Bowlby Satan Seminar Contaminated By Fundies.

Lacter's speciality is supposed to be mind control and brain-washing but the idea of mind-control being involved in Satanic Ritual Abuse is not new to proponents of SRA. Catherine Gould's own Reading List of books published in 1988 contained titles on Combatting Mind Control and she told a meeting of the California State Psychological Association in 1988 that she was treating 20 children who were forced to take part in satanic worship including ritual murders. Like many astounding allegations at that time this turned out to be totally untrue.

The NSPCC also claimed to have 20 cases in the U.K. and these formed the backbone to the despicable Cook Report, 'The Devil's Work'. Every case turned out to be false. The NSPCC were heavily involved in promoting the Satan Myth, from misrepresented branch 'statistics' through funding and providing networking for leading edge Satan Hunters, to working with the Cook Report and othe tabloid media, issuing misleading and exaggerated press-releases etc.

Without the NSPCC's stamp the original 1988 Satan Scare would not have exploded as it did. We would go so far as to say that if it had not been for the NSPCC's involvement most journalists would have simply laughed at the irrational allegations which were being made. When the publicity turned back in on them, the NSPCC claimed they had never officially said that Satanic Ritual Abuse existed! They lost the child care registers in most of the places where bogus SRA cases had been claimed and eventually ended up legally threatening us when we said we were going to publish the correspondence we had had with them where we had for months tried to tell them that SRA did not exist and would be prepared to come and help them sort it out.

Nothing New

Gould herself wrote what is probably the first speculative 'clinical' explanation of SRA mind control in 1995. Hence todays Bowlby Satan Seminar is just more of the same under a slightly different disguise and the first thing any independent delegate should do is realise that what is being offered is nothing new but just a revamped and refined projection of the 1988 Satan-Ate-My-Baby scare.

Torture Techniques and the Art of False Confession

Lacter does not succeed in translating 'traditional' techniques of Institutionalised Torture (the use of racks, thumbscrews, strapado, iron boots, Iron Maidens, Molten Lead and the like) as described by the Malleus, into the SRA arena simply by adding the word 'satanic' to them. She claims that there is a world-wide criminal conspiracy by Satanists to hide their abuse of children by using systematic torture to brainwash them into compliance but she has not established any cogent evidence to support this and ultimately seems to be inferring that Satanists do it because they are 'nasty people'. Well we have met quite a few Satanists who are a lot less nasty than some of the Satan Hunters and we haven't met any Satanists who do the type of things Lacter believes they do so there is obviously a major fault in either her logic or her research.

Making a list of what already disturbed people fantasise during therapy sessions does not constitute proof of a Global Satanic Conspiracy and it is fairly obvious that anyone, children included, can be terrified into compliance by the use of fearful images and consquences. That's how renegade paedophile priests in Ireland continued to abuse thousands of children over many years. Frightening children is pretty easy for people like them. The point is that after 20 years of the SRA myth there is NO proof to suggest that this is what Satanists actually do, but these Christian inspired Satan Hunters are like a dog with a bone - they just won't give it up! Having nailed their colours to the mast they are going forward because to go backwards would be professional suicide.

I will use extracts from some Lacter's definitions to illustrate how weak her arguments really are:

Ritual abuse survivors may experience intense phobic reactions to spiders or maggots (item 19) [Ed: which kid doesn't dislike spiders?]. They may fear water and baths (item 4) [Ed: which Kid wouldn't sooner play out than have a bath?]. They often fear hypodermic needles (item 16) [Ed: Adults too!]. They become easily too cold, too hot (item 5), or thirsty (item 12). [Ed: Can't win with this one can we?] They may have aversive reactions to cameras (item 23). [Don't be coy in front of the camera little-one or you may never see your mum again!] They may become upset upon seeing babies, abused and abandoned animals and children (items 22 and 24). [Ed: Of course if the poor kid doesn't identify with the suffering of animals and other children then I suppose Lacter would think that a good symptom of having been Satanically mind controlled too?]

