Issue 186 – January 2026

S.M.A.R.T.
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Information in this issue includes:

– The Survivorship Trafficking and Extreme Abuse Online Conference May 2026

– Trauma, Dissociation, and Surviving a Psychopathic Father

–  Jeffrey Epstein on Trump: ‘I know how dirty donald is’ Ghislaine Maxwell

– Thousands of new Epstein docs released, some emails mentioning Trump

– Hundreds of thousands of ‘Epstein files’ have been released “Trump flying on Epstein’s jet in the 1990s….photos of former President Bill Clinton hanging out with Epstein”

– 4 Men Accused of Having ‘Satanic’ Child Torture Videos Linked to International Ring, Sex Crimes Squad charge four men for involvement in an international satanic child sex abuse material ring, Sydney men charged with spreading child sexual abuse videos tied to international ring

– Knesset hears harrowing new testimony of alleged ritual sexual abuse

– Trauma-based Mind Control Chapter

 – New York archdiocese seeks $300m to settle claims by clergy abuse survivors, New Orleans Catholic clergy abuse survivors in line to collectively be paid $305m

– Lifetime toll: 840 million women faced partner or sexual violence

– Unlocking Buried Secrets by Victorious Heart for survivors of severe trauma, surviving a multigenerational Satanic cult, mind control and alleged Masonic involvement

The Survivorship Trafficking and Extreme Abuse Online Conference 2026 https://survivorship.org/the-survivorship-trafficking-and-extreme-abuse-online-conference-2026/

Survivor Conference – Saturday and Sunday May 16 – 17, 2026

Clinician’s Conference – Friday May 15, 2026

Please write info@survivorship.org if you would like to get on their conference mailing list.

Jeffrey Epstein on Trump: ‘I know how dirty donald is’ Wed, Nov 12  Dan Mangan       Notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said of President Donald Trump, “I know how dirty donald is,” in a 2018 email thread released by House Democrats about Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen pleading guilty to campaign finance violations and agreeing to cooperate in a federal investigation of the president.

    The email thread, which CNBC has not independently verified, is among more than 20,000 documents obtained from Epstein’s estate through a subpoena by Democrats on the House oversight committee, which released them.

    In a 2019 email, Epstein told author Michael Wolff that his ex-friend Trump “knew about the girls.”  Epstein, in a 2011 email to his now-convicted procurer

Ghislaine Maxwell, wrote, “I want you to realize that the dog that hasn’t barked is trump.” Epstein added that a person whose name was redacted in the email but whom the Democrats identified as a victim of his “spent hours at my house with” Trump….

The article detailed Cohen’s guilty plea and its implications for Trump, who was then in his first term in the White House. Cohen had pleaded guilty to crimes related to making and facilitating hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal before the 2016 presidential election.

“I thought you’d find interesting,” Ruemmler wrote to Epstein, who had been friends with Trump for years before they had a falling-out in the early 2000s. She wrote in the same thread, “It makes no difference whether it was his money. Issue is failure to disclose. Plus, fact that he lied his ass off about it makes it clear that he knew it was illegal.”

Epstein replied, “You see, I know how dirty donald is.”

“My guess is that non lawyers ny biz people have no idea. what it means to have your fixer flip,” Epstein added….

In an April 2019 email released by House Democrats, Epstein wrote to author Michael Wolff that Trump “knew about the girls,” according to a copy of that message purportedly between the two men. It is unclear what the phrase “knew about the girls” meant.

In another newly released email that Epstein wrote to his now-convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell in April 2011, Epstein wrote, “I want you to realize that the dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.”

Epstein added in that same email that a person whose name was redacted in the email but whom the Democrats identified as a victim of his “spent hours at my house with” Trump….

In an email exchange in December 2015, when Trump was seeking the Republican nomination for the White House, Wolff wrote to Epstein, “I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you — either on air or in scrum afterwards.”

Epstein replied, “if we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?” Wolff answered: “I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency.”

“You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt,” Wolff added. “Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he’ll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.”

Trump has denied that he knew about Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls and women. The president has never been charged with wrongdoing in connection with Epstein.

