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Satanic Ritual Abuse and Child Sexual Victimization
deviant news, caretakers, professional for people who have not been victims of
therapists, social scientists, and some SRA/RA to become proactive energized
political and fraternal organizations “Survivor Advocates.” A survivor
are also inadvertently participating in advocate is an empathic caring person who
hiding the truthful information. believes ritual child abuse is a widespread
phenomenon and prepared to engage in
People, groups, and organizations whatever strategies deemed necessary in
unintentionally contribute to hiding revealing the truth.
these deviant sociopaths from
prosecution by being fixated in their A significant percentage of people who
goals for financial gain and/or notoriety. oppose abuse survivors and professional
False memory experts, religion based supporters of SRA/RA are mental health
leaders, and organizations whose experts, social scientists, law enforcement
stated mission is to disassemble the officials, and false memory experts all
theoretical constructs of individuals equally as passionate in their endeavors
and organizations diligently working to to unearth what they believe are total
prove SRA/RA are frequently engaged distortions of reality. Online information,
in. research studies, expert testimonies,
and former child sex abuse survivors
Also included in these groups recanting their original allegations are just
of unintentional offenders are as vigilant in their goal of revealing what
professionals espousing the legitimacy they believe is the truth.
of false memories being a reasonable
explanation for why some claim they Opponents of SRA/RA repeatedly
were victims of SRA/RA yet no abuse remind the community and media there
ever occurred. Denials of ritual abuse is absolutely no national data proving the
events, publicized accounts of grown extent of satanic ritual abuse. The False
adults recanting their previous abuse Memory Syndrome Foundation (hereafter
allegations, and the thousands of “FMS”) is an organization founded in
skeptics loudly voicing their opinions 1992 of parents with grown children
on the rest of society generate a haze a who at one time recovered never recalled
doubt affording pedophiles and rapist “repressed memories” alleging childhood
complete anonymity. sexual abuse by friends and loved ones.
Their mission posted at the organizational
To counter these alleged hollow website is three-fold:
convictions, it has been encouraged
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