What is ritual abuse? (an overview)

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When a child is born into a family or taken into a guardianship group that commits ritual abuse-torture they are chronically neglected, repetitively abused, terrorised, and exploited into sexualised human trafficking and pornography. They are horrified and they are tortured.

SOME EXAMPLES OF “TORTURE”

PHYSICAL TORTURE

• Burnt with cigarettes, lit candles and hot light bulbs
• beaten on the soles of the feet
• tied down
• hung by limbs
• caged
• guns used as in Russian roulette
• made unconscious by choking, suffocating with a plastic bag, or face submerged under water
• forced to lie naked in the snow
• electric shocked

SEXUALIZED TORTURE

• A gun placed in one’s mouth, vagina, or anus and hearing the clicking sound when the trigger is pulled
• violent family/group rapes
• raped with objects – weapons, knife, broom handle, tree branches, and kitchen items
• forced to consume or be smeared with animal/human waste – vaginal fluid, sperm, blood, urine, and feces
• forced into pornography, trafficked/snuff movies
• bestiality
• forced pregnancy/abortions

MIND-SPIRIT TORTURE

• Humiliation
• degradation
• objectified
• treated like an animal
• trained to commit suicide so they never tell
• drugged
• forced to participate in cruelty/killing of pets and witness the torture of others