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{{Satanism}}
'''Satanic ritual abuse''' (or '''SRA''') is alleged to be the work of a network of [[Satanism|Satanists]] who engage in [[brainwashing]] and [[abuse]] of victims, especially [[child abuse|children]], throughout the world.

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==Prevalence==

There are no firm [[prevalence]] figures on satanic ritual abuse, since its very existence is doubted in many quarters, and the definition of what constitutes satanic ritual abuse vary between researchers. 

The statistics most directly relevant to the question of the [[prevalence]] of satanic ritual abuse comes from two studies in [[Britain]].
 A survey of organised [[paedophile]] activity undertaken by British police forces in the late 1980s found that a total of 1,812 children have been sexually abused by 186 organised paedophile rings in the three years prior to survey, and one in forty cases involved allegations of ritualistic activity{{cn}} A BBC survey of British police forces in the late 1980s found that of 186 cases of network abuse where either multiple abusers or multiple abused children were known to each other only five involved claims of ritual or satanic abuse. <ref>Brindle, D. (1990) "Ritual abuse occurs 'in 1 in 40 child sex rings'" The Guardian. 19 October, London </ref>. In another study, 29% of the 211 cases of organised [[child sexual abuse]] reported to researchers by British police, social and welfare agencies from the period of 1988 to 1991 were designated "ritual abuse" cases by respondents <ref>Gallagher, B., B. Hughes and H. Parker (1996). "The nature and extent of known cases of organised child sex(contracted; show full)[[Category:Hoaxes]]
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