I'm sure there have been plenty of idiots out there who thought hurting children was a perfectly appropriate way to worship Satan (or whoever else). There's no way that didn't happen at least once. And I wouldn't be shocked at all if it turns out some of those sick fucks were organized.

I get that people are skeptical about the individual stories, but why are they so skeptical about ritual abuse in general? What's the point of that? Children are abused everywhere, there's pedophile rings in every country, and the chances of at least a handful of those rings being full of religious nuts are high enough.

And if that kind of abuse really happened to someone, there's nothing wanky about them developing paranoia later on in life from the resulting trauma. Even if it only happened in their head, they still obviously suffer from some kind of trauma or mental illness, and they're looking at their situation as rationally as it possible for them at this time.

tl;dr unfunny business, and not even wank.