Reply #131: It reminds me.... [View All]

[woo me with science]

of the little girl who was killed by "holding therapy" a couple of years back in the US. There are always groups with strange beliefs and practices, and always individual instances of abuse.

You make a good point. I didn't mean to imply that the social workers were planting the stories or anything even remotely like that...just that we have to be careful, when reading these stories, about what is offered as evidence. In the US, the testimony of therapists and social workers lent credibility to the satanic scare in the 80's, due to their having degrees and titles and firsthand knowledge of "victims." It took actual FBI investigations and better research to debunk the claim of widespread satanic abuse and murder of children. The article suggests that officials are gathering rumors of this wide-scale horror, but also suggests that we have little more than rumors at this point.

I am all for getting the facts. It is the readiness to accept rumors of wide-scale ritualized importation and murder, in the absence of facts, that bothers me.