“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Research on organised abuse emphasises the diversity of organised abuse cases, and the ways in which serious forms of child maltreatment cluster… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“More proof that Lynn is still meant to continue with the government programme occurred during the winter of 2000, when she was… — Lynn Hersha Copy Share Image
“I can no longer deny that bad things happened to me. I can’t be absolutely sure what happened to me, or who… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“I was amazed, shocked, and sickened by what I heard throughout the day, over and over, by many victims' stories. I can… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
“Chapter 4,‘Organised abuse and the pleasures of disbelief’, uses Zizek’s (1991) insights into cite political role of enjoyment to analyse the hyperbole… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Today, acknowledgement of the prevalence and harms of child sexual abuse is counterbalanced with cautionary tales about children and women who, under… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“They like to use those fancy words. They don't like to say “raped,'” he said. “They say “misdeed,' “inappropriate touching,' “mistake.' That's… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
“No Child of Yours I saw a child hide in the corner So I went and asked her name She was so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I find it disturbing that one anthropologist's readings of transcripts are being listened to more seriously than 40 senior health service clinicians.… — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
“Batley insisted that no cult existed but the jury found him guilty of 35 offences including 11 rapes. three indecent assaults, causing… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Smoke and mirrors’ is a useful metaphor for the ways in which organised abuse has chided conceptualisation and understanding. The chapter provides… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Allegations of multi-perpetrator and multi-victim sexual abuse emerged to public awareness in the early 1980s contemporaneously with the denials of the accused… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“As Lynn writes: "What angers me is the loss of control. At any moment someone could come to me, be dressed the… — Lynn Hersha Copy Share Image
“I have stated elsewhere (Sinason 1994) that the number of children and adults tortured in the name of mainstream religious and racial… — Valerie sinason Copy Share Image
“The fact that most perpetrators of organised abuse are men, and that their most intensive and sadistic abuses are visited upon girls… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Mum was pregnant, then there was Sharron. [...] I wanted to keep him away from her - but for the wrong reasons.… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