And so it goes on. This tripe is being passed to British Satan Hunters, Social Workers, Police and Therapists across the country in exactly the same way it was in 1988. Will it cause similar miscarriages of justice and suffering? You Betcha! Because it is all simply a new Demonology to power another witch-hunt so that do-gooders can feel blessed whilst they root out and pursue imagined Satanists. And like all witch-hunts, it will inevitably be used to victimise the weakest amongst our society in the end. The trustees of the Bowlby Center (Amongst whom is James Sainsbury and Sir Richard Bowlby) should be horrified at allowing this travesty to occur particularly as most of it contradicts the teachings of 'attachment theory' which John Bowlby originated.

My similie with the Malleus Maleficarum was closer than you might think. The SRA therapy movement could quite easily be subconsciously copying the techniques used by Witchcraft Inquisitors during the Witch-craze of the 15th century. And this is how it happens:

Someone, usually for ulterior purposes (enmity, boundary disputes, jealousy etc) makes an allegation and the more impossible and whacky the allegation the better. The very outlandish nature of the allegations mean that the event is taken out of the remit of the judiciary and put into the Ecclesiastical Courts. In today's world the allegations are so outlandish that they are ignored by the police and fall into the jurisdiction the self-appointed Satan Hunters. Using Torture (in today's world repetitive questioning, regression hypnosis and other incentives - all forms of mind control in themselves!) the accused is made to tell a story which satisfies their inquisitors because if they don't then the torture or questioning continues or they are denied the sympathy and help they require.

From these horrible imaginings, dredged up by the subconsciousnesses of people in pain or under severe emotional stress, the sordid tales of supposed Witch Coven activities in the Dark Ages were created. Just as in the modern world the same mind-set created the Satanic Ritual Abuse Myth. And if you compare the tales of the tortured in the 15th century you will see a REMARKABLE similarity to the imaginings of people undergoing therapy in the chairs of the Satan Hunters.

More than anything else the one crucial part which was an absolute must was not only that the tortured victim should recant their previous beliefs and tell what abominations occurred but that they must then inform on the other people in their Coven or Group so that fresh victims were created for the Inquisition. And this is how and why the terrible witchhunts which claimed the lives of at least a million innocent people during the Burning Times spread like wildfire throughout Europe.

The Satan Hunters complacently crow to themselves about helping children but are simply the wicked left-overs from a medieaval mindset that science should have long since suppressed. Crusaders who widen their remit by including any stupid nonsense in lists and who pore over any unremarkable and ordinary occurrences in behaviour and who then after exhausting their 'patients' of any fantasies they can create, they smugly add the fictions to their lists of indicators, to haul in some other unsuspecting person with a mental illness who will be grist to their mill. This sequence causes severe long-term harm to susceptible people and has even driven some to kill themselves.

A Travesty of Psychoanalysis

In Word Association a selection of specifically unconnected words with a relation to childhood is used to focus the subconscious of the patient and then during the flow of replies crucial words like Mother, Hate, Love, Father etc.,are injected. The idea is that these will unexpectedly bypass the psychic censor and obtain an unthinking (subconscious) response from the patient and that these auto-responses will reveal to the skilled psychotherapist what the patient really believes about crucial relationships and lead to conversations where the conscious mind of the patient can actually face the neuroses which are causing him or her problems.

As you might imagine, working out the right words to prime the patient with is crucial and very time consuming. It needs to be tailored for each case and each session. Freud began to use reverie as an alternative. When the patient was in a relaxed state the resistance of the conscious mind to unconscious ideas was weakest. Just getting the patient to talk randomly about his childhood whilst in a relaxed state was enough to allow some subconscious material to come through which the skilled psychotherapist would note and then feedback to the patient as keys to unlock situations which had created neuroses.

Now the patient's ramblings during hypnosis were not considered by Freud to be real or false, but simply an outpouring of the subconscious. Just as dreams are not real, but simply a method by which the conscious disguises unacceptable or repressed thoughts which arise from the subconscious.

