Issue 173 – November 2023

S.M.A.R.T.
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Issue 173 – November 2023

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 secretive 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.

Copyright 2023 – All rights reserved. No reproduction of any material without written permission from the editor and individual authors.

Information in this issue includes: Ritual Abuse Sex Trafficking and Mind Control, Neil Brick, suggestive techniques, legal cases, Extreme Abuse Survivors Survey, cults, mental health diagnoses, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, torture, sexual abuse, mind control techniques, BELONGING three generations – poems, Wendy Hoffman, Alison Miller, Ritual Abuse and Sacrifice in Africa, Subcommittee Hearing, Chrystine Oksana in Safe Passage to Healing, programmed parts, satanic child abuse ring, rape and sexual assault charges, Human Trafficking Data Collection Activities, human trafficking offenses, human trafficking, slavery, forced labor, 50 Voices – Ritual Abuse is Real, Testimonies of survivors of Ritual Abuse, child prostitution, fighting child pornography, torture, clergy abuse survivors, Vatican, abusive priests

Ritual Abuse, Sex Trafficking and Mind Control Transcript and Video
September 20, 2023 Neil Brick
This presentation will explain how ritual abuse, mind control, and different suggestive techniques work to control sex trafficking survivors (Karriker, 2008). The presenter will describe different historical examples of how mind control and ritual abuse have been used. Legal cases will also be discussed from various parts of the world (McGonigle, 1999; New York Times, 1988). Research studies, like the Extreme Abuse Survivors Survey, will be presented, as well as examples of different cults and their techniques (Hassan, 2018). Mental health diagnoses, like Dissociative Identity Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and their origins in sex trafficking survivors will be explained. The presenter will discuss his personal experiences of being in a cult as a child experiencing torture, sexual abuse, and mind control techniques. The forced development of these diagnoses and their symptoms will be connected to how they are used to control sex trafficking survivors. Ways to expose and prevent ritual abuse, mind control, and sex trafficking will be discussed. Finally, there will be a discussion of the future of advocacy efforts to stop ritual abuse, sex trafficking, and mind control.
Trigger Warning: This presentation contains information (written, spoken, or visual) that may be triggering or (re)traumatizing to attendees.

Presentation Objectives
Discuss techniques used to control sex trafficking survivors
Describe research studies that show how these techniques work
Explain how different mental health diagnoses symptoms are used to help sex trafficking survivors
Discuss ways people can educate others to help stop future occurrences of ritual abuse, sex trafficking, and mind control
https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/ritual-abuse-sex-trafficking-and-mind-control/

BELONGING three generations – poems by Wendy Hoffman poems Kelsay Books, $20 One person’s cooking can keep a clashing family together. Poems in Wendy Hoffman’s Belonging describe recipes and cooked-from-scratch food carried in the grandmother’s memory from the Old Country to the New Land. Love baked into this heritage-food keeps this generational mind controlled family holding on. The poems weave their way through the women’s ordinary days with hints and whispers of another realm of abuses within its characters. Three generations of women: grandmother, mother and daughter-poet each try to come to terms with her past, present and future. The maternal grandmother was an immigrant from Belarus, the mother was born in America and formed during the Depression, the younger daughter distances but still feels genetic connection and buried longing. The poems encompass the surface of the women’s everyday lives and also the contradictory truth of their traumatic hidden ones. The poems mix imagery, prose, allusion and metaphor with frankness to achieve gripping and fleeing moments that are hard to hold onto but stick. About the author: Wendy Hoffman is the author of four published memoirs about dissociation and mind control—one has been translated and published in Germany, a co-authored book of essays with Alison Miller, and a first book of poetry. https://kelsaybooks.com/products/belonging-three-generations https://ritualabuse.us/smart/wendy-hoffman

Efforts to Address Ritual Abuse and Sacrifice in Africa Subcommittee Hearing
09.19.2023 10:00am 2200 RHOB Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBgLaL-ByL8&t=3s
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/ efforts-to-address-ritual-abuse-and-sacrifice-in-africa/

Dissociation
Unmasking Ritual Abuse, DID, and the Threat of Suicide
On Dissociative Identity Disorder and suicide awareness.
Adrian A. Fletcher Psy.D., M.A. Keeping It Real and Resilient
Updated September 27, 2023

