On 27th February 1991, the Orkney child sexual abuse case kicked off. Jean Rafferty outlines in the preface to her 2019 book FOUL DEEDS WILL RISE:
“A historical scandal forms the background of this book. In 1991 nine children were removed from four families on the suspicion they had been abused in Satanist rituals. The children were taken into care but the parents protested their innocence and gathered huge public support.
Sheriff David Kelbie dismissed the case and decreed that the children should return to their parents, despite the reluctance of some of them to return.
On October 1992 Lord Clyde reported on the case, without making a ruling whether as to the guilt or innocence, of the parents involved. As a result, they cannot claim their innocence has been proved. Nor can anyone claim their guilt has been proven. The Scots verdict of Not Proven is the only possible one in these circumstances., though some of the characters in this book are convinced of their guilt.
This is difficult and controversial subject matter and I tried to follow Ernest Hemingway’s advice on writing: Write hard and clear about what hurts.
The hurt for victims never goes away.”
You can view an atmospheric trailer for the book here:
Jean Rafferty is an award-winning journalist who has written many articles on controversial topics including Satanist Ritual Abuse (SRA). An article on the 25th anniversary and a follow-up article by academic Sarah Nelson can be accessed from the links below:
The raid was organised after social workers questioned members of a family with 15 children, identified at the time as “family W” to protect their privacy, whose father had been jailed for sexually abusing a daughter in 1986 shortly after the family’s arrival in South Ronaldsay, Orkney. Further details can be found here:
The book interweaves child sexual abuse disclosures of various characters with the media situation of journalist ‘Alma’ who had been commissioned to write a story – which got ‘spiked’.
I could recognise many of the abuse elements described including incest, rape and sacrifice in the context of an occult ceremony (orgy) as well as the symptoms such traumas cause. I was particularly touched by the sensitive portrayal of ‘Judith’ – an unregistered birth of a baby girl that ‘Alma’ delivered at age 14. It can be inferred that it succeeded from rape by her stepfather ‘Boo’ who had sexually abused her and taken pornographic pictures of her from an early age. ‘Alma’ tries to believe that ‘Judith’ was given to a loving couple who could not have children.
Unfortunately, it is rather unlikely that a baby that was unregistered at birth would live ‘happy ever after’. In my 2014 poster I included a table of key results of the Extreme Abuse Survey (Becker, Karriker, Overkamp & Rutz, 2008) which featured the disturbing results that across more than 200 professionals working with abuse victims the majority had personally received disclosures of the following ideologically driven crimes:
‘Forced Impregnation’ – 71%
‘Survivors own child murdered by his/her perpetrators’ – 55%
More information on Satanist Ritual Abuse (SRA) in Scotland, Kingston-upon-Thames and elsewhere as well as informative videos on the topic by the courageous activist and advocate Wilfred Wong can be found in earlier posts:
A few years ago, I tweeted for the first time when Michael Gove, who was adopted as a child, suggested that children should be taken into ‘care’ yet more rapidly. On the 4th of Feb I tweeted for the second time replying to some breaking news from the FakeBPSCommentary @psychsocwatchuk Twitter feed.
Karl Sabbagh was hastily removed from the BFMS Scientific and Professional Advisory Board when the BFMS was alerted to his September 2019 conviction for Child Sexual Abuse (CSA). He had been grooming a 14-year-old sending explicit pictures and arranging a meet up in a Dublin hotel. Authorities have done a good job here taking the complainant seriously and seizing technology that evidenced what happened.
Sabbagh is an ardent support of the False Memory lobby even writing a book titled:
Remembering our Childhood: How our memory betrays us.
Without recordings it is much more difficult to convict alleged abusers – especially as the BFMS consistently makes dubious claims about memory that are as bombastic as they are misleading.
I presented on False Memory shenanigans at the ESTD 2017 conference in Bern and the EPA 2017 conference in Florence (my symposium at the 2017 BPS Annual Conference was ‘pulled’ in a highly irregular manner):
Another False Memory advocate got dumped for his links to Paedophilia. In 1993 Ralph Underwager gave an interview to a pro-paedophilia magazine called Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia, along with his wife, Hollida Wakefield, also a psychologist. The interview caused a huge controversy, and he was forced to resign from the board of the False Memory Foundation in the US, but his wife inexplicably could remain. For further details see:
‘Satanic child abuse claims are almost certainly based on false memories’
In the article he falsely claims:
‘In fact, there is a consensus among scientists studying memory that traumatic events are more likely to be remembered than forgotten, often leading to posttraumatic stress disorder.’
He ought to study the Extreme Abuse Survey results with plenty examples, or successful convictions e.g. in Wales (around 2011) of Colin Batley, Ian Watkins as well as of Albert & Carole Hickman for Satanism inspired Child Sexual Abuse (CSA).
Prof Martin Conway is another shady character on the BFMS advisory board. On at least three occasions appeal court judges dismissed his evidence with one ruling even suggesting that he should update his CV where he only stated one (early) case where his testimony was beneficial to his client’s case.
Nevertheless, the British Psychological Society (BPS) gave him in 2019 a Lifetime Achievement Award. How could the Research Board under the leadership of Prof Daryl O’Connor recommend someone who relentlessly pushes a Discourse of Disbelief and seemingly exclusively gives evidence for the defence (just like the US darling of the False Memory lobby Prof Elizabeth Loftus). Why did the BPS Head of Research & Impact Lisa Morrison Coulthard not flag up his controversial status?
Both were members of ‘A Working Party of the Research Board of the British Psychological Society (BPS)’ that produced the utterly inadequate 2008 ‘Guidelines on Memory and the Law’ which are extremely biased towards the False Memory perspective.
Both were central to the decision to close the promising Memory-Based Evidence working group only recruited in January 2020.
You can read thoughtful contributions of Peter Harvey (former Chair Division of Clinical Psychology; former Chief Examiner and Chair of Board of Examiners BPS Qualification in Clinical Psychology) on the BPS Watch blog:
The False Memory lobby continuously undermines complainants who report abuse. One brave self-identified survivor of CSA is Beverli Rhodes who suffered under the control of Peter Rhodes (who she though was her father). Beverly is also a survivor of the 7/7 2005 London bombing which triggered ‘recovery’ of CSA memories.
