Extract from a report made on a young female child drawn into the Godson Cult in Ireland: the female has actually been physically damaged by the abuse in ways that really do not bear mentioning suffice to say that she has multiple injuries “consistent with the application of a blunt instrument.”
It could not be clearer. Someone has been doing deeply unpleasant things to these children.
Each child independently expressed to the authorities in Wicklow the fear that Clare Godson would kill them, one had nightmares about it. Expressions of fear do not get more profound than that.
The fact that these allegations against Clare Godson were made at the same time as the allegations concerning the cruelty of the Godson Cult in general, is clearly overwhelming evidence that these children spoke the truth to the best of their ability and were not under external control of social services in Wicklow.
The sexual abuse alleged by the children in Wicklow also repeats much of what was revealed to us by former victims of Clare Godson at her surrey boarding school when as a Head Girl she used her power to sexually torture much younger girls.
Ariela Cohen August 2015.
My friend and colleague, journalist Robert Cahill, remarked in 2009 that we “hover between pity and loathing” for this woman. She was born into a hopelessly dysfunctional family setting where she was bruised and warped by the abuse and cruelty of her, East End racketeer, father Harry Soden. It was decided, at some stage in her childhood, to wash away the lowly East End roots and put the girl into a Surrey boarding school where she could have a thin veneer of “poshness” and respectability applied. It was at this school that Clare Soden thrived as the merciless leader of a “pack” of bullies. In recent months there has been an outpouring of memories of misery by the bullied, indeed many of the victims demanding justice and something close to revenge. It is quite a difficult path for us to keep our WHISTLEBLOWER Blog dispassionate when we hear of the suffering inflicted by this very disturbed woman when a child herself.
When you learn about sexual abuse of this extreme kind it is very hard to present a balanced article/post.
Our correspondents, from this period, speak of the fear engendered by coming into contact with Clare. We understand that Clare spared no one. Young pupils begged their parents to take them away. The bullying was institutionalised when Clare wangled the position of “Head Girl.” This gave the young Clare, exhibiting obvious personality disorders, a chance to create protection rackets worthy of her East End roots. In this sad time for the school, Clare hunted and tormented anyone she perceived as an intellectually gifted pupil or alternatively vulnerable to extreme bullying. Our correspondents all assert that savage beatings were the norm under the umbrella of the “Head Girl” title. Many of our correspondents speak of extreme sexual perversion already evident in Clare’s “capricious punishments” for the target pupil. It did seem to pupils at the time that nothing could touch Clare Soden. A parent might complain to the Head or teachers about the bullying and find that it gave Clare a further opportunity to single out the child of the complainer and make their life a world of misery. This must have been an incredibly dark period in the history of B****** School. Boarding schools of this type were closed communities where horrific bullying and perversion could go unchallenged. Our correspondents all assert that the staff were deeply frightened of Clare Soden and seemed unable to control the “gang” activities she introduced. They all suggest that Clare was blackmailing staff members. Clare tortured new pupils with impunity and exacted heavy payments for small favours. Failing to pay Clare Soden produced far worse than a “slapping” for the target pupil. Clare was at this time developing forms of psychological torture that she has brought to the service of the foundation USA cult and to her offshoot cult in Benevent l’Abbaye. She was also perfecting ways of draining funds from the vulnerable that she has brought to the service of the present cult. It can be no surprise that someone brought up in a climate of shameful parental abuse, deprived of even the basic norms of behaviour, should go on to create one of the most evil cults we have investigated. It comes as no surprise that, under the umbrella of a “Christian outreach programme” in the far East, she should form a relationship with an old-fashioned “perv” who would eventually become her husband and joint leader of the cult. This gave them an opportunity to brand themselves as former “missionaries” in their early advertising in 2004. This tawdry claim has been deleted from much of their present adverts as more evidence of criminality has come to light. Her husband has the far from affectionate nick of “Creeeeepy Chris” in the Benevent l’Abbaye area.
“HOWEVER, looking back (so easy to read things in retrospectively), what the Godsons told me of their story (moving constantly from country to country) fitted in with the internet stories, and I have to say Chris Godson was not a man I’d wish to meet on a dark night alone.” Quote from Scruffy1.
