Issue 50 – May 2003

S M A R T
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Issue 50 – May 2003

The purpose of this newsletter is to help stop secretive organizations and groups from abusing others and to help those who allege they have been abused by such organizations and groups. This newsletter is not a substitute for other ways of recovering from ritual abuse. Readers should use caution while reading this newsletter. If necessary, make sure other support systems are available during and after reading this newsletter.

Important: The resources mentioned in this newsletter are for educational value only. Reading the books cited may or may not help your recovery process, so use caution when reading any book or contacting any resource mentioned in this newsletter. Some may have a religious or other agenda that may be separate from your own recovery process. Others may have valuable information on the Masons and other organizations, but have triggers or be somewhat sympathetic to those organizations. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, the views expressed in this newsletter constitute expressions of opinion, and readers are cautioned to form their own opinions and draw their own conclusions by consulting a variety of sources, including this newsletter. Resources listed, quoted and individual articles, etc. and their writers do not necessarily support all or any of the views mentioned in this newsletter. Also, the views, facts and opinions mentioned in this newsletter are solely the opinions of the authors and are not necessarily the opinions of this newsletter or its editor.

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The Sixth Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference will be from August 8 – 10, 2003 at the DoubleTree near Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, CT. Sponsored by: S.M.A.R.T. Internet conference information is at: http://members.aol.com/smartnews/smart-2003-conference.htm

Resources and Information

Please note: Listing of these resources does not necessarily constitute our endorsement of them. They are for educational value only and some may be heavy for survivors to read. Some of the conferences listed may not necessarily be safe for all survivors. S.M.A.R.T. recommends always bringing a support person to all conferences. If you are a survivor of mind control and/or ritual abuse, S.M.A.R.T. recommends that you try to bring a support person that is familiar with mind control techniques. LMS: article from ACHES-MC (Advocacy Committee for Human Experimentation Survivors – Mind Control) for unconsentually federally funded mind control as children or adults Canada contact Lynne Moss-Sharman, 230 Miles St. E. #3, Thunder Bay, Ont. P7C 1J6, lsharman@shaw.ca

Survivorship and S.M.A.R.T. are co-sponsoring the first East Coast Conference on Ritualistic Abuse on Saturday May 24, 2003, for survivors, their allies, activists, and professionals. It will be held at the Cambridge Friend’s Meeting House from 9:30 to 5:00. Cost is $50.00 ($30.00 for limited income attendees) if pre-registered. Add $10.00 if not pre-registered or pre-paid. CEU registration is $15.00
Speakers and topics are: Fran Demiany, Ph.D. – “Building Internal Communication and Cooperation”
Neil Brick of S.M.A.R.T. – “How Cues and Programming Work in Mind Control and Propaganda.”
Jeannie Riseman, MSW of Survivorship – “Building Community”
There will also be small discussion groups, question and answer periods, and a safe room staffed by the Cambridge Women’s Center. Survivorship has been approved by the California Board of Behavioral
Sciences as a provider of Continuing Education Credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists. Our provider number is 2690. The May 24, 2003 East Coast Conference on Ritualistic Abuse meets the qualifications for four hours of continuing education credit for MFCCs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Space is limited. You may pre-register at http://www.survivorship.org/html/preregister.html or by writing
info@survivorship.org. Survivorship PMB 139 3181 Mission St San Francisco CA 94110-4515

Third Annual Conference on MPD/SRA Religious Terrorism and Trauma October 9,10,11 2003, Twin Rivers Worship Center, 10575 Tesson Ferry Road, St. Louis Missouri 63123 Sponsored by: South County Christian Counseling Center for the Study of Deviant Movements Occult Research and Crime Consultants Contact information: Mary Jo Schneller 636-305-0755 Email: telex1@aol.com http://www.geocities.com/stoptrauma/page1.html

Court Cases and Legal Articles

from LMS Former Mendota circus head gets four years in prison for embezzling Pam Louwagie 2/22/03 “The former head of the Shrine Circus division of the Osman Shrine Temple was sentenced Friday to four years and three months in federal prison for embezzling more than $300,000 from the organization. Robert L. Janecek, 59, of Mendota….Bruno said after the sentencing that other Shriners knew Janecek was getting paid commissions for sales of tickets, concessions and advertising.” http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3668338.html

from LMS Shriners ‘pulled wool over eyes’ Expected $130,000 profit from circus not going to kids’ hospital after all By Jeremy Loome, Edmonton Sun “A leading local Shriner conceded yesterday that statements by club members may have misled the public into believing circus profits would go to sick kids.” http://www.canoe.ca/EdmontonNews

Amirault loses plea for commutation By John Ellement, Globe Staff, 3/15/03 “In a move that keeps Governor Mitt Romney from becoming entangled in the notorious Fells Acres Day School case, the Advisory Board of Pardons said…that the prison sentence of convicted child molester Gerald Amirault should not be commuted and Amirault should seek freedom through a standard parole hearing later this year.” http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/074/metro/Amirault_loses_plea_for_commutation+.shtml

from LMS Pornographer sentenced for sexual abuse of child By Lisa Teachey 3/19/03 “A man who distributed child pornography on the former “Candyman” Internet site pleaded guilty in state district court Wednesday to sexually abusing a child….Only one of the eight, Robert Walker Froman, 50, of Pasadena, was charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child, a state crime.” http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/1827063

Review of Child Pornography and Obscenity Crimes Report Number I-2001-07 July 19, 2001 “Child Pornography….In 89 percent of the cases, the defendants either pled guilty or were found guilty at trial.” http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/i0107/results.htm

New Bill Targets ‘Virtual’ Child Porn 2/25/03 Nick Anderson LA Times Staff Writer “Washington – Responding to a Supreme Court ruling that voided key provisions of a 1996 law banning “virtual” child pornography, Congress and the White House are trying once again to crack down on the manufacture and sale of sexual images of children.” Http://www.cpswatch.com/news/article.asp?Index=1481

Senate OKs Tools to Fight Child Porn By Jim Abrams Washington (AP) – “Not a senator dissented as the Senate sent to the House legislation seeking to give prosecutors powerful new tools to fight child pornographers. The measure makes it harder for producers of computer-generated child pornography to evade prosecution, creates new crimes aimed at those who would entice minors into sexual activity, increases penalties and requires greater proof from pornographers that they are not using children.” http://news.findlaw.com/ap_stories/a/w/1153/2-25-2003/20030225051501_26.html

from LMS Navy Pilot Sentenced for Soliciting Sex With Minor By Allan Lengel 4/1/03 Baltimore – “A decorated Navy commander and pilot who repeatedly used his computer at the Pentagon to solicit sex on the Internet from an undercover Maryland State Police detective posing as a 12-year-old girl was sentenced today to three years and one month in prison and fined $2,500.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/

from LMS Global summit aims to alleviate the plight of girls sold as sex slaves Carolyn Lochhead 2/23/03 “Slaves are traded every day, by the hundreds of thousands every year, in the United States and around the world. The trade goes largely unnoticed, perhaps because the slaves are women. Girls, actually – as young as 6 or 7 – who have been captured or sold or lured under false pretenses into prostitution, an estimated $7 billion annual business, involving an estimated 4 million women, including 75,000 in the United States.” http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/02/23/MN92308.DTL

from LMS Minnesotan gets three years in voodoo killing AP 2/23/03 Superior, WI – “A Minnesota man has been sentenced to three years in prison under a plea agreement for acting as an accomplice in the 1997 voodoo ritual killing of his uncle, a Minneapolis pharmacist and self-proclaimed voodoo high priest.” http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3669742.html see SMART #49 for more info on this case

from LMS Tracking down ‘Senor Tom’ Mexican activists spent years building child sex case against S.F. financier Stephanie Salter, Elizabeth Fernandez 2/16/03 Puerto Vallarta, Mexico “…combatting the problem of sex tourism….A never-used orphanage for boys sits empty just south of this tourist town, linked to a 53-suite resort hotel by a narrow footbridge across the creek-sized Mismaloya River. Thomas Frank White, the San Francisco multimillionaire whose money built it all – the footbridge, the Hotel Casa Iguana and Los Ninos de Vallarta shelter and school …Mexico, where he has been charged with alleged child sexual abuse, child prostitution and providing drugs to minors.” http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/02/16/MN130450.DTL

from LMS Police probing death of boy, 9, in Crescentville For religious reasons, his injured ankle did not get medical care. Social workers had visited his home by Clea Benson Inquirer Staff Writer 1/21/03 “In the past, members of Philadelphia’s Faith Tabernacle Congregation have faced criminal charges when their children have died or become gravely ill because of a lack of medical treatment.”

Priests suspended for blessing brothels and sex shops “Ten priests have been suspended from the Orthodox Church in Romania for blessing brothels and sex shops. A TV documentary showed priests receiving thongs and sex toys in return for giving their blessings.” http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_769646.html?menu=news.quirkies
Retired Kentucky priest pleads guilty in church abuse cases as trial about to begin Lori Burling, 3/31/03 Louisville, Ky. (AP) “A retired Roman Catholic priest accused of abuse by dozens of plaintiffs pleaded guilty to multiple counts of sexual misconduct Monday as his jury trial was scheduled to begin. The Rev. Louis E. Miller, 72, of Louisville…50 counts of indecent and immoral practices and sexual abuse. The charges involve 21 victims…Miller retired from public ministry last year when the accusations became public. He is accused of abuse in more than 80 lawsuits filed against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville, which employed him for more than 30 years…..They say the church was aware of the abuse but did nothing to stop it. A 1990 psychiatric report filed with the court last summer said Miller committed assaults every other month during the 1960s and ’70s, usually targeting boys 10 to 15. When the church learned of the incidents, it moved him from one job to another…The lawsuits against Miller are among more than 200 filed in about the last year which accuse more than 25 priests in the archdiocese of abuse.” http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/03/31/national1052EST0574.DTL
Kelly knew of abuse, kept priest in post – Memos show Creagh admitted molesting boy By Peter Smith The Courier-Journal “In March 1983, Louisville Archbishop Thomas C. Kelly became aware that a local pastor had sexually molested a 15-year-old boy but allowed the Rev. Thomas Creagh to continue leading St. Albert the Great parish. Two memos written for his own file, and initialed or signed by Kelly on March 9 and June 14 in 1983, show that the archbishop was fearful of church scandal and worked to keep the incident from becoming public. More than 200 people have suits pending against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville alleging decades of sexual abuse by 34 priests, teachers and others associated with the church. Whether their cases proceed depends in part on their lawyers’ argument that the state’s statute of limitations should not apply because the archdiocese covered up the sexual abuse.” http://www.courier-journal.com/

Marchers protest at cathedral – Catholic critics want bishops accountable for priests’ actions By Peter Smith 2/24/03 “…called for the resignation of Louisville Archbishop Thomas Kelly, saying they think he has mishandled abuse cases.” “Mary Miller of Louisville, one of 213 people suing the Archdiocese of Louisville over alleged sexual abuse by priests and others associated with the church. Her lawsuit is one of 85 accusing her uncle, the Rev. Louis E. Miller.” http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2003/02/24/ke022403s371559.htm

From LMS Priest’s crimes hushed – Admission at trial By Sam Pazzano – Toronto Sun 4/15/03 “The bishop for a Northern Ontario diocese admitted in court he told parishioners that a priest was taking a sabbatical when in fact the priest was at a New Mexico treatment centre for sex abusers. Bishop Jean-Louis Plouffe told a civil trial yesterday that he gave the parishioners of Rev. Thomas O’Dell’s church “no more details” in May 1990 after he learned the priest allegedly committed acts of gross indecency against two teen brothers in the early 1980s. In 1992, O’Dell admitted committing those offences and was sentenced to six months in prison and two years probation….Plouffe also admitted he destroyed documents sent from O’Dell’s treatment centre because its staff had instructed him to do so. O’Dell…is now serving a 30-month sentence in a Kingston penitentiary for those crimes, described by Justice Robert Boissoneault as “depraved and callous.”

