Teresa's escape from brutal 'satanic cult' and bizarre rituals (1989) | 60 Minutes Australia

to describe this story as horrifying would be an understatement and if that sounds like a warning then that's exactly what it's meant to be it deals with the sexual abuse of children by satanic cults and not only that human sacrifices as well we started investigating these secret satanic cults when a british member of parliament linked them with the ritual murder of children in this day and age it sounded too far-fetched as did suggestions that the same thing might be happening in australia but then we met teresa she's only 15 and for 12 of those years she's been the victim of relentless depravity teresa's story is both shocking and compelling yet it's a story she's anxious to tell but again we should warn you that parts of this report may be distressing my friends are family and strangers and my family used to rape me maybe i bought the babies i had it would be hard to imagine more misery and suffering than what theresa says she's had to endure and us kids would be made to do things with the adults and animals and then a sacrifice would happen the sacrifice were these animal sacrifices animals and um people on what scale do you think this was happening enormous far beyond what we've ever heard of here before teresa's mother bridget you're talking about mass murder yes on a scale that this country's never heard of before like the old people's homes for the first time theresa is learning what it's like to live with love instead of fear in this quiet english village with the help of a mother she's slowly repairing her broken life teresa is now 15 but at the age of two she was left in the care of this woman the grandma she called nan and that she says is when a torment started who was the leader who was uh who was the boss of the king of the cult at home it was my name your nan made you have sex with animals yeah like goats and donkeys the story of teresa is a story almost too horrible to recount a case of child abuse that goes well beyond the kind of things we normally associate with the abuse of children in 27 years of reporting it has to be one of the most painful stories i have ever had to tell how many men or how many people would have sex with you well at one time yes but everyone who was there which must have been about 20 you know from 10 to 20 people if it was a big ceremony it used to be 30. what would your grandma be doing when these men were forcing themselves on you usually laughing or smiling or having sex with another man or other men a chronicle of debauchery and depravity so horrific it's hard to believe you have to ask yourself could theresa be just making it up no i know what's true and what's not now i know what i saw children don't make up elaborate lies that this would have to be if it was a lie which i i know it is not it isn't this couldn't be a terrible dream a nightmare that you're reliving no it's no dream it's a nightmare but it's it's not one you can wake up from it's there all the time this really happened you're quite sure of that yeah the police don't think teresa made up a story some of the cult members are to stand trial five men have been charged with rape as fernan the grandmother she's 61 and lives in this council flat in south london she's charged on seven counts of aiding and abetting rape and two counts of performing abortions on teresa if you're finding this hard to believe so did i at first but then there are the medical reports evidence of sustained sexual abuse and there's this a statement prepared for 60 minutes by teresa's psychiatrist it says in my opinion teresa's account is not the product of a psychotic illness nor the figment of a fertile imagination i believe her to be telling the truth i know what's true what's not we also took teresa's story to this man therapist ray wire he reads a transcript of our interview and listens to her voice it's no dream few people of any in britain have counseled as many victims of satanic abuse or satanists themselves as rywire has if there is an expert on satanic cults it would have to be him do you believe teresa's story i believe theresa's story it's exactly the same story as i've heard from men who says they've done it you've dealt with other cases like hers yes 21 cases like hers he says in the past two years alone themes like they were put in boxes with spiders and worms where they were trapped in fear where there was a high use of excrement in urine where there was talk of human sacrifice take just one of those rituals putting children in boxes with spiders and worms now listen to what theresa told her mother and they had a coffin-like box that children were put in with spiders and snakes and the lid shut and left in there i would have come out deranged i could not have coped with that mentally at all you have evidence to back up stories like teresa's that this is really happening we have that age of child six five and four giving information that ties up with teresa how do those children know how do those children able to describe rituals to talk about ceremonies to talk about sacrificing animals how do those children know nightmares imagining it you can't imagine those things at three and four years old and you also don't have the evidence of anal sex abuse and oral sex abuse and all that other abuse that clearly those children have experienced and endured during these ceremonies was satan the devil ever referred to he was called lucifer um what did they say about the devil about lucifer that um killing the people made him happy sacrifices to please the devil according to teresa the worst rituals took place at a house somewhere in the country it was big you know expensive from the front it looked like a castle you know i had a long drive and big double wooden doors do you think they were rich people then very rich now where was this big house somewhere in the country teresa says she can't take the police there because the satanist made sure she'd never know how to find it theresa was always drugged or on a couple of occasions she said she was knocked out um so that she never fully knew the route there was a [ __ ] who was brought in once you know and he was killed i used cut from his throat down to his stomach and that they hear him little bits of him they killed a man at a ceremony yeah in front of you yeah in front of all of all of us did the [ __ ] did this man fight back no i think he was you know drunk or something he seemed really dopey he was laughing a lot when he was brought in and he started screaming when they began to cut but after a while you know he died i had seen a few killings before then although i wasn't used to it you know that was the worst one i really don't know what i thought i suppose i thought thank god it's not me let me get this right now are you saying that you saw more than one person killed