Ariela Cohen arielacohen99@gmail.com August 2015
It seems, from the Ian Watkins case, that very little attention is paid to WHISTLEBLOWERS who try desperately to alert the public and law enforcement agencies. The predatory paedophile Godson Cult settled in Benevent l’Abbaye since 2004 remains an alarming threat to the well-being of vulnerable pensioner expats and young families with impressionable daughters. This WHISTLEBLOWER Blog needs to reach more people!
Ariela Cohen. November 2013.
Chris and Clare Godson, we are told, regularly provoked the ire of neighbours in Wicklow who objected to the suspicious “comings and goings.”
Amongst the most alarmed was the lady next door, an outraged woman whose house was positioned in-between Godson’s and one of his paedophile converts to the cult.
She and her husband kept a close watch on what went on in the Godson house………………………and tried desperately to alert the somnolent authorities to the unfolding horror!
The husband died in a “mysterious” vehicle accident after raising the alarm about the presence of “underage” girls and “pervy” looking men visiting the Godson home. Several WHISTLEBLOWERS about the Godson Cult have died in “unexplained” accidents!
The concerned neighbours don’t seem to have too impressed by the explanations of “spiritual” improvement given by the Godson couple to cloak what was in fact a child brothel administered by Clare Godson.
The neighbour was interviewed in the local press and described regular conflict between her and the Godson couple involving a procession of complaints to the police and the local authority. “It was a brothel in every possible way and the clients were clearly attracted to the twelve year old girls that stayed over at the Godsons,” she said.
Update 2012: the Godsons have bought over 20 properties in Benevent l’Abbaye (France) and have stationed an “odd set” of converts/recruits in all the buildings. Many of these recruits seem to work on the plumbing/renovation enterprises for negligable pay and look “spaced out” with vacant un-focussed expressions. Most of the Godson work team appear to be stunted lowlife characters on the run from UK legal issues and the police.
It astonishes us at Kelleher Newsdesk that so many people are still sucked into the harsh dominating web of Clare Godson. They are drawn inexorably into a situation where Clare Godson dictates who they can meet or be friends with. We have discovered people so frightened of Clare Godson they dare not meet former friends, even in secret, knowing that fearful consequences will follow.
They know that Clare Godson will insist on vetting NEW friends! To offend Clare Godson is to bring down a weight of lies and savage, humiliating, bullying down upon ones family. They know that the target family or individual will be the subject of destructive poison pen emails/letters. We have discovered people who started enterprises in France absolutely terrified of Clare Godson, they know that Clare is capable of orchestrating bullying and bad-publicity on a massive scale. Offend this terrible woman and you suffer! This WHISTLEBLOWER Blog is basically the only opposition to this cruel and depraved cult and the vicious leadership of Chris & Clare Godson. The Godsons endlessly try to shut us down! Ironically the most malicious woman whines that this WHISTLEBLOWER Blog is maliciously motivated. She demands to have the names and addresses of those claiming abuse at her hands. No chance Mrs. Godson! The witnesses are terrified of you! This Blog is simply designed to protect the vulnerable from this evil cult and its leadership. Refer back to Clare Godson’s time at Bramley School in Surrey and evidence of a gangland culture of bullying is immediately clear. Clare thrived as so called Head Girl of this minor boarding school, her rule went unchallenged by the staff, parents were forced to take their children away from the school when they looked into the dark and brooding atmosphere of sadistic activity presided over by Clare (Soden). Clare dominated the life of this closed community in Surrey inflicting horror on any girl that might threaten her power base. The cruelty went far beyond practical jokes and mockery, the target girl was driven to extremes of misery and isolation. She actually established a “protection racket” in this school and netted substantial sums from frightened pupils. Clare Godson has perfected and employed these evil techniques in the USA, Cambodia, Thailand, Ireland and now employs them in France. Robert Cahill has chatted to former employees of Godson and found himself travelling to very obscure villages by circuitous routes to conduct interviews where the former employee is constantly looking over his shoulder expecting Clare Godson to march in…………….