I very much appreciated ‘The Horse Girl’ as it provides insights into the workings of Child Sexual Abuse gangs in particular the bestiality section, as the case I stumbled across in 2012 reportedly involved such activity, and the section on Johnny Savile, who was seemingly into extreme abuse just like his younger brother Jimmy.
After years of CSA in the UK and South Africa, Beverli Rhodes described what turned out to be her last CSA encounter (aged about 14 or 15 in the 1970s). Here are some excerpts (page 120 onwards):
“One of the worst clients I had the misfortune to be pimped out to was Mr X, a close friend of a major UK singing sensation. Arrangements had been made for me to visit him by the said singing superstar, whose code name was ‘Kitty’.”
“It was my first night spending the night away from home and I was pretty damn nervous. Peter did not know this guy from Adam and anything could have happened.”
“He had taken his clothes off and revealed a well-toned body, which was unusual for me to see. Most of the men who had raped me in the past were horrible balding men with beer bellies and rolls of fat on their thighs.”
Reportedly he had ‘genital warts’!
“While I was on top of him in one of the screwing sessions, the phone rang. He showed me a hand signal to be quiet until he knew who was on the other end of the line. He had been waiting for the call from his best friend ‘Kitty’.”
“I asked where ‘Kitty’ was and Mr X said that he was on a tour somewhere overseas. I was threatened and I was told that, if anyone found out anything, both Peter and I would be in big trouble’.
While the name of the celebrity Mr X is not given in the book, I managed to work out that CSA allegations against this individual span half a century with one victim reporting (around 2018) abuse up to the age of six years (at that time access visits to the estranged father who facilitated the celebrity abuse were terminated).
It certainly spoiled my New Year’s Eve celebrations seeing him croon around midnight.
In 2014 I was an invited panel member at the Association for Business Psychology (ABP) conference presenting on the ‘Crossover between Occupational and Clinical Psychology’. I started with an ‘Ice-Maker’ blaming psychiatry and psychology for the malaise that permitted Jimmy Savile to engage in sordid Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) with hundreds of victims (some as young as 4 years). I went on to compare the well-developed Occupational Testing market with the rudimentary Clinical offering dominated by MMPI (developed through empirical ‘black box’ criterion scoring) and Millon’s awful MCMI – a tool with inferior measurement properties that is entirely inappropriately deployed (as a ‘weapon’?) in family court cases to ‘pathologise’ loving and protective parents to remove custody rights. Feedback from 100+ delegates was positive.
Half a year later I took up the occasion of the forthcoming general election to present a paper ‘Politics and the Psychology of Abuse’ at The Psychometric Forum (TPF). Building on my assessment expertise and a harrowing case study featuring ‘unbelievable’ disclosures I outlined typical features of an Organised Ritual Crime Abuse Network (ORCAN) and successful CSA prosecutions of Ian Watkins, Alberts and Carole Hickmann as well as Colin Batley – all in Wales. The good folks at TPF welcomed my input and published a touching review.
Buoyed by the positive response of my colleagues I put up my hand in January 2015 to volunteer for the ‘Science & Practice Strategy Group Convener’ role at the BPS emphasising in my personal statement that I would like to combat the ‘industrial scale’ and ‘organised nature’ of child sexual abuse – in my view a valid aspect of ‘Industrial/Organizational Psychology’ long overdue for research.
Sitting on the BPS Division of Occupational Psychology (DOP) Committee was a learning-by-doing experience. Three-times a year representing the DOP at the BPS Research Board was daunting – 30 professors and lecturers representing the creme-de-la creme of psychology research. It was interesting to hear about a wide range of topics with the Research Excellence Framework (REF) taking up an extraordinary amount of time.
The current chair of the Research Board joined it in 2004. Shortly afterwards something happened that in my view was inappropriate for a ‘learned society’. Prof Martin Conway, who is on the Advisory Board of the British False Memory Society (BFMS), became chair of the BPS Research Board.
False Memory associations sprung up around 1990 in the wake of the ‘memory wars’ where increasingly allegations of incestuous abuse surfaced – many in organised abuse settings. False Memory adherents, led by their ‘academic darling’ Prof Elizabeth Loftus, tore into survivors and witnesses disclosing CSA claiming that what they recalled were probably ‘false memories’. An ‘industry’ blossomed where a small group of psychologists and psychiatrists would proclaim repeatedly that complainants were suffering from ‘false memories’- even when there was never a DSM entry of that name.
On the other hand, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Dissociative Disorder became entries in the 1980 edition of DSM in the light of the symptoms shown by Vietnam war veterans and domestic abuse victims. In 2018 ICD-11 added Complex PTSD as a diagnostic category – I presented in 2019 a C-PTSD case study at the ESTD conference in Rome which has already garnered 1000+ reads on ResearchGate.
About one hundred years earlier Pierre Janet accurately described the nature of traumatic memories. Shame on psychiatry and psychology for burying his findings and inventing pseudo-scientific narratives and treatments culminating in Electroshock Therapy (ECT – remember ‘One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest’?) and Frontal Lobotomy (also covered in my TPF presentation).
As trauma-informed interventions gathered pace and organised abuse cases were widely discussed in the media (with some successful prosecutions) the False Memory adherents spread their ‘discourse of disbelief’ aided by controversial publications. For example, 40 senior mental health practitioners wrote a protest letter when Anthropology (!) Professor Jean La Fontaine published in 1994 a report, sponsored by then Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley, which was widely read as denying the existence of wide-spread ritual abuse in the UK.
How could the UK’s leading research psychologists, the BPS policy unit and the trustees let someone closely associated with the BFMS become chair of the BPS Research Board? Would you let Dr Marlborough lead research into the dangers of smoking?
To make matters worse nobody stopped Prof Conway from applying for an ESRC research grant and convening a working group drawn from his global false memory adherent network that culminated in the 2008 publication ‘Guidelines on Memory and the Law’ under the BPS banner. The content could just as well have been published by the BFMS as exemplified by its insidious statement ‘A memory expert is a person who is recognised by the memory research community to be a memory researcher‘ – a statement that qualified any ‘false memory’ researcher and disqualified all those clinical practitioners who encounter memory-based disclosures in their daily work. Under pressure this statement was modified in the 2010 edition to ‘… possess knowledge relevant to the particular case ‘.