However some psychotherapists who came after Freud became literal about ramblings under reverie and assumed that these were real memories. Chief amongst these was J.A. Hadfield, a founder member of the Tavistock Clinic (begun in the 1950s) whose 'contribution' to psychotherapy was the idea that patients could be put into reverie and recover memories right back to when they were actually born. Hadfield's techniques basically relied on patients curing themselves by unearthing which memory in childhood was most unpleasant and then apportioning a neuroses to it as an explanation of the patient's current illness/problem. Consciously recognising this, the patient was freed from the neurosis.

This lead to the fundamental Tavistock idea that all adult psychological problems and illnesses are created in early infancy. It is interesting to note that John Bowlby (the founder of The John Bowlby Center) worked at the Tavistock Clinic under Hadfield and later developed an additional theory to expand this called 'attachment theory'. This insists that all psychological problems result from the way a baby psychologically 'attaches' itself to the mother within the first 12 months of its existence and that regressing a patient back to being a baby will reveal crucial memories which will explain current neuroses.

There is a major problem with these ideas. Memories under hypnosis are NOT literal. Under hypnosis or reverie the mind randomly confabulates ideas and images in order to produce a thread which appears logical. This technique is the basis of all imagination and without it there would be no fictional literature, drama, storytelling etc. When listening to memories under hypnosis or reverie the therapist has to rely totally on the assumption that the patient is, knowingly or unknowingly, telling the truth. There may be many instances where the patient does not subconsciously want to tell the truth. This is particularly the case with a deep seated neurosis and the patient can easily cover-up for these. If the therapist is not skilled and relies on what is said rather than reading between the lines a completely fictitious story can occur which will derail the patient's treatment and misguide the therapist.

Confabulation under hypnosis/reverie is well known amongst professionals and is why evidence gained under hypnosis is not admissible in law. Particularly is this the case if the therapist consciously or unconsciously primes the patient with a thread, as in the case of Satan Hunter therapists prompting the hypnotised person for information about evil, dark caves, being trapped in cages, etc. Confabulated information of that kind is absolutely worthless and the same goes for imaginings when the psychotherapists prime their patient about their first year of life. In Hadfield's 'Childhood and Adolescene' (1962) the author illustrates what he sees as a classic example of regression hypnosis back to just after birth:

I have a burrowy feeling - everything is so big and open and I hate everything; I hate being alive. I want somebody close with their arms right around me so that I feel protected and close. I want to be all inside something so that I can be proteced. I don't like the light or the noise or anything. If somebody would allow me to burrow in their arms and let me be close properly! I do hate everything! I'm so cold and miserable and lonely, Everything is like a pandemonium, like a nightmare'.

The 'patient' in this case was a woman doctor. Readers can be forgiven for thinking that this is simply an adult woman's imagined impression of what it might be like for a baby who has just entered the world. It is of course of absolutely no value except as an indication of the doctor's own subconscious beliefs that babies need protection. In fact it is generally agreed that a baby does not develop the capacity of reason until later in the second year of its life. Prior to that all actions and reactions are instinctive. It is not possible for anyone to retain memories of feelings of intellectual comparison (like that in the passage) before they can reason. Thus using regression hypnosis to try to discover 'attachments' in the first year of life (which Bowlby and Hadfield suggested) is impossible yet most of the people trained at the Tavistock Clinic believe that patients allowed to ramble during hypnosis are giving 'evidence' of real happenings of satanic ritual abuse. All their claims and allegations of abuse are based on evidence gleaned through therapeutic sessions of this kind. They are simply providing an arena for mentally disturbed people to fantasise about dark things and then report them as real occurrences.

Ultimately therefore it is paramount to realise that hypnosis in regular (i.e. non-SRA) psychotherapy is not about locating lost memories but about deceiving the patient's consciousness into revealing deeply embeded emotions which are normally kept from view. It is not so much what they say which is of interest to the therapist but the significance of how it is put.

The Tavistock Clinic was a centre of believers in Satanic Ritual Abuse from 1988 onwards and Valerie Sinason worked there for many years. The Bowlby Centre now seems to be taking over from the Tavistock and you can see how the unquestioning belief in the ramblings of patients has caused a continuation of the Satanic Ritual Abuse Myth. .