This may be very heavy for survivors From LMS Abused seeks $4M Priest in prison for ’80s assaults By Sam Pazzano, Toronto Sun “A former Catholic priest and his diocese are being sued for almost $4 million in a Toronto courtroom for the “depraved and callous” sexual abuse of a young teen almost 20 years ago. According to a statement of claim, Father Thomas O’Dell stripped the 13-year-old boy, pinned him atop a church altar and forced him to fellate him. The Catholic priest later sodomized the youth with a wooden crucifix while in his office. O’Dell is now serving a 30-month sentence in a Kingston penitentiary for the attacks, which a judge branded as “depraved and callous.” http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoNews

Priest told N.H. boy his father died for reporting alleged abuse By Larry Laughlin Concord, N.H. (AP) – “A Roman Catholic priest told a boy his father had died because the father had reported the priest’s alleged sexual abuse of the boy to the Manchester Diocese, according to a report released by state investigators Monday. The alleged victim, who was not identified, wrote to the Rev. Raymond Laferierre in 1995, accusing him of having molested him “on many occasions” while Laferierre was assigned to St. Patrick’s parish in Milford.” http://www4.fosters.com/News2003/March2003/Mar_04/News/reg_pr_0304c.asp

States Follow California’s Lead on Priest Abuse Los Angeles Times By Larry B. Stammer 2/13/03 “…lawmakers around the country are debating proposals pioneered in California to extend time limits for criminal prosecutions of abusive priests and for civil lawsuits against church officials accused of shielding them.” http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=362&ncid=362&e=17&u=/trib/20030213/lo_latimes/states_follow_california_s_lead_on_priest_abuse

from LMS Fed court refuses to toss family’s suit against NAMBLA by J.M. Lawrence 4/4/03 “A federal judge has again refused to throw out a $200 million lawsuit against leaders of the North American Man Boy Love Association over the murder of a 10-year-old Cambridge boy….U.S. District Court Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. ruled the Curleys can sue 15 organizers of the group, men who live primarily in New York and California.” http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/namb04042003.htm

from LMS End urged for state’s abuse-case time limits By Rudolph Bush 3/11/03 “The state’s 10-year statute of limitations on prosecuting child sexual abusers would be eliminated under a Senate bill scheduled for a committee vote….would require priests to report suspicions of child abuse. And it would lift the two-year statute of limitations on filing civil suits based on childhood sexual abuse.” http://www.chicagotribune.com

House Approves Money for Amber Alert By Jesse J. Holland, AP Washington – “The House joined the Senate …in approving money for a nationwide child kidnapping “Amber Alert”….to quickly stop kidnappers, a ban on computer-simulated child pornography and new punitive measures for sex offenses….Under Sensenbrenner’s bill, people accused of raping or abducting children would be denied bail and held in jail until their trials. The statute of limitations on child abductions and sex crimes would be eliminated and life sentences would be required for twice-convicted sex offenders.” http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=512&ncid=716&e=7&u=/ap/20030327/ap_on_go_co/amber_alert

Iowa Briefs by AP 3/30/03 Priest faces federal child-porn charges – Davenport – “A Davenport priest who authorities say possessed child pornography on a church computer has been indicted on federal charges. The Rev. Richard Poster, 38, was indicted…by a grand jury on one count of receipt and one count of possession of child pornography. Charges filed against Poster by the Scott County Attorney’s office have been dismissed.” http://www.thonline.com/News/03302003/Iowa/172198.htm

from LMS Bishops Urged to Back Measure on Abuse Cases From Times Staff Reports – “Sex abuse survivors and Los Angeles prosecutors urged Catholic bishops…to support legislation that would stop the clock on the statute of limitations in pending priest molestation cases….Prosecutors said a dozen cases are in jeopardy because of delays by the church in disclosing files on problem priests.” http://www.latimes.com/

from LMS Franciscan order sues LA archdiocese over priest accused of abuse 4/5/03 Los Angeles (AP) “An order of Franciscan friars has sued the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, demanding it pay any possible award in an ongoing lawsuit that claims a priest from the order molested an altar boy three decades ago.” http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/04/05/state15 11EST0067.DTL

New Jersey – Camden Diocese agrees to settle sex abuse lawsuit for $880,000 3/14/03 By Mary Jo Patterson Star-Ledger Staff “After spending nine years fighting claims that some of its priests had sexually abused children, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden announced yesterday that it would pay 23 plaintiffs $880,000 to end the case. In their lawsuit, the plaintiffs accused 15 priests and numerous church officials of tolerating and hiding widespread child sex abuse within the diocese between 1961 and 1985.” http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1047626043190650.xml

Victims of Priests’ Abuse Seeking Redress Outside Church By Alan Cooperman 3/3/03 “victims have appeared before grand juries in Kentucky, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Ohio, Arizona, California, Pennsylvania, Missouri, South Carolina, Maryland and New York.” Washington Post

$300M Priest Abuse Suit Filed AP 4/14/03 “Nearly two dozen victims of alleged sexual abuse by priests in the Diocese of Rockville Centre filed a $300 million lawsuit against the accused abusers and the church hierarchy…”…State Supreme Court in Mineola, seeks $100 million in compensatory damages, $100 million in punitive damages and $100 million for pain and suffering. The victims claim the diocese did nothing to protect them from abuse and that the church sought to protect its own reputation rather than comfort the victims. Bishop William Murphy, 13 priests who allegedly inflicted sexual abuse, and other church leaders are named as defendants in the lawsuit.” http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lisuit0414,0,7744920.story?coll=ny-linews-headlines

Sexual Abuse & Misconduct in the Catholic Church Selected Cases from Media Reports Through 2002 http://www.bishopswatch.org/New/SexAbuseChart.htm

Assault Charge for Teacher With H.I.V. By Robert Hanley Paterson, N.J., 4/4/03 “A teacher at a Roman Catholic elementary school here has been arrested on charges that he sexually assaulted a former student over a two-month period in the summer of 2001….Since the late 1990’s, Mr. Welsh has taught religion, music, computers and gym, and served as a spiritual adviser to students of St. Therese, sometimes even after they graduated.” http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/nyregion/05ABUS.html?ex=1050551722&ei=1&en=9312046aa59602ff

Priest sought help, instead was assigned to youth work By J.M. Hirsch, AP 2/15/03 Concord, N.H. (AP) “Six years after being ordained in 1970, the Rev. Paul Aube realized he had a serious problem. The Roman Catholic priest couldn’t control his sexual urges, he says, and had molested several teenage boys. Needing help, Aube blew the whistle on himself. He says he told his superiors that he’d had sexual contact with the teens, asked his bishop for psychological counseling, and requested to never again be assigned to work with children. That didn’t happen, he says. Aube’s bishop assigned him to a job that put him in regular contact with minors, and he stayed in public ministry first in youth work and later in hospitals another 18 years.” http://www.boston.com/dailynews/046/region/Priest_sought_help_instead_wasP.shtml

Report Details Sex Abuse by Priests and Inaction by a Diocese By Fox Butterfield Concord, N.H., 3/3/03 — “The New Hampshire attorney general’s office released more than 9,000 pages of documents and a detailed report today showing how the leadership of the state’s Roman Catholic diocese knew for years about sexual abuse of minors by some of its priests and helped cover it up, violating the state’s child endangerment law.” http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/04/national/04DIOC.html?tntemail1

Law: Probing priest dad was not my job by Robin Washington 3/14/03 “In his latest deposition, Bernard Cardinal Law said he was “terribly outraged” to learn a priest in his archdiocese had fathered children with a woman and failed to assist her when she was dying of a drug overdose, but said it was not the archbishop’s responsibility to make sure the case was investigated.” http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/chur03142003.htm

LA cardinal fights document release after vowing openness 3/30/03 Los Angeles (AP) – “the archdiocese has acted aggressively to keep internal church documents concealed from prosecutors and the public. On Tuesday, church lawyers will make their case in court, claiming that communication between Mahony and the suspected priests is protected by the First Amendment. The lawyers say priest-bishop confidentiality is a foundation of Catholicism and that interfering with it violates the free exercise of religion.” http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/03/30/state1242EST0015.DTL
from LMS Judge Rejects Boston Archdiocese’s Motion to Dismiss 500 Suits in Abuse By Pam Belluck Boston, 2/19/03 — “A judge today rejected a motion filed by the Archdiocese of Boston that sought to dismiss nearly 500 civil lawsuits filed in the scandal of sexual abuse by members of the clergy. The judge, Constance M. Sweeney of Superior Court, dismissed the archdiocese’s argument that the First Amendment’s separation between church and state prevents courts from getting involved in how the church supervises priests.” http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/20/national/20ARCH.html

from LMS Conn. bishop’s resignation OK’d By Sacha Pfeiffer, Globe Staff, 3/12/03 “The Vatican yesterday accepted the resignation of Bishop Daniel A. Hart of the Diocese of Norwich, Conn. – the seventh American bishop to step down since the clergy sexual abuse crisis erupted last January….Hart had come under increasing scrutiny for his role in the abuse scandal, and he is named as a defendant in several lawsuits filed in Massachusetts and Connecticut that accuse him of negligence in his supervision of abusive priests. Church documents made public last year show that Hart played a role in the cases of several accused priests, including the Rev. Benjamin McMahon, who was arrested in the mid-1980s and accused of performing a sex act with another man, but received favorable treatment in court after Hart intervened. Hart also used the church’s influence to ensure that the outcome of McMahon’s case would be private, according to church records.” http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/071/metro/Conn_bishop_s_resignation_OK_d+.shtml

New Priest Sex Scandal “In the latest church sex scandal, a Catholic pastor in Florida has just been stripped of his duties after church officials learned that the reverend had placed a personal ad – complete with a naked photo of himself – on a gay web site.” http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/revgera1.html