in that house yeah i've seen um loads of babies killed there just newborn babies or aborted ones which were only small you know four-year-olds any age really did they ever say they might kill you uh they threatened to kill my little girl who's when i left was still at the house a friend huh what little girl my little girl alex she's about four now you mean you had a child yeah how old were you when you had that child eleven motherhood at the age of 11. but from what teresa told her mother it wasn't the only pregnancy we think um about seven or eight times it's hard to say um it was constantly happening from the time she was capable of being pregnant what happened to the pregnancies to the babies um they were aborted by my nan or by one of the doctors at the house there were doctors there at that house yeah there was um two i think yeah and there and a nurse what would happen uh to the fetus as the unborn babies i used to be taken away most of the time and one time baby was taken out of me and then killed in front of me because it was still alive and then what would happen well after they killed it i would eat it well we were also made to eat it you were made to eat your own fetus yeah who made you do this my name you'd think the one person in the world you could leave a little girl with would be grandma someone to give a love and protector from harm yet when theresa was left to live with her grandmother they might as well have handed her to the devil himself grandmothers i mean the vision it conjures up for you know sweet old lady gray hair rosy cheeks holding her arms out to love her grandchildren and it was exactly the reverse but why was theresa living with nan in the first place and not with her mother when my first marriage broke up um i took the children with me and couldn't cope so i gave them to their father who in turn moved to his mother's den's place yeah and when he left the nan's place um he left the children there how do you feel now towards her grandma and the other people who who did all those things to your daughter uh they disgust me they are the worst form of life this earth has had the misfortune to create uh the vile you ever try to to run away you must have been must have been frightened a couple of times i did put my uncle he caught me and brought me back going to the police did that occur to you no i thought it was normal you know even though i didn't like it you know i mean you don't like to eat greens but you you know somewhere you you know you thought i thought it was just her being cool to be kind or something like that she said to me it was something that everybody did she thought you know like you don't like going to school with a dentist you don't like going to the black masses it was never any different i didn't have nothing to compare it to all part of life theresa thought even a miscarriage one day at school yeah i asked the teacher if i could go to the toilet and she allowed me out i went to the toilet and um the baby was in the knickers i thought it was dead but it it wasn't it was still moving and yet no one at school knew no saw anything no or if they did they didn't say no she was treated for a high temperature a fever nothing more what did she do with the baby she kept her for a while because she was frightened that they'd use the child as part of the rituals so uh she turned pencil case into a little coffin apparently she put roses in to make her smell sweet put a letter with her pictures of herself and her brother a picture of me and then i put it down the chute because i didn't want my nan to get it as we said earlier the police have already charged some members of the cult and we know they're also investigating teresa's accounts of those ritual killings if there were as many she told us then the satanists had a problem how did they get rid of the bodies they had um a tub you know pretty big i don't know if very big tub and they used to put the bodies and bones in there and it used to go like you know fizzy in it and then there was nothing left well they didn't seem to be but when they cleared it out there used to be a sludge at the bottom teresa's story her account doesn't really surprise you it doesn't surprise me in the light of satanic abuse now do you get frustrated with people who just won't accept that these things do happen yes because i i've worked with murderers in prisons for years not that long ago a boy was found in a forest in southern england without a head we have no doubts that men can do that and yet when we start talking about men within satanism who actually believe in evil and it's the right to express evil we suddenly have a a doubt as i was leaving teresa's place she handed me this note it's addressed to the film crew she says thanks for bothering to help kids like me i hope it helps on the other side there's a poem theresa made up while she was staying at nan's place she calls it nothing left nothing left i would scream but there is no voice left i would cry but there are no tears left i'd fight there is no strength left that was just part of our investigation of satanism in britain we're also gathering evidence about the activities of such cults here in australia hello i'm liam bartlett thanks for watching to keep up with the latest from 60 minutes australia make sure you subscribe to our channel you can also download the nine now app for full episodes and other exclusive 60 minutes content

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Length: 18min 33sec (1113 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 04 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Conference-Shoddy]

Up vote so people can see how sick some people is.

[u/adreamingandroid]

I have seen an interview with Teresa prior to this posting. What she talks about just sends your head onto a different level.

Strong at the broken places.

[u/[deleted]]

Man fuck this sub lmao

[u/-KIRE-]

Satanists are an odd bunch...

[u/thebigideaguy]

The only conspiracy here is how gullible people are - including the news media - to believe any of this nonsense.

[u/dahlaru]

I'm sad that so many people would call this poor girl a liar. And send her back to her abuser. Heartbreaking

[u/Mackm123456]

Dark stuff like always when it comes to cults

[u/EarlxG]

Satanic panic was definitely a thing and there were alot of hoaxes, OP's story apparently being one of them, but there are countless documented cases of SRA all over the world which all share commonalities, check out Willifred Wong' work on YouTube hes an extremely experienced researcher who often interviews victims of SRA who i find to be very credible

[u/rdocs]

Absolute bullshit here, if you want religious abuse look up missouri christian work camps, christian tough love homes or reform schools. But let me guess physical and sexual assault while basically living in a prison yard is the lords work right?!