Issue 65 – November 2005

S M A R T
(Stop Mind control And Ritual abuse Today)
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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.

SMART wants to thank all those that have contributed resource information to the newsletter.

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

Legal Information

Molester Says Church Shifted Him to Other Parishes – The ex-priest, now in prison, makes the allegation about the San Diego diocese’s policy in the 1970s in a newly filed court document. By Jean Guccione 8/1/0/05 “A former Roman Catholic priest said San Diego church officials transferred him to other parishes after parishioners complained that he had molested altar boys and other youth in the 1970s, according to newly filed court documents. Edward Anthony Rodrigue was convicted in 1979 of sexually assaulting two boys in Ontario. Rodrigue made the statements in a court declaration at Corcoran state prison, where he is serving 10 years on a second molestation conviction. The declaration, which was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Diego, supports one of the main allegations in the clergy sexual abuse scandal: that bishops knew priests were molesting children, but covered up by shifting them elsewhere.” www.latimes.com

More lawsuits claim abuse at Catholic-run orphanage Dawn Ostrom, ABC26News 8/15/05 Marrero, LA “Three more men are coming forward claiming they were victims of physical and sexual abuse at Madonna Manor Orphanage in the 1950s and 1960s. Stacey Brown and Ted Lauche filed suit against Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans back in March. The men said they lived at Madonna Manor because their parents could not care for them. But, they say the nuns at the home did not care for them, but beat them. And, they say they were sexually abused by priests and other men.” http://abc26.trb.com/

Seeking justice, closure 8/16/05 By Joe Happ (The News Guard) “Carlich, 59, is one of 68 men currently making claims of sexual abuse by priests against the Archdiocese of Portland. He is seeking $10.2 million in damages and alleges he was molested as a sophomore at the now-defunct Tillamook Catholic High School by the late Rev. Gerald Dezurick, a local parish priest. The claims are now in crucial settlement talks that are expected to run through the middle of September. Carlich’s lawsuit was merged with the others after the archdiocese declared bankruptcy in July of 2004.” http://www.thenewsguard.com/

Accused priest was frequently reassigned – Critics: Pattern of priest’s postings sadly not surprising by Marc Chase mfitton@nwitimes.com 219.662.5330 8/21/05 “Reviewing the work history of a region priest accused of sexual abuse, two former Catholic monks turned victims advocates and one priest turned whistle-blower said they picked up on a familiar set of patterns. A timeline compiled by The Times of the Official Catholic Directories during the Rev. Richard A. Emerson’s 26-year career in the priesthood shows nine different moves to various parishes or other diocesan assignments, an average of about one move every three years. Emerson’s timeline shows extensive contact with youth during his career, including four years as head administrator of Schererville’s Hoosier Boys’ Town — a home for troubled youth now called Campagna Academy — and six years as the Diocese of Gary liaison for the Boy Scouts.” http://nwitimes.com/articles/2005/08/21/news/lake_county/852997b6fdd1f88286257064000831e8.txt

A Question of Trust | Colorado priest accused of abuse – Sex-abuse lawsuits multiply – Three more accuse White of molestation By Eric Gorski “Three more men filed lawsuits Tuesday alleging that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Denver covered up for former priest Harold Robert White despite being warned that he had been accused of molesting boys. At a news conference across from archdiocesan headquarters, Brandon Trask’s hands shook as he recounted how difficult it was to break 30 years of silence and publicly accuse White. He and another man, identified only as John Doe, filed a complaint in Denver District Court against the archdiocese for unspecified damages. Earlier Tuesday, a Miami lawyer filed a $10 million lawsuit on behalf of 52-year-old Greg Roberts of Fort Collins. The former altar boy says he was 14 or 15 when White molested him at church and a social hall in the mid-1960s. So far, five men have filed lawsuits against the archdiocese for its handling of White, who in less than a month has become the archdiocese’s biggest challenge involving clergy sex abuse since the U.S. church was struck by scandal in 2002.” http://www.denverpost.com/portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2967322

Three Michigan priests removed – Vatican rules leaders — 2 of them local — can’t minister after child sex abuse allegations. 9/16/05 By Kim Kozlowski / The Detroit News “The Vatican has removed three more local priests from ministry and prohibited them from wearing their clerical garb or presenting themselves as priests following allegations of child sexual abuse….Over a 50-year period, the Archdiocese of Detroit reported that 63 priests and deacons sexually abused 116 victims. The diocese paid $1.4 million in settlements and counseling costs.” http://www.detnews.com/2005/religion/0509/16/B01-317125.htm

Suit claims abuses at former school By Candice O’Grady “A member of Teslin Tlingit First Nation is bringing the Anglican Church and the federal government to court for sexual, mental and physical abuse he says he suffered at a former residential school in Carcross. The school was run by the Anglican Church, specifically the Diocese of the Yukon, under contract from the federal government. The student was emotionally, mentally, physically and sexually abused by staff and clergy who were there to “care for and educate” the native children placed at the Carcross school, he alleges. There is currently at least one other suit filed in the Yukon Supreme Court against the Anglican Church and the Government of Canada for alleged abuse at the residential school in Carcross. The other suit claims the plaintiff was forced to do unpaid work, which “amounts to slave labour.” This suit does not name labour without pay; however, the plaintiff in this case says he was sexually assaulted throughout his time at the school.” http://www.whitehorsestar.com/auth.php?r=39241

