Call for Policy to Increase Protection for Victims of Ritual Abuse in San Diego, Part I - Page 8
© Ellen Lacter, PhD
A 1992-1993 (June 29, 1993) San Diego Civil Grand Jury Report entitled, "Protect the Child, Preserve the Family Report", strongly criticized the 1991-1992 Grand Jury Report No. 8 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. The 1992-1993 report also cited preliminary evidence of an increase in infants' and children's deaths caused by abuse and neglect in San Diego County following the 1991-1992 Grand Jury report, although the numbers were too small for statistical analysis.
2. June 1, 1994, Grand Jury Report No. 7a; "Analysis of Child Molestation Issues". This report is prefaced with a letter to the San Diego County Board of Supervisors that begins with, "In December of 1993 the 1993/94 San Diego County Grand Jury received a number of requests to investigate the prosecution of the Dale Akiki case. One of these requests was from a member of the Board of Supervisors and subsequently caused the entire Board of Supervisors to unanimously vote to appropriate a supplemental budget for the Grand Jury to prepare a report on child molestation prosecutions within the criminal justice system." This Grand Jury investigation "found no evidence of satanic ritual child molestation in San Diego County." It concluded; "There is no justification for the further pursuit of the theory of satanic ritual child molestation in the investigation and prosecution of child sexual abuse cases." Among the recommendations to the District Attorney's office are:"94/47: "Discontinue the use of the Interagency Investigative Team Protocol developed by the MV/MP Ritualistic Abuse Task Force in December 1990", and, "#94/50: Refrain from the use of the theoretical concept of satanic ritual child molestation as the basis of criminal prosecutions." http://www.co.san-diego.ca.us/cnty/cntyd...
Mark Sauer refers to the findings of the 1994 report in his article, "Chasing Satan in Sacramento".
Early in the summer of 2002, the San Diego Civil Grand Jury web-page listed all reports since 1997 or 1998, and only a few prior to 1997. The earlier reports included the two reports arguing against the existence of ritual abuse, that is, the 1991-1992 Report No. 8 "Child Sexual Abuse, Assault, and Molest Issues", for which Carol Hopkins was Deputy Foreperson, and the June 1, 1994, Grand Jury Report No. 7a; "Analysis of Child Molestation Issues".
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