be sacked and also, as an
addendum, appealed for public
hanging to be brought back!
This typical Tory was a
committed Christian and
homophobic laypreacher.
He then linked up with Childwatch,
a Hull child-protection
charity and in 1988 began a
campaign to falsely accuse
innocent people of being
involved in the Satanic
Ritual Abuse of
children by fabricating
unfacts in the house
of commons yet again.
He was directly responsible
for the 1990 Satanic
Panic. The full
sorry story of Dickens' career
in being the 'children's
champion' is outlined
here: http://saff.nfshost.com/dickens.htm
Some people thought the PIE
issue had been covered up and
that a cell of abusers were
still active in
Westminster. Nobody else
was ever caught in the
intervening two decades but
this suspicion came back to
haunt the government in the
early 2000s when hysterical
claims of Satanic Ritual
Abuse were twinned with
the earlier PIE suspicions and
'VIP Abuse' was invented.
In 2008 Coleman's Helen
G list brought it all
together again. Yet the
list was in fact simply the
outpourings of a single 'star
victim imposter' called Helen
G, a psychiatric patient of
Coleman's, who had for a year
or so previously enthralled
Coleman with imagined Satanic
Crimes at her therapy
sessions. Helen G told
Coleman exactly what she
wanted to hear, that there
was a large group of child
abusers at the highest level
of the State which had
Satanic connections. 
It was bunkum but since 1994
,when the La Fontaine
Report had totally
undermined RAINS, Coleman had
been trying to reclaim her
reputation by insisting that
SRA was a threat, because
her patients claimed
that it existed. Coleman seemed
oblivious to the fact that
many patients lie to please
their therapists.
All Coleman's SRA cases had
failed miserably in the course
of time and her patients were
proven to be either attention
seeking liars or dippy
middle-aged women with mental
problems who had fantisised
SRA stories under Recovered
Memory therapy.
SAFF knew that Coleman was
a foolish liar because later
on she lied about us in
print!
Following the La Fontaine
report RAINS was on the back
foot, but the Helen G list
offered what they apparently
saw as 'insider evidence' to
confirm SRA. Coleman collated
the Helen G List and without
checking or testing any of
it for factual accuracy,
promptly distributed the list
to other SRA therapists in the
RAINS network. The SRA
believing social workers and
police who made up the 180 or
so members of RAINS.
From there the Helen-G
list soon got out into
the wild and quickly ended up
in the hands of 'survivor
groups' who took the
matter much further. They
cross-contaminated wild
stories of SRA across forums,
blogs and survivor groups. The
conglomeration of these
tidbits in the minds of the
Satan Hunters created a
reservoir of what seemed like
identical stories and memes
which further agglomerated
convincing, but wholly untrue,
tales of Satanic Ritual
Abuse.
It was the Helen G List
which was behind the
sensational false accusations
against former prime minister
Edward (Ted) Heath and a host
of other Westminster VIPs of
abusing and sacrificing
children. Rehashed
through the influential
network of survivor-groups the
list and the meme gained
impetus and eventually the
British government suckered in
to it, for it formed a thread
of the Governments £100
Million IICSA
inquiry into historic abuse.
 But
VIP abuse was not new. The
uproar over secret paedophile
groups in the Elite of Society
had first been floated in July
1993 from the meanderings of
other mentally ill patients
undergoing Recovered
Memory therapy at the
Jupiter Trust, run by GP
Jim Phillips and his colleague
Vera Diamond, a founder member
of RAINS and another
front-runner in pushing the
false allgations of SRA at the
time.
In this pre-internet
version of the 'Elite
Paedophiles conspiracy'
Diamond's mad patients
claimed that the Royal
Family itself was involved
in drinking the blood of
babies. The front page
of the Daily Sportnewspaper
16 July 1993 was the start of
this meme which much later
went on to just about destroy
Prince Andrew when Virginia
Guiffre made claims of
under-age sex with him in
2014.
In November 2015 The IICSA
inquiry into historic abuse
commenced. It lasted six years
and concluded in September
2021 by saying that there
was no evidence of any
abusing elite in Westminster.
'There was
ample evidence that
individual perpetrators of
child sexual abuse were
linked to Westminster but,
despite some assertions to
the contrary, there
was no evidence of an
organised ‘Westminster
paedophile network’.
pp 11'
That's 'official speak' for
saying that the claims of
SRA rings and groups were
untrue.
Additionally IICSA's
full 190 page published report
dealing specifically with
'Allegations of child
sexual abuse linked to
Westminster'
contains lots of detail about
various historic cases of
sexual impropriety, extends to
57,000 words but does not
mention Satanism,
Witchcraft, Ritual Abuse or
anything at all related to
SRA. '' This conclusion
followed several watersheds
which had occurred in-between
time as we will relate below:
Firstly, In 2016 the Met
police began a countrywide
investigation into new false
accusations made about Edward
Heath and an imagined clique
of VIP abusers who had
allegedly sacrificed a
school boy in Satanic
Rituals. These lurid
claims were made by three
women and a grifter called
Carl Beech (who was given the
pseudonym 'Nick' in news
reports of the time). Beech
made up a complex story about
being a victim of VIP abuse in
Satanic Rituals.
The resultant police
investigation besmirched the
honourable careers of many
innocent VIPs and ex MPs
including Sir Benjamin Herman,
Lord McAlpine, Lord Brittan,
Harvey Proctor and others, but
eventually it became clear
that Beech was a fantasist who
nearly succeeded in getting
two payments of £22,000 each
from CICA's criminal
compensation fund. His
SRA story was false and it
collapsed. When police
looked deeper they found him
in possession of child-porn
and he had secretly filmed
young boys in a toilet. In
January 2019 Beech pleaded
guilty to possession of
child pornography.
Yes, folks, the liar who
had convinced thousands of
self-righteous Satan Hunters
and survivor groups across
the internet of his plight
as a victim of VIP abuse was
actually an abuser himself.
They had hung on his every
word, they had used his lies
to condemn other innocent
people and troll them on the
internet for being Satanic
paedophiles, yet Beech was
actually an abusing paedophile
himself whose SRA story was a
front. This shows
just how ridiculous their
claims of expertise about
SRA really are - they can't
even detect a paedo when
he's stood in front of them.
In July 2019 Beech, who had
destroyed so many honourable
people with his lies, was
tried again for Perverting
the Cause of Justice and
obtaining "£22,000 by
deception". On 26
July he was found guilty
and given 18 Years in
prison.
The Beech case cracked-open
the hysteria of VIP abuse
allegations and the stories of
self-styled victims slowed as
the police and support groups
at last began to demand more
than anecdotal evidence of
what self-styled 'victims'
claimed. 
As the Beech investigation (part
of Operation Midland)
progressed, another extensive
and highly controversial
police inquiry was ongoing -
Operation Conifer - into
Edward Heath's life based on
the testimony of three women
who had made claims of Satanic
Abuse.
A leading criminologist who
was asked to look at their
evidence by Wiltshire police
said they were Satanic
Fantasists. Although Wiltshire
police still insisted on
furthering the inquiry, in
October 2017 it closed
reporting that none of the
allegations checked out and
they could find no other
evidence against Heath.
Another waste of £883,000.00
on non-existent SRA hysteria.
When Beech was jailed in 2019 it was clear
that any claims of a high-level VIP abuse
ring in the British Establishment was
utterly without foundation. The SAFF
covered the scandal and its main players
in great detail here: http://saff.nfshost.com/panoramavip.htm
SAFF maintain that the rise in
unsubstantiated allegations of VIP abuse
on the internet began with the Helen G
List in 2007. Two years later Robert
Green was pushing the idea in Scotland in
connection with false allegations related
to Hollie Greig and false abuse
allegations in the Scottish Justice
System. It rose to a crescendo in 2012
after Jimmy Savile died and the spotlight
was thrown onto 'Celebrity Abuse'.
Green was imprisoned for a year in
Aberdeen nick for vigilante excesses in
2012 but that simply spurred on his
compatriots in the Satan Hunter scene as
you will see below.
The
Satanic Crimes of The Hampstead
Elite
Almost a year later and 400 miles away in
England, similar lies about a new case of
claimed Satanic Ritual Child Abuse
began at Christchurch School in
Hampstead, London. The tendentious
allegations began to circulate on the
internet. It was the same old worn-out
allegations of SRA but this time the
people being falsely accused were part of
the London Elite and were not
standing for it. They began to fight
the lynch-mob with an influential media
campaign to expose the lies. They were
subject to the usual doxing, on-line
threats, poisoned pen letters and mob
protests outside the school itself. The
hysteria rose to fantastic proportions
with claims of child-abusing Satanists in
a local restaurant (which had crucial
similarities to the hysterical Pizza House
conspiracy raging at the time in the
U.S.). Police were regularly called in to
restore order but failed, as usual, to see
the long-term dangers.
All this activity caused award winning
journalist David Aaronovitch, who knew the
school well, to review the Satanic
Ritual Child Abuse Myth since the
1990s. He was astounded that a panic which
started in 1990 and which had been roundly
discredited numerous times, was still
going and causing serious problems 23
years later.
His research resulted in a now famous two
part BBC Analysis program titled 'The
Anatomy of A Panic' .
Aaronovitch looked into the entire
history of the Satanic Ritual Abuse
Scare and concluded that it was
all falsity created by hyper-vigilance
within fringe child-protection groups
and promoted by a clique of SRA
believers ensconced within child-care.
Anatomy of a Panic
was broadcast on 25th May 2015 and the key
players and RAINS activists who had pushed
the scare since 1988, ( some of whom had
given interviews in the programme ) ,
didn't like it one little bit.
Key RAINS activists who had pushed the
scare since 1988, and were interviewed
in the documentary, pulled out all
the stops to try to discredit the
programme.
Within days Aaronovitch's programme
received an official complaint from Sarah
Nelson and another from Tim Tate. Nelson,
a supporter of RAINS and consistent
promoter of the idea of Satanic Ritual
Abuse since 1988 was a member of the
Department of Sociology at Edinburgh
university and positing herself as a
specialist in Ritual Abuse. Nelson
officially complained to the BBC about
Aaronovitch's interview with her, but then
she went further, she published extensive
criticism of him with additional
vituperation in an internet blog for all
Satan Hunters to see.
https://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/a-response-to-bbc-radio-4s-analysis-programme-by-dr-sarah-nelson/
The Needleblog had been very active in
promoting the VIP hysteria, had backed
Carl Beech's case and had also earlier
carried articles by Tim Tate on VIP abuse.
It was a blog where many SRA believers
coalesced and swapped their ideas.
For good measure the same repudiation was
published on the website of Izzy's
Promise along with another scathing
attack on Aaronovitch over Anatomy of
a Panic, this time by Tim
Tate.
Many of the criticisms from the Satan
Hunters seemed to rely on impugning the
professionalism of David Aaronovitch and
he used barristerblogger's site here: to correct them in no unscertain terms.
Nelson's key complaint appeared to be that
she claimed Aaronovitch had mislead her
about the SRA content in the programme and
that she may not therefore have given an
interview had she known he was to focus on
it. In short, entrapment. But Aronovitch
knew Nelson was a key influencer in the
current and past promotion of the idea of
Ritual and Satanic Abuse who was
currently pushing the idea at home and
internationally. Surely he had a right to
question her about it? Apparently not as
her written complaint to the BBC Trust
went:
“I was not dealt with fairly
and honestly but deceived in terms of
what I was led to expect in
participating, and what I was assured
would happen, compared with the
broadcast content of these programmes.”
“I repeatedly sought and received
assurances both verbally and by email,
and as part of my agreement to
participate, that the programmes would
fairly reflect conflicting views and
evidence on this controversial and
sensitive topic...“I was not dealt with
fairly and honestly but deceived in
terms of what I was led to expect in
participating, and what I was assured
would happen, compared with the
broadcast content of these programmes.”
“I repeatedly sought and received
assurances both verbally and by email,
and as part of my agreement to
participate, that the programmes would
fairly reflect conflicting views and
evidence on this controversial and
sensitive topic...'
You will notice, if you read her full
complaint, reproduced in the BBC's
adjudication, that she is not accusing
Aaronovitch of factual inaccuracy but
appears to be whingeing about the
inclusion of criticism of Satanic Abuse in
the programme.
Her approach as outlined in her appeal to
the BBC complaints Trust was
rejected as unfounded by the Trust's
tribunal in December 2016.
Two months before Anatomy of A
Panic was broadcast Nelson had an
article published in the website for a
U.S.A. extremist Satan Hunter group called
S.M.A.R.T. [more on their lunacy later]
Nelson's article, implied that
the authorities in Scotland were WRONG to
believe that there was no abuse in the
Orkney and Ayrshire SRA cases which
occurred during the Satanic Panic.
So here Nelson is insisting,
25 years after these infamous Scottish
SRA cases had collapsed and been proven
false, that Ritual Abuse HAD existed
in the Orkney and Ayrshire cases. In
the case of Orkney the allegations were
proven utterly false in every respect and
after the extensive Clyde Inquiry
the great and the good in Scotland had
promised the public that lessons would be
learned and such mistakes would never
occur again.
This constant repudiation of reality and
historical memory is typical of
Marxist-Maoist 'struggle sessions'. By
drowning out reality with constant
re-interpretations and the stretching of
definitions whilst selectively quoting
misleading statements out of
context, the perception of history
is altered and so is the conclusion about
what really happened. The plan is to
plant the seed of doubt in the minds of
the undecided which in turn will cause a
conversion to the required point of view.
 The RAINS satan-hunters
have spent the last 35 years infiltrating
academe with articles ostensibly being
objective reviews of the historical
ramifications of the 1990 Satanic Panic
but which are really black-propaganda
designed to alter the conclusions made by
the courts and public inquiries of the
time so as to promote a belief in Satanic
Ritual Abuse. This enables today's radical
feminist Satan-hunters to portray SRA as a
patriarchal cover-up to oppress women. It
is being eagerly sucked-up by a new
generation who did not live through those
awful witch-hunts of the 1990s.
Ironically, many of them are right-winger
MAGA types who have no idea that the
conspiracies they rely on have been fed to
them by apparatchiks of the Left!
The SAFF of course is here to ensure that
the TRUTH about what has happened since
the 1990 Satanic Panic remains in view and
that the awful repercussions and suffering
that this evil myth has caused is
minimised.
The
Time Line On This Page Proves SRA is an
illusion
To
prove it to yourself, you will find
a complete timeline of ALL claimed cases
of Satanic Abuse since it was invented in
1988 along with the associated official
inquiries and their conclusions listed for
you plainly in the rightmost column. Click
here
to read this catalogue of errors and
ignorance:
Check it out! - By our count that is
34 major instances of FAILURE to prove
the existence of SRA in every single
case alleged, and every official
investigation and inquiry undertaken in
the past 36 years. For the radical
feminists to continue their war against
men this litany of malpractice MUST be hidden at all costs but the SAFF have
tracked and recorded it for decades and
they hate us for telling the Truth.
These 34 failures to prove SRA is not
our opinion it is INCONTROVERTIBLE
FACT and every detail can be
seen in the public records. Anyone who
contradicts these facts should be shunned
as an anti-social troublemaker.
Yet In March 2021 Sarah Nelson seemed to
blame those who had maintained that SRA
had NOT occurred in Orkney for the
'regular' sexual abuse of children in
cases that came later! In an article
for the CRFR website she wrote:
'The spectre of a huge
scandal against respectable families,
magnified by disinformation, dealt a
hammer blow to child protection social
work. Dramatic media language about
children snatched from their beds at
sunrise painted them as cruel
monsters, despite the timing and
conduct of the raids being one act
Lord Clyde did not criticise: “the
conduct of the workers was efficient
and supportive.” Although police and
social workers acted jointly
throughout, some right-wing media
hostile to social work but supportive
of the police painted a lasting image
of social work as entirely to
blame. The Orkney
case was so negatively publicised and
notorious that it had a prolonged
intimidatory effect on social work
action against child sexual abuse
(CSA) in particular. It was one
factor in the continuing decline in
identification of sexual abuse
through the child protection system
and children’s hearings
This rewriting of history continued in
2021 when Nelson presented another paper
entitled The Legacy of Orkney for
Child Protection, published by the
Centre for Research on Families and
Relationships (
https://www.crfr.ac.uk/the-legacy-of-orkney-for
-child-protection-2/ ) in which
Nelson insists that the social workers
involved did no wrong in Orkney and also,
for good measure, throws in an wholly
inaccurate statement about the 2003 Isle
of Lewis case. This is what she wrote:
The 2005 Social Work
Inspection Agency report on Eilean
Siar (Western Isles) analysed failure
to act on 222 official concerns about
three girls who faced severe abuse,
trafficking, violence and neglect. It
suggested one reason for the
prolonged attempts to engage with
the family rather than remove the
children, was the new children’s
legislation and the aftermath of the
Orkney Inquiry.'
Nelson implies that the true import of the
Isle of Lewis Satanic Ritual
Abuse case was hidden because the rush to
correct social services malpractice, after
Orkney, imposed new laws which disabled
the social workers from dealing properly
with the abuse found there.
She insinuates that the abuse in Lewis was
real and that the cowing of social workers
who believed in SRA in that case failed
the children.
This is a preposterous rewriting of
reality. The fact is that new social
service rules imposed after the scandal
of Orkney has SAVED the children. There
was absolutely no abuse at all in the
Isle of Lewis case, it was all entirely
a figment of the imaginations of Satan
Hunters in the local Social Services
Department. Predicated upon the lies of
a young girl. Not a single person
was prosecuted and the police dropped
all the charges!
Nelson seems to be suggesting that if left
to themselves, the social workers would
have sorted the matter out and confirmed
their suspicions of SRA. Yet social
work history is replete with the
unintentional harm which can be caused by
maverick social workers who believe in
this nonsense. The idea that they can be
left to police themselves is laughable, as
this extract below shows:
In 1973 there was an event
which sent shock and terror throughout
social work – it was the death of a
child, Maria Colwell who was at the
time under the care and supervision of
a social worker. It was followed
however by many, many more such
children – Jasmine Beckford, Tyra
Henry, Stephen Meurs to name but a few
and most recently, Victoria Climbie’.
There have now been almost 40
such incidents since
1973 where children have died while
under the care and supervision of
social workers. There have also
been other major inquiries such as
Cleveland/ the Orkneys / Nottingham
/ Rochdale and Shieldfield
[source: The Role of social workers – advocates or investigators” by Charles Pragnell, UCAAFAA. ]
Sarah Nelson's approach,
involving as it does a state of denial
about the Satanic Ritual Abuse hysteria
and a twisted view of the efficacy of
social work interventions, is
typical of the coterie of RAINS types
who have clung on to this ridiculous SRA
myth for three decades despite every
case they produce falling flat on its
face.
Yet earlier, on 1st March 2016,
Sarah Nelson published a vituperative
article which appeared in 'The
National' headlined:
Orkney, Ayrshire, Cleveland...
will the authorities ever learn
about child sexual abuse cases?
https://www.thenational.scot/news/14862414.orkney-ayrshire-cleveland-will-the-authorities-ever-learn-about-child-sexual-abuse-cases/
Why did Nelson come
out of the woodwork to write
this re framing of
Orkney?
Because 'The National'
had the month previously marked the
25th anniversary of the Orkney
Scandal with an utterly biased
article by Jean Rafferty
titled When evil visited
Orkney: Untold story of ritual
child abuse allegations on the
island.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/14862249.when-evil-visited-orkney-untold-story-of-ritual-child-abuse-allegations-on-the-island
For those who are unaware, 'The
National' is a SNP
supporting, left-leaning, Scottish
Nationalist propaganda mouthpiece
and rewriting history about scandals
involving the lack of protection for
Scottish children whilst Scotland
was under the control of Westminster
makes nice copy for them.
Rewriting history is a
key feature of those who
want to change the past. As
Orwell's '1984' clearly states:
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the
present controls the past "
These articles by Nelson
and Rafferty are not factual
reviews they are polemics and
entirely misleading to anyone
who did not live through that
awful panic. I
wonder how many
wet-behind-the-ears readers will
believe them? You
would think that no falsely
accused people and kidnapped
children were still alive to
give the nay.
Do you want to see what the
public and all other non-RAINS
observers thought at the time?
Then look at this extract from
Anthea Hall's summary of the
state of UK social work in the
Daily Telegraph of 7 April
1991
"Whereas at the end of the Cleveland inquiry, the reader
was no wiser as to which
abuses had or had not taken
place, Mr Justice Douglas
Brown was unequivocal.
After 47 days, he
condemned gross breaches
of good practice “on the
excuse of lack of
resources", leading
questions and interviewing
techniques which resulted
in "exaggeration and
fabrication” and concluded
there was no evidence
of ritual abuse and no
evidence of sex abuse
in all but one case.
It took Sheriff David Kelbie
less than two days to
dismiss the "flawed,
incompetent
Orkney case.
The children, he said,
had been "coached" into
giving statements, He
ridiculed the alleged
use of ritualistic music
- it could have been
anything from Kylie
Minogue to Strip the
Willow - and demanded
that the children be
returned home without
delay.
Now it is becoming as clear
to the. public as it was to
such politicians as MP
Stuart Bell in Cleveland and
Councillor Peter Thomson in
Rochdale - and the entire
population of South
Ronaldsay -
that the social services
can no longer be relied
upon as kind do-gooders
working with individual
deprived families to
help them to lead
reasonable lives.
 Want more?
We got plenty more!
Such as seething criticisms of idiotic outpourings from
RAINS in broadcasts, reports,
documents, inquiries, cuttings,
all saying much the same thing,
that SRA obsessed social
workers had converted
'orthodox' abuse into SRA and
even fabricated cases where
non existed.
'The SSI
inspectors last week spoke
to PAIN, the organisation
Parents Against Injustice,
about a dossier alleging that Rochdale social workers ignored
guidelines...the
Butler-Sloss report on the
Cleveland affair was
flouted..........In
particular, parents were:
.
- Denied a report of the full home assessment of their
circumstances.
- Not told of the allegations against them
- Not given advice on their rights or about how to obtain
legal advice.
- Denied the right to seek independent medical or
psychiatric opinion.
[source: Mail On Sunday 7th Oct 1990]
The only faith in
social workers appears to be the
arrogance of the faith they have
in themselves.
At the time there were hundreds of similar
articles in the regular press
which reviewed the history of
the false Orkney SRA case and
the mistakes that were
made. Occasionally the
Scottish media will actually do
their duty and report honestly
on the Orkney case and its
aftermath. This article
here; http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/real-life/orkney-child-sex-abuse-scandal-1099361
Is a good example where
the local Orkney GP who had to
cope with it all speaks candidly
about the errors in social work
and child-care. Dr Helen
Martini concludes that
'Dr Martini
believes social workers at
the time were influenced by
a then-fashionable American
theory of child-sex abuse
which saw satanist perverts
at every turn. She
said: "I don't think there
was any malice - an awful
lot of stupidity, but no
malice. I think the people
involved really genuinely
thought they were doing the
right thing. "They
genuinely thought we were
all satanists who were
abusing children."
She added: "The whole thing
was absolutely awful. The
kids were interrogated for
hour after hour, day after
day, week after week.
"People involved in child
protection and the whole
social work field are poorly
trained. Everyone goes on
courses and that's great.
'I've been on a two-day
child protection course so
I'm now an expert'.
"There's a total lack of
common sense. So 20 years
ago, I don't think there was
any malice - there was
just no brain.
"That's what worries me,
I think it could happen
again. Not the same
scenario - but the same
underlying problem.
Dr Helen Martini was
predicting a resurgence of SRA
hysteria in this interview which
she gave in 2011 ; and she
was right wasn't she? It
DID happen again in the Isle
of Lewis Case in 2003 and
the VIP abuse claims in
2015 and now again in the
Glasgow case in 2023.
Satanic Abuse will not die
because those moral crusaders
who believe in the phantom just
won't stop pushing it.
Another doctor on
Orkney, Dr D.H.S. Reid, a
consultant paediatrician, was
asked to look at earlier medical
examinations of the children
done by a doctor who worked for
Orkney SS. His diagnosis
was scathing. The first
prognoses, which were crucial in
condemning children and parents,
were ambiguous and
uncertain. The conclusions
of abuse made by the first
doctor could not be relied upon.
When Reid submitted his second
opinion to the Orkney Social
Services they ignored it!
