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Good evening, tonight in the second edition news an exclusive and disturbing report about
occult rape and murder in Australia, some of it involving children.
They ate a little girl. They killed her when she was alive.
It's a report which has set off alarm bells around the country.
Also, Alan Bond drops a million dollar bombshell in Perth at the WA Inc Royal Commission.
Police in Sydney and Melbourne have launched wide ranging investigations into allegations of satanic murder, torture and abuse of children on a huge scale.
A three month inquiry by 10 Eyewitness News uncovered hundreds of claims by victims and parents.
The information has been passed to police. Today Melbourne's Deputy Commissioner John Frame sent his officers in pursuit.
Mr Frame's announcement came after lengthy discussions between Eyewitness News and senior police,
during which time we presented detailed allegations of the torture and murder of children by satanic cults.
Since you spoke to our people earlier we've pulled together all of those people who are involved to see if we can,
well with an endeavour to at least coordinate our efforts in relation to the allegation.
And these are just some of the interviews shown to police with the terrified victims of satanic cults.
You live in constant fear that you'll be the next person to be sacrificed.
There was a lot of abuse of the kids, group sex, sacrifices, cannibalism.
I was called a breeder. I had babies for them.
The high priest will have sex with the person that's being sacrificed as well. It's all drawn out very slowly.
Just one case amongst many involves the tiny township of Narnargoon near Melbourne,
where parents are still reeling in horror, disbelief and rage.
I don't know where to start.
But they have courageously decided to speak out in the hope that other children can be saved.
The first thing we noticed with my daughter, she began to be very withdrawn.
And even the kinder teacher was a little worried about the way she was acting this way.
So it began in kindergarten while your children were going to kindergarten?
Yes, after kinder.
Were they taken to a certain place, the children?
We thought they were being taken to a certain home to play.
We now believe that they were taken to several other places.
Now they're indicating to us that they've been more or less invited into this elaborate building structure.
And then they've been forced into participating in various acts of sexual orgies, I suppose I'd call it,
with various adults and other children, adults, animals.
The most difficult part to grasp is that the people, or the perpetrators, seem like normal mums and dads.
They don't seem any different. They are quite common people, very friendly.
And we thought our children were very safe going there.
Did they give any description of the sort of room or place they were taken to?
Well, she said it was a hurting place.
They called it the hurting place?
My daughter's gone into great detail of being put in a coffin.
The lid of the coffin was closed on her for a long period of time until she screamed and cried and threw up, and eventually she was let out.
Are you talking about your children being sexually abused and in some cases raped?
Most definitely.
Rape by more than one person?
Yes.
You're talking about group rape of your children?
Yes.
Did your children witness anyone being murdered?
Yes.
What do your children say about that? What details have they given you?
They've indicated that it was babies or, you know, we believe it could be fetuses.
Well, she seems to think she's seen more than one.
And the one she talks mainly about is a little girl she calls Cainie.
Did they give any description of how the murder took place, how the little girl was killed?
Shot. She said shot and then cut across the stomach.
She was cut into pieces, put in an oven and cooked, and I made to eat her.
It's hard for the same everyday 1990 person to believe any of this, but when it comes from children that age, it's beyond their comprehension.
Where do they get it from?
Police investigating this case are shocked by the allegations, but the children are so young, so confused and so terrified that the chances of them ever giving evidence in court are very slim.
But it's not the only case. There are others around Australia, and we've been asked not to reveal the locations of some of them because they are still being investigated by the police.
What you're about to hear are the voices of two Sydney children in a separate but chillingly similar case.
What did they say would happen if you told anyone?
They said that they'll kill mummy and then they'll kill us, and they'll eat a little girl.
They ate a little girl?
They killed her when she was alive.
Did you see that?
Yes, they didn't close her eyes or cover them with anything or anything like that.
Where was this?
At the church.
Whether it's satanic cults, whether it's simply pedophiles dressing up, we really don't know. As investigators, we've really got to keep an open mind and really cut through some of the trappings of the thing, if you like, and look at evidence of criminal offences. That's what we're endeavouring to do at the moment.
Now since that story went to air for the first time earlier tonight, Channel 10 stations and the police around the country have been inundated with calls from worried people in the community.
There have also been several people calling with information about other possible cases.
Now if you think you can help, call the number on the screen of the capital city nearest you. Channel 10 will have more news on this worrying story tomorrow night.
We'll have all the rest of the day's news after this.
You live in constant fear that you'll be the next person to be sacrificed.
There was a lot of abuse of the kids, group sex, sacrifices.
Former business high flyer Alan Bond has dropped a bombshell at the WA Inc. Royal Commission.
Today he admitted he donated almost a million dollars to a Labor election campaign in 1989.
The massive Bond donation fits to some extent the election claims of former Liberal front-bencher Bill Hassell, claims for which he was ridiculed by the doubting government in 1989.
Mr Hassell claimed the doubting election campaign was oiled with three million dollars of Bond money.
Under examination by Royal Commission lawyer Brian Martin QC, Alan Bond agreed that his companies had tipped in nine hundred and thirty thousand dollars to the doubting campaign between March 1988 and January 1989, starting with a two hundred thousand dollar donation from Bond Brewing.
We tended to favour politicians who were doing a good job rather than political parties, said Mr Bond.
