Who are Australian Survivors of Child Abuse (ASCA)?
ASCA was publicly formed in May 1995, one-week after three letters critical of repressed memories were published in The Australian newspaper. These letters were successively by Dr Kenneth Godwin (Public Officer of the AFMA at the time), Psychologist Merle Elson and Dr Andrew Gibbs. Following the last, a letter was written to the Australian calling for persons to join ASCA. ASCA was initially known as “The Australian Association for Recovered Memories”, then “We Remember”, and was then redefined under “Australian Survivors of Child Abuse”(ASCA). The Board of ASCA includes persons who advocate recovered memories, multiple personalities, and claims of gross ritual or satanic abuse. It is well-funded and claims to speak on behalf of “survivors”, through expensive advertising within the Australian media. The book Breaking The Silence by Liz Mullinar (based in Australia) and Candida Hunt (based in the United Kingdom) argues in favour of recovered memory methods, multiple personalities and re
