Satanic abuse and human sacrifice are real, but except for the rare public eruption caused by the finding of corpses evincing ritualistic mutilations that include occult symbols cut into the skin, beheading, and the removal of the heart and other organs, they remain hidden, if uneasily, from public consciousness. All too often, victims suffer in silence and disappear in silence. The experiences of those who manage to escape their horrific circumstances are often dismissed as works of the imagination or as evidence of psychopathology. At best, their complaints are treated as common criminal matters and their tormentors as common criminals. The larger conspiracy falls outside the limited jurisdiction of local law enforcement authorities whose inquiries do not go beyond what is required to solve a local crime. Consequently, the network of murderous Satanic cells continues to proliferate and their crimes remain. Information about the inner workings of these cells is hard to come by as members who attempt to flee their control often become victims themselves. Sometimes they do escape and are immediately incarcerated in mental wards because the serial rapes, iron branding, human sacrifice and cannibalism that they describe defy belief and the managerial nomenclature of mainstream psychology. Compounding the problem is the psychological trauma, often manifested as multiple personality disorder, caused by years of isolation and sexual abuse. For only by dissociating from their own self and fragmenting into other personae can the victims survive. Such is the story of Madeleine Boudreau Shepherd of England who has written a raw, powerfully primal account of her membership from childhood in a Satanic cult, her narrow escape naked through the woods and onto a public road, confinement in a mental hospital, and her ongoing struggle to gain control over her own life, and avoid capture and retaliation. It is the story of irreducible subjugation and vulnerable rebirth. G. Heath King, PhD