The  Following News Report is from the Independent,  one  of 
the United Kingdom National "qualities" of 1 June 1990:
 
   CARE WORKERS "LED CHILDREN TO INVENT SEX ALLEGATIONS"
    By Jack O'Sullivan - Health Services Correspondent.
 

A  CONFIDENTIAL report on alleged Satanic abuse of  children 
in   Nottinghamshire has accused social workers  of  leading 
children into  making unfounded allegations.
 
The  report, leaked to Central Television, details  evidence 
from one  child psychologist that "the disclosure procedures 
followed  by social workers may well be doing positive  harm 
to the young people they are  questioning".
 
It  finds  no  evidence  of  ritualistic  abuse,  which  was 
described  by    children  during  interviews  with   social 
workers.  It  says  that much of  the  evidence  of  alleged 
satanic  abuse  was  merely  a  product  of  a    suggestive 
questioning technique.
 
The conclusions of the report and the failure to publish its 
contents   has provoked bitter resentment among  the  social 
workers who feel unable  to argue with leaks from it.
 
A  spokesman  for NALGO, the union representing  the  social 
workers,  said:  "This report has been leaked to the  press, 
yet  our  members have been  unable to see  it.  They  would 
welcome the outcome of the full report at the earliest  time 
possible so that they can gain recourse."
 
The  inquiry was set up last year after eight members  of  a 
family  and  a  male friend were jailed for a  total  of  43 
years  in  Britain's  biggest  child sex  abuse  case  which 
resulted  in 23 children, 18 from one family  and  all  aged 
under 12, being taken into care.
 
As  suspicions rose that the well documented abuse may  have 
had  ritual  aspects to it, an inquiry was set up  including 
three social work  managers not involved in the case. 
 
The  inquiry team claims that after three months of  therapy 
by  social    workers  one  female  child  alleged  acts  of 
cannibalism and witnessing  seven murders.
 
The  submission  of  the  team  is  that  "the  interviewing 
techniques    deployed by social workers on her  amounts  to 
interrogation with pressure  being gradually increased until 
answers  are provided which social  workers want  to  hear". 
Another  member  of the team claims: "The limited     choice 
questions such as you killed three or thirty babies...can be 
interpreted  as  a  typical  psychological  ploy  to  induce 
confession."
 
The report adds that in one police interview a girl  claimed 
she fabricated the whole story. All the information she had, 
she stated, had come from social workers who pressured her.
 
In  the case of a young woman constantly questioned  by  one 
young woman,  the team reports: "It is hard not to draw  the 
conclusion   that  she  will    remain  a  highly   confused 
individual in terms of what happened and what  didn't...as a 
direct result of social work practice. Will she go   through 
life believing she is a child abuser having participated  in  
the killing and eating of babies?"
 
There  have  been  increasing  reports  of  children   being 
ritually  abused  in  bizarre  ceremonies.  In  March,   The 
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to  Children, 
said that seven of its teams had reported cases of  children 
who had directly experienced such abuse.
 
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Thought  You lot over the pond might be interested  in  this 
one.
 
Yours In The Work, Peter Elliott.