Dioceses Resist Releasing Names of Accused Priests By Laurie Goodstein – Cleveland 2/26/03 “When a grand jury looking into sexual abuse by members of the Catholic clergy finished its work in December, it reported that it had uncovered accusations against 145 priests. But the panel indicted just one of them…” The grand jury investigated accusations against not only the 145 priests, but also 351 laypeople affiliated with or employed by the church, including teachers, principals and volunteers. Of the laypeople, only the 10 who were indicted had their names released. Prosecutors identified more than 1,000 possible victims of sexual abuse by priests or laypeople affiliated with the church.” http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/28/national/28DIOC.html?tntemail1

Church offers $4m payout for abuse 3/17/03 “Fifty-six men allegedly abused as boys at a Christchurch Catholic residential school are being offered compensation payments totalling $4 million. The St John of God Order hopes the payments – the largest ever offered by a religious order in New Zealand – will bring a “sad and sorry situation to closure”. The Australasian head of the Order, Brother Peter Burke, said yesterday that he had written to 56 of more than 70 complainants offering them compensation for the sexual abuse they allegedly suffered at Marylands, a Christchurch school for boys with intellectual and learning disabilities run by the Order until 1984.” http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2335017a10,00.html

Abuse allegations surface against ex-Roxbury priest by Robin Washington 2/28/03 “In the mid-1970s, members of Roxbury’s St. Joseph’s Parish appealed to Humberto Cardinal Medeiros to assign an African-American priest to the mostly black congregation. In response, he inquired to Albany, N.Y., Bishop Edwin B. Broderick, who offered the Rev. Dozia J. Wilson, noting the priest “has expressed a desire to work among his own people.” What Broderick’s letter did not say, however, is revealed on another note in Wilson’s file: “Ultimatum from police to Bishop Broderick – get him out of Albany.” http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/prie02282003.htm
Church hires a psychologist who doubts repressed memories By Wendy Davis 3/5/03 A controversial psychologist who has authored studies challenging repressed memories of sexual abuse is expected to present testimony for the Archdiocese of Boston when the first civil lawsuits against church officials go to trial. In papers to be filed today in Suffolk County Superior Court, church lawyers will notify Judge Constance M. Sweeney that they intend to elicit testimony from Elizabeth Loftus, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, to defend the church against charges that the Rev. Paul R. Shanley molested plaintiffs Gregory Ford and Paul Busa.” http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/064/metro/Church_hires_a_psychologist_who_doubts_repressed_memories+.shtml

all accusations are alleged – UCI Professor Faces Pending Lawsuit – Controversial psychologist is accused of libel and invasion of privacy by alleged abuse victim – Jamie Claridad “UCI’s Distinguished Professor in Social Ecology Elizabeth Loftus, widely known for her studies in false memory research, is currently facing an impending lawsuit filed against her by Nicole Taus in Solano County, Calif….Although Taus could not be reached for comment, a plaintiff report filed at the superior court of California in Solano County accused Loftus and several other parties of invasion of privacy, defamation, libel per se, negligent and intentional infliction of emotional distress and damages. Taus, who is now currently serving as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy Air Corp, was caught between a custody case battle between her parents in 1979 that was later won by her father….David Corwin M.D. to publish an article in 1997 in the scientific journal “Child Maltreatment,” dealing with Taus’ memories on childhood abuse. Taus was not named, nor identified in the article, except as “Jane Doe.” The article drew interest. The journal then printed reviews including both praise and criticism that was published in the same journal. It was this journal article that allegedly prompted further research on Taus conducted by Loftus and Melvin Guyer, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan Medical School. However, the research that was conducted and later published allegedly disclosed private information that revealed Taus’ identity and as a result, have subjected her and her family to further emotional distress from past events.” http://horus.vcsa.uci.edu/article.php?id=915

from Lynn Crook with permission to republish (all accusations are alleged) : I am preparing a response to Jamie Claridad’s article, “UCI professor faces pending lawsuit” published in UC Irvine’s student newspaper, “New University,” on April 7, 2003. Here are some of the issues I will be addressing.

1. Dr. David Corwin was not “attracted” by a custody battle. Instead, he was asked to evaluate the case based upon a recommendation by Taus’ maternal grandmother.

2. The statement, “Taus claimed initially that while viewing the tapes, she had no recognition of the said events but later said that she did remember” is incorrect. Taus actually recalled a memory while being videotaped. The Corwin et al article should be online by the end of April. Readers may want to review this article and compare it to Loftus and Guyer’s account in “Skeptical Inquirer” which, as of April 3, 2003, was online at Loftus’ UW website.

3. I was never “subject to a custody trial between” my parents. Had Loftus testified at such a trial though, she would have done so at about the age of 10. We’re approximately the same age.

4. Loftus says that I signed up for a class of hers under a false name. However, I haven’t attended a college class since completing grad school in 1970. Loftus may be referring to the 2002 FMSF two-day conference in Illinois at which she was one of many speakers. I registered for this conference under my maiden name.

5. I did not say to the reporter, “Her work has created many enemies.” Nor did I say that Loftus’ actions “drew outcries from university officials prompting her to resign from the University of Washington and the American Psychological Association.” (I expect Loftus to respond unfavorably to this statement.) One quote is accurate. I said that Loftus’ testimony in Crook v. Murphy helped me win the case.

from LMS Calif. diocese sues Boston Archdiocese – Alleges officials hid Shanley’s past By Larry B. Stammer, Los Angeles Times, 4/2/03 “The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino, Calif., sued the Archdiocese of Boston yesterday, alleging that Boston officials hid the history of sexual molestation by former priest Paul Shanley when he moved to California. The lawsuit, filed in San Bernardino County Superior Court, is believed to mark the first time that one US Catholic diocese has sued another in civil court, according to both dioceses.” http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/092/nation/Calif_diocese_sues_Boston_Archdiocese+.shtml

Sex-abuse victim backs veracity of repressed memories by Robin Washington 3/17/03 “As the Archdiocese of Boston prepares its defense in the Rev. Paul R. Shanley civil trial by questioning the repressed memories of plaintiffs claiming the priest raped them years ago, a man who has gained near folk-hero status among sexual abuse victims says his long-buried memories are real. And, says Frank Fitzpatrick, who hunted down former priest James R. Porter 11 years ago and was the first to accuse the now-convicted pedophile of abuse…But the case for repressed memory may be strengthened if incidents can be shown where abusers have admitted crimes long recessed in victims’ minds, advocates say. “Certainly, the fact that some perpetrators have admitted to abuse in these cases proves beyond a doubt that repressed memories can and do happen,” said David Clohessy of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests….Rev. James L. Gummersbach did specifically admit to the abuse recalled in a repressed memory when he gave a written apology to Henry Bachmann for molestation occurring in a St. Louis, Mo., church in 1964, Bachmann’s lawyer, Rebecca Randles, said.” In terms of repressed memory, that case was absolutely clean. There was no prior counseling,” she said, discounting the notion a therapist could have “planted” the memory in her client’s mind by suggestive questioning. As further proof, she said, Bachmann recalled the priest tying him up and taking pictures – a fetish Gummersbach’s psychiatric records subsequently revealed he had engaged in with other children.” http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/repr03172003.htm

Indian priest gets four months jail in US for sex abuse case Indo-Asian News Service 3/28/03 “A visiting priest from India has been sentenced to four months in jail for molesting a 12-year-old girl in Brooklyn, New York….The Diocese of Brooklyn banished Nelson after the abuse. But instead of returning to India, he found employment in the Archdiocese of New York, said the News Day, a New York daily.” Http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_222776,00050001.htm

from LMS Abuse cost Twin Cities archdiocese $3.1 million Warren Wolfe 2/21/03 “Sexual abuse of children by priests has cost the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis about $3.1 million in the past 14 years, and its insurer has paid about $5 million more to settle lawsuits by victims.” http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3665693.html

Accused molester no longer a priest – Vatican defrocks notorious Hanley 3/14/03 by Brian T. Murray, Star-Ledger Staff “A retired Morris County priest accused of sexually abusing at least a dozen children decades ago has been ejected from the priesthood by Pope John Paul II….However, under heavy pressure from his victims last year, Hanley voluntarily petitioned the pope in June for laicization, or removal from the priesthood.” http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1047626038190650.xml

McCarrick Decries Md. Child Abuse Bill Cardinal Questions Effect on Confessional By Jo Becker and Caryle Murphy 2/22/03 “Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick is taking aim at the Maryland General
Assembly, charging that a legislative proposal that would require priests to report suspected child abuse would violate the sanctity of the confessional. “If this bill were to pass, I shall instruct all priests in the Archdiocese of Washington who serve in Maryland to ignore it,” McCarrick wrote in a column in the latest issue of the Catholic Standard. “…On this issue, I will gladly plead civil disobedience and willingly – if not gladly – go to jail.” http://www.washingtonpost.com

God’s Banker One of the world’s most notorious holy men is quietly giving Mass in Sun City by Robert Nelson “Archbishop Paul Marcinkus was president of the Vatican Bank from 1971 to 1989. As such, he held the purse strings for the international church. He was constantly seen accompanying Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul I and Pope John Paul II, and he was considered by many to be the second most powerful man in the church. He arguably held the most power in the Catholic Church of any American in the history of the church. But by the early 1980s, Marcinkus was increasingly being implicated in massive financial scandals, scandals that spent months on the front pages of newspapers and magazines throughout Europe. His dealings were also the subject of several books published in the 1980s. In the mid-’80s, Italian authorities tried to arrest Marcinkus in connection with a stunning array of crimes, including assassination financing, arms smuggling, and trafficking in stolen gold, counterfeit currencies and radioactive materials. Italian authorities also wanted to talk to Marcinkus regarding what he knew about numerous murders. Through the late 1970s and early 1980s, most every key player involved in schemes with Marcinkus ended up dead. A journalist investigating Marcinkus, the Vatican Bank and their ties to the mob also was murdered at the time. But Marcinkus was never interviewed or arrested. Pope John Paul II sheltered Marcinkus in the Vatican, protecting him for seven years with Vatican City’s sovereign immunity…” http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/2003-02-13/nelson.html/1/index.html

from LMS Paul VI School Dean Resigns Over Photo On Lurid Web Sites By S. Mitra Kalita 2/26/03 ” The dean of students at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax County resigned this week after his name and photo were discovered on sexually suggestive Web sites devoted to leather, motorcycles and homosexuality. Albert Santora, 53, stepped down after the principal confronted him with his participation in activities such as the Mid-Atlantic Leather Contest and the DC Boys of Leather, according to the Diocese of Arlington.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Priest, 80, arraigned on sex charges By Tera Camus / Cape Breton Bureau 3/26/03 Sydney – “An elderly Roman Catholic priest needed help standing Tuesday when he was arraigned on 23 sex charges involving 15 Cape Breton children…” http://halifaxherald.com/stories/2003/03/26/f220.raw.html

also see Priest faces sex assault victims in his first court appearance Louise Dickson – Times Colonist; with files from The Canadian Press 3/26/03 http://www.canada.com/victoria/news/story.asp?id=987CC01C-508C-4480-B245-E4F8A045C55A

from LMS Rabbi, Ethics Overseer, Denies Child Pornography Charges By Daniel J. Wakin “Rabbi Israel Kestenbaum, an ethics watchdog for a national pastors association…defendant in a child pornography case. The rabbi pleaded not guilty in State Supreme Court in Manhattan to five felony counts of attempted dissemination of indecent material to a minor and 10 misdemeanor counts of attempted endangering the welfare of a minor.” Http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/22/nyregion/22RABB.html

from LMS Pentagon investigates rape reports – Air cadets say complaints not acted on Academy unsympathetic, women allege – Michael Janofsky, New York Times, Colorado Springs, Colo.”A team of senior Air Force officers from the Pentagon began an investigation here yesterday after a number of women who had attended the U.S. Air Force Academy said they had been raped or sexually assaulted, only to face indifference, inaction or retaliation by academy officials….”I probably knew 100 women when I was at the Air Force Academy,” said Ruth, a cadet from Minnesota who said she left early in her sophomore year after she could no longer cope with the trauma of a rape the year before. “I would say 80 experienced a sexual assault, and probably 40 of them were rape.””

