Ch. 2: It Didn't Come Out All At Once.
It took months for a clear picture to form...
When Scott told me that he was ritually abused by members of his family allegedly involved in a secret satanic cult, it didn’t come out all at once. It came in stages.
Stage One
As I said before, our daughter and I came home from a trip, and Scott was distraught and disheveled when he picked us up. When we got home and put Jasmyne to bed, he proceeded to inform me that while we were gone, all of these horrific images came flooding back to his mind. A circle of people in dark robes and hoods, him in the middle of the circle, them speaking incantations over him and chanting over him…things of that nature. My mind could hardly take in what he was saying…but when he mentioned that his own family were the people in the circle, based on what I knew of his parents, somewhere deep down inside it made sense.
That was my gut reaction.
But, like I said, he was also off his medication. He was clearly manic, but also traumatized and agitated. Over the next couple of days as I was trying to make sense of things, his mental health deteriorated further. It wasn’t just his family. It was the neighborhood he grew up in. It wasn’t just the neighborhood. There was a whole network of these people.
Yikes.