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Suddenly, the stories began trickling in. One after another, their patients – male and female alike – started to tell them about depths of human evil that are hard to fathom. And they – who thought that they had heard it all, who dealt with every kind of life-altering trauma – realized that something entirely different was happening here. That in Israel, too, a phenomenon known as ritual abuse exists – and that almost no one is talking about it. Now, they say, they have collated testimonies from more than 50 victims and are ready to end the conspiracy of...

Chicago -- An 18-year-old Chicago man was arrested after allegedly kidnapping two young children to perform a demonic ritual intended to bring back his former girlfriend, authorities said. David Rodriguez was being held on $500,000 bond. Prosecutors said he and a 15-year-old companion snatched the children Friday outside a South Side library and planned to carve a pentagram in the girl's chest.

300 African boys vanish in London Friday, May 13, 2005 Posted: 1129 GMT (1929 HKT) LONDON, England -- Hundreds of young African boys have disappeared from schools in London, according to police investigating the murder of a child whose torso was found in the River Thames. To try to identify the body, Metropolitan Police officers asked every education authority in London how many black boys aged between 4 and 7 had gone missing. In one three-month period between July and September 2001, some 300 children had disappeared. There was nothing to suggest that they had been murdered, but a lack...