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From: John Dennis <100415.2206@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: BLACK MUSEUM OF CLERGY ABUSE
Date: 14 Aug 1996 13:22:28 GMT

BLACKMUS1.MSS  
First Published July 1991. by The Sub Culture Alternatives Freedom Founda-
tion, 6-8 Burley Lodge Road, Leeds LS6 1QP, Yorkshire, U.K.  Email Contact 
John Dennis 100415.2206@Compuserve.com

THE BLACK MUSEUM OF CLERGY CHILD ABUSE

TERRIBLE ONGOING CASES OF CHRISTIAN CHILD ABUSE THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE. 

This pamphlet and its following statistical analysis is of supreme impor-
tance to parents, free-thinkes, social workers and Government. It is the 
first time any organisation has punctured the conspiracy of silence which 
hides the tremendous risk to children from paedophile clergy.  

1978: Priest John Lenihan 44, admitted molesting a girl victim repetitively 
from  ages 13 until 15. 
1978: Christian Brother working at Mount Cashel orphanage convicted of 
repeated sexual assaults on two 8 year old boys. Eight other Brothers were 
also tried in the same scandal. 
1982:   Vicar who plies 2 young altar boys (10 & 12) with alcohol and then 
indecently assaults them gets 5 years at Liverpool Crown Court. Rev Evans, 
former chaplain at Norwich prison assaulted one boy after he had been placed 
in care.
1982: Three year old child beaten to death with a wooden bat by his parents, 
members of an extremist Christian group, to 'save his soul'.  
1982: 35 Yr Old Welsh preacher Roger Cox of Denbigh prayed with his wife 
Elizabeth before cutting off his penis and throwing it in the fire. Claiming 
that the DIY operation was carried out in accordance with St Matthew's Gospel 
Chatper 19 V12. Cox said "I have always desired to serve my Lord as best I can 
without distraction".  His wife was in prefect agreement to the act.
1983: Two year old child is spanked to death by parents at Christian commune 
in public display of religious discipline. Victim Joseph Green died of shock 
after his parents hit him for two hours with a wooden bat. 
1983: Decomposed body of 10 year old girl discovered at headquarters of 
Christian fundamentalist sect who had held praying services for her 
resurection for several months after they allowed her to die from untreated 
juvenile diabetes. 
1983: Methodist Choirmaster admits repetitive abuse of five year old girl but 
is only cautioned by police. Parents begin private prosecution but Crown 
Prosecution Service stymie them. 
1983: Fifty children taken into care from Christian commune where a 12 year 
old boy was beaten to death in what its leaders claim was punishment by God. 
The beatings were accomplished with a pickaxe handle and occurred whilst the 
victim was locked into a kind of wooden stocks. "John's death was God's Will' 
said one leader. God tells you to put the rod to the children's back and that 
is what we are doing". He insisted that the beatings were necessary for 
children to enter 'the Kingdom of God'.    
1983: Jerald Johns, lay preacher who was never without his bible, accused of 
raping and assaulting more than 100 women. 
1984:  Methodist Minister Edgar Ford , 69, admitted to running a mailing list 
of 100 'young things' and housewives who wanted to pose for amateur and 
professional photographers' that he had taken photographs of housewives and 
models himself and that on one occasion he did submit to being photographed 
by a lady whilst they were both nude. 
1985: Rev. John Gargano 67 convicted of 14 counts of rape, sodomy, sexual 
abuse and child endangerment. His four victims, who were repetitively abused 
said that the minister represented himself to them as the angel Gabriel. 


