Satanic and/or ritual abuse
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Friday November 6, 2009
Satanic and/or ritual abuse:
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that a Crown prosecutor was not acting maliciously when he prosecuted 12 members of a Saskatchewan family in the early 1990s after three foster children accused them of sexual abuse and bizarre satanic ritual abuse.In 1993, criminal charges against all but one member of the Klassen family were stayed and the children later admitted they had made up the story.
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Monday September 29, 2008
Cults • Hosanna Church • Satanic and/or ritual abuse:
After the trial of Louis Lamonica, Richard Ofshe said he could have offered the jury insight into the nature of cults to help them understand what was happening at Hosanna. He said he could have told them there is no such thing as satanic cults that abuse children.
If the initial statements of the children and suspects indicate the abuse occurred as part of a satanic cult — something that has never happened — then the truth of everything alleged in that statement is questionable, Ofshe said.
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Tuesday January 29, 2008
Cesar Beguiristain • Satanic and/or ritual abuse:
In Argentina the trial of Cesar Beguiristain has begun, the 20 year-old leader of an Afro-Brazilian, satanic cult accused of carrying out the ritual killing of a 12 year-old street boy.
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Sunday October 28, 2007
Gerald Robinson • Satanic and/or ritual abuse:
In a decision which will have far reaching effects in clergy abuse cases and eerily issued just days before Halloween, the Sixth District Court of Appeals in Ohio has reinstated a 2005 lawsuit involving alleged satanic rituals against a Toledo priest who was convicted last year in the 1980 murder of a nun.
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Friday January 19, 2007
Gerald Robinson • Satanic and/or ritual abuse:
A Lucas County Common Pleas Court ruling throwing out the civil lawsuit of a woman who accused Gerald Robinson of torturing and raping her in a satanic ritual when she was a child will be appealed, an attorney in the case said yesterday.
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Thursday January 18, 2007
Gerald Robinson • Satanic and/or ritual abuse:
The civil lawsuit filed against Gerald Robinson that accused him and others of repeatedly torturing and raping a young girl in ritual abuse ceremonies at a North Toledo church was dismissed yesterday.
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Wednesday December 20, 2006
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Considered conduits of God by some, traditional spiritual healers claim to be able help return a loved one, cure impotency and infertility, help advance your career and even make you wealthy. One such spiritualist says he can cast away evil influences and bad luck, another will break voodoo and black magic curses and several others offer exorcisms. Concern has been growing about the impact on children of such ritual practices.
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Tuesday September 26, 2006
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No further action is to be taken by the Crown Office following claims that a key witness in the Lewis child abuse scandal has admitted her allegations were false.
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Wednesday July 19, 2006
Gerald Robinson • Satanic and/or ritual abuse:
A Toledo woman who sued Gerald Robinson in April, 2005, accusing the Roman Catholic priest of torturing and raping her in satanic rituals when she was a child, has filed a motion claiming the statute of limitations did not start ticking until she knew her abuser’s identity.
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Tuesday May 30, 2006
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The Catholic Church has accepted as substantially true allegations that a Melbourne priest took part in satanic rituals in which a number of people were murdered.
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The victim of satanic ritual abuse by a Catholic priest has exclusively given his version of events to NEW.com.au's Gotcha blog, saying the church was aware of his allegations long before it agreed to pay him compensation.
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Monday May 29, 2006
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The Catholic Church has accepted as substantially true allegations that a Melbourne priest took part in satanic rituals during which a number of murders occurred.
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Friday May 5, 2006
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Defense attorneys expected to begin their case today
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Tuesday May 2, 2006
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Toledo -- A priest schooled in the occult testified that the 1980 slaying of a nun was filled with dark symbolism and signs that a ritual transpired.
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TOLEDO - Investigators say stab wounds on the chest of a nun slain in a hospital chapel in 1980 formed an upside-down cross, a symbol that an expert on Roman Catholic law and the occult testified Monday has been used in satanic worship.
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Wednesday April 26, 2006
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TOLEDO, Ohio - Investigators attempted to link bloodstains on an altar cloth and stab wounds on a nun's body to a letter opener found in the apartment of a priest charged with killing her.
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Tuesday April 25, 2006
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TOLEDO, Ohio -- Whoever strangled and stabbed a Roman Catholic nun a day before Easter in 1980 had to know her, according to a police detective who oversaw the murder investigation 26 years ago.
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Wednesday April 19, 2006
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Financial hardship, health, and religious beliefs are cited
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Eighteen of 37 prospective jurors interviewed today were dismissed in the second round of jury selection for the murder trial of the Rev. Gerald Robinson, who is accused of killing a nun in 1980.
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Tuesday April 18, 2006
Satanic and/or ritual abuse:
Thanks to the popular CSI television programs, today's juries expect a show in the courtroom - and prosecutors in the murder trial of the Rev. Gerald Robinson don't plan to let them down.
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Monday April 17, 2006
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TOLEDO, Ohio -- When Sister Margaret Ann Pahl's body was found the day before Easter 26 years ago, she had been strangled and stabbed in a hospital chapel. The wounds on her chest and neck resembled a cross.
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Saturday April 15, 2006
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Toledo nun was killed day before Easter ’80
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Thursday March 9, 2006
Satanic and/or ritual abuse:
MARTINEZ — In October 2002, Gabriel Polk found his father's bloody corpse lying on the floor of his family's pool house. On Wednesday, he walked stiffly into a quiet, packed courtroom to testify against his mother for his father's murder.
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Saskatchewan's justice minister has apologized to two former policemen accused in the Martensville sexual abuse case, a bizarre miscarriage of justice in which nine people faced dozens of charges involving children.
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Tuesday February 21, 2006
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Two prospective witnesses in the murder trial of the Rev. Gerald Robinson - a leading expert in blood-stain pattern analysis and a forensic anthropologist - will be allowed to testify at the priest's upcoming trial in Lucas County Common Pleas Court, a judge ruled yesterday.
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- Court Reinstates Lawsuit Involving Priests’ Satanic Rituals
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- Argentinean courts confirm boy was killed in satanic ritual
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