Government Investigation
In 1991, the Utah State Legislature appropriated $250,000 for the Attorney General's office to investigate the ritual abuse allegations in the state of Utah. Over a two and one half year span the investigators interviewed hundreds of alleged victims, but none of the incidents reported were corroborated with any evidence beyond their testimony and the 1995 report stated that there was no evidence from any of the alleged victims that would warrant an investigation of homicide. Mike King, the coauthor of the report, told news media that the specific accusations against church leaders were "absurd", and Jerry Lazar, the head of psychiatry at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, said he "has never been able to independently verify memories of satanic ritual abuse".
Read more about this topic: Pace Memorandum
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