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1985:  Methodist minister Emyr Owen a homosexual later found to possess a 
collection of sado-masochistic pornography was imprisoned by Chester Crown 
Court for secretly cutting the genitals off corpses of his parishoners which 
were placed in his care for burial and for threatening to murder a four year 
old girl. Police found photographs of severed genitals together with knives 
and surgical implements at Owen's vicarage. Owen was in charge of several 
chapels in North Wales and at one time had been the Chaplain to the High 
Sherrif of Gwyned. Sentenced to 4 years imprisonment.
1985: Christian zealot Michael Feeny described by his wife as a 'religious 
fanatic' read from the bible; stabbed her repetitively in a frenzy and leaving 
her for dead jumped to his death from a bridge on the M23.  
1985: Church pastor Andrew Hope from Nottingham arrested for soliciting sex 
from prostitutes
1986: Minister Richard Kearney found guilty of molesting 4 boys over a 5 year 
period. One victim said he had been abused 20 times and another said he was 
molested whilst under Confirmation instruction by Kearney.
1987: Vicar pleads guilty after being caught peeping on young women in a 
changing room at a Leisure Centre sports complex in Yorkshire. Admits he did 
it because he had been aroused by watching young girls. 
1987: Catholic priest who specialised in counselling on child abuse and incest 
faces charges of importing paedophile videos and slides. 
1987: Vicar Cecil Rothery, 63,  sentenced to probation at Retford for 
indecently assaulting a teenage boy. 
1987: Jehovah's Witness given 8 years at Chelmsford for raping two girls. 
Yeates chanted "Satan. Satan" whilst raping them and claimed the devil made 
him do it. 
1988:  Pentecostal minister Rev John Terry beheaded one of his parishoners and 
burned down his church with the body in it in an attempt to assume a new 
identity and disappear with 25,000 of church money. 
1988: Congregational Church Minister Ian Garvock 45, of Lanarkshire found 
guilty of raping a four year old girl in park. Judge said "The offence was an 
appalling one of a very severe kind with incalcuable consequences to the young 
child. 
1988: Public school chaplain prosecuted for possessing pornographic pictures 
of under-age children.
1988: Priest Dino Cinel admitted intending to have sex with young men and was 
found to possess numerous pornographic videos & magazines of children and 
teenagers.    
1988: Preacher Wilfred Glew sentenced to life at St Albans Crown Court for the 
unprovoked battering to death of the fiance of a young girl whom he had 
seduced when she came to him for spiritual guidance. 
1988:  Baptist minister Johnathen Hamlin shot his live-in girlfriend dead and 
then went to church and preached. He was sentenced to 15 years. 
1988: Massive child porn ring smashed when police officers arrested a church 
official and siezed cache of indecent video tapes magazines and child 
pornography photos in a raid on a church in London. 
1988: Church of England Vicar Michael Walter, already having served time for 
indecently assaulting little boys yet allowed to continue his clerical career 
by the church, is found guilty of further assaults on children. 
1988: Stephen Wilcock, religious fanatic and teacher at a Catholic School is 
exposed as a pervert when hundreds of polaroid snapshots involving Wilcock, a 
female teacher and teenage pupils in various erotic poses were discovered. 
1988: Local church official and foster father Reginald Palmer who played Santa 
Claus at children's parties tortured boys and girls, one as young as 30 months 
old, who were stripped naked and filmed in their agonies. At one point he 
became godfather to one child and then went on to assault the youngster. 
Palmer strung children upside down by the feet, beat them and encouraged 
children in his care to play sex games with each other.  "Children can be seen 


