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 satanic rings debunked




Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: ptomblin@compass.telemax.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Satanic Cults do not exist
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 11:56:38 GMT

In Monday's Akron Beacon Journal, there is an article from the New York Times. Even though our resident guardian of copyright has been rewarded so well for her devotion to her employer, I still won't type in the whole article, just selected bits:

DEVIL GETS MORE THAN HIS DUE?
By Daniel Goleman
New York Times

[...]
Although the survey found occassional cases of lone abusers who used ritualistic trappings, it found no substantiated reports of well-organized satanic rings of people who sexually abuse children.

In a survey of more than 11,000 psychiatric and police workers throughout the country, conducted for the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, researchers found more than 12,000 accusations of group cult sexual abuse based on satanic ritual, but not one that investigators had been able to substantiate.[...]

Previous smaller studies conducted by the Michigan State Police, the Virginia Crime Commission, the Office of the Attorney General in Utah, and a study by the British government had similar findings.

Paul "Peter Plantec? Are you listening?" Tomblin


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