Key points
Ritual abuse is a seldom-discussed and deeply unsettling topic.
Dissociative Identity Disorder is highly stigmatized, and denying the existence of DID is of global concern.
Secrecy perpetuates ritual abuse, and awareness is essential for prevention….
Defining Ritual Abuse (RA)
Ritual abuse fuses the concept of a ritual—a structured procedure to attain a transformation—with the malevolent nature of abuse, which encompasses any act that harms an individual’s physical, emotional, sexual, mental, or spiritual development. It’s crucial to grasp that ritual abuse is systematic and engineered to break a person’s will.

Chrystine Oksana, in Safe Passage to Healing: A Guide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse (2001), elucidates that ritual abuse manifests in diverse forms, driven by various motivations such as religion, preoccupation with the supernatural, power, financial gain, or sadomasochistic drives. Disturbingly, it often intertwines with the underworld of prostitution, pornography, and trafficking. I, too, fell victim to ritual abuse as a result of my father’s involvement in organized crime.
Programming in the Alters/Parts of a DID System That Has Endured RA
One disturbing facet of my ordeal was the “programming” of certain parts of my identity, compelling them to perform specific actions based on the rituals imposed upon me. This included programming parts to contemplate suicide for “telling” or breaking the code of silence.

The Role of Clinicians
For clinicians working with DID clients, especially when the abuse history is concealed initially, it’s imperative to acknowledge that survivors may harbor parts programmed to return to abusers or inflict self-harm. This heartbreaking reality underscores the necessity for all practitioners claiming to be “trauma-informed” to possess a deep understanding of Dissociative Identity Disorder.
Awareness and Validation
To combat ritual abuse, we must first acknowledge its existence. Like incest, ritual abuse thrives in secrecy, and survivors can only heal when society grants them recognition and validation. Similarly, the denial of DID’s existence leaves countless people suffering and, in some cases, facing the specter of suicide.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/keeping-it-real-and-resilient/202309/unmasking-ritual-abuse-did-and-the-threat-of-suicide

 

may be triggering
Girl ‘raped while satanic child abuse ring that held seances and used ouija boards clapped and cheered’ One girl was chased by people wearing devil masks, hung by her clothing from a nail on the wall and shut in a microwave and fridge, court heard Amy-Clare Martin Crime Correspondent Tuesday 05 September 2023

 

Children were forced to take part in witchcraft and seances, and were sexually assaulted while members of a satanic child abuse ring watched, a court has heard.
Eleven people are standing trial at Glasgow High Court, accused of a string of crimes, with a number facing rape and sexual assault charges, while five are accused of attempted murder.
Iain Owens, 45, Elaine Lannery, 39, Lesley Williams, 41, Paul Brannan, 41, Marianne Gallagher, 38, Scott Forbes, 50, Barry Watson, 47, Mark Carr, 49, Richard Gachagan, 45, Leona Laing, 50, and John Clark, 46, deny all the charges, involving four children.
All eleven are accused of forcing children to participate in seances and use an ouija board or similar object to “call on spirits and demons”, at various addresses in the Glasgow area.

The children were also allegedly made to participate in classes involving witchcraft, spells and wands which made them believe that they had “metamorphosed into animals”, court documents show.
One girl was chased by people wearing devil masks, hung by her clothing from a nail on the wall, shut in a microwave, an oven, a fridge, a freezer and cupboards, the court heard.
Owens, Lannery, Williams, Brannan, Clark are also charged with attempting to murder the girl, who was also allegedly made to act like a dog and eat dog food.

 

The group, which is also charged with stabbing and abusing dogs, also made one child dress in lingerie and “dance in a sexualised manner” on various occasions between 1 October 2018 and 19 June 2019, the indictment claims, before she was raped by male members of the group.
The women are accused of watching, with the indictment adding that they did “clap, cheer and verbally encourage” the abuse, with some filming the attack.

