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'''Satanic ritual abuse''' ('''SRA''') refers to the [[sexual abuse]] of children or non-consenting adults in the context of [[Satanism|Satanic]] rituals.  The term '''sadistic ritual abuse''' is sometimes used or suggested as a more descriptive synonym that makes no assumption of whether actual "Satanism" is involved.<ref name = VOV(contracted; show full)

During this period, the justice system also failed to recognize the harmful impact of the court process on young children. Whilst screens or CCTV technology are a common feature of child sexual assault trials today, children in the early 1980s were typically forced into direct visual contact with the accused abuser whilst in court. Early efforts to address a young child's anxiety over confronting their accused abuser sometimes provided grounds for a successful appeal.
 For instance, the convictions of Cheryl and Violet Amirault for offenses relating to ritual child sexual abuse were successfully appealed on the basis that two complainant children, aged 5 and 8, were permitted to angle their chairs away from the defendants after expressing considerable fear at facing them directly <ref>{{cite news | last = Weber | first = D | coauthors = Donlan, A. | title = Pair in day care molest case get 2nd trial | publisher = [[Boston Herald]] | date = 1995-08-30| page = 3 | url = http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/access/20531100.html?dids=20531100:20531100&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+30%2C+1995&author=DAVID+WEBER+and+ANN+E.+DONLAN&pub=Boston+Herald&edition=&startpage=001&desc=Pair+in+day+care+molest+case+get+2nd+trial | accessdate = 2007-11-20}} (abstract)</ref>.

In the McMartin ritual abuse case, children as young as ten were subject to hostile cross-examination for over two weeks.<ref>{{cite news | last = Flynn | first = G | title = Parents plead to spare molested kids new pain| publisher = [[The San Diego Union-Tribune]] | date = 1985-03-01 | pages = 1-4}}</ref> The harms caused to child witnesses in the McMartin case sparked a significant program of legislative reform toin recognize the vulnerable and intimidated nature of complainant children intion of the harm that children testifying in court and the justice system. face.  It also catalyzed a broad agenda of research into the nature of children's testimony and the reliability of their oral evidence in court. The findings of this research is somewhat ambiguous, suggesting that neither children nor adults are immune to suggestive interviewing techniques, however, but even extremely suggestive techniques do not inevitably lead to false reports.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Ceci SJ, Kulkofsky S, Klemfuss JZ, Sweeney CD, Bruck M |title=Unwarranted Assumptions about Children's Testimonial Accuracy |journal=Annual review of clinical psychology |volume=3 |issue= |pages=311–28 |year=2007 |pmid=17716058 |doi=10.1146/annurev.clinpsy.3.022806.091354}}</ref>

==Dissociative Identity Disorder and SRA==

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