The release came two days after Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee issued a statement saying, “Whistleblower information provided to the Committee also indicates that Ghislaine Maxwell is working on filing a ‘Commutation Application’ with the Trump Administration.”

Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for crimes related to procuring underage girls to be abused by Epstein….. Scores of women have said Epstein sexually abused them when they were underage girls or young women.

Democrats on the House oversight committee said the emails that they obtained raise “serious questions” about Trump’s involvement with Epstein.

The three emails related to Trump are among thousands written by Epstein and obtained by the Democrats. “The more Donald Trump tries to cover up the Epstein files, the more we uncover. These latest emails and correspondence raise glaring questions about what else the White House is hiding and the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the President,” said Rep. Robert Garcia, a California Democrat who is the ranking member of the House oversight committee.

“The Department of Justice must fully release the Epstein files to the public immediately,” Garcia said. “The Oversight Committee will continue pushing for answers and will not stop until we get justice for the victims.”

Trump and the DOJ have been criticized for months for reneging on promises by Trump administration officials to release criminal investigative files about Epstein.  Trump said in July that he threw Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida and cut ties with him years ago because “he stole people who worked for me.”…. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/trump-jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-emails-house-democrats.html

Thousands of new Epstein documents released, with some emails mentioning Trump  Thomas Mackintosh

We’ve spent the last few hours combing through a batch of more than 20,000 pages of documents, images and emails released by the House Oversight Committee relating to the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Three emails – initially published by Democrats on the committee – featured exchanges between Epstein and his long-time associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and separately with the author Michael Wolff.

One of the emails – from Epstein to Maxwell in April 2011 – reads: “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. [Victim] spent hours at my house with him”.

Although the contents contain Trump’s name, none of the emails are to or from Trump directly – and he has always denied wrongdoing.  The White House came out in defence of the US president, and accused Democrats of “selectively leaking emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump” ….  https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c2dr3z9egljt

Hundreds of thousands of ‘Epstein files’ have been released — and there’s a lot more to come by Marshall Cohen and Hannah Rabinowitz  December 26, 2025

 The “Epstein files” saga will spill into 2026, despite a deadline last week to release all of the records. Congress passed a law last month — with near-unanimous support — requiring the Justice Department to release all of its files about Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender who was accused of abusing dozens of underage girls….   The so-called “Epstein files” are made of over 300 gigabytes of data, papers, videos, photographs and audio files that live within the FBI’s main electronic case management system and largely originate from the FBI’s two major investigations into Epstein, in Florida and New York, spanning decades.

The new transparency law gave the Justice Department a December 19 deadline to release all the records related to Epstein. The department has since published hundreds of thousands of files over the past week to a landing page on the DOJ website, dubbed the “Epstein Library.”

 The new transparency law gave the Justice Department a December 19 deadline to release all the records related to Epstein. The department has since published hundreds of thousands of files over the past week to a landing page on the DOJ website, dubbed the “Epstein Library.”

The records included on the Justice Department website include court records, responses to public records requests, and documents previously released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government reform.

But many of Epstein’s victims, as well as lawmakers from both parties, have criticized these releases for being incomplete and over-redacted. Others raised concerns about under-redacted portions that exposed at least one victim’s identity….

But the key category is “DOJ Disclosures,” which contains most of the new material.  This is where we learned about the 2021 subpoena to Mar-a-Lago before

Maxwell’s trial and the email from federal prosecutors about Trump flying on Epstein’s jet in the 1990s. It’s also where we saw new photos of former President Bill Clinton hanging out with Epstein, and swimming in a pool Maxwell and another woman whose face is redacted….

Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, has been among the most vocal supporters on Capitol Hill for releasing the files. He told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins last week that, “The most important documents are missing.”

 He said he’s eager for the Justice Department to release a 60-count draft indictment against Epstein that was written — but never filed — by federal prosecutors in 2007. There is also an 82-page memo that was written in support of pursuing that prosecution.

