The original convictions were based on preschoolers' testimony of ritual abuse and torture.

I now know that the ritual abuse was just a means to an end.

The mind control concept made more sense to me than just the ritual abuse alone.

The original 16 charges were based on the preschoolers' testimony of ritual abuse and torture.

The original charges were based on the preschoolers' testimony of satanic ritual abuse and torture.

Hand signals are a common mode of control for victims of ritual abuse and mind control.

Really just doing the ritual abuse of her.

Victims of ritual abuse abroad have also come to Ireland to escape their abusers, the network says.

These insinuations, coupled with the ritual abuse I had previously endured, were enough to further dissociate me.

It was here that I began to hear bizarre stories of satanic ritual abuse from several of the patients.

My multiple personality condition resulted from what I had first thought in 1986 was solely sexual and ritual abuse.

Most accusations of satanic- ritual abuse in the early eighties were attached to allegations of sexual molestation in day-care centers.

The ritual abuse became minimal during this time, done only on occasions that were required to maintain my mind control.

At the time I began therapy, neither of my therapists was familiar with dissociation, Multiple Personality Disorder, or ritual abuse.

I didn't know what to make of the ritual abuse stories; they were extremely serious in nature, and beyond my ability to believe.

The 24-year-old woman and her mother, Patricia, claim she was subjected to ritual abuse during the early 1980s.