Satanic Panic in Australia

Richard Bartholomew has all the details.

 

Girl Set Alight in ‘Satanic Ritual’

UPDATE:  Sadly Kirsty Theologo has died after having been burnt in satanic ritual. RIP.
Satan’s way:

The girls, one 18 and the other 16, were among eight youngsters who went to a koppie behind the Linmeyer pool in Johannesburg on Friday night.

According to Samantha Theologo, her 18-year-old sister Kirsty has 75 percent burns to her body from the waist up.

Doctors had told them, she said, that they were worried about her sister’s recovery because her lungs and throat were damaged.

Kirsty was scheduled to have surgery today.

Samantha said the group of five boys and three girls knew one another well and her sister would hang out with them often. One of the boys was a neighbour and one of the girls lived on the same street.

Kirsty Theologo , 18, of Joburg, had petrol poured over her by friends. She was then set alight in what appears to be a satanic ritual. Kirsty suffered 75 percent burns mostly above her waist.

Teenagers say the koppie is a well-known spot for youngsters to sit at weekends to look at the view and drink.

The Theologo family heard from the other victim – Kirsty’s friend, who is recovering in a private hospital – that the boys had decided that the two would be sacrificed in some sort of satanic ritual.

“We don’t know exactly what happened. We heard they were tied up, but we don’t know,” said Samantha.

The boys are said to have poured petrol over her sister and set her alight.

Her friend then tried to put out the flames, rolling Kirsty in the sand. In the process she was also burnt.

The rest of the group ran away, leaving the two girls to climb down the hill on their own.

“In the state she was in, my sister made sure they walked to safety,” said Samantha. “She walked all the way to Rosettenville – about 2km away.

“I wasn’t home, but my mom told me she found my sister in the bathroom washing her face. My mom said it was horrific.”

According to a medical source, speaking to The Star, sister newspaper of the Daily News, on condition of anonymity, the teenagers were driven to South Rand Hospital by their pastor, then transferred to other hospitals.

“It was impressive that they walked all that way in their condition.”

The source said a third girl told them that the boys cut her hand and held it over a Bible so that the blood could soak it, while Kirsty was burnt.

Provincial police spokeswoman Captain Pinky Tsingane said the girls were tied up and there was speculation the attack was a satanic ritual, but they still needed to investigate.

A case of attempted murder was opened.

By late yesterday, two boys, aged 19 and 21, had handed themselves in at the Booysens police station, said Tsingane.

Meanwhile, Kirsty’s family are extremely shocked.

“It’s horrible, it’s scary and just horrific what happened to my sister,” said Samantha.

“My mom is in a state and can’t talk. Friends are breaking down. Kirsty is in Grade 11 and is loved by so many people. This is a nightmare.”

Izabella Little, from the teenage advice forum Lifetalk, said Satanism was not spoken about.

A mother contacted her last year to seek advice after her teenage daughter was kidnapped in Cape Town and brought to a type of church where another teenager was murdered. She escaped, but was very traumatised.

Straight out of the pit of hell!

UPDATE: News 24 (as above)

Johannesburg – The young woman who was doused in petrol and set alight in a suspected satanic ritual in Linmeyer died on Friday morning, Johannesburg police said.

“Kirsty Theologo passed away due to her injuries,” Warrant Officer Lorraine Van Emmerik said.

The 18-year-old was in a coma at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital with 75% burns to her body from her waist up. She died shortly after 04:00 on Friday.

Murder charge

Van Emmerik said one of the attempted murder charges against the four men who allegedly set Theologo and her friend alight would now be changed to murder.

The four appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.

They are Lindon Wagner, 21, Robin Harwood, 18, Lester Moody, 18, and Jeremy King, 18.

Magistrate Lucas van der Schyff postponed the matter to November 1 for further investigation.

The young men would be held at the Booysens police station for DNA tests to be completed, public prosecutor Colleen Ryan said.

Theologo and her friend were among eight youngsters who reportedly went to a koppie behind the Linmeyer swimming pool in Julius Street last Friday night.

The two girls reportedly were tied up before they were set alight in what has been described as a Satanic ritual.

Moral Relativism Paves Way for Satanism

Glad someone is still saying it…

Satanism through the Ages

The term Satanism represents a broad range of religions, world views, and literature that all look favourably on Satan or similar rebellious figures.

The Telegraph (UK) reports on the worship of this fiend:

Satan first appeared in the Hebrew Bible as an angel who challenged the religious faith of humans. In the Book of Job he is called “the Satan” (“the accuser”) and acted as the prosecutor in God’s court.

A character named Satan was described as the cosmic enemy of the Lord and tempter of Jesus within many of the Gospels of early Christians. He is the bringer of Armageddon and Apocalypse as featured within the Book of Revelation.

Christians and Muslims have portrayed Satan as an evil competitor to humans and Jesus, characterised as a fallen angel or demon ruling the Underworld.

The Christian church’s tendency to label all those who did not agree with it as agents of evil led to the persecution of numerous non-Christian groups, leading to the Crusades and witch-hunts and the Inquisition. It would also eventually lead to the destruction of many indigenous cultures, such as the Mayan civilisation, in the name of Christ.

Famous satanists over the ages include Gilles de Rais, a 15th century French nobleman, was tried and executed for the murders of hundreds of children in quasi-Satanic rituals.

The late 17th century campaign against alleged satanism known as the Poison Affair under Louis XIV, involved accusations of widespread poisonings, infanticide and forgery committed by an alleged satanic social network.

Modern Satanist groups fall into two major trends: Theistic Satanism, which venerates Satan as a supernatural deity, and Atheistic Satanism, which regards Satan as symbolic of purely certain human traits.

The Church of Satan, established in San Francisco in 1966, preaches the Nine Satanic Statements, which include “Satan represents indulgence instead of abstinence”, “Satan represents vengeance instead of turning the other cheek” and “Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification”.

In 2004, the Royal Navy approved its first ever Satanist, despite opposition from Christians.

There is now a growing movement of theistic Satanists, who believe in and revere Satan as a deity.

One is the Temple of Set, which identifies the Christian Satan with the ancient Egyptian god Set.

In the 1980s, there were a series of alleged cases of Satanic ritual abuse in the United States, leading to moral panic but only a tiny number of crimes were recorded.

Those who walk in the light have no business with those who adore this murder, walk in darkness and dabble in the occult.