The current chair of the BPS Research Bord and the current BPS Head of Research & Impact (who was recruited to the BPS in 1995 – just after the valuable publications of the ‘BPS Working Group on Recovered Memory’) were named contributors of the report and were, a dozen years later, pivotal in the decision to disband the Memory-Based Evidence group started only earlier in the year. What about governance?
An advert requesting expressions of interest had been placed in the January 2020 issue of the Psychologist followed shortly afterwards by a call for an Independent Review Group. I applied for the latter but was rejected despite 30 publications (including contributions covering ‘false beliefs’ seemingly inculcated through persuasive coercion by vested interests) on relevant topics since 2014. A retired Professor of Psychology who wrote a whole book about the Savile et al UK abuse cases was also rejected. Membership of the groups appeared sensible. However, I was uneasy that the chairperson appointed had worked for many years in an organisation whose members frequently followed a ‘discourse of disbelief’ (following the La Fontaine doctrine instituted by its leadership) and as an academic is receiving funding from related organisations. What about independence?
In November, the Research Board members were given the recommendation that due to seemingly insurmountable difficulties the group should be closed. Nobody said it would be easy! The IICSA is now on its 4th chair. Where there is a will there is a way. What about leadership – is such evasive conduct going to further the BPS motto ‘excellence in psychology’?
I got the impression that vested interests managed to ‘drop the hot potato’ and furthermore tried to bury it deeply decrying they tried ever-so-hard. I voted against the motion and made a handful of constructive recommendations for moving things forward. Highly qualified members of the group (who I look up to) made their own representations and indicated to me that work may well continue in some form. I will be watching developments with interest, anticipation, and trepidation.
For the time being I want to put as much distance as possible between myself and the BPS research bods. Technically I cannot resign from the BPS Research Board so that instead I informed my colleagues at the BPS DOP Executive that I want to step down from my ‘Science & Practice Strategy Convenor’ role.
Outside the UK the celebrity was named numerous times. Some interesting details in The Sun article:
In 2013 she emailed her allegations to Scotland Yard.
The alleged offence, which happened overseas, was out of their jurisdiction.
Scotland Yard were emailed details of the allegations in 2013, but could not investigate as it took place abroad and out of their jurisdiction
But chiefs agreed to register the case for intelligence purposes and passed her claims to their counterparts abroad.
An official probe was opened by the police force abroad in August 2014, only to be dropped six months later.
But it was disclosed last month that a new prosecutor and investigating officer have been assigned to the case.
A spokesman for the prosecution service said yesterday: “We can confirm that charges were registered in respect of events which are alleged to have occurred in the 1970s.
“The case has been referred to police with a request for further investigation.
“This is with a view to enabling us to make a decision regarding prosecution. The docket will be further considered upon its return from the police.”
A police spokesman said: “This office can confirm an investigation has been conducted regarding a rape case reported during 2014. It is still under investigation.”
And a lawyer in the city where the rape is said to have happened said: “The alleged victim is a credible witness with excellent recall of the facts.
“The key to a successful prosecution is finding witnesses who place the complainant in the star’s suite and who can speak for her childlike demeanour.”
Recently I stumbled across a You Tube video that features disclosures by various women including:
Orna’s Story Aged 14 (Capetown)
Pam’s Story Aged 14 (Minnesota)
The newspaper article appears to relate to Orna, a South African lady, who alleged that a celebrity took advantage of her when she was an innocent teenage fan in the 1970’s. After plying her with Dom Perignon Champagne the celebrity allegedly went on to rape her. A picture is shown showing her with the celebrity in a white bath robe on a hotel balcony. Others who as consenting adults were involved with the celebrity commented on the Modus Operandi. The video clip also features another ‘Sir’ who at times gets referred to as ‘Kitty’. The UK CPS investigated sexual abuse allegations lodged by 9 complainants but did not press charges.
When googling the celebrity, I found it particularly intriguing that he credited Jimmy Saville for getting his career started. Apparently, he was very surprised to hear the sexual abuse allegations against Saville. Why is it that celebrities who are worth tens of Millions hardly ever get charged with child sexual abuse offences let alone get convicted?
Anyhow, if going up against an alleged sexual abuser a complainant is likely to come up against an expert for the defence who will claim that the complainant is suffering from ‘False Memories’. I am wondering what Prof Elizabeth Loftus would make of the rape allegations? She is a well-known Professor of Psychology who dedicated her life to the study of ‘false memories’. She evokes a Marmite response occasionally being picketed by angry trauma therapist but usually awarded a ‘rock star’ like reception at conferences e.g. at the ICP 2016 in Yokohama. I asked her publicly about the possibility of ‘False Innocent Belief Syndrome’ (FIBS) and briefly talked to her in the elevator about the Innocence project. I subsequently presented a poster at the European Psychiatry Association (EPA) conference in Florence that outlines a few key issues about ‘False Memories’ and provides some resource links. The following passage is particularly relevant as the BPS Research Board announced in January 2020 the formation of a ‘Memory-based Evidence’ task & finish group.
Memory Wars & FIBS
Raschke (2008) provides a comprehensive account of the emergence of False Memory advocacy groups and the role of their academic advisors in particular Prof Elizabeth Loftus whose ethics have been widely questioned. In the UK the members of the BFMS Advisory Board (overly) regularly feature in the BPS Magazine ‘The Psychologist’ proffering a drum beat ‘Discourse of Disbelieve’. Prof Martin Conway even led the development of the ‘Memory and Law’ BPS Guidelines. Interestingly a number of Criminal Appeal Court Judges rejected his evidence and even suggested ‘Professor Conway may wish to consider amending his CV’. A tragic consequence of this indiscriminate disbelief (that could be termed ‘False Innocence Belief Syndrome’?) is that legal representatives of individuals who are accused of sexual abuse but proclaim their innocence may commission reports from Prof Martin Conway – yet those reports are probably not admitted as evidence. The travesty of Fire Chief David Tyrant is a stark reminder that each case needs to be looked at with fresh eyes rather than with a dogmatic outlook:
With many criminal court processes there is a considerable risk of falsely convicting someone. As a practicing Buddhist I am against the ‘death sentence’ as I believe in the sanctity of life. If there are good reasons to challenge a conviction, I am all in favour of allowing appeals and initiating renewed investigation. However, the drip-feed of ‘false memory’ claims in all kind of media including academic journals and The Psychologist, the flagship magazine of the British Psychological Society (BPS), are leading to a ‘discourse of disbelief’ where victims frequently are disbelieved and revictimized.