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and heard screaming, crying, pleading and begging for the defendant to stop" 
the prosecutor said. Sentenced to Six years at Exeter Crown Court.
1988:  Two Vicars, a choirmaster, a solicitor and an already convicted child 
molester all jailed at Winchester Crown Court on 21 specimen charges of sexual 
abuse of boys as young as seven which were carried out on them at church 
outings, at the YMCA and in churchyards. The men made the children take an 
oath never to breathe a word of what was going on and paid them 1.00 for each 
session. Sometimes the children's private parts were beaten with a fly swatter. 
1988: Born Again Christian Tate who works for a religous magazine, confesses 
to seducing ten year old girl. 
1988:  Vicar Trevor Ward jailed for 7 years for using pornographic books to 
corrupt boys as young as eleven. Ward arranged sex 'threesomes'. Ward admitted 
offences of indecent assault, gross indecency and buggery over an 8 year 
period. 
1988: Rev. Joseph Got jailed for indecently assaulting a 10 year old boy and 
taking obscene photographs of him. Glos. Crown Court.
1988: R.A.F. Roman Catholic Priest fined for gross indecency after picking up 
a man at public toilets and committing sex act in a supermarket car-park. 
1988: Mormon preacher from Manchester shoots two women neighbours and then 
fires random shots from a magnum .35 revolver (for which he had a firearms 
certificate)  before killing himself and his pet Alsation.
1988: Fugitive Italian priest Rev Lorenzo Zorza goes on run accused of 
organising a pipeline for swapping American cocaine for sicilian heroin. 
1988: A 'God Fearing' 38 yr old Foster Parent sentenced to 4 years for 
indecently assaulting three girls aged 8 at Bodmin Crown Court.
1989 A 'devout Christian; and a Sunday School teacher, Scott Williams, 29, 
admitted to raping  a 13 year old girl and strangling and beating her to 
death. 
1989: Christian Evangelist Darlene Jackson, 33, starved her 4 year old 
daughter to death to exorcise her of evil spirits. She was sentenced to 7 
years.  
1989: 'Church-affiliated psychologists and attorneys concede that, in the past 
10 years, hundreds of priests have molested thousands of children in the U.S. 
More than 600 paedohpiliac priests have been counselled at a New Mexico 
facility in that time' Aberdeen Press & Journal 7.12.89.
1989: Bartley Dobben, a member Member of a Christian evangelical fellowship 
killed his sons, aged 2 and 15 months, as a sacrifice to God by putting them 
into a red-hot foundry ladle because "God had dictated through the bible" that 
he should do so.
1989: Minister  Bernard Ponder 46, already on probation for the sexual abuse 
of boys now accused of sexually abusing a deaf boy. 
1989: Salvation Army member sexually abuses 14 year old girl whom he met at 
Sunday School. Jailed at York Crown Court.
1989: Chapel child care volunteer charged with  50 counts of of child 
molestation, kidnapping, child abuse and other offences at Spring Valley 
church. A former youth minister was convicted of molesting teenagers at the 
church in the early 1980s.
1989:  Baptist Christian fundamentalist found guilty of starting 19 fires at 
bookstores and sex shops causing 90,000.00 worth of damage and injuring two 
firemen. 
1989: Rev William Thompson 45, Headmaster at an Episcopal church pleaded 
guilty to charges of child ponrography and molesting 7 boys aged 11 to 16. 
1989: A devout British Moslem ritually killed his daughter by saying Bismilla 
and then slitting her throat and allowing her to bleed to death  because she 
had declared that she was to convert to Christianity after she had been 
enticed into a gospel meeting by Jehovah's Witnesses.
1989: Robert Messersmith, 46, a catechism instructor found guilty of coercing 
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1989: Christian Evangelist Tony Leyva sentenced to 2 years for running a child 
prostitution ring. 
1989: Baptist minister Henry Waters, convicted of sexually abusing young boys 
whose souls he claimed would be 'saved' through his 'sex instruction'.
1989: Salvation Army Captain Jack Holcomb, 50, pleaded guilty to unlawful 
intercourse with a 14 year old girl Salvation Army member.
1989: Vicar quits his job after allegations of sexual indecency with girl.
1989: London Vicar and church school Governer exposed, along with the deputy 
headmaster of the school for 11 year olds, for hosting perverted homosexual 
parties where drugs are smoked and hard core porno films are screened before 
group sex orgies commence. 
1989: Rev Robert Halverstadt, 61, jailed after admitting to using games, 
coercion and drugs to sexually molest 3 girls in his congregation. One girl 
said he gave her something to drink that made her fall asleep.  
1989: Bible School teacher Stanley Cummings sentenced to more than 2,000 years 
in prison after conviction on 60 counts of child molestation and sexual 
exploitation of minors. Cummings molested, sodomised, photographed and tape 
