"The news item that removed the ground from under my feet lasts four minutes... The people in the streets react equally bitter. They do not want to lose Connerotte. The parents of the missing and murdered girls express their anger in public. Their hope hurts me. They think that Connerotte is not yet a lost cause. Their naitivity reminds me of the hope I once had. I have learned to prepare for the worst. And the worst happened."

- Victim-witness Regina Louf (X1) about the October 1996 White March in which 300,000 people went to protest in Brussels against the removal of Jean-Marc Connerotte from the Dutroux investigation. (1998, 'Zwijgen is voor Daders,' p. 204)

"The men who raped us weren’t particularly attracted to children. The only thing they were interested in was to go beyond all limits from a sexual point of view. And children were perfect for that. They kept quiet and did what was asked of them."

- January 8, 1996, Quote from Regina Louf (X1) in De Morgen

"FRANCE WAS facing an enormous judicial scandal yesterday after its most senior public prosecutor ordered an investigation into the unexplained disappearance of up to 24 young women in northern Burgundy over the past 30 years."

"The investigation follows the revelation that almost all of the records of criminal investigations started and dropped by the prosecutor's office in Auxerre between 1958 and 1982 - including many cases of missing women - had been stolen or destroyed..."

"Official investigations into dysfunctions in the local welfare, police and justice systems already hinted at a pattern of cover-ups and incompetence. French newspapers have compared the case to the "Dutroux affair" in Belgium, in which the alleged paedophile ring operator and child murderer Marc Dutroux appeared to have benefited from official protection."

- December 13, 2001, The Independent, 'French prosecutor orders investigation into scandal of missing women'

"In August 1997 the body of 57-year-old Christian Jambert was found in the cellar of his home in Auxerre. There was, it was said at the time, a single bullet hole in his throat, a hunting rifle by his side and a suicide note nearby."

"Colleagues of this retired detective quickly concluded that it was an openand-shut case: Jambert had suffered from depression and had clearly taken his own life. So sure was Auxerre's public prosecutor that he didn't bother to order a post-mortem."

"But not everyone was convinced. For, far from enjoying a quiet retirement, right until the day of his death Jambert had dedicated his every waking moment to trying to solve the mysterious disappearances and deaths of young women from the area."

"His interest in the disparu, or disappeared, had first been triggered by the fate of seven women, aged 16 to 27, who had attended the same special education centre in Auxerre before vanishing between 1977 and 1979."

"Then a serving gendarme, Jambert was the first officer to link their disappearances to Emile Louis, a coach driver. Prosecutors, however, dismissed his evidence, shelved his investigation and ignored at least three subsequent requests by him to have it reopened."

"Someone somewhere wanted the disappearances hushed up, he believed - a suspicion reinforced when other similar investigations were inexplicably closed."

"The case for the conspiracy theorists was further strengthened in 1984 when a horribly mutilated woman escaped from a house in a village close to Auxerre and led police to a cellar where she and two others had been imprisoned for up to three months and subjected to appalling abuse."

"A list of 50 people, rumoured to include several French 'notables' who had paid various rates to torture and abuse the women, was discovered by police."

"It would later go missing from a courtroom in Auxerre, and only Claude Dunand, a factory worker and his wife, Monique - who both lived in the house - were jailed."

"For almost 20 years Jambert had battled to solve these cases (he had also studied Jo Parrish's murder in depth) before finally persuading a team of elite Parisian gendarmes to re-examine the cases."

"But just weeks before he was due to deliver his evidence, Jambert was found dead. Given the circumstances, one might have expected a thorough investigation. Instead, the case was closed with indecent haste and, although suspicions existed from day one, it would be almost seven years before they would be acted upon."

"In that time there were some dramatic revelations. First, in 2000, the coach driver Emile Louis was arrested. He confessed to seven murders and led police to two bodies."

He subsequently retracted his confession, insisting the girls were abducted, abused and killed by a ring of high-ranking local men.

"He was only the chauffeur, he says - a claim that will be tested when his trial takes place in Auxerre later this year."

"Louis was serving time in prison when Jo Parrish died, but the families of the victims suspect that he and Dunand were two of many local sex criminals who procured girls for their important 'clients'."

"But the most compelling evidence for some sort of conspiracy emerged this April, when, after pressure from his son Philippe, Jambert's body was finally exhumed and a postmortem carried out."

"It revealed that he had been shot twice. The pathologist concluded that the entry wounds were caused by two bullets of apparently different types which had been fired from different angles. Either shot would have been fatal, meaning Jambert could not have killed himself. Police are now working on the theory that he was executed by men who feared he was about to reveal damning evidence against them."

- July 21, 2004, The Daily Mail, 'Was Jo killed by a sex cult?'. For 14 years Leeds student Joanna Parrish's murder in France has been unsolved. Now the arrest of a serial killer poses the chilling question: was she murdered by a cabal of high powered men obsessed with rape and torture?'

"The claims involve white slavery, sado-masochism, rapes, sex with minors, drug dealing and appalling brutality - all in the heart of the government of one of France's most historic and most civilised cities... Though the accusations are unproved, Justice Minister Dominique Perben sacked Toulouse's prosecutor-general, Jean Volff, last week for covering up links between senior officials and the exploitation of vulnerable girls. Volff has denied any wrongdoing..."

"Detectives have reopened an investigation into the disappearance of 115 young women in the Toulouse area between 1986 and 1997, and are probing earlier claims that [Patrice] Alègre was paid to establish a prostitution network by respected local leaders."

"According to press reports, senior police officials covered up Alègre's role as a pimp in Toulouse. The most startling accounts of sexual violence were given by a woman known as Patricia, 32, who went into hiding in 1992 after witnessing two murders. She has told examining magistrates that Alègre was in charge of recruiting prostitutes and organising orgies. She identified men with whom she had sex at Toulouse's Palais de Justice and said sado-masochist orgies went on at a chateau owned by Toulouse council. She claimed she had witnessed the killing by Alègre of two girls he had recruited..."

"The other witness, known as Fanny, was 17 when she was forced into prostitution in 1990 after being recruited by Alègre who, for a time, worked in the police station canteen. She had also witnessed the second murder, but had kept quiet about Alègre's involvement until tracked down two years ago by a gendarmerie squad investigating the unsolved killings of prostitutes in Toulouse and an apparent cover-up by local police."

- June 1, 2003, The Observer, 'Tales of orgies and murder rock France'

"Alègre, a policeman's son, organised the city's prostitution business, providing under-age girls for sadomasochistic orgies at a courthouse in the city and at a chateau owned by the town council. In a letter from his cell sent to TV presenter Karl Zero at the weekend, Alègre said that the former prostitutes, known as Patricia and Fanny, were telling the truth about the murders of two other prostitutes which they had witnessed but which he had previously denied... A vice squad detective allegedly assured Alègre, who worked in the police canteen, that [one of] the murder[s] would be classified as suicide..."

