The Pace memorandum is a 1990 memorandum written by Glenn L. Pace, a general authority in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), which explains to the church committee on complaints of six tens of church members who claim they have been subjected to Satanic ritual torture (SRA) by family members and other church members. The state of Utah conducted a 30-month investigation into claims after Pace's memorandum leaked to the media in 1991, concluding that no evidence was found to prove the victims' testimony.
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The moral panic of the SRA began in the 1980s when children in the United States, who were subjected to coercive interview techniques in the hands of vibrant social workers, made unproved suggestions of Satan's strange rituals and terrible sexual and physical abuse at the hands child care workers. As the decade progresses, clients of trusting therapists begin to make similar allegations, now commonly seen as confabulations caused by iatrogenic therapeutic techniques such as hypnosis and automatic writing rather than the discovery of repressed memories. Although there are similarities between adult and child allegations, the research is only indirect, and in many cases the conflicting evidence of patient disclosure. Court cases involving allegations of the SRA (such as the iconic McMartin preschool court) are among the most expensive and long in history and do not produce conviction or belief based solely on the testimonies of children who are frequently reversed or dismissed after appeals. The panic subsided in the late 1990s, but in the early 1990s while it was still a substantial concern, adherents in the LDS church began to tell church leaders that they had been subjected to the SRA by their families - often parents - and other church members.
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Pace Memorandum
In July 1990, Pace, then a member of the church's church's diocese, fulfilled a request by the Church Members of the Church Strengthening Committee by writing a memorandum on his investigation into the alleged incidents of CFS among the Latter-day Saints in Utah, Idaho, California, Mexico, and elsewhere. The memorandum was leaked to the press in October 1991. In his memo, Pace stated that he had met sixty victims who had recovered memories of ritual abuse during their childhood. Pace reports that children are "instructed in the doctrine of demons" and that as an eight-year-old boy they are "baptized with blood into a demonic order intended to cancel their baptism into the Church". Forty-five of Pace's witnesses claim to have witnessed or participated in human sacrifices, including infanticide. Pace said that the alleged perpetrators included "Young Women leaders, Young Men leaders, bishops, patriarchs, stake presidents, temple workers, and members of the Tabernacle Choir" and that some harassment took place in church meeting buildings. Pace writes that "when sixty witnesses testify to the same type of torture and murder, it becomes impossible for me, personally, not to trust them."
Pace compares this allegation with the story in the LDS Church scriptures about the combination of secrets and the combination of Cain with Satan to becoming Master Mahan. Pace also suggested that alleged perpetrators used and damaged oaths in the ceremonial shrines of church temples as part of Satan's torture, and that many victims had flashbacks when they attended the temple for the first time and were asked to participate in the ceremony.
Government investigation
In 1991, the Utah State Legislature allocated $ 250,000 to the Attorney General's office to investigate RSA allegations in the state of Utah. Over the span of two and a half years researchers interviewed hundreds of alleged victims, but none reported incidents supported by evidence outside their testimony and the 1995 report stated that there was no evidence from any of the victims suspected of guaranteeing an investigation of the killings. Mike King, co-author of the report, told the media that the specific allegations against church leaders were "unreasonable", and Jerry Lazar, chief psychiatrist at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, said he "could never independently verify. memories of Satanic ritual abuse ".
Church reaction
The LDS Church made no official statement regarding the allegations related to the Pace memorandum. However, a commentator has suggested that the apostle's sermon Richard G. Scott in an April 1992 general conference in the church may be related to the CFS allegations. In his speech, Scott warns Latter-day Saints:
I remind you not to participate in... improper therapy practices that can cause you more harm than good.... Detailed prominent questions that investigate your past may unknowingly spark a more imaginative or fantasy mind from reality. They can lead to other people's condemnation of actions that are not done. Although the numbers are few, I know of cases where the therapy has caused great injustice to innocent people from accidental, unintended accusations that were later proved wrong. Memory, especially adult memory of childhood experiences, can go wrong. Remember, false accusations are also a sin.
See also
- Suspicions are wrong about child sexual abuse
- Anne Johnson Davis
Footnote
External links
- Reproduction of Pace memoranda
- "Request of State of Utah Government into Ritual Crime" (PDF) . Ã, Ã, (13.0 MB)
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