That year, Utah Governor Norm Bangerter recommended a $250,000 appropriation to fund an investigation by the Attorney General into ritual abuse and ritual crimes in the state. In 1995-APR, at the conclusion of a two year study, the state Attorney General's Office issued a report by Lt. M.R. King & Lt. Marr Jacobson titled: "Ritual Crime in the State of Utah: Investigation, Analysis & A Look Forward." 1 It found no hard evidence of Satanic Ritual Abuse in the state. But it found hundreds of cases in the state of people who recovered memories of abuse via RMT -- a suggestive therapeutic technique known for generating memories of events that never happened. After some media concluded that the Utah study was a failure, "Rachel Hopkins" went public with her story of a childhood filled with ritual abuse. She had recovered memories of the abuse during RMT. Unlike the tens of thousands of other adults who had recovered memories in therapy, her case was unique: she had signed confessions by the perpetrators -- her parents -- and corroborating accounts from her siblings. Topics covered in this section:References used:
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