.............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: Alex Constantine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Carol Hopkins' Insidious "Justice Committee" Date: Sunday, June 11, 2000 11:53 PM ---------- From: "karen Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 23:38:28 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Carol Hopkins Update - thought you'd be interested This is an update on the present-day activities of Carol Hopkins who is now residing in Cuernavaca, Mexico. http://162.33.129.98/lamancha/Pool%20and%20Grounds.htm But first, here is the background on the conflicts of interest and unusual history of this individual and her associates. Carol Hopkins of the "Justice" Committee was a member of a Grand Jury in San Diego, California reviewing child protection matters during 1991-1992. These reports misreported on some cases and caused needless harm to some individuals within the system which the subsequent Grand Jury attempted to correct. In addition, the False Memory Syndrome Foundation [FMSF] was quoted in this particular Grand Jury Report (#8) which gave out misinformation on sexual molest dynamics, promoted the FMSF as a legitimate organization (four months after its inception) and included some of their unproven claims in their report, such as the existence of a "False Memory Syndrome," a syndrome that has never been proven. The creation of this "syndrome" has caused great concern for many legitimate scientist/researchers who believe FMS to be an artificially contrived term designed to relieve guilty parties of their responsibility. Everyone deserves to have a defense, but this particular defense is based on an unscientific non-experiment, promoted by Elizabeth Loftus of the FMSF which the media then exaggerated and distorted. This is explained here: http://users.owt.com/crook/memory/ The statements above have nothing to do with individual cases of false allegations and proving that in court, or individual cases that evidence false beliefs or unusual influence; my comments allude to this blanket pseudo- syndrome being used to deny and cover-up the fact that people are indeed victims of cults and sexual molestation. You can track these people indiscriminately using "false memory syndrome" on all cases even when perpetrators have confessed. And the fact that some people recant (and there are many reasons why one might) is not evidence of "false memory syndrome" either. It has also now come to light that Elizabeth Loftus, board member of the FMSF, colluded with Carol Hopkins in the writing of the 91-92 Grand Jury report in San Diego. Apparently Loftus also attended Hopkins' wedding 10 years ago, but they both were "unaware" that they knew each other until they met years later. This bizarre story was disclosed in a local newspaper, The San Diego Reader, dated August 20, 1998: "Carol Hopkins tells one final story about memory - a story mocking Dr. Elizabeth Loftus and herself. She first started calling Loftus when she was on the grand jury, asking her advice, reading her research, discussing cases"...[Hopkins describing Loftus's visit to her home during the Akiki case] "We get to the house, we drive up the driveway, and Beth becomes frozen. Literally frozen. Mark [Sauer] is talking and she says 'shh!' She gets out of the car, and Mark and I are looking at each other thinking, this is weird. We follow her into the house, she walks around the house, this goes on for ten minutes. Minimum ten minutes. She comes back and says, "I've been here before, I was at your wedding'. I said, "You couldn't have been at my wedding." She said," I was at your wedding. Get your wedding pictures."..."We pull the wedding pictures out - there's Beth Loftus. At my wedding ten years earlier. END QUOTE _____________ Of course, it took years for this information to come out. That a Grand Jury quotes the FMSF does not make their claims any more legitimate, especially when one traces the genesis of the 91-92 Grand Jury in San Diego, the obvious connections between these people, and the now very public tracking of the propaganda and carefully crafted deceit upon which their claims are based. Their methods preclude any belief that they are honestly interested in differential diagnosis or truthful outcomes. Child Protective Services does have many problems that people cannot possibly fathom without ever having inside knowledge concerning its operation and the legalities upon which this particular governmental organization is based. But the 91-92 Grand Jury in San Diego did not evidence an understanding of the system, and there was great concern that their misreporting on cases was being used to try to make it appear that the system was largely incompetent, instead of explaining the context of the cases and the risk factors that are assessed to gauge if a child needs to be protected -- and from whom. The 92-93 San Diego Grand Jury report can be