When people have all the information they need to determine the truth about a situation in which innocents are systematically targeted and murdered, citizens are called upon to do whatever they can to keep that truth alive. If the majority gives in to the pressure of corrupt powers it makes the majority co-responsible for such evil.
Ritual abuse is a brutal form of abuse of children, adolescents, and adults, consisting of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, and involving use of rituals. Ritual abuse rarely consists of a single episode. It usually involves repeated abuse over an extended period of time. The physical abuse is severe, including torture and sometimes killing. The sexual abuse is usually painful, sadistic, and humiliating. Ritual abuse is by definition not a crime of impulse, but a crime committed with malice aforethought.
In the case studied by Jonker and Jonker-Bakker (1991), children from different schools and different locales gave accounts of perpetrators, abuse locations, and abusive acts that were mutually corroborating.
When 60 witnesses testify to the same type of torture and murder, it becomes impossible for me, personally, not to believe them.
Satanic Ritual Abuse is real.
Some people want to gaslight you into believing it is a hoax. These people are either ignorant or they are involved. There are no other options.
One of our goals at the Tree of Liberty Society is to bring the facts together in a way that makes the truth obvious.
Below you will find some of the existing evidence, which will help you do the following:
- Understand that SRA is, in fact, real.
- Understand what SRA victims experience.
- Understand the implications for you, your city, your state, your country, and the world.
Things to keep in mind:
- Patterns suggest intention.
- The same patterns repeated over decades, taking place on multiple continents, and testified to by complete strangers across a vast range of age groups, turn the mere suggestion of intention into a certainty.
- Cockroaches hate the light.
- As you begin to see the specific pattern around who is involved in SRA, you will begin to realize that they have enormous power, including over what gets presented to people as truth, and that they abuse that power to hide their crimes. Just as the CIA invented the phrase “conspiracy theory,” these people invented “Satanic Panic,” and for the same reason.
- Key witnesses, people with evidence, and others who pose a threat, often disappear or die in mysterious circumstances. When they don’t disappear, they change their testimony after receiving threats. When they don’t change their testimony, even the victims themselves can end up in jail for long periods of time on phony charges while the perpetrators walk free. Or worse, die or disappear after “having had their chance.”
- Cockroaches don’t go away on their own.
- If you have heard of an SRA ring, but haven’t heard of an SRA ring being shut down, it still exists. Period. To date, we know of no instances in which this has happened.
- Cockroaches multiply over time.
- If you have heard of an SRA ring, but haven’t heard of an SRA ring being shut down, it has expanded.
- SRA perpetrators break people in order to discredit them.
- Dissociative Identity Disorder is about the most broken a human being can be. The victim’s natural reaction to extreme forms of abuse is to develop multiple personalities, who often do not know that the others exist. Some see this as a reason for discrediting SRA victims, but the astute observer will recognize the following: Dissociative Identity Disorder is itself a pattern in SRA cases, and it does not stop their testimonies from corroborating each other in important ways.
- Satanic ritual abusers are protected in their crimes. When caught, they either:
- Receive no punishments at all, often due to “technicalities” in paperwork or procedure.
- Get light sentencing, or only serve a small portion of a heavier sentence.
- Escape
- Are “suicided,” either for real or pretend.
- The SRA cult is vast, and it includes people from every color, religion, nationality, sexual persuasion, and political persuasion, even yours.
This page is a work in progress. We will add materials as they become available, and as time permits.
Documentation
Start Here (Must Read)
"The Task Force on Ritual Abuse was created in March 1990 by the Utah Governor's Commission for Women and Families in conjunction with members of the Utah State Task Force on Child Sexual Abuse. A few months prior, the issues of ritual abuse in Utah were brought to the attention of members at a meeting of the Child Sexual Abuse Task Force; since that committee had been operating for some time and was well into its work, members agreed that a separate group should be formed which could study the issue…
In addition, and particularly persuasive to the committee, were the testimonies of both adult survivors and of parents whose children had been ritually abused. The parents told of their bafflement about the children's symptoms and reported initial incredulity about their children's disclosures. They declared their frustration in trying to convince others of the seriousness and validity of the accounts. They also reported problems in finding appropriate therapy and, most notably, described the difficulties they found in dealing with the justice system."
This article, from the End Ritual Abuse website, lists common experiences from known Satanic Ritual Abuse cases. You will recognize many of these in the links below.
"Until law enforcement personnel, public policy makers, the judiciary, the child protection system and others who are involved with the protection of children and the betterment of society come to understand this new paradigm, ritual abuse is likely to continue to be minimized in both its scope, its impact, and the insidious way it has of multiplying when left unchecked." Note that this article was written more than 30 years ago, during which time this problem has been "left unchecked."
