When a child is born into a family or taken into a guardianship group that commits ritual abuse-torture they are chronically neglected, repetitively abused, terrorised, and exploited into sexualised human trafficking and pornography. They are horrified and they are tortured.

1. Ritual abuse cults/groups can be both intergenerational and extra-familial

2. Child victims are forced into a group bonding process often with the cooperation of their family and forced to take vows and oaths of secrecy

3. Programming triggers are indoctrinated into survivors when they are children,

4. Victims are subjected to mind-control programming using hypnosis, mind-altering drugging, and the implantation of trigger messages to prevent them from disclosing their ritual abuse ordeals

5. Torture—long-term and repeated—pain, deprivation, death threats, harassment, and intimidation is used on young victims

6. Victims are forced to violate others

7. Survivors speak of the profits ritual abuse torturers earned from filming or videotaping the violence, from the forced prostitution of victims, and from drug trafficking

8. Active cult members continue to threaten and harm adult survivors in a multitude of ways in order to force them to remain silent, most are threatened with death should they disclose their ritual abuse, and many have seen those who threaten them murder others and thus their fears are justified

9. Perpetrators engage in organised efforts to discount the survivors disclosure of their ritual abuse-torture ordeals

10. All survivors tell of extreme difficulties in finding any useful therapeutic help

11. Ignorance of medical staff often put some survivors at risk of Self injury 12. Helpers of survivors are also targets of organized efforts by perpetrators needing to discount and discredit the helper’s work with survivors of ritual abuse. Helpers must also deal with discreditation, denial, and disbelief from peers and the medical community, and may helpers reluctantly stop working with survivors because of these acts of harassment and oppression, and/or because of burnout and/or impossible practice conditions