title: Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-First Century: Psychological, Forensic, Social, and Political Considerations
author: Randy Noblitt
description: Randy and Pam Noblitt have been advocating on behalf of victims of ritual trauma for over two decades. Randy's a clinical psychologist, author, educator, and expert and fact witness. Pam's a victim's advocate, one of Eckerd's 100 Women of 2000, coauthor, presenter, including at the United Nations. Randy's Professor/Director of Cllinical PsyD Program - LA's Alliant International University.
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  **THE ARTIFACT**
  
  
  **PHILIP E. HIGH**
  
  
  The place was a shambles, no doubt about that. A blood-stained saber lying in
  the middle of the carpet was bad enough, but the killer had gone berserk.
  Limbs, hands pieces of torso, even fingers and toes had been flung insanely
  about the room. Needless to say there was the hell of a lot of blood, much of
  it splashed up the walls.
  
  
  An elaborate attempt had been made to set fire to the place by setting fire to
  the kitchen. An erection of cups, soup plates and jugs filled with spirits,
  whisky, brandy, and cleaning fluids should have started a blaze capable of
  gutting the place in less than thirty minutes.
  
  
  This aspect to me was the worst of all. This was not a single building, this
  was an apartment, one of eight in the same block—entire families could have
  died as well.
  
  
  Fortunately, in this case, the apartment had a damper that snuffed out the
  fire before it took hold.
  
  
  Landlords and the owners of tenements often forget to men