read here: http://www.angelfire.com/sd/grandjry/index.html They put great effort into explaining how the system works. A quote from that Grand Jury reads: "The committee also found that the cases described bore so little resemblance to the cases we had heard presented, in terms of the thoroughness with which they were investigated and the concern for all involved in how the cases were handled, that either these cases, rather than being representative, were rare exceptions, or the descriptions themselves contained inaccuracies and gross distortions." "Since there were newspaper reports of less than harmonious relations between the 1991-92 Grand Jury and the District Attorney, the 1992-93 Grand Jury decided to investigate the District Attorney's handling of the cases cited in the reports. This investigation was hampered by missing 1991-92 Grand Jury files, which had been removed from the Grand Jury offices. Fourteen files were returned on June 15, 1994, following a court hearing after an exhaustive review of these files (three of which deal with the following citations), and records obtained from both the District Attorney and DSS, we found that the District Attorney's version of the facts, as stated in his response to the Grand jury report, dated October 30, 1992, was accurate." END QUOTE _________ Protecting a child from abuse will never be an exact science because child abuse is often a hidden crime that can stay hidden for years. Child Protection is also a specialty field that not all professionals in other areas are qualified to assess. Given that, it's not surprising that reporters and citizens who are on grand juries can be quite mistaken in what they see, understand and report; however that doesn't fully explain what happened in San Diego. You will find this particular 91-92 Grand Jury report publicized on the men's rights advocacy web pages, but you will find no mention of the 92-93 Grand Jury report that faulted the previous 91-92 Grand Jury. It is quite serious when a Grand Jury misreports on cases and child abuse dynamics, and it is serious when that information is omitted from any web page discussing these reports. Another area of concern is that the 91-92 Grand Jury was also specifically against CPS having any protocol for investigating ritual abuse allegations. In the actual Grand Jury Report they suggested that the standing ritual abuse protocol be ignored, which it was, due to the negative publicity Carol Hopkins and reporters Mark Sauer and Jim Okerblom of the San Diego Union were generating about the subject matter. Another area of concern is that Carol Hopkins began a romantic relationship with the legal counsel to the 91-92 Grand Jury, Gary Schons of the attorney general's office in San Diego, which was openly discussed in a San Diego Tribune news article dated Dec 5, 1994. They maintain their relationship began after the Grand Jury ended and there was no conflict of interest; however, Mr. Schons is quoted in a news article dated March 24, 1996, written by reporter Mark Sauer presenting the FMSF spin with the claims that repressed memory is based on "voodoo" evidence. Here is a quote: "For example, in a yet-to-be-published article written for a prosecutors'journal, Gary W. Schons, senior assistant attorney general for the San Diego region, calls repressed memory "voodoo evidence" and warns prosecutors away from it. Citing the Franklin case, Schons writes: "It is critical that prosecutors appreciate that `recovered memory' is scientifically unfounded and, for the most part, untrustworthy. There is absolutely no verifiable scientific basis for the existence and operation of the psychological process known as repression." END QUOTE _________ The reality of repressed memory or traumatic amnesia is actually based on over 50 research studies and Mr. Schons was repeating the misinformation of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. Perhaps that is what he had in common with Carol Hopkins. The 91-92 Grand Jury Report #8 also opposed Senator Newton Russell's legislation that addressed ritual abuse and the need for training in the State of California after a series of hearings in which countless professionals gave testimony about ritual abuse cases they had investigated--including the Presidio Army Base case which resulted in a substantial settlement bestowed on the children and parents, and ritual abuse cases in Northern California. A much watered-down, narrowly defined version of the Senator's original intent did become law in California for a brief three years in 1995 as a ritual abuse sentence enhancement--PC 667.83 which has since sunsetted; however very few people ever knew about it, much less used it-- even within the system. The negative publicity intentionally orchestrated by groups such as the FMSF, Justice Committee, and VOCAL (Victims of Child Abuse Laws) make it difficult for these crimes against children to be prosecuted. In