"The letter was written after Alègre met a magistrate to give details of unsolved crimes. Only part of the four-page document has been published but, according to a source who has read all of it, Alègre's confession "contains precise details about the places, situations and personalities involved in the orgies"... "

"One [accused] judge has admitted to drinking with Alègre and another has said that there was "some truth" in evidence from two former prostitutes of an official cover-up of Alègre's crimes. "

- June 3, 2003, The Guardian, 'Toulouse officials ordered murder, says serial killer'

"The scandal over alleged links between top officials in Toulouse [4th largest French city] and France's most notorious serial killer deepened yesterday when a news magazine revealed allegations that the former mayor, Dominique Baudis, had a sexual relationship with the murderer, Patrice Alègre. Because Mr Baudis, head of CSA, the broadcasting watchdog, has vigorously denied being involved in sex and drug orgies organised by Alègre, newspapers have only published a partial account of the information leaking from lawyers close to the case. But L'Express reported that a judicial inquiry in Toulouse, closed to the public, had been told that Mr Baudis, a former TV newsreader, was known as Nénette and had met the killer at a city hotel for sado-masochistic sessions. A former call girl, "Patricia", told magistrates that she had been "offered" to Mr Baudis by Alègre at a Toulouse flat where she underwent three hours of torture that left scars. L'Express says she described Mr Baudis as Alègre's lover. "

- June 6, 2003, The Guardian, 'Mayor's 'affair' with serial killer'

"Alegre, 35, is already serving a life sentence for murdering 10 women and raping two others. But police have continued investigating the unsolved murders of other young women during the 1990s, which they believed might be linked to him. Earlier this year they interviewed two prostitutes, Patricia and Fanny, who told them that he was in fact the pimp for a group of senior local government officials, supposedly explaining why it had taken so long to catch him. After repeated questioning, Alegre confirmed the prostitutes' claims. He said he organised sex parties at a city-owned mansion just outside Toulouse, providing cocaine, under-age girls and torture devices. Howls emanating from the mansion prompted neighbours to tell police they feared animals were being sacrificed and the prostitutes said three girls were killed during these orgies..."

"[In total] a serial killer, two prostitutes and a transvestite... said they had seen M Baudis at the orgies"

"M Baudis was questioned by investigators yesterday for the first time since the scandal broke in April, in the presence of Patricia, a prostitute now in jail awaiting trial for fabricating accusations. "Eye to eye, all I saw was an evasive look and a lowered gaze," he said. "She came with two policemen and left with two policemen. I arrived a free man and leave a free man. But I will continue to fight against those who have fabricated evidence." The senior investigating magistrate in Toulouse said he had received a letter from Patrice Alegre, the serial killer who accused M Baudis, in which he retracted his accusations. Later, the transvestite, Djamel, withdrew his claims that he had seen senior officials at orgies. "

- June 27, 2003, Daily Telegraph, 'Ex-mayor cleared of sex scandal'. Whatever happened here, anyone familiar with the Franklin case, the X-Dossiers or other high level sex scandals knows how easy it is to coerce witnesses and especially victim- witnesses into recanting their previous testimonies.

"Police are still searching for a group of men, who the children say arrived at Franck V.'s apartment in suits and ties, with their faces hidden behind masks — a striking contrast to the largely uneducated, unemployed defendants who fill the courtroom in rumpled sweatshirts and scuffed sneakers. Franck V.'s lawyer Pascal Rouiller says he is convinced the men were part of a sophisticated network of pedophiles who tapped into Angers' underbelly as word of the prostitution ring spread. They brought in customers who "had money, made appointments, and were punctual," Rouiller says. One man paid €458 for one sexual assault on a child, and Franck V.'s wife, Patricia, regularly took in about €1,200 a month. "Franck had telephone calls from the whole of France," says Rouiller. "He's a poor miserable man with no intelligence. He had no reason to have contact with people in Montpellier or Lille." Much like the pedophilia scandal that rocked Belgium in 1996, Angers is awash in suspicions that a wider ring of wealthy customers was among the child rapists, and is still at large."

- April 25, 2005, Time Magazine - Europe, 'A Town Called Angers; How one community in rural France is coping with allegations of systematic sexual abuse of children'

"The issue [of child abuse] has dominated Portuguese headlines since last November, when a newspaper published allegations of long-running abuse of children at the string of state-funded orphanages and schools run by the 200-year-old Casa Pia foundation. As fresh revelations emerged, a former secretary of state for the family spoke of a "network" that procured children for outsiders. Carlos Silvino, the Casa Pia driver alleged to be at the centre of the ring, was arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing pupils. He has been charged on 35 counts of abuse, with prosecutors considering further charges. As police continued investigations a dozen suspects were formally named, seven of whom were arrested and taken to prison to await charges. Among them were Paulo Pedroso, an MP and number two in the opposition Socialist Party; Carlos Cruz, one of Portugal’s most popular television journalists and retired ambassador Jorge Ritto."

"Casa Pia director Catalina Pestana, who took over after the scandal broke, says doctors found more than a hundred of the 4500 current pupils had been repeatedly sexual abused, most aged between 10 and 13. In many cases, she adds, their muscle and tissue were so damaged that they suffered internal injuries. Pestana believes these may be the tip of the iceberg. For years, she says, there was a “blanket of silence” at the Casa Pia, with senior staff at best in denial, at worst complicit in the wrongdoing..."

"[The] investigation has been painfully slow, prompting suspicions that even if Silvino [the Casa Pia driver], whose initial trial has been twice postponed, is found guilty, better-connected abusers may go free..."

"The Casa Pia affair has had one major positive effect in hugely raising public awareness about the sexual abuse of children. The number of incidents reported to police has soared, and last month thousands marched through Lisbon and three other Portuguese cities, calling for more action against child abuse."

- October 12, 2003, Sunday Herald, 'Portugal shamed by child sex'

"An investigative journalist working on behalf of The Portugal News has obtained a list of the attendees at the Paris meeting, which was held at the Trianon Hotel between the 15th and 18th of May. Durão Barroso was in the company of former Prime Minister, Francisco Balsemão, who is presently chairman and chief executive officer of Impresa Corporation. Also in tow was Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, leader of the opposition Socialist Party. The opposition leader’s press officer told The Portugal News that Mr. Rodrigues attended the conference for three and a half days."

"Mr. Rodrigues is currently fighting off a paedophile scandal, following the arrest of Socialist MP Paulo Pedroso and claims, in some newspapers that the PS leader has also been accused of limited involvement. "

- May 31, 2003, The Portugal News, 'Barroso bombed-off to Bilderberg meeting?'

"A year-long paedophilia investigation by Queensland's Criminal Justice Commission yesterday dismissed as "scuttlebutt" allegations that police, judges and MPs were involved in and had protected a paedophile ring. It also rejected allegations that pornographic "snuff movies" had been filmed in Queensland, reporting there was no evidence such movies existed anywhere in the world. Former judge Jack Kimmins, who conducted the inquiry, also found the contents of some files gathered by former police chief Terry Lewis were capable of being used for blackmail, but there was no evidence he had, or proposed to, blackmail anyone."