from BO Air Force looks into academy rape claims 2/21/03 Tom Kenworthy USA TODAY Denver “The Air Force pledged…to thoroughly investigate allegations of widespread sexual assaults and a climate of intimidation at the service’s cadet academy in Colorado Springs….It also follows a series of reports on KMGH-TV in Denver in which several women described callous responses to their complaints of sexual assault. Several women told the television station that the academy culture condoned sexual assault and that those victims who reported being attacked were often shunned by their peers and essentially drummed out of the corps. Some said they faced career-threatening disciplinary action for infractions such as drinking and fraternizing if they reported assaults.”

From LMS Military reviews Thomas incidents – Probe may lead to dishonourable discharge for long-time cadet officer by Linda Richardson 3/12/03 “Military officials are turning their attention to sexual predator Gordon Thomas following his convictions for sexually abusing female students and sea cadets….A retired elementary school teacher, Thomas, 63, was sentenced Monday to 12 years in prison for 21 sex offences involving 13 students.” http://www.saultstar.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=25498&catname=Local+News

from LMS Woman biking on isolated road assaulted – Silas Polkinghorne and Jason Warick – The StarPhoenix – 3/29/03 “Saskatoon Sexual Assault and Information Centre executive director Elizabeth Freire-Benson said…only five to 10 per cent of sexual assaults are perpetrated by strangers. The other 90-95 per cent of assailants are known by the victim. She said strangers are more likely than acquaintances to be prosecuted for their crimes.” http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/story.asp?id=DCE8D774-A3E2-4082-AB4D-995D2660CCC7

28 baby girls found in suitcases on Chinese bus 3/23/03 “Police in southwestern China discovered 28 baby girls hidden in suitcases on a long-distance bus and apparently destined to be sold, police and a state-run newspaper said….A report issued by UNICEF in 2001 said more than a quarter of a million women and children have been victims of trafficking in China in recent decades.” http://sg.news.yahoo.com/030322/1/399ul.html

Police cut back on sex abuse inquiry By Mark Hookham, Daily Post Staff 2/19/03 “Two of the region’s major police investigations into sex abuse in North West children’s homes are being phased out. Merseyside Police’s Operation Care is coming to a close five months after MPs called for a radical shake up in the way police handle abuse allegations…During the often controversial inquiry detectives investigated complaints against 510 former care workers, 67 people were charged and 36 were convicted.” http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/page.cfm?objectid=12654765&method=full&siteid=50061

from LMS Abuse scandal rocks Germany – Authorities are shocked at the death of a five-year-old boy at the hands of a paedophile ring in a seedy pub – Hannah Cleaver in Berlin 3/9/03 “Police say the ring was run by a woman, Christa Weyand, named in Germany only as 50-year-old Christa W, who served for three years as a voluntary lay magistrate in the local youth court. Twelve men and women have now been arrested and are in custody, though not yet charged, while police try to piece together the pattern of abuse, which mainly took place in the back of a seedy pub across the road from the youth court – 100 yards from the dead boy’s home. The big question facing the authorities in Saarbrücken is how Christa W came to work in the justice system even though she was running a pub known to be a hang-out for prostitutes and drug dealers.” http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,910519,00.html

Four Plead Guilty in Mass. Child Abuse 3/22/03 Worcester, Mass. (AP) – “A woman and three men pleaded guilty Friday to charges involving the sexual and physical abuse of eight children, and were given sentences of up to seven years. The judge in the case said all four deserved longer sentences, but agreed to the pleas recommended by prosecutors to spare the victims from going through a trial. According to authorities, the children, ranging in age from 6 to 17, were raped, beaten, forced to watch pornographic torture videos and threatened and bribed to keep quiet. Some of them came forward in 2001.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2499700,00.html

Petaluma father faces 302 counts of molesting daughter Man allegedly made videotapes of sex acts with child, now 6 – 4/4/03 By Steve Hart – the Press Democrat – “Sonoma County prosecutors…” http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/news/04brauer_b1.html

all accusations are alleged – from LMS Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust – New evidence that United Church destroyed documents…: ‘Operation Clean Sweep’ 4/4/03 “A highly placed, confidential source within the British Columbia Conference of the United Church of Canada has confirmed the existence of a program to systematically destroy documents related to (alleged) crimes committed against native people in that church’s Indian residential schools and hospitals.” http://canadiangenocide.nativeweb.org

Mount Cashel fight nears end – Abused students offered $15.5M – Richard Foot CanWest News Service 4/12/03 “Survivors of Canada’s most infamous child-abuse scandal learned…that $15.5 million has been raised in compensation for the crimes of the Roman Catholic teachers who raped and beat them at the Mount Cashel orphanage in St. John’s up to 30 years ago. The money, to be distributed among 81 men…comes decades after they were terrorized by members of the Christian Brothers of Ireland in Canada….the 81 men eligible for compensation will get about $250,000 each.” http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=6a2dfda3-3741-4b32-ba07-e9560cbbfc8d

Six American Indians sue government for alleged abuse at Indian schools By Chet Brokaw 4/11/03 Pierre, S.D. (AP) “Six members of Sioux tribes have filed a $25 billion lawsuit against the government for alleged mental, physical and sexual abuse of students at Indian boarding schools nationwide. The suit seeks damages and class-action status on behalf of all students allegedly abused in the past century at the schools, most of which were run by churches or other religious groups. The government failed in its duty to protect students sent to the schools, the lawsuit says….Other lawsuits will be filed against the churches or religious organizations that ran boarding schools, lawyers said. The six plaintiffs allege they were beaten and sexually assaulted by priests or nuns who ran the schools.” http://www.boston.com/dailynews/101/nation/Six_American_Indians_sue_gover:.shtml

Child Maltreatment 2001 Url has links to other legal decisions http://www.i-LawPublishing.net/news.htm “National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS)…. 2001. There were 903,000 substantiated cases of maltreatment of children – the majority of which involved cases of neglect. About 1,300 children died of abuse or neglect, a rate of 1.81 children per 100,000 children in the population.”

Abuse survivors attack Brosnan film Henry McDonald 4/6/03 “In true Hollywood fashion the film ends with a feel-good message – Pierce Brosnan’s character wins his court case and thousands of children are freed from the misery of Ireland’s notorious church-run institutions. But survivors of physical and sexual abuse in the Republic’s Industrial Schools say the message in the credits at the end of Evelyn is a false one and that no children held there were reunited with their families. Men who were sexually abused and exploited in places like Artane Industrial School say things actually got worse after the 1955 judgment that reunited Evelyn Doyle with her father Desmond.” http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,930710,00.html

Mind Control and Experimentation

MKzine, a 64 page hard-copy magazine, examines coercive mind control, invasive human experimentation,
and other related abuses. The Spring – Summer 2003 issue is now available. The price is $5 U.S., $7 Canada, and $9 International. Send checks or money orders to MKzine, PMB 175, 1910 East 4th Ave., Olympia, WA 98506. Check out our website at www.mkzine.com for additional information. Please note: The magazine may be very heavy for survivors.

Please use caution at this site. The text and graphics may be heavy for survivors. This is an on-line informational web page about SRA http://home.earthlink.net/~srasite/

The Fight to Control Your Mind – Richard Glen Boire “Should the government have the right to alter the biochemistry of your brain? Richard Glen Boire, codirector and legal counsel of the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, says no, and he’s making his case before the Supreme Court. In Sell v. US, the government argues that it can drug Charles Sell, a dentist from Missouri, in order to make him competent to stand trial.” http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.04/view.html?pg=3

Nationwide Inquiry at Veterans’ Hospitals By Robert Pear Washington 4/12/03 “The Bush administration has ordered a nationwide review of medical research at 115 veterans’ hospitals and has halted some studies after investigators found serious violations of federal rules, including some that may have contributed to the deaths of patients.” http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/national/13VETS.html

“Gulf soldiers with persistent illnesses: 63,000 veterans and active-duty U.S. soldiers. Of the 399,473 retired gulf war soldiers, a total of 2,550 are suffering from heart disease, 2,356 from neurological disease and 3,034 from respiratory disease. No accurate estimate is available for those suffering from various cancers. Scores of veterans and active-duty soldiers complain that their sicknesses have caused disease among spouses, and disease or deformities among babies and children. At least 2,200 gulf war veterans have died since the war…Civilians: An undetermined number of the 3,000 U.S. civilians who worked in the gulf during the war are sick.” http://www.directorder.org/site/gulf-war-syndrome.html

from LMS State Issues Apology for Policy of Sterilization By Carl Ingram, Times Staff Writer Sacramento – “For more than half a century, California and other states forcibly sterilized 60,000 mentally ill people as part of a misguided national campaign to eliminate crime, “feeblemindedness,” alcoholism, poverty and other problems blamed for dragging society down.” http://www.latimes.com/

from LMS Sterilization abused, lawyer claims David Hogben, Vancouver Sun 3/18/03 “More than 90 per cent of mental patients sterilized by the B.C. government were women, says the lawyer representing 18 sterile former Essondale patients in a lawsuit.” “Between 1934 and 1949 104 mental patients were ordered sterilized – 92 women and 12 men. Between 1954 and 1972, 84 mental patients were ordered sterilized by the provincial Board of Eugenics.” http://www.canada.com/vancouver/news/story.asp?id=1A079F41-A313-4557-8C67-458999BA9641

from LMS Books of the Times ‘Harvard and the Unabomber’ the Unabomber and the ‘Culture of Despair’ 3/3/03 “Alston Chase’s first assumption in his new book about Theodore J. Kaczynski is that widely propagated notions of the Unabomber as a mentally unstable loner have been conveniently misleading….The book identifies a professorial nemesis for Mr. Kaczynski in Dr. Henry A. Murray, who recruited the future Unabomber for a psychological experiment with “Manchurian Candidate” overtones. When Mr. Chase published an article on the subject in The Atlantic in June 2000, he says, the Harvard files on this work were “permanently removed” from the Murray Research Center the next month….The experiments involved what Murray called “stressful disputation” or “the Dyad,” but “whatever its name, it was a highly refined version of the third degree.” Subjects like Mr. Kaczynski were humiliated, ridiculed and secretly photographed while debating overqualified opponents, in a process that Mr. Chase regards as dishonest and damaging. The future bomb-building anarchist, whose code name during this process was Lawful, would himself describe it as “a highly unpleasant experience.” http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/03/books/03MASL.html?pagewanted=3Dall&positio=nn=3Dtop