my opinion, Carol Hopkins, Mark Sauer, and Jim Okerblom misreported on and gave a one-sided portrayal of ritual abuse for the county of San Diego nonstop for approximately six years. Unusual behavior from a pair of reporters and a member of a Grand Jury? I think so. CPS can be a very political organization, and due to the negative publicity the administration backed away from openly training in this area for a short time even though they internally acknowledged the crimes and still continued to deal with these cases. Reasons for that have since become apparent. The Administration of CPS in San Diego did not do what they were supposed to do, under the lead of now ex-Director Ivory Johnson, who I understand was another regular at Carol Hopkin's dinner parties, and I think these people, including members of the San Diego Board of Supervisors, should be publicly chastised for turning their backs on children. They placed politics before the welfare of children and so have many professionals around the country. They all knew these crimes were occurring and official training was needed. After many conversations with prosecutors and victims rights groups around the country, I believe that this same strategy, as documented in San Diego via threats of lawsuits and negative media publicity, is being played out across the country. There was an attempt to sue one of the therapists discussed in the 91-92 Grand Jury report for reporting possible cult child abuse; however, the appellate court stated she was immune from civil liability due to the fact she was a mandated reporter. There are also concerns that lawsuits being waged against therapists who treat these victims (as a child or as an adult) are being instigated by the FMSF. That concern has something to do with the fact that the FMSF teaches people how to wage lawsuits against therapists; they have support groups for "recantors, and they base their lawsuits on a network of calculated lies, exaggerations and distortions that the scientists on their board perpetuate, with the help of some members of the media. To do this properly, they need to ignore 50 plus research studies demonstrating traumatic amnesia, misstate research, missapply the findings of research from a laboratory setting to a therapeutic setting, ignore ritual abuse cases (or denounce them all as "witch-hunts"), ignore incest, and demand a level of proof from their detractors which they do not provide themselves. When proof is offered, they solve the problem by simply ignoring the information or claiming it's not "statistically valid." There is much, much more evidence available for the reality of ritual abuse then there is for "false memory syndrome" or that therapists are "implanting" SRA memories. People have argued that suggestible clients can be just as influenced by FMSF advocates, books and conferences, as they can be in one hour weekly sessions with their therapists. Nevertheless, a supposedly objective grand jury backed these questionable positions. When all of the above fails, these groups rely on perpetrating extreme harassment towards their perceived enemies, just like the cult group Scientology. They make up false allegations against their opponents, and you can find most of them congregating and acting out this agenda on various newsgroups and lists such as sci.psychology.psychotherapy and the WITCHHUNT list http://www.egroups.com/list/witchhunt as well as several others. In another strange case of possible corruption at that time, a Grand Jury in Merced California coincidentally copied the 91-92 San Diego Grand Jury Report for their own "unbiased overview of the system," but were caught, which a news article by Jim Okerblom of the San Diego Union Tribune dated July 9, 1992 mentioned while quoting Carol Hopkins as having nothing to do with it: "While reading the Merced jury's report, which was released Monday, Merced officials had suspicions they had heard it before. They had already reviewed the San Diego report, called "Families in Crisis" which is in its third printing and has been widely circulated around California and in other states since its release in February. Then they compared the two documents, concluding that at least three-fourths of the Merced report came from the San Diego report." "Hopkins, who chaired the committee that wrote the San Diego report, said she spoke briefly with someone from the Merced panel months ago. 