Status Updates From Children for the Devil

the first goal should not be to figure out who you're going to put in jail, or who is going to be arrested for these crimes. People will fight over that and destroy any understanding of what might be happening to the children.

'A child's statement that he or she is being abused should be accepted as true until proved otherwise. Children seldom lie about sexual abuse.'

report much emphasis has been placed on the maintenance of good relations between social services department child- safety workers and their opposite numbers in the local police force. This has, on occasions, become a shibboleth - a sacred cow preserved at the expense of damaging children.

They are not a careless group who are apt to make mistakes. But they are secretive and bonded together by a common need and a desire to mete out havoc on society. It was Aleister Crowley who said, 'I want blasphemy, murder, rape, revolution, anything

In turn this polarisation has caused mayhem, mischief and misery: ultimately the losers have been those most in need of help - the children.

Psychopathic garbage? Deluded gibberish? Certainly - but apparently sincere.

Apart from expressing the opinion that the attack had been motivated by his Process/Chingon group, the so- called 'Son of Sam' killer had one last message for Maury Terry: 'There are other "Sons" out there. God help the world.'

Kelly's disclosure matched what she had said to her parents outside the Presidio PX store the previous day. 'Mikey' was 'a bad man', and she was afraid. 'Mikey' was Michael Aquino. 'Shamby' was his wife Lilith.

Whether or not the Temple was performing ritual human sacrifice in 1980, Aquino had demonstrated one thing beyond doubt: his own intelligence network reached far inside the higher echelons of the US military establishment.

the existence of a body of men and women, dedicated to the notion that they can legitimately do whatever they want on the Devil's authority, may seem outlandish to most rational people, but cases like that of Scott Waterhouse show that what matters is what the satanist believes, not what we make of his obsession.

Satanists look with disdain upon 'white' witchcraft groups because they feel that altruism is sinning on the lay-away plan. It's unnatural not to have the desire to gain things for yourself.

Stripped of its high-flown statements of generalised civil rights, Crowley's instruction to his disciples amounts to a straightforward moral imperative to do exactly as they pleased and kill anyone who attempts to stop them.

Yet, in each, either prosecution council, police or the judge has performed mental acrobatics to dismiss the very notion that these rituals could be the outward manifestation of a perverted - but sincerely held -belief system.

"Williams was sentenced to eleven years. Yet, despite the wealth of authentic satanic detail there was no investigation into his contacts, and no checks were made to discover whether he had belonged to a larger, organised group. "

The campaign by the evangelical Christian movement- has been highly counter-productive: put simply, the Church has too much of a vested interest, and its attack is too widely drawn. At its most vociferous this attack has argued for a return to the medieval prejudice against any kind of pagan belief, by claiming that satanism and fortunetelling are but opposite ends of the same fundamental 'problem'.