David Leavitt
USA, Utah, Provo
"Utah county sheriff, Mike Smith, and Utah county attorney, David Leavitt, are in a nasty back and forth over (satanic?) ritual abuse allegations dating from two decades ago lasting all the way up the present day." Tree of Liberty Society article from June 2, 2022.
In this Tree of Liberty Society member training from June 6, 2024, our own Ben McClintock illustrates how perpetrators of SRA are protected by every level of government using David Leavitt as an example.
"Since news broke in 2022 of a supposed reopening of Satanic Ritual Abuse cases, we have been digging and revealing what has been really going on behind the scenes… With new information coming to light, we are able to show all three branches of government on the state and local level are conspiring to protect a satanic ritual abuse network". David Leavitt's case is discussed. Tree of Liberty Society article from June 10, 2024.
"What we’re talking about here is the case of David Hamlin and Satanic ritual abuse accusations… all of the same people accused both David Hamblin and David Leavitt of these crimes…" Tree of Liberty Society article from February 21, 2025.
"What is satanic ritual abuse? Is it real? Why hasn’t there been a comprehensive investigation? This is an excerpt from the Extremists Liberty Bootcamp." David Leavitt's case is discussed. Tree of Liberty Society article from March 25, 2025.
David Lee Hamblin
USA, Utah, Provo
David Hamblin and David Leavitt were accused of being perpetrators in the same case. Please see also the links under David Leavitt, above, where Hamblin is also discussed.
This dossier, exclusive to Tree of Liberty Society members, includes videos, more links, and audio of Hamblin confessing in the form of an “apology” for abusing the caller, his daughter.
In this explosive investigation, we expose the dark reality of satanism and human trafficking within Utah’s institutions with Pop Crime‘s Lauren Conlin. The truth about recovered memories of sexual abuse threatens to shake both government and religious foundations to their core. This critical expose reveals the corruption that has allowed these human sacrifices to continue unchecked, demanding immediate action from those who value truth and justice.
As the title states, this is a victim statement detailing sexual and physical abuse by Hamblin and a woman named Roselle Anderson Stevenson against multiple children in the late 80s and early 90s. When we received the compilation of files that we have on Hamblin, there were already pages missing from this statement. We will provide a complete version when one becomes available.
Glenn Pace Memo
USA/Mexico, Utah/Idaho/California/Other
Our own Ben McClintock was able to interview Glenn Pace shortly before he died, and he confirmed the known facts in the case, even going so far as to say that he could have interviewed three times as many victims, and that if all of the facts and perpetrators were made know, it would bring down the entire government of the state of Utah.
Chicago Tribune article from November 3, 1991.
Nearly two dozen articles (as of May 18th, 2026) related to the Glenn Pace Memo. Includes details of Ben McClintock's final interview with Presiding Bishop Glenn Pace, Ben's appearances on other YouTube channels, the Glenn Pace Memo/Epstein Files connection, and more!
The Hampstead Kids
Europe, England, Hampstead
Victims… are conditioned to deny involvement with criminal abuse, to tell conflicting stories, or to retract stories previously reported…
Leaked video of police interviews with Alisa (9) and Gabriel (7) Dearman show that their claims are nearly identical to those of other SRA victims. The "alleged" abuse was committed at their school and other places, by teachers and others, including their father. The children suddenly claimed to have made it all up, and were turned over to the custody of their father.
"After the children's mother, Ella, brought these accusations forward, the children were taken from her... According to Ella, the children were asked by police to retract their statements in later police interviews, conducted after the children had spent 6 days in two separate foster care accommodations. Notably, the children's initial statements correlated with each other while also being extremely detailed, however their later retractions (issued after a week in institutional placement) were entirely dissimilar."
Marc Dutroux
Europe, Belgium, Various Cities
Exclusive video from Tree of Liberty Society provides an in-depth overview of the Marc Dutroux case.
"Chrissy was initiated into the Network through a traumatic ritual abuse ceremony, which resembled a “macabre satanic mass” held in a garage of a house in Sint-Pieters-Woluwe, a Brussels suburb."
"Marc Dutroux insisted yesterday that he was not a "lone predator" who kidnapped and raped young girls but part of a wider paedophile ring… Dutroux portrayed himself as a victim, a "puppet in a show trial" who had to be put away to "hide the truth" and serve the interests of "organised corruption". Only 10% of the case had been examined, he said, asking why independent-minded policemen had been removed from the investigating team. He urged police to follow up clues he said would prove he was working for a network which kidnapped girls to be sold into prostitution."
Describes sex parties at Belgian castles, which included VIP guests, links between Dutroux and the self-styled Satanic Order of Abrasax based in southern Belgium, and a Belgian Senator claiming that Dutroux must have been provided protection at high levels. Also discusses how the media in this case chose to ignore all of the evidence connecting it to ritual abuse, instead framing it as an isolated event.