Priest admits sexually abusing a minor AP 9/19/05″Evreux, France – A Canadian clergyman with a prior criminal record for sexually abusing minors confessed Monday to charges of raping a young member of his parish in Normandy, where he moved after serving a prison term in Quebec…. Vadeboncoeur faces a 20-year sentence if convicted on charges of having abused his position of authority and raping a boy identified only as having been under 15. The assaults occurred from February 1990 to August 1993 while he was a priest at a church in the Normandy village of Lieurey….Vadeboncoeur, 65, moved to France in January 1988 to resume his life as a priest after having served a 20-month sentence in a Canadian prison. He had pleaded guilty to two charges of sexual abuse and one of sodomy against four teenage boys there. Canadian religious authorities had contacted church officials in Evreux in 1987 to tell them of Vadeboncoeur’s criminal record, Lieurey Mayor Elisabeth Simon said, adding that the information had been hidden from the community.” http://www.canada.com/

Canadian priest gets 12 years in jail for child abuse 9/21/05 “Evreux, France (AFP) – Denis Vadeboncoeur, a Canadian priest with a prior conviction for paedophilia, was sentenced to 12 years in prison by a French court for sex abuse of a 14 year-old boy.” “The prosecutor at the trial was strongly critical of the former bishop of Evreux, Jacques Gaillot, who gave Vadeboncoeur a parish in 1988 despite having been told that the priest had just served a 20-month prison term in Quebec for sex acts on adolescents including sodomy.” http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050921/wl_canada_afp/francecanadachildsex_050921151945

Lawsuits allege violence, sex abuse at church-run home in ’60s AP 8/25/05 “Half a dozen men have filed lawsuits alleging they were sexually molested, beaten and humiliated as children 40 years ago by nuns, priests and civilian staff members at Madonna Manor, a Catholic home for troubled children in Marrero.” http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/

Victim hopes sex case changes church by Colin Perkel CP 8/30/05 Toronto “A Jehovah’s Witness who sexually abused his daughter was sentenced yesterday to two years less a day, to be served in the community, in a case that cast a spotlight on how the church handles sex-abuse complaints within its ranks. The victim, Vicki Boer, said the sentencing of her father validates her allegations and should force the church to face up to its shortcomings in handling her abuse complaint….She claimed in an earlier civil suit that church elders told her not to report the abuse. She said they forced her to confront her dad to allow him to repent his sins as outlined in Matthew 18:15-18, a process she said was abusive and traumatic.” http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2005/08/30/1193447-sun.html

More Sex Abuse Lawsuits Against Archdiocese By Judith Kohler (AP) Denver 9/7/05 “Two more people came forward Wednesday with allegations that a former Roman Catholic priest sexually abused children, bringing to seven the number of lawsuits claiming the Denver archdiocese protected him for years. Attorneys for Gary Wolf, 56, of the Denver area and a woman, whose name wasn’t released, said they planned to file lawsuits Wednesday in Denver District Court. Their stories are similar to those of more than a dozen other alleged victims who say Harold Robert White sexually abused them and was moved to other parishes in Colorado to prevent a scandal.” http://cbs4denver.com/crime/local_story_251004020.html

Vatican defrocks 2 more Westchester priests By Gary Stern gstern@thejournalnews.com the Journal News 9/2/05 “The Vatican has defrocked two more Westchester priests who were accused of sexually abusing minors, as well as a deacon who served as a school official for the Archdiocese of New York, the archdiocese announced yesterday. The one-time priests were Gennaro Gentile, a former pastor of Holy Name of Mary Church in Croton-on-Hudson, and Lawrence Inzeo, a former pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Church in West Harrison. Also defrocked was Arthur Manzione, a former deacon and associate secretary for education for the archdiocese.” “In July, the archdiocese announced that the Vatican had defrocked six former priests accused of abuse: Daniel Calabrese, a former Poughkeepsie priest; David Carson, a former priest at St. Paul’s Church in Congers; Kenneth Jesselli, who replaced Gentile at Holy Name of Mary; Ralph LaBelle, a former pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Putnam Lake; Patrick Quigley, a former priest at Immaculate Conception Church in Stony Point; and Francis Stinner, a former priest at St. Joseph’s Church in Bronxville.” http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050902/NEWS12/509020311/-1/spider

Pope Lawyer Seek Immunity in Texas Case by Nicole Winfield, AP Writer – Vatican City “Lawyers for Pope Benedict XVI have asked President Bush to declare the pontiff immune from liability in a lawsuit that accuses him of conspiring to cover up the molestation of three boys by a seminarian in Texas, court records show. The Vatican’s embassy in Washington sent a diplomatic memo to the State Department on May 20 requesting the U.S. government grant the pope immunity because he is a head of state, according to a May 26 motion submitted by the pope’s lawyers in U.S. District Court for the Southern Division of Texas in Houston. Joseph Ratzinger is named as a defendant in the civil lawsuit. Now Benedict XVI, he’s accused of conspiring with the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston to cover up the abuse during the mid-1990s. The suit is seeking unspecified monetary damages.”