And then the doctor who
had first examined the W
children threatened him
with a writ for defamation to
stop him publishing his
diagnoses!
Dr Reid was so incensed at the
malpractice and cover up in
Orkney that he wrote and
published a powerful book
on the entire fiasco 'Suffer
The Little Children'
( isbn1871479037 first
published 1992 )
in which he lays out the
obsessions of SRA hunters in
Orkney Social Services and how
they corrupted accepted rules
and fail-safes in social
work. It is a superb
insight into what happened which
is , we think, even more
informative than Lord Clyde's 82
page inquiry report. There are
hundreds of shocking points made
in Suffer The Little Children
but here's a salient one
considering the subject under
discussion.
'The assault by
the believers has not just
been on Mrs. Kemp. Sheriff
David Kelbie, Mr. Paul Lee
(the director of Orkney
social services), the
Scottish Secretary (Mr.
Malcolm Rifkind) and others
have also been attacked.
.... Let me give
one typical example.
It shows how Dr. Y's
medical report has been
much expanded and
embroidered by the
believers in the abuse.
In the Glasgow Herald on 14
December 1991 a Sarah
Nelson reported in a
letter to the editor that 'a
sheriff's proof hearing in
January 1991, established
'chronic penetrative sexual
abuse' on a small
child discharged home
without a hearing in 1989.
The truth is
that there never was a
court hearing in January
1991 and no court has ever
been asked to determine
whether any of these seven
youngest 'W' children is
or was abused.
Although now billed as an
academic on social work courses at
Edinburgh University Nelson started
out as a freelance journalist and
titled herself in that way in the
submission she made to Lord Clyde's
Orkney public Inquiry.
This double-barrelled
attack by Rafferty and Nelson in The
National is important not
just because of its faulty content
but also because of its
complacency. Perhaps they think
that the true facts about Orkney
are now so dimmed by the mists of
time that ridiculously untrue
assertions will go without
criticism? But the truth is
still there and the truth says
that Orkney was the worst
example of social work
bloody-mindedness in
history. Replete with
malpractice from SRA hunting
social workers who to this day
refuse to admit their
wrongs.
Were these articles in
The National meant to cause
doubt and a reconsideration or
were they designed to encourage
those who already believe in the
SRA conspiracy meme?
Perhaps, as Dr. Helen Martini
suggested, they were looking for
more 'people without brains'?
 Who
is Jean Rafferty?. Well
as you might guess from
reading this page so far,
she's part of the RAINS
SRA caucus. In "Ritual
Abuse in The 21st Century"
an omnibus of ridiculous
articles and essays on SRA,
which was published in
2015, page 320 clearly
states.:
Some journalist are
concerned about ritual abuse
and have written
intelligent and sensitive
articles. They include Andrew
Boyd, Beatrix_Campbell,
Nick Davies, Tim
Tate, Sarah Nelson,
Jean Rafferty ..
It is a roll-call of key SRA
fanatics from the Satanic Panic.
Andrew Boyd's
work on SRA was utterly
discredited here:
http://saff.nfshost.com/devilvid.htm
Beatrix Campbell's
work on SRA was challenged and
exposed here http://saff.nfshost.com/bcamp.htm
Tim Tate's work
on SRA was undermined here:
http://saff.nfshost.com/childrenforthedevil.jpg
Jean Rafferty's take
was challenged by none other
than Professor Jean La Fontaine
herself (she ran the
government's definitive inquiry
into SRA - including the
Rochdale and Orkney
cases). Following a
contentious article by Rafferty
in the Guardian on 22nd March
1997 titled 'Ritual Denial',
Professor La Fontaine had a
correction published in the
Guardian's letters page a few
days later and stated:
'I would welcome
the opportunity to correct
two points on which she
(Jean Rafferty) is quite
wrong. To try and correct
all the errors would take
too long.'
Nelson was apparently so
pleased at the articles in
The National that a
month later she lauded them in the
S.M.A.R.T journal issue 127
(2016), reproducing
both articles for the groups
extensive U.S. and international
Satan-Hunter membership.
Nelson writes:
Secondly,
like Jean Rafferty I and others
have over 25 years tried to
publicise suggestive evidence
that children were indeed in
danger. Particularly over the
Orkney case, we have tried to
correct untruths - in print, on
the BBC, in documentaries and
online - and point up the flaws
in the endlessly recycled and
invented theories by supporters
of accused adults, who allege it
was just "satanic
panic". [ source:]
Here Nelson illustrates that she is
part of an international clique (
S.M.A.R.T. = Stop Mind-Control and
Ritual Abuse Today ) which has
fought to get Satanic Ritual
Child Abuse accepted in
academic circles and social work
professions across the globe, for
three decades.
 All the
people mentioned so far make up
Satanic Abuse PLC. They
network with each other, nationally
and multi-nationally to pursue their
obsessions about SRA. In
Britain, and for three decades, most
things related to SRA coalesce
around these RAINS people. In
this programme (see illustration
right) for the 2020 Dundee
Satanic Ritual Abuse conference you
can see how far the international
spread of this caucus of SRA
believers extends. From Australia
there is Mike Salter, a
criminologist and rising star in the
RAINS firmament. See more of him
here, hugging another RAINS founder
Valerie Sinason: http://saff.nfshost.com/mikesaltersra.htm
From the US is the
madcap Neil Brick who runs SMART
and who believes he is an
involuntary CIA hit-man (shades of
the 'Manchurian Candidate').
Believing in SRA is not the
academic cul-de-sac you might have
thought. Is it any wonder
that SRA is still percolating
within social work with these
people consistently and constantly
working it up?
On 21st September
2001 a person pseudonymed
'Kali' wrote a report on attending
The Dark Side of The Rainbow,
a conference for all those in the
UK who still believed in Satanic
Ritual Child Abuse. The
conference was organised by RAINS
and attended mostly by RAINS
members. Kali stated:
I heard about the
second conference in this
country concerning ritual
abuse, organised by R.A.I.N.S. (
Ritual Abuse Information
Network and Support ) and the
Clinic of Dissociative
Studies, via my then therapist
who had just joined RAINS.
According to Kali's
report, Nelson and Rafferty not
only attended this Satan Seminar
but actually participated, she
wrote:
Sarah Nelson and Jean
Rafferty are journalists, Sarah
also conducts academic research
in child sexual abuse, together
they addressed the painful
feelings around coming to
terms with failing to
protect children and the
distortions spread around famous
abuse cases;
 Clearly
Nelson and Rafferty are colleagues
and part of the RAINS clique.
In their 2001 Satan Seminar they are
again challenging the conclusions of
Lord Clyde's Public Inquiry into
Orkney and other cases where false
claims of SRA were made. They and
most of the RAINS coterie maintain
that they were NOT false and that
the Orkney abuse claims were TRUE.
They are deluded.
Fast forward another 19
years and in the 2020 Dundee Satan
Seminar Sarah Nelson feels
confident enough to present a long
lecture on why Orkney should be
re-evaluated and seen as a real
case of SRA abuse. See the
illustration right for an
important extract, and note also
the mention of Tate's documentary
on the Cleveland Scandal (Death
of Childhood) which she
implies somehow proved her case
when SAFF's review of it shows
that it did exactly the reverse!
Sarah Nelson boasts
of writing to any publication or
broadcasting programme which
repeats the Truth that Orkney
was a false case worked-up by
Satan Hunters in social work.
She says that she 'always'
emails in, and indeed she was as
good as her word when she
complained to the BBC about
David Aaronovitch's Radio 4
Analysis documentary titled '
The Anatomy of a Panic' (see
detailed account of it elsewhere
on this web page) . This is
a continuation of the old crusade
which RAINS pursued during the
1990 panic. Then RAINS types
said that they had uncovered a
pan-global Satanic conspiracy to
abuse children and complained that
their evidence was being corrupted
by a Satanic campaign of
disinformation which caused others
in social work to be resistant to
'the facts'.
Satanists of the
kind that do this use
sabotage, threats, false
accusations,lawsuits and the
media for discrediting the
work. I have to deal with
permanent fear of attack and
overwhelming grief. Images
from children's cartoons are
deliberately exploited. For
example, one satanic group
wore Disney characters'
masks so that when a child
kept telling his mother that
Mickey Mouse had hurt him
she just dismissed what he
was saying as a nightmare."
[source:
Pamela Hudson
child-protection specialist
interviewed in Talk of
The Devil, Guardian,
November 4th 1990 ]
 This is
of course 100% conjecture.
There have been no real Satanic
Threats in three decades.
There have been a
few innocent fathers victimised by
social workers about Satanic Abuse
who snapped and threatened
violence but they were not
Satanists.
There has been no media
discreditation except where it was
richly deserved. See cutting
on the right.
There has been no lawsuits except
by patients who woke up to the
lies being implanted in their
memories by loony
therapists. See: The Woman Who Had
48 Personalities: http://saff.nfshost.com/DIDpsychiatricvoodoo.htm#50persons
Pamela Hudson does not of course
mention the instances where
patients have killed themselves
whilst undergoing Recovered
Memory Therapy linked to false
claims of Satanic Abuse.
See The tragic case of Caroline
Marchant here.
Nor does she mention the hundreds
of bemused parents who have had
their lives destroyed by false
claims of SRA from daughters who
have fallen into the clutches of
Satan hunting therapists who
implant false memories of abuse by
innocent parents. Some of them
just lost the will to live.
Even the Disney Mask
meme is unreal. It has been
repeated numerous times in
papers, books, and
presentations. Trotted off
the tongue as though it is
incontrovertible. Some
times it is a Disney Mask, other
times it is a Lion Costume, then
again it is an animal
Mask, yet in truth it is
all the out pourings of
children's imaginations
worked-up by obsessive believers
in SRA. There is not an ounce of
truth in any of it. There has
not been a single police
investigation involving SRA in
which abusers had used this Mask
idea or anything remotely
similar to it.
Local Reaction to
the 2020 Dundee Satan Seminar
So what did the local
Dundee newspaper do when faced
with this new Satan Seminar held
in their university in
2020? Why, just like in
1990 it gave the foolish
claims prominence as though
there was a scintillae of
truth in any of them.
Just as in 1990 it printed
abject unfact without question
and without referring to the
bulk of specialists in social
work who know the history and
dangers of SRA, and without
giving any representatives of
the Witch or Satanic
communities a chance to
repudiate the false claims
perenially made against
them.
This is how the SRA axis has
always succeeded, in a
goldfish bowl of their own
making, pandering to the
salacious appetite of the
mass media, on the back of
the prejudices of those who
think they are well-informed
but are actually utterly
ignorant.
In her article in The
National, Sarah Nelson
claims to have 'reassessed' (she
means 'denied') the official
conclusions about Orkney and she
says she has done so publicly,
yet, she complains, that it has
been given very little
exposure.
Like some modern day Canute she
stands in the shallows demanding
not only that the tide goes out
at her command but that
bystanders believe it will as
well! She expects others
to validate her foolish
standpoint which goes against
all available evidence, all
available testimony, all
available forensic evidence, all
available fact and every single
police investigation into
hundreds of cases of false SRA
claims.
Lip
Smacking - Satan-hating,
Masonic-hunting,
Vatican-detesting,
Mind-bending, Zionist-killing,
MK-Ultra, LOONIES!
Moreover if you use
this link to read Nelson's
boring and speculative nonsense in
full you will see that it is
enshrined in the American website
of SMART - one of the most lunatic
and reactionary conspiracy theory
groups on the internet which
believes in the full-blown CIA/FBI
- Five-Eyes - Satanic -
Freemasonry - Zionist-conspiracy,
Rothschild, New
World Order hatred; in
which a Jewish Elite is claimed to
be ruling the world using MK-Ultra
mind-bending techniques to turn
ordinary people into schizophrenic
Manchurian Candidates who kill on
command!
Yes, dear reader,
they're just BONKERS.
But the NWO conspiracy theory is a
haven for many schizophrenics and
paranoids who think they hear the
Satanic Illuminati talking to
them. These are undoubtedly
the types of people who are
populating Nelson's stable of
1650 victims of Satanic Abuse in
Edinburgh. Did you
watch flashing TV advertisements
last night? Then you've been
MK-Ultra-ed!
Nelson has not only
written for SMART but appeared
at their conferences. As
well as believing in SRA does
Nelson also believe in an
anti-Semitic trope about Jews
establishing a new world
order? . Is this the kind
of racist information that
the Scottish Educational
elite condones? Is it
being taught to students
there?
 As recently as the
23rd January 2022 a 'survivor
group' of self-styled SRA
'victims' planned a mass-march
of other self-styled SRA
'victims' and their supporters
to blockade Waddesdon
Manor near Aylesbury,
Bucks which was once owned by
the Rothschild family. The
blockade was to protest and
promote their 'truth' about
the New World Order
anti-zionist myth which has
gained new traction of late
with the war in the Middle
East.
The police got wind
of it, swooped and arrested
the ring-leader, one Jeanette
Archer, who for years has
claimed to be a victim of
inter-generational Satanic
Abuse and has lead protest
marches in London to falsely
accuse all and sundry of
it. Her own SRA story
has been proven totally untrue
(she even invented a sister
who was supposedly sacrificed
to Satan but who never existed
-
see here for full story:
).
Now don't for one
minute think that Archer is an
outlier. She is directly in
contact with many of the SRA
academics through the ESTD in
Europe and the USA. You can
see , from the screenshot to
the right that Archer is also
networking with S.M.A.R.T in
the USA. The same outfit
that Sarah Nelson and Laurie
Matthews works with. Yes
folks, belief in SRA is a
world-wide conspiracy. (
Remember you can double
click on each image to get a
larger version to read in
detail.)
On 15 July 2023
Archer hosted The
International Conference on
Satanic Ritual Abuse in
London with dozens of
delegates and speakers
attending from all over Europe
and the USA.
 The SAFF's
blow-by-blow assessment of
this conference
here:
http://saff.nfshost.com/archersatanseminar2023.htm
shows that the unhinged
people giving the
lunatic outpourings on the
podium about SRA are the
same type of people Nelson
and RAINS consider to be
genuine victims when
undergoing 'analysis'.
What has happened is that the
monster RAINS has created has
surpassed its controllers in
the feminist and therapist
arenas. This new breed of SRA
victim-imposters have simply
left their therapists
behind. So many fools
now believe in SRA that there
is no need for a therapist to
validate 'victims' , they can
self-identify as SRA victims
on-line, get validation and
support from 'SRA victim's
groups' on line and bypass
RAINS and the therapists
completely. 
Do not give your
moral support or sympathy to
these self-styled SRA victim
imposters, many of them are
nasty and evil racists. Almost
all of them are 'useful
idiots' to extreme political
enclaves. Just as they damn
and accuse Satanists they also
accuse Jews of drinking the
blood of children, the
original millennia old blood
libel.
And if you click this link
you can see a video of
Jeanette Archer stood
outside No.10 Downing
Street with her mob,
shouting about
blood-drinking child
abusing Satanists in the
British Government.
Are you aware,
dear reader, that the
New World Order myth
is actually taught by
Hamas to Palestinian
children in their
schools in Gaza as a
reality? Seeding
the murder of tens of
thousands in the minds
of the next generation
of terrorists?
Things which
have no basis in fact have
killed millions throughout
history - just look at the
death toll of the Church
witch-trials spanning the
13th, 14th and 15th
centuries. Defenceless old
biddies burned alive at
the stake to pacify the
Churches' hatred of
dissenters.
People who
believe in and
further the SRA myth
are NOT saving
children, they are
creating and
promoting inherent
evil which
will end up killing
thousands of
children, as it has
done throughout
history and
did recently in
Israel and
Palestine.
"The True meaning of
a thing always resides
in its opposite".
The paranoia of SRA is a
projection of the evil
within those who fear
they will lose control
and do those things to
children themselves.
Their warnings are pleas
to be stopped and that
is what the SAFF has
always known and always
highlighted.
 Academics
who pretend to know what's
what and consistently
breath life into these
horrific lies, are even
more guilty of these
horrors as the psychotics
and grifters who have
jumped on the SRA
bandwagon to grab the
headlines and feed their
own megalomania.
Nelson insists in her
article for The
National, that
Cleveland, Orkney and
Ayrshire cases were all
TRUE and that
everyone else got it
wrong. All the
judges, all the juries,
all the police, all the
public inquiries, they
all got it
wrong.
She fails to mention that
the Cleveland Parents were
awarded £850,000.00 in
damages in acknowledgement
of the wrongful kidnapping
of their children by
Social Services. Or
that the mother of the 'W'
children at the centre of
the Orkney fiasco was
offered £100.000 if she
admitted that her children
had been sexually abused
and REFUSED that
considerable sum because
she knew the social
services were trying it on
and the kids had not been
abused.
Nelson's Stalinist
like Revisionist logic
maintains that the
Satanic content of these
cases was worked-up by
the media itself and
overpowered the true
abuse which lay
beneath. She
infers that the true
work of ground-breakers
in social services
dealing with SRA was
censored and
misrepresented by the
mass media. Is that
true?
NO it
bloody-well is not!
Faery
Stories from Satan
Hunters - the truth of
how the British media
supported and promoted
the lies of RAINS
The SAFF's Research
Library has studied
the incidence of
published accounts
of SRA in the media,
both tabloid and
broadsheet, during
the Satanic Panic
and certainly
before the tragic
consequences of
the Rochdale
SRA case in 1991,
RAINS and other
pushers of SRA
had almost
carte-blanche to
state their case
with the media
hanging on and
believing in
their every
word.
See inset image
(right) of a two
full page special
on promoting the
'threat' of SRA
from the
Guardian newspaper
(Talk of The
Devil) in
which Valerie
Sinason founder of
RAINS is front and
centre. RAINS and
other believers in
SRA had two years
of being able to
promote SRA with
almost every
single newspaper
and media outlet
in the country
accepting RAINS
'expertise' on
trust. These
newspapers just
printed any old
tosh that
believers in SRA
claimed, without
challenge.
They just assumed,
as did every other
right-thinking
person, that
responsible
people, Doctors,
Therapists,
Psychiatrists,
Social Workers and
the like would never
claim such
things unless
there was good
evidence for it.
Double click on
the image and you
will get a
full-size version
of Talk of The
Devil to read
easily and you
will see how much
leeway RAINS was
given to spout
it's SRA
nonsense. It
is entirely UNTRUE
to say that the
world was
antagonistic or
that the Media
refused to accept
what people like
Sarah Nelson were
saying. The
SAFF Research
Library is literally
packed
with major
articles where
the British
Press supported
them.
What is
noteworthy about
this Talk of
The Devil article
in the Guardian?
The most
notable thing
is that there
is absolutely
no challenge
to any of the
SRA
allegations
made by Satan
Hunters.
The Guardian
abdicated it's
own journalistic
rules and did
not include ANY
responses or
countering
arguments from a
single expert
who thought
differently.
Representations
from Witches
and Satanists
wanting to
clear up the
misunderstandings
were simply
ignored.
Most other
national
newspapers did
the same. A
strong belief in
SRA within the
populace was
established by
these early
unquestioning
newspaper
reports which
could not resist
repeating the
mad claims. That
is what actually
caused The
Satanic Panic.
 Far
from being
antagonistic to
believers in SRA
the British
Press ensured
that the RAINS
clique had it
all their own
way, yet now
Sarah Nelson has
the cheek to
complain that
the cause of
their failures
in Rochdale and
Orkney was not
that they were
chasing a
fantasy, but
that the media
mis-represented
their case!
Weird.
If you look at
the Guardian
reports during
the early days
of the Rochdale
SRA case
(right- Satanic
Abuse Total
Grows) you
will see that
the newspaper
consistently
downplayed the
parents
complaints and
promoted the
conclusions
and statements
of social
workers,
in particular
Gordon
Littlemore,
director of
Rochdale Social
Services.
Littlemore's
actions in
supporting the
mad ideas about
Satanic
Ritual Abuse
held by his
staff in
Rochdale meant
that he had to
resign when the
truth came out
and the Rochdale
SRA allegations
were found to be
fiction. The
blame was
squarely laid in
court on the
shoulders of
crusading social
workers with an
obsession about
Satanic Ritual
Abuse.
In
fact the
Guardian
itself, in an
article
covering the
state of play
in the debate
after Prof.
Jean La
Fontaine's
1994 report (
which
concluded that
SRA was a
figment of the
minds of
obsessed
social workers
and
fundamentalists)
admitted that:
'But the
believers,
both patients
and
therapists,
can only
flourish and
publicise
their claims
in, a society
that is
prepared to
listen,
although they
constantly
complain that
the media has
offered
nothing but
callous ridicule,
it has in fact
granted
[believers in
SRA] prolonged
and respectful
coverage, and
not only in
excitable
tabloids.'
[Satanic
Verses,
Guardian
Weekend 10th
Sept 1994]
What
Really
Happened?
Saran
Nelson must have
forgotten what
actually
happened in
1991.
After the SRA
allegations had
collapsed
following the
Rochdale case
and then the
Orkney case was
found to be an
even bigger
mistake, the
media turned on
Satan Hunters as
perfidious.
Believers of SRA
have been in a
state of denial
over it ever
since. They
simply cannot
swallow the
fact that
their
contentions
were wrong,
their
allegations
false and
their
conclusions
bigoted.
They who
foisted SRA
onto Britain
were caught
out three
decades ago
but still seem
to be
pretending
that no one
spotted them!
Radical
Feminist Beatrix
Campbell attacks
Anatomy of A
Panic.
The
third complaint
against David
Aaronovitch's
and the BBC's
Anatomy of a
Panic
came in two
articles by the
journalist and
radical Marxist
feminist, Beatrix
Campbell, a key
figure in the
promotion of the
Satanic Panic
since 1989. ( see:
Small Selection of Claims Made By Beatrix Campbell" ) .
Her repostes were
hosted on the Open
Democracy
website, the first
being entitled “Analysing
Aaronovitch: -
has the scourge
of
‘conspiracists’
become one
himself?”
and the
second “Analysing
Aaronovitch: - a
skeptical
narrative.
Almost anyone who
had been prominent
in the pushing of
non-existent SRA
in the UK seemed
to be on David
Aaronovitch's
tail.
Tim Tate's
complaints to the
BBC were even
stranger. Tate is
a key believer and
promoter of SRA
from the Satanic
Panic
days.
He was the man who
researched and
produced the
ridiculous Cook
Report's
Devil's Work
special
which almost
single-handedly
kick-started the
SRA scare in
Britain.
Note: The NSPCC's
sensational
announcement that
their
child-protection
teams had found
instances of Satanic
Ritual Child
Abuse in the
UK was held on the
morning of the
17th July
1989. Of
course it was just
coincidental that
at 10pm that very
evening, the Cook
Report screened
its Devil's
Work
documentary. A
special hour long
programme designed
to expose what
they said was a
new found threat
of SRA to the
British Public.
Note also
that the Cook
Report had
originally been
scheduled for
broadcast a couple
of weeks earlier
at their usual 7pm
slot, but its
content worried
the Independent
Broadcasting
Authority
who demanded that
it be screened
AFTER the 9pm
watershed. Thus
it is clear that
the NSPCC's
announcement and
the Cook Report
coming on the
same day
revealed a
monumental
synchronistic
accident which
just happened to
maximise the
shock and horror
of their SRA
claims on the
same day!
Tim Tate's book on
the subject of Satanic
Ritual Child
Abuse titled
'Children For
The Devil'
(was based on the
research he did
for The
Devil's Work,
) but was
withdrawn and
pulped in 1991
soon after
publication, due
to libellous
inaccuracies.
See
http://saff.nfshost.com/childrenforthedevil.htm.
When Arronovitch's
Anatomy of a
Panic was
first broadcast
the SAFF was
disappointed that
in his interview
with Tate,
Aaronovitch had
not questioned him
about the many
errors in The
Devil's Work
including the fact
that of the 20
claimed SRA cases
Tate held as
having proven
Satanic Abuse NONE
had actually been
successful in
court. Every
single one of them
failed to be what
the Cook Report
had told the
British nation
they were. NSPCC's
own claims of
having 6 of their
child protection
teams dealing with
cases of SRA was
also an untruth.
None of those
cases were found
to be true either
when they got to
court. It was all
just
hyper-vigilance.
You might say that
the Satanic
Panic was
the most
horrendously
successful hoax
ever broadcast to
the British
people.
