“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 not saying that everything bad happened in darkness because it didn't). In the daylight world, life… — 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 the control and the power trip was so important to them, as well as it being necessary in… — 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
“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
“Political prisoners describe: - extreme physical and emotional torture - distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality - sham killings - begin repeatedly taken… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions.” — Laurie Matthew Copy Share
“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
“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
“There is unmistakable proof that abusers do get together in order to share children, abuse more children, and even learn from each other. As… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share
“….Nothing was inevitable. She had not chosen this way. It was her fate. It had been decided since before time began. It had been… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share
“There was nothing you could be sure about, it was all lies, and it was all done to mess with minds because the control… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share
