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“Ritual abuse-torture” (sometimes called “RAT”) is defined as “is one form of non-
state actor torture and is about pedophilic parents, families, guardians, and
like-minded adults who abuse, torture, and traffic children using organizing
ritualisms.” [1][2].

Contents
* 1 History
* 2 Research
* 3 References
* 4 Bibliography
* 5 External links

History

In 1991 the Minister for the Status of Women appointed panel members of The
Canadian Panel on Violence Against Women. They went to all parts of Canada, met
with 4,000 people in over 100 places. Seven hundred reports were submitted to the
panel. Several major themes identified by panel reports included the fact that
“ritual abuse cults/groups were both intergenerational and extra-familial,” child
victims were forced to take vows of secrecy, “programming triggers were put in
victims when they were children, children were given “mind-control programming
using hypnosis, mind-altering drugging, and the implantation of trigger messages
to prevent them from disclosing their ritual abuse ordeals,” children were
tortured repeatedly with “pain, deprivation, death threats, harassment, and
intimidation,” victims discussed the money earned by ritual abuse torturers from
videoing or filming the violence, forced prostitution and drug trafficking of
victims, that active cult members were continuing to harm and threaten adult
victims in many ways to stay quiet, mostly with death threats if they disclose
ritual abuse occurrences and that perpetrators worked in organized ways to
discount victim accounts of ritual abuse-torture[3].

Research

The research on ritual abuse-torture was started by two women from Nova Scotia,
Canada, Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald. They began their work with ritual
abuse-torture victims in 1993[4]. In 1998, they began working on what they call
“kitchen table” research with female survivors of ritual abuse-torture[4].

Sarson and McDonald have also published other works more recently in the field.
[5] They have made several presentations at the United Nations, including the
“Torture of Canadian Women by Non-State Actors in the Private Sphere: A Shadow
Report” made in March 2008. The report included women’s testimonies of different
forms of torture as well as reproductive tortures.[6] Additional research by
Sarson and MacDonald included the publication of case studies that identified ten
issues of violence that were part of a pattern of group RAT victimization, finding
that this victimization happened in infancy or slightly later. [7]

References

1. ^ Persons against ritual abuse http://www.ritualabusetorture.org/

2. ^ Ritual abuse torture definitions
http://www.ritualabusetorture.org/definitions.htm
 3. ^ Ritual abuse torture research
http://www.ritualabusetorture.org/research.htm
4. ^ a b Ritual abuse torture biography
http://www.ritualabusetorture.org/biography.htm
5. ^ Sarson, J.; McDonald L. (2007). Ritual Abuse-Torture in Families. in
Jackson, N. (ed) (2007). Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence, p. 704, Routledge.
6. ^ Torture of Canadian Women by Non-State Actors in the Private Sphere: A
Shadow Report http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cedaw/docs/ngos/VOWCanada42.pdf
7. ^ Sarson, J. (2008). "Ritual Abuse-Torture Within Families/Groups," Child
Maltreatment, 16, 419-438.

Bibliography

* Sarson, J. & MacDonald, L. (2008). Ritual Abuse-Torture within

Families/Groups. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 16(4), pp. 419-438.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ftinterface~content=a903766904~fulltext=713240928

External links

* Persons against ritual abuse http://www.ritualabusetorture.org/

* Defining Torture by Non-State Actors in the Canadian Private Sphere - from
First Light - A Biannual Publication of the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture
http://www.ccvt.org/pdfs/firstlighwinter2009.pdf