I presented a paper at the European Society Trauma & Dissociation (ESTD) 2017 conference in Bern where I outlined the pronouncements of False Memory associates and how the British Psychological Society (BPS) has frequently provided them all-too-frequently with a platform for their biased views. When I checked the latest issue of The Psychologist I was pleased to see that the ‘International Panel’ of The Psychologist that included Elizabeth Loftus has seemingly disappeared. Progress!
The most (in)famous experiment that Loftus conducted involved an attempt to convince study subjects that they had a ‘lost in the mall’ experience. A small proportion of the subjects apparently agreed with a false memory that was implanted. Ruth A. Blizard and Morgan Shaw are highly critical of this study in their 2019 article ‘Lost-in-the-mall: False memory or false defense?’ the abstract of which I pasted below:
ABSTRACT False Memory Syndrome (FMS) and Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) were developed as defenses for parents accused of child abuse as part of a larger movement to undermine prosecution of child abuse. The lost-in-the-mall study by Dr. Elizabeth Loftus concludes that an entire false memory can be implanted by suggestion. It has since been used to discredit abuse survivors’ testimony by inferring that false memories for childhood abuse can be implanted by psychotherapists. Examination of the research methods and findings of the study shows that no full false memories were actually formed. Similarly, PAS, coined by Richard Gardner, is frequently used in custody cases to discredit children’s testimony by alleging that the protective parent coached them to have false memories of abuse. There is no scientific research demonstrating the existence of PAS, and, in fact, studies on the suggestibility of children show that they cannot easily be persuaded to provide detailed disclosures of abuse.
At the end of October, I spent an Indian Summer week on the continent with a good deal of ‘Trauma’.
Venice Biennale – Art Porn at the Austria Pavillion
Venice is a great place and attending the Biennale had long been on my wish list. I wandered through numerous Pavilions finding the artwork certainly more interesting than at the ‘documenta’ in Kassel. I left the Austrian to the end with an eerie sense of foreboding given what I heard about an Organised Ritual Crime Abuse Network (ORCAN) that is seemingly operating with impunity in Austria aided by corrupt psychiatrists and judiciary:
I was shocked to find ‘artwork’ that could have sprung straight from the pages of the 309 pages Extreme Abuse Survey (EAS) document. The so-called artist is Renate Bertlmann who seems to have drawn inspiration from Marina Abramović. Shame on Austria for putting out artwork that could have emanated from the dark web.
Garmisch – Society for Ethics in Psychiatry (GAP)
Every New Year many folks in and around the alps sit down to watch the ‘4 Schanzen Turnier’. I am unsure whether ‘Eddy the Eagle’ made it there but certainly the ski jumps in Innsbruck and Garmisch are majestic sights. Majestic may also be an apt description for the little known GEP:
For almost 4 decades the group led by Dr Friedrich Weinberger, who worked as a Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist in independent practice, has been educating professionals and the public about poor psychiatric assessment practices in the Soviet Union and closer to home. Dr Weinberger’s psychiatric report was instrumental in bringing about the release of Gustav Mollath who seemingly got framed by his ex-wife and vested commercial interests when he blew the whistle on shady business transactions of his ex. Seven years he was locked up in a secure mental hospital! In the end he was freed due to a counter-diagnosis by Dr Weinberger and media coverage of the scandal (Mollath was awarded Euro 600k compensation). A recent issue of the weekly Aerzteblatt (that goes to 400k medics) carried his reader’s letter on the topic:
Legal developments such as the strengthening of patient autonomy are changing psychiatric measures. The different objectives of the treatment and improvement of the offenders versus the protection for the general public involve considerable conflicts (DÄ 39/2019: “Maßregelrecht auf der Prüfstand” by Jürgen L. Müller).
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‘On the occasion of fundamental considerations on forensic psychiatry, Prof. J. Müller and the Deutsches Ärzteblatt also talked about the Mollath case, before he perhaps completely disappears from his colleagues’ memory. Müller wrote: “At the latest since the release of Gustl Mollath, an inmate (Ed: in a secure psychiatric unit) who was not involved in treatment and assessment and was imputed significant psychiatric disorder and therefore justified danger several years, not only the protection of the general public, but also the Rights of the offender are in focus. “Müller tried to play off said protection against said rights. Several of his colleagues, most of them “professors of forensic psychiatry”, were involved in the Mollath case. For many years, they have tried to make this a separate field of expertise and thus their “closed shop”. The German Medical Association has denied them the wish so far. It has thus protected the administration of justice in the country from serious harm. Still, any capable and courageous psychiatrist can face false judgments even from super-specialists of high titles, as the author of these lines did in the case Mollath with a counter-opinion. He was able to counteract many misguided comments, ultimately confirmed by the Federal Constitutional Court, to invalidate a false “imputed significant psychiatric disorder and justified danger” and help the victim, not a saint, after seven and a half years until 2013, not 2011, forced internment again to freedom. As in the clinic and practice, there is only one and the same psychiatry in court.’
Apparently Big-Wig Forensic Psychiatrists are plotting to form a ‘closed club’ that allows them to concentrate on their navel-gazing practices and ‘keep out’ inconvenient Psychiatrists like Dr Weinberger who got the courage and brains to challenge malpractice.
Dr Weinberger has very wide-ranging interests and kindly provided me as a relative ‘newby’ with an overview how Freud and Psychoanalysis was utilised by Trotsky to shape Soviet society. I learned how he arrived by ship (under the flag of the Red Cross!) with 300 well-trained mercenaries and lots of money to take control of Russia in the October 1917 revolution. The green revolutionaries had fought successfully the Zsar’s whites, but their representatives were routed by the red revolutionaries. A few years later the rebellion of the Kronstadt sailors was violently suppressed. What would have happened after the death of Lenin if Trotsky would have won the power struggle rather than Stalin? Apparently, Russia would have been a pliant player for the Globalist agenda! His violent demise following an ice pick attack by a Russian agent in Mexico somewhat mirrored the pain he inflicted on so many.
I shared with Dr Weinberger my findings on inadequate psych assessments with a view to future collaboration.
