{"id":85935,"date":"2026-03-05T08:36:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85935"},"modified":"2026-03-05T08:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:36:38","slug":"uk-hundreds-of-cases-of-ritual-child-abuse-go-unreported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/05\/uk-hundreds-of-cases-of-ritual-child-abuse-go-unreported\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: Hundreds of cases of ritual child abuse go unreported"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1NinZI.img?w=534&amp;h=534&amp;m=6&amp;x=277&amp;y=295&amp;s=510&amp;d=510\" alt=\"Victoria Climbie was killed by her great-aunt and her partner after they accused her of being possessed by evil spirits (PA)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds, if not thousands, of ritualistic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/abuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">abuse<\/a>\u00a0cases against children have gone\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/child-neglect-early-years-health-poverty-b2602419.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">unreported in the last four decades,<\/a> as experts described it as the \u201cmost shadowed form of abuse\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/hundreds-of-cases-of-ritual-child-abuse-go-unreported\/ar-AA1XwsVa?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69a936e78eca4c0ea7a886e621113728&amp;ei=116\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Hundreds, if not thousands, of ritualistic\u00a0abuse\u00a0cases against children have gone\u00a0unreported in the last four decades, as experts described it as the \u201cmost&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/NAPAC.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85937,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85935\/revisions\/85937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}