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DANIEL - now grown up. As a four-year-old his ‘confession’ led to dawn raids by police and social services in the notorious satanic abuse scandal. He was kept in care for 10 years.
Satanic abuse: The truth at last
Jeni Harvey12/ 1/2006
ONE of the darkest episodes in Middleton's history was revisited in a major BBC documentary screened (Wednesday).
'When Satan Came To Town', revealed the horrors of the 20 children who were snatched from their homes on Langley and taken into care by Rochdale Council in 1990, following allegations of 'satanic abuse'.
In total the snatched children spent 34 years and four months in care and, for the first time last night, they had the chance to tell the story of how Rochdale council's biggest mistake ruined their lives.
One of the interviewees is Daniel, who was in care for 10 years after sparking off the scare.
When he was just six years old, he told his teachers strange stories about ghosts, children being kept in cages, sheep being slaughtered and babies being killed.
As a result social services staff and police officers raided the family home and, along with his sister Julie and two brothers, Daniel was taken into care.
Parents Andrew and Beverley, who couldn't understand why their children were being taken away, were stunned to be hit with horrendous accusations which included taking the children to graveyards and even sacrificing human foetuses.
Beverley said: "It frightened the life out of me."
Believing they had uncovered a ring of 'satanic abuse' on the estate, three months later Rochdale's social services department then raided a number of other homes and took yet more children, from five more families who knew Andrew and Beverley.
Many of these children, now mainly in their 20s, appear in the documentary in both recent interviews and also in footage from their time in care, when they were interviewed by social workers.
These interviews from 1990 make for horrendous viewing. The children's insistence that nothing happened to them is ignored and, in one case, six-year-old Caroline cries for 17 minutes non-stop while the social worker doesn't let up her barrage of questions.
The documentary also incudes reconstructions of events, including the 1991 High Court hearing, and interviews with a child psychologist and ex-Middleton councillor Tony Heaford.
Mr Heaford was so concerned that, along with ex-councillor Kevin Hunt, he called for a full-scale inquiry into the affair at the time and campaigned for the children to be able to contact their parents.
The documentary, months in the making and helped by the Middleton Guardian, is sure to rock the town as Middletonians hear the true horrors of what went on from the mouths of those involved.
Click here to see our special coverage of these terrible events ...
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Over zealous SS social workers brainwashed in conferences run by varous orgs like common purpose- who use NLP to create the idea in the mind of people that satanic abuse is everywhere.
The trick is of course to divert the attention away from themselves and people do fall for it.
As a professional I can swear to the tactics social workers use as I witnessed them all myself in 1990 here in Ireland.
This all happpened when a British social worker came here on the look out for a cult.
Wearing jewellery of an unusual design was what drew his suspicion to me.
Then when I proved him wrong - he could not let go- so I asked why.??
He answered- because I have to show you that I have the power and the judge is my rubberstamp.
I thought the judge would look for facts- but no- he foolishly took the word of the perjuring social worker and wrecked the lives of children and their family.
He also said that he could not loose face among the herd- other social workers in the office.
So his ego trip caused years of trauma for families like us.
Yes, my son is also in his twentees and still recalls the day they tried to make him lie for them and when he refused- they said they would lock him in prision and electrocute him.
The night mares this has caused are horrendous.
The worst thing is that social workers are accountable to no one and even Bertie is not allowed by law to know what is going on.
SO THEN- WHO IS RUNNING THE SHOW.?? Some kind of SS common purpose brigade.???
15/09/2007 at 15:44
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This is anal abuse of the child and I know one baby who died for a few moments from the shock and trauma.
The crime of this family was to report an assault on their own son in a public toilet.
When the mother asked the Dr Kelly in Leeds- Jimmys- what she was doing with all the pictures as she was obsessed with her camera-
Dr got so uptight and said- what are you implying??
Mum just wondered and had no idea that there was a rumour that the images were being sold to others world wide.
Dr admitted there were on database...
Just make me wonder too.
Now Dr is suddenly shredding and not doing the next test.
I bet like Higgs- she will lie low and resurface somewhere else.
Higgs is in Kent.
No one stops these so called experts as they have all this power under the label of child protection.
NOT CHILD PROTECTION AT ALL BUT PROTECTION OF EVIL ONES.
Good scam though.
15/09/2007 at 15:52