"I met Nihoul in a restaurant in Brussels. 'I am the Monster of Belgium,' he roared at me by way of greeting. He is confident he will never come to trial and that the evidence against him will never be heard by any jury… He will never come to court, he said, because the information he has about important people in Belgium would bring the government down."
This article also details how Dutroux and his accomplices were protected by the government, including how the "government-owned TV station RTBF began a campaign designed to prove that Dutroux was an 'isolated pervert' kidnapping girls for himself, that there was no network, that Nihoul was innocent and Louf [a victim] was a liar." Also important: mishandled and missing DNA evidence that could have proven the identities of others involved.
"Since 1995, there have been 20 unexplained deaths of potential witnesses connected with Dutroux."
"Dutroux and his counsel consistently alleged that he had abducted and abused girls with police help as part of a child trafficking and abuse network connected to the elite of the Belgian establishment during his criminal proceedings."
This is one of the best articles on this case. Lots of extremely relevant and important links, so be sure to follow them.
In Belgium, the X-Files refer not to the U.S. television series but to a series of horrific witness accounts of an alleged pedophile network. The five women and the male transvestite who testified anonymously in Belgium under the code-name "X" described an underworld of snuff movies and sadomasochist torture that was almost impossible to believe. And they said that politicians and other highly placed members of society were involved. The conventional wisdom is that the witnesses were either deranged or were recounting fantasies. It was, in the jargon of psychiatrists, a bad case of false-memory syndrome. But a new book by three crime reporters, "The X-Files: What Belgium Was Not Supposed to Know About the Dutroux Affair," published in French and Dutch in November, asserts that the X-witnesses were more credible than the conventional wisdom suggests."
"In January 1996 Judge Connerotte wrote to King Albert alleging that his investigations into crime networks were being blocked because suspects "apparently enjoyed serious protection". He went on to say that the "dysfunctional judiciary" was breaking down as mafia groups took secret control of the "key institutions of the country"."
"The initiation went according to a fixed scenario. It resembled a macabre satanic mass, a weird spectacle of men wearing capes and masks, the “Mistress” entirely dressed in leather including her mask, commanding the men to torture or abuse the children in certain ways. It was a show aimed at making us so terrified that we wouldn’t talk about it. How in heaven’s name could a little girl tell someone that she had been raped by the devil or by Mickey Mouse? The adults knew that very well. They weren’t Satanists or anything like that but they skilfully used the ritual to scare the children and make them keep their mouth shut because no one would believe them anyway."
McMartin Preschool
USA, California, Manhattan Beach
Accounts of tunnels under the McMartin preschool given by children claiming to have been ritually abused at the school were fully corroborated when the existence and location of the tunnels were documented by a professional team of archaeologists (Summit, 1994).
Most of the things mentioned above in the "Things to keep in mind" section are verified in this one video. If you are able, we recommend pausing the video when articles are on the screen. You will see that physical evidence of both Satanic abuse and sexual abuse was found.
Note how this issue is covered by the mainstream media. Note the facts that have been conveniently omitted. Do you think this could be because, as the reporter points out, the case has been "largely forgotten"? Also note how the police department instructed parents to question their children, AFTER releasing the alleged perpetrator for "lack of evidence," even telling them exactly what to bring up. The FBI agent in the video informs us that, "once these cases are contaminated it's almost impossible to know with any degree of certainty what actually happened." Could this have been intentional misdirection to provide plausible deniability?
According to CBS, "perhaps it started as a misreading of an innocent act"! Because when most of us "misread an innocent act," tunnels are later found under our place of business, with bones and pentagrams, just like the victims claimed, right? Also notice that it was just "allegations of abuse" and totally had nothing to do with a child bleeding from the anus.
Teresa
Europe, England, Unknown Location
A teenaged girl recounts how she was trafficked into a Satanic cult by her grandmother, impregnated, and forced to abort the babies to be sacrificed. Her story follows the known patterns of SRA, and is supported by medical examinations, and psychological and cult experts. According to Brave AI: "Following the broadcast, the grandmother was charged with aiding and abetting rape and performing abortions, while five other men faced rape charges. There is no publicly available record of the final verdicts or whether a trial ultimately took place." This video is actually comprised of three 60 Minutes Australia broadcasts, Satan's Children, an immediate follow-up called Servants of Satan, and The Devil made Me Do It, which was broadcast one year later.
Various Perpetrators
USA, Utah, Bountiful
Perpetrators include Dick and Brenda Miles. Brenda is the daughter of then-apostle, and later president of the LDS church, Russell M. Nelson.
Skeptical Texts With Good Data
Although the author of this paper subscribes to the notion that nearly everything "Satanic" is either made-up or unorganized, he includes details of Satanic Ritual Abuse that corroborate the other cases on this page.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Ritual Abuse?