A History of Secret Human Experimentation

http://www.thepowerhour.com/postings-four/secrets-of-human-experimentation.htm

from LMS Tuskegee memories keep blacks wary about studies By Deborah Kong 2/25/03 AP “In the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, conducted by the federal government between 1932 and 1972, researchers withheld medical treatment from poor, black men in Macon County, Ala., for experimental purposes. The men were not told they had syphilis, and weren’t treated for the disease even after penicillin became available. By the time the study was exposed, 128 men had died of syphilis or related complications.” http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/1794963
from LMS Dutroux victim tells of her ordeal…Andrew Osborn in Brussels 2/25/03 “Sabine Dardenne, 19, was abducted in 1996 and held captive by Dutroux for 80 days before investigators found her and another girl cowering in a cellar behind a false wall….He has been held since 1996 on charges of kidnapping and raping six children and young women, including Ms Dardenne, in the mid-1990s; and of murdering four of them. He has yet to stand trial on these charges. Dutroux admits some of the charges and denies others, but claims that he procured the girls and young women, aged from eight to 19, for the sexual gratification of others and not just himself. However, in an interview given to several Belgian periodicals, Ms Dardenne appeared to pour cold water on the idea that her tormentor was part of a sinister paedophile network. She said she only ever saw Dutroux, and that he was the only one to abuse her.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,902188,00.html

History of Marin County: A Survey of Secret Societies being a General History of Various Fraternities and Their Specific Impact in Marin Stanley J. Bransgrove, P.M., M.R.S., F.G.C.R. “from Odd Fellows Lodges to Eagles Aeries, all fraternal organizations share basic similarities that suggest direct or indirect borrowing occurred at their inception from the older fraternity of Freemasonry. Rituals and degrees borrow exotic titles and dramatic scenarios from ancient legends, historical incidents, or mythology. Bonds of secrecy help establish solidarity among members.” Please note – this is pro-Masonic. http://www.abaris.net/freemasonry/marin-fraternities-01.htm#The%20Fraternity%20of%20Freemasonry

Lifting lid on judges’ secret society Gerard Seenan 2/19/03 “An unprecedented legal hearing into a secret society which boasts some of Scotland’s top judges among its members opened in Edinburgh yesterday amid claims the judges’ membership breaches human rights law. Lord Gill, Scotland’s second most senior judge, ordered yesterday’s appeal court hearing into the Speculative Society after campaigners raised questions about its influence. It was heard before three judges who were not members of the “brotherhood”. “http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,898374,00.html

U.S. Ready to Rescind Clinton Order on Government Secrets By Adam Clymer, Washington, 3/20/03 “Making it easier for government agencies to keep documents secret, the Bush administration plans to revoke an order issued by President Bill Clinton that among other provisions said information should not be classified if there was “significant doubt” as to whether its release would damage national security.” http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/21/politics/21SECR.html?ex=1049257548&ei=1&en=c95771c0cf61d351

from LMS Law chief releases Dunblane reports 3/18/03 “Scotland’s top law officer today authorised the release of all police reports submitted on Dunblane killer Thomas Hamilton. The decision by the Lord Advocate Colin Boyd QC follows public controversy over the length of a ban on publishing the reports and speculation on whether the report showed links between Hamilton and prominent Scots. Hamilton murdered 16 pupils and a teacher at Dunblane primary school in March 1996 before committed suicide….He confirmed none of the reports contained allegations against politicians or other prominent figures…” http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,916788,00.html

This may be heavy for survivors from http://www.saiguru.net/english/articles/new6.htm all accusations are alleged “It is now an undisputed fact, even among leading devotees such as the European Central Coordinator of the Sathya Sai Organisation, Thorbjørn Meyer, that SB (Sai Baba) takes down the trousers of young men and boys and handles their genitals intimately, rubbing on oil and sometimes also so-called ‘holy ash’. Many report that he also rubs vigorously so as to (try to) cause an erection, also sometimes kissing them voluptuously on the mouth.”

“the phrase Silent Sounds ™ is the trademark of a patented group of classified technologies, recently approved for limited unclassified use, that collectively have the ability to very effectively (and silently!) (And measurably) communicate with the human brain…in a language the brain clearly understands… be it voice, music, data trains, mantras, frequency patterns, etc. The phenomena occurs in total silence and on clear, uncluttered channels of communication.” http://www.megabrain.com/silent2.htm

also see http://www.megabrain.com/proof.htm

The Sound of Things to Come By Marshall Sella 3/23/03 “…her senses inform her that she has just stepped through a discrete column of sound, a sharply demarcated beam of unexpected sound.” http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/magazine/23SOUND.html

List of mind control symptoms, whether the related technology is scientifically proven and if there is military interest or funding of the related technology by Cheryl Welsh, March, 2003 http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~welsh/symptoms.htm

Best Mind Control Documentary Excerpts by Cheryl Welsh, February 2003 Documentaries discuss and scientifically demonstrate mind control technology, including electromagnetic weapons for microwave hearing, visual halucinations, influencing emotions http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~welsh/tvlist.htm

Sci/Tech Facing a remote control future?…6/23/99 “Professor of Cybernetics at Reading University Kevin Warwick believes the latest developments in bionic technology could make that science fiction scenario possible. Recently Dr John Chapin of the MCP Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia demonstrated that signals from neuron groupings in rats brains can be used to control a physical device without the rats actually carrying out a physical action themselves.” http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/375521.stm

Benetton Clothing to Carry Tiny Tracking Transmitters By Jim Krane 3/11/03 New York (AP) “Clothes sold at Benetton stores will soon contain microchip transmitters…Benetton’s introduction of “smart tag” tracking technology will be the largest example of a trend now emerging in the retail industry, according to Phillips Semiconductors, a unit of the Dutch electronics giant that designed 15 million tags being delivered to Benetton this year.” http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAZPSUA6DD.html
George Knapp, I-Team Reporter School That Teaches Psychic Techniques Opens in Boulder City 2/20/03 “For twenty years, the CIA conducted secret studies of a psychic technique known as remote viewing; the Pentagon had its own study and used remote viewers to carry out all sorts of classified intelligence operations….A school that teaches remote viewing has opened in Boulder City. Students claim they use it to see through space, even through time….In the darkest days of the cold war, American intelligence agencies were alarmed to learn that soviets were far ahead of us in psychic research, and that amazing, even deadly capabilities were being studied. Col. John Alexander, Army Intelligence (Ret.) says, “KGB defectors told us they were looking at it as a way of killing people.” ….The Pentagon had its own secret program based at Ft. Meade Maryland. Las Vegas’ John Alexander was involved with the research….In total secrecy, government psychics used remote viewing to keep tabs on the Russians and their war machine,…when the story began leaking out about the program, the CIA washed its hands and officially got out of the psychic business. Remote Viewer Dr. Angela Thompson says when asked if the program is still going on, “I think so, I’ve heard of groups within the government and certain agencies from fairly credible witnesses that there are still programs going on. In Nevada? Definitely. Yes.” http://www.klas-tv.com/global/story.asp?s=1142887&ClientType=Printable

Laura Carroll, psychologist and writer, is doing background research for a book on child intelligence agents. “As a writer, I am most interested in giving voice to those whose lives we don’t know much about in our society.” She welcomes any resources and references you have be sent to her at lc@lauracarroll.com. As always, please use caution when contacting any resource listed in our newsletter.

Please use caution while reading this. MKULTRA: CIA Mind Control by Jon Elliston http://www.peyote.com/jonstef/mkultra.htm

From LMS Handling Jackson without gloves – Magazine says pop star full of vengeance, deceit – but not cash – Leah Garchik 3/4/03 “Orth writes that silence of participants and witnesses, including staff members, was often bought or obtained by intimidation. When Jackson was sued in the early ’90s by the family of a 13-year-old who said he was molested, the plaintiff’s father was threatened, the boy was nearly run over, and the family’s lawyer received death threats, Orth writes. A maid said she had received a seven-figure payment in exchange for her silence….Orth also says Jackson hired a witch doctor to put curses on music executive David Geffen and movie director Steven Spielberg and paid $150,000 for a ritual in which 42 cows were killed.” http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/03/04/MN117189.DTL

from LMS Paramedic’s wife tells of terror By Tony Blais, Court Bureau Edmonton Sun “An Edmonton paramedic went on trial yesterday accused of beating his former wife and sexually assaulting her, her sister and one of her friends….said she also was prevented from leaving the marriage by her faith as a Jehovah’s Witness, a religion she said frowns on divorce unless one of the parties cheats on the other.”

This may be very heavy for survivors. From The Daily Telegraph (London) Satanic cult accused of rape and cannibalism 1/16/03 By Kate Connolly in Berlin “German authorities are investigating claims that members of an occult sect raped and murdered women and ate children in ritual ceremonies. According to a regional state prosecutor, several people are being investigated “for numerous offences of sexual abuse with an occult background” over the past 15 years. “We are aware of several perpetrators and witnesses who took part in black magic masses,” a public prosecutor, Georg Jungling, told the German television channel ZDF.”

