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Call for Policy to Increase Protection for Victims of Ritual Abuse in San Diego, Part II

© Ellen P. Lacter, Ph.D.

After the apple boycott, Hopkins obtained guardianship in her San Diego home of "Sam" Doggett, teen-age daughter of Mark and Carol Doggett, both convicted at trial of sexual abuse of Sam's younger sister in the Wenatchee case. Moving a child from Washington to the San Diego home of someone attempting to overturn the parents' convictions is a dangerous conflict of interest that should not have been permitted by San Diego CSB.

Sauer documented in a San Diego Union-Tribune article on 6-18-96 that once Sam Doggett resided with Hopkins, 17-year-old Doggett joined Hopkins, Akiki, and others in multiple media events, claiming her parents were innocent and touting the positions of Hopkins' 'Justice Committee'. The convictions of Mark and Carol Doggett were later successfully overturned.

On Dr. Lacter's website, "Karen Curio Jones" writes the following; "Ms. Hopkins then claimed [in 2000] on the Witchhunt list that Ivory Johnson, the ex-director of Child Protective Services in San Diego County, personally monitored this placement, and Ms. Hopkins refused to have a home study" (see: http://truthbeknown2000.tripod.com/Truth... The "Witchhunt List" is an e-group: Witchhunt@egroups.com

A home study is an evaluation of the suitability and safety of a family and home as a foster-placement. There is no justification for the then-director of Child Protective Services (now CSB) to dispense with the normal procedure of a conducting a home study of a placement of an out-of-state child, especially in a case involving such a serious conflict of interests. Important questions must be asked about how this was allowed to occur.

E. Law Enforcement

Law enforcement officers are generally very committed to their work, and are particularly devoted to protecting abused children. Most law enforcement officers in San Diego and elsewhere acknowledge on a one-to-one basis that they have investigated crimes with occult elements and have encountered ritual crime victims and scenes.

Yet, law enforcement agencies in San Diego experience the same types of pressure as child protective agencies to side-step reports of suspected ritual abuse. Great pressure has been brought to bear from the aforementioned San Diego County Grand Jury reports (no. 8 and 1994) and lawsuits, as in the costly suit against Escondido described above. Local law enforcement detectives and higher police officials have stated that they "cannot investigate" reports of ritual abuse "because of Akiki".

Law enforcement is also affected by negative media attention on officers investigating occult crimes. In Mark Sauer's September 21, 2002 article, "Abuse or Unfounded Fear", he ridicules "two San Diego police detectives, who also subscribed to the ritual-abuse theory, that the murderous cult was operating out of a Clairemont area church."