Pope immune from abuse lawsuit 9/20/05 “Rome – The United States government has told a Texas court that Pope Benedict XVI should be given immunity from a lawsuit accusing him of conspiring to cover up the sexual molestation of three boys by a seminarian, court documents show. Assistant attorney general Peter Keisler said in Monday’s filing that, as pope, Benedict enjoys immunity as the head of a state – the Vatican. He said allowing the lawsuit to proceed would be “incompatible with the United States’ foreign policy interests”. http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1773602,00.html

2 Calif. dioceses to pay $42m in abuse claims By Jennifer Coleman, Associated Press 6/30/05 Sacramento “Two Catholic dioceses in Northern California agreed yesterday to pay more than $42 million to settle 41 clergy sex abuse claims, resulting in the dismissal of all but one lawsuit. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento agreed to pay $35 million to 33 victims just ”two minutes” before a jury trial was set to begin in one of the cases yesterday, attorney Larry Drivon said at a news conference….Also yesterday, the Diocese of Santa Rosa announced it will pay $7.3 million to eight plaintiffs. The Sacramento plaintiffs will receive payments ranging from $400,000 to $4.2 million, Drivon said. The agreement settles all pending sex abuse lawsuits against the Sacramento diocese.” http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/06/30/2_calif_dioceses_to_pay_42m_in_abuse_claims/

Diocese settles last suit on abuse – $750,000 deal raises total paid or promised to victims to nearly $20 million 9/16/05 By Guy Kovner – the Press Democrat “Santa Rosa’s Roman Catholic Diocese announced Thursday the settlement of the last sexual abuse lawsuit filed against it, agreeing to pay $750,000 to a man who said he was abused by a former Rohnert Park priest. The settlement brings to an end a painful four-decade chapter in diocese history as 10 lawsuits filed in 2002 and 2003 were settled for a combined $11,365,000, the diocese said. In all, the diocese has paid or promised to pay dozens of victims nearly $20 million since 1990.” http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050916/NEWS/509160303/1033/NEWS01

Hearings To Begin Today In Funeral Home Murders Jason DeRusha Reporting (WCCO) Hudson, Wis.”Prosecutors are expected to tell a judge on Monday why they believe Father Ryan Erickson murdered two people inside a funeral home in Hudson, Wis. more than three years ago. John Doe hearings are scheduled for Monday in the murder investigation of Dan O’Connell, 39, and James Ellison, 22. They were killed inside the O’Connell Family Funeral Home in February 2002.” http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_276093438.html

Broward – Suit: Church knew of sex claims – A Fort Lauderdale man has filed suit against the Archdiocese of Miami alleging a priest raped him when he was 9 years old. By Wanda J. Demarzo and Jay Weaver wdemarzo@herald.com “After settling a $50,000 sexual-abuse claim against the Rev. Neil Doherty, the Archdiocese of Miami kept the priest in a Broward parish where he allegedly doped and raped a different boy over a five-year period, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday. The suit, which seeks $25 million in damages, offers evidence that church leaders were aware of earlier sex-abuse allegations against Doherty, yet apparently did nothing to protect children from him.” www.miami.com

Suits say diocese hid clergy sex abuse – Mark I. Pinsky | Sentinel Staff Writer 9/12/05 “Lawsuits filed by two men today accuse the Catholic Diocese of Orlando of concealing clergy sex abuse more than 30 years ago. Attorneys for the two unnamed plaintiffs charged that, beginning in the mid-1960s, the Rev. Vernon Uhran abused them and others through 1976 at rectories at St. Mary Magdalen Church in Altamonte Springs; the Church of the Resurrection in Lakeland; St. Theresa Church in Belleview; as well as on a cross-country trip in a recreational vehicle. The suits, each seeking $5 million in damages, also charge that leaders of the diocese, including Bishop William Borders, now retired archibishop of Baltimore, knew of the charges against Uhran, refused to do anything to stop it and even concealed the charges. The suits, filed in Orange County Circuit Court, allege that the diocese transferred Uhran from parish to parish, “where he continued to have unfettered access to minors and was permitted to have frequent sleepovers in the rectories.” http://www.orlandosentinel.com/

also see – Diocese of Orlando covered up sex abuse by clergy, lawsuits say – Mark I. Pinsky – Sentinel Staff Writer 9/13/05 http://www.orlandosentinel.com/

Wilmington diocese paid $68,000 in sex abuse case – The late Rev. Alfred John Lind Jr. was accused of molesting two boys in the early 1960s. By Beth Miller and Steven Church The News Journal 10/07/2005 “In January 2004, though, in response to researchers at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Bishop Michael Saltarelli reported that 60 people had made allegations against Wilmington diocese priests in the 50-year span under study. The researchers were commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.” http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051007/NEWS/510070369/1006

Priest accused of sex abuse now at U. By Triangle News Desk 10/7/05 “University Government and Community Relations Assistant Vice President James Iannerella, a priest no longer active in the ministry, was accused of sexually molesting a 17-year-old Delaware County girl in 1999 according to Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham’s grand jury report released Sept. 21. The report cited that Iannarella, along with 62 other priests, were involved in sexual acts of misconduct against minors that were later covered up by the Roman Catholic Church.” http://www.thetriangle.org/media/paper689/news/2005/10/07/News/Priest.Accused.Of.Sex.Abuse.Now.At.U-1013894.shtml