- September 10, 1998, The Australian, 'Paedophilia finding'. Since at least the mid-1990s there have been regular accusations of high level child abuse, torture and murder in Australia. All the accusations have been dismissed, but it's hard not to notice the similarities with accusations in other Western countries.

"The Bussum businessman Ronnie Galiart has to appear in front of a judge in September. He is suspected of having smuggled thousands of liters of PMK (an ingredient for XTC) into the Netherlands, packed in honey from China... In those days Ronnie belonged to the network of the Gooi real estate farmer W.F.M. Mijnhardt, who not only continually expanded his capital in the o.g. sector, but also, according to the new publication of the intelligence magazine Fringe, in the cocaine- and diamond smuggle..."

"The [Dutch] Criminal Investigation Department [Rijksrecherche] brought to light that the organization of Mijnhardt kept 253 notable members of society, including mayors, bank directors and officials from the police and the district attorney's office, at gunpoint with images of their sexual escapades in the Spiegelhuis [Mirror House], a luxerious brothel in Zeist... By the way, the Spiegelhuis apparently wouldn't be the only location where high society of this sort went loose and dropped their pants. Also in Ameide this would have happened in the so-called pink ballets. We're waiting for the Dutch Dr. Pinon."

- July 2, 2001, Kleintje - Muurkrant, 'Pink Ballets (5)'

"In the spring of 1999, on the eve of the controversial revelations of the Kalsbeek Commission about the "escorted transit" of at least 15,000 kilos of cocaine, Teeven provided the college of Prosecuter Generals with a list of individuals from the top echelons of the Dutch society who had maneuvered themselves in different blackmailable positions. In 24 cases the persons involved had unthoughtfully dropped their pants. Some of them with the intention of mounting children. A portion of this information Teeven would undoubtedly have distilled from the reports of his deal-partner [Mink Kok, a well known Dutch gangster]. Worried, Congress asked minister of Justice Korthals what that Teeven's List was all about. Korthals summoned the [Dutch] Criminal Investigation Department [Rijksrecherche]. This one put the pedal to the metal. Already in December more than eighty dossiers had been worked through and a relieved Korthals could give his report to the worried members of Congress. Yes, in several cases there indeed had been some mild form of dubious actions. And yes, here and there we were dealing with pedophilia. But nowhere the CID had been able to bring up crystal clear facts. So in reality nothing serious was going on. We keep the finger to the pulse. Merry Christmas and a happy new year. Within police circles this very quick whitewash was received with mixed emotion. Because there certainly was clear information available. For instance the sexual escapades of professor Dr. Job de Ruiter. Professor in personal-, family- and youth law [University of Amsterdam], former minister of Justice in the cabinets of Van Agt I, II and III and minister of Defense in the cabinet of Lubbers I. After that [he was] prosecuter general in Amsterdam [and] head of numerous investigating committees..."

- July 2, 2001, Kleintje - Muurkrant, 'Pink Ballets (5)'. In 2006, Job de Ruiter and others unsuccessfully tried to prevent the publishing of the book 'Een Man Tegen De Staat' ('One Man Against The State'), which repeated the accusations that he used to be blackmailed by his subordinate officers because they knew about him molesting young boys.
Another top officer who is seperately accused of involvement in child trafficking- and pedophile networks is Joris Demmink, secretary general of the Dutch Justice Department who began his career in the legal department of the Ministry of Defense. klokkenluider online.nl, ran by (formerly) respected mainstream journalists, is increasingly paying attention to these sex scandals.

"A homosexual prostitution ring is under investigation by federal and District authorities and includes among its clients key officials of the Reagan and Bush administrations, military officers, congressional aides and US and foreign businessmen with close social ties to Washington's political elite, documents obtained by The Washington Times reveal."

"One of the ring's high-profile clients was so well-connected, in fact, that he could arrange a middle-of-the-night tour of the White House for his friends on Sunday, July 3, of last year. Among the six persons on the extraordinary 1 a.m. tour were two male prostitutes."

"Federal authorities, including the Secret Service, are investigating criminal aspects of the ring and have told male prostitutes and their homosexual clients that a grand jury will deliberate over the evidence throughout the summer, The Times learned."

"Reporters for this newspaper examined hundreds of credit-card vouchers, drawn on both corporate and personal cards and made payable to the escort service operated by the homosexual ring..."

"Among the client names contained in the vouchers - and identified by prostitutes and escort operators - are government officials, locally based US military officers, businessmen, lawyers, bankers, congressional aides and other professionals..."

"The office of US Attorney General Jay B. Stephens, former deputy White House counsel to President Reagan, is coordinating federal aspects of the inquiry but refused to discuss the investigation or grand jury actions."

"Several former White House colleagues of Mr. Stephen are listed among clients of the homosexual prostitution ring, according to the credit card records, and those persons have confirmed that the charges were theirs."

"One of the ring’s big spending clients is Craig J. Spence, Washington socialite and international trade consultant, according to documents and interviews with operators and prostitutes who say they engaged in sexual activities with Mr. Spence."

"Mr. Spence spent upwards of $20,000 a month for male prostitutes who provided sex to him and his friends, said to include military personnel who also acted as his “bodyguards.” It was Mr. Spence who arranged the nocturnal tour of the Reagan White House. Repeated attempts to reach Mr. Spence by telephone, fax machine and personal visits to his home, were unsuccessful..."

"Members of major news organizations also procured escort services from the ring, credit card documents show. These include Stanley Mark Tapscott, who was an assistant managing editor of The Washington Times... Before joining The Times, Mr. Tapscott worked for the Office of Personnel Management in the Reagan administration..."

"The documents show that a number of clients — lawyers, doctors and business executives — used corporate credit cards to procure escort services and that a number of military officers from the United States and allied countries — including one foreign officer using a "Department of Defence" credit card — charged male escort services..."

"A major concern, said the former official with longtime ties to top-ranking military intelligence officers, was that hostile foreign intelligence services were using young male prostitutes to compromise top administration homosexuals, thus making them subject to blackmail."

"We have known for many, many years that there is a department of the KGB [Soviet intelligence] whose job it is to prey on sexual deviants,” said retired Lt. Gen. Daniel Graham, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. [interestingly, Graham is a Moonie cult ally whose Washington Post exposed this scandal. He also was a top-level CIA officer]..."

"Although the confiscated material was turned over to District police on the scene, witnesses and law enforcement agents say the Secret Service kept one box containing names and other information about high-level government officials who were clients of the male escort business. District police officials say that, to their knowledge, this is the first time the Secret Service has ever become involved in such a raid in this area. Initially, the Secret Service denied it was involved in the raid, but after a second raid of the 34th Place house on May 18, the agency acknowledged its involvement in the investigation..."

"In addition to credit-card fraud, the investigation is said to be focused on illegal interstate prostitution, abduction and use of minors for sexual perversion, extortion, larceny and related illicit drug trafficking and use by prostitutes and their clients."