Argentina, a Haven for Nazis, Balks at Opening Its Files By Larry Rohter, Buenos Aires, 3/7/03 “Under fire because of a new book that documents for the first time how Juan Perón clandestinely maneuvered to bring Nazi and other war criminals to Argentina after World War II, the Peronist government here is resisting calls to release long-secret official records about the collaboration….The book that ignited the controversy…”The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Perón’s Argentina” (Granta Books: 2002)…Uki Goñi, is an Argentine journalist who had to do much of his research in European archives after encountering closed doors here.” http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/international/americas/09ARGE.html

Please note by listing this we are not necessarily endorsing this group. This is fyi only. A Gentle Introduction to Trance Theory – Dennis R. Wier – Director, The Trance Institute, Bruetten, Switzerland “I claim that the necessary and sufficient condition for a trance to occur is whenever there is a sustained cognitive object loop of sufficient length of time to cause dissociation. A cognitive object is an abstract way to denote a thought, any thought, whether it is a word, and idea, a feeling, a vision. When a set of cognitive objects repeat often enough, you will go into a trance.” “Most forms of neurotic and psychotic behavior exhibit repeated actions or verbalizations. From a trance theory perspective, any repeated cognitive object loop induces a trance with a consequent disabling of cognitive functions. It is too early to state with conviction which loops cause which cognitive functions to become disabled, or to identify specific therapeutic strategies for pathological trance. But, the application of trance theory to these behaviors is promising.” http://www.trance.edu/intro.htm

Propaganda Critic Index of Site Dedicated to Propaganda Analysis – Word games, Name-calling, Glittering generalities, Euphemisms, False connections, Transfer, Testimonial, Special Appeals, Plain Folks, Bandwagon, Fear, Logical fallacies, Bad Logic or propaganda?, Unwarranted extrapolation http://www.propagandacritic.com/

The Trials of Henry Kissinger Directed by Alex Gibney and Eugene Jarecki “The Trials of Henry Kissinger follows the quest of one journalist in search of justice. The film focuses on Christopher Hitchens’ charges against Henry Kissinger as a war criminal – allegations documented in Hitchens’ book of the same title – based on his role in countries such as Cambodia, Chile, and Indonesia. Kissinger’s story raises profound questions about American foreign policy and highlights a new era of human rights.” http://www.hrw.org/iff/2002/ny/trials.html

Journal Articles

Many of the journal abstract excerpts and quotes in this section of the newsletter came from the backlash_ology@yahoogroups.com listed as BO For info. write backlash_ology-owner@yahoogroups.com

Note: These are only a few quotes from a large and well-documented article. This article and the graphics may be very heavy for survivors. An Empirical Look at the Ritual Abuse Controversy – James Randall Noblitt, Ph.D. “Michael Newton (cited in Noblitt, 1998a) accumulated data on criminal convictions in the U.S. where allegations of ritual abuse of children were made. He found cases of 145 defendants who were sentenced.” ” Pamela Hudson (1991) assessed 24 children in a case of alleged ritual abuse at Fort Bragg day care center in California. Hudson found five symptoms to be present among many of the children.” “Susan Kelley (1993) compared three groups of children in day care: 35 allegedly ritualistically abused children, 32 children reportedly sexually, not ritualistically abuse, and 67 children without any claims of sexual abuse. She collected data from the abused children’s parents and compared the results of the children with non-ritualistic sexual abuse with ritualistic sexual abuse. She found that ritualistically abused children were more likely to report more incidents, types and severity of abuse relative to the non-ritual sexual abuse victims. She also found that ritualistic abuse was more often associated with multiple victim, multiple perpetrator situations.” “”Jill Waterman, Robert Kelley, Mary Kay Olivieri, and Jane McCord (1993) did a six year longitudinal study of 82 children who had made allegations of ritualistic sexual abuse (RSA) in the Manhattan Beach, California area in comparison with 37 non-abused (NA) children and 15 non-ritualistically sexually abused (SA) children. A variety of standardized and non-standardized questionnaires and interview instruments were employed. They found that both the RSA and SA group reported intrusive and highly intrusive sexual abuse. Additionally the RSA group but not the SA group reported “terrorizing acts…” “Recantations occurred in 25% of the RSA and 23% of the SA children. This was the case even though the perpetrator in the SA group had given a detailed confession. However, 88% of the RSA group that recanted, later redisclosed abuse.” “”Snow and Sorenson (1990) saw 39 children who described abuse in five neighbor-based cults in Utah. In four of the five cults there were alleged incidents of intrafamilial incest, perpetration by adolescents, and features of an adult sex ring. No adolescent perpetration was found in the fifth group….At least two-thirds of the children described multiple locations of abuse, pornography, ingestion or other use of excrement, the espousal of Satanic beliefs, magical spells and use of occult paraphernalia, animal mutilation or killing, and the use of drugs. The abusers were generally viewed as respected members of the community and many were religious leaders. Two of the accused adult perpetrators were convicted and two adolescents pled guilty.” “Jonker and Jonker-Bakker (1991,1997) reported a case of the ritual abuse of children in the Netherlands. The authors describe the allegations and their observations regarding this case in Oude Pekela.” “Jonker and Jonker-Bakker (1991,1997) reported a case of the ritual abuse of children in the Netherlands. The authors describe the allegations and their observations regarding this case in Oude Pekela.” http://www.mkzine.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=6&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0&POSTNUKESID=a5f4bfbe3c863270e6ff3cc39bd87b5b

Behind the Playground Walls – sexual abuse in preschools – Jill Waterman, Robert J. Kelly.
Mary Kay Oliveri, Jane McCord – The Guilford Press, 1993. NY, London – A 6 year study on sexual and ritualistic abuse and funded from a grant through the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN) ISBN 0-89862-523-8 This may be out of print, but is available used.

Stress Reactions in Ghettos and DID Psychotherapy: theory, practice, research, training, Fall, 1996 Similarities in Responses to Extreme and Unremitting Stress Between Eastern European Ghettos During World War II and DID Patients: Cultures of Communities Under Seige – Steven Frankel and Todd C. O’Hearn – University of Southern California and National Treatment Center for Traumatic and Dissociative Disorders “…The organizational structures and processes that emerged within the ghetto are directly analogous to those in patients with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID, formerly MPD). This paper explores the analogues between ghetto organization and the internal worlds of DID patients. Complex DID patients, like ghetto residents subjected to extreme and unremitting stress, develop homeostatic systems characterized by competing forces that serve agendas of help-seeking, communication to outsiders about atrocities and utilitarian efforts to prevent destabilization.” To receive an e-mail copy, e-mail Suzanne at info@survivorship.org.

Growth in Child Abuse, Neglect Alarms Prevention Advocates U.S. Newswire 4/1/03 Three Percent Growth in Child Abuse and Neglect Alarms Prevention Advocates http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/qtr2_2003/0401-155.html

“This site is dedicated to Karen Curio Jones for her tenacity in the fight to protect children from pedophiles, cults, and sex rings and educate the public.” This web page has many links to websites about Curio’s battle to help survivors. http://www.geocities.com/darkphyres/

three from BO Delayed disclosure and disrupted communication during forensic investigation of child sexual abuse: A study of 47 corroborated cases. Sjoberg RL, Lindblad F. Acta Paediatr 2002; 91(12):1391-6 “Cases from a Swedish district court involving 47 children in which allegations of child sexual abuse had been corroborated by a confession from the defendant were studied. RESULTS: Delayed disclosure was related to a close relationship with the perpetrator and young age at the first experience of abuse. Disrupted communication during the police interview was related to less violent abuse.” Division of Psychosocial Factors and Health, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Autobiographical memory specificity and trauma in inpatient adolescents. De Decker A, Hermans D, Raes F, Eelen P. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 2003; 32(1):22-31 “Research with adults has shown that clinical depression is associated with a difficulty in retrieving specific autobiographical memories in response to cue words, and this pattern of overgeneral memory is related to the prognosis of depression. Research has also shown a clear positive association between self-reported trauma and overgeneral memory. This study’s results showed that higher levels of trauma-both in terms of total number and in terms of severity or related distress-were associated with reduced autobiographical memory specificity (AM). None of the other emotional variables, such as depression, anxiety, worry, hopelessness, or subjective stress, were significantly related to the retrieval of specific memories. The results are reconcilable with Williams’ (1996) developmental idea that a pattern of overgeneral AM retrieval originates in childhood trauma as a way of regulating affect.” University of Leuven, Belgium. dirk.hermans@psy.kuleuven.ac.be

Effects of stress hormones on traumatic memory formation and the development of posttraumatic stress disorder in critically ill patients. Schelling G. Neurobiol Learn Mem 20 02 Nov; 78(3):596-609 “Studies in long-term survivors of ICU treatment demonstrated a clear and vivid recall of different categories of traumatic memory such as nightmares, anxiety, respiratory distress, or pain with little or no recall of factual events. The number of categories of traumatic memory recalled increased with the total administered dosages of stress hormones (both catecholamines and cortisol), and the evaluation of these categories at different time points after discharge from the ICU showed better memory consolidation with higher dosages of stress hormones administered. However, the administration of stress doses of cortisol to critically ill patients resulted in more complex findings as it caused a significant reduction in PTSD symptoms measured after recovery. This effect can possibly be explained by a differential influence of cortisol on memory. Increased serum cortisol levels not only result in consolidation of emotional memory but are also known to cause a temporary impairment in memory retrieval which appears to be independent of glucocorticoid effects on memory formation. Disrupting retrieval mechanisms with glucocorticoids during critical illness may therefore act protectively against the development of PTSD by preventing recall of traumatic memories.” Department of Anesthesiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, 81377, Munich, Germany

from LMS Bid to stop S.F.’s child prostitution – Coalition seeks funding to help estimated 3,000 girls sold for sex 2/13/03 Ilene Lelchuk “…as many as 3,000 girls as young as 10 are being sold for sex on San Francisco’s streets.” http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/02/13/BA15213.DTL

from BO Development of sexually abusive behaviour in sexually victimised males: A longitudinal study. Salter D, McMillan D, Richards M, Talbot T, Hodges J, Bentovim A, Hastings R, Stevenson J, Skuse D. Lancet 2003 Feb 8; 361(9356):471-6 “Of the 224 former victims, 26 had subsequently committed sexual offences (victim-abusers), in almost all cases with children, mainly outside their families. Risk factors during childhood for later offending included material neglect (odds ratio 3.4, 95% CI 1.2-9.7), lack of supervision (3.0, 1.1-8.3), and sexual abuse by a female person (3.0, 1.1-8.7). Victim-abusers had more frequently witnessed serious intrafamilial violence (3.1, 1.0-10.0).” Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit, Institute of Child Health, London, UK

A Flight of Mind – The Act of Dissociation Can Protect Children Emotionally From Trauma, but Repeated Use May Cause Lasting Harm by Pamela Oldham – Special to The Washington Post 2/18/03 “Research tells us what children – or, for that matter, adults – generally do when exposed to physical violence or other trauma they can’t flee from or prevent: They “dissociate.” Dissociation is an involuntary human response to high stress or trauma that causes the conscious mind to withdraw and turn inward, reducing incoming stimuli and mitigating the effects of overwhelming emotion. The feeling is one of being present but not consciously aware of oneself or one’s surroundings and is characterized by memory loss and a sense of disconnection. For victims of trauma, experts say, dissociation is often lifesaving. But when the dissociative response is called on repeatedly, especially in early childhood, the defense can become fixed and ingrained, disrupting normal functioning and undermining emotional and physical well-being. The most common cause is chronic child maltreatment – physical, emotional or sexual abuse.”