The threat posed by the Godsons in la Creuse is very real and potent. Our independent cult experts suggest that this is the most dangerous cult operating in France at the present. Aggressive marketing of sham enterprises and leeching funds from vulnerable pensioners has rapidly become the main focus of this cult. Our advisory, protective, guidelines for dealing with this cult are still not reaching everyone open to the techniques adopted by the Godson couple. We have limited some of their phoney “activities” but they are still adapting and managing to draw in people. Holding gatherings in the homes of other converts has been used to cloak the sordid goings on! Advertising, giving only a phone number, was recently adopted by the Godson couple. This of course meant that their tainted name did not appear in the adverts. Please contact: kelleher.newsdesk@hotmail.co.uk if you need help and advice to break free from the Godsons……………………….
The roots of the cult are, of course, in a dysfunctional family in which Clare and her siblings needed treatment for various types of STD even before they had reached their teens such was the depravity endemic in the family relationships………….
We at Kelleher Newsdesk hover between pity and loathing for this woman who has inflicted so much suffering! This is a sad woman who just would not comprehend the norms of civilized behaviour. If you have further information or concerns please contact: arielacohen99@gmail.com or kelleher.newsdesk@hotmail.co.uk
Edited from an article by Robert Cahill. Updated by Ariela Cohen in 2015.
Another email received on 12/02/2013:
“……….he is in my house now! What do I do? A friend just arrived and told me about this Blog………………………………………………………….”
Chris Godson:
“This sly grin comes over his face when meeting clients……………………….”
“This guy oozes sleaze.”
We have been made aware that visitors to Benevent l’Abbaye have often been approached by Clare Godson on the streets of this little town and pressured into staying at one of their “Christian” gites or the B&B.
This totally unscrupulous woman used opportunities like the local bars (where she had the nerve to waitress) to bully people into staying with them! Pilgrims were routinely targetted and told that there was nowhere to stay other than one of the Godson gites.
The Godson woman also shamelessly hyped up their “Christian” background and “missionary” status………………
Local businesses were blackmailed into displaying Godson adverts and cards.
Several people who encountered Clare Godson speak of their certainty that she is deeply disturbed and one correspondent has supplied us with very revealing candid video clips of the B&B and Clare Godson herself.
Entrapment advert for Godson B&B:
La Chouette B&B http://www.pilgrim23.com/id3.html
New email today 08/10/2012:
“I am the Hon. Secretary of an Association based in the ……………………….
We are seeking your advice about taking safety precautions concerning this cult. Our membership has expressed fear about Chris and Clare Godson, and the membership have been targetted by their aggressive advertising………………………………………”
Our advice: do not in any way antagonise the Godsons as they are highly dangerous. Ignore the Godson TP advertising material and politely reject high pressure follow-up calls if you receive them…………………..
Abuse by the Godson Cult: “Most abuse is ritualised in some way and generally people accept that children can be subjected to a range of terrifying and repetitive abusive experiences. One definition of ritual abuse is when one or more children are abused in a highly organised way, by a group of people who have come together and subscribe to a belief system which, for them, justifies their actions towards that child. This usually extends into family involvement and may have been practised as a religion or a way of life for years.
Human Nature (3):
there has been no shortage of former associates and colleagues clamouring to confirm long harboured suspicions about the Godson couple and their “perv” behaviour in Thailand, Cambodia, the USA, Ireland and the UK.
It seems a pity that they did not inform law enforcement at an earlier time in order to spare so many families from anxiety and pain!
Somehow we find this “dishing the dirt” on the Godsons pretty distasteful even though it comes from reliable sources with a knowledge of the Godsons stretching back over twenty years!
True we asked people to to contact kelleher.newsdesk@hotmail.co.uk with further information about this “foul and depraved couple” but we have been taken aback by the sordid antics of the Godsons with very vulnerable girls 11yo to 15yo. Cloaking themselves in false piety and pretending to good character they have used this cover to inflict terrible sexual cruelty and abuse over many years and continents.
Some of our contacts/correspondents have explained that they felt intimidated and fearful of the vengeful nature of Clare Godson, and this we quite understand, even so we wish people had made the effort to stop Chris and Clare Godson earlier in their evil career.