"One of the chief operators of Professional Services Inc. and a regular client of the service speculated in separate interviews that the investigation would be restricted because “big names” were involved."

""Henry Vinson [the operator] said a high level official is going to try to block the investigation and may succeed,” said Mr. Balach, the labor secretary's liaison to the White House. Mr. Vinson said he believes a highly placed federal official, whom he would not name, is working to derail the investigation, but he would not elaborate."

"Operators of the ring told The Times that videotapes, audio tapes and still photographs were made of sex acts performed by clients and the call boys, including perverted acts."

- June 29, 1989, Washington Times, 'Homosexual prostitution inquiry ensnares VIPs with Reagan, Bush; ‘Call boys’ took midnight tour of White House'. Follow-up research by Senator John DeCamp showed how Craig Spence, the one who had arranged the midnight White House tour, was a business partner of Larry King, the central pimp in the Franklin affair. Spence did blackmail operations for the CIA.

"The room where Craig J. Spence died was awash in the small mysteries and ironies that had followed him - and that he had perpetuated - since he came to Washington in the late 1970s, already an enigmatic figure with strange Asian connections and friends in high places."

"On the bed was a newspaper clipping referring to CIA undercover agents. Scrawled on the mirror was a note written to some unnamed "chief," which also contained an obscure phrase in Japanese, "Nisei Bei," which means second-generation American..."

"During the past few weeks, Mr. Spence told several friends that he knew "for a fact" that the call-boy operation was being investigated by the U.S. Attorney's Office and other federal authorities as a CIA front. He told the friends the CIA used the service to compromise other federal intelligence officials and foreign diplomats."

"Mr. Spence claimed in the interview that he had worked for the CIA on numerous occasions and had been instrumental in a number of covert actions in Vietnam, Japan, Central America and the Middle East - a claim denied by the agency."

""How do you think a little faggot like me moved in the circles I did?" he said. "It's because I had contacts at the highest levels of this government.""

""They'll deny it. But how do they make me go away, when so many of them have been at my house, at my parties and at my side?""

"Among those who attended his parties and were featured at seminars he sponsored were journalists Eric Sevareid, Ted Koppel, William Safire and Liz Trotta; former Ambassadors Robert Neumann, Elliott Richardson and James Lilly; the late John Mitchell, attorney general in the Nixon administration; Mr. Casey and other CIA officials, including Ray Cline, former deputy director of intelligence for the agency; former Lt. Gen. Daniel O. Graham, an expert on the Strategic Defense Initiative who now heads High Frontier Inc.; Sen. John Glenn, Ohio Democrat, and Sen. Frank Murkowski, Alaska Republican; and Joseph diGenova, former U.S. attorney in Washington, and his wife, Victoria Toensing, a former deputy assistant attorney general. Arnaud de Borchgrave, editor-in-chief of The Times, attended a party for Mr. Lilly hosted by Mr. Spence at the former lobbyist's Kalorama home."

"Arnaud de Borchgrave, editor-in-chief of The Times, attended a party for Mr. Lilly hosted by Mr. Spence at the former lobbyist's Kalorama home..."

"Prostitutes who said they serviced Mr. Spence and military personnel whom the former lobbyist hired as bodyguards..."

"Secret Service officials have publicly stated there was no breach of security during the tours and that they had no concern that entry was made by the late-night visitors into unauthorized areas of the White House..."

"Meanwhile, several members of Congress, federal officials, military officers and others have told The Times that they are concerned that the lavish parties and Japanese-sponsored seminars thrown by Mr. Spence, at which the elite of Washington and officials from Japan, China and elsewhere mingled, might have compromised U.S. security."

"Rep. Helen Delich Bentley, Maryland Republican, for one, recently questioned the former lobbyist's ties to the Japanese government in a speech on the floor of the House. Citing news articles in the United States and Japan, Mrs. Bentley asked whether plans for the F-16 jet had been transferred by Mr. Spence to a Japanese government official, Motoo Shiina, and later turned over to the Soviet Union."

""I bring this to the floor today, Mr. Speaker, because I am frankly puzzled that these stories are out - in print both in Japan and in America -and there seems to be no official investigation into what to me are very grave charges," she said."

-November 13, 1989, Washington Times, 'Spence as much an enigma in death as he was in life '

"Craig J. Spence, the once-powerful lobbyist who entertained and influenced Washington's elite, died Friday much as he had lived: dressed in a tuxedo in Boston's most expensive hotel, listening to Mozart with three dollars in his pocket... With a black felt-tip marker he had written, "Chief, consider this my resignation, effective immediately. As you always said, you can't ask others to make a sacrifice if you are not ready to do the same. Life is duty. God bless America." As a postscript, he wrote, "To the Ritz, please forgive this inconvenience...""

"One friend quoted him as saying, "Casey's boys are out to get me," an apparent reference to former CIA Director William Casey, now deceased. Mr. Casey and Mr. Spence were friends, and the former CIA director attended parties hosted by the former lobbyist..."

"During a lengthy interview at a Manhattan apartment in August, Mr. Spence frequently alluded to deep mysteries. "All this stuff you've uncovered (involving call boys, bribery and the White House tours), to be honest with you, is insignificant compared to other things I've done. But I'm not going to tell you those things, and somehow the world will carry on...""

"He also talked frequently of suicide, saying repeatedly, "My life is over." He reserved deep bitterness for high-powered friends he said had forsaken him. "I've had the world at my house, and now they don't know who I am," he said. "But they did come, didn't they?""

-November 13, 1989, Washington Times, 'In death, Spence stayed true to form'

"Witnesses testified at Senate hearings Tuesday that child abuse, bizarre medical practices and sexual promiscuity took place at a Pentagon-funded Florida school for disturbed youngsters. Sen. Henry M. Jackson [a neo-conservatice godfather], D-Wash., said two former nurses and a Senate investigator described "nightmare" conditions at the Green Valley School in Orange City, Fla. "I just couldn't believe this happened in America," said Jackson, head oi the Senate Permanent Investigations subcommittee which is holding the hearings..."

"The two nurses, Esther, J. Snow of Daytona Beach, Fla., and Ruth McVay of Deltona, Fla., said students were given enormous vitamin overdoses and injections of serums made from dust collected on the school grounds and, in one case, of a student's own urine. They also described the use of electroshock therapy, and carbon, dioxide inhalations. The nurses said sexual promiscuity was widespread both among the students and the school staff."

"The investigator, John J. Walsh of the subcommittee staff, produced a statement and a detailed "chronology" alleging that one student committed suicide with a gun that von Hilsheimer had permitted him to buy, and that another ex- student was beaten to death by members of a satanic cult led by a student still in the school..."

"The nurses charged that the school was kept in a filthy state with students sleeping on dirty sheets, cockroaches infesting most of the buildings, poor sanitary conditions in the kitchens, and unclean lavatories. They also said students sometimes were beaten; that they once saw an electric cattle prod used on a youth; that one boy was locked in a concrete blockhouse called ''the bomb-shelter" for nearly a week without food; that some students were chained together, and in one instance two boys were forced to dig graves and sleep in them for a night."

