I am a victim of a form of SRA. There are a few things I would like to say about the current line of thought of the people who are on both camps of the ‘satanic panic’ and those who disbelieve. While I am the first to admit that many people do lie about SRA in order to gain attention, or whatever reason, some of us are genuine. The reason our voices are not heard among the ‘rabble’ is that while people are discussing whether or not SRA exists everyone is entirely missing the point. The group that abused me were not out and out Satanists as per se yet they used the name of Baphomet (one of Satans many names). They worshipped Baphomet. All I, and people like myself wish to do is to try to move forward as best we can. OK this kind of abuse can never just ‘go away’ but being reminded of it by false accusations day in and day out is doing nothing to help us and indeed is prolonging the emotional and mental agony that we suffered as children. It wouldn’t be so bad if the right people were being blamed and prevented from hurting other children but the sad case is that people, including the Sarah Nelsons of the world are pointing their fingers in the wrong direction. Dysfunctional families are being attacked and having their children taken from them for no reason. Meanwhile the REAL SRA victims are too scared and traumatised to speak out. So the abuse goes on. And all this makes me wonder, are these people TRYING to deflect attention away from the real perpetrators by blaming dysfunctional families? I am the first to agree that other forms of child abuse go on and it has to stop, but if you are going to scream about SRA at least get your facts straight. Most of us are too scared to talk even as adults about the group that is mainly responsible. Real organised abusers are so clever it is almost impossible to catch them as they hide behind benign seeming organisations etc. Seem like good people. A lot are people in good standing in the community. Most people accused of SRA probably wouldn’t know what it was and had never heard of it before they were accused. I see things all around me which show exactly how much people don’t get. Once people start ‘getting it’ maybe the abuse will stop. Maybe the hysteria over cases with no basis at all will discontinue. Children who are abused in a non-SRA way need protected as well of course but why label most abuse under that label? Why make those of us who are genuine victims live in continual anguish because we are not allowed to even start trying to ‘forget’ because every where we look people are shouting ‘satanic panic’. Why don’t so called authorities talk to victims who are now grown up and are not so easily intimidated? Yes a lot remain afraid and I am one of them, yet I am also willing to speak to people if only to protect children who have NOT been abused from going through hell by social workers etc until those poor kids are so muddled they don’t know what to believe any more? All I can say is that I am glad it happened to me BEFORE all this hysteria began and at least I can truthfully say that I was abused by the group that does the main abusing without seemingly jumping on the bandwagon. But if nothing else I say gets through at least consider this: you are looking in the wrong place for the organised Ritual Abuse. Most of the people accused of it to be honest lack the intelligence to manage the sort of cover up that the REAL perps do, including confusing the children and making them too afraid to even hint at a problem.