In my experience, ritual abuse breaks down into four basic categories (categories I have coined to better understand ritual abuse): formal ceremonial, formal non-ceremonial, informal ceremonial, and informal non-ceremonial. This reinforces that there is no safe place, no escape, and nowhere to turn to for help. Ritual abuse within formal and/or intergenerational cults often begins at birth, and can continue into adulthood. Some victims of ritual abuse may be abused by only one cult, while others are abused by numerous interconnected cults.įor many victims of ritual abuse, their perpetrators involve all or most of their extended family (intergenerational cults), as well as other formal cult members, and may also include (or have members impersonate) people in positions of public power and authority. Ritual abuse can happen within formal, organized cults (such as KKK, Masonic, Satanic) informal cults (such as child-prostitution cults made up of members from other cults) intergenerational family cults within the home or informal cults situated in places that have access to children such as schools, day cares, camps, community centers, or churches. Ritual abuse is torture it is a calculated attempt to: break the victim’s spirit control the victim’s mind and reality replace “normal” responses such as compassion with hardness and create another generation of functioning cult members who are loyal to the cults who tortured them. Ritual abuse often includes, within rituals: frequent and painful rape gang rape forced impregnation forced abortions forced child pornography forced child prostitution torture dismemberment or witnessing dismemberment electroshock confinement (especially in cages, coffins, and pits) human and animal murder and sacrifice (being forced to witness murder, participate in murder, or be threatened with death) cannibalism mind control and cult conditioning techniques to increase the effectiveness of mind control (starvation thirst isolation drugs physical pain and torture exhaustion rape constant assault of the senses) forced ingestion of substances such as urine, blood, feces, vomit, and flesh and the constant threat of death, torture, and rape.

Ritual abuse is perpetrated to gain complete control over the victim, and to gain power and money. The abuse is used to harm, manipulate, control, and indoctrinate the victim, and ensure her long-term silence, co-operation, and participation. Ritual abuse is frequent, prolonged, and systematic physical, sexual, and psychological torture used to control children and adults that uses mind control, calculated torture, rituals, and an ideology within an organized secret group setting.

Scars by cheryl rainfield