'All I can recall is they wanted to know how to go about an investigation, and I sent them a copy of 'Families in Crisis,' Hopkins said. She added: "How can they be that stupid? You can't do that. You just can't do it. Grand jury reports have to be the result of an independent investigation." END QUOTE __________ After Ms Hopkins sojourn as Grand Jury member, she then formed the Justice Committee in San Diego and went on to publicly align herself with the FMSF and their stances against the Wenatchee Child Sex ring cases, including calling for an Apple Boycott of Washington State, and staged a rally in Salem Massachusetts for all the "innocent" people unjustly convicted of sexual/ritual abuse. This might be more believable if, in this agenda, there were _some_ guilty people convicted of this crime who are presently serving time. However, that's not the case, they are all "innocent" and we need to release them from prison immediately. There have been no attempts to separate possible true from false allegations, but simply attempts to orchestrate media events claiming all these people are innocent, even the people who were convicted, confessed, and who had priors for sexual molestation. Of interest, Elizabeth Loftus was also working for the defense in the Wenatchee Sex Ring cases. Another disturbing part of the Wenatchee Sex Ring cases is that some witnesses have had to take out restraining orders against the alleged perpetrators, some children stated they were threatened, and Roby Roberson (alleged offender whose case was dismissed) actually arranged the filming of one of the children, Melinda Everett, "recanting" when she ran away from foster care to her grandmothers, during which time Roby Roberson was alerted. The judge allowed her recanting videotape into evidence even though she told the judge at a hearing that this tape was coerced and she was threatened by Roby Roberson. This ruling allowed the overturning of her parents case and several other alleged offenders in Wenatchee. [After her parents were released from prison, Melinda Everett claimed that she made up the story of threats and has since been released into their custody. This was reported in the Wenatchee World News.] In yet another example of a very unusual circumstance with a child witness, according to a news article, Carol Hopkins, at that time in San Diego, was allowed to be the "guardian" of "Sam" Doggett from Washington State, another alleged victim who was a ward of the juvenile court, and Ms. Hopkins used her in press conferences [while she was a minor] to claim her parents were unjustly accused but whose siblings testified against the parents. I find this quite disturbing as it indicates possible collusion, coercion and conflict of interest involving a minor yet again. Here's a quote from the news story by Mark Sauer dated June 18, 1996: "Sarah 'Sam' Doggett broke down and wept as she began talking about her imprisoned parents. "Before all of this happened, we were a close family," the 17-year-old from Wenatchee, Wash., said of her parents and four siblings."We attended Mormon Church services on Sundays and Wednesdays; we were very active in sports; my parents . . . were active in our schools and in the community. "But then disaster struck." "The disaster, Sam said, was the most notorious prosecution of supposed child molesters since the Dale Akiki case in San Diego and the McMartin Preschool case in Los Angeles, both of which failed to result in convictions." Although her parents were found guilty in a case that originally was thought to be a satanic sex ring, Sam believes in their innocence and has fought for them from the beginning. Yesterday, she joined Akiki and others at a downtown San Diego news conference on behalf of The Justice Committee, a group dedicated to ending the "nearly 15 years of child-abuse-prosecution hysteria in this country." END QUOTE ______ Now how many people believe that 17 yr.old "Sam" Doggett really made those statements about the Akiki and McMartin cases or do you think it more likely that this quote was attributed to her by the reporter with an agenda while she was in the custody of Carol Hopkins. Yet it doesn't end there. In an outrageous new admission, Ms. Hopkins announced on the WITCHHUNT forum on March 3, 2000, when I questioned her about this situation, that she had "Sam" Doggett in her custody due to a special arrangement with then head of CPS Ivory Johnson who agreed to *personally supervise* the placement of "Sam" Doggett in the Hopkins home - without a home study being done. Ms. Hopkins states, in part: "Because of my role in the San Diego community and my unwillingness to do anything illegal (harboring a runaway is illegal), I contacted Wenatchee CPS and told them I would have Sam in my home but would not subject my family to a home study. I also told them I would accept Ivory Johnson as the supervisor of placement. This was agreed to before Sam came to San Diego." END QUOTE _______________ This is absolutely unheard of and completely outside of Ms. Johnsons job description. And apparently Ms. Johnson did not do a very good job of supervising the placement because she allowed Carol Hopkins to use this teenager at press conferences in San Diego. Ms. Johnson is no longer the head of CPS in San Diego. As an update, Ms. Carol Hopkins has moved to Morelos, Mexico and has been taking an active role in criticizing an alleged child molestation case