So, no children’s bodies are buried beneath the Haut de la Garenne Home in Jersey. How very disappointing for the Satanic Ritual Abuse lobby and how embarrassing for its favourite “expert”. Catherine Bennett tells the story in the Observer:
Haut de la Garenne was not, after all, a vast charnel house. Or even a small one. There was no evidence that any children had been murdered at the home, nor that any bodies had been destroyed. The ‘underground chambers’ were holes in the floor. The bath, which had not been used since the Twenties, was not bloodstained. The shackles were a piece of rusty metal.
Of the 170 bone fragments found there, burnt or not, the majority were from animals, and were uncovered in a place belonging to the ‘Victorian era’. Only three of these fragments were possibly human - two of them thought to date ‘from 1400 to the 1600′. The original skull fragment is neither human nor animal: most probably a piece of Victorian coconut.
… The news exposes so many people as credulous on a scale that has not been witnessed since the Eighties and early Nineties, when organised, often highly placed Satanists were widely believed to be abusing and killing our children, drinking their blood and throwing dismembered babies on bonfires.
Accordingly, children were removed from allegedly satanic rings; psychotherapists, such as Dr Valerie Sinason, now of St George’s Hospital, instructed fellow clinicians on ‘treating survivors of satanic abuse’; and policemen and other self-styled experts on this hogwash urged social workers how to be alert for key ‘indicators’, viz, any talk of masks, blood-drinking, animal beheadings, and other goings-on so unspeakable that therapists who heard of them would sometimes fear for their own safety. (Mercifully, all appear to have survived.)
… It remains to be seen what impact the tale of the non-murders and non-missing children will have on continuing investigations of historic child abuse at Haut de la Garenne.
It can only be unsettling for former residents who, until a few days ago, were repeatedly being asked how they felt about the excavations. In September, for instance, two survivors were invited on BBC’s Woman’s Hour to discuss - along with Valerie Sinason - how they felt about the ‘grim discoveries’, which, the programme reminded listeners, included ‘children’s bones and teeth’, and had prompted islanders to ‘question why and how such things could have happened in their midst’.
The presence of Sinason anywhere near an investigation should put everyone on counterknowledge alert. Remember the case of “Adam”, the dead child whose torso was found floating in the Thames in 2001? That was almost certainly a murder associated with African tribal beliefs. Yet, early in the investigation, police were nudged in the direction of (non-existent) British child-murdering satantists. On whose advice? Valerie Sinason’s, of course.
On, and one more detail. Back in 2001, the Independent had to apologise to its readers for reporting hoax pictures of a man eating a dismembered baby as a real crime. It had been misled, it seems, by Our Val. Who else?
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21 responses
The case of Valerie Sinason highlights, I think, the vulnerability of psychiatry to counterknowledge, and how people tend to believe what mental health professionals say. Ms Sinason holds a respectable-sounding job (research psychoanalyst) in a major teaching hospital (St George’s, Tooting) and has published in learned journals. On Woman’s Hour in September — when Sheila McLennon talked about the ‘grim evidence’ — Sinason appeared to speak on behalf of the Jersey Care Leavers group. ‘Clinical evidence is different to forensic evidence,’ she said.
But Sinason seems to understand ‘clinical evidence’ to mean simply what the patient says during a therapy session. Professor La Fontaine of the London School of Economics had this supposed evidence (for Satanic abuse) in mind when she said: ‘It is not surprising to me that patients who are having treatment by Valerie Sinason would produce stories that echo such topical issues as the recent trial for receiving internet pornography and the publicity for the film Hannibal. There is good research that shows the “memories” of abuse are produced in and by the therapy.’
Is there not a danger that people like Sinason by spreading stories like Haut de le Garenne may encourage people to disbelieve all stories about child abuse? And what good does it do for individuals like those she claims to represent who genuinely were traumatized in some way?
is the christian evangelists trying to cover up the child abuse.
we see lot of lie come from the evangelists christian.
Where is the article? I can’t get it to show up. Only a blank page with 2 comments. Have the witches sabotaged that as well? Or are they all Scientologists? Why does a ‘religion’ have armed guards at their ‘temple’? I’ve thought for a long time that the 2 groups are together. It’s usually ‘Oh,we’re white witches’. Something is rotten in this world.
I just got the article on the screen!! Ignore my censorship question.
Why is Sinason being blamed for the exagerations of the investigating team? At the time, the police and the mainstream press were reporting that torture chambers and human remains had been discovered.
Meanwhile, your reporting on Sinason’s involvement in the Adam case, and the cannibal hoax, is incorrect. In both cases, Sinanson was approached by the police in relation to those matters.
Seems like you are making up some of your own “counter-knowledge”.
I whole-heartedly agree with B. People can only comment on the information presented to them, as did Sinason. Misinterpretations and misrepresentations by the Media on her comments have led to her being seen as the one in the wrong, whereas if people read what she actually wrote rather than how the media protrayed what she wrote with their own spin to sell papers, I think the opinion would change significantly.