David
Aaronovitch's
replied to the
SAFF stating that
Tate had told him
that he was
'just the
researcher on a
flawed show'
but SAFF knew that
the entire
programme had more
or less been the
brain-child of
Tate and he was
involved in
editorial control
of it. He
says as much in
his book Children
For The Devil.
He was there for
most of the
filming, was
responsible for
the research that
justified the
programme, liaised
and interviewed
most of those who
appeared in it,
and sometimes
directed the
cameras (for
instance he was
found directing
the use of a
hidden camera when
trying to film
outside the Sorcerer's
Apprentice
Bookshop
when Cook tried
and failed to
doorstep Chris
Bray, his patsy).
Tate did not say
that his show 'was
flawed' when
he defended the
programme at the Broadcasting
Complaints
Commission
hearing, on 6th
December 1990.
According to Mr
Chris Bray, the
bookshop owner who
was defamed by
Tate and Cook as a
villain in the
programme but who
had absolutely
nothing to do with
any form of
child-abuse. Mr
Bray was invited
to bring the
complaint against
the Cook Report
after hundreds of
his loyal
customers
spontaneously
wrote in to the
BCC to complain.
Mr Bray attended
the formal BCC
hearing in London,
at which Tate was
also present and
took a major part
in defending it.
Bray recalled:
'Tate appeared
to be fighting
for his
professional
reputation'
and did most
of the talking
during the
hearing from
the Central
Television
side. I called
him out for
several
inexactitudes
and once for
stating a
crucial
untruth about
me which when
tested by the
adjudicators
he simply
could not
back-up.'
One of Tate's
specific
complaints to the
BBC about Anatomy
of a Panic
was that Tate's
promotion of the
idea of SRA had
been
misinterpreted by
Aaronovitch to
show him in a bad
light in reference
to a specific
quote in an
interview Tate
gave to Radio
Leeds the day
after the Cook
Report's Devil's
Work was
broadcast.
Aaronovitch asked
Tate about him
implying on air
that there was a
world-wide
conspiracy to
abuse
toddlers,
According to the
BBC's Tribunal
ruling, this is
how the transcript
of Tate's
interview with
Aaronovitch went:
In the
interview
David
Aaronovitch
cited a quote
which the
complainant
(Tate) was
said to have
given at the
time of The
Cook Report to
BBC Radio
Leeds (the
relevant
section is in
bold):
DAVID
AARONOVITCH: I
believe you
were
interviewed
about the Cook
Report – the
day after it
was shown. Is
that correct?
[TIM TATE] If
you say so.
I’m afraid
it’s twenty
... no it’s
the best part
of thirty
years ago, so
... I’m afraid
my memory
isn’t that
good.
DAVID
AARONOVITCH:
...You were
asked about
... what
appeared to be
an extremely
bizarre
phenomenon.
And then you
said, “Well
you either
have an
international
conspiracy of
toddlers,
which is
extremely
unlikely,or
some rather
more
intelligent
adult
organisation
doing it.”
And that
seemed to give
credibility to
the notion of
a much bigger
conspiracy of
I don’t know
what you’d
call them –
Satanists,
occultists,
ritualists or
whatever –
abusing
children.
[TIM TATE]:
You’re
right, I don’t
remember the
quote. It
doesn’t
actually seem
an
unreasonable
... quote if
it ... That
said, it was
slightly
clumsy, and I
think we have
to be careful
about the word
“conspiracy”.
David Aaronovitch
did not challenge
Tim Tate's answer.
Why Tate would
choose that
specific point to
complain about is
kind of weird for
David Aaronovitch
was perfectly
correct. That's
precisely what
Tate had said,
and he said it
more than once.
In fact the SAFF
has a complete
audio-recording of
that Radio Leeds
Interview and we
don't know how
Tate could have
possibly forgotten
it as he was being
interviewed
alongside Mr.
Chris Bray whose
Bookshop Tate had
unfairly targeted
as the 'patsy' for
his discredited Devil's
Work
documentary.
The head-to-head
was highly
emotional and
combative as Mr
Bray was naturally
incensed at being
falsely accused in
front of 9 million
viewers! The
interview ended up
somewhat of a
shouting match in
fact. Not
something anyone
could ever forget
easily and to
assist your
understanding of
the SRA circus we
have uploaded it
in full to our
SAFFutube Channel
here so that you
can listen to
Tate saying it.
Moreover, Tate
had used his 'conspiracy
of toddlers'
quote on OTHER
occasions.
Was he really
trying to imply
that he didn't
remember using
it? The
illustration
(above right) is a
transcript of Tate
quoting the 'conspiracy
of toddlers'
meme again three
months later on
19th Sept 1989 to
hundreds of
thousands of
listeners on the BBC
World Service!
Did he forget that
one as well
perhaps? 
To cap it all,
Tate also used the
quote ' A
Conspiracy of
Toddlers?
as the title of
the first
chapter of his
1991 book Children
For The Devil.
(see image to
the right)
Clearly Tim
Tate must have a
very poor memory
indeed don't you
think?
Children for The
Devil was,
soon after
publication,
withdrawn by his
publishers for
factual
inaccuracies,
but still exists
in many Satan
Hunter
bibliographies as
a supposed
source-work of
insider knowledge
on SRA even though
copies are now
rare.
So does Tate still
back up his failed
'Conspiracy of
Toddlers'
claim?
Interestingly in
early 2021 an
Irish
conspiracyloon by
the name of Angela
Power Disney who
has a large
satan-hunter
following and
produces podcasts
on SRA over the
internet, managed
to obtain an
original copy of
Tate's Children
For The Devil
and began
narrating it in a
series of weekly
podcasts. Tate was
apoplectic to get
her to stop as of
course she could
have easily
breached the
defamation
agreement Tate's
publisher signed
with the Detective
Inspector whom
Tate had rashly
libelled over
claims of SRA and
thereby open up
another
writ.
Amusingly for
observers,
Power-Disney
suspected that
this person on
Twitter/X who was
demanding that she
stop podcasting
the book was not
Tate but a
Satanist trying to
stop dissemination
of true SRA
secrets! You
can't beat SRA
paranoia
folks! We're
not sure how Tate
solved this issue
but it opened him
to Power-Disney's
eclectic SRA
hunter network and
there's sporadic
flaming and
repudiation of the
extreme ends of
the SRA myth all
over their social
networks, where
Tate is subjected
to the paranoia he
himself helped to
create!
How exquisite.
 At
the other end of
the scale, in 2014
the august European
Society for
Trauma and
Dissociation
published a
lengthy article
promoting the idea
of a conspiracy of
Satanic Ritual
Child Abusers to
its international
membership base
and Tate's
book was
included in the
bibliography
(see image). Note
that Alexis Jay, a
prime mover in
child-protection
and who chaired
the UK
government's 6
year inquiry into
Historic Abuse
attended the
ESTD's annual
conference in 2017
as an observer.
In these two
opposite events we
have a good
example of why SRA
will just not
die. Clearly
Tate not only
believed in his
'conspiracy of
toddlers' meme
but actively
promoted it at the
time. It must have
convinced a lot of
onlookers.
Why on earth would
he now complain to
the BBC about
David Aaronovitch
pointing this out
in Anatomy of
a Panic?
Did Nelson and
Tate have genuine
reasons to
complain against
Aaronovitch or was
this simply a case
of the SRA lobby
turning on an
influential
leftist journalist
who had gone
against their
narrative?
 The
many entries in
the SAFF's
Research Library
records shows that
Tate was more
responsible than
most for hiking
the 1990 Satanic
Panic. Does he
really want to
distance himself
from The
Devil's Work
and its excesses?
This distancing
could have begun
quite early on if
this letter (reproduced below)
is anything to go
by.
Interestingly,
despite the
continuing
antagonisms twixt
Tate and Bray, by
June 1990, Tate
was passing
follow-up interest
on the Devil's
Work back to Chris
Bray. On 19th June
1990, Jean Ritchie
(author of many
books on crime and
the psychology of
crime) wrote to Mr
Bray for
information for a
new book on
Satanic Abuse
which she had been
commissioned to
write. This was
how her letter
went:
"I
initially made
contact with
Tim Tate (I
did not see
the Cook
Report, but
had heard
about it and
was referred
by their
office to Tim
Tate.) He
agreed to see
me, and gave
me several
names
connected with
two religions,
paganism and
Satanism. He
explained to
me that there
had been a
problem with
the programme,
in that it did
not
differentiate
between the
two
sufficiently.
However, he
said that
whatever bad
feeling exists
between him
and you, I
should make
every effort
to contact you
as he believes
that you are,
in his words,
'the most
intelligent,
the most
sincere and
the best
informed
person on the
subject".
So
according to Jean
Ritchie here we
have Tate,
admitting that The
Devil's Work was
at fault for not
drawing a
distinction
between Witchcraft
and Satanism.
Yet that was
entirely the
backbone of the
assertions in it
and today 34
years later
those same
untruths are
also integral to
the failed
Glasgow SRA case
David Aaronovitch
told SAFF that he
couldn't find a
copy of Tate's The
Devil's Work documentary to
view. Had he asked
us we would have
pointed him to
video extracts
from it which have
been up on the
SAFF's Youtube
channel for the
past seven years.
Click here to see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37FlWtg0Kzo
Do
you want to know
more about Tim
Tate's activities
in promoting the
Satanic Ritual
Abuse Myth? Read
on:
Laura's Story:
The saga of a
little child
exploited by
unscrupulous
media to sell
the Myth of
Satanic Ritual
Abuse.
As time moves on,
the insupportable
weight of Truth
completely and
utterly destroys
what these
promoters of SRA
claim.
 Like
the little girl Laura
whom Tate featured
being 'exorcised'
in church in The
Devil's work,
(included in the
video extracts in
the SAFFutube link
above) who, years
later, when she
had become an
adult and escaped
social services
domination,
contacted the
SAFF to complain
about how SRA
believers had
ruined her life
based on lies
and sectarian
suspicion.
Now married with a
child of her own
she told us in
detail how she was
exploited by the
Cook Report who
made money out of
her suffering. It
was Satan
Hunters who
tortured her,
not Satanists!
Tate expanded on
Laura's
'suffering' as
evidence of the
existence of SRA
in his deplorable
book, Children
for the Devil,
but you would
never have got to
know that it was
all entirely false
had the SAFF not
published her full
story here: http://saff.nfshost.com/childrenforthedevil.htm
(scroll down
the page to
'LAURA'S STORY' )
Tate should be
rushing to
apologise and
correct his misuse
of her story, but
it appears he is
more interested in
criticising David
Aaronvitch.
For his part if
David Aaronovitch
had liased with
the SAFF he could
have put these
points to Tate in
his interview.
Others wrote to
the BBC Trust to
make an official
complaint. One was
Dr Sue Hampson,
who runs Safe
To Say Training
which is
headquartered in
Edinburgh (EH3),
and specialises in
training officials
in the Scottish
child-care system.
Her Website boasts
she will:
Build
staff capacity
and quality of
response to
adult
survivors of
Childhood
Sexual Abuse
(CSA) within
existing
agencies.
Train
front-line
staff in all
sectors to be
more confident
in dealing
with adult
survivors who
disclose CSA
and
Train
supervisors
and managers
supporting
staff working
with
disclosures.
Raise
staff
awareness of
the challenges
parent
survivors may
face.
On this page: https://safetosay.co.uk/training/
you can also see a
list of
testimonials from
Early Years
centres, Victim
Support Staff,
North Ayrshire
Social Care
Team, Health and
Community Staff
in Edinburgh
and many more
Scottish groups
and people who
presumably may
equally be taught
that Satanic
Ritual Abuse
exists and is a
problem?
 Sue
Hampson's
complaint about
Aaronovitch's
programme was also
carried on the Izzy's
Promise
website alongside
Sarah Nelson's. As
you can see
Aaronovitch was
under concerted
attack from key
players in the SRA
believers' camp.
He replied to
these Satan
Hunters in no
uncertain terms,
in a widely read
legal blog which
you can read
here:
which speaks for
itself.
Eventually the BBC
tribunal came to
its long-awaited
decision which
was to entirely
support
everything David
Aaronovitch had
done in Anatomy
of a Panic and
reject the
complaints and
appeals of Tate,
Nelson and
Hampson. In
England at any
rate the Satan
Hunters had lost
that round
The
Anglo-Scots SRA
Believers' Axis.
So from 2009
whilst the English
courts and Police
were dealing with
an avalanche of
false allegations
related to VIP
abuse the exact
same thing was
occurring in
Scotland in a kind
of separate
goldfish bowl. The
local Scots didn't
appear to make the
connection with
what was ongoing
south of the
border. Almost all
of it was sourced
to the works of
RAIN's members and
supporters. None
of it had any
basis in fact.
There was no
evidence to
support any SRA
claims. Just as
there has never
been any evidence
to prove the idea
of Satanic
Ritual Child
Abuse.
 By
this time Robert
Green and those
pushing the false
Hampstead SRA
allegations on the
internet were
swapping
information and
giving each other
support.
One of the main
players in the
false Hampstead
SRA allegations,
which had
motivated David
Aaronovitch to
look into this
madness, was the
activities of
Belinda McKenzie.
The photograph
to the right
shows McKenzie
standing with
Robert Green
during a protest
in front of a
British Court
proving the
link between
false claims in
Scotland and
false claims of
SRA in England
and elsewhere
(remember, you
can double click
on these images
to get larger
versions to read
in detail)
Her later trial
for contempt in
the case of Sabine
McNeill (another
key promoter of
the Hampstead
lies) is covered
in this detailed
analysis here:
https:
hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/belinda-mckenzie-trial-11-january-2019/
The
police arrested
McKenzie from the
public Gallery in
court after she
was found
uploading
information to her
SRA supporters on
the internet. The
McNeill trial
ended with
Sabine McNeill
being sentenced
to 9 years in
prison for
stalking and
other offences
related to false
claims of SRA.
Robert Green's
connections with
Joan Coleman and
her English
coterie of RAINS Satan
Hunters cannot be
refuted. When
Coleman died in
2018 Robert
Green wrote a
glowing 'official
obituary' of 'his colleague' and her
SRA exploits. He concluded how
history will
eventually prove
her right about
SRA (!)
Green
explained how
he had been in
constant
contact with
her and had
obtained the
Helen G list
directly from
her.
He was obsequious
about his and her
conjoined belief
in Satanic
Ritual Abuse.
This was one of
the last things
Green did for he
himself died on
11th April 2019
after a short
illness.
Furthermore, in an
attempt to
influence
Operation
Conifer
(the much
criticised
Wiltshire police
investigation into
Edward Heath)
Green said he
had contacted
Mike Veale (the
then Chief
Constable of
Wiltshire) who
was running the
inquiry. Green
claimed he had
sent Veale a
copy of
Coleman's Helen
G List sometime
in early 2017
along with
ancillary
information on
SRA.
Green
wrote as
though he
was in
regular
correspondence
with Veale
but the
true
nature of
their
contact has
yet to be
understood
as has the effect it might have had on the police inquiry itself.
 The
conspiracy of
activity of
Coleman, Green and
other Satan
Hunters in
pressing false
claims of satanic
abuse is
completely ignored
by police and the
courts as though
they are
cranks. The
real danger to
society and the
negative effects
on the functioning
of Justice is
ignored. Paltry
sentences are
given to
SRA vigilante
troublemakers and this encourages them to go further.
It is only when,
after being
enthused to
become Martyrs by
the very system
they are wanting
to destroy which
continually slaps
their hands
instead of cuffing
them, they gain
strength and infamy amongst
their clique with
every arrest. They
wear ASBOs as
badges of pride,
and can go on to commit
really dangerous
acts of spiritual
terrorism such
as the
fundamentalist
SRA hunter gang
which kidnapped
an 8 year old
child at
knifepoint and
tried to spirit
him away into
Europe, never to
be seen again.
Wilfred Wong,
the ring-leader
of this kidnap
gang had spent
three decades
prior to his
criminal acts
promoting the
idea of SRA
including
working with
RAINS, until
armed police
caught him in a
motorway chase
and the courts
banged him up
for 19 years
(full story here
http://saff.nfshost.com/wilfredwongkidnap.htm)
The authorities
never take SRA
hunters seriously
until they've
spent years
infecting other
sectarian
extremists with
the same nonsense
who then
constantly enlarge
the pool of
unreality. There
is therefore
nothing to
dissuade these
Satan Hunters from
their mania.
Because of that
they have
continued to
thrive and do
their worst over
three decades.
Robert Green
stated that he was
contacted by
Coleman after his
imprisonment for
Breach of the
Peace in Aberdeen
prison
(Craiginches) in
2012 (where he had
been incarcerated
for stalking and
harassing many
falsely accused
people and VIPs)
but there is
evidence that
Coleman was
already in contact
with the
Hollie Greig lobby
as early as 2011
for at that time
the RAINS
supremo was
contributing
articles on
Satanic Abuse to
Carl Sims magazine
'Namaste'.
Coleman's article
'Satanic Ritual
Abuse' (see
image to the
right) contained
defamatory lies
about people
involved in the
first-wave of the
1990 panic but
Sims refused to
remove the
untruths,
declaring his
absolute belief
that SRA existed
and that Coleman
knew what she was
talking about.
Coleman makes many
false assumptions
and statements of
unfact in her
article, which had
appeared elsewhere
in RAINS
literature before
Namaste
republished it,
but one section is
of particular
interest where she
writes:
'Some
courageous
journalists
such as Tim
Tate, Bea
Campbell, Sarah
Nelson and
Jean
Rafferty
have tried to
expose ritual
abuse but they
are a
minority...
Clearly
admitting to the conspiratorial links behind the scenes.
Sims was a major
player in
the Hollie
Greig
clique. He worked
with Green and is
rumoured to have had a
relationship with
Hollie's mother
Anne Greig.
Is it just by
chance that this
coterie of Satan
Hunters coalesced
around
Aberdeen?
Many of Hollie
Greig's supporters
lived in and
around Stonehaven,
a coastal village
9 miles south of
Aberdeen. Most of
his victims lived
in or around
Aberdeen. Note
that a crucial
early Scottish
Satan Seminar
had been held in
Aberdeen in
1989, with
Maureen Davies,
director of
Reachout Trust,
speaking.
There was a
follow-up Satan
seminar in
Aberdeen a year
later which
influenced the
Orkney SRA case.
Did Green attend
either of those
lectures by
Reachout we
wonder?
The
Reachout Gang
of
Fundamentalist
Troublemakers
 These
early Satan
Seminars were set
up by Christian
Fundamentalist
vigilantes,
prominent amongst
which was the Reachout
Trust .
Anyone from the
local Christian community was
invited to come to
listen. This
included Christian
social workers,
Christian
policemen and
women, Christian
doctors and plain
old
bible-thumpers.
Once established,
there was a
cross-over with
'professional'
secular
conferences of
social workers and
child charities
where Maureen
Davies would speak
as an 'expert' on
SRA.
Maureen Davies was
an advisor to Tim
Tate's Cook Report,
The Devil's
Work.
She also handled
the 'help-lines'
after the
programme. Yet she
was first and
foremost a
director of the
Christian
fundamentalist
group Reachout
Trust.
Audrey Harper who
also appeared in
Tate's The
Devil's Work
- is a
fundamentalist
bible-thumper and
another director of Reachout,
though the Cook
Report never told
viewers that when
interviewing her
on camera.
Her false
allegation about
all
Witches being
Lesbians and
Satanists being
homosexuals,
sort of gave it
away.
Rev. Kevin Logan,
a fundamentalist
Anglican
vicar, was
also a director
and speaker for Reachout.
Later he
would campaign
against Sunday
trading and got
arrested for
vandalising a
supermarket Sunday
opening
banner.
In March 1987
Logan announced
the results of a
thoroughly
duplicitous
research he had
undertaken by
sending
questionnaires out
to fourth formers
in Church of
England schools
asking for
responses to their
leisure
interests.
Discounting the
fact that most 5th
formers would
simply have fun
lying, in Logan's
questionnaire an
interest in such
things as 'Heavy
Metal or Rock
Music' or
'Meditation'' or
'Yoga' was
interpreted as
involvement
in 'Occultism'.
By
this duplicitous
method he was then
able to claim that
he had statistics
to prove that 87%
of children had
some form of
contact with the
Occult and were in
danger from it!
On 15 March 1988
Logan's campaign
against the Occult
had become so
influential that
Geoffrey Dickens
MP quoted Logan's
faux 87% statistic
in the House of
Commons to
convince other MPs
that there was a
threat to children
from Witches and
Satanists!
His disinformation
was also covered
elsewhere, on LBC
radio etc.
Lord David Alton
mentioned it in
his column in the
Catholic
Universe. "
A recent survey
found that 87
percent of young
people in
Britain admitted
to dabbling in
the occult
before the age
of 14. So what
has triggered
such a
disturbing and
ominous trend?"
Yet the statistic
was meaningless.
Just because 14
year olds have a
passing interest
in magical things,
mostly generated
by the mainstream
media which pushes
Harry Potter and
Superhero images
as well as
promoting
children's books
on The Worst Witch
etc, it does
not mean that they
are on a descent
into
Hell!
Later in 1988
Logan took
it upon himself to
challenge the
growing interest
in Paganism, ( a
newly
reconstructed religion
for modern
times ).
He wrote a book Paganism
and The Occult which
was his polemic
against the
'dangers' of
Paganism and
Witchcraft.
The book was an
appalling
collection of
trite suspicions,
illogical
conclusions and
unsafe assumptions
which were used to
bad-mouth
Neo-Paganism and
defame it in the
eyes of outsiders.
As such, today it
would be seen as
what it was,
sectarian
hatred.
One notable point
is that Logan had
unfairly singled
out The Sorcerer's
Apprentice
bookshop in
Leeds for
criticism in his
book. In fact
references to the
Sorcerer's
Apprentice were
replete within it
to the exclusion
of other sources.
Readers may
remember that
Roger Cook falsely
accused the owner
of the Sorcerer's
Apprentice
bookshop in
The Devil's
Work and
used Logan as a
source whilst
filming him in the
documentary.
Logan
was also
involved in
attempting to
erect a giant
crucifix on
top of Pendle
Hill in
Lancashire
(more on
Pendle later)
, and was not
averse to
dissembling
over SRA when
on 19 March
1990 he gave
an interview
on Satanic
Abuse to LBC
radio in
which he
claimed that
the NSPCC had
evidence of
children being
sacrificed in
Satanism.
Clearly that
was a
dastardly
untruth which
the NSPCC
itself denied.
Logan
and Reachout
Jumped on the
Rochdale Case
Bandwagon.
The Rochdale SRA
case broke three
months later in
May
1990.
By September that
year, even though
it was becoming
abundantly clear
that there were
big problems with
the Rochdale
claims, Logan was
still banging his
SRA drum. See 'Dark
Shadows'
cutting above).
The police
finally
concluded their
investigation
into Rochdale
saying that
there was no
proof of Satanic
Child abuse
there, In March
1991.
Until then
speculation was
rife and Logan
with other
Reachout activists
were making hay
with defamatory
publicity against
Pagans and
Satanists.
The Sunday
Telegraph
article Dark
Shadows that
Hang Over
Rochdale's
Children
shown above,
features Logan
pushing the idea
that there was
some SRA activity
in the Rochdale
case. This was
just one of many
similar articles
and interviews
Logan and Reachout
activists gave at
the time all over
the country.
 On
14th March 1991
Logan and Reachout
director Audrey
Harper, together
created
scaremongering
publicity about
Witches in
Burnley. The Pendle
Citizen; newspaper,
with the headline:
'DANGER ZONE
- Former Witch
says Pendle is a
centre for the
occult.'
Harper claims to
have been a witch
who converted to
Christianity. (a
claim we very much
doubt going by our
review of her life
story and
her abject
ignorance of
Witchcraft
tradition and
liturgy.
After all, she
thinks they kill
and eat babies!
You can
read about '
Dance with the
Devil' here:
http://saff.nfshost.com/audreyharper.htm
)
In
the DANGER
ZONE newspaper
article Harper
tells tall tales
of witchcraft and
Satanism based
casually on the
historic
Lancashire Witch
Trials of 1612 in
which the brooding
bulk of Pendle
Hill featured and
which has been
used for years as
a tourist draw by
'witchy' gift
shops in Sabden,
Lancs .