European Society for Trauma & Dissociation (ESTD) Conference in Rome
I attended dozens of conferences around the world but the most inspiring ones for me are the ESTD conferences. Here we hear about abuse and suffering but also about growth and healing. Everyone understands the impact of trauma and the nature of dissociative symptoms. Prof Ellert Nijenhuis (NL) shared in the final keynote another fascinating intervention concerning a long-term patient ‘Lena’ who when he returned from a holiday had been stuck for 2 weeks in a rigid mannerism exclaiming ‘All is red’. The solution of the puzzle? With a great deal of empathy and humility Ellert got her to respond and it turned out that she had been raped at age 3 by a neighbor (a blacksmith). He received a well-deserved award for his insightful work in the field and starting the ESTD in the Mid-Noughties.
I presented a paper co-authored by Dr Ashley Conway countering the False Memory narrative that is plaguing the field.
The paper covers two book chapters written by my co-author Dr Ashley Conway who counters six of the fallacies that underpin the dangerous False Memory lobby arguments. I added some successful UK prosecutions of extreme abuse upfront and highlight at the end that controversial Prof Elizabeth Loftus still features on the International Panel of The Psychologist – the house magazine of the British Psychological Society (BPS).
I convened a symposium SM-04 that featured on the program under the title The Legacy of Complex Trauma: Disturbing Memories, Invisible Wounds and Coerced Perpetration:
I outlined a C-PTSD case study where 67 traumas were rattled off in 10 minutes including giving birth to a ‘breeder baby’ at age 13 and witnessing helplessly the anal rape of her toddler son by his grandfather (who I called the ‘Kingston Terminator’ – see above). I illustrated the later scenario with a visual I got from an excellent survivor-activist site.
The download link below leads to a survivor account that is particularly timely given the Prince Andrew situation:
Also very worthwhile reading is the following which features a ‘household name’ family name ‘down under’ (hint: father psychologist, daughter actress):
I featured for the first time newspaper items regarding the death of the toddler’s godmother Susan Lloyd. Her body was found in her burnt out house in the woods outside Kilcommon. Why did she not leave the house when it caught fire? Was she perhaps run over by a ‘small blue car’ of the Seat Arosa Mark 1 variety and then drugged with chloroform?
I also show how Alan Morgan, South Wales Police Chief, refuses to investigate the death of ‘…Susan Lloyd, a native of Wales and a mother of a 14-year-old daughter…’ in Kilcommon and the shenanigans in Blaengarw where ‘THE body of a 44-year-old woman was found in a river just days after Christmas’ and where a ‘…fire broke out at Railway terrace…’ overlooking the site where the body was found (hint: the woman and the ‘Kingston Terminator’ were seen at a pub nearby and arguing at that location the night before) – cases that most members of the public would view as highly suspicious. I think it is significant that Susan Lloyd was also the godmother of a toddler who was reportedly assaulted 9 months later by his own grandfather – the ‘Kingston Terminator’ as I call him.
Coroner Joe Kelly refused to order a re-investigation.
I finished my talk with a crime map showing approximate locations and locations for:
6 violent deaths of adults in their prime of life
2 ‘disappearances’ of new-born babies
3 toddler rapes spanning across three generations within one family
4 instances of dangerous driving (two in the Kingston area with lethal outcomes that Operation Midland refused to investigate)
Mr Declan Howard, a self-identified survivor of trauma-based mind control, contributed the second paper on invisible wounds caused by abuse:
I also upload his standalone (sic) paper on criminality as the cause of many mental health problems (a reality that traditional psychiatrists remain in denial about):
The download contains the script as well as a URL for watching her presentation.
You can find further information on her excellent website that is aptly named:
endritualabuse.org
‘Abstract Gate’ @ EPA in Warsaw
I was pleased to receive attention from the President of the European Psychiatry Association (EPA). A few months earlier I had presented five posters at the EPA conference in Warsaw. I had put them up on ResearchGate and also on my blog:
A few weeks after my blog posting someone raised a concern (I wonder who? I doubt it was a fee-paying delegate!) with the EPA leadership about their content. The EPA threatened to drop my poster abstracts from the forthcoming ‘conference’ issue of their ever-so-prestigious journal. I rapidly replied sending the article below about the role of psychologists as experts in court settings:
I offered three updated abstracts and wrote a detailed explanation of the background of my investigation appending all my conference posters (so many that I ran out of alphabet letters):
A fellow investigator also wrote in my support adding some valuable references that did not make it into the final version of our poster:
“The events reported are not compatible with the predictions of materialist scientific orthodoxy and raise fundamental questions. The work of forensic historians Daniel Estulin, Colin Ross, Melissa Dykes, James Corbett and Anthony C. Sutton document the generation of false historical concepts. This of course leads to insecure predictions and the generation of a middle ground between the expected and the actual.”
A distraught mother wrote in my support. Her young teenage daughter was ‘taken into care’ when she reported organised abuse by her biological father and a ‘ring’ in the Deptford area. A nasty social worker reportedly stoked fear of being separated from her mother by casually finishing the first meeting ‘Off you go. I let you go on this occasion’.
Increasingly I hear about cases involving abuse rings. The more serious the allegations, the harsher the ‘closing down’ process. In a recent case in Wales a 5-year-old made disclosures indicative of emotional, physical and sexual abuse. As soon as allegations of pornography production and extreme abuse were raised with authorities the boy was ‘seized’ and the usual accusation proffered that the mother may have a ‘personality disorder’ and forced the child to make these allegations. Why would a mother do that???
In a case that originated 1987 in the former East Germany (GDR) a newlywed, young woman was raped and forced into extreme abuse by her father-in-law acting in cahoots with her husband and others. Their two children were also abused for decades. When the trio broke free a sympathetic citizen who had been working as a General Practitioner and Psychiatrist for more than 10 years attested credibility and supported their crime reporting. The response? Police and prosecution did NOTHING to investigate and secure evidence e.g. photo and film. Two of the accused together with a victim under mind control swiftly made counter-accusations. Police and prosecution acted IMMEDIATELY – even taking the medic into remand for 8 months. The mother who had escaped was ‘caught’ by the extreme abuse ring and reprogrammed to make abstruse allegations against the medic as well as her own children.
These examples show how traumatised victims are re-victimized by inadequate authority conduct, and courageous citizens who speak out are silenced.
