For what it's worth, I'm not a christian, though I was raised as one. I try super hard to avoid the whole issue, because of how people are all like,
I know that obviously there are no real Satanic cults,
But that's just not true. I have spent much of my life just avoiding it. The public pillory of other victims in the 80s convinced me that I'd be driven to suicide, too, if I spoke of it.
I first talked about it in 1996, when my "foster brother" from early childhood was charged with three murder-dismemberments. To be blunt, I was young, stupid, and naive. I was just being honest with the police about what happened to me, I sincerely did NOT know it would or even could become public knowledge. I thought that they had to keep what I said confidential, it being "evidence" in a murder, and all that.
However, all of us foster kids told pretty much the same story, and we hadn't seen each other in 19 years.
It's my personal opinion that the reason why it was intentionally ingrained in people to knee-jerk disbelieve this is because it was the only way to stop the "satanic panic". Things were getting out of hand with everyone and their dog claiming it was happening to them... and so anyone claiming to have experienced it was publicly character-assassinated.
To the point where I was literally terrified to tell anyone. I thought that every mistake I'd ever made, even the ones nobody knew about, would be exposed to the pulic.
These videos are from my mother's "missing persons" case. I don't remember which one it is that talks about the SRA, but it's in there. I'm off to work so I cannot stop to find it for you, I apologize.
However, I'll tell you plainly that I don't misremember and i wasn't making it up. I did NOT want it known to the public, and I constantly try to downplay it because of the danger it puts me in--from the general public. It's average people who get infuriated with me about it and threaten me and try to claim that these "upstanding" people are being vilified by me. That's one "upstanding" serial killer, apparently... *rolls eyes*
My mother's subreddit, if you want to find newspaper articles and such about the case itself and that these are NOT "upstanding people" that I apparently for no reason whatsoever decided to just hate on and accuse for no reason. It is unfathomable to me why anyone, even those of us to whom it DID really happen, would say it did out loud. Given the way we are treated, it's like being a gay person in 1940. Why would anybody risk it?
I would have kept completely silent about it, as I had done up til then and have mostly done since, if I hadn't been stupid and trusted naively. The fallout for victims is TREMENDOUS. The public outcry is not against perpetrators, but is inevitably against victims.
And to the other person, I'm not a christian and wasn't when I said I had been subjected to SRA, so I'm not "lying for jesus". Then or now.
Please reply after you've read this. I will most likely delete it.