One thing we can say about watching the Hoaxtead mobsters for as long as we have: they never fail to provide their own twisted brand of entertainment. We’ve pointed out in the past that Belinda McKenzie and Sabine McNeill, who claim to have devoted their lives to fighting against child abuse, seem to have no…
Back in 2002, The Telegraph published an interesting article, titled “The people who believe that Satanists might eat your baby”. The article’s author, Damian Thompson, wrote: RITUAL satanic abuse is back. Yesterday, a private meeting at Westminster, chaired by Lord Alton, discussed assaults on children by hooded, chanting Satanists. “You may be aware,” the organisers…
Yesterday we delved into some of the links among the originators of the Hampstead Satanic ritual abuse (SRA) hoax. We noted that Charlotte Ward (aka Carleea, aka Jacqui Farmer), who claimed that her “Hampstead Research” blog was not affiliated in any way with Sabine McNeill or Belinda McKenzie, in fact had a long history with…
The recent furore over the Wiltshire police’s £1.5 million, two-year investigation into allegations of sexual abuse against former prime minister Edward Heath has had some interesting and long-reaching side effects, some of which seem relevant to the genesis of the Hampstead “Satanic ritual abuse” hoax. We noted a few days ago that Wiltshire Chief Constable…
It’s a good news/bad news story: the Washington Post reported on 25 August that a couple from Austin, Texas who’d been falsely accused of Satanic ritual abuse back in the bad old days of the 1980s-1990s Satanic panic had finally been awarded financial compensation for the more than 21 years they’d each spent in prison.…
A few days back, one of our readers mentioned that they’d been looking at videos covering one of the many trials that erupted during the last Satanic panic in the 1980s and 1990s; they recommended a series on the Little Rascals case. The Little Rascals daycare scandal, although it took place in Edenton, North Carolina,…
The headlines were spectacular, even melodramatic: “Satanic child-porn fraudster is ‘ruthless, manipulative’”; “Court to mull fate of online child-porn ring fraudster”. No, they weren’t referring to Abraham Christie and Ella Draper (sad to say). These headlines refer to a case last year in Johannesburg, South Africa, in which a young woman named Leone Steyn was…