"The military children were sent there by their own parents, often after being diagnosed by military doctors as suffering from adolescent behavior disorders."

- July 24, 1974, Long Beach Independent, 'Child abuse at Pentagon-funded school told'. One of the earliest reports in which Satanism and child abuse were (loosely) combined (in an interesting setting, sounding like a MK-ULTRA offshoot). It would take another ten years before reports about Satanic cults abusing children would become really mainstream in the US, and fifteen years before these reports reached the UK.

"Prosecution of child molestation cases is being derailed around the country because young victims are lacing their testimony with macabre tales of satanic rites, authorities say. Although sexual abuse is medically proven in many of these case, the charges frequently crumble when preschoolers tell of drugging and assault in bloody occult ceremonies, says San Francisco police officer Sandi Gallant "Any district attorney will tell you going to court with a child under 5 is next to impossible, much less one blaming the devil." she said. But investigators are curious about similarities they're hearing in such testimony from youngsters in unrelated and geographically separate cases. "The main thing in the stories I've heard is the great consistency in the types of things the kids were reporting — all across the country the descriptions were very similar," Gallant said. "In the last three years there have been about 60 to 70 solid cases ... ones where investigations were actively pursued.'' The federally funded American Humane Association in Denver says 113,000 child molestations vere reported nationwide in 1985, the last year for which statistics were compiled. That figure is up from 100,000 reported cases in 1984... In 75 percent of reported cases, abuse comes from within the family, Bond said..."

"Gallant cited several molestation cases where charges were dropped or reduced after satanic allegations surfaced or where only sex crimes were prosecuted for fear of losing the cases by including testimony about cult ceremonies. She mentioned cases in Los Angeles; San Francisco; Miami; Boston; Atlanta; Port Angeles, Wash.; Jordan, Minn., and El Paso, Texas. "Many if not most cases go absolutely nowhere despite physical evidence supporting accusations of molestation," Gallant said. "Few (agencies) have the manpower, time or money to pursue cases deemed likely to lose.""

"The medical profession has maintained a scientific distance from ritual abuse allegations, and that frustrates pediatrician Gregory Simpson of Carson, Calif- Ritual scarring in patients prompted Simpson to research the issue in 1985-86 during his residency at Martin Luther King Hospital in Los Angeles, where he now teaches. In addition to studying police files, he cared for four children who had ritual scars and exhibited behavior indicating they'd been abused rather than sexually assaulted. One dead girl's chest was carved with a pentagram, he said. "The conclusion I reached is that satanic abuse of small children does exist, and it's something that needs to be dealt with by the medical community," he said."

"A 1985 Florida conviction is one of few successful satanic child abuse prosecutions. Frank Fuster received several life sentences based largely on the testimony of his 17-year-old wife, Iliana. Children at the Fuster baby-sitting service could recite a satanic prayer allegedly learned there and told of daily molestation."

"In California, the McMartin Pre-School case involved accusations of animal mutilations and sacrifices. Raymond Buckey, 29, and his mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey, 60, are being tried on 100 molestation and conspiracy counts involving 14 children. Charges against five other defendants were dropped."

- December 13, 1987, Syracuse Herald Journal (based on an AP story), ''Blaming the devil' hurts prosecution of child abuse cases'

"Tallahassee, Fla (AP) - Two men arrested after being seen in a park with six children dressed in tatters were held Friday on child abuse charges, and police said the men may be part of an international satanic cult whose members give up their children..."

""They evidently have come from such sheltered existences that they had no concept of what a telephone was, or TV or anything like that." Scott Hunt, spokesman for the Tallahassee Police Department, said Thursday..."

"Police were alerted Wednesdav by anonymous callers concerned because the men were dressed in coats and lies while the children, unwashed and insectbitten, were plaving in tattered clothes at Myers Park, a downtown playground."

"Upon questioning after their arrest Wednesday the men said the children were being "weaned" from their mothers in Washington. They said they were taking the children to Mexico to start a school for brilliant children. They denied any blood relationship with the children and refused to answer other questions..."

"The oldest child and a 2 vear old boy claimed to be brother and sister and said Houlihan was their father. The other children were a 3 year-old girl and three boys, ages 6, 4 and 2, authorities said. Medical exams showed one child had been sexuallv abused, Hunt said Friday."

"On the basis of evidence found in a van at the park, District of Columbia police executed search warrants Thursdav night at a warehouse and a home. "The search warrant revealed that the organization is probablv head quarters for some type of satanic cult", said Hunt. Adults are encouraged to join this group and one of the stipulators of joining this group is that they give up the rights of their children..."

""As far as we are concerned this goes from coast to coast and from Canada to Mexico," Hunt said, adding that authorities were unsure of the extent of the group's activities but wanted the widest possible investigation."

- February 7, 1987, The News Frederick Maryland & The Post Standard, 'Men found with children charged with abuse'

"On Thursday, February 5, 1987, this office was contacted via telephone by Sergeant JoAnn VanMeter of the Tallahassee Police Department, Juvenile Division. Sgt. VanMeter requested assistance in identifying two adult males and six minor children ages 7 years to 2 years..."

"The police had received an anonymous telephone call relative two well-dressed white men wearing suits and ties in Myers Park, (Tallahassee), apparently watching six dirty and unkempt children in the playground area. Houlihan and Ammerman were near a 1980 Blue Dodge van bearing Virginia license number XHW-557, the inside of which was later described as foul-smelling, filled with maps, books, letters, with a mattress situated to the rear of the van which appeared as if it were used as a bed, and the overall appearance of the van gave the impression that all eight persons were living in it."

"The children were covered with insect bites, were very dirty, most of the children were not wearing underwear and all of the children had not been bathed in many days... The children were observed to be poorly dressed, bruised, dirty, and behaving like wild animals in a public park in Tallahassee ... SS/A Krietlow was further advised the children were unaware of the function and purpose of telephones, televisions and toilets, and that the children had stated they were not allowed to live indoors and were only given food as a reward ..."

"The men were arrested and charged with multiple counts of child abuse and lodged in the Leon County Jail. Once in custody the men were somewhat evasive in their answers to the police regarding the children and stated only that they both were the children's teachers and that all were enroute to Mexico to establish a school for brilliant children ..."

"Upon contacting Detective Bradley, I learned that he had initiated an investigation on the two addresses provided by the Tallahassee Police Dept. during December of 1986. An informant had given him information regarding a cult, known as the ‘Finders’ operating various businesses out of a warehouse located at 1307 4th St., N.E., and were supposed to be housing children at 3918/3920 W St., N.W. The information was specific in describing 'blood rituals' and sexual orgies involving children, and an as yet unsolved murder in which the Finders may be involved. With the information provided by the informant, Detective Bradley was able to match some of the children in Tallahassee with names of children known or alleged to be in the custody of the Finders. Furthermore, Bradley was able to match the tentative ID of the adults with known members of the Finders. I stood by while Bradley consulted with AUSA Harry Benner and obtained search warrants for the two premises. I advised acting RAC SS/A Tim Halloran of my intention to accompany MPD on the execution of the warrants, received his permission, and was joined by SS/A Harrold. SS/A Harrold accompanied the team which went to 1307 4th St., and I went to 3918/20 W St."