Classic Illustration of SRA Therapy Failure

The Bowlby Centre states clearly that the purpose of inviting Lacter to Britain to lecture on Satanic Mind Control and Abuse is to confirm the experience of workers in SRA in Britian. In short to prove that SRA exists. What they fail to mention is that the experience of British therapists and social workers has been totally controlled by input from America right from the start. If there's any mind-control going on then it is mind-control within the Child-Scare Industry and has nothing to do with satanists.

In November 1990 The Guardian published an article by Valerie Sinason about the then current claims of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse ('Talk of The Devil' P12. November 3/4 1990). Sinason started by trying to compare the 'evidence' and experience gained in the Nottinghamshire Broxtowe Case (Britain's first claimed SRA case which underpinned the Cook Report's The Devil's Work (later discredited) and which caused the hysteria to conflagrate throughout the U.K. ) with the first case of supposed Satanic Ritual Child Abuse found in America.

'IN 1985 in America a social worker who specialised in child abuse was referred several children for therapy by concerned parents. Slowly, painfully and unwillingly, Pamela Hudson came to realise that all the children had been systematically abused by staff at the same local day care centre. It finally emerged that over 25 had been abused. Pamela Hudson was frightened and distressed by what she was learning, as well as by the depth of the children's fear. It took them nearly eight months in private individual sessions before they could begin to talk about the ritual aspects of their abuse, being held under water, or buried in coffins of adults in cloaks and masks who abused them, the sacrifice of animals, circles with lighted candles, dead babies. They expressed terror not only of being killed for telling but of their families being killed or tortured. ''

The admission is plain to see but in their blindness the Satan Hunters cannot see it. The children were subjected to 'disclosure' questioning for EIGHT MONTHS until they, like the eponymous chimpanzee left playing with a typewriter who would one day type out the entire works of William Shakespeare by accident, actually confirmed the Inquisitors prejudices. The point is, dear reader, questioning of that kind is totally illegal for the police to apply and adults have at least some resistance. What in heaven's name it does to emotionally stressed children is anyone's guess.

In fact this case was the notorious McMartin Pre-School Nursery case which, like the Broxtowe case in the U.K. became a battleground of pro and anti SRA observers for years until it fell apart like all the rest. The Story of the McMartin SRA Scandal is astonishing in its illustration of the extent to which SRA believers will go to confirm their prejudices and you will only need to Google 'McMartin Pre-School' to savour the madness of it all.

Calvary Chapel of West Covina

Pamela Hudson was a colleague of Catherine Gould and appeared in Gould's training videos These 'New Training Videos on Ritual Child Abuse' sold through Cavalcade Productions in the U.S. at, in 1990s money, 195.00 dollars for a 25-30 minute tape to 345.00 dollars for a 19 minute tape. Pamela Hudson also appeard on a Pittsburgh talk-show relating her experiences of SRA and was billed as Counselling Satanically abused kids. Though we have no evidence that Gould or Hudson were Christian fundamentalists the owner of Cavalcade Productions, Dale McCulley is also apparently the organiser of North American Conferences, a front organisation for the Calvary Chapel of West Covina which is a fundamentalist Christian missionary group.

In "America's Best Kept Secret," an article appearing in Calvary Chapel of West Covina's Passport Magazine (special edition), author John Frattarola writes of

'a devil-worshiping conspiracy that is responsible for the deaths of 5,000 unidentifiable children whose bodies are found each year and for the deaths of another 2,000,000 missing children. '

But this isn't the first time British Satan Hunters have tried to reinforce their power-shadow by importing an American 'expert'. As early as 1989 RAIN held a Satan Seminar in Reading where the Key U.S. speaker was Pamela Klein, a self-appointed Chicago specialist in SRA who is said to have eventually 'diagnosed' one of the first British cases of so-called Satanic Abuse in Kent' (Independent on Sunday March 24 1991.) She began lecturing on SRA to hundreds of social workers psychiatrists and other child care professionals nation wide.