 

Children were also allegedly forced to repeatedly sexually abuse each other with household items.
On two occasions between 1 January 2019 and 23 March 2019, the group is alleged to have forced a boy to masturbate in front of them and then forced him to have sex with some of the women, while the men watched.
In one horrifying charge, a young child was restrained in her cot as men raped her, while others cheered and took video recordings, the court heard….
Jurors were told on Tuesday that the case, which has a 10-page indictment featuring 32 charges over a 10-year period from 2010 to 2020, could last more than six weeks. Https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/child-abuse-rape-satanic-witchcraft-glasgow-b2404939.html

 

Human Trafficking Data Collection Activities, 2023 NCJ Number 307345
Date Published October 2023 Publication Series Human Trafficking Data Collection Activities Description
This report details ongoing and completed efforts to measure and analyze the nationwide incidence of human trafficking, to describe characteristics of human trafficking victims and offenders, and to describe criminal justice responses to human trafficking offenses. The report provides information on human trafficking suspects referred to and prosecuted by U.S. attorneys, human trafficking defendants convicted and sentenced to federal prison, and admissions to state prison for human trafficking.

Highlights

A total of 2,027 persons were referred to U.S. attorneys for human trafficking offenses in fiscal year 2021, a 49% increase from the 1,360 persons referred in 2011.
The number of persons prosecuted for human trafficking more than doubled from 2011 to 2021 (from 729 persons to 1,672 persons, respectively).
Of the 1,197 defendants charged in federal court for human trafficking offenses in fiscal year 2021, 92% were male and 60% were white. Of the 201 defendants charged with peonage, slavery, forced labor, and sex trafficking in fiscal year 2021, 77% were male and 58% were black.
At year end 2021, 1,657 persons were in the custody of a state prison serving a sentence for a human trafficking offense.
https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/human-trafficking-data-collection-activities-2023

 

50 Voices – Ritual Abuse is Real
https://www.50voices.org/ en/start-en/

Testimonies of survivors of Ritual Abuse
Since the 1980s, therapists have been working with patients who report extreme experiences of violence in the context of occult structures.
Over the years, the voices of ritual abuse survivors became more numerous and louder. Likewise, therapists began to network, organize professional conferences, and write professional books. Finally, the public began to take notice of this phenomenon.

Typical experiences include: Sexual abuse, child prostitution and child pornography, torture, snuff film productions, participation in ritual acts including human sacrifice, cannibalism, and highly complex methods of mind splitting and conditioning (“mind control”). Victims are born into family structures that have practiced Satanism or similar occult beliefs for generations, or they are sold into these perpetrator circles as children. This specific form of organized crime has been called ritual abuse by therapists.

 

Motivation https://www.50voices.org/en/motivation-en/
“It is the agenda of our programmers to control global society. We are just one of many slaves prepared with individualized, extreme, ongoing programming while global society is being processed on a mass scale, society at large being subject to mind control as well.”
Elisa E: Our Life Beyond MKUltra. Then and Now, p. 189

 

Since the 1980s, therapists have been working with patients who report extreme experiences of violence in the context of occult structures. Typical experiences include: sexual abuse, child prostitution and child pornography, torture, snuff film productions, participation in ritual acts including human sacrifice, cannibalism, and highly complex methods of mind splitting and conditioning (“mind control“). Victims are born into family structures that have practiced Satanism or similar occult beliefs for generations, or they are sold into these perpetrator circles as children. This specific form of organized crime has been called ritual abuse by therapists. Over the years, the voices of ritual abuse survivors became more numerous and louder. Likewise, therapists began to network, organize professional conferences, and write professional books. Finally, the public began to take notice of this phenomenon.

 