recorded beating his victims whom he met through his church. 
1989: Foster parent Reverend Robert Schultz, 52, who had been honoured for his 
voluntary services to the community was sentenced  to 30 years after 
confessing to acts described as 'horribly perverse' on  foster children in his 
care. 
1989: Baptist minister William Hendricks, 50,  pleaded guilty to sexual 
assault on his 7 year old girl victim whom he  molested on consecrated ground. 
1989: Pentecostal evangelist Antonio S Martinez 'married' a 12 year old girl 
whose grandmother forced her into the arrangement. He first assaulted her when 
she was 11.  He was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault after taking her 
to a doctor to ask why she wasn't pregnant. 
1989: Catholic priest George Bredemann, 47 convicted of molesting boys sent to 
him for counselling for previous sexual abuse, later admitted  15 similar 
assaults. 
1989: Rev. Thomas Welsch 39, and his wife accomplice were sentenced to 30 
years in prison for a string of abuses on twin sisters (13) and a 17 year old 
girl, both members of his congregation. 
1989:   Bible fanatic Jehovah's Witness Robin Baker who attended church three 
times a week beat up a mother of three who disagreed with his beliefs.  Baker 
knocked her down, dragged her by the hair and punched and kicked her. The year 
previously Baker had assaulted a disabled woman. He was sentenced to a year's 
imprisonment.
1989:  Christian Childcare worker Heath Turner, employed by First United 
Methodist Church  convicted of sexually abusing a child in his care with toy 
boat, finger, and ice. 
1989: Six girls abused by Rev Francis Haight, Baptist leader, sentenced to 20 
years. 
1990: 'Praying Rapist' murders 68 year old woman after raping her. Man repeats 
Church periapts whilst committing his horrible sex attacks on aged women in 
South East London. 
1990:   British & American  Catholic church officials shuttle around a priest 
accused of child sexual abuse who is evading arrest. Priest eventually 
extradited and sentenced to 6 years for sexually abusing 4 boys. 
1990:   Christian Evangelists rioted with police when they tried to question a 
member of the congregation in Kensington. A police van was set upon, a 
sergeant was dragged out and punched in the face and another officer was spat 
on whilst the mob tried to turn the van over. 
1990: Bishop tries to hush-up Goat in Churchyard sex scandal of divorcee and 
Vicar by persuading her to destroy erotic love letters. Vicar had seduced the 
divorcee after calling on her to give advice on treating an ache in her 
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1990:   Slough Christian Social Worker sentenced to jail at Old Bailey for 
taking indecent photographs of a mentally retarded 8 year old boy. His job was 
to look after handicaped children to give parents a break.
1990:  A Bradford man described in mitigation by his church leader as a 
'devoted practising Christian' made menacing telephone calls to young mothers 
threatening to throw acid in their children's faces, stab and burn them. 
1990: Vicar's wife runs off with 14 year old choirboy. Vicar claims the lad is 
a "son of satan" . "This unholy union is the work of the devil" 
1990: Cathedral Sidesman jailed for life for murdering his mistress and her 
new lover. Clive Crawshaw, well connected with leading clergymen in Exeter, 
poured petrol over his victims and set them alight.  
1990: Pentecostal Minister D Stenhouse from Solihull sent to jail after 
admitting five charges of indecently assaulting boys aged 12 to 15. 
1990: Priest Domenico Bernard, 65 arrested for molesting women who came to his 
home for distressed females. 
1990: Priest James Morrow found guilty of attacking pregnant woman at abortion 
clinic. Morrow had appeared in court four times in the previous year for 
similar protests.
1990: Archbishop Penney resigns following report of him having ignored or 
denied reports of child sex abuse by Catholic Priests. Sinc 1988 TWENTY of his 
priests have been convicted of sexually abusing boys. 
1990: Catholic Priest Anton Mowat 45, pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 
four altar boys between ages 12 and 14. Sentenced to 6 years imprisonment in 
May for 2 charges of child molestation , two of cruelty to children, two of 
enticing boys for indecent purposes and four charges of battery. 
1990: Priest Kenneth Arkley, pleaded guilty at Old Bailey to soliciting 
homeless young 'runaways' for sex at railway stations and  repetitive 
homosexual acts with underage youth in his love nest. 
1990:  Rev Gordon Haggarty, TV vicar and celebrity jailed for lewd and 
libidinous practices at Edinburgh Crown Court. He bound, blindfolded and 
gagged girls in his care aged from 8 to 12 years, then took photographs of 
them. 
1990: Nineteen members of Roman Catholic lay order charged with 149 counts of 
physical and sexual abuse at a boys training school (now closed down)
1990: Jehovah's Witness Thomas Rosserr, 38, pleaded guilty to two sexual 