10/7/05 Grand jury findings Philadelphia cardinals ‘excused and enabled abuse, covered up crimes’ By Ralph Cipriano Philadelphia “A grand jury that investigated the Philadelphia archdiocese for more than three years has concluded that two former archbishops orchestrated a systematic cover-up spanning four decades that managed to successfully shield from prosecution 63 priests who had sexually abused hundreds of children. In a 418-page report issued Sept. 21, the grand jury said that the two archbishops — the retired Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua and the late Cardinal John Krol — “excused and enabled the abuse” by “burying the reports they did receive and covering up the conduct … to outlast any statutes of limitation.”” http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2005d/100705/100705a.php

Grand jury: 63 priests abused children – Philadelphia, Sept. 21 (UPI) ” A Philadelphia grand jury, which accused 63 Roman Catholic priests of sexual abuse and church officials of a cover-up, called for changes in state law. While the grand jury’s scathing 418-page report concluded at least 63 priests sexually abused children, they cannot be charged because the statute of limitations has expired, radio station KYW-AM and The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.” http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050921-14590600-bc-us-priests.xml

from LMS – Priests reportedly chastise cardinal: several clerics in a private meeting are said to have challenged his defense of the handling of sex-abuse cases – By David O’Reilly and Jim Remsen – Inquirer Staff Writers – 9/28/05 “Three hundred priests of the Philadelphia Archdiocese met yesterday with Cardinal Justin Rigali, a 90-minute conclave at which some challenged his defense of the previous archbishops named in a grand jury report on clergy sex abuse.” http://www.philly.com/

Former priest sent to prison in ’88 Wisconsin case AP 9/17/05 Green Bay, Wis “Buzanowski has not served as a clergyman since 1989 and was formally defrocked by the Vatican in March. Buzanowski was convicted in Milwaukee on a federal charge of possessing child pornography in 2000 and served 21 months in prison. In a letter written at that time, he admitted to molesting more than 14 boys between 1969 and 1988, court records show.” http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5620244.html

Describes abuse – Lurid stories of sex and abuse shock Spokane area By Nicholas K. Geranios AP 9/5/05 “”The number of pedophiles in the United States is not known, but mental health experts estimate that 4 percent of the population suffers from sexual orientation toward children, the vast majority of them males. In 1999, 93,000 kids were sexually abused, and 70 percent of the perpetrators were family members.” “it was revealed that officials at the Morning Star Boys Ranch, a revered local institution, may have tolerated physical and sexual assaults against troubled boys.” http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/

Dominion Post – 8/22/05 Here’s the real witch hunt by Linley Boniface “”When I first read Lynley Hood’s “A City Possessed,” which has somehow come to be accepted as the official New Zealand textbook on the case, it seemed clear there had been a gross miscarriage of justice. But on second reading, I began to wonder why there were such huge gaps in the story: why, in a book claiming to provide a balanced picture between many conflicting points of view, evidence from the children and their families had been treated with such scorn. I read everything I could find from the trial before reading it for a third time. This time, I realised the mistake had been my own: I had treated the book as investigative journalism, but I should have seen it as a polemic. Hood’s agenda is clear from the contents page: she devotes twice as much space to her theories about witch hunts and gender politics as she does to the actual trial. Evidence that does not support Ellis is quickly dismissed, while the character, background and professional credentials of those who believed the children are repeatedly attacked. The children’s parents are – there is no other word for it – demonised. Hood’s big idea is that Christchurch was seized by an outbreak of mass hysteria that extended not only to an entire community but to all rungs of the criminal justice system. You’d think this was a fairly controversial theory, yet it is now routinely reported not as opinion, but as fact. Ellis is often referred to in the media as an “alleged” child abuser, as if his conviction counts for nothing compared with the kangaroo court of public opinion.” http://www.peterellis.org.nz/2005/2005-0822_DominionPost_HeresTheReal.htm

Military academies and sex abuse: 15 years of failure 8/25/05 “Fifteen years after an ugly incident involving a female midshipman being assaulted and chained to a urinal called attention to the prevalence of sexual harassment and assault at the nation’s military academies, those schools still haven’t dealt adequately with the problem. That’s the sorry conclusion of a congressionally mandated task force.” http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-08-25-military_x.htm

from LMS Pedophile admits guilt, awaits sentence 8/30/05 Saint-Jerome “The pedophile Claude Fradet admits guilt to 21 of the 31 charges against him at the Saint-Jerome courthouse Tuesday morning. He molested 19 victims between 1991 and May 2005. Fradet would bring the children into his home and over those years, he has lived in Sainte-Agathe, Pointe-Calumet, Granby and Montréal. Fradet victimes included babies as young as two-weeks-old to 13-year-old girls and one was assaulted up to 160 times.” http://www.canada.com/montreal/

Sex charges rock church – Two pastors, a deacon and a member of Ambassador Baptist Church face charges. Kelly Pedro, Patrick Maloney and Randy Richmond, Free Press Reporters 9/9/05 “Charges of sexual abuse and assault — some involving young children — have stung a London Baptist church, put its leaders behind bars and prompted police to continue searching for others who may have been assaulted. Ambassador Baptist Church pastors Roy Wood, 55, and Brian Fast, 51, along with deacon William Dalton Fletcher, 44, and church member Russell Wilson, 48, were charged yesterday with sexual assault, police said. Fletcher was also charged with sexual exploitation and Wilson was charged with sexual interference. Wood was also charged with sexual exploitation and three counts of assault with a weapon relating to three teenage boys.” http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2005/09/09/1208507-sun.html

from LMS Church sex probe widens By Kelly Pedro, Free Press Crime Reporter “The investigation into sexual abuse allegations at a London Baptist church widened yesterday as more people contacted police with complaints. “As a result of the charges laid (Thursday), additional information has come to light,” Const. Amanda Pfeffer said. Police aren’t saying how many more complaints they received yesterday or whom they were about. Ambassador Baptist Church pastors Roy Wood and Brian Fast along with deacon William Fletcher and church member Russell Wilson were charged Thursday with multiple sex offences involving several youths and a woman. The children told police they were assaulted at the church or while in the care of church members.” http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2005/09/10/pf-1210427.html

