The Gallup family ritual abuse
case in Roseburg, OR
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The Gallup family consists of Ed Gallup Sr., Mary Lou Gallup and
son, Ed "Chip" Gallup. Jr. They are fundamentalist Christians who operated
three Gallup Christian Day Care Centers in Roseburg OR. They were charged
and convicted on multiple counts of improper sexual activity with children. Over
100 children disclosed stories of ritual child abuse and sexual molestation. Included were
many activities found in other Satanic ritual abuse cases: the killing of animals, posing for pornographic pictures, ritual sexual
abuse by robed adults. A unique feature of this case was that children said they
were forced to go on a boat on the farm pond
and shoot sharks -- apparently freshwater sharks.
Ed Sr. is a
Nazarene minister. All three were given psychological evaluations which
supported their innocence. The local media was biased against the defendants. A
full-page advertisement was run in the local paper just before the first
trial which said, in effect, that they were guilty.
Lona Manning wrote:
"The prosecutor in the Gallup Christian Day Care case openly admitted that
Mr. and Mrs. Gallup and their son Chip were prosecuted not as Satanists but as
child molesters, although he believed that Mrs. Gallup, a white haired
minister’s wife, had been torturing children in satanic rituals for 20 years. He
believed that
'The Gallups and some of the workers were sexually interacting
amongst themselves and with the small children. ... they watched reruns of these
videos and they were fed popcorn and [there were] incidents of animal torture
and so we had to decide how we were doing to deal with that aspect of the case
and so we focused our first two cases in particular on simple cases because we
knew that the jury was going to have a terrible time of believing that kind of a
situation'." 2
None of the videos were ever located during the
investigation. 1
All three were found
guilty in separate trials. A change of venue was obtained for the fourth
trial. this probably contributed to an acquittal. Mary's conviction was
overturned on a technicality. Some sources say that Ed Gallup Sr. and Chip
Gallup both remain in jail. Others say that Ed Gallup Sr. has been released.
Josh Marquis commented on Satanic Ritual Abuse cases in his blog:
"Whether charges were laid or not doesn’t seem to depend on the
credibility of the allegations but upon the credulity of the investigators:
Parents in both Roseburg, OR, and Cape Cod, MS, for example, believed their
children had participated in satanic rituals that included murdering people.
In Roseburg, three people were convicted and sent to prison; but in Cape
Cod, the prosecutor’s office refused to press charges and concluded that the
children’s stories were a "hoax," a fantasy. (No dead people were found in
either case.) 1
Later developments:
In 1992, Cavalcade Productions in Ukiah CA released a movie titled "Children
at Risk: Ritual Abuse in America." It included allegations of ritual abuse
of children in Roseburg OR. Mike Farrell (B.J.) of M.A.S.H. fame was the
narrator. The movie includes a discussion by Bennett Braun who said that Satanic
ritual abuse can generate Multiple Personality Disorder (a.k.a. MPD,
Dissociative Identity Disorder, or DID). He estimated that 25% of
individuals who struggle with MPD have been ritually abused. The existence of
MPD has since been rejected by most mental health professionals. It was believed
to exist by some therapists during the 1980s and early 1990s but is now
recognized as an artificial iatrogenic (physician induced) disorder that does
not appear in nature. 3,4
We have a strong hunch that no abuse occurred at this day care by any of the
Gallups. The approximately 100 children involved are now in their mid-20s. Most
probably believe that their memories of the ritual abuse are accurate
recollections of real events.
Unfortunately, there is very little information available on this case. Please contact
us if you can fill in any details.
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