Call for Policy to Increase Protection for Victims of Ritual Abuse in San Diego, Part I - Page 5
© Ellen Lacter, PhD
Sauer's Union-Tribune article of September 24, 2000, "A Web Of Intrigue" may be the best example of his strange agenda to discredit victims of ritual abuse and their advocates. Sauer paints "Karen Curio Jones", who researched the ritual abuse archive discussed above, and who has posted her concerns about ritual crime on the internet, as a dangerous "cyberstalker". Yet, Sauer quotes Detective Susan McCrary about "Jones": "She hasn't made any physical threats. Everything's been done in a public forum" (San Diego State Police Department). Sauer writes, "Who is Curio and why is she saying such nasty things about us on the Internet?" "Us" refers to:
1) Mark Sauer
2) Carol Hopkins, Deputy Foreperson for the 1991-1992 San Diego Grand Jury Report No. 8 "Child Sexual Abuse, Assault, and Molest Issues". That report was criticized in the 1992-1993 San Diego Grand Jury Report as not being "in the best interest of threatened children", as misrepresenting facts, and as having caused a dramatic decline in the number of children removed from abusive and neglectful homes in San Diego County, while these numbers climbed in other California counties.
3) Elizabeth Loftus, Ph.D., an outspoken proponent of the "False Memory Syndrome", which is not recognized as a disorder by the majority of mental health professionals. Two formal complaints were lodged with the American Psychological Association (APA) in December, 1995, against Loftus alleging that she deliberately misrepresented facts in her published statements about two legal cases involving delayed memories, a serious breach of professional ethics. Loftus resigned from the APA a month later, claiming her resignation was unrelated to the complaints.
4) Michael Aquino, publicly self-proclaimed Satanist and founder and high priest of the "Temple of Set" (official website at: http://www.xeper.org/). In 1987, Aquino was investigated by the United States Army's Criminal Investigation Division (CID) in a case of alleged child abuse at the Child Development Center at the Presidio Army Base in San Francisco. CID issued a report, titled it, and admitted to the record. Michael Aquino sued the army, "seeking to amend the Army's criminal investigation report and recover damages", contending that decisions "were tainted by consideration of the irrelevant factor of his Satanist religious beliefs" (this example illustrates why allegations of ritual abuse are generally omitted from charges and prosecution of child abuse, as explained above). The court denied Aquino's motions to amend the files, concluding that "there was sufficient evidence from which the Army decision-maker could determine that probable cause existed to believe that [Aquino] committed the offenses" (reference: Aquino vs. Stone 768 F. Supp.529; and p. 4. Other Altars: Roots and Realities of Cultic and Satanic Ritual Abuse and Multiple Personality Disorder, 1993, Minneapolis, Minnesota; CompCare Publishers).
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