Law officers trained in occult crime - Hosanna link

[professorpan]

Anyone know anything about Perlmutter?<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.nbc4i.com/news/5176908/detail.html">www.nbc4i.com/news/5176908/detail.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Local Officers Trained In Religious, Occult Crimes<br><br>Expert: Not All Occult Activity Is Criminal<br><br>POSTED: 10:54 pm EDT October 25, 2005<br>UPDATED: 11:33 pm EDT October 25, 2005<br><br>COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Among the most disturbing crimes are crimes committed by people who believe supernatural forces are empowering them. Some experts believe those crimes are on the rise.<br><br>Now, Central Ohio peace officers are being trained to fight occult and religious-based crimes, NBC 4's Duarte Geraldino reported.<br>The officers are being trained by the same woman who was called as an expert ritual crimes investigator in the New Orleans satanic child sex abuse case that had ties in Columbus.<br><br>That expert believes ritualistic crimes are becoming more and more common, Geraldino reported.<br><br>When a Blacklick woman was arrested on suspicion of taking part in a satanic child sex abuse ring in New Orleans, an expert in ritualistic crime was called in to review evidence.<br><br>"Ritual sexual abuse, they don't see that as abusing a child. They see that as a mandatory ritual in this particular belief system," said Dr. Dawn Perlmutter, an occult specialist.<br><br>Perlmutter is teaching Central Ohio peace officers how to identify the signs of occult or religious-based crimes, Geraldino reported.<br><br>"During the training, I show them real evidence that has writing like this," Perlmutter said.<br><br>Geraldino: "What's enouchian?" [sic]<br><br>Perlmutter: "It's an ancient language that a lot of the occult groups use."<br><br>Perlmutter said religious criminals believe that what they are doing is not wrong, but the remains of their worship tell a different story, Geraldino reported.<br><br>"What you would do is you would find something like this and it would be upside down and there may be blood on it, or it may have been pushed into a victim," she said. "They indoctrinate kids at a young age. They will kill their pets in front of them."<br><br>Perlmutter said religious crime is becoming wide spread, fueled by the Internet and the sense of community that some of the groups provide members.<br><br>Perlmutter is currently working on two ritual murder cases in Ohio. She also maintains that not all occult or satanic activity is criminal. <p></p><i></i>

[Rigorous Intuition]

Thanks pp, very interesting. I added the story as a comment to today's blog post. <p></p><i></i>

[glubglubglub]

there's been a cottage industry of folks who'd serve up seminars on 'occult crime' to local PDs et al., so in that sense this isn't new. Perlmutter herself might be an interesting case study. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :rolleyes --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/eyes.gif ALT=":rolleyes"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>