There is a huge movement of psychiatrists who are currently saying that satanic and ritual abuse does not happen within the UK.
What a bizarre thing to post.
The fact is that there is a huge movement of counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, police officers, social workers and GPs who believe that there are significant networks of satanists active in the UK. These people share the bizarre belief that satanists are murdering and raping children, eating babies and conducting abortions on women as a form of satanic sacrifice.
In fact a notorious anti-abortion activist, Wilfred Wong, was recently sentenced to 17 years in jail + 5 years on licence for conspiring to kidnap a child alongside various accomplices, including a psychotherapist who specialised in treating victims of satanic cults. Wong actually had a “kidnap kit” in his possession and used a knife to threaten the child’s terrified foster mother before tearing the child from her and bundling them into a waiting getaway car. Wong and his associates all suffered from a delusion that the child was being abused by a satanic cult and thus claimed that the kidnap was a rescue mission.
Wong is on record as claiming that abortions are actually satanic rituals. His fellow anti-abortion activists had form for confronting vulnerable women outside abortion clinics, whilst brandishing placards showing graphic photographs of abortions.
OP, I just wondered what your opinion is of Wong and his fellow kidnappers? I am extremely relieved that such a dangerous man is in jail where he belongs.
My opinion, for what it is worth, is that dangerous cults can arise very easily anywhere where there are power imbalances.
It is my understanding that there are many dangerous cults operating in the UK and in the world. Small cults evolve all the time and can be to do with religious / spiritual beliefs, personal development / psychotherapy, money / power, sexual proclivities and especially in any situation where there is competition for limited resources and where a small number of people have power / authority over others.
Many things about the OP concern me.
Anyone familiar with the Qanon / Pizzagate hoaxes and related SRA hoaxes will understand that hoaxes and conspiracy theories about satanic cults are widespread and problematic. These hoaxes have destroyed families, traumatised communities and lead to miscarriages of justice over the decades of the satanic panic and prior to that the blood libel has lead to countless murders and pogroms.
There have been many child abductions and kidnaps all over the world committed by deluded Qanon believers.
So, re the OP, in conclusion, the blurry photos do not really prove anything. Obviously. I think it is important that anyone discovering weird rituals involving blood and cutting reports such incidents to the police, not because “it might be satanists” but because regardless of spiritual belief, people being mutilated (whether as part of a ritual or not) may be evidence of criminal activity. This is for the police to investigate, if anything like this actually happened.
I recently saw a video of a controversial, hate inciting preacher, exchanging views with a man that her friend’s video channel called “a satanist”. He was in fact a Zoroastrian. Zoroastrians are often falsely accused of being satanists as are Yazidis.
The fact is that “satanist” is not uncommonly used as an othering / derogatory word to describe anyone whose religious beliefs are considered heretical by the accuser.
If anyone is interested in the history of the satanic panic in the UK there is a wonderful 1990s documentary here
Strange Days episode 3 - Catherine Bennett looks at the Psychotherapy, and Satanic Abuse.
For those with limited time this short clip is highly educational re the delusions and harmful activities of some therapists in the US
as is this