Reference List for Presentations

Reference List for Presentations

Dissociative Identity Disorder
Memory and Trauma
Production of Child Abuse Materials: Prevalence, Nature, and Offender Characteristics
Violent Sex Offenders
Sadistic Sex Offenders
Research on Child Abuse Backgrounds in Violent Offenders
Destructive Cults and Mind Control
Ritual Abuse
Institutional Abuse

Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Memory and Trauma
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Production of Child Abuse Materials: Prevalence, Nature, and Offender Characteristics
Acar. K.V. (2017). Child abuse materials as digital goods: why we should fear new commercial forms. Economics
Discussion Papers, No 2017-15, Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
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Broadhurst, R. G., (2019). Child Sex Abuse Images and Exploitation Materials. In R. Leukfeldt & T. Holt (Eds.),
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Chankin, L. (2017, October). Internet sexual offenders. Perspectives: California Coalition on Sexual Offending
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Daly, M. (2018) Inside the repulsive world of ‘hurtcore’, the worst crimes imaginable. Vice.
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Europol (June 19, 2020). Exploiting Isolation: Offenders and Victims of Online Child Sexual Abuse during the
COVID-19 Pandemic.
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xual-abuse-during-covid-19-pandemic
ECPAT International (2018). Trends in online child sexual abuse material, April 2018, Bangkok: ECPAT
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Interagency Working Group on Sexual Exploitation of Children (2016). Terminology guidelines for the protection of
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International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (2017). Online Grooming of Children for Sexual Purposes:
Model Legislation & Global Review. 1st ed. [ebook] The Koons Family Institute on International Law & Policy.
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Internet Watch Foundation (2017). Trends in Online Child Sexual Exploitation: Examining the Distribution of
Captures of Live-streamed Child Sexual Abuse.
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Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment, Europol (2015). Online Child Sexual Exploitation.
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Lacter, E. (October 11, 2020). Production of child sexual abuse materials: What makes the perpetrators tick? Panel:
Human Evil and Societal Trauma: ISSTD 2020 Fall Virtual Conference.
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their risk assessment. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, first published online April 6, 2016. doi:
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Violent Sex Offenders
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Sadistic Sex Offenders
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• Douglas Misicko alias Douglas Mesner
• Douglas Misicko alias Douglas Mesner update
• Douglas Misicko alias Douglas Mesner update 2
• Douglas Misicko alias Douglas Mesner update 3
• Douglas Misicko alias Douglas Mesner update 4
• Douglas Misicko alias Douglas Mesner update 5
• Douglas Misicko alias Douglas Mesner update 6 – Examiner.com article
• Grey Faction, Satanic Temple and Lucien Greaves Fact Sheet
• Rebuttal to Jeanette Bartha’s articles about SMART and Neil Brick
• Douglas Mesner and the Lucien Greaves Satanic Temple Connection
• Douglas Misicko alias Douglas Mesner update 7 – Radio Interview Rebuttal
• Rebuttal to the Grey Faction Lucien Greaves presentation about SMART and additional Grey Faction information about Neil Brick
• Alison Miller’s reply to Evan Anderson, Grey Faction Director of The Satanic Temple (TST)’s Grey Faction
• Rebuttals to others attacking SMART and other ritual abuse survivors
• Evolving as a Movement – Taking a Step Forward
• Reply to the Satanic Temple’s Grey Faction online guest post
• Reply to the Grey Faction’s Petition to Revoke the License of Neil Brick
• How to Avoid Being Mind Controlled at a Conference and Freedom from Mind Control
• The Universality of Incest Lloyd DeMause part one
• Petition to Stop Attacks Against Child Abuse and Ritual Abuse Survivors and Neil Brick
• Neil Brick Conference Presentation 2018 – Changes in Awareness of Severe Abuse and Child Abuse Crimes Over Twenty Five Years
• Doug Mesner (Lucien Greaves, Satanic Temple, Grey Faction) Anti-Semitic Statements, Eugenics Policy, Interview with former KKK member and neo-Nazi group founder
• Exposing Doug Mesner/Lucien Greaves – co-founder of the Satanic Temple and Grey Faction presenter
• Satanic Temple – Grey Faction Pseudoscience
• The Universality of Incest Lloyd DeMause part two
• The Universality of Incest Lloyd deMause part three
• The Universality of Incest Lloyd DeMause part four
• Reply to FMSF newsletter article about our organization

• Please use caution while reading all of these papers. Some of the information may be very heavy for survivors. If in doubt, download the page and wait to read it until you are with your therapist or a trusted support person.