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> Woman revisits the 'Hell' of ritual abuse By Ben Winslow Deseret News
> 12/10/08 describes crimes -
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> She isn't Rachel Hopkins anymore. Anne A Johnson Davis is shedding the
> moniker she used in a 1995 Deseret News story about her childhood as a
> victim of
> ritualistic Satanic abuse and speaking out in a memoir of her life. Davis,
> now
> a Lehi mother of three, is stepping into the spotlight again with the
> publication of her book "Hell Minus One." "I have had enough healing and
> closure of
> my own, I feel I'm in a place where I really feel the call to share what
> I
> have to help others find courage," Davis said in an interview Wednesday.
> Davis'
> story is so bizarre, it's hard to believe it actually happened â save
> for
> the fact that she has signed confessions from her mother and stepfather,
> a
> financial settlement and investigators from the Utah Attorney General's
> Office
> who vouched for her. From age 3 until she ran away at 17, she said she
> was
> sexually abused, tortured, bathed in blood and forced to hurt her
> siblings in
> Satanic rituals. "They would tell me, 'Now you're one of us. If you tell
> anybody, they won't believe you and they'll put you in a mental
> hospital.' And they
> threatened to torture me until I was dead," Rachel Hopkins said in 1995.
> It
> was a study by the Utah Attorney General's Office that downplayed ritual
> abuse that prompted Davis to come forward. At the time, she insisted on a
> pseudonym and did interviews in silhouette. "I'm glad that she's come out
> of the
> shadows and she's in the sunlight to tell her story so other victims will
> speak
> out and know they don't have to be afraid anymore," said Paul Murphy, a
> spokesman for the Utah Attorney General's Office who interviewed her as a
> TV
> reporter back in 1995. He also wrote a blurb on the book's jacket. Davis
> still
> takes issue with the attorney general's report, which came out at a time
> when
> ritual abuse was being attacked as indicative of false memory syndrome
> â events
> and fantasies imagined by patients or planted by unscrupulous
> therapists....The Utah Attorney General's Office has no plans to revisit
> the controversial
> study, but continues to investigate any reports of ritual abuse. "We take
> all
> child abuse very seriously," Murphy said....When she ran away from home
> at
> 17, Davis said she cut ties with her family and anyone associated with
> them.
> She heard her stepfather died a few years ago but has no idea what
> happened to
> her mother. She also isn't scared about publishing the family secrets.
> "Secrecy is their greatest weapon," she said. "I don't believe I have
> anything to
> be afraid of." _http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705269563,00.html_
> (http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705269563,00.html)
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