Hell Minus One - signed verified confessions of satanic ritual abuse

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“Anne’s parents confessed their atrocities—both in writing and verbally—to

clergymen, and to detectives from the Utah Attorney General’s Office. Anne’s
suppressed memories, which erupted when she was in her mid-30s, were fully
substantiated by her mother and stepfather.”

“After spending three years and $250,000 the Attorney General’s office has
finished its probe into ritual abuse. Now the 59-page report says investigators
found evidence of ritual abuse, but nothing that can be prosecuted at this time.”

“Confessed, and even paid up. The parents settled out of court to pay Jenny’s
therapy bills.”

Anne’s Story of Deliverance From Satanic Ritual Abuse and her Journey to Freedom
“Hell Minus One” When Anne A Johnson Davis was just three years old, her mother
and stepfather began to physically, sexually and mentally abuse her—in the name of
Satan. Until she ran away from home at 17, her parents and other cult members
subjected her to satanic ritual abuse, a criminally inhumane and bizarre form of
devil worship. In the middle of the night, Anne would be drugged and forced to
endure hours of ritualistic torture as a symbolic sacrifice….The horrors Anne
experienced, the astounding miracles that helped her to survive, and the heal-or-
die choices she made as an adult to triumph over her tragic past, are revealed in
her new book Hell Minus One: My Story of Deliverance From Satanic Ritual Abuse and
My Journey to Freedom. Hell Minus One is different from other previously published
memoirs by victims of satanic ritual abuse. Instead of distressing, heart-breaking
accounts without collaborative or corroborative evidence, Anne’s parents confessed
their atrocities—both in writing and verbally—to clergymen, and to detectives from
the Utah Attorney General’s Office. Anne’s suppressed memories, which erupted when
she was in her mid-30s, were fully substantiated by her mother and stepfather….The
book’s foreword was written by Lt. Detective Matt Jacobson, who was the lead
investigator with the Utah Attorney General’s Office on Anne’s case in 1995. In
April 1995, Anne was interviewed by KTVX Channel 4 News and The Deseret News in
Salt Lake City for stories regarding a then newly released three-year study by the
Utah AG’s Office about ritual abuse. In those news accounts, Anne’s identity was
concealed as she explained some of the horrors of her childhood. In Hell Minus
One, Anne publicly blows the door open on who she is and tells her story openly
for the first time. http://www.hellminusone.com/

“…I knew three years old was supposed to be the right age for sexual activity… You
were drugged with cough syrup and the light was shadowy and flickering on the
hooded and masked figures… He cut off your nightclothes and panties. A dog was
hung by the back feet, throat cut and disemboweled and hind legs cut off. You were
hung by your feet after being bound. I let you be used as a symbolic sacrifice, my
tiny innocent child. I let you be painted with blood, have the dull side of a
knife across your throat and feet. You may have seen me go and kneel… and take an
oath that if anyone revealed anything done there or your father did not make you
children behave, I would kill you children, him or myself.”
—An excerpt from one confession letter written by Anne’s mother

Foreword for Hell Minus One by Lieutenant Detective Matt Jacobson Utah Attorney
General’s Office (retired)

In the autumn of 1994, I was at the Utah State Attorney General’s Office working
under a legislative grant to investigate satanic ritualistic abuse. …When Mike
King, my AG detective partner, and I traveled to a state in the Pacific Northwest
to question Anne’s mother and stepfather about allegations of satanic ritual
abuse, we found the contents of their confession letters to her to be true. They
confessed to us—in person. The allegations were confirmed.
http://www.hellminusone.com/Links.html
http://www.johnsondaviscommunications.com/about.htm

Woman revisits the ‘Hell’ of ritual abuse By Ben Winslow Deseret News 12/10/08
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 — 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 —
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://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705269563,00.html

ABC News, KTVX Channel4, Salt Lake City, UT

coverage of Anne’s story http://www.hellminusone.com/Links.html
April 25, 1995 (Pseudonym “Jenny”)

“Good Afternoon and thanks for joining us. I’m Randall Carlisle.”

“And I’m Kimberly Perkins. The report is final. Ritual abuse exists in Utah, but
its hard to prosecute.”

Randall Carlisle: “After spending three years and $250,000 the Attorney General’s
office has finished its probe into ritual abuse. Now the 59-page report says
investigators found evidence of ritual abuse, but nothing that can be prosecuted
at this time.”

Kimberly Perkins: “The lack of prosecution of such reports does not mean that the
reports are factitious (Ritual Abuse Task Force).

Paul Murphy: “One woman who came forward to tell about ritual abuse brought
something no one else has - a confession from the perpetrators. “Jenny” was only
three years old when her parents started sexually abusing her.

The bruises in this picture show she was physically abused as well.”

Jenny: “They would go through these very formal satanic rituals and I would be
abused and tortured and threatened with my life and used as a sacrifice.”

Paul Murphy: “And most people would be skeptical of Jenny’s story of satanic
ritual abuse, except for one thing - her parents confessed. In these letters the
parents ask for forgiveness and describe the abuse in detail. Her mother wrote:
‘He cut off your nightclothes and panties. A dog was hung by the back feet,
throat cut and disemboweled and hind legs cut off. You were hung by your feet
after being bound.’ Others have told similar stories, but had no physical proof.”

Paul Murphy:….Her father wrote: ’I performed the same sexual acts on you at home.
The sexual acts on you at home. The sexual abuse in our home was a repeat of the
ritual.’

Paul Murphy: “Confessed, and even paid up. The parents settled out of court to
pay Jenny’s therapy bills.”

Deseret News, Salt Lake City, UT - Page One Metro Section, April 25, 1995
Ritual abuse does exist, victim says by Jerry Spangler - Deseret News Staff Writer

From the time she was 3 years old until she became a young adult, Rachel Hopkins
(not her real name) was ritualistically tortured, raped, bathed in blood and
threatened she would be killed if she ever told anyone….
Like most victims of satanic ritual abuse, Hopkins remembered the abuse many years
later. But her case is significantly different from others. She has the signed
confessions of her parents - both of whom admitted abusing her during satanic
rituals - that corroborate every memory she has of the abuse. The confessions
offer much greater detail of events Rachel could not have ever known. Hopkins’
parents also confessed in detail to two investigators from the Utah Attorney
General’s Office and to the leaders of the church they attended. Hopkins was also
able to recover a photograph of herself as a child that shows bruises inflicted
during the ritual abuse. Her siblings have also corroborated the events
surrounding the ritual abuse….The truth is they (occultists) do wear black robes,
they do abuse children, they do kill animals,” she said. “It exists, and to say
otherwise is to deny the facts in front of them. Our society used to deny the
existence of incest, too, because we didn’t want to believe it.”….Two years and
eight months ago, the memories started coming back. At first, she couldn’t believe
it either. She has heard of satanic ritual abuse before but had never associated
memories with that behavior. “The first time I called my parents up and told them
I had been sexually abused and I knew they did it, they told me I was
hallucinating,” she said. “Since that time, they have written letters to each of
the children confirming everything in explicit detail.”