in Cuernavaca, telling the local townspeople about the child abuse "witchhunts" in the United States. She wrote an article in the Cuernavaca Lookout dated March 19, 1999. In this article, Ms. Hopkins took up quite a bit of space weaving a tale about child abuse investigations. She claimed that now-deceased parent Judy Johnson of the McMartin Case was known for going to the police and claiming that her son was molested by aliens. She writes: "Eventually, Ms. Johnson's obsession with sexual abuse would be revealed. She frequently questioned her four-year-old son and regularly examined his genitals for signs of abuse. She believed that aliens came into his bedroom at night and molested him. On a number of occasions, she called the police to accuse various people, including aliens, of sexual abuse. But this would not be revealed for many years..." END QUOTE ___________ I don't have any reason to believe that Ms. Hopkins "alien" story attributed to the now deceased Judy Johnson was ever revealed anywhere, at anytime or that it is true. Ms. Hopkins also signed off on her article: "Carol L. Hopkins is an international expert on sexual abuse." Ms. Hopkins has no formal, academic expertise in sexual abuse investigations although she has spent the last 10 years trying to overturn many sexual abuse convictions involving children. I hardly think that this qualifies as expertise in any formal sense. A response to Ms. Hopkins was written in the Cuernavaca Lookout by a local citizen who found my internet web page on "Carol Hopkins and the Justice Committee". This article was published on April 19, 1999 and the URL to my web page was also printed in the newspaper. The article states in part: "I read Carol L. Hopkins' article on sexual abuse in the March 19 issue of the Lookout, and in no way do I consider her an expert on sexual abuse. By her own declaration, she is a teacher and school administrator, but she apparently does not hold any degrees in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, social work, family therapy, etc.. and in fact attacks specialists in these fields in her article. The Grand Jury of 91-92, of which she was Deputy Foreman, on reviewing child protection matters, made erroneous reports, gave out misinformation (both documented by the subsequent Grand Jury of 92-93), and promoted claims such as "False Memory Syndrome," which has never been substantiated by scientific research but which is being debated among specialists who use repressed memory therapy in adult patients to recall childhood traumas. Search the Internet to find more information by going to Alta Vista at www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/7736/hopkins.html" END QUOTE ________ I recently received a copy of these articles and two weeks ago I publicly challenged Ms. Hopkins on the WITCHHUNT list to prove her claims that Judy Johnson told the police her son was molested by aliens. In response, her friends on the list complained to the free web hosting sites that were maintaining my newspaper articles and appellate court archives, and most of my web pages were taken down, including the web page listed above. Her supporters on http://www.egroups.com/list/witchhunt proudly announced this. I also had an archive of documented ritual abuse cases on Tripod Web Pages. This archive was taken down at the same time as the web pages on Carol Hopkins and the Wenatchee Sex Ring due to the fact Pat Burgus, who has claimed that Dr. Bennett Braun "implanted" false memories of satanic cult involvement, did not like the posted transcript on my site entitled "Pat" in which she gave an interview for documentary filmmakers describing Satanic Cult Recruiting Tactics in detail in the early 1990's. The claim was that this transcript was of a therapy session; it was absolutely not from a therapy transcript, it was an interview she voluntary gave to filmmakers. This was simply an excuse to censor me and all of my web pages in retaliation for challenging Carol Hopkins. You can find this transcript of Pat Burgus via dejanews. In summary, the quote below printed in the San Diego Union, dated Feb. 25, 1997, written by a Judge, relates what I believe the attitude was and is towards Ms. Hopkins in San Diego before she left for Mexico, because of her constant attacks on specialists in the field: "I was dismayed to read your recent article in which Carol Hopkins, a conference attendee, accuses the Center for Child Protection of 'creating business for itself.' I do not presume to understand her motivation for the attack on Children's Hospital, but I view her criticism of Children's Hospital personnel with extreme skepticism." END QUOTE __________ I expect Ms. Hopkins to be interfering with as many child abuse cases in Mexico as she can and to be attacking all legitimate authorities. If anyone wants further information, please contact Karen C. 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