Dead funny it would be if it was not so deadly serious. South Wales Police Chief Alun Morgan wrote to me today claiming that I had written to ‘HM Coroner’ – just after referring me back to the Garda. In spite of all the Brexit confusion people of wisdom would hold up as truth that the Republic of Ireland is not part of the Commonwealth. Was it a Freudian slip, a secret hint, ignorance or incompetence?
Incompetence seems to be at the heart of what happened across the Irish sea in January 2011. A mother was found dead in her burnt out house in a very rural area on a remote farm.
A car indicator was found on site some 4 years later. Was that related to the fact that the deceased had broken legs and a broken arm?
A drug bottle was found. Was that related to the fact that the deceased was burnt alive (sooth in the lungs) – but rendered unconscious?
A ‘Red Bull’ can was found? Did someone have a refreshing drink after all the hard work of spreading several canisters of ignitable fluid round the house?
A strange object was found with a transformer, metal, plastic and fluid. Was that an incendiary device?
Ordinary citizens would agree that it is a sign of gross incompetence that half a dozen Garda members MISSED these artefacts when on site. Make up your own mind:
To make matters worse – when I contacted ‘HM Coroner’ in 2014 he duly contacted the local police chief – but did not request these artefacts. Apparently two reports were written but nothing was released to me and nothing requested from me either.
What might have been written in these reports? What fantasy explanation for the presence of these artefacts? In a recent UK family court case the presiding judge ruled that a mother injected her children with a drug in order to then make ‘false accusations’ of Satanist Ritual Abuse (SRA) by their father. Who is lacking credibility here? As it happened the judge was reported in mainstream media to be a Director of an adoption agency – vested interests? To make matters worse, a little bird told me that he was seemingly observed having sexual intercourse at an orgy with a young teenage girl.
I made a 45 page complaint to the Irish Garda Ombudsman. I got fobbed off with the excuse that more than 12 months had passed.
When I contacted the lady who heads the Garda for this region she also refused to investigate.
How does Alun Morgan relate to this?
I read with interest and horror about one of the (former) officers of Alun Morgan:
Police officer and government lawyer jailed for child abuse
A Welsh Government lawyer and a police officer have been jailed for carrying out sex attacks on young children. The court heard lawyer John Ryan-Guess, 43, “preyed on” young girls then shared pictures and videos of his abuse on the internet with other paedophiles.
PC Dean Roberts, 48, filmed himself abusing a “helpless” infant and sent the footage to other paedophiles on a messaging app.
He was caught after John Guess, was arrested and detectives traced child abuse footage back to Roberts.
It reminded me of the South Wales shenanigans of all sorts that I documented in a poster at EPA 2017 in Florence.
The mother who was found dead in her burnt out house was also a godmother. Her toddler god child was buggered 9 months after her death. Was the godmother ‘bumped off’?
One month earlier the toddler’s nursery teacher’s friend was found dead in the village river just after Christmas. South Wales Police did not find anything suspicious. Incompetence?
The women had been seen with the ‘stalker’ in a pub and arguing near Railway Terrace!
Three months earlier the half-aunt had died – ostensibly from alcoholism. Her son had – according to authority documents – been raped as toddler while playing in the garden.
The same fate was shared by his half aunt in 1985 and his half-cousin in October 2011 aged 2. A stalker had orchestrated a harassment, defamation and intimidation campaign that culminated in a day time rape of the toddler (in fact his grandson) in a Cul-de-Sac in South Wales. The toddler’s mother had been manipulated by a police officer in Kingston-upon-Thames to delay reporting for 4 weeks or 1 month. Later on he turned up in the valleys with two other officers and changed the instruction to 2 weeks. She reported after 3 weeks and was declared delusional by a Psychiatrist who according to his own admission is associated with the perpetrator. South Wales Police also ignored a 46 page Thrid Party Crime Witness submission about him.
And why all of this?
The mother had a baby at 13/14 that ‘disappeared’
The boy is the last in a Scottish aristocratic bloodline
Devil worship cults need to succession plan for future high priests
The mother broke away from the cult and had to be punished/destroyed
Disclosures indicate that the offending spree over 2.5 decades rivals the headcount of Fred and Rose West.
Does incompetence of South Wales Police Chief Alun Morgan, Garda & ‘HM Coroner’ leave the public at risk, a child in unsafe hands and a mother persecuted?
This time we run, this time we hide
This time we draw on all the fire we have inside
We need some time to find a place
Where I can wipe away the madness from your face
Our name is out, our name is known
Our name is everywhere but who knows where we’ve flown
I never meant to kill a man
But I will show you how to live like no one can
So look away, look away
Hide your eyes from the land where I lie cold
Look away, look away
From the lies in the stories that were told
Look away, look away
From the love that I hide way down deep in my soul
I met you wild in a snowed up town
Where I was waiting tied and bound to be sent down
Then I broke loose, you weren’t around
So I raised banks and trains until I tracked you down
Now look away, look away
Hide your…
1 week ago we said good bye to Robert Green. Gone too soon aged 73. He was not ready to go – too much injustice remains in the world.
I was contacted by Robert on 18th November 2018 and we had a 1h phone conversation on 9th December. He talked me through his experiences of confronting evil. He was a professional travel agent and came across an astonishing case of massive fraud involving ABTA, the international airline industry and the bribing of senior officers in the Metropolitan Police, whom he named publicly. ITV produced a short film about his efforts, that led in turn to him being invited to make a speech in Edinburgh to a group involved in exposing legal and political corruption in Scotland. The farcical authority actions that followed are detailed below by David Scott:
The funeral service was personal and touching. Where else would mentioning two spells in prison raise wry smiles?