Who has not heard
of the dreaded
Pendle
Witches;
Demdike and
Chattox? Yet
the Pendle Witches
( executed 1612)
were NOT Witches
at all. They
were recussant
Catholics
persecuted
following the
Reign of Queen
Mary. During her
tenure Bloody Mary
had tried to
reverse
Protestantism in
England using
terrible tortures
on the Protestant
population to do
it, but after
Elizabeth I took
the throne the
tables were turned
and recusant
Catholics were
persecuted
instead. This
created quite a
few 'Witch Trials'
which did not
involve Pagans or
witches but did
involve Catholic
dissenters and
there are
monuments to
Catholic Martyrs
who were killed
for their faith
all over England
at this
time.
Audrey
Harper blames
Witches in Pendle
because she is an
ignorant sectarian
bigot.
Nowhere is this
more evident than
when you realise
the Reachout
Trust was
pushing these evil
lies whilst the
Rochdale Satanic
Abuse Case was
ongoing at the
time, just
28 miles away from
Pendle, without
any empathy with
the children taken
into care or the
parents fighting
for their
innocence!
 On
the 11th March
1991, three days
earlier,
Rochdale Police
had concluded
that there was
absolutely no
evidence of
Satanic Abuse in
the Rochdale
case or anywhere
else in England
and Wales .
The Pendle
Citizen's
shock-horror piece
on imaginary
threats of Satanic
Abuse in
Lancashire was
probably being
penned by
journalist Kirsten
Stokes at the very
moment that the
Police officially
concluded SRA
didn't
exist!
Yet Tim Tate has
the gall to deny
in his 1989
interview with Radio
Leeds that
The Cook Report
was not part of a
fundamentalist
Christian
conspiracy!
He probably means
HE wasn't a
conscious part of
it - he just let
them do their
worst, good telly
eh?
Satanic
Ritual Abuse
was the biggest
sectarian
con-trick in
history.
The first 'SRA
Survivors' were in
fact adult
Christian
activists
witnessing to God
about the
existence of Devil
Worship in today's
world. Soon these
sectarian liars
who often had a
back story of
street-preaching
were appearing on
the podiums at
'official' satan
seminars at which
ordinary Christian
social workers and
police attended
and 'learned' of
the existence of
SRA. The
sectarian malice
of the fundie
extremists was
hidden behind a
veneer of
scientific and
psychiatric
authority and
sucked-in by
shocked nominal
Christians. I
mean, they're
Christians, why
would these people lie?
The
malefic
fundamentalist
influence on
Scottish SRA
cases...
This is of
course
exactly
what
happened
in the
Orkney
case but so
few people
actually
know the
details.
It is as
though it
has been
hidden
from the
public for
decades.
Today the
SAFF
outlines
it all
and
reveals what
really
happened below and you will be shocked to see how the UK Justice System
could be so easily corrupted.
A group of
evangelical
activists primed
Orkney with the
Satanic Ritual
Child Abuse Myth several
months BEFORE
the first
Ronaldsay case
occurred.
There is
absolutely no
doubt that this
priming was part
of the hysteria
generating
activities of the
wicked Reachout
Trust.
The cutting on the
right clearly
proves that the
seed hysteria
about the
existence of
Satanic Ritual
Child Abuse on
Orkney was learned
by the Baptist
Minister Francis
Gordon who
had attended
Reachout
Trust's second
Satan Seminar
at on SRA at
Aberdeen
University in
1990.
There is
a direct
correlation
between the
evolution and
generation of the
Satan Myth in
Scotland and that
Aberdeen seminar.
See proof in the
rare news report
on the right, and
the associated
Timeline in the rightmost column.
Christian
activists who
stir the pot are
a component part
of every SRA
case the SAFF
has investigated
and indeed the
Glasgow case is
no exception for
an active
church worker
was the key
witness
relating to
claims of
Satanic Ritual
Child Abuse.
How the
fundies
hi-jacked
child-protection
in Orkney
Elsewhere on
this web-page
we relate
Christian
extremist
Maureen
Davies'
involvement in
the Orkney and
Rochdale
scandals, in
particular the
crucial part
she played in
injecting
false SRA
claims into
Scotland
through the
Aberdeen
Seminar she
held in
November 1990
at which
fundamentalists
from Orkney
attended to
learn how to
diagnose SRA
in children
and adults.
Frances Gordon
a leading
evangelist and
member of the
Baptist Orkney
Christian
Fellowship,
travelled to
Aberdeen to
attend Davies'
Satan Seminar.
As well as the
fundamentalist
contingent,
100 clerics
and social
workers
attended the
seminar which
took place in
Aberdeen
University's
lecture
theatre. The
crucial influence of
OCF on the SRA
hysteria in
Orkney will be
discussed
below.
Watch the
dates! The
family at the
core of the
Orkney scandal
was Family 'W'
involving 7
children who
had been
overseen by
the Orkney
Social
Services as
far back as
the early
1980s. The
original
allegations
were that
their father
physically
abused them
and he was
imprisoned for
it in 1986.
No mention of
sexual or
Satanic Abuse
was involved
at that time.
Once in the
hands of
Orkney SS the
kids were
interrogated
constantly by
social workers
until claims
of
'conventional'
sexual abuse
occurred and
their father
was found
guilty of
incest in
1987, long
before SRA
became the
latest thing
in social work
circles. .
After the
successful
prosecution,
and with the
father out of
the way, there
were
recommendations
for the
children to
then be
returned to
their
mother.
A Case
Conference was
held by Orkney
SS on
17th.July 1989
(the day the
NSPCC issued
their press
report
confirming the
existence of
SRA in the
UK).
The lobby of
SRA believers
in Orkney
social
services
for some strange reason deliberately
opposed the
decision to
return the
children to
their mother (The
Times: 15th
February 1993
) and
instead,
social workers
then redoubled
their efforts
to find SRA
in the case, subjecting the
children to
intensive
‘disclosure
therapy'.
Sample
of Media Headlines resulting
from NSPCC Presser on SRA
The
Times:: NSPCC says ritual child
abuse is rife;
The
Independent: Children abused in
bizarre sex rituals
The
Guardian : NSPCC uncovers
'satanic' abuse
Independent:
A satanic litany of children's
suffering;
Newcastle
Journal: Helplines Set up for
Child Occult Victims.
South
Wales Argus. Christian Crusade At
Satanic Threat
Evangelical
Maazine: The Nightmare We Refuse
To Believe
Western
Mail: Church War on Satanic Plan
Yorkshire Evening Post:
Devil Worshippers: Dossier of Horror
Stories.
|
From
the Clyde
Inquiry it
seems that it
was at this
point that the
clique of
Social Workers
in Orkney
began to
impose their
beliefs about
Satanic
Paedophile
Rings onto
what had been
a 'regular'
case of
physical and
sexual family
abuse.
This is pretty
good evidence
to show that
the UK wide
hysteria
generated by
the NSPCC's
fateful July
17 Press
Conference,
helped create
the Orkney SRA
case.
Prior to July
17th 1989,
claims of SRA
had been
prominent in
the tabloid
media but
treated
cursorily by
the
Authorities.
Within social
work circles
it was seen as
'the latest
thing' and
child
protectionists
had been
secretly on
the warpath
over SRA since
the Broxtowe
Case in
1987. On
July 17th all
that altered
for the NSPCC
held it's
London press
conference on
SRA declaring
that 7 of its
66 child
protection
teams were
dealing with
cases of
Satanic Ritual
Child Abuse in
the UK. At
9pm that
evening the
Cook Report
just happened
to broadcast
its
long-heralded
documentary
exposing
Satanic Ritual
Child Abuse to
11 million
viewers across
the UK .
and that day and for the rest of the week papers across the UK were
carring wall-to-wall banner headlines about Satanic Ritual Child Abuse
being a threat to all British children.
This NSPCC
Press Release
was crucial to
the start of
the Satanic
Panic in the
U.K. We
have
reproduced the
Press
Association's
official
report of it
in full in the
rightmost
column here.
But the actual
Press Release
sent to newspapers was far more
shocking,
originally
involving
claims of
babies being
sacrificed in
Microwave
Ovens! A
claim which
was quickly
deleted,
however other
shocking
claims of
Satanic Abuse
were
transmitted
across the
land and were
on everyone's
lips.
 Of
course we now
know that this
was untrue and
that
the
NSPCC
had no
firm
evidence
of the
existence of
SRA
and they themselves redacted any mention of Microwave Ovens.
The NSPCC's actual 'research' on SRA
amounted to
sending out
tick-box
questionnaires
to their 66
branches
asking them if
any of the
'Satanic
Indicators'
were present
in cases they
were dealing
with.
Six branches
replied saying
they had some
cases which
had 'signs'
that SRA might
have occurred
; and that is
all the NSPCC
needed to jump
on the SRA
bandwagon and start a national panic.
We still
do not know
how these
'signs' were
defined but
they are
likely to have
involved
'indicators'
invented by
radical
feminist
witch-hunters
in the US
which had been
recently
imported and
which included
so many things
that ordinary
kids did as
part of
growing up
that it
virtually
guaranteed
almost any
child would
come out with
a high
'Satanic Abuse
score' and be
taken into
care!
Ridiculous
things; such
as making
farting noises
and
laughing;
or pulling off
the arms of
dolls ( see
Indicator list
to the right
and inset
below - double click to get a large version to read).
Later the
NSPCC had to
publicly
apologise for
making such
sensational
statements on
such trivial
evidence but
this
illustrates
that a
hard-core of
SRA believers
in child-care
throughout the
country, who
had been
networking
with each
other about
SRA were
chomping at
the bit to be
the first to
expose this
shocking (if
imaginary)
threat to
children.
What
was it
that
had
convinced the
Orkney
SS team
that
the W
family
were
involved in a
Satanic Ritual
Abuse
ring?
Why
did they
get
caught up
in the
hysteria at exactly the same time that the NSPCC announced it?
Look at the
timeline! It
followed a
year long
tsunami of
false claims
at Satan
Seminars
throughout the
UK and in
Scotland, at
which RAINS
and Reachout
Trust
combined their
poisonous
lies.
The
public
didn't
see
this
campaign
as the
seminars were
all
closed-shop
events
to
indoctrinate
social
workers,
police
and
medics
to be
on the
look-out for
SRA,
but SAFF
did. The entire social work industry was chomping at the bit to
hunt down imagined Satanic Abusers and it was the NSPCC which fired the
starter gun.
There had been
FIVE
conferences on
SRA in the
first seven
months of
1989. The
first one in
Aberdeen
was in October
1989 but there
was one a
month earlier
in Devil
Town (Dundee).
where
Norma
Howes
&
Pamela
Klein
(two
early crusaders who pushed the idea of SRA). Ms Klein was the one whose
Expertise on 'Satanic Abuse' was subsequently dismissed by a Judge in a
Trial in the U.S.A. in 1991 who said that Klein was 'not a legitimate
therapist'. She wasn't but earlier that year she involved herself
in the Epping SRA Case which made headlines across the press but turned
out to be so palpably weak that it was thrown out by the judge when it
got into court - all the evidence was utterly unreliable! No change
there then. Howes and Klein organised the
conference on
Satanic Ritual
Child
Abuse in Dundee in Sept 1989 at
which
Maureen
Davies, another infamous pusher of the SRAmyth, was
also invited to Dundee to help.
Davies
arranged for
David
Woodhouse from
Ellel Grange
to give a 'Christian
presentation'
of the Satanic
Abuse
'problem'.
Ellel Grange
is a wealthy
Christian
fundamentalist
group which
specialises in
de-programming
and
identifying
SRA victims
from people
who go to them
for help with
'regular'
mental
vulnerabilities.
They have
produced some
notable SRA
victim-iimposters
They were
responsible
for convincing
poor Louise
Etherington to
falsley claim on
camera that
she had
satanically
sacrificed her
new-born baby
in a channel 4
documentary
called
Beyond
Belief (see
here for
details)
but
Etherington's
false claims
were soon
debunked by
national
newspapers
days
afterwards.
She was just another
pawn in the
hands of the
sectarians
pushing the
SRA myth.
As you can see
God's warriors
could be found tilling
fertile ground
in Scotland
and were
heavily
invested in
injecting
their
sectarian
poison into
the country
during 1989,
and probably
well before
that, for the
threat of SRA
was first
announced by
Geoffrey
Dickens MP in
the House of
Commons in
April
1988. He
had been
'conditioned'
into believing
SRA existed by
the same
clique of
Satan Hunters from The
Reachout and The
Childwatch,
child
protection
group.
The Daily Mail
reporter found
Dickens'
initial allegations in
the House to
be so far-out
he reported it
with
amusement,
little
realising how
deadly and
serious this
first-shot in
the
fundamentalist
campaign to
persecute
Pagans
actually
was, nor that it would create a witch-hunt that would still be ongoing in Glasgow 37 years later.
This tsunami
of allegations
about SRA in
the summer of
1989 , ignited
by the NSPCC's
rubber-stamping
of the reality
of SRA,
created
hyper-vigilance
in Social
workers. Is
this why they
then subjected
all the Orkney
children to
further
intensive
‘disclosure
therapy',
securing
another
half-dozen
vague
statements
about abuse to keep the pot boiling?
The social
workers in
Orkney were
scheduled to
return the
children to
their mother
in July 1989
and the Orkney
Childrens'
Panel appeared
to think there
was no real
impediment to
doing so, but
the social
workers
involved
became locked
in a
long-running
dispute with
the Childrens'
Panel
concerning
further
assessment at
home, and on
31st. October
1990, the day
before
supervision
orders on the
children were
to be revoked,
they found a
'new' reason
to take the
children into
care......the
RSSPCC
interviewers
secured from
three of the W
children, during
more than a
hundred hours
of ‘disclosure
therapy' nine
more
children's
names whom
they indicated
had been
Satanically
Abused and
this lead to
dawn lifts of
the other 9
kids, and
their parents
being falsely
accused of
ritual child
sexual abuse.
So
the social
workers, who
had been
convinced that
Satanic Ritual
Child Abuse
existed on the
island
following a
heightened
hysteria about
the
possibility of
Satanic Abuse
by the
activities of
RAINS, the
Reachout Trust
and backed by
the NSPCC, saw
the W family
as a classic
case of SRA even
though they
had been in
their care
since the
early 1980s
without a
single mention
of ritual,
Satanism, the
occult, or
witchcraft!
Obviously
something was
seriously
wrong in the
Orkney Social
Services
department.
How wrong it
all was played
out over the
next few
months.
Let's recap:
At the precise
time that the
NSPCC backed
the Cook
Report and
ignited the
Satanic Panic
the SRA
hunters in
Orkney
conflicted
with the
Orkney
Childrens'
Panel and
refused to
send the W
children home.
Instead they
repetitively
interrogated
them for over
100 hours
until the W
children came
out with
bizarre
fantasies
which the
Orkney SS
Satan Hunters
believed to be
indications of
SRA and which
nicely
incriminated
other innocent families
on Orkney,
who just
happened to be
the exact ones
who had tried
to defend the
Mother of the
W family from
previous
unfair social
services
persecution.
In short the
Satanic Ritual
Abuse claims
in Orkney
began in July
1989 right at the
start of the
Satanic Panic.
A month later in October
1989 Reachout
held their
first Satan
Seminar in
Aberdeen.
Maureen Davies
gave a Lecture
on Satanic
Ritual Abuse
to the Church
of Scotland
Study Group in
Edinburgh.
In October
1990 she
attended the
second Satan
Seminar that
was designed
to promote SRA
in the minds
of Scottish
social
workers, in
Aberdeen.
Charles
Fraser who
worked as a
social worker
on the W case
was a member
of the Orkney
Christian
Fellowship and
was involved
in the lifting
of child SW
from the W
family in
November 1990.
The mother of
SW had taken
him to the
Manse where
Fraser traced
them and so he
went there to
take SW into
care. The
Reverend
Morris
McKenzie who
lived at the
Manse was not
there but his
wife said she
could not let
Fraser and a
policeman in
to get SW as 'the
lock had
jammed'.
Effectively child SW
was given
'sanctuary'
from the
Orkney SS.
 As
the false SRA
allegations
ran wild
following the
children being
taken into
care, Reverend
McKenzie just
happened to
become one of
those falsely
accused at the
centre of the
accusations of
Satanic
Rituals. How
convenient for
believers and Orkney Social Services department!
The Satan
hunters in the
Orksocial
work
department
were scheduled
to return the
children to
their mother
in July 1989,
the social
workers
involved
became locked
in a
long-running
dispute with
the Children's
Panel
concerning
further
assessment at
home, and on
31st. October
1990 (co-incidentally at Halloween!), the day
before
supervision
orders on the
children were
to be revoked,
they found a
'new' reason
to take the
children into
care......the
RSSPCC
interviewers
secured from
three of the W
children,
during more
than a hundred
hours of
‘disclosure
therapy',
nine more
children's
names whom
they indicated
had been
Satanically
Abused.
Orkney Social
Workers said
the kids had
said that
Reverand
McKenzie
conducted
ritual dances
in black robes
in a quarry
and then
Satanically
abused them
after hooking
them with a
Crook. (sigh)
This was
of course
completely
untrue but it
seemed that
anyone who
contradicted
the obsessive
believers in
SRA in Orkney
SS soon became
denounced as a
suspected
Satanic
Abuser.
When Charles
Fraser was
questioned
about his
involvement
with the
evangelical
Christian
lobby he told
the Clyde
Inquiry:
'Mr Charlie
Fraser
experienced
some publicity
in respect of
his own
religious
beliefs which
sought to
present him as
a Christian
zealot
fighting
Satanism which
did not
accurately
represent the
character of
the alleged
abuse nor his
own individual
attitude to
it.
A
more complete
story of
Charlies
Fraser's
membership of
the Orkney
Christian
Fellowship and
one of it's
prime movers,
Baptist
minister
Frances
Gordon's trip
to learn about
Satanic Ritual
Abuse at the
1990 Aberdeen
conference,
appeared in
the Sunday
Times 17 March
1991.
A
sub-article by
Stewart Lamont
inset on the
same page
covered the
fundamentalist
history of
Orkney
together with
an account of
the
internecine
conflicts
there between
the Church of
Scotland and
the torrid
Christian
fundamentalist
activity then
competing for
souls. The
impression
given was that
Christian
sects on the
Island
appeared to be
outbidding
each other in their piety to the Lord.
Journalists
John Rowland
and Stewart
Lamont, tried
to interview
Charles Fraser
but 'Fraser
was not
available for
comment'.
However
Francis Gordon
was located
and told
the Times:
“I
went [ to the
satan seminar
in Aberdeen ]
because it is
something that
is coming more
and more into
the headlines.
If it was
going to cross
my path, I
wanted to know
what was being
said, so I
went.”
'Gordon left
his church in
Kirkwall, the
island’s
largest town,
to join more
than 100
clerics and
social workers
in an Aberdeen
university
lecture
theatre.
Together they
sat through
two days of
lectures given
by Maureen
Davies, a
fundamentalist
Christian and
self-appointed
“expert” on
ritual and
Satanic Abuse.
'Davies,
described by
critics as the
founder of the
“British
Inquisition”,
was in
Aberdeen to
spread her
vision of
satanic abuse
which she
believes is
rampant in
Britain.
Gordon
listened as
Davies talked
about “Satanic
Indicators”
among children
which, she
says, are
sure signs of
abuse'
This could have only been the same 'list of Satanic indicators'
which were passed to the Team 4 in the Broxtowe Case and
distributed amongst SRA believers.
The Rousay
Mass exorcism of
Children
Four months
earlier, in the
summer before
Francis Gordon
attended that fateful Aberdeen Satan
Seminar,he was
involved in
helping to
organise a
' children's camp'
on the Orkney
Island of Rousay
for 40
youngsters, aged
11 to 13, which
went radically
wrong when
fundamentalist
Baptist
preachers
tried to
exorcise
children and
subjected them
to mass
hypnosis
prayer
sessions,
talking in
tongues and
other extreme
fundamentalist
methods which
caused some
kids to
collapse,
suffer
permanent
trauma and
recurrent
nightmares.
When the
children got
home they told
their parents
who complained
officially to the police
and an
investigation
into what
happened began.
'It is alleged
that children
returned from
Rousay
frightened and
withdrawn.
Parents
reported
personality
changes which
in some cases
required
psychiatric
treatment and
counselling by
orthodox
Church of
Scotland
clergy. Trevor
Hunt, Church
of Scotland
minister for
the parishes
of Evie,
Rendall and
Firth, said: “There
seem to be
satanic things
under every
stone, and
that would fit
in with how
these
charismatic
groups
behave.”
H.
Sprange, a Baptist
minister from
Dunbar lead bible
classes at the
Rousay camp. When
the children
returned home,
they told parents
the full story of
what happened in
classes lead by
Sprange. They
alleged that
classmates:
'Fainted as
Sprange
preached to
them;
Fell into
trances under
hypnosis
induced by
Sprange;
Fled the
Rousay
schoolroom in
fear as other
children
collapsed
around them;
Suffered
nightmares
about Hell and
Satan;.
Watched as
Sprange spoke
in
unintelligible
languages,
which he later
explained was
“talking in
tongues”, a
form of
prophecy which
extreme
evangelicals
believe is a
form of divine
intervention.
This
cult-like
mind-control
was clearly
genuine ritual
child-abuse
but the
police
investigation
resulted in no
prosecutions.
Despite this
being clear
evidence of
the mass
hysteria over
Satanic Ritual
Abuse which
had been
created in
England and
imported into
Scotland by
Reachout,
RAINS etc. the police
refused to
prosecute any
churchman for psychologically torturing the children.
Even more
strangely no
mention of the
effects and
influence of
the Rousay
summer camp
bible
ceremonies was
made by the
Orkney Social
Services. Why?
There can't
have been a
resident of
Orkney who did
not know what
had happened.
The scandal
was known
across the
Islands, the
40 children
would have
told their
schoolmates. Maybe
the W children
had soaked-up
their
fantasies
about
Witchcraft and
the occult
from such
tales and this
might have
easily
corrupted
their memories
or
imagination?
But as
usual, the
fundies were
given a quick
pass. They
were
Christians!
They meant
well didn't
they? Why
would they be
he cause of
any harm? Why indeed.
The
Orkney SS
eventually
roped in poor
old Reverend
McKenzie as a
Satanic abuser
for dancing
about singing
in his
surplice and
using a
ceremonial
Crook to
corral the
children?
In his
evidence to
the Clyde
Inquiry
Charles Fraser
implied that
his
evangelical
view of the
world and the
activities of
his group the
Orkney
Christian
Fellowship did
not play into
a belief in
the Orkneys
that SRA
existed.
Wasn't the
false
implication of
the Church of
Scotland's
Reverend
McKenzie
suspicious for
a
start?
In a climate
where rival
churches were
apparently
conflicting
and competing
for
authenticity
and souls in a
market as
small as the
population of
Orkney.
According to
the Times
report there
was animosity
between some
Christians on
Orkney. In a
report from
the Daily
Telegraph on
17 September
1991 Fraser
was quoted
saying:
'Asked what
the police
were looking
for, Mr
Charles
Fraser, a
social worker,
replied:
"Anything
related to the
case, to the
allegations...
clothing,
symbols of
abuse a cloak,
a crook, that
sort of
thing."
But when
giving
evidence in
the Clyde
report
Constable
MacLaren said
about the
lifting of the
H children and
how the police
searched their
home, Mrs H
went upstairs
with WPC
MacLaren and
dressed.
Constable
MacLaren came
on some horror
novels in the
bedroom but
did not remove
them. She
had been
instructed to
look at any
books relating
to unusual
practices.
[6.28]
This
sort of
hyper-vigilance
is how
a
Dennis
Wheatley Novel
became
'evidence' of
Satanic Ritual
Abuse
in
Orkney. A
fictional
novel
about
witchcraft
which
had sold
in the
millions of
copies
to
anyone
who
liked a
good
story
was held
as
being
sufficient evidence of
Satanic Abuse to incriminate an innocent person and destroy their life!
I mean, did
they really
think that
these shocking
exorcism rites
and talk of
the Devil at
the children's
camp did not
get broadcast
across all
schoolchildrens'
minds in the
relatively
tiny community
in Orkney?
Did this
fundamentalist
generated fear
also become
fixated in the
imaginations
of the W
children and
the other 9
kids taken
into
care? It
certainly
seems to have
penetrated
into the minds
of the Orkney
Police.