Secret files vindicate detective By Michael Davis 1/3/05 “A former country detective’s claim that he was forced out of the police force for trying to prosecute a senior Catholic priest accused of child-sex crimes has been vindicated by secret files. In the documents, obtained by The Australian under FOI, senior police concede their failure to bring a pedophile monsignor to court was linked to the premature resignation of detective Denis Ryan more than 30 years ago.” http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,16792552%255E421,00.html

Mondays were ‘Mandays’ for pedophile pastor By Tracy Mclaughlin, Special to the Edmonton Sun – Newmarket “A pastor who said he was doing “God’s work” when he blindfolded and handcuffed a teenager, then sexually assaulted him on videotape was sent to jail yesterday. Roscoe Lim, 27, a former youth pastor at the Markham Christian Community Church, was sentenced to 14 months plus three years’ probation for sexual assault and luring over the Internet.” http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2005/09/30/1242175-sun.html

Missouri high court weighs repressed-memory case By Robert Patrick Of the Post-Dispatch 09/08/05 Jefferson City “The question of whether people with repressed memories can collect from the Roman Catholic Church on new claims of old sex abuse was argued before the Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday, after lower courts could not agree. The eventual decision is sure to have a significant financial impact on the church in Missouri and on those trying to win damages over allegations of misconduct by priests that may date back decades. The case involves accusations that two faculty members at Chaminade College Preparatory School in St. Louis County sexually abused a teenage student named Michael Powel in the early 1970s. The case centers on whether it is too late for Powel to sue the faculty members, Chaminade and the Marianist Province.” http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/EF1FDE8D37FF6E0E86257077001B4C6D?OpenDocument

Pakistan debates religious school abuse – Pakistani activists and many parents want investigation of beatings and sex abuse in madrassas by Brian Murphy AP 9/18/05 Islamabad, Pakistan ” The accounts are disturbing: beatings, forced sex and imprisonment with shackles and leg irons. Abuse allegations from hundreds of children sent to study at religious schools in Pakistan are prompting calls from parents and rights groups for a full-scale investigation.” http://www.statesman.com/news/content/auto/epaper/editions/sunday/news_34b2fb5b473be13f00bb.html

Coles reveals he was sexually abused East Rutherford, N.J. (AP) “Laveranues Coles held a dark secret that caused him nightmares for many years, one he never told any of his New York Jets teammates. The Pro Bowl wide receiver thought he was alone in his inner struggles, and too proud to let any outsiders into his personal prison. But Coles recently decided to free himself of his secret: He was sexually abused as a young boy by his stepfather.” http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/4884578

Haitian children sold as cheap labourers and prostitutes for little more than £50 – Dominican Republic accused of turning a blind eye to thriving trade in youngsters Gary Younge in Santo Domingo 9/22/05 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1575268,00.html?gusrc=rss

Governor Schwarzenegger Signs Legislation to Combat Human Trafficking – Establishes Human Trafficking as a Crime & Strengthens Victims Compensation Fund http://www.governor.ca.gov/state/govsite/gov_htmldisplay.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0625300294.1127861112@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccccaddfkkkkmffcfngcfkmdffidfng.0&sCatTitle=Press%20Release&sFilePath=/govsite/press_release/2005_09/20050921_GAAS44405_Human_Trafficking_Signing.html

article describes torture – from LMS – Bungling, cover-ups in 350 puzzling deaths – Mexican police, officials suspected of links to crimes by Ginger Thompson, New York Times 9/26/05 “International observers, human rights workers and federal authorities say it illustrates a disturbing pattern of malfeasance by state law enforcement authorities responsible for investigating Mexico’s most gruesome murder mystery: the deaths of more than 350 women in this border area over the last decade, including at least 90 raped and killed in similar ways. Whether through incompetence, corruption or a lurid connection to the killings, the bungling and cover-ups are so extensive, federal investigators say, that the police and other officials have themselves become suspected of links to the crimes.” http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/09/26/MNG95EU1351.DTL

Kansas couple on trial for enslaving mentally ill 10/4/05 by Carey Gillam – Kansas City, Kan., Oct 4 (Reuters) “A Kansas husband and wife who ran a psychotherapy practice were to go on trial on Tuesday on charges that they kept mentally ill people as slaves, forced them to perform sex acts on videotape and then billed Medicare nearly $1 million for the “therapy.” Prosecutors charged that Arlan Kaufman, 68, and his wife Linda Kaufman, 62, spent 18 years taking advantage of patients entrusted to their care. The couple ran a residential care facility in Newton, Kansas, where they worked with at least 20 mentally ill individuals from 1980 until 2004.” http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N04656916.htm

Cybercops smash child porn ring 9/21/05 “A Europe-wide internet child porn ring with links to Britain has been smashed after a series of raids across the continent. A total of 80 suspects are being investigated after police swooped in the UK, Italy France, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands. DVDs, CD-Roms, video tapes, and memory cards for digital cameras were seized from what is thought to have been a vast network of paedophiles who downloaded the same pornographic images.” http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21092005/356/cybercops-smash-child-porn-ring.html

from LMS Jailed Pedophile Guilty in 1998 Murder of Boy, 12 By Barbara Whitaker 9/29/05 “A man described as a classic sexual predator who is already serving time for sexually abusing a dozen teenage boys was found guilty yesterday of the kidnapping and murder of a 12-year-old Yonkers boy found buried in a shallow grave in Dobbs Ferry more than six years ago. The murder of the boy, Orlandito Rosario-Maldonado, which shocked Westchester, went unsolved for years before investigators compiled enough evidence to arrest Robert D. DeRosario, a suspect from the beginning…..The boy was last seen on Nov. 2, 1998, in Mr. DeRosario’s apartment building after getting a haircut. The investigation into his death led authorities to a world of child sexual exploitation, and nine men, including Mr. DeRosario, were ultimately arrested on charges that they sexually abused boys in Westchester County. Among them were public officials and corporate executives. Mr. DeRosario admitted to sexually attacking 12 boys, ranging in age from 13 to 19, and pleaded guilty to 12 counts of sodomy, sex abuse and endangering a child. In July 2000 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. “This case opened up a world of pedophiles we were able to identify,” Ms. Pirro said. “But for the longest time we didn’t have sufficient evidence to bring murder charges against the individual who killed Orlandito.”he boy’s body was badly decomposed and, aside from the fact that he was strangled by a piece of rope similar to some found in Mr. DeRosario’s apartment, there was little physical evidence. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/29/nyregion/29slay.html

Cyber Lab Helps Nab 28 Pedophiles in CT – Greenwich, CT – (AP) “The FBI credits its cyber laboratory for helping indict 28 people in Connecticut who are accused of trading child pornography and being sexual predators since last year. The lab is being used by the Innocent Images Task Force, which includes personnel from the FBI, federal postal inspectors, state and local police.” http://www.connpost.com/

Mind Control and Experimentation

Foetuses found at Bogota airport 9/29/05 “Colombian police have found the bodies of three human foetuses hidden in statues destined for the United States. The discovery was made by officers searching for contraband at Bogota Airport on Tuesday. The corpses were wrapped in plastic and concealed inside statues of Christian icons, which were smashed open. Colombian police chief Gen Jord Alirio Varon said the four- to five-month-old foetuses could have been intended for use in Satanic rituals. Gen Varon said the foetuses were found alongside crucifixes and medals.” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4293934.stm

This website has documents on the CIA and MK-Ultra. http://www.bvalphaserver.com/

Site has information on Johnny Gosch http://www.johnnygosch.com/

Ritual Abuse-Torture – A Human Rights Violation – We are inviting persons who have survived ritual abuse-torture to submit a one page signed statement about their ordeals. We have 22 signed statements from Australia, Canada, Holland, Israel, New Zealand and the US (read below signed statements on page 11 of the letter to the Canadian Government: http://www.ritualabusetorture.org/postun.pdf) Our dream is to have 100 Canadian and internationally signed statements to bring with us to the UN in Geneva to meet with a working group in 2006, making a statement about the prevalence of ritual abuse-torture world wide. For information on the signed statement process contact us as at: flight@ns.sympatico.ca Jeanne Sarson & Linda MacDonald, Persons Against Ritual Abuse-Torture, www.ritualabusetorture.org

EPA rule loopholes allow pesticide testing on kids – Andrew Schneider, Baltimore Sun 9/15/05 “Washington — The Environmental Protection Agency’s new rules on human testing, which the agency said last week would categorically protect children and pregnant women from pesticide testing, include numerous exemptions, such as one that specifically allows testing of children who have been “abused and neglected.” ” http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/15/MNG2NENN801.DTL

has pictures of electrodes – The Forgotten Era of the Brain by John Horgan – Scientific American Oct 2005 has information on Jose Delgado “”He implanted radio-equipped electrode arrays, which he called “stimoceivers,” in cats, monkeys, chimpanzees, gibbons, bulls and even humans, and he showed that he could control subjects’ minds and bodies with the push of a button.”

Abuse of Electroshock Found in Turkish Mental Hospitals by Craig S. Smith 9/29/05 Paris, Sept. 28 “Turkey’s psychiatric hospitals are riddled with horrific abuses, including the use of raw electroshock as a form of punishment, according to a human rights report issued in Istanbul on Wednesday, just days before Turkey begins formal talks to join the European Union.” http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/29/international/europe/29turkey.html

Monday – October 3, 2005 – The Family Cult – “Imagine growing up in a cult where you are forced to sleep with strangers — when you’re as young as 5. Dr. Phil talks to people who escaped the group known as the Children of God, and who need help moving on. Meet a daughter who says she can’t forgive her father for the years of painful abuse she suffered at the hands of this cult. How can she reconnect with her dad and start trusting again? Plus, China and her husband, John, are building a new life after leaving the group, where they were forced to have sex with strangers when they were both underage. They’ve had a difficult time adjusting to the outside world, and China wonders if she should prosecute her parents for abuse.” http://www.drphil.com/shows/

Kim Kubal, a ritual abuse and torture survivor, is writing a book entitled “Power to Heal”. She would love to receive submissions from survivors on their healing journey from ritual abuse/torture to recovery. At the end of each story, please elaborate on one or two healing tools, which have been most helpful to their recovery. She is also looking for practitioners to contribute healing tools which they have used in working with survivors. Kim would like to have each story in approximately 1 – 1½ pages or less. It can be written with a pseudonym or with their real name. The deadline for these stories is December 2005. This book is to help survivors, loved ones of survivors and therapists, and to educate the general public on ritual abuse/torture, and recovery from this abuse. As always, please use caution contacting any resource mentioned in this newsletter.

