Courtney maintains that satanic ritual abuse is an organized crime involving seasonal rituals, trafficking, and child sacrifice, often occurring within upper-class communities.

“So, I was born into a cult, uh, satanic ritual abuse. It's a satanic cult which happens in the town of Rivervale. It's a town issue and that's where it's local. And is that Jersey? It's in New Jersey. It's in Bergen County, New Jersey. It's right outside the city, but it's also very safe”

Satanic ritual abuse is a real, brutal, and repeated form of abuse involving sexual, physical, and psychological torment that is motivated by satanist beliefs.

“Satanist ritual abuse is a brutal form of mistreatment that is inflicted on children or vulnerable adults and it involves psychological physical and sexual abuse and it is done in the context of satanist rituals and it is normally in most cases done not as a one-off incident but as a repeated form o”