Earlier, in the U.S.A. (1988), Kline had met up with Jacquie Balodis, who claims to have more than 100 'alters' (multiple personalities). Balodis and Klein trained and 'informed' Kansas City area police and mental health professionals on SRA according to an article in the 26 March 1988 Kansas City Times.

Balodis's first entry into the British SRA hysteria was in a front-page article for the Sunday Sport on 9 April 1989 four months before the scare reached it's peak with the infamous NSPCC press-conference on July 1989 which rubber-stamped the myth. The infamous headline ran

'I Skinned My Baby For Satan'.

The paper reported that Balodis said she had confessed to skinning and eating her babies in satanic rituals and 'bred' children to be sacrificed. Although she hailed from Garden Grove in California, the newspaper reported Balodis saying that her experiences had happened

'here in a small house in the Bristol region, I don't remember exactly where it was'.

When the first wave of SRA allegations began to fail in 1990 and the idiocity of social workers had become apparent in the Rochdale and then Orkney cases, the Satan Hunters retorted in their own defence that their approach had been serious and questioning, That they had never sensationalised the issue but that the hysteria was caused by the British Media which was to blame for it all, not them. The fact is, as the SAFF have consistently proved, the professional believers in SRA always put the media into contact with various victim imposters like Balodis who made the sensational allegations on their behalf. To suggest that this was not part of their campaign is just deceitful.

We don't know what Balodis and Klein told the Kansas City professionals but we do understand that she contributed to the Cook Report's discredited TV hackumentary 'The Devil's Work'. Three years later in the U.S. Klein's status was dismissed by Judge Morgan Hamilton who ruled that Ms Klein was not a legitimate therapist. Klein's soicitor said

'Ms Klein is not a psychologist. She has never described herself as a psychologist. She has never held herself out to be. She is not responsible for what other people print about her".

Two Way Current of Looniness?

I wouldn't like my readers to get the wrong idea. This technique of bringing in hired guns to strengthen support isn't all one-way. In the 1990s Dianne Core an ex social worker and head of Childwatch, a Hull children's charity travelled to the U.S. and gave interviews to the American media. She told them that 4,000 children a year are sacrificed in Britain! Even though there had not been one instance of any case diagnosed as Satanic by the Satan Hunters which had actually been successfully prosecuted in the U.K. and none at all were homicide cases. One may be forgiven for thinking that in relation to allegations of Satanic Ritual Abuse nothing succeeds like excess.

Now bear in mind here that Dianne Core was not some peripheral character - she along with Geoffrey Dickens MP (Childlwatch's parliamentary representative) had spearheaded the idea of a wave of satanic crime and abuse in the U.K. and had enjoyed massive media support. Indeed Core was an advisor for Roger Cook's shameful 'Devil's Work' programme.

Maureeen Davies and the CCIN 'Conspiracy'

Another early star of the SRA scene whose activities are still having a ripple effect on the Bowlby Seminar is Maureen Davies a dental nurse from Rhyll in North Wales who was also a director of a Christian activist group called The Reachout Trust. Without any apparent qualifications appropriate for doing so she became a 'specialist' in lecturing on how to detect Satanic Ritual Abuse. Not only did she speak at many RAIN Satan Seminars but she also lectured on SRA to police chiefs at Bramshill Police College.

Most of Maureen's knowledge on SRA had apparently been gleaned from importing, photocopying and distributing OTT articles, documents and information packs from the coterie of Christian satan hunters in the U.S. that she had been in touch with for some time in her campaign to ban psychic fayres and outlaw Transcendental Meditation, long before the idea of Satanic Abuse had flared up. She imported files from Groups like Mike Warnke Ministries, Exodus, The Lydia Fellowship, BADD (Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons -an OTT group which said fantasy games were satanic) as well as The Cult Crime Impact Network, CCIN is a U.S.A. wide network of fundamentalist Christian police officers who had decided to use criminal techniques to hunt down Satanic Cults) All of these groups and more were cross linked with the network of American fundamentalist activists who were also influencing therapists and the media in the U.S. (e.g. Mike Warnke Ministries was recommended as a source by Cavalcade Productions. )

In 1989 at the height of the Satan Scare, when police forces, local authorities, the NSPCC, Childline, and most social workers had bought into the Satan Scare, Davies travelled to the U.S. to tell them about the many cases of SRA which had been 'uncovered' in the U.K. She gave permission for the Cult Crime Impact Network to publish her lecture 'Satanic Ritual Abuse' , a paper she usually presented at British SRA conferences. When it was published the editor of CCINs journal prefaced the article by saying that the British experience proved the existence of SRA to doubters in the U.S.