Clearly the
Satanic Panic,
which first
began in the
Baptist and
charismatic
evangelical
churches of
the U.S. was
having an
impact on the
small
population of
Orkney at the
precise time
that the W
case was being
turned from an
'ordinary'
case of abuse
into a case of
Satanic Ritual
Child Abuse,
yet astonishingly none of
this came out
in the Clyde
Inquiry.
The inquiry
into the 1990
Ayrshire SRA
case found
that Social
Workers
worked-up
Satanic
content by
indoctrinating
children they
believed were
at risk, see
cutting
(right).
For a time two
key social
workers on the
case, June
Gardiner and
Lyn Gilmour
were under
investigation
because of
errors of
judgement.
This
progression
can be seen in
ALL the key
cases, Orkney,
Ayr, Lewis,
Rochdale,
Nottingham,
Epping etc.
Find a case of
suspected
'regular'
abuse in one
family, snatch
the children,
interrogate
them until
they
accidentally
fantasise some
bizarre things
and then use
that to
incriminate
neighbour's
and extended
family for the
SRA
inquisition. This
is precisely
what happened
during the
witch-trials
of the 14th
and 15th
centuries.
Those who do
not remember
the past are
condemned to
repeat
it.' - Santayana
Of
course it was
all
hyper-vigilance
from a clique
driven by
feminist
ideology to
confirm their
worst fears.
During the
35 years of
the SRA myth,
there has not
been a single
case of SRA
successfully
prosecuted
through the
courts in
Britain.
From these
early false
SRA cases
believers in
RAINS
developed
their
'Demonology'
of SRA and
began teaching
it and
distributing
it to every
other
hyper-vigilant
social worker
who listened.
The lies RAINS
promoted are
virtually
endless. The
SAFF has a
list of all
the Satan
Seminars and
SRA
conferences
held during
the 1990s and
there were
dozens of
them, all
across the UK
and plenty of
them in
Scotland. In
Dundee, In
Aberdeen, in
Edinburgh, in
Clwyd, in
Reading, in
Birmingham,
Nottingham,
Cardiff,
Manchester,
Birkenhead,
London,
Harrow,
Harrogate,
Bolton, York,
Sheffield, and
many, many
more.
RAINS ever
present,
influencers of
academe and
Lynch-mob
vigilantism.
Joan
Coleman was the
psychiatrist who
had in 1988 jumped
on the embryonic
1990 Satanic Panic
and inaugurated
RAINS (The
Ritual Abuse
Information
Network Services
) along with
Valerie Sinason
and several other
key players, to
act as a
dissemination
point for the
promotion of the
idea of Satanic
Ritual Child Abuse
across therapy,
psychiatry,
police, NHS,
Social Services
and Media.
RAINS'
opinion was
inevitably sought
and quoted in
numerous articles
and interviews
during 1988-1990
until the cases
they had supported
began to collapse.
RAINS members were
irrevocably
involved in every
single case of
claimed SRA in
this country
during the Satanic
Panic, but not one
of their claimed
cases turned out
to be true. Not
one of them was
proven. Not one of
them was
successfully
prosecuted through
the courts.
Even
so, RAINS became a
highly influential
hub of ideas,
falsehoods and
impromptu
validation which
kept the myth of
SRA simmering for
years even after
the governments'
1994 La
Fontaine report
which, after
having had access
to ALL records and
video interviews
of the children in
the claimed cases
involving 86
children across
the UK, had
concluded that
there was no
Satanic Ritual
Abuse in any of
the cases which
occurred during
the Satanic
Panic and which
Coleman and
RAINS had
backed.
Here,
courtesy of the
SAFFutube channel
you can hear
Coleman trying to
refute the
conclusions of
Professor La
Fontaine's report
even though it had
been fully
accepted by the
government. There
was no such thing
as
Satanic Ritual
Child Abuse it said, but
by 1994 RAINS
had pinned its
colours to the
mast of a
sinking ship and
could not
abandon it. Best
to simply carry
on saying black
is white. I
mean, who would
ever challenge
them? They only
have the best
interests of
children at
heart you know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quBJy0Ndb8Y
The
Scottish and
English
judiciary, and
their respective
police forces
were obviously
ignorant of the
actual
networking going
on, not only
between English
and Scottish SRA
activists and
the Scottish
scion of RAINS
(RANS) but also
between them and
even dafter SRA
hunters in the
U.S. They were
being played
like the
proverbial
fiddle In short,
the situation in
Scotland was
largely created
by the very same
clique of
believers who
started the 1990
Satanic Panic
in the U.S. and then the U.K. and it is still
going on today.
Spurred on by
the
controversy
over the
Glasgow 2023
SRA case it is
only a matter
of time before
these SRA
hunters create
more false
cases in
Scotland,
which will
also fail and
bring the
Scottish
courts and
police into
disrepute. At
that point
maybe even the
Scottish
people will
begin to see
they're being
made fools of.
By Tony Rhodes
and John
Freedom,
Imbolc 2025.
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Scottish
Witch-hunt mentality is deeply 'Institutional'
What is it about Scotland and
Witch-Hunts?
Who is responsible for this waste of
resources and continual injustice? THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT,
that's who! It is the Scottish government which has allowed,
nay PROMOTED this state of affairs. This clique of obsessed
Satan Hunters in Scotland have, literally, made a life-long
career out of a sectarian phobia and the Scottish Government
has helped them do it.
Despite their many claims to 'diversity' they glibly allow
the religion of Paganism to be repetitively mis-represented,
defamed and insulted in court in the 2023 Glasgow SRA case .
It makes you wonder just what level of scholarship is
actually occurring in other Scottish universities apart from
Edinburgh and Dundee . Is SRA
included in their Social and Political Science courses?
Degrees in Presbyterian Bible-Thumping, Sectarian Bigotry
and Vigilante Mob tactics perhaps?
Then, as if to show how
monumentally eclectic Scotland's Leaders are, right in the
middle of the police investigation into what the BBC
headlined as ' Eleven on trial over child sex abuse
and witchcraft in Glasgow'
the International Women's Day people organised a petition
to PARDON SCOTTISH WITCHES. It was, they said, time to
correct the errors made in the 16c 17c and 18c and
pardon all women accused of Witchcraft because it is now
clear they were falsely accused and persecuted by a
sectarian Scottish Legal System.
Let's run that again:
Nicola
Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland at the time, gave a
public apology for unjustly torturing and killing
Witches at the same time that her police force was
mounting a Witch-Hunt to do it again. You really
couldn't make this up could you?
One of those named in the Glasgow trial indictment was
Maureen Goudie. The namesake of Isabel Gowdie, from Nairn,
one of the most renowned Scottish witches. who was brought
to trial in 1662. What a synchronicity! Witch-hunting back
in Scottish courts 360 years later in 2023! There is
already a monument to Isabel Gowdie's memory in Auldearn
near Nairn. Gowdie became famous because 'she had
confessed to using a broom for flying and transforming
herself into a hare. ' This is particularly interesting
considering the claims in the court indictment at Glasgow
High Court that the accused in the 2023 case used rituals
to make the children think they had changed themselves
into animals, in one instance a wolf.
'It is alleged all the accused forced two
children to participate in seances, used a Ouija board
to convince the children they could “communicate with
spirits and demons”, and made them participate in
classes involving witchcraft causing them to believe
they had “metamorphosed” into animals on various
occasions between 2016 and 2020.[Glasgow
Indictment]
Same old Same old! The image below;
shows how easily Social Workers fall for this guff. When
the boy being questioned during the 1991 Rochdale
SRA case (
See here: ) spoke about 'eating cats'
he was referring to his favourite meal of animal
pasta! He used to pick out the cat shapes first
as he liked those best! Instead of listening to
him the Anti-Satanic Crusaders in Rochdale social
services deduced he had actually been eating real cats.
It is stupidity of this kind that hallmarks cases where
fundamentalist social workers seek validation of their
own horrific beliefs.
Are we saying that Mediaeval
Witch-hunting is still alive and well in the racial
memory of Scots? That Scots are predisposed to believe
in the Supernatural? YES we are.
For a roundup of how Witchcraft hysteria has regularly
swept through Scotland and caused an estimated 4,000
unnecessary deaths
read this: Scottish Witch Hunts And How The Nation
Went Mad:
The North Berwick Witch
Trials - It is not history, it is legacy
The first mass witchcraft hysteria to
hit Scotland was the despicable trials of the supposed
North Berwick Witches. It was started and overseen by
the uber-pious and wickedly fundamentalist King James VI
of Scotland, in 1589. North Berwick is only 30 miles
from the city of Edinburgh and it is interesting to
note that there are still Witch and Satan Hunters
being supported and promoted in the university of
Edinburgh today!
Based on this 1589 travesty of justice,
involving Witchcraft mania during which at least 70
people (some sources say nearer 200) were put on trial
and tortured. Many of them were executed for Witchcraft.
James concluded that a storm at sea
off North Berwick which nearly killed his Queen, who was
en-route, had been whipped up by supernatural agencies!
Records of the trials are replete with
idiotic and fantastic statements which could not
possibly have happened, such as that witches sailed off
in a giant sieve, (Edward Lear watch out!) but these
hapless innocent people went to their deaths all the
same.
A few years later, in 1597, the smug
James having piously killed dozens of innocent Scots,
turned to personally authoring his terrifying sectarian
hand-book 'Daemonologie' which was a completely
fictitious idea from his own tiny mind of what he
thought Witches did. It was in fact a religious and
political call to a crusade. It was the
superstition and mad witch-hunting activities of
James VI that underlay Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'
(first published in 1623) and which play was quite
probably also influenced by the sensational
confessions of Isobel Gowdie of Nairn which came out
in 1622
Confessions during the North Berwick
Witches trials mention 'the adventure in the sieve'
which is mentioned in Macbeth. In the opening scene of
the play,
Shakespeare's First Witch cries
“But in a
sieve, I’ll thither sail
And, like a rat without a tail,
I’ll so, I’ll do, I’ll do”
At which point they promise to conjure up a
storm.
'Demonologie' asserts James’s full belief in
magic and witchcraft, and aims to both prove the existence
of such forces and to lay down what sort of trial and
punishment these practices merit – in James’s view, death.
The book is divided into three sections: the first on
magic and necromancy (the prediction of the future by
communicating with the dead), the second on witchcraft and
sorcery and the third on spirits and spectres.
Source:
It is undeniable that the Scottish mind,
or at least the minds of those who have ruled Scotland,
were obsessed with imaginary tales of Witches and Devils
and Spirits; and they were willing to believe any
supernatural bunk to confirm that belief.
One would have thought that in this modern world we
would all have outgrown that nonsense but the 2023
Glasgow SRA case is yet another indication that they
have not. I wonder if the RAINS clique is playing on
this predilection of the Scots to believe in Witchcraft?
James, The King of the Scots (from 1603 also King of
England and Scotland) helped to cement institutional
sectarianism against not only Pagans and Witches but also
any other dissenters.
In 1611, eight years after his ascension to the throne of
England, James VI (then James I of England) brought out
the King James Bible. Due to its unmitigated psychotic
language it is still today, 400 years later, the most
preferred mistranslation of the bible for Protestant
activists.
The Church of England is embarrassed with
its psychopathic hatred and its many errors in translation
so they tried to promote various editions of the English
Bible in the 1960s to bypass it's paranoia, but
the King James Bible is especially favoured for its
vindictiveness by fundamentalist activists. Look what
'the good book' says:
Exodus 22:18-20 King James Bible:
'Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.'
This murderous mistranslation of the
original biblical texts which must have sent thousands of
innocent people to their deaths nicely encapsulated the
obsessive hatred James VI had for Witches. But the
original word in the Septuagint was not 'Witch' but
'Herbalist'.
It is well-known that the original
village healers were women skilled in the use of natural
herbs and ingredients for many healing purposes,
particularly childbirth. These herbs were 'charmed' to do
their work and so any instance of pagan traditions about
the 'spirits of plants' became reinterpreted as
'trafficking with the Devil'.
For background on how the creation of the Church of
Scotland by the Devil-obsessed James VI encouraged a 95%
Christian god-fearing population continually on the hunt
for Witches and Satanists - a meme which seems to have
worked its way into the National mind-set today read
Scottish religion in the seventeenth century, here:
Satanic Lies?; I see no Satanic lies!
How The NSPCC chose to run with a Satanic Hysteria.
Diary of Correspondence with the NSPCC and how
they turned a blind-eye to false allegations of
Satanic Abuse:
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 the NSPCC
not to jump on the SRA bandwagon. SAFF provides
a copy of the official 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, Get lost)
July 17th 1989 NSPCC press release is
issued supporting the Cook Report's Devil's
Work' documentary. It refers to Ritualised
Abuse of children and gave the press the first
authoritative support of the Satanic Abuse allegations.
Despite its ambiguous wording and generalisation this NSPCC
press release (see full copy of it below) provides
sufficient justification for the media to claim that the
allegations had been 'proved' even though everything
they alleged was suspicion and no evidence was ever
presented by the NSPCC to 'prove' anything of the
sort.
July 25th 1989 SAFF contacts NSPCC
and provides them with a detailed breakdown of
characters and background to the sectarian conspiracy to
defame the occult and criticises the NSPCC press
release in support of The Cook Report. The 28
page document SAFF provided reveals the facts
and thoroughly contradicts the NSPCC's public stance.
Over the following years all the people listed in
this document and whom the NSPCC were then
listening to are subsequently discredited as
manipulators, liars or fantasists.
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: Kevin Barrett responds
to an enquiry concerning the July 17th NSPCC
press statement by confirming its contents but declining
the additional information adding to it. ' I am not
in a position to comment upon the reference 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 no reply is forthcoming. November
14th 1989: SAFF's 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 the 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 the
anti-occult conspiracy and
The
Occult Census but say that 'a reply
was not called for'. The NSPCC
state 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,
informs him about the background to the fundamentalist
conspiracy about SRA and confirms SAFF's earlier letters
and evidence whilst requesting a full copy of the
NSPCC's July 17 press statement.
December 19th 1989. Barrett acknowledges
receipt of SAFF's letter and says he will reply in due
course.
January 8th 1990 Barrett provides the
full 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 the NSPCC
concerning discoveries that their original July 17 press
statement was misinterpreted by The Press
Association News Agency and that all subsequent
press exposure in local newspapers which used it,
included references to 'Devil Worship' / 'Satanism' /
'Witchcraft' / 'Evil' / 'Coven' which words were not
included in the NSPCC statement. The NSPCC stance
has therefore been misrepresented and embroidered.
In short the Press Association report had
sensationalised and 'sexed-up' what the NSPCC had
said which went beyond the truth. 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 Barrett to confirm whether 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 misapprehension
that Paganism is Satanism. SAFF accuse the 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 revealed in newspaper
interviews; exaggerating truth and making unproven
allegations on behalf of the 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'. '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 the NSPCC addressing the
problem of fundamentalists in its ranks. Reminding
Barrett that the NSPCC has not complied with
SAFF's request to issue a directive warning its
inspectors to take minority beliefs such as Paganism
into account. SAFF makes the 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 SAFF's letter also discloses 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 enhanced allegations
of Ritualised Abuse of children and their National
Child Care Officer Jim Harding talks of Cult Sacrifice
and singles out Witchcraft and Devil Worship for blame.
May 22nd 1990 We introduce ourselves to
the newly appointed Director of the NSPCC, Christopher
Brown, update him with our long correspondence with
Barrett and inform Brown that:
'There is no such thing as Satanic or
Occult related child abuse. As time passes, and our
researches reveal the true extent of the
fundamentalist conspiracy, this will become even more
evident and the decision by leaders of the NSPCC to
jump on the bandwagon will be seen to be even more
irresponsible. The longer you desist from properly
addressing these things the greater will their effect
on the reputation of the NSPCC be.
October 5th 1990. We try again, offering
SAFF expertise on SRA to the society and pointing out
NSPCC intransigence.
'Had you responded positively to our
earlier correspondence during
1989 and 1990 the Rochdale case would simply not have
happened and you and Jim Harding would not have needed
to be economical with the truth in order to save the
NSPCC from further damage.
October 31st 1990. Brown writes back a dismissive
letter saying the NSPCC refutes our research and will
not accept any more 'unsolicited material'!
Clearly the NSPCC is not treating us as the experts we
are in this area. They do not value SAFF research work
which has over the years become legendary. The leaders
of the NSPCC are in a state of denial over the facts and
the NSPCC in total appears to be institutionally
religiously prejudiced against non-Christians. They
appear to be fighting harder to refuse our input which,
as history testifies, could have saved several adult
lives and hundreds of children being wrongly torn from
their innocent families, rather than actually taking
notice of the facts we provided them with and adopting a
more reasonable approach. So we write back and tell them
this:
Personal Attention of:
Christopher Brown
NSPCC
67 Saffron Hill
London
EC1N 8RS
Wednesday 31 October 1990
Dear Christopher Brown
We are in receipt of your letter
of October 18 and are appalled at your blatant
refusal to work with us for the best interests of
children nationally.
You have consistently avoided
addressing our information and in so doing have put
innocent children and families to undue risk and
suffering.
"Listen to the children" is your
watchword, what a pity you will not listen also to
those who wish to provide you with information to
protect the children.
Surely what is necessary is to get
at the truth and avoid subjecting innocent children
and families to undeserved victimisation?
It is astonishing to think that
the pursuance of the Satanic Abuse Myth by the NSPCC
and others has resulted in ordinary working-class
parents in Rochdale who have absolutely no
connection with occultism at all, whose children
have NOT been sexually abused; whose children show
NO signs of physical abuse and about whom the police
have REFUSED to bring criminal charges; have not
only had to suffer months and months of agony and
emotional turmoil by being forcibly
separated from their children but
have also had to suffer prejudice
and persecution locally because of
the Satanic Abuse Myth allegations.
As if this was not enough they now
find that they may never see their children again ,
because the council have applied for permanent
fostering orders.
We have offered to help you
understand how this myth began and educate you about
what Witches and Satanists do to pursue their
beliefs so that Rochdales don't occur elsewhere. You
have refused our help repetitively even when all the
facts now show that we were right all along and the
NSPCC were mislead by bad actors. By listening to us the NSPCC could have avoided
Rochdale. How many more people must suffer before you admit that
you were wrong?
We accused the leaders of the
NSPCC of fabrication; intransigence and double-dealing. These are
accusations of FACT.
Our accusations are based on the
following criteria:
(1) The unfact: Jim Harding
repetitively used the words Devil Worship
and Satanism in a press briefing
and was quoted in several newspapers.
Several local NSPCC inspectors,
primed by NSPCC HQ were interviewed by local
newspapers and also used sensational terms relating
to Satanism; devil worship; witchcraft and blood
sacrifice. Jim
Harding later was reported as
saying**** that NSPCC officials had never used those
words
or referred to Satanism.
(2) The intransigence: We think
six weeks in responding to our evidence about the
manipulation of the NSPCC by fundamentalists during
1989 qualifies as 'intransigent', especially when we
had to eventually insist upon a response through our
solicitor in order to get one at all.
Add to this two further letters
which were not acknowledged and about which we had
to send further hurry-up
letters before obtaining a reply
and the word 'intransigence' could actually be seen
to be a polite way of describing the way the NSPCC
dealt with our responsible representations. Let me
remind you that we have been in constant touch with
the NSPCC, trying to develop a dialogue since early
1988. Intransigence? We think so!
(3) Double-Dealing: We consider
this a fair comment with regard to the strategy of
Kevin Barrett. Barrett's recalcitrant minimal
responses in the face of representations from a
group ostensibly ready to provide unique information
and background about a most serious and vital
problem, stand in contrast with the NSPCC campaign
to back the totally unprovable Satanic Child Abuse
Myth with a blaze of publicity. A campaign
which was being organised throughout the period when
Barrett was playing catch-as-catch-can with our
genuine representations and requests to provide the
NSPCC with details
of what Witches do. Basically, in hindsight, Barrett
appeared to be keeping us busy and tying up our
trust while the NSPCC planned to launch direct
criticisms of occult ceremonies and liturgy. If
that's not double-dealing, what is?
We are surprised that you are
ready to describe genuine information, FBI documents
and verbatim tape transcripts which discredit
organisations from whom you have accepted
representations as 'unsoliticited material'.
We thought it was hard evidence which you would
pounce upon. Especially when you have admitted
yourself that this area of research broke new ground about
which the NSPCC was ignorant.
Even stranger, we are astounded
that, though we have made it clear that we have much
more information on the U.S. Satanic Abuse Scare and
the way that the American social services /
therapeutic agencies were mislead, and on the
background and intentions of the people you
consulted as 'experts' you are STILL refusing to
receive this information, discuss it, or learn from
it. This is the same kind of head in the sand
approach which you extended to us during 1988/89 and
early 1990 and is a deplorable admission from an
organisation which has special responsibilities in
law to protect the well being of children.
The SAFF does not intend to allow
the NSPCC to escape its responsibilities in this
area for if the NSPCC does not employ a new and
corrected perspective, including safeguards in your
training to protect families who hold alternative /
minority beliefs then the witch hunt started by the
NSPCC could quite easily spark off again at any time
and further victimise innocent people.
It is because you have been
dilatory in facing the repercussions of your actions
that your organisers have had to dissemble and form
a holding-pattern in order to protect the NSPCCs
reputation.
Because you are STILL refusing to
address the problem, the unresolved
thinking in local NSPCC branches
and social services departments will continue to
cause injustices. Here's just three examples:
(1) The enclosed cutting from the
Bournemouth Echo of October 5; and associated
editorial comments regarding Reverend Biggs'
confirmation that occult ritualised abuse exists. As
head of the Child Protection Team this man Biggs is
severely mislead and the diplomatic mopping up
operations which followed a few days later did
nothing to correct the original impression given. If
Mr Biggs is so badly informed is it not likely that
he may over-react in interpreting the risks to a
child of their parents involvement in alternative
religions? Is it not MORE likely that a priest
of one religion will find the tenets of a competing
religion unacceptable and mistakes will occur IF
RELIGIOUS CRITERIA ARE USED AS A YARDSTICK TO
ESTIMATE WHETHER CHILDREN ARE AT RISK?
(2) The clear conclusion and
promotion of the idea that the NSPCC has CONFIRMED
the link between Satanism / Paganism & child
abuse is
nowhere more explicitly shown than in the Christian
fundamentalist book, DANCE WITH THE DEVIL. The
foreward to this book, which was penned by Geoffrey Dickens MP, (see
photocopy enclosed) a strident campaigner to outlaw
Paganism, clearly states that the NSPCC has issued a
report confirming occult related child abuse. I am
sure that you will wish to correct Mr Dickens
publicly over this interpretation of NSPCC policy
AND LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING A COPY OF YOUR LETTER TO
HIM SO THAT HIS MISTAKEN CONCLUSIONS DO NOT FURTHER
AGGRAVATE A DELICATE SITUATION.
(3) The undignified spectacle of
NSPCC child protection teams embroiling themselves
in and giving support to the sensational and
inaccurate allegations of the fundamentalist's
spoilsport anti-Halloween campaign is nowhere more
evidenced than in the cutting from the Luton
District Citizen (enclosed) where your Gillian Rose
is quoted as saying that 'children are at risk from
all types of abuse by taking part in Halloween
celebrations NOT JUST BECOMING INVOLVED IN SATANIC
RITUALS'. Really, and do you STILL think that your
inspectors don't require educating Mr Brown?
The Facts are these:
(a) Most of your area workers do
not know that Satanism is a completely different
philosophy to Witchcraft / Paganism and that Pagans
do not worship a devil figure. They therefore are
likely to confuse innocent pagans with innocent
Satanists.
(b) Many NSPCC officials firmly
believe that there is evidence to prove that
Children have been abused in satanic rites, when in
reality there has not been one conviction which
categorically links Satanism or Witchcraft with
child abuse.
(c) The NSPCC have allowed their
local officials to believe that there is an epidemic
of Satanic child abuse. Local NSPCC organisers have
no sense of proportion and have not been made aware
that statistics show that a child is far more likely
to be abused by Clergymen than by Satanists. That
out of 186 separate cases of investigations into
child abuse networks during the past three years
only five were thought to have some tendentious
connection to satanic beliefs and that none of those
have actually been confirmed. Out of 438
investigations into alleged child abuse in the
Manchester area last year only THREE were said by
police to possibly have any occult connections, and
none of those have been confirmed either.
