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You’ve heard of ritual abuse, the Pace Memo, and repressed memories. But what is the truth behind organized ritual abuse? And does it really happen within mainstream Mormonism? Join Lesley and Leah, as they speak with Tara Workman-Tulley, LCSW, trauma therapist, and ritual abuse survivor. Learn more about organized ritual abuse, how it often hides in plain site within various societal institutions, and the mechanisms which enable it to perpetuate.
***This podcast has a TW for sexual, physical, emotional, spiritual, and ecclesiastical abuse.***
Resources/References:
Australian Child Abuse Inquiry
Dr. Ellen Lacter’s Evidence of Ritual Abuse
Grand Jury Report on Catholic Abuse
Attacks On Credibility Of Survivors Not Justified By Research
The Glenn Pace Memo On Ritual Abuse
Unrighteous Dominion Survivor Stories
LDS Survivors Of Ritualistic Abuse, Mind Control and Organized Abuse FB Page
Lesley A. Butterfield
Lesley holds an RN, BSN from the University of Texas. Lesley has authored several published articles across a variety of platforms and is a frequent media contributor. She functions as a Community Health Nurse for vulnerable populations and serves as a survivor advocate for victims of abuse. She aims to raise awareness of the effects of trauma on individuals and how trauma impacts community systems. Lesley has certifications and training in Trauma-Informed Care, Community Advocacy, Faith and Spiritual Development, Familial Mental Health, Culturally Competent Care, Domestic Violence Awareness, and Resiliency Development. Lesley lives in Virginia with her 4 children and her really hyper chihuahua, named Chaos.
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Hello: Your podcast is difficult to hear—not only the sad subject of abuse, but also technically. If you are interested, I can describe how to improve the audio.
Go for it!
This is what I’ve been telling child protection services (the second time I took my wife with me as the abused children were her grandchildren) and after I had calmly presented them with the facts I was told if I returned they would call the police on me for trespassing. I have told the Beaver county sheriff’s department and they asked if I disliked the perpetrator Jeremy Carroll. My answer was yes and they used that to say I had a bone to pick and if I was lying they would arrest me. Then I discovered Jeremy Carroll was being considered for hire as a deputy for Beaver county Utah. That was just too much. I contacted the North Las Vegas police and obtained Jeremy’s record of past violence toward women and hit a child so hard that the court record mentions significant harm to the 6 year old and he violated a stay away order and attacked another woman who was pregnant at the time. His buddy in some of these crimes is Beaver county Utah judge Judge Shadrach Bradshaw. There is much more in this case than I can outline here. These people have gotten away with crimes that other people have gotten very long sentences for.
Hi Rick! I am hoping you can PLEASE contact me. I am looking into info on a Jeremy Carroll and believe for sure this is the same one. It would be so helpful if you could reach out to me!
I am not a victim of RA, but, my ex wife of 29 years is. It is real! It is ugly and it is exactly what the perps want it to be, unbelievable! Part of what protects these monsters is the fact that the victims, with their emotional and mental challenges appear to have much less credibility than the wealthy, professional church going “stalwarts of the community”. I met with Glenn Pace on three different occasions and he told me about over 150 survivors and that he only had the opportunity to meet with about 60 of them. He believed everyone of them and he knew that”false memory syndrome” was a farce back then like we know it to be today as well. He sent us to a psychiatrist outside of the church. Why would he do that? What, with a very large LDS Family Services department at his disposal. Could it be that he really cared and had no trust in the church’s resources, or did he know something that we didn’t at the time?
Hi Ron. That’s really interesting. How did you meet Glenn Pace?
Ritual Abuse has been around for a long time in our church (LDS). I discovered Ritual Abuse in 2011 from my wife’s two grandchildren, especially the oldest who was just short of school age, and it was a mind whopping experience for me. I researched the things she was telling me and all was then verified. I’ve been investigating this since 2011 and what I hear from others I also find true. I went to the police and they called me a liar and those very same “public servants” I later discovered these same “police officers” had a plethora of knowledge about this growing problem. There is absolutely no worse violation of public trust than to find that law enforcement is involved in the perpeturation of criminal activity than in the abuse of children. An assistant county attorney threatened to throw me out of his office when he told me he didn’t want to hear what I had to say about some more abuse I had learned of. I told him I would go kicking and screaming and further I would contact every out of state non-Mormon news agency that I could locate. He simmered down quite a bit but would not talk about investigation or prosecution. A bi-county employee was threatening me with turning me over to a judge in Beaver County, Utah. When I told her that I know of some of his victims she chilled out as well. With these hi ranking people, many of them LDS, cooling off suddenly when confronted with exposure of there involvement with Ritual Abuse is telling of the widespread involvement of these same people. I am interested in contact more people who research and investigate Ritual Abuse so that we can get our ducks in a row and present our well thought out findings to the public. The conspiracy contingent of this is one of the ways these perpetrators have been getting away with these horrible crimes and destroying lives. Another thing is that we need to intelligently debunk the farce that leads too many people to believe this is just imaginings of fanciful people. I know that this is true and when I told two children in 2011 that I would help them I really didn’t know what to do. So I had to learn a hard lesson from throwing my naïve self into the fray. Since then a perp judge is no longer getting the access to children he once had and other abuse to children has been temporarily stopped and others have been saved from this torture. But it’s still going on and picking back up at an alarming rate. I’m an LDS church member and I’m working within the church to eradicate these crimes.
Sincerely,
Stephen Miller, BS: Criminal Justice (Retired)
Beaver, Utah 84713-1274
millermsrm60@aol.com
Thank you for what you’ve already accomplished. I stumbled into this topic thru the course of researching a broader topic of corruption embedded into society, on all scales.
When I came upon the topic of RA/SRA roughly 10 yrs ago, it changed everything I thought I knew about the world we live in.
Yesterday (6/01/22), I became aware that the Utah County Sheriff’s Office has been investigating ritual abuse allegations and has reached out to the public requesting victims to reach out or any information on perpetrators. The public statement given by the Sheriff provided specific time frames (1990-2010) and listed 4 other counties of interest.
A search using the term “Utah County Sheriff investigating ritual abuse” will result in multiple links to be able to read the Sheriff’s statement directly. Instead of me providing a link for others to click on, I prefer if others visit sites they trust so they know I’m not sending them to a virus/malware laden site.
While I personally don’t have any info to offer the Sheriff, I think it’s worth noting for anyone offering information to proceed with the awareness that it is not unheard of for a law enforcement agency to make such public requests for the purposes of subverting, covering up, or targeting of potential whistleblowers. By no means am I suggesting this is the case with UCSO, but feel obligated to point out such a possibility exists no matter how remote. (There’s quite an interesting public exchange taking place between the Sheriff and a Utah County attorney. The county attorney and his wife have been named perpetrators in a 152 page victim statement)
Thank you for all you’ve done to help expose the most diabolical atrocities taking place right under all our noses.
Where is the ritual abuse podcast? The link provided is a podcast about voting.