Instead of facing federal charges that year, Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida to state prostitution charges, including one involving minors, in 2008 and was sentenced to 13 months in jail, though he was permitted to spend a significant chunk of that time on “work release” at his office, an arrangement that drew the ire of victims and has been widely criticized….  https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/27/politics/epstein-files-what-to-know-doj

 

4 Men Accused of Having ‘Satanic’ Child Torture Videos Linked to International Ring: ‘Ritualistic’ –  Officers used a battering ram and shouted, ‘Police!’ before entering the apartment of the man said to be the leader of the child sex abuse material ring, authorities said By KC Baker December 1, 2025

 Four men in Australia are facing criminal charges in connection with their alleged involvement in possessing or distributing child sex abuse material linked to an international satanic child sex abuse ring, authorities said.

Sex Crimes Squad detectives with the New South Wales Police charged the four suspects following an investigation by a special task force into an international satanic child sex abuse material ring, the NSW Police Force said in a statement on Monday, Dec. 1.

On Thursday, Nov. 27, while executing six search warrants around Sydney, officers used a battering ram to enter the Sydney apartment of one of the four suspects, a 26-year-old man who allegedly played a “leading role” in the scheme, according to video released by NSW police, CNN reports.

Dressed in a zebra print top and shorts, the suspect, identified as Landon Germanotta-Mills, 26, by police, the Associated Press reports, was led out of the apartment in the city’s Waterloo section in handcuffs.  He and three others, Stuart Woods Riches, 39, Mark Andrew Sendecky, 42, and Benjamin Raymond Drysdale, 46, were charged with various offenses, with Germanotta-Mills and Drysdale accused of disseminating child abuse material online, police said, per the Associated Press.

While executing the warrants, officers seized electronic devices allegedly containing thousands of videos depicting the abuse of children from babies to 12-year-olds, police said, according to the AP. Germanotta-Mills was also charged with allegedly disseminating and possessing bestiality material, NSW Police said in the statement.

The arrests came after a lengthy investigation by detectives working in what NSW Police call Strike Force Constantine, which has been looking into the online distribution of encrypted child sexual abuse material involving ritualistic and satanic themes, per the statement.

During the investigation, the task force “uncovered a Sydney-based pedophile network actively involved in possessing, distributing, and facilitating this material through a website administered internationally,” the statement alleges.

“There’s no run-of-the-mill child abuse, it’s all abhorrent child abuse,” Det. Supt. Jayne Doherty told reporters on Monday, the AP reports. “But these,” she continued, “were particularly devastating in that they use symbols and rituals around … their discussions that they were having about abusing children. It had a very ritualistic overview.” https://people.com/alleged-satanic-child-abuse-network-four-men-accused-11859871

Sex Crimes Squad charge four men for involvement in an international satanic child sex abuse material ring Monday, 01 December 2025

Sex Crimes Squad detectives have charged four men following an investigation into an international satanic child sex abuse material ring under Strike Force Constantine. Strike Force Constantine was established by the State Crime Command’s Child Exploitation Internet Unit to investigate the online distribution of child sexual abuse involving ritualistic or satanic themes.

During the investigation, detectives uncovered a Sydney-based paedophile network actively involved in possessing, distributing, and facilitating this material through a website administered internationally.

Following extensive inquiries, about 7am on Thursday 27 November 2025, strike force detectives – with assistance from Central Metropolitan Region Operational Support Group and the Public Order and Riot Squad – executed six search warrants in Waterloo, Ultimo, and Malabar.

At the Waterloo address, police arrested a 26-year-old man, who police will allege playing a leading role in the group. He was taken to Mascot Police Station, where he was charged with seven counts of use carriage service make available child abuse, use carriage etc to access child abuse material, three counts of possess etc child abuse data-use carriage service, two counts of person disseminates bestiality material, and person possesses bestiality material….  https://www.police.nsw.gov.au/news/news?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHBzJTNBJTJGJTJGZWJpenByZC5wb2xpY2UubnN3Lmdvdi5hdSUyRm1lZGlhJTJGMTIyMTg0Lmh0bWwmYWxsPTE%3D

 Sydney men charged with spreading child sexual abuse videos tied to international ring  By  ROD MCGUIRK December 1, 2025

 MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Four Sydney men have been charged with criminal offenses over their alleged involvement in the distribution of child sexual abuse material linked to an international child sex abuse ring, police said Monday.

A New South Wales state police task force identified the Sydney-based network while investigating the online distribution of encrypted child sexual abuse material involving ritualistic and satanic themes, Det. Supt. Jayne Doherty said.

