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Aufsätze - Ritual Abuse:An European Cross-Country PerspectiveThorsten Becker & Joan Coleman
Ritual Abuse in Germany:
Cases in different states
© U. Froehling + M. Huber
- a minority of cases are found in the former German Democratic Republic / East- Germany (Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen, Sachsen) (red)
- green: states with border on the Netherlands. Belgium, Luxemburg and France (Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland)
- Nordrhein-Westfalen is the biggest state in Germany and has a very high profile concerning trauma-treatment
I have to add, that both organisations I work for, "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kinder- und Jugendschutz (ajs)" in Hamburg, a non-governmental organisation on child- and youth protection, and S.PORG.-Consulting in Lueneburg, where my colleague and I had worked on a special project on counselling on Ritual Abuse, did not participate in this study due to an extraordinary amount of clients as well as to avoid cases being counted twice - due to 'co-counselling' with therapists.
Aside from this the high-level of Hamburg is of interest as an example on the following.
Due to the discussion on cults, especially on Scientology, the German parliament has formed a special commission (Enquete-Kommission "Sogenannte ‘Sekten’ und Psychogruppen) on cults. This commission tried to investigate the findings on RA. They concluded in their final report, that further research on these issues is needed, especially due to what they call 'split data'. They have send a questionnaire to every Landeskriminalamt (which is the police headquarter for the state) and were quite surprised by the replies. It was clear that the police have nearly no data on cases, which is caused by their way of running statistics as well as on the organisation; there is no federal police like the FBI in the states.