'Where do the contrived controversies of 'urban myth' and statistical dinosaurs stand now in the light of international confirmation (underlined in original) that the same satanic crime problem exists across the globe.... the stark facts presented in Marueen Davies's article are identical to those we have encountered in the U.S. Canada and Mexico. '

Well of course they would be wouldn't they? Because they were the same set of unproven conclusions that CCIN and their fundamentalist friends had sent to Maureen in the first place, rewritten to suit the European market! Of course there never was any proof of any of the cases Maureen Davies referred to in the U.K. There was no evidence, no bodies, no forensic evidence anywhere. Not one of the alleged crimes ever took place in the way the Satan Hunters said it did. It was all hysteria. So American fundamentalists and therapists on the make had created a hysteria in the U.S. and then exported that to the U.K. When the scare bit deep here their British counterparts used anecdotal evidence and sensationalist media reporting (like the Balodis interview) to export the same stuff back into the U.S. as proof that SRA existed here in the U.K. It was, and still is, the biggest hoax in the history of the modern world. We are not suggesting that these fundamentalists are lying. We are sure that they absolutely believe what they are saying, just as many of the claimed victims of SRA do. The point is that what they might want to believe to confirm their religious prejudices is not factual evidence and is socially harmful.

Same Old Same Old

So is Lacter's contribution going to be any different to what has gone before? Judge for yourself. Lacter says clearly that she learned most of what she knows about SRA from Stephen Oglevie, head of Elijah House Ministries, but is what Oglevie knows worth anything to British social workers? The judge in the case of Donna M Krahn didn't think so.

'VANCOUVER, B.C. A woman who sought Christian marriage counselling from Elijah House has sued the society, claiming its conspiratorial theories caused her to lose custody of her seven children and fall into depression. Donna Marie Krahn claims the society taught her that repression of memories, dissociative identity disorder and satanic ritual abuse are widespread in society. She says the defendants encouraged her to develop false memories that she was physically, sexually and satanically abused by her husband, his family, her family, and others. She claims defendants induced her and her children to believe that satanic cults and witchcraft had penetrated all levels of society, that she had 500 alternate personalities, and that demons posed a present danger to her and her children. The judge in divorce court found the children are extremely well cared for physically and, but for the exposure to Elijah House philosophy, would be well cared for mentally as well. Full story here:

An earlier profile of Oglevie in the Los Angeles Times contained information about how he became a Satan Hunter. He claimed that he had been introduced to the problem of SRA by CCIN The Cult Crime Impact Network.

'It was in the state of Washington, in 1977, that he'd first brushed up against what he understood to be satanic ritualism. A 19-year-old woman arrived one day at the Church of the Nazarene in Wenatchee. I'm married to a warlock, she said. I've been up to the altar. I've suffered physical and sexual abuse. I can't get away. The lady's eyes appeared demonic and possessed, and she sometimes spoke in a deep man's voice......" [Ed: Deep Man's Voice? What? Like the possessed girl in The Exorcist Film? It was still doing the rounds in 1977.] Oglevie's move to Idaho came because "the Lord wanted me here," a wish revealed by means of a job offer to replace a departing pastor. "I thought this was a clean place, if any place was," he says. "I thought I was getting away from all that junk. I really thought that chapter of my life was over with." Oglevie maintains that he held to this belief even after he attended a five-day seminar in Boise offered by the Cult Crime Impact Network, a privately funded clearinghouse on satanic crimes. He took copious notes at the 1988 seminar, and upon his return to Rupert began sharing his insights with others..."