After the event I had opportunity to meet other activists one of whom mentioned Princess Diana. Back home I found the fitting 1997 ‘Diana Princess of Wales Tribute’ CD and now got a new favourite song by Chicken Shed (Diana was a patron of The Chicken Shed Theatre Company):
I am in love with the world
With its fires and its seas and its pain
I am in love with the world
As it spins round my soul again
I fell in love with the world
When it gave me a place to be (ooh)
You cannot fall out of love
With your world shining through (ooh)
Let your world fall in love with you
With you
You think you’re lost to the world
With your life lived in shadows of fear
(Shadows of fear)
Days lost without you too long
No-one close no-one kind no-one near
(No-one near)
You try to hide when your world dies inside
Never fade away (ooh)
Dreams turn to stars so you don’t
Lose the end of your day (ooh)
Let your world fall in love with you
With you
I felt your feelings before
And the world tried to pull me through
Through all its time and its space
It is speaking to you
In early April I presented five posters at the European Psychiatry Association (EPA) Congress in Warsaw at the EXPO venue in the industrial part of the city (next to two derelict gas tank installations). When I presented a handful of posters at earlier EPA congresses in Munich (2014), Madrid (2016), Florence (2017) and Nice (2018) I struggled to connect with Psychiatry and Psychiatrists – somewhat traumatised by the disconcerting findings in the case I have been investigating since 2012.
I found Psychiatry ‘derelict’ in many ways – relying on an outdated medical model that for a century ignored the impact of childhood abuse and neglect on mental health issues in adult life. Fortunately, I developed my network and had an opportunity to visit the most advanced Psychiatry facility in Poland. This medium-security unit holds dozens of patients who were involved in serious criminality while mentally ill. We watched a dozen men on the ground floor through one-way windows. On the upper floor we walked through the unit with the less serious cases. The organiser of this trip was slightly taken aback when I (naively) asked what percentage of the patients were on psycho-pharma drugs. ‘100%’ was the reply. OK. So that is REAL (Forensic) Psychiatry.
I uploaded below a companion poster to the ESTD-UK poster I posted earlier. Here I show how ‘Court Appointed Experts’ declare that disclosures of a toddler rape and a baby that succeeded from incestuous rape and ‘disappeared’ are – simply – delusions. That’s how society deals with allegations of extreme criminality!
In the ESTD-UK 2019 poster I already outlined locations of a number of alleged offences:
Three toddler rapes within one wider family (1 evidenced in hospital / SS records)
Six violent deaths of adults in their prime of life
Two new-born babies that ‘disappeared’
I originally put this map together for an Appeal application that was thwarted by staff at the Royal Court of (In)Justice who falsely claimed that the appeal would have to be lodged in Cardiff where the original ‘Forced Adoption’ ruling had been made.
In the light of the disclosures of ‘Nick’ I added to this four ‘dangerous driving’ incidents (two of which seemingly had lethal outcomes). Members of the public would assume that Operation Midland would seriously investigate an alleged crime spree that rivals the headcount of Fred and Rose West. However, after my initial approach it took three months to be contacted at all. After an initial telephone conversation that appeared promising Operation Midland did not want to know any more and refused to interview me. After three escalation complaints I was handed over to Operation Conifer. A half hour interview followed. However, the case I outlined was ‘Outside the Frame of Reference’ – again.
It would take a psychopath to deliberately run over a school boy in Kingston-upon-Thames (as claimed by ‘Nick’). The suspect for all the alleged offences lives in the Kingston Hill area. Coincidence? Critics of Operation Midland would have been silenced if it had nailed the Kingston Terminator for arson-murder, and may well have succeeded in getting a confession on the assassination ‘hit’.
Similarly, the public view of Operation Conifer would have been raised if producing a murder conviction. It listed half a dozen incidents in the 1960s for which Edward Heath could have been interviewed involving alleged assaults on sex workers and children in public spaces. I added in my poster a written account of an encounter which resulted in a ‘tactile memory’ of a particular body part of Heath resembling a fountain pen.
I co-authored with Wilfred Wong a poster on one of the few TV programs on Satanist Ritual Abuse (SRA) ever broadcast in the UK. The poster contains download links to the complete program script as well as a document listing associates of an alleged Satanist Ritual Abuse (SRA) cult. The rare ‘page 3’ of this document features ‘The Fountain Lady’ who to my knowledge is not related to Oscar LaFontaine:
Continuing my collaboration with Declan Howard we outlined how a scientific follow-up to the 1995 survey of the BPS ‘Recovered memory working group’ and the 2008 ‘Extreme Abuse Survey’ could look like based on the very wide array of abuse disclosures of survivors across the world.
The 5th poster is concerned with CIA Doctors who engaged in unethical ‘mind control’ human experimentation building on the book written by the legendary US Psychiatrist Dr Colin Ross.
The very sad news has come this past week that Robert Green of Hollie Greig fame or vice versa (both heroes of the struggle against SRA in Scotland and of course generally) passed away on 11th April aged 73 after a short, sharp battle with cancer – ‘as in life, so in death’.
Some will have seen this wonderful tribute to Robert compiled by Wild Cat but if you haven’t please watch it and take in the magnitude and magnificence of just one ultra-brave man’s contribution to truth, justice and the proper protection of children
From: Robert Green Sent: 24 December 2018 16:51 To: Subject: Thanks
A THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HAVE SUPPORTED ME OVER THE YEARS
I would like to take the opportunity, at this time of the year, to express my thanks and appreciation for the loyal and unwavering support that I have received from so many kind people over the years, some going all the way back to 2009, when I first began to examine the evidence relating to the cruel abuses committed against the astonishingly brave Hollie Greig and her mother, Anne.
During the two three-month spells when I was imprisoned in Scottish prisons, I received around 3,000 cards and letters from well-wishers, from 42 different countries. I can never forget such kindnesses from people around the world, most of whom I have never met.
I have also received tremendous additional and continuous assistance over the years from a considerable number of dedicated and thoroughly decent people who are greatly concerned, in particular, about the sheer corruption and cruelty of the state apparatus towards victims of horrific sexual crimes and those who are courageous enough to stand up for them.
It should be stressed that such corruption exists well beyond the Scottish border and prevails throughout the United Kingdom. Time and again, I have been made aware of the horrific treatment suffered by child victims and loving family members, particularly at the hands of the notorious Family Court system, the sheer existence of which brings unmitigated shame upon our once great country.
I hope that I can be forgiven on this occasion for not naming any of the many wonderful people who have stood by me, as it would be unfair to leave anyone out, but you know who you are and you will always have my admiration and respect for your kindness, courage and humanity.
May I wish you all a Happy Christmas season and a wonderful New Year.