"Ritual Abuse usually involves repeated abuse over an extended period of time. The physical abuse is severe, sometimes including torture and killing. The sexual abuse is usually painful,humiliating, intended as a means of gaining dominance over the victim.The psychological abuse is devastating and involves the use of ritual indoctrination. It includes mind control techniques which convey to the victim a profound terror of the cult members …most victims are in a state of terror, mind control and dissociation.”
— Ritual Abuse Task Force of the L.A. County Commission for Women, as quoted in “Safe Passage to Healing”, Chrystine Oksana, 1994, HarperCollins, pp. 35-36.
What is Satanic Ritual Abuse?
Satanic Ritual Abuse is ritual abuse that incorporates elements of Satanism. Perpetrators may be Satanists, or they may simply use the same imagery and practices for the effect it has on victims.
Ritual abuse is a brutal form of abuse of children, adolescents, and adults, consisting of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, and involving the use of rituals. Ritual does not necessarily mean satanic. However, most survivors state that they were ritually abused as part of satanic worship for the purpose of indoctrinating them into satanic beliefs and practices.
Has anyone confessed to Satanic Ritual Abuse?
"Not only do skeptics such as Lanning choose to ignore eyewitness/victim accounts of ritual criminal activity, they apparently also choose to overlook the significant number of cases of ritual abuse in which perpetrators have confessed to their crimes. In the Bottoms et al. (1991; 1993) study of 2,292 cases of ritual abuse, perpetrators in 30% of the child cases confessed to abusing one or more children, and perpetrators in 15% of adult cases confessed to perpetrating as well."
— Denying Ritual Abuse of Children, Catherine Gould, The Journal of Psychohistory
Anne’s parents confessed their atrocities—both in writing and verbally—to clergymen, and to detectives from the Utah Attorney General’s Office. Anne’s suppressed memories, which erupted when she was in her mid-30s, were fully substantiated by her mother and stepfather…
Has anyone been convicted of Satanic Ritual Abuse?
This list (Conviction List: Ritual Abuse Cases) contains what appears to be hundreds of convictions in ritual abuse cases, many of them associated with Satanism.
Are memories of Satanic Ritual Abuse the result of suggestions implanted by the media (movies, etc)?
No. One psychological text devoted to ritual abuse said the following: "A second study revealed that these results were unrelated to patients’ degree of media and hospital milieu exposure to the subject of Satanic ritual abuse. In fact, less media exposure was associated with production of more Satanic content in patients reporting ritual abuse, evidence that reports of ritual abuse are not primarily the product of exposure contagion." (Source: ritual abuse diagnosis research)
Are memories of Satanic Ritual Abuse the result of hypnotic suggestion (False Memory Syndrome)?
"I am personally aware of scores of adult survivors with memories of ritual crimes (contrary to the position of many skeptics, most of these memories were retrieved without hypnosis or chemical assistance; many were in fact retrieved outside of therapy) who have made concerted attempts to bring these crimes to the attention of law enforcement."
— Denying Ritual Abuse of Children, Catherine Gould, The Journal of Psychohistory
Traumatic amnesia, described in the dsm-iii-r as psychogenic amnesia, is a phenomenon which has been known to mental health professionals for more than 100 years. The clinically observed characteristics of traumatic memory formation and retrieval match precisely the patterns of memory recovery exhibited by sra survivors, and strongly confirm the reality of their cult abuse.
How do we know SRA victims aren't just making things up?
For one thing, it is not possible for victims aged 2-92, located in the United States, England, Scotland, Belgium, and many other countries, and living in different decades, with no knowledge of one another, to tell corroborating stories. Psychologists and others who deal with ritual abuse survivors have other, more technical, reasons for believing them, as well.
Skeptics question the legitimacy of these reports,but many factors point to the reality of the phenomenon of ritualistic abuse. First of all, the degree of consistency between reports of individuals from different parts of the country is very high. The fact that children as young as 2 and 3 report ritualistic abuse experiences that mirror those reported by adult victims is especially striking in light of the fact that young children do not have access to the kind of printed information that might conceivably allow an older person to fabricate such experiences (Gould, 1987). Second, experiences of ritualistic abuse reported by victims of all ages are virtually identical to written historical accounts of Satan worship and the like (Hill & Goodwin, 1989; Russell, 1972), findings that substantiate our present-day understanding of Satanism and ritualistic abuse as intragenerational phenomenon. the symptoms from which individuals reporting histories of ritualistic abuse tend to suffer are consistent with our current understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder and the dissociative disorders. The progression in which ritualistic abuse survivors respond to psychotherapy places these victims squarely within the category of individual who have suffered real-not imagined-trauma.
More quotes can be found at https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse.