ALL PB
Checked halfchan for Leavitt digs.
Found this memo written by
Bishop Glenn L Pace about Ritualistic Child Abuse in the Mormon Church
from 1990
It's 18 pages.
M E M O R A N D U M
Date: July 19, 1990
To:
Strengthening Church Members Committee
From: Bishop Glenn L. Pace
Subject: Ritualistic Child Abuse
Pursuant to the Committee's request, I am writing this memorandum to pass along what I have learned about ritualistic
child abuse. Hopefully, it will be of some value to you as you continue to monitor the problem. You have already
received the LDS Social Services report on satanism dated May 24, 1989, a report from Brent Ward, and a
memorandum from myself dated October 20, 1989 in response to Brother Ward's report. Therefore, I will limit this
writing to information not contained in those papers.
I have met with sixty victims. That number could be twice or three times as many if I did not discipline myself to only
one meeting per week. I have not wanted my involvement with this issue to become a handicap in fulfilling my assigned
responsibilities. On the other hand, I felt someone needed to pay the price to obtain an intellectual and spiritual
conviction as to the seriousness of this problem within the Church.
Of the sixty victims with whom I have met, fifty-three are female and seven are male. Eight are children. The abuse
occurred in the following places: Utah (37), Idaho (3), California (4), Mexico (2), and other places (14). Fifty-three
victims are currently living in the State of Utah. All sixty individuals are members of the Church. Forty-five victims
allege witnessing and/or participating in human sacrifice. The majority were abused by relatives, often their parents. All
have developed psychological problems and most have been diagnosed as having multiple personality disorder or some
other form of dissociative disorder.
Ritualistic child abuse is the most hideous of all child abuse. The basic objective is premeditated–to systematically and
methodically torture and terrorize children until they are forced to dissociate. The torture is not a consequence of the
loss of temper, but the execution of well-planned, well-thought out rituals often performed by close relatives. The only
escape for the children is to dissociate. They will develop a new personality to enable them to endure various forms of
abuse. When the episode is over, the core personality is again in control and the individual is not conscious of what
happened. Dissociation also serves the purposes of the occult because the children have no day-to-day memory of the
atrocities. They go through adolescence and early adulthood with no active memory of what is taking place. Oftentimes
they continue in rituals through their teens and early twenties, unaware of their involvement. Many individuals with
whom I have spoken have served missions and it has not been until later that they begin to remember. One individual
has memories of participating in rituals while serving as a full-time missionary.
The victims lead relatively normal lives, but the memories are locked up in a compartment in their minds and surface in
various ways. They don't know how to cope with the emotions because they can't find the source. As they become adults
298598Filings of Complainant 6.txt[12/20/2017 2:06:01 PM]and move into another environment, something triggers the memories and, consequently, flashbacks and/or nightmares
occur. One day they will have been living a normal life and the next they will be in a mental hospital in a fetal position.
The memories of their early childhood are recalled in so much detail that they once again feel the pain that caused the
dissociation in the first place.