103. Courtney Tamagny's Ritual Abuse Reboot

Worldwide Panic is a weekly conversation about the stories, anxieties, myths, and cultural flashpoints that shape how we understand the world. Each week, journalist Joseph L. Flatley and The Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves examine how fear spreads, how belief takes hold, and why certain narratives return again and again—long after they’ve been debunked.In this week’s episode, Lucien and Lenny dig into a shocking and almost entirely unreported case out of New Jersey: a 2025 civil lawsuit in which 23-year-old Courtney Tamagny accuses her father, neighbors, and a sprawling network of state agencies of participating in an international Satanic Ritual Abuse cult.What begins as a bizarre news clipping quickly unfolds into a textbook Satanic Panic narrative—complete with recovered memories, dreams treated as evidence, conspiracy-therapist “experts,” and a therapist pipeline straight out of the 1980s ritual-abuse moral panic. Lucien and Lenny walk through the case, the complaint, the procedural posture, and the deeper cultural forces that allow these narratives to keep resurfacing, unchallenged, in courts and media.The conversation also situates the Tamagny case in the long tail of modern conspiracy culture: the way JFK, MK-ULTRA, and the Epstein files have created a worldview where nothing is provable, everything is possible, and where therapeutic malpractice flourishes in the cracks.This case is worth paying attention to; not because the allegations are credible, but because it showcases how an entire therapeutic subculture continues to manufacture SRA narratives, ruin families, and destabilize public understanding of trauma and memory.Further reading: “Daughter of NJ police chief accuses him, others of ‘ritualistic’ abuse, years of sexual assault: court docs” (NY Post)Theme music: “Satanic Planet” by Satanic PlanetWatch the video version on The Satanic Temple’s streaming service: https://thesatanictemple.tv/