Three From BO Ten-year research update review: Child sexual abuse. Putnam FW J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2003 Mar; 42(3):269-278 “CSA constitutes approximately 10% of officially substantiated child maltreatment cases, numbering approximately 88,000 in 2000. Adjusted prevalence rates are 16.8% and 7.9% for adult women and men, respectively….CSA is a significant risk factor for psychopathology, especially depression and substance abuse. Preliminary research indicates that CBT (cognitive-behavioral therapy) is effective for some symptoms, but longitudinal follow-up and large-scale “effectiveness” studies are needed.”

Factors associated with women’s risk of rape in the military environment. Sadler AG, Booth BM, Cook BL, Doebbeling BN. Am J Ind Med 2003 Mar; 43(3):262-73 “Rape was reported by 28% (n = 151) of participants, with consistent rates found across eras.” Psychology Service, Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Iowa City, Iowa.

Tunnel memories for autobiographical events: Central details are remembered more frequently from shocking than from happy experiences. Berntsen D. Mem Cognit 2002 Oct; 30(7):1010-20 “The finding suggest that tunnel memories-enhanced memory for the central details of an event-are limited to emotionally negative memories. The findings contradict expectations derived from the notion of repression.” Author contact: Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Risskov, Denmark. dorthe@psy.au.dk

“Understanding and Assessing Child Sexual Maltreatment” Second Edition by Kathleen Coulbron Faller has excellent information on child abuse, including ritual abuse and sexual abuse in day care. “The vigor of the attack against ritual abuse, like the vigor of the attack against sexual abuse in general, reinforces the belief of some professionals, myself included, that there is substance to ritual abuse.” (p. 31) “…some case descriptions are provided by individuals who appear very credible (Mayer, 1991; Ryder, 1992; Stone & Stone, 1992; Wong & McKeen, 1990), and cases continue to be identified.” (p. 32) “Multiple-abuser centers are ones where there seems to be a plan by the offenders to sexually abuse children. Possible motivations include sexual attraction to children, profit, a desire to harm children, or an ideology that supports ritual abuse. It is these cases that raise questions about offenders opening centers in order to sexually abuse children. Most cases where allegations of picture taking and child prostitution are alleged are multiple perpetrator/multiple victim (Faller, 1988d; Kelley et al. 1993).” (p. 224) Sage Publications, Inc 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, e-mail : order@sagepub.com ISBN 0-7619-1996-1

also see New book provides expanded study on child sexual abuse Ann Arbor, Mich. 1/30/03 “Greater emphasis on the danger of false allegations of child sexual abuse is misdirected: The attention should be placed on the danger of being sexually abused and not disclosing the abuse, a University of Michigan professor says. “Children have lost their voice,” said Kathleen Coulborn Faller…” “Only about 10 percent of the cases ever reach the criminal courts and about half are lost at trial, she said. ” http://www.umich.edu/news/Releases/2003/Jan03/r013003a.html

Limited disclosure of sexual abuse in children whose experiences were documented by videotape Sjoberg RL, Lindblad F. Division of Psychosocial Factors and Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Am J Psychiatry 2002 Feb;159(2):312-4 “Ten children’s descriptions of 102 incidents of sexual abuse and the process of disclosing these incidents during police interviews were studied. Children’s self-reports of the abuse were compared to videotapes of the incidents made by the lone perpetrator. RESULTS: There was a significant tendency among the children to deny or belittle their experiences. Some children simply did not want to disclose their experiences, some had difficulties remembering them, and one child lacked adequate concepts to understand and describe them.”

Juvenile sex offenders: Toward the development of a typology. Hunter JA, Figueredo AJ, Malamuth NM, Becker JV. Sex Abuse 2003 Jan; 15(1):27-48 “Childhood physical abuse by a father or stepfather and exposure to violence against females were found to be associated with higher levels of comorbid anxiety and depression. Noncoercive childhood sexual victimization by a male nonrelative was found to be associated with sexual offending against a male child.” Departments of Health Evaluation Sciences, Psychology, and Psychiatric Medicine, University of Virginia, 3rd Floor, Hospital West, Room 3181, P.O. Box 800717, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA. jhunter@virginia.edu

Child Maltreatment Reports from the States to the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data Systems – National statistics on child abuse and neglect http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/publications/cmreports.htm

Each week CPS agencies receive more than 50,000 referrals (also called reports) alleging that children have been abused or neglected. Almost two-thirds of referrals were screened in by CPS agencies because they were deemed appropriate for investigation or assessment. Nationally, 61.7 percent of all referrals (approximately 1,726,000) were screened in and 38.3 percent (approximately 1,070,000) were screened out….Females composed 59.9 percent of all perpetrators, while males composed 40.1 percent.” http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/publications/cm00/chapterone.htm#highlight

From BO Contextual factors and other correlates of sexual risk of HIV among African-American crack-abusing women. Roberts AC, Wechsberg WM, Zule W, Burroughs AR. Addict Behav 2003 May-Jun; 28(3):523-36 “Bivariate analysis indicated that women with multiple partners were more likely than women with a single partner to be homeless, financially dependent, and to have histories of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. Women with multiple partners reported higher levels of depression, anxiety, and more symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).” School of Social Work, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 301 Pittsboro Street, Cb-3550, 27599-3550, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Book Review – Betrayed as Boys: Psychodynamic Treatment of Sexually Abused Men by Richard B Gartner – Guilford Press, New York, NY, 1999. Reviewed by Eric Medcalf, BA (Hons); Cert.Appl.Soc.Stud. (Aberdeen); C.Q.S.W.; Dip. Psychother. (Sheffield); MNZAC….”When a boy is sexually abused he suffers an assault on his body, his developing personality and on his manhood. Our socialisation tells us that men are not supposed to be victims. We are meant to be in control of our environment.” Human Nature Review 2003 Volume 3: 139-141 http://human-nature.com/nibbs/03/gartner.html

What Kept Elizabeth Smart From Escaping? Subconscious Adapts to Horror in Order to Endure It By Jeanie Lerche Davis WebMD Medical News – 3/14/03 – After nine months, Elizabeth Smart is back home. And this is raising questions about how her captor kept a 15-year-old from escaping when she may have had opportunity. Was she brainwashed? At this point, details of her ordeal remain a mystery. But psychologists voice a few opinions about Elizabeth Smart’s state of mind during her disappearance. Some liken it to the so-called “Stockholm syndrome.” http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/62/71574.htm

Kidnapped girl’s ordeal over after nine months – Man claiming to be a prophet held after family accuse police of bungling Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles 3/14/03 “…Elizabeth Smart, the kidnapped Utah teenager….Now it appears that her kidnapper, Brian David Mitchell, a handyman who had worked at the Smart home, believed himself to be a prophet in direct consultation with God. Mitchell, a Mormon, had supposedly decided that Elizabeth, who is now 15, was to be his second bride.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,913938,00.html

Finding Elizabeth…by Dirk Johnson and Elise Christenson NEWSWEEK March 24, 2003 issue “The Mormon church has publicly disavowed Mitchell and Barzee, releasing a statement last week that the pair had long ago been “excommunicated for activity promoting bizarre teachings and lifestyle far afield from the principles and doctrines of the church.” Michael Otterson, a spokesman for the church, would not elaborate on the specifics. But the church considers practicing polygamy–officially forbidden since 1890 — ground for excommunication.” http://www.msnbc.com/news/885457.asp?0cv=KB10&cp1=1#BODY

from LMS Abducted Girl’s Relatives Say Her Captor Brainwashed Her By Nick Madigan Salt Lake City, 3/16/03 – “With prosecutors expected to file charges soon against a nomadic homeless couple in the disappearance of Elizabeth Smart….they (her family) were certain she had been left brainwashed by the man she knew as Emmanuel.” http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/17/national/17UTAH.html

Young Brides Stir New Outcry on Utah Polygamy By Michael Janofsky 2/28/03 Salt Lake City “Despite its unlawful status, polygamy is thriving throughout Utah, practiced by fundamentalist Mormons who shun mixing with the outside world and live by traditions their ancestors brought west in the mid-1800’s. The number of people in polygamous families in Utah is estimated at perhaps as many as 50,000. Separated by their beliefs from the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which condemned polygamy as a condition of Utah statehood in 1896, fundamentalist Mormons believe that a woman exists to embody the spirit of her religious teachings and serve her husband, responsibilities that include bearing children as soon as possible.” http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/28/national/28POLY.html?pagewanted=print&position=top

from BO Sexual and physical abuse during childhood and adulthood as predictors of hallucinations, delusions and thought disorder. Read J, Agar K, Argyle N, Aderhold V Psychol Psychother 2003 Mar; 76(Pt 1):1-22 “In 200 community mental-health-centre clients, the clinically evaluated symptomatology of the 92 clients whose … documented sexual or physical abuse at some point in their lives was compared with that of the 108 for whom no abuse was documented. In the 60 patients for whom child abuse was documented, hallucinations (including all six subtypes), but not delusions, thought disorder or negative symptoms, were significantly more common than in the non-abused group. Adult sexual assault was related to hallucinations, delusions, and thought disorder. In linear regression analysis, a combination of child abuse and adult abuse predicted hallucinations, delusions, and thought disorder. However, child abuse was a significant predictor of auditory and tactile hallucinations, even in the absence of adult abuse.” Psychology Department, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Hallucinations linked to abuse in childhood 03/14/03 By Martin Johnston “Psychiatric patients who were abused as children are more likely to suffer hallucinations than those who were not abused, research has found. They are also far more susceptible to suffering “command hallucinations” – 17 per cent compared with 2 per cent of the non-abused.” http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?thesection=news&thesubsection=&storyID=3200679&reportID=16

From BO – J Clin Psychiatry 2003 Feb; 64(2):202-7 Olfaction as a traumatic reminder in posttraumatic stress disorder: Case reports and review. Vermetten E, Bremner JD. “We review olfactory memories and olfactory flashbacks by presenting 3 cases that illustrate the role of olfaction in PTSD. In these cases, olfaction is either a precipitant of PTSD symptoms or an important component of reexperiencing. DISCUSSION: In PTSD, seemingly nonspecific cues have the potential to precipitate traumatic memories with strong emotional components. These conditioned responses in PTSD are hypothesized to be mediated by specific brain areas, i.e., amygdala, hippocampus, and orbitofrontal cortex.” Author contact: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga, USA. e.vermetten@azu.nl

From BO Childhood adversities associated with major depression and/or anxiety disorders in a community sample of Ontario: Issues of co-morbidity and specificity. Levitan RD, Rector NA, Sheldon T, Goering P. Depress Anxiety 2003; 17(1):34-42 “A novel and robust finding, consistent across all analyses, was a marked association between early sexual abuse and co-morbid depression and anxiety but not the “pure” disorders….A particularly strong association between early sexual abuse and co-morbid depression/anxiety was found.” Clarke Division of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Two from BO Talking as a primary method of peer defusing for military personnel exposed to combat trauma. Fillion JS, Clements PT, Averill JB, Vigil GJ. J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv 2002 Aug; 40(8):40-9 “The need to ventilate and the relief that follows after talking about distressing events are evidence that defusing by talking should be encouraged after exposure to a traumatic event.” Canadian Forces Medical Group Headquarters, 1745 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A OK6. Fillion.JJS@forces.ca

