Beyond the Dutroux Affair The reality of protected child abuse ... - Soup

First of all, DID is intrinsically linked to the most extreme sexual and
psychological abuse against children. In 97 to 98 percent of the DID cases,
victims talk about having been sexually abused since a young age (43). It's
not uncommon for DID patients to give details about abuse that sound so
bizarre, horrifying and huge that, no matter what the evidence, will take
some time and repeating for the average person to accept as even a
possibility. Protected child abuse and -torture networks involving well
known individuals would be a primary example of that.
The second reason is that these networks are protected by those
involved, who apparently have the power to make sure that very little
information on these networks appears in the public domain. Additionally,
a rather small, but very influential group of "skeptics", organized around
the US-based False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF), have been
doing a counter-attack since the early 1990s when reports of ritual abuse
became a little bit too widespread (44). This group has done everything in
its power to convince the public and the psychology community that all
DID is created by incompetent psychologists. Because of an incorrect way
of asking questions, these psychologists would have inserted certain "false
memories" in their patient's minds. Even though more than a dozen board
members of the FMSF have been accused of child abuse themselves, have
come out in favor of pedophilia, or have a past in mind control research
for a whole range of intelligence agencies (45), virtually no mainstream
media ever felt the need to consistently point that out. As might be
expected, Dutch and Belgian supporters of this FMS Foundation couldn't
resist an attempt to discredit X1 with textbook disinformation tactics (46).
But even though FMS Foundation supporters have tried to muddy the
waters somewhat, every textbook psychology book makes a clear
distinction between DID and schizophrenia. The latter is characterized by
delusions, hallucinations and a lack of sense of identity. The different
alters of a person suffering from DID, however, all have an identity of their
own, and although memory is never 100 percent accurate and there
remains the possibility of manipulation, these alters have experienced
something traumatic that actually did happen to this person. A brief
article on the website of Merck, a large pharmaceutical company, gives
one of the best summaries of what Dissociative Identity Disorder actually
is: