Satanists Call for Investigation into 'Satanic Panic' Killing of 8-Year-Old Boy
Source: VICE
The Satanic Temple has started a petition asking for a proper investigation into circumstances surrounding the headline-grabbing death of an eight-year-old autistic child, Jude Michael Mirra, who was killed by his mother, Gigi Jordan, in 2010. The Satanic Temple alleges that Jordan was influenced by a Satanic panic–obsessed therapist who had been treating her child.
Six years ago, Jude died Manhattan's Peninsula Hotel after his mother force-fed him a lethal overdose of prescription pills (20 Xanax and 40 Ambien). The former socialite, multi-millionaire, and self-made pharmaceutical executive was charged with manslaughter for his death. She is currently serving an 18-year sentence. Jordan said it was a mercy killing, according to the New York Times: She claimed that believed she was saving her son from a lifetime of sexual abuse at the hands of his father and had planned to kill herself next, but her suicide attempt was unsuccessful.
The Satanic Temple's petition focuses on Ellen Lacter, a therapist whom they say worked with Jordan and her son. Addressed to the California Board of Psychology, the petition claims that Lacter's licensure "arguably contributed to a recent high-profile death of an 8-year old child" because it allowed "the propagation of unscientific, discredited, and patently delusional ideas to the detriment of mental health care consumers." According to her website, Lacter specializes in helping survivors of "ritual abuse and mind control." On the same site, she links to articles about Satanism, "ritual abuse," and government-sponsored mind control.
"[Gigi Jordan] killed her child under the influence of this idea that she was preserving her child from future abuse by Satanic cult conspiracy," Lucien Greaves, founder of the Satanic Temple, told Broadly. According to CBS, Jordan testified in 2014 that Jude had learned how to communicate with her by typing on her BlackBerry, despite being nonverbal and around six years old at the time the "communication" first started.
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