Information on Nazi Triggers and Dates is at: http://www.ctsserver.com/~svship/nazi.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

ASCA (Advocates for Survivors of Child Abuse) is the only national organisation in Australia which offers programs specifically for survivors of the trauma of child abuse. ASCA services include face-to-face support groups with ASCA-trained volunteer convenors, online moderated support groups and conference facility, phone support network, 1300 information support line (with trained volunteers), monthly newsletter and counsellor facilitated residential programs. Additional services include workshops e.g. speaker training, media art therapy, public meetings and social events. ASCA also plays an advocacy role speaking out about abuse issues and educating both professionals (publications for medial practitioners and therapists) and the public. E-mail: info@asca.org.au Website: http://www.asca.org.au As always, please use caution when contacting any resource listed in this newsletter.

Memory Fragmentation in Dissociative Identity Disorder – Onno van der Hart, PhD, Hilde Bolt, MA, Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD “All participants reported a history of severe childhood abuse;93.3%reported some period of amnesia for the index traumatic event, and 33.3%reported periods of amnesia for significant non-traumatic childhood experiences. All participants who had been amnestic for their trauma reported that their memories were initially retrieved in the form of somatosensory flashbacks. This suggests that, like PTSD patients, DID patients at least initially recall their trauma not as a narrative ,but as somatosensory re-experiencing. Surprisingly, however, DID participants also recalled emotionally charged non-traumatic life events with significant somato-sensory components, a phenomenon that has not been previously reported. This finding raises important issues regarding basic memory processing abnormalities in DID patients.” http://www.onnovdhart.nl/articles/memoryfrag.pdf

How Childhood Sexual Abuse Affects Interpersonal Relationships – a research paper http://members.aol.com/smartnews/howchildhoodsa.htm

Hi, my name is Laura and I am a doctoral student conducting research on males who have DID. This is extremely important research, as there is little in the literature about dissociative males. I am hoping that my study will add to the literature and will assist therapists in the early identification and treatment of DID in the male population. In order to participate in my study you must be a male, at least 18 years-old, and had any type of unwanted sexual experience during childhood. If you are interested in participating in my study, please call (631) 698- 7151 or (619) 516-4697. Your participation will be kept confidential. There is also compensation for your time in the amount of 35$.

The Science of Child Sexual Abuse Jennifer J. Freyd , Frank W. Putnam, Thomas D. Lyon, Kathryn A. Becker-Blease, Ross E. Cheit, Nancy B. Siegel, Kathy Pezdek “Child sexual abuse (CSA) involving sexual contact between an (usually male) adult and a child has been reported by 20% of women and 5-10% of men worldwide. Surveys likely underestimate prevalence due to underreporting and memory failure. Although official reports have declined somewhat in the U.S. over the past decade, close to 90% of sexual abuse cases are never reported to the authorities.” http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/~jjf/articles/science05.htm

Hypnos Vol. XXII No. 2- 73-85, 1995 Amnesia for Traumatic Experiences Onno Van Der Hart, Ph.D, Ellert Nijenhuis “There is a heated clinical, legal and public discussion going on “recovered memories” of childhood sexual abuse: are these memories false or accurate ones? One of the arguments made by some false memory advocates is that total amnesia for traumatic events, often started in terms of repressed memories” does not exist. Based on a review of the research and clinical literature on the matter, the authors conclude that this argument is untenable. They criticize the use of terms such as repression and suppression in this regard, and propose the use of the concept of dissociation instead. They describe the reproductive qualities of traumatic memory, as opposed to narrative memory which is reconstructive in nature. Finally, they present some clinical guidelines for the prevention of inducing false beliefs in psychotherapy.” http://www.onnovdhart.nl/articles/amnesiatrexp.pdf

From Hysterical Psychosis to Reactive Dissociative Psychosis – Onno van der Hart, Eliezer Witztum, Barbara Friedman “Abstract: In this paper Reactive Dissociative Psychosis (RDP) is seen as a post-traumatic stress response. and as a subcategory of Brief Reactive Psychosis (BRP). A review of the literature and the evolution of RDP from Hysteria and Hysterical Psychosis are given. Issue is taken with defining the duration of BRP as “Brief” The authors argue that long-standing psychotic symptoms may be traumatically-induced. The dissociative aspects of RDP as its key feature and the concomitant implications for accurate diagnosis are proposed. The usefulness of applying hypnosis in RDP treatment is summarized in a case study from Janet and detailed in a case from the authors’ practice.” http://www.onnovdhart.nl/articles/hystericalpsychosis.pdf

from BO Early experiences and their relationship to maternal eating disorder symptoms, both lifetime and during pregnancy. Senior R, Barnes J, Emberson JR, Golding J. Br J Psychiatry 2005 Sep; 187:268-73. “Recall of parental mental health problems and of early unwanted sexual experiences were independently associated with both lifetime eating problems, laxative use and vomiting during pregnancy, and marked concern during pregnancy over shape and weight.” Leopold Muller Centre for Child and Family Mental Health, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF, UK. rsenior@tavi-port.nhs.uk

