LDS Church of Satan Concepts:

Gatekeepers Pt. 1

According to Victim Statement #2, LDS Church of Satan members would frequently tell them of “Gate Keepers” the Church had operating on its behalf throughout the world and the state of Utah. These individuals were said to be in “high and low places” and “could easily intercept, intervene, and control threats to the Church.” Such individuals were “…professors, attorneys, judges, doctors, psychologists, and more…”.

Even a cursory examination of the alleged membership of the LDS Church of Satan reveals a staggering number of highly educated individuals in positions of influence and power. The victims’ statements reference at least three psychologists, including David Lee Hamblin, Clyde Sullivan, and Hugh Allred.¹ Allred was the psychologist who treated the Hamblin daughters during the divorce between David and Rosie Hamblin. Chelom Leavitt, David Leavitt’s wife, is also a therapist and an employee of BYU.

Clyde Sullivan’s psychological specialisation was juvenile delinquency and criminal rehabilitation. He served as the Executive Director of the Children’s Psychiatric Center of New Jersey. As such, Sullivan would have had access to thousands of children over the course of his career, children whose complaints would have likely been dismissed if he abused them due to their delinquency and psychiatric issues. Many delinquent children are the products of childhood abuse, and Sullivan would have been acutely aware of this due to his experience as a psychologist. He would have known how to manipulate, control, and discredit children in his care.

Given the reality that David Lee Hamblin’s therapeutic practice was allegedly entered around abusing his patients, the relationship between Hamblin and Sullivan warrants deep scrutiny. Hamblin was mentored by certain individuals at BYU, including Clyde Sullivan. The Hamblin children all accuse Sullivan his wife Nola de Jong of participating in their sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. Sullivan’s methodologies likely filtered through to David Lee Hamblin.

Hugh Allred was a therapist in Provo who spoke on the topic of Satanic Ritual Abuse at BYU Education week in September 1992. He was also the psychologist who treated the Hamblin girls during their parents’ divorce trial. The girls allege that Allred was a member of the Church of Satan who steered his testimony and their testimony in the direction desired by the Church.

David Lee Hamblin attempted to convince his patients that he had hypnotised them, and that they had revealed childhood satanic ritual abuse to him under hypnosis. One of those patients, Brett Bluth, confronted Hamblin and argued that he had never been under hypnosis at all. Bluth accused Hamblin of trying to incept memories of SRA into his mind, and he further alleged that Hamblin had sexually abused him.