“There’s no run-of-the mill child abuse, it’s all abhorrent child abuse,” Doherty told reporters. “But these ones were particularly devastating in that they use symbols and rituals around … their discussions that they were having about abusing children. It had a very ritualistic overview,” she added.  Police executed multiple warrants around Sydney last Thursday and four men were arrested…..  https://apnews.com/article/australia-ritualistic-child-abuse-sydney-d7847454727d6a74f9731d42367fb6ab

Knesset hears harrowing new testimony of alleged ritual sexual abuse; survivors demand action –  The testimonies describe patterns of abuse that survivors say were organized, repeated, ideologically framed, and allegedly carried out by groups of adults.  By Sarah Ben-Nun December 3, 2025

Describes abuse and violence.

A series of profoundly distressing testimonies was delivered at the Knesset on Tuesday, as women described years of what they say were ritualized, organized sexual assaults they endured as children, including allegations of group rape, sadistic violence, and abuse that, in one case, was said to have occurred weekly in the office of a former MK.

The hearing, held jointly by the Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women and the Special Committee on Youth, renewed urgent calls by lawmakers for law enforcement authorities to fully investigate the growing number of such accounts.

The testimonies, many of which have emerged publicly over the past several months, describe patterns of abuse that survivors say were organized, repeated, ideologically framed, and allegedly carried out by groups of adults, sometimes including figures in positions of authority. Though the accounts differ, they share recurring motifs: multiple perpetrators, use of drugs or intoxicants, coercive “ceremonies,” and violence far beyond conventional patterns of childhood sexual abuse.

Another survivor, identified as ‘S,’ described being kidnapped repeatedly as a child: “They tied me upside down. They electrocuted my intimate organs. They forced me to watch the murder of small babies. They made me dig my own grave. They are here among us.”  She said she gave the police detailed testimony, including names, places, and descriptions, but does not feel her account has been taken seriously.

A third woman, referred to as ‘M’ and whose testimony was read aloud, said she endured abuse by family members, a doctor, a psychiatrist, and rabbis throughout her childhood. She described what she called a “ritual assault” suffered while she was in advanced pregnancy and said she was forced to commit “horrific acts” to save her unborn child….

Police added that a unit within the Lahav 433 National Crime Unit – which specializes in sexual offenses involving minors and digital exploitation – is now handling the issue under direct senior oversight, acknowledging as well the complexity of cases involving decades-old allegations, multiple perpetrators, and victims who may struggle with fragmented memories due to trauma.

However, one survivor, identified as ‘A,’ sharply criticized the investigative process. She said she spent more than 100 hours giving statements to police, only to learn the investigator “didn’t know the case file” and told her she could not reopen or cross-reference past evidence….

Over recent months, a wave of testimonies flooded social media and news reports describing alleged ritualized patterns of abuse, some within insular communities, others in secular settings.

Experts from NGOs such as Lo Omdot Me’Negged (“not standing aside”) and the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel (ARCCI) said they have been receiving increasing reports that include highly similar details: multiple offenders, use of drugs or sedation, enforced secrecy, and ritual framing meant to terrify children or bind them psychologically to abusers.

Clinicians interviewed by several outlets have said that even if not all accounts can be proven, the consistency of patterns across unrelated survivors warrants serious attention, not dismissal. Police and prosecutors told MKs on Tuesday that they are learning the field and are coordinating more closely, including reevaluating past files and considering legislative needs. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-879095

Trauma-based Mind Control 18 April 2024 pp 79–114   Abstract   Increasing evidence has come to light of trauma-based mind control exercises performed on children in ritual abuse settings. Those exercises involve torture, near death experiences, and making victims feel responsible for the death of others. The traumatised child is made to feel completely powerless and dependent on the abuser for their survival. Highly disturbingly, similar techniques—involving psychological torture, intentional traumatization, and false rescue—were carried out against the public during “Covid-19.” Psychological torture techniques include the inculcation of chronic stress and the mandatory wearing of face masks (originally deployed against inmates at Guantánamo Bay). The public was traumatised by fear of death from the “virus” and was made to feel responsible for the deaths of others. A trauma bonding was instigated, intended to last decades and to bind an infantilised population in loyalty and obedience to its “omnipotent” masters. Predatory transnational power came to the false rescue in exchange for the surrendering of liberties.  https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-41850-1_3