"During the execution of the warrant at 3918/20 W St., I was able to observe and access the entire building ... There were several subjects on the premises. Only one was deemed to be connected with the Finders. [He] was located in a room equipped with several computers, printers, and numerous documents. Cursory examination of the documents revealed detailed instructions for obtaining children for unspecified purposes. The instructions included the impregnation of female members of the community known as the Finders, purchasing children, trading, and kidnapping. There were telex messages using MCI account numbers between a computer terminal believed to be located in the same room, and others located across the country and in foreign locations. One such telex specifically ordered the purchase of two children in Hong Kong to be arranged through a contact in the Chinese Embassy there. Another telex expressed interest in 'bank secrecy' situations. Other documents identified interests in high-tech transfers to the United Kingdom, numerous properties under the control of the Finders, a keen interest in terrorism, explosives, and the evasion of law enforcement. Also found in the 'computer room' was a detailed summary of the events surrounding the arrest and taking into custody of the two adults and six children in Tallahassee the previous night. There were also a set of instructions which appeared to be broadcast via a computer network which advised the participants to move 'the children' and keep them moving through different jurisdictions, and instructions on how to avoid police attention ..."

"On Friday, 2/6/87, I met Detective Bradley at the warehouse on 4th Street, N.E. I duly advised my acting group supervisor, SS/A Don Bludworth. I was again granted unlimited access to the premises. I was able to observe numerous documents which described explicit sexual conduct between the members of the community known as Finders. I also saw a large collection of photographs of unidentified persons. Some of the photographs were nudes, believed to be of members of the Finders. There were numerous photos of children, some nude, at least one of which was a photo of a child 'on display' and appearing to accent the child's genitals. I was only able to examine a very small amount of the photos at this time. However, one of the officers presented me with a photo album for my review. The album contained a series of photos of adults and children dressed in white sheets participating in a 'blood ritual.' The ritual centered around the execution of at least two goats. The photos portrayed the execution, disembowelment, skinning and dismemberment of the goats at the hands of the children. This included the removal of the testes of a male goat, the discovery of a female goat's ‘womb’ and the ‘baby goats’ inside the womb, and the presentation of a goat's head to one of the children."

"Further inspection of the premises disclosed numerous files relating to activities of the organization in different parts of the world. Locations I observed are as follows: London, Germany, the Bahamas, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Africa, Costa Rica, and 'Europe.' There was also a file identified as 'Palestinian.' Other files were identified by member name or 'project' name. The projects appearing to be operated for commercial purposes under front names for the Finders. There was one file entitled 'Pentagon Break-In,' and others referring to members operating in foreign countries. Not observed by me but related by an MPD officer were intelligence files on private families not related to the Finders. The process undertaken appears to be have been a systematic response to local newspaper advertisements for babysitters, tutors, etc. A member of the Finders would respond and gather as much information as possible about the habits, identity, occupation, etc., of the family. The use to which this information was to be put is still unknown. There was also a large amount of data collected on various child care organizations."

"The warehouse contained a large library, two kitchens, a sauna, hot-tub, and a 'video room.' The video room seemed to be set up as an indoctrination center. It also appeared that the organization had the capability to produce its own videos. There were what appeared to be training areas for children and what appeared to be an altar set up in a residential area of the warehouse. Many jars of urine and feces were located in this area..."

"On April 2, 1987, I arrived at MPD at approximately 9:00 a.m. Detective Bradley was not available. I spoke to a third party who was willing to discuss the case with me on a strictly 'off the record' basis."

"I was advised that all the passport data had been turned over to the State Department for their investigation. The State Department in turn advised the MPD that all travel and use of the passports by the holders of the passports was within the law and no action would be taken. This included travel to Moscow, North Korea, and North Vietnam from the late 1950s to mid 1970s."

"The individual further advised me of circumstances which indicated that the investigation into the activity of the Finders had become a CIA internal matter. The MPD report has been classified SECRET and was not available for review. I was advised that the FBI had withdrawn from the investigation several weeks prior and that the FBI Foreign Counter Intelligence Division had directed MPD not to advise the FBI Washington Field Office of anything that had transpired."

- A series of 1987 memos written by special agent Ramon J. Martinez, United States Customs Service, who was closely involved in the Finders case. This document has been spread on the internet and doesn't seem to have an authoritive source that released it. Nevertheless, the document matches the newspaper reports about the case perfectly.

"Florida officials on Monday interviewed five District of Columbia women claiming to be the mothers of six children taken into state custody with two men Feb. 4... [Finders case]"

"The women arrived Friday in their effort to gain custody of the children, ages 2 to 7. They were identified as Kristin Knauth, 26, a free-lance writer and editor; Carolyn Said, 28, a writer and editor; Pat Livingstone, 43, an office worker; Judy Evans, 31, a writer and editor, and Paula Arico, 33, a bookkeeper who says she is the mother of two of the children."

"Ms. Walborsky [the attorney representing the mothers]: "They [the mothers] have nothing to hide. Cooperation would be the fastest way to get what they want — the kids released and the men in jail released."

- February 17, 1987, The Daily Intelligencer, 'Five mothers interviewed in quest for found children'. Amazingly, the mothers, who actually asked for the release of the men who so extremely neglected their children, were ultimately given back custody over their children. All of a sudden there was no evidence anymore of sexual abuse or pictures showing children performing blood rituals. The two arrested men were only charged with "misdemeanor child abuse" for which they pleaded not guilty, while the press forgot to mention that the initial investigation had shown that the parents had voluntarily given up their children. Finally, the press forgot to report the fact that the whole Finders affair had become a "CIA internal matter".

"The case is almost seven years old now, but matters surrounding a mysterious group known as the Finders keep growing curiouser and curiouser..."

"The more the police learned about the Finders, the more bizarre they seemed: There were suggestions of child abuse, Satanism, dealing in pornography and ritualistic animal slaughter. None of the allegations was ever proved, however. The child abuse charges against the two men in Tallahassee were dropped; all six of the children were eventually returned to their mothers, though in the case of two, conditions were attached by a court. In Washington, D.C., police began backing away from the Finders investigation. The group's practices, the police said, were eccentric--not illegal."

"Questions. Today, things appear to have changed yet again. The Justice Department has begun a new investigation into the Finders and into the group's activities. It is also reviewing the 1987 investigation into the group to determine whether that probe was closed improperly. Justice officials will not elaborate, except to say the investigation is "ongoing" and that it involves "unresolved matters" in relation to the Finders."

