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Aufsätze - Ritual Abuse:
An European Cross-Country Perspective
Thorsten Becker & Joan Coleman

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Another interesting fact is the quite clear amount of disinformation. Take Hamburg for example: the police reported zero cases, therapists have 47 cases in treatment. The sexual crime unit of the police had reported about 12 cases; as they told me in a personal conversation, none of these cases made their official way the commission. This is not surprising for those working in the field of Ritual abuse.

The German government changed in September and we are still waiting for some consequences on this parliament commissions report.

One last point, which bring me full circle to where I started, is something which has to be considered as good news: In October 1998 the Australian government granted fugitive status and a protection visa to a German Ritual Abuse survivor who had fled fifteen years ago from a cult involved in child pornography and child-traffikking. The Australian Refugee Review Tribunal stated before the final hearing: "It is accepted [...] thirdly, such groups exist in Germany and the authorities have been largely ineffective in stopping their illegal activities..." (Quotation from a prelimary paper to the final hearing). The final decision, done by the Australian government, because there is no existing law for cases like this, stated that this survivor is a refugee in need of protection by the Australian government, "as the German government is either unwilling or unable to protect victims of ritual abuse." (quoted from the decision).

The bad news is that there are no NATO-forces, no United Nations, no Amnesty International who will protect these victims and their civil rights. Even worse: Ritual Abuse is not acknowledged by the general public nor by a large number of mental-health professionals and law-enforcement officers. An American therapist entitled an upcoming book on Ritual Abuse "The Hidden Holocaust". In Germany it took fifty years to create a law which makes the denial of Auschwitz and the Concentration camps punishable. Has this to be a lesson for the denial of Ritual Abuse?