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Satan’s back with a vengeance. Luring young people to his altar, they are united by music and cause.  Satan becomes father, mother, brother and sister to young people without family, those who seek acceptance.  The cost of belonging is high, but never too high for these young people.

“A fugitive who allegedly helped strangle a 13-year-old girl in a 1998 satanic ritual has been found hiding out in Alabama… Dennis Ronald Scott (was) among three people accused of killing Shevawn Geoghegan in a deserted mental institution in February last year…” (3)

“In 1994, three teenagers in the small city of West Memphis, Ark., were convicted of killing three 8-year-old boys in what prosecutors portrayed as a satanic sacrifice involving sexual abuse and genital mutilation” (4)

David “Damien” Travello, a 23 year old devil disciple, believes in control and the power of darkness.  He was a throwaway, surviving as a child prostitute, abandoned by family and society.  He was taken in by a fellow prostitute, Angela, who provided shelter, food and drugs for the pair. Damien repaid her kindness by stabbing her multiple times and claiming he was possessed by Satan at the time of the murder.

People kill in the name of their master and worship through rituals bathed in blood and flesh. Some believe Satanists operate on a national level, with the intention of infiltrating government, schools and law enforcement.

Church of Satan Founder - Anton Szandor la Vey

Secret satanic networks are discovered as more and more victims come forward.   Terrifying memories of abuse, sacrifice and cannibalistic rituals are raised during therapy.  There is a great deal of debate as to whether or not the memories are planted.  

Skeptics have treated allegations of SRA (Satanic ritual abuse) as ‘viral agents’ or rashes spread through conferences, seminars, books, television programs and court cases, and professionals who believe in SRA.. Cases of SRA have been described as “psychogenic syndromes” or “hysterical epidemics”, infectious “memetic” agents, symptoms of a “mediasomatic ailment”, or simply the “madness in the air”. When cases of ritual abuse emerged outside North America, journalists and researchers accused American child abuse researchers of “spreading” the epidemic of SRA allegations by mentioning it at international conferences and training workshops. (1)

Diagnoses such as Multiple Personality Disorder, in which the personality splits to protect the mind, are made to explain the patient’s inability to recall such horrific events.

“In the 1980s, children and adults with a life history of ritualistic abuse experienced high levels of distress and trauma-related symptoms and exhibited high levels of dissociation, resulting in the diagnosis of multiple personality disorder (MPD, now labeled dissociative identity disorder).   Originally introduced in the DSM III, MPD was a controversial diagnosis that had previously been considered extremely rare. Some skeptics claimed that the increase in MPD diagnosis on the 1980s and 1990s, and it’s association with memories of SRA, were evidence that professionals providing care and support to people diagnosed with DID were engaged in malpractice”(1)

False accusations have destroyed innocent lives. Children have been taken from their parents with no evidence of wrong doing, aside from the accusation of patients reporting satanic involvement.  

“Members of the McMartin family, who operated a preschool in California, were charged with numerous acts of sexual abuse of children in their care. After six years of criminal trials, no convictions were obtained, and all charges were dropped in 1990.” (2)

Children, in particular, are victimized, perhaps because of the appeal of staining an innocent; the ease of selecting the weakest victims; or a practice of indoctrination.  Children who are abused become pliable as they grow up, thereby providing human resources to the satanic cult. The abused are forced to abuse others, perpetuating the evil.

1. Wikipedia: Satanic ritual abuse

2. Wikipedia: McMartin preschool trial

3. Venezia, Todd:  Arrest Made in Satanic Killing of 13-Year-Old Girl  APBNews.com, July 23, 1999 (Retrieved December 2007)

4. Dewan, Shaila: Defense Offers New Evidence in a Murder Case That Shocked Arkansas, The New York Times, October 29, 2007 (Retrieved December 2007)