Robert Cahill.
We at Kelleher Newsdesk have for sometime raised the issue of the methods used by the Godsons to “slip beneath the radar” and ingratiate themselves with local politicians/ police/gardai and cunningly evade justice:
Jimmy Savile: police investigate alleged rape and sex abuse ‘on national scale’
Jimmy Savile sex abuse claims made by former hospital patients
- Former patients at Stoke Mandeville, Leeds General Infirmary and Broadmoor complain about TV presenter’s behaviour. By Lisa O’Carroll
Jimmy Savile ‘abused brain-damaged patient at Leeds hospital’ – video- Jimmy Savile claims horrifying, says BBC director general – video
- Jimmy Savile: former BBC executives deny sex abuse claims were open secret
Jimmy Savile: should the BBC director general make an on-air apology?- Jimmy Savile: BBC’s Lord Patten denies corporate cover-up
- Jimmy Savile: BBC to bring in outsider to head inquiry
- Jimmy Savile: Metropolitan police investigating 120 abuse claims – video
- Jimmy Savile’s tombstone removed from grave in Scarborough – video
- Panorama to conduct Savile investigation
By Michael Holden
LONDON | Tue Oct 9, 2012 5:21pm BST
(Reuters) – Jimmy Savile, the late BBC TV star at the centre of a child sex scandal that has shaken Britain’s state-funded broadcaster, may have abused up to 25 victims some as young as 13 over four decades, police said on Tuesday.
Detectives said they were looking into 120 lines of inquiry about Savile, the eccentric children’s presenter who was a British household name for both his TV and charity work, since allegations against him were first aired just over a week ago.
A number of the alleged victims have gone public, triggering a media storm that has raised awkward questions for the BBC including suggestions the broadcaster covered up Savile’s crimes, some of which were said to have taken place on BBC premises.
The BBC’s new boss George Entwistle was forced to apologise on Monday to the women alleging abuse by Savile, who died last year aged 84.
Eight women have already made criminal complaints against Savile, two of rape and six of indecent assault. Commander Peter Spindler, who is heading the police inquiry, said he expected more to follow as other victims came forward.
“We think we will come up with between 20 and 25 victims,” he told reporters, adding the eight who had already come forward had mostly been aged 13 to 16 at the time of the alleged abuse.
“The pattern of his offending behaviour does appear to be on a national scale,” Spindler said. He added the abuse spanned four decades with the earliest reported case in 1959.
Cigar-chomping Savile, instantly recognisable by his shock of blonde hair and garish outfits, is accused of using his celebrity status to abuse the girls.
The former DJ travelled around London in a Rolls-Royce and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his charitable work in 1990. When he died last year, he was buried wearing a tracksuit after his gold-coloured coffin was put on public display in a hotel.
“CULTURE OF SEX ABUSE”
Some of the alleged victims have said there was a culture of sexual abuse inside the BBC when Savile was at the height of his fame in the 1970s and 80s, and that other well-known stars were involved.
“We’re not investigating the BBC, the only people we will be investigating are specific individuals should there be any evidence,” said Spindler, rejecting a suggestion that they were looking at a sex ring inside the broadcaster.
“I’m very satisfied with the level of support the BBC have provided. They are fully cooperating,” he added.
As Savile is dead, he himself will not be the focus of any criminal probe. Instead, Spindler said their primary objective was to get recognition for the victims and have the issues out in the open.
“Information is coming in as we speak. The reality is this really has captured the public’s mind,” Spindler said. He said the police inquiry was an assessment rather than a formal investigation at this stage.
Detectives aim to produce a speedy report in conjunction with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) charity to see what conclusions can be drawn.
Last year, an investigation by Newsnight, the BBC’s flagship news show, was shelved, prompting critics to suggest that BBC bosses had known about the allegations but kept quiet.
The BBC has denied that. Newsnight’s editor Peter Rippon said his decision not to run its story was because the allegations against Savile could not be substantiated.
Prime Minister David Cameron has waded into the scandal, calling on the BBC to conduct an internal investigation.
(Editing by Pravin Char)
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