Silk Road Medical, Sunnyvale, CA.

[^2]: Haddad is currently located at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT.

[^3]: Medzikovic is currently located at the Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

[^4]: Danforth is currently located at the Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL.

[^5]: Kostyushev is currently located at the I.M. Sechenov The First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia.

[^6]: Zhang is currently located at the Silver Creek Pharmaceuticals, San Francisco, CA.

[^7]: Clifford is currently located at the Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, CA.

[^8]: Heiss is currently located at the Division of Cardiology, Pulmonary and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany.
strange phenomenon was sweeping North America.
Underground Satanic cults were believed to be torturing and terrorizing children,
forcing them to take part in sadistic rituals, then deftly covering their tracks.
Scores of perpetrators, allegedly committing the most heinous crimes
imaginable, against hundreds of children. A new term is coined to describe this
emerging epidemic, ‘Satanic ritual abuse.’
VOICE 5: In ritual abuse, in addition to assaulting a child physically and sexually,
there is an attempt to turn the child around, in terms of what a child's belief system is.
LISA: Cases popped up in Jordan, Minnesota, Kern County and Manhattan
Beach, California.
VOICE 5: They have been indicted, after all, on the belief that they sexually
assaulted and terrorized more than 100 children in their care.
LISA: Then in Florida, North Carolina, Arkansaw, Texas...
REPORTER: She and her 3 year old