intercourse with a 13 year old girl at Bible Classes and was sentenced to 21 
months at Teeside Crown Court. 
1990: Prison Chaplain replies to sexual contact mag advert and is blackmailed 
after writing pornographic letters about his erotic fantasies. 
1990:  Priests of a wealthy Roman Catholic break-away sect are given emergency 
hospital treatment after self-castration.  Followers of the Christian sect are 
also reported to insert rings through their genitals as penitence or to 
prevent sexual temptation. 
1990: Rev Stephen Horkin pays rent-boy to sadistically abuse him whilst 
dressing up as the devil.
1990:  Methodist Reverend Paul Flowers, vice--chairman of Rochdale social 
services committee which had control over the Rochdale Satanic Abuse Cases is 
discovered to have a conviction for indecency during the height of the 
allegations. Flowers was caught in a public lavatory with another man. 
1991:  Lord Justice Butler-Sloss (author of the definitive Cleveland report on 
child abuse) cautioned a Christian 'religious fanatic' who had appealed to see 
his two children who feared him because of his obsession with Christianity. He 
had tried to force his strict beliefs on the children and they were frightened 
of him when he questioned their own beliefs. The judge said "Don't push your 
beliefs too far or you may lose them forever." 
1991:  Priest allows filming and broadcast of the 'exorcism' of 16 year old 
girl who is tied down and traumatised with spitting, screaming and retching.  
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parishioner.  
1991: A Christian religious fanatic whose father had died after drinking 
strychnine during a service was killed during another church service where 
attendees were encouraged to handle Snakes. 
1991: Church Choir tenor and dole fraud investigator Ian MacKenzie, 35,  was 
jailed for four years for sexually assaulting boys aged between 12 and 14. 
MacKenzie forced them into felatio after making them shackle him with chains 
and rope and then thrashing him with a horsewhip. 
1991: Rev. John Stockwell found guilty of kerb-crawling and soliciting 
prostitutes. 
1991: Fallen priest Roy Yanke robbed 14 banks and stole 24,000. Yanke admitted 
spending the money on his obsession with prostitutes.
1991: Church Organist Vincent Smith jailed at Leeds Crown Court for repetitive 
sexual abuse of a 9 year old boy which extended over a six year period.  
1991: Priest Norbert LaCosse, sentenced to 15 years for molesting his 12 year 
old Altar boy, admitted to repeatedly abusing him.
1991: Rev G Snow, 38 jailed for sexually assaulting a 10 year old boy. Police 
found two suitcases filled with indecent photographs of boys and men in Snow's 
vicarage.
1991: 52 yr old Priest pleaded guilty to sexually abusing children aged 13 to 
15 in dormitories whilst they slept. He was the second priest to be convicted 
in the scandal.
1991: Evangelist preacher Alan Bradley of Skipton convicted of indecent 
behaviour. Caught by police after revealing himself to young girls wearing a 
rubber penis and false breasts.
1991: Catholic Priest tape recorded soliciting sex from policewoman. Priest 
Dominic Candappa (official exorcist) entrapped and arrested between church 
services on Good Friday. 
1991: Baptist Minister Ashby Breneman gets 18 yrs for molesting six boys at a 
Christian Youth Camp he ran.
1991: 62 yr old Sunday School teacher sentenced to 10 years for sexually 
assaulting numerous children who attended Sunday School classes. 
1991: Baptist Minister Rev. Robert Burton charged after admitting long-term 
serious sexual abuse of his six and eight year old stepsons. 
1991: Pentecostal Religious teacher who already had convictions for indecency 
against chldren was allowed to teach bible classes at a Cornwall church and 
used his position to sexually assault an 8 year old boy who attended his 
classes. 
1991:  Minister Alfred Gatehouse 62, sentenced to 10 years for sodomy and 
soliciting paid sex with teenage girls. 
1991: Baptist Minister Larry Bernard 45, sentenced to 7 years for molesting a 
boy of 14.
1991 Reverend S Pusateria 40, sentenced to 6 years for criminal sexual 
assault. He molested his victim repeatedly for over a year. 
1991: Priest sentenced to 22 years imprisonment for repeatedly sexually 
assaulting a 13 year old boy. 
1991: 51yr old Minister's Wife convicted of inducing a minor in her foster 
care to engage in sexual intercourse. 
/care to engage in sexual intercourse.
------------- NOTES: This list finalised July 1991.  Every case has been 
thoroughly researched and can be fully supported with documented evidence of 
dates, places, court records, sources, times and names. It is highly 
abbreviated here for practical purposes but we can say that the details of 
the abuses are exceedingly horrible and many exhibit virtually identical 
abuses to those alleged to take place in so-called Satanic Ritualised Abuse. 
We invite further correspondence and offer free research facilities on all our 
data to any serious enquirer.



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FREQUENCY OF CHRISTIAN RITUAL ABUSE: The S.A.F.F. only began collecting, 
collating and analysing Sexual Abuse linked with ecclesiastics during 1989 
hence the sample of cases grew as our scope and ability to source them 
increased.  The early years are therefore sparse but this reflects the lack of 
attention so far applied to them. 

Since 1978 we have logged over ONE HUNDRED convictions of Christian Ritualised 
Abuse. Compare these DEFINITE cases with the six uncorroborated cases 
promoters of Satanic Ritualised Abuse have unearthed over the same period and 
the true nature of both is immediately apparent. 

The average yearly level of abuse going by our 1989/90 & 91 figures can be 
considered representational at two dozen cases per year, a shocking figure. 
We did not collate cases prior to 1989 and we must remember that not all cases 
are detected and brought to court but applying the average from the firm 
statistics we do have we come up with the terrible result that whilst Time 
Tate and his pro-SRAMists have been occupying the nation with sensationalism 
about six cases of Satanic Ritual Abuse, more than TWO HUNDRED cases of 
Christian Ritual Abuse are likely to have occurred.  The tragedy of the 
suffering of innocent children in this situation is too miserable to 
contemplate. 

COVERAGE: Please note that we have NOT included ALL the cases we have on file. 
There are many further cases which we have researched which confirm the 
overall picture but which are insignificantly unique and which we have 
therefore left out. These are open to scrutiny if needed. We also have a large 
pile of quite serious and shocking Christian Ritual Abuse cases which were 
reported mid-trial and which look likely to have ended in convictions but 
which we have not yet sourced the verdicts for. 

STATISTICAL COMPARISONS: The data from our research is now large enough to 
form predictions of the yearly frequency of what can now be seen to be a very 
serious problem of  Christian Ritual Abuse. We are not here looking at a 
sporadic and unusual manifestation of Christian Ritual Abuse caused by a 
handful of rogue Vicars.  The shocking facts are that statistics show a 
definite and continuing proportion of the clergy who are pre-disposed to 
commit terrible crimes against children in their care. This phenomenon carries 
across all age levels and is represented in novitiates  as well as established 
ecclesiastics - it is not a passing node which will eventually dissipate 
itself given time.  Action must be called for from government to deal with 
this problem.  Additionally it has to be said that a not insignificant portion 
of these Christian Ritual Abusers re-offend when allowed to continue in their 
work.  

CONCLUSIONS AND CONTINGENCIES: We want to know what our social services and 
the Department of Health are doing about this crisis and why they haven't 
identified it as a problem?  Why was it left to us to highlight? 

Additionally we would like to know why there has been such an immense amount 
of professional time and resources squandered over the past three years  upon 
the Wild Goose chase of so-called Satanic Ritualised Abuse, when its leading 
promoter , journalist Tim Tate, has only been able to cobble together six 
possible cases in the past eight years? (an average of 1.3 cases per year)

Even if we leave aside the argument over validation  of these cases; even if 
we avoid the controversy over whether Satanic Abuse actually  exists (and our 
research shows that it does not) then we are still left with the statistical 
certainty that XXX children are at risk from Christian Sexual Abusers each 


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year yet  Social Workers have  'turned a blind eye' to this DEFINITE sickening 
threat to the well-being of our nation's children in favour of chasing the 
Devil.

This certainly isn't through ignorance of Christian Sexual Abuse for the 
profession is well aware of the problem but seems to avoid addressing it as a 
public issue whenever it can. Ray Wyre, head of the Gracewell Clinic for male 
sexual abusers, one of the countries foremost experts in child-abuse re-
offenders, and an advisor to many local social services departments. He has 
admitted that Christian Ritualised Abuse is a well-known phenomenon within 
social work. He is on record as saying: "I have worked with more vicars who 
have abused than ever Satan Worshippers" (Interview with the Northern Echo, 
August 24 1990)  

Additionally as early as 1987, Dianne Core of the CHILDWATCH group 
acknowledged the problem with Christian Ritualised Abuse by personally 
travelling to London to present a confidential 'dossier' to the Archbishop of 
Canterbury which involved data on 10 Christian Ritual Abuse cases under 
Childwatch surveillance,  five of which were then unresolved. No specific 
action was taken by Lambeth Palace on this issue in response to the dossier 
and a year later Ms Core took an entirely different tack and became one of the 
major players in promoting the idea of Satanic Ritual Abuse.  Had Ms Core 
forgotten about Christian Ritualised Abuse?   Did Ms Core's surveillance of 
the child abuse scene fail to catch the XX cases of Christian Ritual Abuse 
which occurred during the next few years? 

