PERSONS AGAINST RITUAL ABUSE - TORTURE

Ritual abuse-torture defined:

Ritual abuse-torture is intentionally planned and organized kin and/or non-kin brutal group ritualisms; acts of human evil that terrify and horrify; acts of pedophilic, physical, sexualized, and mind-spirit tortures; acts that can include modern day slavery (pornography, trafficking, sexualized and labour-intensive exploitation); acts that cause life-threatening torment; acts that distorts beliefs and values, thoughts, emotions, perceptions, behaviours, and world-view of the victimized person; dehumanizing and despiritualizing acts that have the capacity to destroy the personality of the infant, toddler, child, youth or “captive” adult victim; actions of a co-culture that can be inter-connected regionally, nationality, internationally, and transnationally; and, criminal acts that are a violation of the victimized person’s human rights.

WHO WE ARE

Jeanne Sarson RN, BScN, MEd
Linda MacDonald RN, BN, MEd

Relationship educators working for 11 years with persons who have experienced relationship violence, including ritual abuse-torture. We have conducted two years of interviews with survivors of torture by "non-state actors" - Ritual abuse-torture and spousal torture - a "kitchen table" research project which is evolving into a book entitled, "The Torturers Walk Among Us".

“We are speaking the unspeakable;
because, without reality there is no truth,
and without truth how can there be healing?”

Our Biography

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