Satanic Ritual Abuse Allegations
In November 1993, Pamela Hudson visited Christchurch to present a seminar on satanic ritual abuse (SRA) at the invitation of Rosemary Smart. Hudson was a US-based social worker, hypnotherapist and researcher into the alleged practice of SRA. Hudson began to write extensively about ritual child abuse in the 1980s, and in early 1991 she published “Ritual Child Abuse: Discovery, Diagnosis and Treatment”, which catalogued 16 alleged activities and practices of ritual child abuse. Some children described many or all of these practices during the police investigation of the Civic and these included a variety of bizarre, improbable and sometimes impossible incidents such as murder, coprophagia, being forced to watch or participate in the torture and abuse of other children and animals, penetration with sharp knives or burning paper. These activities were claimed to have taken place in diverse locations, including in cemeteries, private homes and the Park Royal Hotel, but most allegedly occurred at the creche. Claims of satanic ritual abuse activity are now considered to be associated with moral panics.
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