Chapter 39
Kate was worried about Sarah's group. She still wasn't sure if Caleb was a part of the militia but Kate feared him too. Admittedly Kate understood his fears of the occult. It wasn't the dark witchcraft powers that she feared as much as what people were willing to do when they took this stuff too seriously. In Los Angelas Kate saw certain things. One man killed himself as a sacrifice to a demon Kate had never heard of. Two small groups who claimed to worship the same demon fought and killed each other over the best way to worship it. One teen, who allegedly worshipped "Moloch" tried to burn down a home for pregnant teens and the pastor who ran it. Kate suspected he was just a lowlife who had gotten his girlfriend pregnant and was trying to avoid child-support. At any rate he killed himself while in police custody. Kate had arrested four parents on charges of sexually abusing their children in satanic rituals. Three of these parents were cleared of any wrong doing. The fourth one was guilty. He had used the satanic elements to discredit his daughter's story. But then Kate had seen insanity in the name of fighting the occult. One young woman drove nails into her arms to fake what was known as "Stigmata." Two parents had murdered their young child to prevent him from being influenced by satanic elements. Kate feared these types of incidents happenning in Sunnydale, it was clearly a possibility after Marcie Ross' death. And Sarah's militia, combined with Caleb's preaching, was attracting some of the more radical elements in town. It seemed like they could cause a lot of damage in Sunnydale.