New York archdiocese seeks $300m to settle claims by clergy abuse survivors  Largest US Catholic archdiocese is raising funds, selling assets and cutting costs to compensate about 1,300 victims  Lucy Campbell Tue 9 Dec 2025      The Roman Catholic archdiocese of New York – the largest organization of its kind in the US – is raising a $300m fund as it seeks to settle with about 1,300 survivors of clergy sexual abuse who have sued the church. Some of the money involved comes from the New York archdiocese’s cutting costs and selling off assets after Catholic priests, deacons and lay workers worldwide sexually preyed on children for decades – with the abusers being protected by their superiors….

Furthermore, the archdiocese agreed to engage retired judge Daniel J Buckley as a mediator between itself and survivors to reach a settlement. Buckley played a similar role in negotiations between the archdiocese of Los Angeles and more than 1,000 people who accused its personnel of abuse, resulting in an $880m settlement in 2024.

With civil litigation against the archdiocese of New York due to come to trial in 2026, the archdiocese agreed to negotiate settlements over the next two months, said attorney Jeff Anderson. Anderson, who represents about 300 of the reported 1,311 survivors in New York with claims dating from 1952 to 2020, said settlements would have to be accompanied by full disclosure of wrongdoing and measures to prevent future abuse….

The announcement of the New York settlement negotiations came on the same day that officials revealed the Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans and its insurers would pay $305m to about 600 abuse survivors of the clergy molestation scandal there….

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/09/new-york-archdiocese-fundraising-abuse-claims

New Orleans Catholic clergy abuse survivors in line to collectively be paid $305m  Attorneys for the victims struck deal with the church’s largest insurer to increase $230m settlement approved earlier  Ramon Antonio Vargas and David Hammer of WWL Louisiana  Mon 8 Dec 2025

 Roughly 600 survivors of the clergy molestation scandal that drove the New Orleans Catholic archdiocese into bankruptcy have secured the opportunity to collectively be paid $305m after attorneys for the victims and the church’s largest insurer struck a deal Monday, according to some of the lawyers…  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/08/payment-survivors-sexual-abuse-new-orleans

                   

Lifetime toll: 840 million women faced partner or sexual violence 19 November 2025 Violence against women remains one of the world’s most persistent and under-addressed human rights crises, with very little progress in two decades, according to a landmark report released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN partners.

Nearly 1 in 3 women – estimated 840 million globally – have experienced partner or sexual violence during their lifetime, a figure that has barely changed since 2000. In the last 12 months alone, 316 million women – 11% of those aged 15 or older – were subjected to physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner. Progress on reducing intimate partner violence has been painfully slow with only 0.2% annual decline over the past two decades.

For the first time, the report includes national and regional estimates of sexual violence by someone other than a partner. It finds 263 million women have experienced non-partner sexual violence since age 15, a figure experts caution is significantly under-reported due to stigma and fear.  https://www.who.int/news/item/19-11-2025-lifetime-toll–840-million-women-faced-partner-or-sexual-violence

 Unlocking Buried Secrets by Victorious Heart is a memoir and guide for survivors of severe trauma,  specifically detailing the author’s experience of surviving a multigenerational Satanic cult, mind control and alleged Masonic involvement offering hope and pathways to healing for others facing SRA (Satanic Ritual Abuse). The book helps survivors find freedom by revamping habits, understanding trauma’s effects, practicing self-compassion and revealing hidden truths. Unlocking Buried Secrets is available on Amazon in eBook & paperback https://a.co/d/gqzFY2M

A follow-up, Unlocking Buried Secrets #2: Healing From Satanic Ritual Abuse Workbook For Male & Female Survivors by Victorious Heart provides a resource and practical guide for male & female survivors, their partners and therapists. Unlocking Buried Secrets #2: Healing From Satanic Ritual Abuse Workbook For Male & Female Survivors is available on Amazon in print format: https://a.co/d/eaXHvQj   Victorious Heart’s website: http://www.victoriousheartinc.ca/

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