Childhood sexual abuse linked to pregnant eating disorder symptoms 9/5/05 “A history of unwanted sexual experiences in childhood appears to be associated with both a lifetime and maternal risk of eating disorder symptoms in women, as well as concerns about shape and weight during pregnancy, study findings show. “Maternal eating problems in the postnatal period have been shown to pose a particular risk to the developing child by interfering with parenting and child growth,” note R Senior, from the Leopold Muller Centre for Child and Family Mental Health in London, UK, and colleagues.” Source: Br J Psychiatry 2005; 187: 268-273 http://www.psychiatrysource.com/psychsource/News/article1784.htm

Self-mutilation in substance-dependent patients and relationship with childhood abuse and neglect, alexithymia and temperament and character dimensions of personality. Evren C, Evren B. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2005 Oct 1; 80(1):15-22. “RESULTS: Among substance-dependent patients 34.6% was considered as a group with SM. Rates of being single and unemployed, histories of physical and sexual abuse and suicide attempts were higher in the SM group. Current age, age at first substance use and age at regular substance use were lower in the group with SM. Mean of TAS-20 and difficulty in identifying feelings (DIF) and difficulty in describing feelings (DDF) subscales of TAS-20 were higher in SM group. There were no significant differences between groups in terms of TCI subscales. Age, childhood physical abuse and suicide attempt history predicted SM in logistic regression.” From: AMATEM, Bakirkoy State Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders, 34747 Bakirkoy, Istanbul, Turkey.

What research paradigms have cognitive psychologists used to study ³False memory,² and what are the implications of these choices? Pezdek K, Lam S. Conscious Cogn 2005 Sep 10 “Although there is an apparent false memory research bandwagon in cognitive psychology, with increasing numbers of studies published on this topic over the past decade, few researchers (only 13.1% of the articles) have studied false memory as the term was originally intended‹to specifically refer to planting memory for an entirely new event that was never experienced in an individual¹s lifetime. Cognitive psychologists interested in conducting research relevant to assessing the authenticity of memories for child sexual abuse should consider the generalizability of their research to the planting of entirely new events in memory.” Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 91711-3955, USA.

Drawing Conclusions: Confusion Between Data and Theory in the Traumatic Memory Debate by Joyanna Silberg http://www.leadershipcouncil.org/docs/Silberg.pdf

From BO Providing misleading and reinstatement information a year after it happened: Effects on long-term memory. Peterson, C, Parsons, T and Dean, M Memory 12(1): 1-13, 2004. “The question addressed here is whether misleading suggestions made to children a year after target events had occurred will alter long-term recall. One group (3-13 years old when injured and treated in a hospital Emergency Room) were given both misleading and accurate reinstating information a year later, and recall of target events assessed both 1 week and another year later (i.e., 2 years post-injury). A control group had recall assessed both 1 and 2 years post-injury. Misleading had little effect on children1s recall 1 week later, although a few misled details were reported. However, a year later virtually none of the misleading information was incorporated into long-term recall. Rather, children were more, not less, accurate when recalling details about which they had been misled. Results were attributed to target events having been highly memorable and well rehearsed via previous recalls, and detection of discrepancies between memory and misleading information focusing attention on targeted details.” Psychology Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada. carole@mun.ca

Love and Stockholm Syndrome: The Mystery of Loving an Abuser By Joseph M. Carver, PhD http://www.mental-health-matters.com/articles/article.php?artID=469

Sexual Abuse of Infants – A five-part question focusing on sexual abuse during infancy. Http://www.childtrauma.org/ctamaterials/infant_abuse.asp

The National Psychologist, Vol 14, No. 5, Sep/Oct 2005 California High Court To Hear Loftus Appeal by John Thomas “The California Supreme Court will hear an appeal from the nation’s most controversial repressed memory debunker to determine if the psychologist can be sued for invasion of privacy and defamation….Loftus is an advisory board member of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, which has been accused by many of using ridicule against individuals who claim to have reclaimed repressed memories of abuse. She is also involved with the National Center for Reason and Justice, an organization that advocates for people accused of molesting children.” http://www.nationalpsychologist.com

Rasim Somer Diler – Conversion and Dissociative Disorders in Children and Adolescents Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Cukurova University Faculty Medicine, Adana, Turkey “Dissociation is a complex psychopathological coping process that exists along a continuum ranging from minor normative dissociative experiences (e.g., daydreaming or lapses in attention) to severe psychiatric diagnoses (e.g., dissociative identity disorder, amnesia, and fug). The frequency of dissociative experiences is at its highest during childhood. The single best predictor of dissociative disorder is frequent “trance-like behavior”. Children with dissociative disorders exhibit a plethora of fluctuating abilities, shifting preferences, and inconsistent knowledge. The link between dissociative disorders and trauma is well accepted. Children and adolescents may present dissociative symptoms prior to meeting full criteria for PTSD, panic disorder, personality disorders, or dissociative disorders.” Bridging Eastern and Western Psychiatry vol. I num. 1, 2003 http://www.psyter.org/allegati/182/diler_8.pdf

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