"One of the unresolved questions involves allegations that the Finders are somehow linked to the Central Intelligence Agency. Customs Service documents reveal that in 1987, when Customs agents sought to examine the evidence gathered by Washington, D.C., police, they were told that the Finders investigation "had become a CIA internal matter." The police report on the case had been classified secret. Even now, Tallahassee police complain about the handling of the Finders investigation by D.C. police. "They dropped this case," one Tallahassee investigator says, "like a hot rock." D.C. police will not comment on the matter... The only connection, according to the CIA: A firm that provided computer training to CIA officers also employed several members of the Finders."

"The many unanswered questions about the Finders case now have Democratic Rep. Charlie Rose of North Carolina, chairman of the House Administration Committee, and Florida's Rep. Tom Lewis, a Republican, more than a little exercised. "Could our own government have something to do with this Finders organization and turned their backs on these children? That's what all the evidence points to," says Lewis. "And there's a lot of evidence. I can tell you this: We've got a lot of people scrambling, and that wouldn't be happening if there was nothing here."..."

"CIA officials say they referred all matters concerning the Finders and the police investigation to the FBI's Foreign Counterintelligence Division. FBI officials will not comment. Law enforcement sources say some of the Finders are listed in the FBI's classified counterintelligence files."

"None of this fazes Pettie [the cult leader]. He says the CIA's interest in the Finders may stem from the fact that his late wife once worked for the agency and that his son worked for a CIA proprietary firm, Air America [which coincidentally did a lot of the CIA-Mafia drug importing into the US]."

- December 27, 1993, US News & World Report, 'Through a Glass, Very Darkly; Cops, spies and a very odd investigation'

"Bristish children are among 160 young people freed in Argentine police raids on 10 houses used by a sect called The Family. Police raided luxury homes in northern Buenos Aires allegedly used to hold "satanic ceremonies'' involving sexual abuse of children..."

"Argentinians and foreigners are among adults arrested, and 16 leaders of the cult, an offshoot of the Children of God sect, have been charged with child abuse and kidnap, according to judicial authorities..."

"Most of the children, some as young as three, are from the United States, but Canadians, Chileans, Peruvians, Brazilians and Argentinians are involved. Insp Rebollo said: "Some of these children don't have documents. There are many who have fake passports. It is very difficult to identify each single child's nationality.'..."

"A judicial spokesman, Carlos Villafuente Russo, said that cult leaders faced charges of "sexual abuse, deprivation of liberty'' and allegations that children were used in "abhorrent satanistic acts''..."

"In the sect headquarters, near the town of Pilar on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, police rescued at least 40 children who had slept in bunk beds in cramped rooms. Insp Rebollo said: "These children were not like your average child. They had blank stares and acted like zombies. We found them locked up in tiny rooms."..."

""We found evidence suggesting that The Family was funded by influential businessmen worldwide and that children were kidnapped in one place and taken to another so that they would be difficult to trace.'' ..."

"The Family has in recent years faced repeated police and legal investigations into allegations of sexual and psychological abuse of children."

- September 3, 1993, The Times, 'UK children rescued from religious cult; The Family'

"... Damning evidence was found in two large trunks in the house, 45 miles from Buenos Aires. They contained videos showing the children, some of whom had been separated from their parents at the age of 12, performing various sexual acts with adults and each other..."

"Juan Carlos Rebello, the police commissioner in charge of the operation, was taken aback by the children's condition. "They seemed like Martians, autistic,'' he said. "They were living in compartmented cells and answered questions like automatons. Whenever one of them tried to say something, another would look at him and he would fall silent, terrified."..."

"This weekend the Argentinian authorities are investigating claims that the Children of God supported themselves by prostitution sending teenagers to tour five- star hotels and the sale of the pornographic videos in the capital. Police and social workers have counted 19 nationalities among those arrested and taken into care and fear the children may have been part of a global child-sex network; some are thought to have been moved to South America after previous raids on Children of God communities in Australia and France..."

"The police finally acted after receiving complaints for at least four years. One of the most recent came from the father of the six-year-old Irish girl, who complained that his wife had kidnapped their two children and alleged that they were being sexually abused and used in pornographic videos."

- September 5, 1993, Sunday Times, 'The day the 'Martians' woke up; Children of God'

"Clifford St. Joseph, a gaunt, attentive man with thinning blond hair, is charged with murder in a case that came to light on June 15, 1985, when a passer-by discovered a body wrapped in a plastic garbage bag and blankets beneath a truck on Sixth Street south of Market."

"Investigators who opened the wrapping found that the victim was naked and virtually drained of blood. His lip had been cut with a knife, a five-pointed star had been carved into his chest and he had been sexually mutilated."

"Investigators said the wounds, along with wax drippings found in his right eye, were clear signals of death in a satanic ritual. "

"Homicide Inspector Earl Sanders said last year that St. Joseph is believed to belong to a "gay Satanic cult" that includes some men of "substantial means."... Sanders' partner, Inspector Napoleon Hendrix, said earlier this week that St. Joseph apparently was not acting alone..."

"Spela and Bork now differ on who killed the anonymous transient listed in police records as John Doe, 60."

- February 10, 1988, San Francisco Chronicle, 'Satanic Slaying Trial Begins In S.F. Court'

"My interest in fascist conspiracies, to be specific, began about 12 years ago. I was the proverbial academic nabob engaged in writing plays and short stories, also book, film and television reviews for publications in southern California. I frowned at any claims of political conspiracies. But back in Ohio I had run an alternative newspaper in a blighted urban area, where I had written hard news stories about police abuse, urban renewal and gentrification, redlining by the insurance companies and such, and craved an opportunity to cover a story with some substance as news. So I flew up to San Francisco and covered the John Doe 60 trial. This was not exactly your workaday murder case. It involved the kidnap and cannibalizing of a homeless man by a couple of SF satanists. One of them had a swastika tattoo on his face. The other, Cliff St. Joseph, was a waiter. Together, they had abducted "John Doe 60," took him to St. Joseph's apartment, strapped him down, pumped him full of narcotics and proceeded to carve on him all night long. They cut a pentagram into his chest, ate one of his testicles, and tortured him with knives until he bled to death. The body was left under a truck parked south of Market. All of this, of course, was repulsive, led me to ponder how anyone could sink so low as to commit this atrocity. I interviewed the lead witness; a 20-year-old kid named Eddy, over the course of three days. Eddy informed me that there were some 22 members of this satanic cult, including police officers and some very wealthy people living across the Bay. One of the cultists involved with St. Joseph worked for the Bechtel Corp. There were ties to SDI and the Reagan White House. How could this be? What did these killers have to do with Republican politicians? Moreover, Eddy told me that he'd been whisked off the street one day by a CIA agent, and held for three days of questioning. I returned to Los Angeles, shaped my trial notes into a story. It appeared in the LA Weekly. But I was not done with this atrocity and its attendant leads. CIA? Reagan? Star Wars? Mind Control? What the Hell was going on? I was obsessed and had to have some answers. I began buying newspapers from around the world, calling reporters and investigators, searching for relevant information and to my surprise it existed. My nagging curiosity regarding satanism led me to mind control and fascism. I had quite a catalogue of information assembled when I turned on the radio one evening and heard Mae Brussell for the first time. She was then on Michael Aquino's case, which dovetailed neatly with my own work. I phoned parents of children involved in the Presidio child molestation case that I'd interviewed a few weeks before, told them about Mae Brussell's program, and they phoned her. Mae set up an interview with them and attended the parents' meetings. I had arranged this as a way of establishing trust, but before I could lay the groundwork toward a meeting with her, she was dead. This hit me very hard. I drove to Monterey and explained my own work and interest in Mae Brussell to Al Kunzer at KAZU. Kunzer produced the radio program that aired her work. He put me on the air for four hours over a two-day period. The response was very favorable. Kunzer asked me to make it a weekly conspiracy show, so I tried to pick up where Mae had left off, as a way, I think, of keeping her alive. I refused to let a voice so important be stilled by mere human mortality, and still feel this way."

