“He loves me so he hurts me To try and make me good. It doesn't work. I'm just too bad And don't… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“It felt like I was living in two worlds. There was one world which was a daylight world and another dark world… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“There was nothing you could be sure about, it was all lies, and it was all done to mess with minds because… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“Those who support such survivors of abuse often find it difficult to hear the reality of those survivors' lives and experience and are often… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“The people who were behind my abuse were very clever. They had created something which would be so difficult to explain, so difficult to… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“Political prisoners describe: - extreme physical and emotional torture - distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality - sham killings - begin repeatedly taken… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“Some abusers organise themselves in groups to abuse children and other adults in a more formally ritualised way. Men and women in these groups… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“He loves me so he hurts me To try and make me good. It doesn't work. I'm just too bad And don't do what… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“Ritualised child sexual abuse is about abuse of power, control and secrecy. Ten years ago many people found it difficult to believe that fathers… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“I'm just asking you to accept that there are some people who will go to extraordinary lengths to cover up the facts that they… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“It felt like I was living in two worlds. There was one world which was a daylight world and another dark world (though I'm… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to: break the will and personality of… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions.” — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“Ritual abuse is highly organised and, obviously, secretive. It is often linked with other major crimes such as child pornography, child prostitution, the drugs… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“I have to find a place to hide An island in the sea Surrounded by a racing tide Where I can live with me” — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
![“In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to: break the will and personality of the person until they become as nothing... with no will of their own...no identity...then they... rebuild the person & shape their will in order to...try and make…” quote by Laurie Matthew](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f99/laurie-matthew-31209_abuse-sexual-abuse_in-a-nutshell-the-process-they-abusers-i_1534823.jpg)