Perpetrator groups responded to these developments in the 1990s with an effective campaign by U.S. media defaming survivors and their therapists as propagators of a “Satanic Panic” narrative. Patients’ accounts of traumatic childhood experiences were also portrayed as “false memories” that had been talked into them by their therapists. Although the Satanic Panic propaganda represented a serious setback for the survivors and their therapists, disclosure continued slowly but irreversible. In other countries around the world, victims and trauma therapists also found the courage to speak out about ritual abuse and to network internationally. More survivor reports and professional publications followed, as did data surveys to quantify the phenomenon. Now, in the year 2022/23, the perpetrator network is again trying – this time starting from Switzerland – to manipulate the public opinion and to make the victims of these violent crimes untrustworthy with the well-known method of Satanic-Panic-/false-memory-propaganda.
The project “50 Voices of Ritual Abuse” pursues the goal of eradicating the basis of this perpetrator propaganda. For the first time, the global public learns firsthand from 50 survivors that ritual abuse and mind control are real. Their testimonies not only reveal the common patterns behind the experiences of violence, but they also reveal that it is a global phenomenon (USA, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Switzerland, England, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy as well as other crime scenes are mentioned).
In August 2023, the project started with publishing 5 of 50 testimonies of survivors. Since then, two more testimonies are disclosed every week through various channels (Website, YouTube, Telegram, Odysee, etc.). Please help spread the truth.

 

Mission Statement
The project “50 Voices of Ritual Abuse” aims to draw public attention to the phenomenon of ritual abuse and to initiate a social discussion. From the perspective of those affected, there is an urgent need for action as follows:
Improvement of therapy offerings and specific training of trauma therapists in the areas of ritual abuse, DID, and recognition and deletion of destructive programs.
Protection and exit support for survivors (including safe houses with associated therapeutic care)
Training of law enforcement institutions (police, prosecutors, judges) and support/care facilities
Objective reporting/education in the media.
Everyone can contribute to achieving these goals. This can be done by, among other things:
Disseminating reputable information about ritual abuse/mind control in the private sphere
Addressing politicians/party representatives at the local level
Addressing editors and other media representatives and commenting on/complaining about Satanic Panic/false memory propaganda in the media.

Clergy abuse survivors propose ‘zero tolerance’ law following Vatican appointment – Clergy sexual abuse survivors have unveiled a proposed new church law calling for the permanent removal of abusive priests and superiors who covered for them By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press October 2, 2023
ROME — Clergy sexual abuse survivors on Monday unveiled a proposed new church law calling for the permanent removal of abusive priests and superiors who covered for them, as they stepped up their outrage over Pope Francis’ choice to head the Vatican office that investigates sex crimes.
The global advocacy group End Clergy Abuse unveiled the draft law at a press conference following days of protests around the Vatican, and before taking their complaints to the U.N. in Geneva. They are seeking to draw attention to the ongoing scandal in the Catholic Church and the failure of Francis and the hierarchy to make good on years of pledges of “zero tolerance” for abuse.
Specifically, the survivors have expressed astonishment at Francis’ nomination of an old friend and theologian, Cardinal Victor Fernandez, to take over as prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, given Fernandez’s record handling cases as bishop in his native Argentina.
When Fernández was bishop of La Plata, Argentina, he refused to promptly remove one of his priests, Eduardo Lorenzo, who was repeatedly accused of abusing teens. Ten years after a victim first came forward, and hours after learning that an Argentine judge had ordered his arrest, Lorenzo was found dead in 2019 in what was ruled a suicide. Fernandez had stood by Lorenzo and officiated at his funeral.
The Vatican office that Fernandez now heads has processed priest abuse cases globally since 2001, meting out church punishments that are never more severe than being defrocked, or “reduced” back to being a layman. After bullish years under the late Pope Benedict XVI, who defrocked nearly 850 priests in a decade, the office in recent years appears to have taken a more lenient approach as cases poured in from around the globe.

Francis himself had a big learning curve on abuse, arriving at the Vatican in 2013 claiming to have never handled a case and then botching a big scandal in Chile in 2018. He did an about-face, vowed “zero tolerance” for abuse and marshalled through a new church law holding bishops accountable when they cover up cases.
But recently, the momentum appears to have waned, transparency has remained elusive and victims have sensed a backsliding — perhaps none more so than in Francis’ nomination of Fernandez to head the Vatican’s sex abuse office….
Fernandez acknowledged in an interview with The Associated Press earlier this year that he made mistakes in the Lorenzo case, saying he should have removed him from ministry earlier and treated his victims better. He blamed his own inexperience and what he said were unclear church procedures.
The online resource BishopAccountability.org has documented two other cases that it said showed Fernandez stood by his priests rather than their alleged victims…. https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/clergy-abuse-survivors-propose-new-zero-tolerance-law-103658900

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