Peter Dowding won the 1989 election against the odds and in the wake of the disastrous Rothwell's rescue.
Alan Bond spent the day on the witness stand recounting the rescue weekend and managing to implicate Paul Keating.
Mr Bond remembers a message that former Premier Brian Burke had been speaking to the former Treasurer on that rescue weekend.
Mr Keating has denied in Federal Parliament any approach by Brian Burke.
Alan Bond recounted the drama of the Rothwell's rescue, how he was telephoned in Rome by a politician whose name he's now forgotten, asking him to lend a hand.
Following the call, Mr Bond rushed home the night he was to attempt to slay the dragon threatening to consume Rothwell's.
This is Doug Cunningham at the Royal Commission, 10 Eyewitness News.
The credit ratings of two Australian states are in trouble. The New York-based Moody's Investors Service says New South Wales and Western Australian governments may be downgraded.
Moody's says political instability is one of the reasons for the credit review.
The credit review by the New York-based Moody's organisation came just an hour after New South Wales Premier Nick Greiner announced he'll be leading a private sector trade mission to Japan next month.
In a prepared statement, Moody's referred to the current financial position in both New South Wales and West Australia and future borrowing requirements in light of deteriorating state revenues.
In the case of New South Wales, it also warned of the adverse effects of political instability.
Downgrading would be very unfortunate to the state. Short of swinging from the chandeliers, there is really nothing that the government could have done different or better with respect to financial management.
The Greiner government's budget strategy is dependent on a continuation of the state's AAA credit rating, but the latest Moody's decision has provided the opposition with another free kick.
This is what you get when you waste $90 million on Eastern Creek. This is what you get when you waste $400 million on consultants. And this is what you get when you pay your top public servants $220,000 a year.
The downgrading of the WA and New South Wales credit ratings by Moody's would increase the cost of borrowing by state authorities and erode confidence by the private sector.
Moody's has also cited the national recession as a cause for concern for all Australian states.
Paul Mullins, 10 Eyewitness News.
And the state's money problems confronted the Prime Minister today on his first day back at work after the heads of government meeting in Zimbabwe.
The premiers want Canberra to loosen the strings.
It was back to domestic issues with a thud for Prime Minister Hawke. His two weeks at the Commonwealth Summit had done nothing to boost confidence in the economy or jobs at home.
His deputy, Brian Howe, though, continues to hold the line despite the premiers adding their weight for new measures on jobs.
There is no instant panacea. There is no one thing that anyone can do which will suddenly wipe away the problem of unemployment.
The premiers want more done to foster major project development.
Mr Howe says Canberra is ready to examine any worthwhile ideas.
Shadow Employment Minister John Howard suspects some of the premiers are grandstanding.
There is no one thing which is the answer apart from a resumption of proper economic growth generating genuine jobs.
The ACTU is to push its own jobs charter with the Prime Minister and senior ministers.
The unions are looking for more bounce in the economy. They do want changes from the federal government.
We've got our own strategy which is about long term productive jobs. We are not about jobs that will disappear in six months' time.
While the argument rages, the dole queues lengthen and the pressure on Bob Hawke to be seen to be doing something new is becoming almost irresistible.
Paul Bonjourno, 10 Eyewitness News.
Bitterness continued today at the picket line at a Victorian abattoir. Ironically both sides say they are fighting for workers' rights.
Those who aren't working are angry that the owners of the abattoir have again shipped in contract labour.
The picketers tried to stop a biscuit truck with 60 workers in the back from crossing the picket line in a repeat of last Friday's violent scenes.
But a big contingent of police paved the way for the truck to get through.
The abattoir closed down two years ago after a dispute over work practices.
In Adelaide, 75-year-old pensioner Ivan Polukovic appeared in court in Australia's first European war crimes case.
He's alleged to have murdered 24 people and been involved in the murders of up to 850 others in World War II.
The Crown Prosecutor said Polukovic had been a member of the police force set up by the Nazis after they invaded the Ukraine in 1942.
He said witnesses would tell how a large number of Jews were marched out of a ghetto in his home village of Serniki to a nearby forest where they were shot over a period of six hours.
The QC said many witnesses were close friends or relatives of Polukovic, including his sister.
And the world's leading drug enforcers are calling for greater global cooperation to fight illegal drug trafficking.
But it's a fight that's hurting Tasmania, which produces $15 million a year worth of opiates.
The U.S. will not relax its import laws to allow more product from Australia.
Also a major concern here is the rise in illegal imports of marijuana from Papua New Guinea.
The collapse of the Cape York Space Agency has set back another promising Australian high technology venture.
Here's the Business Review Weekly's Robert Gottliebsen.
A project to launch rockets into space was first suggested for Cape York during the 1970s.
A decade later, the then Queensland Premier, Joe Bajoki-Pederson, backed the proposal and several consortiums began doing feasibility studies.
Some of Australia's largest companies were involved.
But always the most enthusiastic supporter of the development was Malcolm Edwards and his Essington Group.
And eventually he brought control of the Cape York Space Agency.
As the project looked like getting off the ground, so sectional interests including environmentalists and aborigines began protesting.
But in the end, it was the property slump that did the most damage.
The space station might have got off the ground, but in the meantime Edwards and his planned supporters...