Now you need to keep two things in mind here:

(1) The first claimed case of Satanic Ritual Abuse in the U.K. (The Broxtowe Case) was being pursued by Nottingham Social Services during early 1988. The investigation was split about whether there was in fact any Satanic aspect of the case and ultimately the police and several enquiries concluded there wasn't but a hard-core team of radical social workers and feminists insisted there was and began attending Satan Seminars at which the SRA ideas of Americans such as Klein, Gould, Hudson etc were being distributed to eager Satan Hunters in the child care services of various U.K. organisations.

Thus, and mark this well, Oglevie was apparently being taught about the existence of SRA by CCIN before there were any cases alleged to have occurred in the U.K. and as he says set about campaigning against SRA immediately in the U.S. We are not suggesting that Oglevie contributed directly to any early U.K. cases. What we are pointing out is that the SRA movement in the U.S. preceeded and created the one in the U.K. and was fundamentally driven by the input of fanatical Christians.

Therefore as we at the SAFF have maintained right from the start, the entire edifice of the Satanic Ritual Abuse myth was a product of the fevered minds of Christian fanatics in the U.S who stumbled upon a radical and influential feminist lobby within the therapy and child-scare industries who were not choosey about where their evidence came from if it furthered their own ambitions. It suited both sides admirably and the cross-overs occured.

The presentation of OTT SRA information from U.S. adherents whose 'therapeutic' information was being contaminated by religious lies and sectarian misinterpretation was CRUCIAL to the scandal which unfolded and which ruined the lives of at least 86 children, destroyed dozens of innocent families, wreaked havoc with genuine child-care resources and wasted at least 20 million pounds worth of British taxpayers money in the process.

(2) If Lacter was trained in SRA by Oglevie and Oglevie was in turn trained by the zealots at CCIN then he, Oglevie, would presumably have been using the very same fundamentalist inspired, Occult Diaries, Satanic Symbol Dictionaries, Scene Of Cult Crime Check Sheets and Lists of Satanic Symptoms which Maureen Davies also sourced from the U.S. and used as a framework. .

In the 23 October 1987 CCIN Newsletter, these fundamentalists are clear about what Multiple Personality or Dissociative Identity Disorder means to them.

(Editor's Note: Rebecca Brown, M. D., in her new book PREPARE FOR WAR, Chick Publications, maintains that every "multiple personality" manifested in a ritualized abuse survivor is, in fact, a demon. The very purpose for the bizarre rituals, she says, is to implant such entities into the abuse victim. She cautions therapists and counselors not to overlook this fact or fail to deal with it on an appropriate spiritual basis.), c.)

They are of course talking about POSSESSION. Silly British therapists and social workers think they are talking about multiple personalities!

Oglevie seems to have taken up this banner, though when he speaks to a mixed audience, as in his recent trip to lecture to Australian Satan Hunters comprising mostly social workers and therapists, he rarely if ever uses terms like Exorcism, Demon, Possession, etc.

The LA Ritual Abuse Taskforce, of which Catherine Gould was a member, was inaugurated in February 1988. The Broxtowe Case was being pursued in 1988 as a regular case of familial sex abuse but was then re-defined as Ritual Abuse using SRA 'indicators' from the U.S.

CCIN published Maureen Davie's article 'Satanic Ritual Abuse' in October 1989, three months after the NSPCC had launched its campaign against SRA in Britain and almost contemporary with Oglevie's involvement with CCIN. Thus it is our contention that Lacter's knowledge and training in SRA cannot but be, contaminated with this false and sectarian information because the idea of Satanic Abuse started with U.S.fundamentalists who then fed the idea into social work. This is exactly what the Government's 1994 report (prof J.La Fontaine) said had happened.

To the fundies SRA was an opportunity to display their committedness to their cause. To the social workers and therapists it opened up a new industry of sensational leading edge 'discoveries'. An exciting move away from the mundane world-weary task of having to deal with the queue of boring dysfunctional folk who queue up outside the NHS for treatment. For the feminists it was doubly gold-plated for, as one of them gleefully explained;

'Satan is the ultimate male rapist'