“ The people who were behind my abuse were very clever. They had created something which would be so difficult to explain, so difficult to make sense of, that it would be easier to dismiss it all out of… Laurie Matthew
“ I'm just asking you to accept that there are some people who will go to extraordinary lengths to cover up the facts that they are abusing children.What words are there to describe what happened to me,… Laurie Matthew
“ There is unmistakable proof that abusers do get together in order to share children, abuse more children, and even learn from each other. As more cases have come into the public eye in recent years, t… Laurie Matthew
“ In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions. Laurie Matthew
“ In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to:break the will and personality of the person until they become as nothing... with no will of their own… Laurie Matthew
“ There is no one way to recover and heal from any trauma. Each survivor chooses their own path or stumbles across it. Laurie Matthew
“ Ritualised child sexual abuse is about abuse of power, control and secrecy. Ten years ago many people found it difficult to believe that fathers actually raped their children, yet survivors of such ab… Laurie Matthew
“ It felt like I was living in two worlds. There was one world which was a daylight world and another dark world (though I'm not saying that everything bad happened in darkness because it didn't). In th… Laurie Matthew
“ There was nothing you could be sure about, it was all lies, and it was all done to mess with minds because the control and the power trip was so important to them, as well as it being necessary in ter… Laurie Matthew
“ ….Nothing was inevitable. She had not chosen this way. It was her fate. It had been decided since before time began. It had been decided before she began. Nothing could be done. There was no point in… Laurie Matthew
“ I have to find a place to hideAn island in the seaSurrounded by a racing tideWhere I can live with me Laurie Matthew
“ Those who support such survivors of abuse often find it difficult to hear the reality of those survivors' lives and experience and are often unsupported themselves. Rather than being supported, worker… Laurie Matthew
“ Some abusers organise themselves in groups to abuse children and other adults in a more formally ritualised way. Men and women in these groups can be abusers with both sexes involved in all aspects of… Laurie Matthew
“ Political prisoners describe:- extreme physical and emotional torture- distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality- sham killings- begin repeatedly taken to the point of death or threatened wit… Laurie Matthew
“ He loves me so he hurts meTo try and make me good.It doesn't work. I'm just too badAnd don't do what I should.My memory has so many different sections and, like all survivors, there are so many compar… Laurie Matthew