And what about her parliamentary representative Geoffrey Dickens? During 1987 
he was claiming that "There had been a significant increase in homosexual 
clergymen leading to an increase in abuse of young boys"  Yet by 1988 he had 
joined forces with Ms Core to become a major player in the promotion of the 
idea of Satanic Ritualised Abuse and has not made mention of Christian 
Ritualised Abuse since. 

Additionally, why is it that, in his scouring of court records on child-abuse 
to obtain data for his recent book  "Children for the Devil - Ritual Abuse and 
Satanic Crime " in which he attempts, and fails, to prove a connection, the 
journalist Tim Tate never stumbled across or became alerted to the significant 
frequency of cases of Christian Ritualised Abuse?  

So if those at the leading edge of social work, child-care and the treatment 
of sexual abuse offenders are aware of the risk, why have they spent so much 
time, like Mr Tate,  flogging the dead horse of Satanic Ritual Abuse and 
ignoring Christian Ritual Abuse? 

Our data shows that sentences for NON-clerics who abuse are very much stronger 
than for clerics whose crimes tend to be looked upon as 'abnormalities' of 
behaviour.  Yet our research shows that their crimes are anything but. They 
are predictable, repetitive and, unfortunately,  far from 'abnormal' in the 
general way of things.  

The fact is that like Ray Wyre, who once trained as a Baptist Minister, and 
the head of the NSPCC who was a Methodist Minister,  the majority of social 
workers are Christians themselves and in the Satanic Ritual Abuse vs. 
Christian Ritual Abuse controversy seem to have a blind-spot for Christian 
Ritual Abuse in inverse proportion to their obsession with Satanic Ritual 
Abuse. 

SUMMING UP:   The S.A.F.F. has provided a most important public service by 


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highlighting the problem of Christian Ritualised Abuse and all decent citizens 
of this country will expect the Social Services and the Government to make use 
of this information and tackle the unacceptable level of Christian Ritualised 
Abuse. 

It must not be thought that such conclusions are in any way anti-Christian or 
sectarian. Obviously there are many millions of ardent Christians who love and 
care for children. What we are saying is that there are too many who abuse 
them under the auspices of and through the opportunities given to them by 
their position in various Christian Churches and this must be stopped by 
preventative methods.  Christian Ritualised Abuse is a reality and for our 
society to turn a blind eye to that whilst persecuting religious minorities 
for the same assumed crimes is a most despicable hypocrisy which endangers our 
children.

Whilst professionals field these arguments back and forth our children are 
being horribly abused and irreversibly traumatised for the rest of their lives 
by Christian Ritualised Abuse. There is  NO time to delay.  The problem of 
Christian Ritualised Abuse must be acknowledged and the police, social workers 
and care-agencies must be trained to prevent it, detect it and deal with it 
NOW not later. We demand nothing less and the official response to these 
incontrovertible statistics will show the public and history at large whether 
the social services of this country are full of hollow self-righteous 
propaganda to justify their existence or whether they REALLY care for the 
children whose safety they are supposed to protect. 

UPDATE: BLACK MUSEUM 1 was very influential and used in evidence during the 
U.K. government's Inquiry into the victimisations of innocent children and 
their parents during the Orkney Satanic Child Abuse fiasco.  Also see BLACK 
MUSEUM 2, (BLAKMUS2.MSS) Published  August 1996 for further corroborating 
statistical conclusions based on surveillance of hundreds of further cases 
of Clergy Abuse since BM1 which provides undeniable proof of the continuing 
cover up of widespread Crimes against children by a powerful sections of 
the Christian community and the real threat to the offspring of unaware 
parents.

CONCLUSION:  During a ten year period in which inordinate amounts of public 
money and child-care resources have been spent chasing the phantom of 
Satanic Abuse, there have been NO genuine cases found in the U.K. at all. 
Not one.  The Satanic Ritual Abuse Myth was a propaganda smoke-screen 
promoted consciously or unconsciously by the Christian Churches in order to 
focus the public's attention away from the epidemic of Child abuse occur-
ring in their own ranks.  


ENDS:

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