(d) The NSPCC is still directing
enquirers about Satanic child abuse to the REACHOUT
organisation which is not a child charity, has no
proper training in these areas and which is a
fundamentalist anti-occult organisation which has
been discredited for its fanaticism.
(e) Our offers of supplementary
training of NSPCC personnel so that they are in an informed position
about Satanism / Witchcraft have met with repetitive
rejection by the NSPCC.
(f) Whether or not the NSPCC
desired that outcome, the media clearly and
sensationally represented NSPCC involvement in
detecting ritualised abuse as being confirmation of
the fact that there is an epidemic of satanic or
occult related child abuse. Although the NSPCC has
said that they did not mean to convey this the
public is left with an indelible impression that is
the case. WHEN IS THE NSPCC GOING TO STOP MOVING THE
GOALPOSTS AND ACTUALLY COME OUT WITH A DEFINITIVE
PUBLIC STATEMENT WHICH WILL STOP THE AMBIGUITY;
SUSPICION AND HYSTERIA. You owe it to the British
Public, having started all this, to lay your cards
on the table once and for all.
THEREFORE: because the seed of
hysteria has been planted in NSPCC workers by their
HQ and because NSPCC HQ has refused to correct these misunderstandings,
injustices; inaccuracies and breaches of human
rights such as Rochdale will continue to occur
unless the SAFF brings these points to the attention
of members of the public.
Whether or not the NSPCC wishes
contact with the SAFF we will continue to offer our help and
assistance on a permanent basis for the best interests of children
and society in general.
Please understand that we do not
wish to damage the NSPCC in any way at all; your
ordinary work is too valuable for that, but you MUST
accept that you have made a very big mistake in
backing the Satanic Abuse Myth and PUT THAT RIGHT
PUBLICLY otherwise this error will eat away at the
reputation of the NSPCC and ultimately make things
very much worse for everybody.
As you have repetitively avoided
doing the right thing we offer again one last time
to join with you to clear the matter up.
We will expect a telephone call
from you in a few days time.
If we can build a dialogue then
fine; if the NSPCC still remains obstinate then the
SAFF will be forced to begin a new wave of publicity
to inform the public and make the NSPCC change its
mind.
The first mailing will consist of
reproductions of this letter.
I look forward to hearing from you
within 7 days.
Yours Sincerely
Tony Rhodes
Astonishingly, almost by return post, the NSPCC's
response to this letter was to set their Blue-Chip
lawyers onto us to threaten the SAFF with a libel writ
if we went ahead and published our evidence!
So that's what the NSPCC do with your donations!
Naturally we wrote back and told them to do their worst.
Print and be damned! The NSPCC's threat didn't work on
us and you can see the truth of the NSPCC's
recalcitrance in the face of the truth about
non-existent Satanic Ritual Abuse throughout this SAFF
website but particularly on http://saff.nfshost.com/nspcc.htm
The NSPCC was a prime mover in the scare. It was heavily
involved in the social work team which handled the
Broxtowe case, Britain's first claimed case of SRA which
believers in Ritual Abuse hailed as a watershed in
child-protection. When it got to court there was NO
satanic ritual abuse in it. The NSPCC was
also involved in the tragic Rochdale SRA case at a
formative stage, and many other false SRA cases from the
Satanic Panic era.
All the
disclosure questioning of the Rochdale kids, which
turned out to be utterly false, was done at the
NSPCC's spanking new child care centre there. Indeed,
the NSPCC has a lot to answer for. 
By March 1991 the NSPCC was eating humble-pie and
denying they had misjudged the threat to children of
Satanic Abuse. Click on any image to get a large format
version to read.
The NSPCC nearly destroyed itself over false
allegations of Satanic Ritual Abuse which it unwisely
backed to the hilt. It is supposed to protect
children but it was involved in causing the suffering
of at least 86 children whose innocent parents were
falsely accused of SRA.
'The NSPCC the organisation which never
knowingly undersells a statistic.'
THE
TRUTH ABOUT THE ORKNEY SCANDAL WHICH THE CLYDE
REPORT OMITTED
(Ed: The Orkney
Seven Action Group distributed their own
report ( below) of the Orkney SRA Scandal in
response to the publication of the results of Lord
Clyde's Orkney Public Inquiry in the House of
Commons on 27th October 1992.
The OSAG felt that despite the
£6M cost of the Inquiry Lord Clyde had not got to
the bottom of the mafeasance and malevolence of
the Scottish Social Services in the persecutory
way that it tried to destroy the W family at the
centre of Orkney's SRA allegations.
This rare publication (below) from 1992 hasn't
seen the light of day for decades. We have
included it here to reveal just what really went
on in Orkney and how awful and vindictive those
who believed in SRA acted towards the children
they took into care and the parents they falsely
accused. It makes shocking reading. It also
gives the lie to the new generation of social
workers who think that there was some SRA in
Orkney.
This paper is
crucial because it corrects many of the
historical inaccuracies enshrined in the
Orkney Public Inquiry, as well as the sheer
fraudulence of people in Scottish social work
now trying to airbrush away their malpractice
and lack of professionalism that went on.
First
distributed circa December 1992 (paragraph
numbers e.g. ‘12.24’ refer to evidence
given during the Inquiry hearings and
listed in the official Public Inquiry
report. )
Orkney
Seven Action Group
Report on
the Forgotten Children of Orkney
Orkney SevenAction Group
Tel: 0342.xxxxxxx056 Walden
Fax : 0342.xxxxxxx37
Secretary :-Andrew Fenton BSc.ACGI.
Objectives
The Orkney Seven Action Group has been
formed to effect the release of seven Orkney
children into the care of their mother
Mrs.W.
To this end, after a short resumé of the
case, we draw your attention to the
following disturbing issues:
1. There is a total lack
of first hand evidence for allegations of
abuse in the W family. Even the medical
evidence has been discredited ... p2-3
2. All existing records
of the children's interviews show that the
vague allegations made about sibling abuse
have been induced as a result of
heavy-handed ‘disclosure therapy', clearly
discredited by Lord Justice Butler-Sloss
(Cleveland Report 1988) ... p.3-5
3. The children's demands
to return home have been constantly
ignored, and their mother's access to them
severely limited, so much so that the
children's spirit has been all but broken
by months of ‘disclosure therapy', in
premature anticipation of their adoption
... p.5-7
4. There are too many
similarities between the treatment of the
W children, and the subsequent Orkney Nine
who were returned home, to ignore. Since
the findings of the Clyde Report apply no
less to the W children, they also should
be released, and the family reunited ... P
7-9
5. The present state of
the children ... p.9-10
Background
During the early 1980's
several children from the W family in
Orkney informed the social services that
they were subject to abuse by their
father. No action was taken. When
inquiries were finally made following a
further complaint by the eldest daughter,
the family was too fearful of the father
to offer evidence, and 'medicals' appeared
negative.
In 1986, the complaints
of one of the sons finally led to a
successful prosecution of the father, for
physical abuse of the older children.
After the trial in 1987, two of the girls,
OW and EW, with the help of their mother,
made complaints concerning sexual abuse,
for which evidence was now found, and the
father was prosecuted for a second time.
He received seven years.
The family's problems of
readjustment were not helped when EW and
OW began to face problems at school
generated by other pupils. Social services
did nothing.
Almost a year after the
father's trial, the W family were subject
to an RSSPCC family ‘assessment', based
upon the unfounded theory that "all abused
children become abusers", and which
advised residential care for the children,
in order that they receive 'therapy'. The
W family argued that this late help could
and should be provided on Orkney, in the
family setting. Mrs.W did, however,
finally agree that EW, whose difficulties
continued, could be '‘assessed' on
mainland Scotland.
Once away from home, in
May 1989, EW was subject to disclosure
therapy - the process so heavily
criticised by Lord Justice-Butler Sloss
[viz Cleveland] only the year before.
Having secured half a dozen induced
'statements' concerning EW's siblings, the
social services secured Place of Safety
Orders for the eight younger children,
whom they claimed were being abused by the
older children as well as each other. The
W children were then taken to the Scottish
mainland.
Despite being instructed
by the local Children's Panel to return
the W children, a Case Conference on
17th.July 1989 deliberately opposed this
decision (The Times: 15th February 1993),
and instead, social workers subjected all
the children to intensive ‘disclosure
therapy', securing another half-dozen
vague statements about abuse. Having
finally to return the children in July
1989, the social workers involved became
locked in a long-running dispute with the
Children's Panel concerning further
assessment at home, and on 31st.October
1990, the day before supervision orders on
the children were to be revoked, they
found a 'new' reason to take the children
into care......
OW, who had been
extremely disturbed by the experience of
the first uplift in 1989, was alleged, in
late October 1990, to have made
allegations concerning some of the other
children. The younger W children were
taken for the second time in November
1990, and remain in care, in mainland
Scotland, to this day.
The Orkney Case you have
heard so much about concerns the uplift of
nine children from other families in early
1991, following allegations the RSSPCC
interviewers secured from three of the W
children, during more than a hundred hours
of ‘disclosure therapy'. The nine
childrens' parents and others, were
falsely accused of ritual child sexual
abuse. Most of these adults were believed
by the social workers to have helped Mrs.
W secure her children's previous return in
1989 (What good neighbour, knowing such
allegations to be nonsense, would fail to
do likewise?) [Ed: RSSPCC =
Royal Scottish Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children]
According to RSSPCC,
three of this second (February 1991) group
of nine children then provided
corroborative accounts of the W children's
allegations. These children were, however,
released on 4th April 1991, by Sheriff
Kelbie who asserted that they had been
"subjected to cross examination designed
to break them down and admit to being
abused". As BBC Panorama revealed:
these were the same "interviewing
techniques as were used with the W.
children."
[Ed:
BBC Panorama’s documentary ‘In
Satan’s Name?’ broadcast in December
1992. You can
view it here: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAUyGdzsWnw]
In other words the W
children's allegations were also induced.
No charges have ever been brought against
any adult, nor against any of the older W
children. Yet the W children remain in
care.
The Reasons for not
Releasing the W Children.
There are three possible
reasons for keeping the W Children in
care, believing them to be at risk. First,
OW's original allegations had to be taken
seriously; second, it is claimed there was
medical evidence; third, it is claimed
that further allegations have emerged from
the W children about their siblings. Yet
all three can be easily answered.
OW's Allegations?
That OW was later to be
described as "psychotic" and
"exceptionally disturbed", by three highly
experienced psychologists, in itself gives
serious grounds for caution. Yet none of
the social workers who questioned OW
appeared to notice her disturbed state,
and none mention it in their reports. No
records exist of the number of interviews
to which OW was subjected, nor of the
questions asked. The half dozen
'statements', that are constantly referred
to as her ‘disclosure’, are open to
alternative interpretations. For example,
the idea that a sarcastic remark, such as:
"Yes, I made wild passionate love to
the Rev. MacKenzie", could be
taken seriously, is ludicrous: the
Reverend is well over 60, and suffers from
both chronic angina and a heart condition.
The Medical Evidence?
When the W children were
examined in November 1990, medical opinion
suggested that three of the children
showed signs of sexual abuse. Yet when
Dr.David Reid, a highly experienced
consultant paediatrician, who utilised the
guidelines in the April 1991 Royal College
of Physicians Report unavailable the year
before, examined these findings, he
concluded that the original findings were
at fault. His conclusions have been
ignored despite subsequent verification.
Having initially refused to consent to a
medical, MW was examined with the second
batch of nine children, who all received
extensive medical examinations. Like them,
MW received a clean bill of health; yet,
according to RSSPCC, MW was supposed to
have suffered the most abuse!
Further Disclosures?
When Dr.Boyle, who was
employed by the Children's panel,
questioned the W children, he was not only
told that there had been no abuse since
the father's departure, the children all
surprised him with their common insistence
that "social workers lied" and that
"nothing happened". underlined His
findings were ignored.
When Dr. Reid spoke with
the children (like Dr. Boyle, away from
the influence of the social workers) he
was also confronted with the same
statements: that the social workers had
"lied", and that "nothing happened".
So why have the children
apparently said one thing to social
workers in the privacy of the RSSPCC
interview rooms, and yet told a completely
different story to independent outsiders
when away from social workers' influence?
Securing Allegations
The actions of the
Orkney social workers would appear to have
created a self fulfilling prophesy.
Holding to the theory that all abused
children become abusers, Orkney social
workers, assisted by the RSSPCC, found the
evidence they believed existed through a
'Care Plan' of isolating the children, and
then secured allegations by using a
thoroughly discredited interview
methodology.
The social workers,
perceiving themselves to have been
thwarted by the Children's Panel, in their
original attempt to interrogate the
children in 1989, denied Mrs.W all access
to her children for five months, on the
occasion of the second removal in November
1990. The children, detained on mainland
Scotland - 100 miles away from their home,
their family, their pets, their friends,
and their familiar surroundings - were
persistently questioned against their
will. For the whole of this time, and in
breach of Articles 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
12, 17.2, 18, and 25.2, of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (1948), the
children were denied letters, cards,
photographs, gifts, visits from relatives
and friends, and forbidden even the
comfort of their own toys from home.
Within a month, they
were also separated from one another. Some
were even subjected to ‘child-abuse
role-playing' to help them 'remember'
their 'abuse' !
No wonder some of the
children finally capitulated, and agreed
that they had been present at a Ritual
Ninja Mutant Turtle dance, prior to an
orgy involving the sacrifice of their
favourite pony - a fantasy conceived by
RSSPCC interviewers determined to discover
the secret meaning of the Christmas
presents sent to the children. The dead
pony, needless to say, is alive and
well......
The Care Plan -
completely to isolate the children from
Orkney - and supposedly drawn up at the
Case Conference on 20th December 1990,
because of the abuse the children had
purportedly suffered, was actually
formulated in July 1989, sixteen months
before the November 1990 removal. Its
intention was solely to facilitate
disclosure, and thereby ignored many of
the Butler-Sloss' [Cleveland
Inquiry ] recommendations. The
care of the W children came a poor
second best.
This policy was defended
on the grounds that the children "wished"
to disclose but were inhibiting one
another. Yet, for any child, the greatest
and most painful distress is separation
from its mother. Such a fundamental human
instinct is common to all children, and is
vital to maintaining a child's sense of
identity. Yet this consideration was
denied these children. These chilling
echoes from the Nazi Lebensborn programme
are further exemplified by the fact that
the
two youngest
children even had their names completely
changed by their foster parents, pending
the children's anticipated adoption.
No wonder one of them
assured Dr.Boyle in August 1991 that : "my
mummy, my real mummy, is dead."
The mind boggles.
This same isolation
policy was strongly criticised by the
Clyde Report, which, however, only
considered its use in the case of the
second wave of nine children. Yet the
distress this policy caused to the W
children, the initial anger they
displayed, and its effect in eliciting
their ‘disclosures', is still being held
up as 'proof' that the W children were
sexually abused.
Likewise, whilst the
interview practices of RSSPCC (which
utterly ignored the Butler-Sloss
recommendations, ( Cleveland Report :
para. 12.34.5,) that there should where
possible be only one, and not more than
two interviews for the purpose of
evaluation) were criticised in the case of
the second wave of nine children, the two
youngest W children (then aged 5 and 6)
were, initially, each interviewed no less
than seven times in eleven days. All the
Orkney children were subjected to
"repeated interviews" of "the probing and
confrontational type of 'disclosure' work"
(also criticised after Cleveland); but,
whilst the second nine were (fortunately
for them) only subject to these interviews
for five weeks, some of the W children
were still being interviewed as late as
September 1992 (a staggering 22
months after their removal.)
When one looks at what
these 'interviews' really entailed, it is
easy to see why three W children, who
initially steadfastly denied abuse, but
who were regarded as 'weak links' (Orkney
Report : para.2.62), finally broke down
after three months, and suddenly
'remembered' being Ritually Abused.
In para 2.63 of the
Orkney Report we read: 'During the course
of the interviews with QW certain
particular themes recurred. One was of
sexual conduct ... The matter was taken up
by the interviewers on 26th.November 1990
with mention again of dickies going into
fannies ....
The implication of this
statement, as reported by the
interviewers, is that it was the child who
had raised the matter of sexual conduct,
and thus that it was the child who wished
in some way to pursue such matters.
Yet, an extract from an
audiotape of an early interview with this
6 year-old child, heard nationwide by BBC
Panorama viewers on 7th.December 1992,
gave an entirely different impression of
how 'such matters' were made to arise.
In Martin Bashir's
words:
'... The interview
begins with a social worker telling her
what another child ... has already said.
From the outset the child has been fed
information, and the interview is
therefore contaminated. But even when the
child protests, the interviewer refuses to
accept her denials, thus giving the
impression that she is not answering in
the way they wanted':-
Mrs.Liz Maclean : "One of your big
brothers was telling us that he saw (
another brother) put...his dickie... into
your fannie".
QW: "He didn't".
LM: "He did".
QW : "He didn't".
LM: "And he says....."
QW: "You're lying". (child screams this
out)
LM : "No, we're not lying, dear, we're not
lying. He says that ...".
QW: "You're lying".
Martin Bashir reminds
viewers that : 'Up to this point the
social workers refuse to accept the
child's repeated denials. The child is
clearly upset. The social worker then
tries to calm her down, before
continuing in a similar vein' :-
LM: "And we want - we're here - because we
want to help you".
QW: "Yeah, but he's telling lies". (child
beginning to cry)
LM: "No, we're not telling lies".
QW : "He is".
LM: "Oh, he's telling lies". (child now
plainly tearstricken)
LM "Why do you think he's telling lies?"
(child heard sobbing and distraught)
LM repeats : "Why do you think he's
telling lies?"
QW : "Because (the other brother) would
never do that". (child screams with
emphasis).
Val Mellor, one of the
country's leading consultant child
psychologists, told Panorama that these
oppressive interview techniques (which
sometimes included physically restraining
children from leaving the room), were
"seriously flawed" and "some of the
poorest I've ever seen" .
Conveniently, no tape
recordings or contemporaneous notes were
made of the 'crucial' interviews of 6th.,
12th., and 13th.February 1991, by the
RSSPCC interviewer, Mrs Liz MacLean.
Constable Williamson, Mrs.MacLean's sole
co-interviewer of the child MW on
6th.February 1991, subsequently shredded
her ring pad containing the original
interview notes, thus destroying the only
original record of what really happened,
and of what was actually said.
Keeping Them In.
Once the isolation
period was ended, the W children all
stated clearly that they wished to return
home. They repeated these statements at
the Children's Hearings that Mrs.W was
permitted to call. The children's wishes
were, however, denied. The panels
continued to "fear" that, on the "balance
of probabilities", sibling abuse might
have taken place, and would thus do so
again if the children were returned home.
The panel members were
initially encouraged to do this by social
workers who continued to assert that all
abused children become abusers - a theory
utterly discredited by Wynne and Hobbs
(Cleveland Report: p.319). As time went
by, however, the social workers began to
refer to isolated statements culled from
the children's ongoing interviews, which
'proved' that they had been abused.
Excuses were also found to hold the panel
hearings without the children present.
At the quarterly
Hearings, Mrs.W is not entitled under
Scottish law to receive legal aid.
She may take a solicitor
with her in a friendly capacity, to advise
her, but since she cannot afford expense
such as this, Mrs.W finds herself
outflanked, legally unrepresented, and her
views over-ridden.
Mrs.W lives five miles
from the nearest bus stop and 25 miles
from the nearest large town: despite being
faced with time-consuming and arduous
overseas journies to mainland Scotland,
Mrs. W has never failed to attend the
fortnightly access meetings with her seven
children in care, yet in recent months she
has suddenly found her access strangely
limited.
The social workers, who
according to Dr.Boyle were "reluctant to
acknowledge the obvious affection between
the children and their mother", now
asserted the children did not want to see
their mother. Mrs.W was presented with
one-line notes from first one child, and
then another, that they no longer wished
to see her. Mrs.W now sees only two of
these seven children on a regular basis.
We find this very curious.
Unlike the parents and
representatives of the other nine Orkney
children taken into care, Mrs.W has been
offered no detailed evidence as to what
her children are supposed to have
confessed. Such records are a matter of
local authority privilege. This means that
social workers may accuse anyone of abuse,
on the basis of what they assert a child
has said, irrespective of context. Such
accusations are impossible to refute, and
once referenced become a matter of record,
to be repeated over and over again.
Yet when Dr. Kusumakar
attempted to verify such allegations, he
found they amounted to nothing more than
"chinese whispers" between the social
workers. Despite this, the assertions
continued. On Wednesday 4th.March 1992,
after 16 months (!) of 'disclosure' work,
one of Mrs.W's young daughters suddenly
accused a friend of the family, Mrs.
Oakes, of sexual abuse.
Though these
allegations, and their context have never
been made public, Mrs.Oakes is powerless
to refute them. Yet their 'truth' means
that Mrs. Oakes can no longer accompany
Mrs. W to access meetings, and Mrs. W is
thus further isolated.
Bearing in mind the
concurring conclusions of Dr.Kusumakar,
Dr.Boyle, and Dr.Reid (each of whom, quite
independently, had the opportunity to
speak with the children away from the
presence of social workers), that "nothing
had happened", and that all the children
"wanted to go home", we find it extremely
disturbing that as many as five of these
children now no longer come to access
meetings with their mother, and rarely
appear even at their Children's Hearings.
The right of a child to
be heard (reflecting Article 12 of the
United Nations Convention on the Rights of
the Child) was recognized by Sheriff
Kelbie on 4th April 1991, when
he ruled that the second wave of nine
children had been deprived of their
rights, by virtue of being excluded from
their Children's Hearings, and he
therefore judged that the case against
them was fatally flawed.
The effect of excluding
the W children from their hearings is
threefold:
(a) Mrs.W and her child
do not get to meet: both are deprived.
(b) Decisions are made
affecting the child without its knowledge
or consent.
(c) No independent
observer gets to hear the child's views,
nor does the child itself have the
opportunity to comment, in any way, on the
situation in which it finds itself. An
avenue of hope has closed.
Combined with heavily
supervised access, this means neither
Mrs.W or any independent third party have
the opportunity to have a private word
with any of the children. We find this
deeply disturbing
Mindful of the abrasive
and oppressive quality of the interviewing
revealed by Panorama, and of social worker
Jeanette Chisholm's "open criticism of
Mrs.W's behaviour during access"
(Dr.Boyle's report), we
ask: is it possible that the children now
feel so intimidated, that they have come
to fear social workers' disapproval,
should they voice a wish to meet their
mother? This supposition would appear
to be borne out by the facts.
Our reservations, over
the quality of the RSSPCC interview teams
headed by Mrs.Liz Maclean, were repeatedly
voiced by Lord Clyde, and once the second
group of children returned home they
asserted that: the interviewers had kept
going "on and on" at her (WB 11.55), the
same question being asked "repeatedly" (WB
11.58); the interviewers "would keep going
on and on till I answered them" (PH
11.70); "they wanted to get as much out of
me as possible, and kept at me" (TH
11.76); they "tried to convince me that
something had happened"(BT 11.90).
So despite this highly
suspect methodology having been condemned
as "something which required examination"
(13.31), similar methods have nevertheless
been blatantly employed on the W children
purely to confirm social workers'
theories, and thus, tragically for the W
children, to reduce their mother's access
to them, and their contact with her, to
virtually zero.
No Appeal.
The first bulwark of
defence against a false accusation in
Scotland lies with the JP or Sheriff to
whom the social worker presents the Place
of Safety Order for signing, but as with
Cleveland (para 10.6) such Orders are
rarely refused.
Whilst we do not suggest
that any carelessness devolves on the JP
who signed OW into care on Ist.November
1990, it is a fact that 17 months
previously, in 1989, social workers had no
difficulty whatever in obtaining a Place
of Safety Order on these same W children,
and duly flew them off to Inverness in
order to "obtain evidence".
Despite the best efforts
of the Children's Panel to have the
children returned, it took a full four
weeks effort, culminating in the threat of
High Court Action, before Orkney Social
Services Department would admit that they
were holding the children illegally.
We have to ask: bearing
in mind the fact that the social workers
had no evidence to justify removing the
children beforehand, and after four weeks
of detaining them could still find no
evidence, what protection did the JP who
signed the Place of Safety Order on
Mrs.W's younger children have to offer her
in June 1989 ?
