This panel consists of four survivors of child sex trafficking, ritual abuse (RA), and mind control (MC) programming. As survivor leaders, they know many others who have endured similar mixed forms of abuse. Those working with sex trafficking victims often focus on exploitation through prostitution or pornography, missing signs of other forms of extreme abuse. Panelists range in age from 58 to 85 and collectively have 121 years of healing. They will discuss how they were introduced to sex trafficking by their families and how their experiences ranged from being exploited by a local group of pedophiles to global elite child sex trafficking rings. Panelists will describe their mind control experiences. MC is a torture-based method of fragmenting a person's self to use them as sex slaves, spies, or assassins. Those abused in cults and/or subjected to MC are easy prey for further manipulation and abuse by sex rings. If the victims escape, they are often coerced back into the rings, despite the best efforts of their helpers to keep them safe. RA is the repetitive ritualistic abuse of children and non-consenting adults in a group setting in the name of an ideology. Panelists will discuss how they were abused by Satanists, Nazis, and dark occultists in the United States and Europe. Ritual abuse and mind control are seen in a subgroup of sex trafficking victims. Awareness of this kind of trauma is vital to helping survivors in their escape and healing. In Part II, panelists will describe their escape and entry into healing. They will also discuss personal examples and signs and symptoms of RA/MC. Resources for working with RA/MC survivors will be provided.
Trigger Warning: This presentation contains information (written, spoken, or visual) that may be triggering or (re)traumatizing to attendees.
Jean Riseman is a leader in the survivor community, organizing supportive, cultural, and educational events for survivors and their allies. She is a survivor of ritual abuse, mind control experimentation, and child pornography, a retired clinical social worker, and a co-founder of the GrassRoots RA/MC Survivors’ Collective.
https://grassroots-ra-mc-collective.org Co-founder, GrassRoots RA/MC Survivors’ Collective ra-info.org Annotated bibliographies and articles on RA/MC ritualabuse.wordpress.com Personal blog https://survivorship.org/simplifying-complex-programming/ Simplifying Complex Programming. Presentation at S.M.A.R.T 2002 conference
Donna Lyon is an academic, researcher, producer, and survivor of ritual abuse from Melbourne, Australia. She is founder of Left Write Hook, an evidence-based participatory arts program for survivors pairing creative writing with boxing to explore the survivor’s lived experience and creative interventions into recovery through embodied trauma.
Anneke Lucas is an author, public speaker, and a counselor for survivors. Her work is based on personal experience of a 30-year healing journey after surviving being sold by her family as a child sex slave to a pedophile network, which shaped her message for personal and global healing.
Mary Sparrow is an artist, poet, mother, and public speaker whose work documents her 25-year journey of survival and healing from extreme abuse. Brought into a murderous sex trafficking ring as a small child, her work aims to support herself and others in their healing and empowerment.
Website: sparrow4everfree.com Instagram@sparrowdose Instagram account: artwork