Meanings of madness: A literature review. Casey B, Long A. J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs 2003 Feb; 10(1):89-99 “It is proposed that people experiencing psychological trauma attempt to regain a sense of order by imposing a narrative structure on these disconcerting experiences. The sharing of these personal stories with others results in meanings being shaped and refined through dialogue and across time.” St. Vincent’s Psychiatric Hospital, Fairview, Dublin, Ireland. briege.casey@dcu.ie

From BO Pediatric stress: Hormonal mediators and human development. Charmandari E, Kino T, Souvatzoglou E, Chrousos GP Horm Res 2003; 59(4):161-79 “The developing brain undergoes rapid growth and is characterized by high turnover of neuronal connections during the prenatal and early postnatal life. These processes and, hence, brain plasticity, slow down during childhood and puberty, and plateau in young adulthood. Hormonal actions in early life, and to a much lesser extent later, can be organizational, i.e., can have effects that last for long periods of time, often for the entire life of the individual….Profound stressors, such as those from sexual abuse, may elicit the syndrome in older children, adolescents and adults. Most frequently, chronic dysthymia and/or depression may develop in association with gastrointestinal complaints and/or the premenstrual tension syndrome. A lesser proportion of individuals may develop the classic posttraumatic stress disorder, which is characterized by hypocortisolism and intrusive and avoidance symptoms; in younger individuals it may present as dissociative personality disorder.” Pediatric and Reproductive Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., USA.

“Neurobiological effects of childhood abuse: implications for the pathophysiology of depression and anxiety” K. M. Penza, C. Heim, C. B. Nemeroff – Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, U.S.A. Archives of Women’s Mental Health Abstract – Volume 6 Issue 1 (2003) pp 15-22 “Specifically, early life traumatic events, occurring during a period of neuronal plasticity, appear to permanently render neuroendocrine stress response systems supersensitive. These physiological maladaptations likely represent long-term risk factors for the development of psychopathology after exposure to additional stress.”

Childhood and adulthood abuse in bulimic and nonbulimic women: Prevalences and psychological correlates. Leonard S, Steiger H, Kao A. Int J Eat Disord 2003 May; 33(4):397-405 “Compared with the normal eaters, bulimic women reported higher levels of childhood abuse. Although bulimic women showed more psychopathology than nonbulimic women, there was a correspondence between the presence and severity of abuse and the severity of concurrent psychopathologic symptoms. Results linked dissociation and submissiveness to most severe forms of abuse. Abuse in adulthood was almost always preceded by earlier abuse during childhood. DISCUSSION: Our findings suggest an association between certain psychopathologic traits and the likelihood of abuse (especially when occurring both in childhood and adulthood). Observed associations could implicate causal effects of childhood abuse on personality development, influences of personality traits in heightening the risk of abuse, or both.” Eating Disorders Program, Douglas Hospital, Verdun, Quebec, Canada.

Childhood sexual abuse and sexual transmission risk behaviour among HIV-positive men who have sex with men. O’Leary A, Purcell D, Remien RH, Gomez C. AIDS Care 2003 Feb; 15(1):17-26 “CSA history was found to be significantly associated with past (in the last 90 days) unprotected anal sex acts, both insertive (33% versus 20%, p < 0.05) and receptive (43% versus 27%, p < 0.02), with partners of HIV-negative or unknown serostatus. Further, several potential mediators of this effect were tested, and three found to be predicted by CSA history….Mediation analyses supported the hypothesis that these factors significantly (albeit partially) accounted for the association of CSA with receptive anal intercourse.” Behavioral Intervention Research Branch, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Intervention Research and Support, National Center for STD, HIV and TB Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS E-37, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.

from BO A prospective study of memory for child sexual abuse: New findings relevant to the repressed-memory controversy. Goodman GS, Ghetti S, Quas JA, Edelstein RS, Alexander KW, Redlich AD, Cordon IM, Jones DP. Psychol Sci 2003 Mar; 14(2):113-8 “Previous research indicates that many adults (nearly 40%) fail to report their own documented child sexual abuse (CSA) when asked about their childhood experiences. These controversial results could reflect lack of consciously accessible recollection, thus bolstering claims that traumatic memories may be repressed. In the present study, 175 individuals with documented CSA histories were interviewed regarding their childhood trauma. Unlike in previous studies, the majority of participants (81%) in our study reported the documented abuse….Failure to report CSA should not necessarily be interpreted as evidence that the abuse is inaccessible to memory, although inaccessibility or forgetting cannot be ruled out in a subset of cases.” Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, 95616, USA.

From BO Memory for Abuse: What can we learn from a Prosecution Sample? In press, Journal of Child Sexual Abuse Jennifer J. Freyd, University of Oregon, Comment on Goodman, G.S., Ghetti, S., Quas, J.A., Edelstein, R.S., Alexander, K. W., Redlich, A.D., Cordon,I.M., & Jones, D.P.H. (2003) A Prospective study of memory for child sexual abuse: New findings relevant to the repressed-memory debate. Psychological Science, 14, 113-118. “Goodman et al. (2003) reported that 81% of the participants reported the documented abuse, a proportion that is somewhat higher than in some previously published prospective studies assessing memory for abuse (e.g., Williams, 1994). Near the end of the paper, the authors summarize their findings: “Results from this study indicate that forgetting of CSA may not be a common experience, at least not in a prosecution sample” (p. 117)….Because the participants had been involved as children in criminal cases related to their victimization (a so-called “prosecution sample”), documentation for the abuse was particularly thorough and offered researchers the opportunity to compare later disclosures with documented records. However, along with the fact that the paper provides important new information, there is a substantial risk that the research reported in the paper might be misinterpreted. In particular, the results of this research might be generalized to non-prosecution samples.” “it is critical that we take care to avoid generalizing from highly unusual prosecution samples to populations that may have fundamentally lacked the opportunity of being “believed, supported, and legitimated.” http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/~jjf/goodman.html

From BO Nightmares and dissociative experiences: The key role of childhood traumatic events. Agargun MY, Kara H, Ozer OA, Selvi Y, Kiran U, Kiran S. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2003 Apr; 57(2):139-45 “The rate of childhood traumatic experiences was higher in nightmare sufferers than in those who did not have nightmares. The subjects who had undergone physical and sexual abuse had higher VDAS (Van Dream Anxiety Scale) global scores and item scores….These findings suggest that the subjects with childhood traumatic events failed to psychologically integrate their traumatic experiences and used dissociation as a coping strategy.” Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Research Unit and Yuzuncu Yil University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Van, Turkey.

from BO Chronic pain syndromes and their relation to childhood abuse and stressful life events. Lampe A, Doering S, Rumpold G, Solder E, Krismer M, Kantner-Rumplmair W, Schubert C, Sollner W. J Psychosom Res 2003 Apr; 54(4):361-367 “Childhood physical abuse, stressful life events, and depression had a significant impact on the occurrence of chronic pain in general, whereas childhood sexual abuse was correlated with CPP (chronic pelvic pain) only. Moreover, childhood sexual abuse was related to depression. Both childhood sexual and physical abuse showed a close relationship to an increased occurrence of stressful life events.” Department of Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Innsbruck, Sonnenburgstrasse 9, A-6020, Innsbruck, Austria

Commentary: Response to 17 February 2003 Media Reports on Loftus’ Bugs Bunny Study Jennifer J. Freyd, University of Oregon “The Bugs Bunny Research – What really happened and what does it mean? Apparently these are preliminary results, not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal…Without benefit of the actual empirical article that details methodology, thorough scientific critique is not possible in any case….Kathy Pezdek and her colleagues (Pezdek, Finger, & Hodge, 1997) found that planting implausible memories is much harder than planting plausible memories.” http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/~jjf/bugs.html

from LMS The Truth About Depression Choices for Healing by Charles L. Whitfield, M.D. “…based on our current knowledge, it appears that both nature and nurture are active factors in most people with mental disorders…include: Depression and suicidality, Anxiety disorders, Alcohol and other drug problems, Personality disorders, Attention deficit disorder (ADD) and violence, Eating disorders, Schizophrenia, Dissociative disorders….Some may be partially aware but don’t know how strong the trauma-mental disorder link is. This book will: Show the strong and perhaps even causal relationship between trauma and depression….Provide an alternative treatment and recovery program for people who have depression and a history of childhood and other traumas.” http://www.hci-online.com/Engine/Shopping/catalog.asp?store=5&category=98&itempage=2&item=4662&alt=1&itemonly=1 http://www.hci-online.com/Engine/Shopping/catalog.asp?store=5&category=98&itempage=2&item=4662&itemonly=1

From BO Abuse, dissociation, and somatization in irritable bowel syndrome: Towards an explanatory model. Salmon P, Skaife K, Rhodes J J Behav Med 2003 Feb; 26(1):1-18 “By comparison with physically diseased patients, patients with IBS recalled more sexual abuse as children and adults, more physical abuse as children, and more psychological abuse as adults. They were more anxious and depressed, and somatized and dissociated more. Analyses indicated a causal chain linking, in turn, abuse, dissociation, somatization, and IBS. The results are consistent with a model in which childhood abuse is linked to IBS because it causes a tendency to dissociate, and because dissociation causes a general increase in physical symptoms.” Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool, Whelan Building, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, L69 3GB, United Kingdom. psalmon@liv.ac.uk

Youth Victimization: Prevalence and Implications – Research in Brief – Dean G. Kilpatrick, Benjamin E. Saunders, and Daniel W. Smith Pub: National Institute of Justice, 4/03 (order a print copy from NCJRS at 800-851-3420) U.S. Department of Justice – Office of Justice Programs – National Institute of Justice – Research in Brief Youth Victimization: Prevalence and Implications APR. 03 “Much of the violence experienced by youths is perpetrated by peers or someone the victim knows well. Most sexual assaults (86 percent) and physical assaults (65 percent) went unreported. A clear relationship exists between youth victimization and mental health problems and delinquent behavior. For example – Negative outcomes in victims of sexual assault were three to five times the rates observed in nonvictims. Girls who witnessed violence were nearly twice as likely as boys to experience posttraumatic stress disorder.” http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles1/nij/194972.txt

Lives Destroyed: Recruitment of youth for massive American sex trade happening here 1/23/03 By Peter Frank, pfrank@pequotlakesecho.com “There is a Nisswa woman who allegedly convinces local girls to go to the Twin Cities. Once they arrive, they’re put to work as prostitutes. They join the ranks of between 200,000 and 300,000 juveniles being used as prostitutes every year in America.”

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