Children of the LDS Church of Satan, Pt. II
Jimison and Kershisnik
The Hamblin Victims’ Statements were not fully redacted by the Provo Police Department, and as such the names of minor victims are available to anyone who reads the statements. The failure to redact victims’ names is unusual in the extreme, as Investigations in Ritual Abuse has never encountered a single case in 22 years where law enforcement released records with unredacted victims’ names. The degree to which the the Provo Police Department failed to redact the names of both the accused parties and victims suggests a deliberate decision. Names were not redacted, but relationships were, as in aunt or uncle.
Anyone with a rudimentary level of investigative skill could piece together the relationships to unmask the names that were redacted, as well as the physical locations where the alleged abuse took place. The failure of the Utah County Attorney’s Office to prosecute and convict David Lee Hamblin in 2014 was undoubtedly frustrating to the rank and file of the Provo Police, who had a taped apology made by Hamblin to his daughter in which Hamblin acknowledged raping her.
This undoubtedly played a role in the decision of authorities in Provo to release unredacted victims’ statements. The greatest allies journalists have in the Hamblin case are the legions of fed-up LDS members and local residents who want to see groups like the LDS Church of Satan exposed and stopped. Additionally, the CS and its members have hundreds of victims at a minimum over the past thirty years. Many of those members are beginning to make the decision to come forward.
The Hamblin Victims’ Statements outline a systemic effort to ritually abuse the children of CS members in order to prepare them for an adulthood where they would carry on the CS’s core missions and functions. David Hamblin built a business off of ritual abuse, using his daughter for child prostitution, child pornography, and selling his training techniques to other CS members who sought to make their own children compliant with ritual abuse. His therapy practice allegedly served as a cover for his illicit business interests.
The individuals presented in this article are named victims of the CS, David Hamblin, and their CS member parents.
Carla Jimison
Carla Jimison is an art professor at BYU-Idaho who lives in Rexburg, Idaho. BYU-Idaho was Ricks College until 2001, when Ricks transitioned into a four year institution from a two year junior college. The Ricks family is a significant bloodline within the CS, and within the Hamblin case, Agnes Ricks married into the Anderson bloodline, become Richard Lloyd Anderson’s mother. Agnes Ricks was born in Rexburg, Idaho, as the niece of Thomas Edwin Ricks, the man for whom Ricks College was named.