B and C claim that “Sinason was approached by the police in relation to” the cannibalism hoax, and that Sinason “only comment[ed] on the information presented to [her]“. Given that it was two patients of Sinason’s “Center for Dissociative Studies” who approached the police about the website in the first place, it’s highly implausible to claim that Sinason played only a passive role in the hoax, as B and C would like people to believe.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/help-the-child-witches-of-nigeria—support-the-prevent-abandonment-of-children-today-pact-campaign
AF states “It’s highly implausible to claim that Sinason played only a passive role in the hoax, as B and C would like people to believe.”
You are drawing a pretty long bow here.
We are discussing an article that draws a metaphorical link between Sinason and the misreporting on the Jersey case, and attempts to subtantiate that metaphor by pointing to an unrelated incident in which the press approached Sinason for comment on a photo (which later turned out to be fake) some years ago.
Not exactly evidence that Sinason is the maniacal head of the “Satanic Ritual Abuse” lobby.
“Sinason is the maniacal head of the ‘Satanic Ritual Abuse’ lobby” is a straw man. No one has said that. However, what some of us are saying is that Sinason has a history of pointing investigations in the direction of SRA scenarios and the result has just about always been wasted time and energy with nothing to show for it.
By the way, what do you mean by saying there is a “metaphorical link” between Sinason and the Jersey case? I highly doubt you can stretch the meaning of “metaphor” like that. You might argue that the link between Sinason and the investigation of the Jersey case is “tenuous”, and then we might discuss whether Sinason’s presence on a BBC program along with two alleged “survivors” of the Jersey case indicates or hints at a role in the investigation. But “metaphorical” just doesn’t fit.
This article is a cover up of crimes against children. For the truth about this case, see :
http://ritualabuse.us/2008/10/issue-80-may-2008/
and search for “Jersey”
“Police have more than 40 suspects as 140 claim they were victims”
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/
Proof That Ritual Abuse Exists
Satanic ritual abuse exists all over the world. There have been reports, journal articles, web pages and criminal convictions of these horrific crimes against children and adults.
There has also been an attempted cover up of these crimes by child pornographers, those with pro-pedophilia philosophies and those defending child molesters in the public or legal arena
List of Satanic Ritual Abuse references -
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/satanic-ritual-abuse-evidence-with-information-on-the-mcmartin-preschool-case/
Lists of legal cases:
Believe the children (1997). “Conviction List: Ritual Child Abuse”. http://www.ra-info.org/resources/ra_cases.shtml
The Satanism and Ritual Abuse Archive contains 92 cases as of February 12, 2008. http://www.endritualabuse.org/ritualabusearchive.htm
Web pages proving the existence of ritual abuse:
Noblitt, PhD, J. R. - An Empirical Look at the Ritual Abuse Controversy (2007) http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/an-empirical-look-at-the-ritual-abuse-controversy-randy-noblitt-phd/
Lacter, E (2008-02-11). “Brief Synopsis of the Literature on the Existence of Ritualistic Abuse”. http://endritualabuse.org/Brief%20Synopsis.htm
The Extreme Abuse Survey final results are online with findings,questionnaires and presentations for download as pdf-files. More than 750 pages of documentation http://extreme-abuse-survey.net/
Book on Ritual Abuse Evidence
Johnson Davis, Anne “Hell Minus One: My Story of Deliverance From Satanic Ritual Abuse and My Journey to Freedom” Transcript Bulletin Publishing - ISBN 978-0-9788348-0-7 - 2008 “Anne’s parents confessed their atrocities—both in writing and verbally—to clergymen, and to detectives from the Utah Attorney General’s Office. Anne’s suppressed memories, which erupted when she was in her mid-30s, were fully substantiated by her mother and stepfather….The book’s foreword was written by Lt. Detective Matt Jacobson, who was the lead investigator with the Utah Attorney General’s Office on Anne’s case in 1995.” http://www.hellminusone.com/
Hell Minus One - signed verified confessions of satanic ritual abuse - Anne’s parents confessed their atrocities - both in writing and verbally.
http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/survivor-stories/hell-minus-one-signed-verified-confessions-of-satanic-ritual-abuse/
More evidence satanic ritual abuse exists:
http://www.ra-info.org
http://www.survivorship.org
Saying “Here! Here’s proof that Satanic Ritual Abuse exists! Here’s a list of confirmed cases!” and then presenting a list that includes the McMartin Preschool case is like “Here! Here’s proof that there really was a Jewish Communist conspiracy against Germany and the Aryan race! Here’s a list of confirmed cases!” and then presenting a list that includes the Reichstag fire.
ok here a q and a to smart news why did the satanic ritual abuse kill Victoria Climbie.
if only smart news see the c4 Saving Africa’s Witch Children
Sadly, just because people want to believe that Ritual Abuse doesn’t exist, just like with Sexual Abuse, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. A lot goes on in life that people don’t see.
Ms. Sinason has done excellent work exposing child abuse crimes and helping those that were victims of these crimes.
http://childabusewiki.org/index.php?title=Ritual_Abuse
http://childabusewiki.org/index.php?title=Treating_Survivors_of_Satanist_Abuse
we still waiting for this question. child abuse wiki why did the satanic ritual abuse lobby. kill Victoria Climbie