{"id":1360,"date":"2015-01-03T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:38:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:38:05","slug":"view-from-uk-whole-culture-has-become-hysterical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1360","title":{"rendered":"View from UK: &#8216;Whole culture &#8230; has become hysterical&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style361\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/150103Waterhouse.jpg\" alt=\"150103Waterhouse\" width=\"260\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/150103Waterhouse.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/150103Waterhouse-184x300.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Jan. 3, 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cLurid tales of children being sexually abused, of animals being ritually slaughtered and babies being bred for sacrifice, in bizarre black magic ceremonies by cults of devil-worshipping Satanists first surfaced in America in the early 1980s. The allegations of what became known as Satanic ritual abuse soon spread to Britain,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipt-forensics.com\/journal\/volume10\/j10_9.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Australia and New Zealand<\/a>\u00a0in the late 1980s and early 1990s&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cAs early as 1994 a UK government-funded investigation concluded there was no evidence Satanic ritual abuse existed. Yet despite the continuing absence of evidence, anywhere in the world, a minority of child care professionals including police officers and social workers, and adult psychotherapists, psychologists and psychiatrists persist in the belief that Satanic ritual abuse exists&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style360\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From a synopsis of remarks by\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.city.ac.uk\/people\/academics\/rosalind-waterhouse\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Rosie Waterhouse<\/em><\/a><em>, a journalist and academic\u00a0who has been the foremost investigator of supposed \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d\u00a0in Great Britain for the past 24 years<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">If my Google News feed is any measure, however anecdotal, such British claims may now outnumber those from the States. I asked Dr. Waterhouse to expound:<\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style20\">\u201cThere is a hard core of \u2018believers\u2019 who continue to spread the myth and very alarmingly seem to have influence among authorities and the media&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style20\">\u201cThe whole culture now about allegations of child sex abuse \u2013 from Satanic to dozens of police and official investigations and inquiries into non-Satanic \u2018historic\u2019 allegations, including against high-profile people including celebs and politicians \u2013 has become hysterical&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style20\">\u201cSetting aside the Satanic abuse allegations \u2013 which I believe to be the most spurious, because as far as I am aware there has never been produced any physical, forensic, corroborating evidence, anywhere in the world \u2013 the historic non-Satanic allegations which have gone to trial have resulted in some convictions and some acquittals. Of other allegations which have not yet come to court, some may be true. Others I sense are the product of trawls for alleged survivors and witnesses to come forward, often with the prospect of compensation, and are false&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style20\">\u201cThe tidal wave of allegations is overwhelming. I really am depressed by it all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 3, 2015 \u201cLurid tales of children being sexually abused, of animals being ritually slaughtered and babies being bred for sacrifice, in bizarre black magic ceremonies by cults of devil-worshipping Satanists first surfaced in America in the early 1980s. The allegations of what became known as Satanic ritual abuse soon spread to Britain,\u00a0Australia and New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}