The second line of
defence is the proof hearing, where a
Sheriff decides whether or not a case
exists for referring a child to a
Children's Panel. Yet, as Scottish Law
allows a child to be taken into care if it
resides in the same house as an abused
child, it was inevitable the Sheriff would
allow the W children to be taken, because
no one disputes that some of the older W
children had been abused by their father.
Thus, for the W family, the Sheriff's
Hearing was futile. The social workers did
not have to prove their case of sibling
abuse . Nor have they done so to
this day. But since the only grounds of
appeal are procedural, the rarely
specified allegations cannot be
challenged
IN GOOD FAITH?
It is the opinion of the
Orkney Seven Action Group that the type of
bullying interview techniques, so
devastatingly portrayed on the Panorama
programme, should have no place in the
questioning of young children. Reinforced
by such interviewers' clearly expressed
attitudes that a child is to be
disbelieved, until its statements accord
with the interviewers' own "obsessive
beliefs" (Lord Justice Brown: Rochdale),
such interviews on young children amount,
in our view, to psychological and
emotional abuse of the worst kind. It
follows that ‘allegations' obtained in
this way are highly suspect.
We believe that such
interviewers should be called to account
for their actions.
We believe such methods
have been deliberate employed to justify a
decision made as early as 1989 to destroy
this family.
We seriously question
whether the social workers have acted in
good faith.
Given the similarities
between the actions of the social workers
in the W case, and in the second group of
nine children, we believe it absurd that
whilst one group of children is free (and
the Clyde Report devastatingly criticised
the social workers involved for their
ineptitude), the W children are still in
care, and no one says one word of
criticism against these same
social workers.
Common features appear
in all three uplifts which deserve
mention:
(1) The social workers
never have any first hand evidence.
(2) They rely on
allegations from a third party, which they
believe absolutely.
(3) Denials of the
supposed victim are always disbelieved.
(4) The social workers
need time, disorientation of the child,
and strictly no interference in their
activities, to encourage disclosure.
Besotted with
lecture-room theory, they 'know' that
abuse has taken place, and ignore, to a
child's detriment, the words of Dr.Jones
(Cleveland Report: para 12.24) that
The third and crucial
alternative possibility, namely that the
child has no sexual abuse to disclose, is
not considered a viable option".
In this context,
Dr.Zeitlin (12.31) cautioned against the
hazards of over enthusiasm, and spoke of
disclosure as having taken on "almost
the character of a crusade", and
Dr.Underwager(12.32) suggested that some
interviewers "lie, threaten,
fabricate". Quite.
The Death of a Family?
As we have said, access
to Mrs.W's children is severely
restricted. The children themselves are
scarcely encouraged to meet one another,
and do so rarely. Should an older sibling
happen to meet one of the younger ones in,
say, a mainland bookshop (this has
actually happened), the older sibling must
hurry away discretely, for fear of
breaching Departmental rules governing
Mrs. W's access visits. This is pathetic.
The destruction of this family as a
family is all but complete.
Mrs.W has told us that
some of her correspondence to her
children, including, for example, harmless
poetry, has been returned to her by social
workers, marked 'unsuitable'. [Ed.
See elsewhere on this page about the
false idea of 'trigger words' in
Satanic Ritual Abuse' promoted to
Scotts social workers by RAINS and
Reachout ] That such a
simple motherly impulse to keep in touch
with her children should be treated with
such contempt is unbelievable. A wedge has
been driven between Mrs.W and her
children, and as a result of what appears
to be a deliberate policy on the part of
Orkney Social Work Department, the
children are becoming estranged not only
from their mother, but from their former
identity.
A letter to the Scottish
Office dated 21st.December 1992, drawing
attention to the unusual difficulties
Mrs.W has been confronted with in securing
proper access to her children, has met
with the reply that the case is
"confidential", it "cannot" be discussed,
and that Lord Clyde's 194 recommendations
have "no bearing" on the seven W children.
Quite so. The children have effectively
been buried and forgotten, and the key all
but thrown away.
Clyde Revisited.
The remit issued by the
Scottish Office included (Orkney Report:
1.3) inquiring:- ‘into the actings of
Orkney Islands Council in relation to ...
the decision to seek authority to take to
a place of safety nine children resident
in South Ronaldsay', should have ensured
that the origin of the decision, to uplift
the second nine children, was thoroughly
investigated.
Given that the decision
rested solely on the supposed evidence
provided by the three young W children,
the fact that 'allegations' were being
forced from them should have led Lord
Clyde to challenge (as those
watching Panorama did) the integrity of
those interviewing the three 'disclosing'
W children. Not unnaturally, we are
curious to know why this did not happen?
Adults are now to
benefit from Lord Justice Lloyd's (Regina
v Barry: Times Law Report : I1th.December
1991) insistence that: "Everything
that is said or done to a person whilst
that person is detained must be taken
into account ... All the circumstances
should be taken into account whilst
someone is detained". Lord Clyde did
not afford that protection to the W.
family.
The original key
'discloser', the teenager OW, needed more
than that. OW needed specialist
psychiatric counselling; instead she
received a Place of Safety Order. Yet
despite the confused and contradictory
allegations she is supposed to have made,
in the disturbed state she was in, nowhere
in his Report does Lord Clyde enquire into
the circumstances and methodology
surrounding OW's interviews. We have
to ask why?
O.W.'s father had not
only sexually abused her for a number of
years, he had bound her to secrecy. As
Ryan observes:
The isolation imposed by
secrecy supports the development of
irrational thinking in the child, which
may erode the victim's self-esteem, and
allow the guilt and confusion to grow
without external feedback. Within such
isolation, into fantasies of
retaliation in order to gain
control
As with OW, so with EW
the year before. Far from being helped she
was given ‘disclosure therapy' and was under
constant pressure to reveal supposed
older sibling abuse. And indeed, after six
weeks of such treatment, the social
workers in Orkney felt they 'had enough
on' the W family to seize the remaining
younger children.
The similarity between
the events of 1989 and the events of 1990,
which led to the Inquiry, is striking.
Each girl was in her teens. Each had been
sexually and physically abused by her
father over several years. Each had been
taunted on that account by her fellow
schoolmates, and each had been removed
from her school on this account. Neither
had received any specialist psychiatric
counselling to help them over the trauma
of the abuse.
In place of help for her
children, and a home help for herself (as
recommended by the Children's Panel),
Mrs.W once again found her younger
children seized. The social services took
a second opportunity to turn a teenage
child's difficulties into a weapon to
break up the family.
Of the many people whose
formal offer, to assist in the
deliberations of the Orkney Inquiry, was
refused, we note (Report: p.12) the names
of Dr. Broadhurst - General Practitioner
to the W family in Orkney; Dr.Kusumakar -
Consultant Child and Adolescent
Psychiatrist (who conducted one of the
assessments of the W children in care, in
April 1991); and Dr.David Reid -
Consultant Paediatrician (who reported on
the original medical findings on the W
children). We would add to this list the
names of Dr.Jack Boyle, Ph.D. (previously
referred to); Mrs.Katherine Kemp -
Reporter to the Children's Panel until
March 1990; Mrs.May Armour - Health
Visitor on South Ronaldsay; and last but
not least, Mrs.W - who throughout the
Inquiry was obliged for months on end to
put up with other people discussing what
her children were supposed to have said,
without being able to utter one single
word to set the record straight. Lord
Clyde and his two colleagues failed to
obtain testimony from seven vital
witnesses, each of whom was well
qualified to judge the validity, or
otherwise, of what was purportedly being
alleged by Mrs.W's three children, in
regard to the Orkney Nine.
Queen's Counsel
At the Orkney Inquiry,
the various parties involved were
represented by eight Queen's Counsel, and
eleven Advocates, rather more than is
deemed necessary to form a jury of twelve
just men and true. Without exception, all
of them - as with Lord Clyde and his two
colleagues - had unrestricted access to
tape-recordings of the W children's
interviews, and all, therefore, heard such
interviews - and worse - as that shown on
the Panorama programme. Not one, but
not one , of these worthy, highly
qualified, and eminent legal minds
presumed to challenge the propriety of the
methods used to elicit 'confessions' from
disorientated and helpless young children.
We ask: would any single one of them dare
to trust a child of their own to such
abominable treatment, in a room for months
on end, with such interviewers? Are then,
the tears and anguish of a small child,
desperate to have the truth heard and
believed, to be ignored by such learned
minds as these? As did Lord Clyde, these
QC's failed utterly to challenge the
authenticity of the evidence.
Sauce for the Goose
The Orkney Seven - the W
children removed three months previously -
have been subjected to the same slipshod
interviewing practices, inadequacy of
interviewers' records and reports, and
other treatment, as the highly publicised
Orkney Nine. The 150 criticisms and 194
recommendations made by
Lord Clyde in his Report apply no less to
the W children than they did to the Nine:
Lord Clyde made particular reference (para
13.16) to the paucity of Mrs. MacLean's
own specific written material when he
said:- "Where there is no complete
record, then not only may the substance
of the allegations become
distorted...... but any critical
assessment of the source material
becomes difficult or impossible". We
ask: what complete record (as defined by
Lord Clyde) exists of the source material
which brought the W children into care, and
which Public Inquiry will now assess it?
Enough Suffering
The Orkney Seven Action
Group seeks maximum publicity for the
plight of these children, and for their
mother Mrs.W. These children have already
suffered enough.
We trust that the media
will see fit to give the widest possible
coverage to this case, in the interest of
securing justice for Mrs.W and her
children. We trust that concerned
politicians will hasten to raise the
matter in the House, and will insist that
the quite unnecessary suffering of this
family ceases forthwith.
In our view, the
enforced detention of these children
should be brought to an end at once, and
the legal process allowed to pursue its
leisurely course at a later date. As
matters stand now, we believe that public
confidence in the system is being
maintained at the expense of justice, and
that this surely cannot be right.
Orkney Seven Update
Of her seven children in
care, Mrs.W, as we have said, has access
to only two, the boys, now aged 11 and 13,
both of whom still insist at their
Hearings (but not quite so optimistically
now), that they want to return home.
Her daughter AW, aged
14, and the subject, as stated elsewhere,
of an unbelievable total of 22 months
‘disclosure work', and other interviews
(such interviews are not noted for their
being of a voluntary nature), and
originally (as with the others) vociferous
in her insistence to return home, has
recently told her mother that she wants
her birth certificate, and wants to change
her surname to that of her foster parents.
We have in our possession a group
photograph taken shortly before the
removal of these children from their home
two years ago, which includes AW as a
carefree 12 year-old, relaxed, smiling,
and clearly pleased with life. We say no
more.
Mrs.W described OW as
having been a "bright, vivacious person"up
to the time of the first removal in 1989.
OW is now 18, but her foster parents
succeeded recently in renewing her
supervision order for a further 12 months,
and so OW remains in 'care’. Despite what
we trust to be the thoughtful attention of
her foster parents, we understand that OW
has, if anything, deteriorated further
over the past two years: her sister EW,
now living nearby, describes her as
"difficult", and Mrs.W describes her
speech as "disjointed and disturbed".
Mrs.W receives no medical reports on OW
(bear in mind that Mrs.W lives over 100
miles away, so that_really-hurts), and
no-one tells Mrs.W how her daughter OW is
getting on. Mrs.W has no idea what
specialist therapeutic counselling, if
any, her daughter receives. In early 1989,
Mrs.Sandy McEwen, the wife of OW's tutor,
considered OW “university material".
Removed with the other youngsters for four
weeks in June 1989, OW was separated from
the others, and told a local nurse on her
return that she had been drugged; the
nurse was concerned, and described OW's
behaviour as "disturbing", compared with
her state of mind prior to being taken
away. At a Children's Hearing on
15th.December 1989, the Hearing found the
Education Department to be "failing in
its responsibilities regarding OW".
No education personnel troubled to attend
the Hearing.
As is the case with AW,
the three youngest children, girls now
aged 7, 8, and 9, no longer see their
mother at all. Mrs.W's two boys in care
both sent her Christmas cards recently,
and both boys telephone and keep in touch,
but Mrs.W did not receive a Christmas card
this year from any of her other five
children in care, and cannot be sure that
any of these five children even received
the Christmas presents she sent them, so
thorough has been the disruption of normal
human contact between her and the
children, on the part of Orkney Social
Work Department. We are reminded of a
recent news item of a research study which
stated that:
"children in foster
care for as long as two years still
think, and even dream, about their birth
parents, sometimes every day"
(Social Work Today: 29th.October 1992).
Someone has a great deal
to answer for.
To suggest that Mr.Lee,
as Director of Orkney Social Work
Department, bears a grave responsibility
for the failure of his department to
consider properly the needs of the W
children, would be to put it mildly. By
the simple statement of their Social Work
Department's original intention on 20th
December 1990, to implement a plan which
resulted in such profound isolation, and
such drastic emotional deprivation for
these children, Orkney Islands Council
have utterly forfeited any moral claim to
be a good parent to them. To this day
Mr.Lee has declined to tender his
resignation.
In November 1992 (Social
Work Today: 12th.November 1992), one
hundred Orkney inhabitants at a meeting
organised by local MP Jim Wallace,
unanimously repeated their demands not
only for Mr.Lee's resignation, but also
for that of the Chairperson of the Social
Work Committee of Orkney Islands Council,
Mrs.Mhairi Trickett, and in addition, the
removal of a number of social work staff.
Mrs Trickett declined to tender her
resignation.
It is a matter of record
that, on 30th October 1991, Orkney Islands
Council issued a statement unequivocally
accepting Lord Clyde's view that "the
parents and children involved, and the
Reverend and Mrs.MacKenzie, must be
accorded the presumption of innocence".
(Mrs.W was one of the
suspected parents...... ).
In this report we have
raised issues, and posed questions, which
cry out for answers.
Mrs.W has a very simple
question:-
What have these people
done to my children?"
She deserves an answer.
Ends:
WRONGFUL IMPRISONMENT
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WITNESSES CREDIBLE AND INCREDIBLE
Cases involving sexual
offences are always diffcult. Many of these
cases involve children; and cases involving
children present problems of their own. They
may find it difficult to distinguish between
fantasy and reality For various reasons,
they are likely to tell lies in a more
unpredictable way' than adults. Children who
have told lies often resist fanatically
having to admit that they have lied. By
themselves they find it hard to distinguish
lies from truth, and yet they are very well
aware that adults regard the telling of lies
with strong moral disapprobation. We have
already discussed the problems created by
the lack of accuracy of perception and
memory in adults, especially with regard to
cases of misidentification. Children
experience these problems to a greater
degree than adults, and in a wider variety
of circumstances. Again, adults are
susceptible to suggestion and rehearsing:
children are even more vulnerable to
pressures of this kind.
The law recognizes that
there are difficulties in accepting
children’s evidence. If a judge satisfies
himself that the child knows the meaning of
an oath or affirmation, then the child will
be allowed to give sworn evidence in court
just like an adult. If a child is too young
or immature to appreciate the meaning of the
oath, but nevertheless knows the meaning of
‘telling the truth’, then the judge may
allow the child to give unsworn testimony in
court. In this case, the judge must instruct
the jury not to convict solely on the
unsworn evidence of the child. There must be
corroborating evidence, and the unsworn
testimony of another child is not regarded
as ‘corroboration’.
We have already mentioned
the rule that in cases involving sex
offences the judge must warn the jury of the
danger of convicting on the uncorroborated
testimony of the victim. This rule applies
equally Where the victim is a child. There
may be added di?iculties Where this is so
because of the traumatic effect of the
assault and its aftermath on the child. This
may particularly be so where the child’s
parents and the authorities have made a
great fuss about the incident.
(page 137)
1994 LAW LOWERING
EVIDENTIAL REQUIREMENT HAS CAUSED AN
AVALANCHE OF FALSE SEX-ABUSE ALLEGATIONS:
Alisdair Palmer*s Worst Fears Become
Reality|
“They would Like to see
rules of evidence changed so that it would
be easier to get convictions for satanic
abuse and have in mind something Like the
Criminal Justice Act of 1994, which
abolished the requirement for corroborative
evidence in child abuse cases. The result of
that change is that you can be convicted -
and many people have been simply on the word
of the individual who accuses you, even if
the allegation dates back 28 years.
The rationale for the change in the rules of
evidence was simple: without it, it would be
impossible to get convictions in most cases
of child abuse. Its effect has been to lower
the standard of proof: no one could say that
a charge of sexual abuse based on one,
unsubstantiated, recollection of what took
place 15 years earlier has been proved
“beyond reasonable doubt”.
The lawyers who piloted the change, Like the
psychiatrists and social workers who lobbied
for it, argued the goal of punishing real
child-abusers justified the risk - it is
in fact a certainty - of punishing a
number of imaginary ones. But relaxing the
rules of evidence sets an alarming
precedent. If those who believe in
satanic abuse get their way, the law will
eventually be changed to make
uncorroborated testimony sufficient for
conviction. That is why we should be
deeply alarmed..."
Alisdair Palmer; Excerpt from The Sunday
Telegraph 13th February 2000.
Summary of the Cleveland inquiry
The report of Lord Justice
Butler-Sloss on her inquiry into child abuse
in Cleveland was published on 6 July (HMSO,
Cm 412), together with a 2] page summary of
the main events and findings (HMSO, Cm 413)
and several pamphlets of guidelines from the
Department of Health and Social Security and
the Department of Education and Science
dealing with the sexual abuse of children.
During the crisis in Cleveland, which
developed over a period of about five
months, 125 children were diagnosed as
sexually abused, of whom 98 have now been
returned home. Proceedings in 27 wardship
cases were dismissed. This article
summarises the main findings of the report.
The events
Cleveland’s social
services had a good record of response to
issues of child care. Its growing concern
about the problem of child sexual abuse led
to the appointment in June 1986 of Mrs Susan
Richardson, a former social work team
leader, to the new post of child abuse
consultant. On 1 January 1987 Dr Marietta
Higgs began working as consultant
paediatrician in South Tees Health District.
Dr Higgs had established an interest in
child sexual abuse through previous work as
a senior registrar in Newcastle and her
contact with the research and teaching of
the Leeds paediatrician Dr Jane Wynne, who,
with Dr Christopher Hobbs, had published an
article in the Lancet describing the sign of
anal dilatation in the diagnosis of buggery
in children, which they considered to be a
common form of abuse.
Dr Higgs quickly
established a close working relationship
with Mrs Richardson. In February she started
to pick up cases of suspected sexual abuse,
in many of which she found anal dilatation,
and her increasing certainty about the
importance of this sign was reinforced by
the concurrence of Dr Wynne, to whom she
referred several cases for a second opinion.
In March Dr Geoffrey Wyatt, a consultant
paediatrician colleague, also became
convinced of the value of this sign when he
saw it elicited for the first time by Dr
Higgs; he thereafter supported her, coming
to believe with her that the identification
of sexual abuse was one of a paediatrician’s
most important tasks.
In March and April Dr
Higgs diagnosed anal abuse in several
children, including two who had already been
removed from their families and placed with
foster parents. Eleven children who had been
through this particular foster household
were subsequently brought up to hospital for
examination by Dr Higgs, and 10 were
admitted when she found signs of anal abuse.
At this time the director of social
services, Mr Michael Bishop, became aware of
the scale of this new development in
paediatric activity and started to become
personally concerned. By the end of Aprila
rift had developed between Dr Higgs and the
police, in particular with the police
surgeon, Dr Alistair Irvine, who did not
believe that most children diagnosed as
abused by Dr Higgs had indeed been abused.
He was particularly sceptical of the value
of the anal dilatation sign in diagnosing
buggery and received support in this from Dr
Raine Roberts, a police surgeon from
Manchester with particular skills in sexual
assault. Mrs Richardson discounted Dr
Ivine’s views and firmly supported Dr Higgs,
arranging the referral of increasing numbers
of children with suspected abuse to her,
most of whom were admitted to hospital under
place of safety orders.
Matters came to a head
during May and June, when unprecedented
numbers of children were admitted to
hospital by both Dr Higgs and Dr Wyatt with
what was an unfamiliar problem, some in
clusters at weekends, some late at night.
Accommodation and nursing services became
overstretched, and field social workers and
ward nursing staff became increasingly
anxious about the diagnoses. The police
issued guidelines, unknown to social
services, to the effect that officers should
“proceed with caution” when asked to
investigate cases diagnosed by Dr Higgs and
“look for substantial corroboration of her
findings before proceeding.” Mrs Richardson
drafted a memorandum, endorsed by Mr Bishop
and distributed through social services,
unknown to the police, that there should be
routine place of safety orders in all cases
of suspected abuse, that parents’ access
should be suspended (as they might interfere
with the child’s disclosure of abuse), and
that the police surgeon should be excluded
from making a second examination.
During June several events
occurred that led to the recognition that
there was a crisis. There were two further
large waves of admissions, stretching
accommodation and nursing services to
breaking point; interim place of safety
orders started to be contested in the courts
on the basis that the medical evidence was
disputed; there was an angry scene on the
children’s ward concerning parents and Dr
Wyatt, when the police had to be called;
parents organised themselves into a protest
group aided by a local priest and the affair
began to be noticed by the media; and Dr
Irvine announced in a television interview
that Dr Higgs was wrong to diagnose sexual
abuse in a particular case. The Northern
Regional Health Authority became concerned
for the first time in mid-June, and a second
opinion panel was rapidly organised; but
this failed to defuse the situation because
by this time the media were in full cry,
aided and abetted by the local member of
parliament, Mr Stuart Bell, who took the
part of the parents both in television
interviews and in his representations to
parliament and to the health minister. On 9
July the health minister announced that a
statutory inquiry was to be set up. Drs
Higgs and Wyatt were relieved of clinical
duties from the end of July to allow them to
prepare for the hearings.
Main findings
The report is at pains to
present a balanced view of the events and
the various pressures which led to a
breakdown of communications. In many cases
it goes out of its way to praise effective
and sensible responses to the crisis,
praises the Northern Regional Health
Authority for its effective intervention
from mid-June onwards, and acknowledges the
dedication and com- mitment shown by Drs
Higgs and Wyatt and by Mrs Richardson. There
are, however, many criticisms reflecting
both individual and corporate actions during
the crisis. It was concluded that one of the
most worrying features of the Cleveland
crisis was the isolation and lack of support
for the parents of the children concerned,
whether they were abusers, possible abusers,
or “‘ordinary people caught up in the
results of a misdiagnosis.”
PERSONALITIES AND AGENCIES
Dr Higgs, as a new
consultant venturing into a new field, is
criticised for undue reliance on physical
signs alone, in particular the anal
dilatation test. She was too ready to draw
certain conclusions from her findings and
too fixed in her belief that the children
should be separated from their parents to
allow “disclosure.” She lacked appreciation
of the forensic elements of her work and did
not recognise the inadequacy of resources 1n
Cleveland to meet the crisis. Her relentless
pursuit of her goals, which never seemed to
be interrupted by a pause for thought,
caused unneces- sary distress to children
and their families.
Dr Wyatt also did not
allow for the limited state of present
knowledge in what is an extremely difficult
area. He arranged for the admission of many
children with suspected sexual abuse without
thought for the consequences and showed a
lack of common sense in responding to the
crisis. He made no independent inquiries
about the diagnostic techniques used until a
late stage. Many of the criticisms of Dr
Higgs’s actions apply equally to him, and it
was concluded that they both share a
responsibility for the crisis. No evidence
was found that either doctor had attempted
to screen for sexual abuse, as was widely
claimed at the time.
Mrs Richardson acted on
her belief that the only way to deal with
suspected child abuse was to take control by
means of a place of safety order. She did
not consider the possibility of misdiagnosis
by Dr Higgs or Dr Wyatt, and there was no
evidence that she sought to exercise any
restraint on the accelerating numbers of
admissions of children with suspected abuse.
Her commitment to the protection of children
from abuse led her to disregard the need to
proceed at a pace commensurate with the need
to gain the trust of other agencies,
particularly the police. It was concluded
that she bore a significant share of the
responsibility for breakdown of
communications between social services and
the police.
Mr Bishop is criticised
for failing to make any attempt to bring
social services, health services, and the
police together, and in particular for
failing to appreciate the serious
differences between the social and medical
services and the police. He uncritically
supported Mrs Richardson’s and Dr Higgs’s
actions until a late stage in the crisis.