A few weeks ago I drove up to sunny Yorkshire having just arrived from cloudy Orlando where I was presenting on expert systems and cultural agility. I hurriedly put up my poster to engage delegates at this most important conference organised by the UK branch of the European Society for Trauma & Dissociation (ESTD) which produces excellent resources and guidelines related to complex trauma:
In the ‘Guidelines for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with dissociative symptoms and dissociative disorders’ (ESTD, 2017) more than 40 helpful references to ‘memories’ and ‘memory’ are made.
I had missed the morning sessions. The first was by Dr Renee Marks, Clinical Lead at Integrate Families, National Centre for Child Trauma and Dissociation who was the chairperson of the ESTD Children and Adolescent Committee that developed the above guidelines. She was followed by Dr Rachel Thomas who is now heading the Clinic for Dissociative Studies founded by Dr Valerie Sinason. It is a facility that specialises in diagnosing and treating survivors of extreme abuse and neglect at the hands of primary carers. Useful information about the condition and its origin can be found on the website First Person Plural (a survivor led organisation):
I attended the illuminating session that Remy Aquarone, Director of the Pottergate Centre for Dissociation and Trauma in Norwich, organised with Melanie Goodwin, Co-founder, Chairperson, Trainer and Expert-by-Experience at First Person Plural. It brought to life the concept of ‘Dissociative Identity Disorder’ (DID) that every self-respecting mental health professional should be(come) familiar with.
Dinner provided opportunities for networking and continued learning. It felt good that the community recognises my efforts to expose Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) and is empathetic about the slander originating from ‘discourse of disbelief’ purveyors.
I loved the Friday AM keynote by Clinical Psychologist Dr Elly Hanson who – like me – is targeted by ‘Private Eye’ and denial bloggers.
In her talk ‘TURNING AWAY: HOW AND WHY DO SOCIETIES AND COMMUNITIES DENY, DISTANCE AND MINIMISE CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE? – AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT’ she constructively deconstructed the False Memory lobby narrative and the impact of the ‘just-world hypothesis’ or ‘just-world fallacy’ cognitive bias (or assumption) that a person’s actions are inherently inclined to bring morally fair and fitting consequences to that person, to the end of all noble actions being eventually rewarded and all evil actions eventually punished.
I am impressed with the slides of Peter Garsden, President of the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers (ACAL), and the blog entry featured in his slides:
I attended insightful workshops on ‘DID PEER SUPPORT’ and ‘WORKING WITH CHILDREN WITH DISOCIATIVE IDENTIY DISORDER AND AN INTELLECTUL DISABILITY’.
The final session was with representatives of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) which has published reports for its legal investigations, research work and the Truth Project, as well as an Interim Report, which included recommendations to Parliament.
The poster outlines what appears to be a chilling ‘Child Smuggling’ operation where three dozen authority representatives ignore evidence suggesting a series of (child) rape, arson and murder offences. Instead they spend loads of public money on a Forced Adoption process that covers up the offending.
In September 2011 a mother was instructed by a Sapphire officer of the Metropolitan Police in Kingston-upon-Thames to delay any reporting of a sexual assault on her or her toddler ‘for four weeks or 1 months’ as it would be ‘too dangerous’ to go up against her father who the officer suspected of involvement in paedophilia and five violent deaths (see map in poster). Furthermore, she was manipulated into believing that timely reporting would jeopardise a sophisticated ‘under cover’ operation to catch her father and ‘nail him for life’.
As I listened to her story in 2012 the mother in addition disclosed that within a six months period after the police officer briefing:
1) the toddler’s half-aunt died suddenly (ostensibly due to ‘alcoholism’)
2) the toddler’s nursery teacher’s friend was found dead in the village river just after Christmas (having previously been seen interacting with her father)
3) the toddler’s god-mother was found dead in her burnt out house
I remember how my heart sank when I obtained on location corroboration of 2) – bizarrely South Wales police classed the death as ‘not suspicious’:
With respect to 1) I found in a court document Social Services evidence that some years earlier the toddler’s half-cousin had ALSO been raped at age 2 (by a ‘stranger’ while he was playing in the garden) and the boy accordingly been placed on the Child Protection Register.
The mother explained to me that police reporting of the assault on her toddler was in part motivated by wanting to speak up on behalf of the half-nephew. In a C-PTSD diagnosis session she referred to this trauma (index number 41 out of 67) as follows:
‘Knowing your nephew was assaulted at 2 and none of the family are going to help – that’s traumatic.’
She had described to me the circumstances of her father anally raping her and summarised this nonchalantly in incident 5:
‘Being buggered at 2’
Any ordinary citizen can figure out that there is a bit of a pattern here! If one of the three toddler rape accounts has been proven in NHS and SS document it takes a lot of ‘wilful blindness’ to continue looking away!
With respect to 3) I managed to get corroboration through a ‘fluke’ email chain that I investigated leading me to a blog. I made contact with the family of the deceased and obtained relevant documents. It struck me as odd that the godmother, who had a walking disability, was found with broken legs and a broken arm ‘on top of roof tiles’. How could that possibly have happened? There was mention of a ‘gentleman in a small blue car’ giving a neighbour ‘a lift back to the burning house’. Why was this man hanging out in the middle of nowhere?
My suspicion of arson followed by murder was supported when I went on a location visit. I found an indicator of a SEAT Arosa Mark 1, a drugs bottle on the window sill of the burnt-out bathroom, a Red Bull can and some strange object with a transformer, metal and plastic (possibly an incendiary device). Local, regional and national police authorities refused to investigate the matter!
In the poster I included a link to a redacted version of the Cardiff judge ruling (the mother stated that she encountered the judge in her teenage years).
I lodged a 45 page Third Party Crime Witness Report concerning the first Psychiatrist’s interactions with the mother over 15+ years with the relevant police force. No reply!
Perhaps I should write to Boris Johnson explaining that Organised Ritualised Crime Abuse Network (ORCAN) structures of the past are alive and well – shielded by professionals who continue TURNING AWAY.
When I chased an email to the police commissioner for the area I got the following reply:
Dear Rainer Kurz,
I hope this email finds you well.
I write to acknowledge you emailed date 02.02.19.
I have passed your email to Chief Superintendent < > who has responsibility for the delivery of operational policing for the area in which your concerns are located, for him to review.
Chief Superintendent < > is responsible for ensuring that you receive an appropriate update in regards to this matter.
At the end of October, I spent an Indian Summer week on the continent with a good deal of ‘Trauma’.
