S5E39 | Dave Sharp - From Hell's Pits to Heaven's Gates 2: Exposing Religious & Satanic Ritual Abuse

Today I’m honored to have on the show for a second time: Child and foster care, religious abuse, child sexual abuse, trafficking, SRA and RA survivor and whistleblower, campaigner of historical child abuse, Founder of S.A.F.E. - Seek and Find Everyone abused in childhood, independent researcher and reporter, and someone I’m honored to call my friend: Dave Sharp

A little bit about Dave and what we discussed the first time he was aon as a refresher or if you are new here:

Just after Dave was born, his mother died, and he was put into the care of the Catholic church where he spent his first sixteen years of life. Dave’s life in care was nothing short of horrific. He was trafficked all over Scotland where he would be taken to houses in and around the Glasgow area with priests in them. He remembers horrific abuses and rituals like being taken to a garden and placed in a coffin with the lid put on and stones would be thrown onto the lid to simulate a burial. He also remembers being taken to Ireland on several occasions where he and other boys would be taken to Satanic sex parties that included drugging and raping by multiple men. Throughout his childhood and young adult years, he would be taken to many different places - and to this day is still experiencing flashbacks and memory recall. Dave often gets contacted by other survivors who have found his story and will disclose their own testimonies which corroborate what he remembers.

Dave’s testimony unveils a systemic rot that has embedded itself into the very fabric of society that targets young children and reveals how pedophiles and child predators hide behind positions of power that appear on the outside to be in favor of protecting children when, in fact, they are using those positions as a veil to hide their vile child abuse and pedophilia. Dave’s testimony also outlines how pedophiles target children they believe to be vulnerable - such as a child like Dave who didn’t have a family to go home to and who had no one to advocate for him. The only people who were in a position to advocate for Dave were the same people who were abusing him. This actualization - although hard to accept - paints a bigger picture of what is and has been happening to countless victims and survivors who are placed in the care of adults who are believed to be trustworthy and safe due to their titles and positions in society but who were preyed upon instead. This strategic trickery used by child predators and sexual deviants is how this type of systemic and organized abuse is often overlooked and made invisible to those on the outside looking in - including to parents who unknowingly put their children in harm's way by trusting these child predators based solely on the superficial titles and positions of power they may hold. There is no better place for a pedophile to hide than in a position that allows them unlimited access to children and minors.

Dave has been a long-time public advocate and has devoted his life to being a safe space for survivors - he risks his own life daily to be a voice for children like him who had no one to be a voice for them. His selfless servanthood, however, has caused tremendous stress on his life and his emotional and physical health. As detailed in the last episode, Dave is currently on ‘suicide watch’ and has worked very hard to navigate the destabilization, gaslighting, and secondary abuse that often comes with being a public whistleblower. And despite the toll his experiences and advocacy have taken on his life, he devotes his heart and mission to Jesus and continues to have unwavering hope that we can put an end to these atrocities against our children by following God’s word and being disciples of His example of doing right and good. As quoted in the last episode, Dave has said: “I am so grateful that God has chosen me to go out and show the evil that exists in Scotland and to tell the world to put His children first.”

And it is men and women like Dave who will be - and are - the ones to cause real change in the world that will finally put an to end crimes against children - once and for all.

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