His department, under the guidance of his
senior staff, failed to recognise that child
sexual abuse has different characteristics
from physical abuse and requires cautious
intervention to allow the risks of false
positive findings to be balanced against
those of false negative ones.
Dr Irvine had strongly
held views, reinforced by conversations with
Dr Raine Roberts, who herself was not
neutral on the issue, and allowed these
views and an overemotional response to the
situation to colour his judgment. It is
considered that he must bear some of the
responsibility for the poor relations
between the police and social services and
for the bias of some of the media coverage.
Lacking confidence in Dr Higgs’s diagnoses,
the police themselves, instead of making
efforts with social services to seek an
authori- tative outside medical opinion,
retreated into an entrenched position and
made little effort to solve the problem.
There was a regrettable tendency, shared
with the social services, for the
interagency squabble to become increasingly
personal and for the interests of the
children to be submerged.
It was concluded overall
that “it is unacceptable that the
disagreements and failure of communication
of adults should be allowed to obscure the
needs of children both long term and short
term in so sensitive, difficult, and
important a field. The children had unhappy
experiences which should not be allowed to
happen again.”
ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS
It was not a function of
the inquiry to evaluate the accuracy of
diagnostic techniques in the diagnosis of
sexual abuse. The report, however, explores
the issues raised by the problem of
diagnosis in some 20 pages and discusses the
sign of anal dilatation in some detail. It
is emphasised that grounds for removing a
child from home on the basis of anal
dilatation alone during the Cleveland affair
were found on comparatively few occasions.
The anal dilatation sign is elicited by
separating the buttocks, preferably with the
patient in the knee to elbow position,
whereupon after several seconds the anal
canal opens and allows a view of the rectum.
This sign is not a new one and has been
recorded in passive homosexuals. The
consensus of the evidence given to the
inquiry was that anal dilatation in children
is abnormal and suspicious and requires
further investigation but is not in itself
evidence of anal abuse. It has been
described in some cases of chronic
constipation. There is, however, a need for
more information about how often it may be
found in normal children who have not been
subject to abuse.
Main recommendations
The recommendations of the
inquiry run to 10 pages and are succinctly
expressed. It is therefore impossible to
summarise them all within the confines of a
short article. There may well be
disagreement about which are the most
important. We have chosen to include the
following:
The children - The
child must be treated as a person and not an
object of concern. Professionals should
recognise the need for adults to explain to
children what is going on and not to make
promises that cannot be kept. Children
should not be subject to repeated
examinations or confrontational “disclosure”
inter- views for evidential purposes. Those
concerned with investigating child sexual
abuse should make a conscious effort to
ensure that they act at all times in the
best interests of the child, which may not
necessarily mean removing the child from
home.
Parents - should
be treated with the same courtesy as the
parents of any other referred child and
should be informed and consulted by
professionals dealing with the child when
appropriate. They should be made aware of
their rights. The social services should
always seek to provide support for the
family during the investigation.
The courts - It 1s
recommended that the white paper on the law
on child care and family services should be
implemented. The clerk to the justices
should have a statutory duty to keep records
of all place of safety orders. A simple
written explanation of the meaning and
effect of a place of safety order should be
provided to parents. All lawyers engaged in
this type of work, at all levels, should
make themselves more fully aware of the
nature of child abuse and its management.
The social services,
police, and medical profession - No
person or agency should make a decision in
isolation as to whether a child has been
sexually abused. There is an overriding need
to consider carefully the appropriate speed
and level of any intervention planned. The
medical diagnosis and any physical signs
that led to it should not be the prime
consideration except in straightforward
cases. Responsible agencies should get
together for a wider assessment of the
likelihood of sexual abuse based on all
available information. Specialist assessment
teams should be established to provide
advice in difficult cases. There is a need
for more extensive training, particularly
interagency training—for example, the
combined training of police officers and
social workers. The medical profession needs
to appreciate the legal implications of work
on child sexual abuse.
Abusers and the abused
- Finally, there is a need to
recognise and rectify the problem of the
lack of help provided for adults who were
abused as children and to recognise the
problems of the abuser who may wish to
confess his activities and receive help but
is inhibited for fear of the consequences.
BMJ VOLUME 297 16 JULY 1988 pp190-191
POTTED HISTORY OF POTTY FEMINISTS
( From Dramatis Personae Website)
An example of the
continued collusion and the driving forces
of the feminist lobby can be seen in the
publication of the academic book Home Truths
about Child Sexual Abuse: A reader
contributed-to and edited by
Catherine_Itzin. The book included the
essay/paper Confronting sexual abuse
Challenges for the future from feminist
Sarah Nelson, that advocated for the SRA
Myth, in it's Mind Control form.
"Prevention or reduction of
child sexual abuse is not possible, except
in a very limited way, until professionals
and the public discover and confront its
full scale and nature. To tackle a social
evil you must know what you are dealing
with, and however disturbing the truth may
be, it is necessary to know the worst
before building an effective strategy. I
suspect that we still have very little
idea of the true extent, nature, savagery,
planning and organisation of child sexual
abuse in society. Many new clues have been
garnered, especially over the past decade:
what Roland Summit describes in his moving
paper 'Hidden Victims, Hidden pain' as
'fleeting glimpses of the reality brought
by each brief clearing of the fog (Summit
1988). These include revelations about the
extent of repressed memory among adults;
the scale and organisation of paedophile
rings, especially in the residential
childcare sector, the existence of
sadistic child murder, the scale of the
multi-million international child
pornography industry, and of international
'sex tourism'; and the existence of ritual
abuse by cults, who use hitherto
unimagined physical, sexual and emotional
torture and mind control. (Source: Page
389 Home Truths about Child Sexual Abuse:
A reader (2000) contributed-to and edited
by Catherine Itzin, from the paper
Confronting sexual abuse Challenges for
the future by Sarah Nelson)
Ms. Nelson had previously
presented her paper, including her advocacy
for the SRA Myth in its 'Mind Control"
version, to the British Association for the
Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and
Neglect (BASPCAN) Third National Congress in
Edinburgh in 1997, and part of it was
published in Child Abuse Review (1998).
The 'Mind Control' version
of the SRA Myth that Ms. Nelson determined
is a 'revelation' (though in 2000 it was
probably a revelation that a 'serious'
academic publication would be willing to
publish advocacy for the religious
fundamentalist-derived theory) is the second
version of the 'Myth to come to Britain's
shores. It was driven this time by
fundamentalists in the US who had realised
the shortfalls in the older 'Classic'
version of the SRA Myth, with its flying
witches and inanimate objects, spacecraft in
the back yard and inanimate objects being
turned into magical creatures. The Mind
Control version envisioned all the previous
impossibilities, together with satanists
being able to be in two places at once, and,
a huge government/CIA conspiracy that used
ritual abuse as a means to control the
thoughts of hundreds of thousands of people.
As it was, persuading many that Britain's
MI5 had much interest in Mind Control was
tough, so as with Classic SRA Myth, the poor
and disadvantaged in the country were and
are blamed as being the those who have the
Mind Control skills to inflict suffering on
their young charges. A summary of the three
versions of the SRA Myth (the most recent
one involves space aliens and 12-foot tall
lizards).
In addition to Ms. Nelsons
paper, Home Truths about Child Sexual Abuse:
A reader also featured an essay co-authored
by Dr. Liz Kelly, head of the CWASU (Child ;
Woman Abuse Studies Unit) hosted by the
London Metropolitan University, and which
describes its original establishment as
being to both develop feminist theory and
practice, and take this perspective into
professional training, especially that of
social work. The CWASU is a leading center
for feminist research that attempts to
bolster belief that rape and child abuse are
rife in British society, and that evil men
require greater restriction and supervision.
Despite her feminist credentials, as with
many other feminists, Dr. Kelly is a leading
advocate for the Christian
Fundamentalist-derived SRA Myth, having
jointly authored numerous papers on the
subject (although there is no evidence that
she has taken on the Mind Control version of
the 'Myth or the 'Lizard' version.)
Before her death Catherine
Itzin was aleading member of the feminist
lobby, intent on identifying all males -
boys and men, as pedophiles. Home Truths
about Child Sexual Abuse: A reader though
couldn't be subjected to any confusion; it
simply determined all men (or certainly the
vast majority) to be pedophiles - either
active or waiting for the opportunity. The
contributor and editor determined in her
introduction that she would make it patently
clear what the book was intended to do;
This book aims to make and to
try to keep, visible this maintaining of
men's sexual access to children as
essential to the formulation of an
effective public policy response to child
sexual abuse. The radical feminist
contribution to child protection is the
identification of child sexual abuse as
being what ordinary men want and what
ordinary men do. What this book
does I hope, is to make it clear that this
is nothing to do with 'feminist anti-men
thing', but a fact for which there is a
substantial body of empirical evidence. This
is what men do because they want to;
because they can; and because, largely,
they can get away with it (Source:
Page 5 Home Truths about Child Sexual
Abuse: A reader (2000) contributed-to and
edited by Catherine Itzin)
In 2000 Dr. Catherine Itzin
was Research Professor in Social Work and
Social Policy and Co-director of the
International Centre for the Study of
Violence and Abuse at the University of
Sunderland. She died in March 2010. Unlike
the Dr._Liz_Kelly-led CWASU (Child; Woman
Abuse Studies Unit) at the London
Metropolitan University, which references
the papers advocating for the religious
fundamentalist-inspired SRA Myth, the
University of Sunderland's International
Centre for the Study of Violence and Abuse
makes no mention of the Myth and presumably
has purged itself of all fundamentalist
attributes.
Dr. Itzin, prior to her
death and together with leading SRA Myth
advocate Dr. Kelly, imposed a huge influence
on academic belief in the extent of sexual
violence, notably domestic violence, incest
and organised abuse, including the SRA Myth,
still believed by a sizeable minority of key
individuals in key positions. These beliefs
are buttressed by a further series of
distinct beliefs - including the idea that
the primary reason for the existence of
families is to allow males to sexually abuse
and rape their daughters, that most women
with children are subject to serious
personality disorders (including MSBP, BPD
and bi-polar disorder) and that Vast
Conspiracies exist within government, the
police and the security services to buttress
the 'patriarchy', which includes the use of
Mind Control to exert influence. A primary
concern of Dr. Itzin was to draw attention
to the invisibility of the normal, ordinary,
heterosexual family men who sexually abuse
their own and other people's children on a
very substantial scale (from Incest,
paedophilia, pornography and prostitution:
making familial males more visible as the
abusers by Catherine Itzin, Child Abuse
Review, Volume 10, Issue 1, pages 35â??48,
January/February 2001).
Consequently, particularly
during the period of New Labours time in
office (1997-2010) government policy was
increasingly driven by the sometimes
obsessive conspiracy-theory-driven fantasies
of a small number of civil servants,
academics and researchers, sometimes intent
only on pursuing political or religious
dogma, but most often concerned with simply
consolidating a power base in departments
that attract substantial investment and
funding. As of 2012 there is no indication
that this environment has changed, and it
appears relatively vulnerable from budget
restraints.
Ends.
The contributors to
Itzin's 'Home Truths About Sexual
Abuse: Influencing Policy and Practice'
are a veritable who's who of early
believers in Satanic Ritual Abuse, most of
whom were involved in contributing to the
Satanic Panic in the 1990s and who are still
involved in promoting the idea that it
exists today. Those in bold type in the
following list, from Itzin's
Introduction,are also covered in detail in
the main texts on this web-page.
Contributors to this book
represent a wide range of professional and
academic disciplines. Professions include:
paediatric medicine (Marietta Higgs
and Geoffrey Wyatt), social work
(Hilary Eldridge, Tony Morrison, Bobbie
Print, Sue Richardson and Sara
Swann), probation (Ray Wyre), child
and adolescent forensic psychiatry (Susan
Bailey), clinical psychology (Heather
Bacon) and psychotherapy (Alice Miller
and Joan Woodward). Academic disciplines
include sociology (Sheila Burton, Liz
Kelly, Sarah Nelson, Linda
Regan and Diana E. H. Russell), social work
( Rebecca Bolen and Maria Scannapieco) and
social policy (Elaine Farmer, Morag Owen and
myself). Louise Armstrong is an independent
scholar and author.
The book is a pot-boiler of misandry. A
collection of untested, unproven opinions -
mostly false or in error - from friends and
colleagues who crusade against men to confirm
the third-wave radical Feminist world view.
There were dozens more people involved in
social work, academe or child care who do NOT
appear in this book who originally were
convinced about SRA but then saw it was a myth
and switched course. Some were publicly
discredited and slunk away into oblivion. Some
were brave enough to confess to their errors
publicly, such as Cult-Cops Randy Emon and
Sandy Gallant. The only reason why It
zin's crowd will not let SRA go is that demonising men is more important
to them than the Truth. Radical Feminism demands that ALL men
be demonised as rapists waiting for a chance. As Hull Rape
Crisis Centre clearly stated 'Satan is the ultimate rapist'.
Yet after Itzin's death 'Home Truths' is now seen within
social work as unique source of information on child abuse in
the UK! Clearly it is simply Feminist Propaganda which should
not be believed.
Timeline of FAILED Cases of
Satanic Abuse and Official
Inquiries into it since 1988
which are INCONTROVERTIBLE.
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1987: Scandal in
Cleveland as 121
children are taken into
care.
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1987: Congleton SRA case
begins and turns out
FALSE.
-
1988: Butler-Sloss
Judicial Enquiry and
Report on Cleveland 80%
of those accused were
innocent.
-
1988: Epping SRA case
starts - proves to be
totally false, judge
throws it out.
-
1988: November:
Broxtowe, Nottingham
social workers agree
they have a satanic sex
ring.
-
1988; Extensive
police inquiries prove
that there is no SRA
content in Broxtowe
case.
-
1989:
Manchester/Trafford SRA
case begins - found
completely false.
-
1989: November: a claim
of ‘satanic abuse’ stems
from a boy in Rochdale
-
1990: March: Rochdale’s
social services head to
a London ‘satan’ course
-
1990: June: sixteen
children in Rochdale are
forcibly removed on
allegations of SRA
-
1990: November: eight
‘W’ children are taken
into care on South
Ronaldsay, Orkney
-
1990: December: some of
the Manchester/Trafford
case children are
released
-
1991: February: Orkneys
girl reports satanism; 9
more children are taken
into care.
-
1991: March: High Court
frees remaining Rochdale
children
-
1991: March: 9
recently-removed Orkneys
children are ordered
home
-
1991 Eight children are
removed and kept from
their homes in Ayr due
to 'Satanic Abuse'.
-
1992 £2M Police inquiry
in Hull stems from false
accusations made by
Geoffrey Dickens MP
concludes there was no
SRA involved.
-
1992: October: the Clyde
Report on the South
Ronaldsay abductions
-
1992: December: first
arrests in the Pembroke
‘SRA’ trial
-
1993: Bishop Auckland
satanic abuse case
begins - falls flat on
its face. No SRA.
-
1994: January: 12
‘satanic abuse ring’
defendants are on trial
at Pembroke
-
1994, February: while
still awaiting trial,
the Pembroke is judged
not ‘satanic’.
-
1994: La Fontaine report
on satanic abuse for the
Health Department
concludes SRA is a
figment of the
imagination of
satan-hunters and
fundamentalist activists
in social work.
-
1995: Ayrshire Inquiry
Report denounces social
service malpractice over
1990 SRA claims.
-
Things went quiet for a
decade, then a new
generation of SRA
believers jumped on the
bandwagon.They caused so
much trouble over that
period thai several
detailed
policeinvestigations
were put in place to
answer their hysterical
suspicions and false
accusations: This was
the result:
-
2014: SRA hysteria about
Haut de la Garrene
children’s home in
Jersey, offidal report
concludes no SRA
involved.
-
2014: Report concluding
Savile investigation -
no SRA involved.
-
2016: February:
Operation Midland
disbanded - all SRA
allegations false.
-
2016 October: Judge
Henrique report ruled
that SRA allegations
were untrue and many
fraudulent.
-
2017 Operation Conifer
(Ted Heath) closure
report - SRA allegations
unproven.
-
2019: January: Sabine
McNeil, ringleader of
the fase allegations of
SRA against Christchurch
School, Hampstead, is
jailed for 9 years for
perverting the course of
justice. No SRA
involved.
-
2019: July: SRA
believers star victim
imposter Carl Beech tums
out to be a kiddie
pervert himself. Is
given 18 years in jail
for fraud and perverting
the course of justice by
making false allegations
of SRA.
-
2020: February: The
governments own Historic
Abuse Inquiry IICSA
concludes that
-
‘the idea of a
conspiracy of abusers in
Westminster, including
mad tales about Edwarfd
Heath murdering children
in Satanic Rituals was
bunkum.
So by our count that is 34
instances of FAILURE to prove
the existence of SRA in every
single case alleged and every
official investigation and
inquiry undertaken in the past
36 years.. This is
not opinion it is
INCONTROVERTIBLE FACT
and every detail can be seen
in the public record. Anyone
who contradicts these facts
should be shunned as a
pestilence. There is no
such thing as Satanic Ritual
Child Abuse.
NSPCC's
crucial 17 July 1989 Press
Release on SRA which
started the UK Satanic
Panic
Press
Association:
July
17, 1989,
Monday
OFFENSIVE
LAUNCHED
AGAINST
SATANIC CHILD
ABUSERS
BYLINE:Sally
Weale, Press
Association
A
child
protection
society warned
tonight that
it was
becoming
"increasingly
concerned"
about the
ritualistic
abuse of
children in
occult
ceremonies.
The
National
Society for
the Prevention
of Cruelty to
Children urged
parents and
professionals
not to simply
dismiss
childrens'
accounts as
"fantasy" but
to listen and
offer help and
protection.
A
national
network of
counsellors is
to be created
to offer
support to
both the
youngsters and
adults lured
into covens
and abused. In
the last year
about 20 cases
have come to
light of
children being
subjected to
abuse by
occult
worshippers
and it is
widely thought
such a figure
is just the
tip of the
iceberg.
Dr
Alan Gilmour,
the director,
said:
"Children must
be listened to
if we are to
begin to deal
with the
problems which
ritualistic
abuse
confronts us
with. "The
information
about this
type of abuse
is very
limited but it
is becoming
increasingly
clear that
this is a very
real area of
concern which
must be
addressed." Dr
Gilmour added:
"Children
speaking out
about accounts
of ritualistic
ceremonies
must not be
dismissed.
Children
rarely
exaggerate
about such
matters."
The
NSPCC said a
major fear
must now be
that some
children have
been killed
during
ceremonies and
that others
were seriously
at risk.
The
problem is
highlighted on
ITV tonight by
The Cook
Report. After
the
investigative
programme,
helplines will
be opened for
people who
have fallen
victim to
groups.
Cases which
have come to
light involve
young girls
being raped
and babies
being induced
five-and-a-half
months into
pregnancy then
killed and
eaten during
ceremonies.
The national
network of
counsellors is
made up of
experts from
organisations
already
dealing with
occult-related
problems and
has been
brought
together by
the
Evangelical
Alliance, an
interdenominational
church body.
Ends.
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is an actual
screen shot of
Maureen Davies
handling the
help-lines on
the Cook
Report. Ray
Wyre and
members of
Team 4 were
also present
The Truth
about how The
NSPCC jumped
on the SRA
bandwagon
The link
between the
NSPCC and The
despicable Reachout
Trust
which
influenced the
Evangelical
Alliance to
jump on the
SRA bandwagon
thereby
recruiting a
million dim
Methodists to
work with the
Cook Report to
pressure the
NSPCC into
following
suit, is clear
from the full
page article
in The
Evangelical
Alliance
magazine
headlined
'The Nightmare
we refuse to
believe' published
earlier in
late June 1989
in which the
Reverend Kevin
Logan, a
director of
Reachout
Trust, is seen
exorcising
children who
their mothers
claimed had
been
Satanically
Abused, for
the now
discredited
Cook Report
special;
'The
Devil's Work'
.
Logan is
placing his
hand on the
head of Laura
(see http://saff.nfshost.com/childrenforthedevil.htm
for her
heartbreaking
story about
how her mother
beat her until
she memorised
a story about
being
Satanically
Abused). Laura
later gave her
personal story
about the TV
exorcism to
the SAFF when
she became an
adult. She and
her brother
were never
abused by
Satanists but
now, as a
mother
herself, she
agrees that
her mother's
psychopathy
was exploited
by believers
in SRA.
The photo also
shows Maureen
Davies and
Audrey Harper,
both
Reachout Trust
directors,
kneeling at
the altar (far
left). They
are
ever-present
in articles,
documentaries,
and newspaper
reports during
the 1990
Satanic Panic.
In this
cutting above,
Ritual
Abuse Report
Prompts Calls
for Action
we see an
article from
the Church
Times from
July 1989 in
which Reachout
Trust has
managed to
hi-jack the
million-strong
well-meaning
but
mega-gullible
Christians who
are members of
the
Evangelical
Alliance
allowing
Reachout to
speak with the
massed
authority of
Methodism on
SRA because of
their backing.
The article
goes on to
link
Reachout's
work with the
NSPCC and the
Cook Report
and under the
umbrella of
The
Evangelical
Alliance and
is a watershed
in the
coalescing of
several groups
( Chris-tian
Medical
Fellowship,
(who held the
first Satan
Seminar in
April 1989 in
London) , The
Christian
Response to
the Occult (an
established
defamation
group intent
on warning of
imagined
'dangers' of
the occult
which had up
until this
point not
featured
SRA) and
the Methodist
Church which,
the article
says, is
hoping to
stage a
conference for
church leaders
on the subject
of ritual
abuse.
This church
'war-cry' on
SRA was issued
in tandem with
the broadcast
of the now
discredited
Cook Report,
'The Devil's
Work' which
Reachout
had a key role
in creating.
By the time
the Satanic
Panic was in
full-swing
Rev. Kevin
Logan was making
blatant claims
not just that
children were
being
sadistically
abused but
that Babies
had been
killed in
Satanic
Ceremonies.
A
blood-libel
myth which was
part of many
Christian
pogroms
against Jews
going back to
the 12th
Century and
which had an
equally false
origin in
hysterical
lies about
Jews cutting
the throats of
Christian
babies to
drink their
blood.
Needless to
say it is
complete
fiction but
was seen and
believed by
key players in
the Church of
England of
which church
Logan was a
vicar.
Reachout were
consulted,
quoted, had a
presence in,
provided
information
for and
usually
appeared in
almost every
single
newspaper
article,
magazine
article,
TV documentary
and radio
broadcast on
SRA during the
peak Satanic
Panic years of
1988-1994.
Clearly
Reachout and
it's
evangelical
friends were
virtually
controlling
the
news-output on
SRA
country-wide
and generating
sectarian
hatred
against Pagans
and
Satanists
amongst
nominal
Christians who
knew no
better.
So
all of this.
(the
publication of
the NSPCC's
report on SRA,
The broadcast
of the Cook
Report's
'Devil's
Work', The
hi-jacking of
mainstream
Christianity
by Reachout
and the eager
complicity of
the media in
publishing
those
despicable
claims (see
above for
typical
example),
underpinned
the massive
hysteria of
the Satanic
Panic in the
1990s. In
'The Nightmare
we refuse to
believe' The
text says:
NSPCC
Child Care
Director Jim
Harding,
stressed that
his society
had not made
its fears
public until
it was
satisfied that
the stories
were not
fabricated.
The NSPCC
findings
confirmed the
fears of
several
Christian
groups working
under the
auspices of
the
Evangelical
Alliance of
Great Britain.
Ten months
previously the
groups -
including
Reachout
Trust,
Christian
Response to
the \Occult,
Christian
Medical
Fellowship and
others - had
begun to
investigate
ritual abuse.
Note that
quote! The
NSPCC had not
made its fears
public until
it was
satisfied that
the stories
were not
fabricated.
It is an
untruth! The
SAFF had been
in
correspondence
with the
NSPCC's
director, Ian
Gilmour, since
April 1989
warning them
that they were
being had with
sectarian
lies!
See the diary
of
correspondence
here.
SAFF warned
the NSPCC that
they would rue
the day they
chose to run
with the
Satanic Panic
and by March
1990 here they
were below
apologising
for misleading
the public and
repeating
sectarian
lies. And who
is doing the
public
contrition?
NSPCC Child
Care Director
Jim Harding!
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