From: David.Rice@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.atheism
Subject: Religion & Crime / "Satanic Conspiracy"
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Sep 21 1992
Date: 26 Sep 92  17:31:34

A  list  of "satanic indicators" was sent by Ms Klein to  help  social 
workers.  Classic  signs and symptoms are said to include  an  unusual 
preoccupation  with  urine and faeces, fear of  ghosts  and  monsters, 
aggressive play, and the child being "clingy", reciting nursery rhymes 
with  indecent overtones, suffering from nightmares and  bed  wetting, 
preoccupation with "passing gas", using mouth to make "gas sounds" and 
wild laughter when the child or someone else "passes gas".
 
Copies  of  these satanic indicators were given to social  workers  in 
Kent,  whose team leader is chairman of the Social Workers'  Christian 
Fellowship. Police found no evidence of satanism.
 
Copies  of  the satanic indicators were also given to  Ray  Wyre,  who 
trained to become a baptist minister and who now runs a clinic for sex 
offenders.  He passed a copy to social workers in Nottingham who  were 
investigating an incest case. In November 1988 they concluded that the 
case  involved a satanic ring. Nine adults were later jailed  for  sex 
offenses  against children and 21 children are still in  care.  Police 
found no evidence of satanism.
 
The  satanic  indicators were passed to social workers  in  Congleton, 
Cheshire,  who  were also dealing with a case of  incest.  One  social 
worker  associated  with the Congleton case is the  secretary  of  the 
Social  Workers  Christian Fellowship. The  Congleton  social  workers 
sought  advice  from  their counterparts  from  Nottingham,  Christine 
Johnson and Judith Dawson, who are widely consulted on satanic abuse.
 
Three  key  conferences on satanic abuse for  social  workers,  police 
officers,  psychotherapists and other child-care groups,  followed  in 
April  and September 1989. The first was organised by the  Association 
of Christian Psychiatrists. Norma Howes and Pamela Klein the organised 
two more conferences, in Reading and at Dundee University.
 
Main speakers included Ms Klein and a Chicago police officer who  told 
how four babies were cooked in a microwave oven (a week later a rumour 
surfaced  that  this had happened in Derbyshire, and the  NSPCC  later 
reported  it had been encountered by a child protection team). At  the 
Reading  conference  the Nottingham social workers first  went  public 
with their claims that their child-abuse case involved a satanic ring. 
Maureen Davis of Reachout said she knew of 35 cases of satanic abuse.
 
A  series  of investigations followed: in November 1989  in  Trafford, 
Greater  Manchester,  where  social workers had the  list  of  satanic 
indicators; also late in 1989 in Manchester, where social workers  had 
attended the Reading conference and received advice from the  Reachout 
Trust  and the Mr [Rev] Logan, police were also advised by Judy  parry 
from MAnchester, who was trained by Maureen Davies; in December  1989, 
in  Knottingley  near Pontefract in west Yorkshire,  where  Childwatch 
campaigner Diane Core passed on literature; in March 1990 in Rochdale, 
after  social workers and a police officer attended a  London  seminar 
and received satanic indicators originally circulated by the  Reachout 
Trust.
 
Judy  Parry  was  also  consulted by some parents;  in  June  1990  in 
Liverpool,  where  social  workers sought advice  from  the  Congleton 
social workers and police were advised by Maureen Davies the Mr  [Rev] 
Logan  and  Diane Core; at the end of July 1990 in  Strathclyde  where 
social workers attended the Dundee conference and took advice from the 
Nottingham social workers.
 
In  these cases a total of 52 children have been made wards of  court, 
most remain in care, three men face charges including child abuse, but 
police have found no evidence of satanic abuse.
 
Virtually  every  British  police  force  has  received  the   satanic 
indicators. And although they might regard them as absurd, the  social 
services  inspectorate  has sent similar "memoranda" to  every  social 
services department in Britain.
 
One  Rochdale  policeman involved in the case has a  theory:  "What  I 
think is happening is there are some cranks among social workers. They 
are  getting wind of these documents and they are trying to tie it  up 
with  routine  abuse  cases.  If  social  workers  came  to  us   with 
allegations of this nature we have to investigate. I don't see how  it 
can be stopped from happening again."
 
* Additional reporting by Adam Sage and Sarah Strickland.
 
 
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