- July 31, 2000, Alex Constantine interviewed by Kris Millegan, answering the question, "What got you interested in conspiracies?"

"At the time of his death [July 1990, in a plane crash], Gary Caradori [chief investigator for the Nebraska Legislature's Franklin committee] was known to be pursuing two tracks - The Washinton, D.C. connection [the Craig Spence ring], and Satanism... The Douglas County grand jury acknowledged that the allegations in the Franklin case "necessitated our studying satanic and pedophile activity in eastern Nebraska, particularly in the Omaha metropolitan area." The testimony of two victim-witnesses who did not know each other, Loretta Smith and Paul Bonacci, placed [Larry] King in the middle of such activity. Smith's testimony apparently was so sensitive, that the Douglas County Attorney's office made an unprecedented appeal to the presiding judge of the Douglas County Circuit Court, judge James M. Murphy, to have it sealed in perpetuity... Murphy granted the request to seal Smith's grand jury testimony. Its nature, however, was clear by references to it in the jury's final report: 'In 1988 an Omaha girl, who was an inpatient at Richard Young Hospital, described a number of gruesome cult activities which she claimed to have witnessed between the approximate ages of 9 and 12... According to the girl, she became involved in a cult where older male members sexually molested her and killed infants and children to establish their dominance over other cult members.' Smith named Larry King as present at ritual sacrifices along with school superintendent Deward Finch and the person called Kings Horse, identified by videotaped witnesses as King's henchman, the other Larry..."

"According to testimony from Paul Bonacci, Larry King had been recruited to a satanic cult by December 1980 at the latest. In his written history, Bonacci described how King picked him up after school one day in December, "and took me to the Triangle which is in a wooded area in Sarpy County. I witnessed a sacrifice of a human baby boy. Everyone was chanting and it was a yearly ritual around the time of Christ's birth to pervert the blood of Christ. They used daggers and cut the boy and filled a cup with his blood and mixed urine in it and forced all of us to drink from the cup and chant 'Satan is Lord Lucifer, our King. Realm of darkness come now empower us, your slaves." Then they all began to chant some weird sounds and I got scared and was threatened I'd become the next sacrifice if I told anyone about it." Bonacci said he witnessed the participation of another Franklin-related figure: "I did see [Alan] Bear take part in satanic activity on several occasions." Bonacci spoke to Dr. Judianne Densen Gerber about his activities as a member of four different satanic cults in Nebraska, some of which had 50 to 100 members."

"A groundbreaking account of satanic activities in Nebraska came from Kathleen Sorenson, the foster mother who took in Nelly and Kimberly Patterson after they fled from the Webbs. Mrs. Sorenson decided to speak out about what she had learned from children in her care [over 30]. Together with her eldest foster daughter, a survivor of ritualistic abuse, she spoke at public forums around the state, gave radio and television interviews, and appeared on Geraldo Rivera's nationally televised special on Satanism... Sorenson was aware that it was dangerous to tell the public what she did. She appealed to friends, "Pary for me." She died in a head-on car crash in October 1989."

- Sen. John DeCamp, 'The Franklin Cover-Up,' second edition, p. 201-204, 210-211 (Feb. 2006 edition)

"Elizabeth is the reality behind newspaper headlines and warnings from child protection agencies that young children are more at risk than ever from gangs of paedophiles. A motherly woman, Elizabeth is not easily frightened. Since she first told police that her eldest son, Charlie, was involved with, and had been sexually abused by, a satanic ring, her house in Humberside has been under siege. Several times she and her husband Tom, a crane driver, have returned home to find bizarre signs smeared in excrement and blood on doors and mirrors; or bunches of keys and clumps of pubic hair half-hidden under pieces of furniture."

"But her real concern is the damage done to Charlie. Family photographs show a grinning six-year-old with blond hair and blue eyes turning into a pale, anxious-looking, pathetically thin adolescent..."

"It took a telephone call from the mother of his best friend, Kevin, to alert her to the real cause. Kevin had a running-away bag hidden in his bedroom. As well as a change of clothes, there was a piece of paper inside with his name and age (11), a physical description and the words "Scorpio 444''."

"Elizabeth searched Charlie's room and found a similar bag. Her alarm intensified when she learned that Charlie had been trying to have sex with his five-year-old brother and seemed to regard this as normal behaviour. Finally the boy broke down and began to talk."

"At the age of eight, Kevin's father had introduced him to a group of men who performed rituals involving sexual and sadistic acts. He talked about watching pornographic videos and being made to take part in them. He said he had been drugged and that, on occasions, animals were sacrificed he had been warned that a similar fate awaited him if he ever told anyone what was happening. Charlie named 20 other children who were sometimes present. He also named some of the adults, giving a list which included a teacher from his own school. By the time Charlie revealed this to his mother he was 11 years old and deeply involved so much so that he had become a recruiter, bringing in other children in exchange for money."

"Charlie was examined by a police surgeon, who said the boy had been sexually abused. Other children questioned showed similar symptoms. Eventually three local men were arrested. One, a 17-year-old, admitted acts of sexual abuse and indecency and was given two years' probation. The other two were remanded but then released for lack of evidence. Charlie's allegations of satanism were disbelieved, according to Elizabeth, or ignored."

"Charlie is not the first such child to be disbelieved. In cases of ritualistic abuse, the trustworthiness of victims' evidence is confused by the fact that they may have been drugged and shown videos. Experts have to sort out what actually happened from what the child was led to believe had happened..."

"Charlie is now a psychologically disturbed adolescent with a grossly distorted understanding of sexuality, and has been made a ward of court."

"On his weekend visits home from a residential school, he appears less traumatised than before, although he curls up in a foetal position when the past is mentioned. He is also convinced that the occultists are still keeping an eye on him and he has moments of terror when he thinks they may try to grab him in the street..."

"The audacity of child abusers has taken a new turn only recently. Police in South Yorkshire have set up a special squad to track down a gang, including at least two women, that had been impersonating child care officials in an attempt to abduct children."

- April 1, 1990, Sunday Times, 'Satanic ring forces families to suffer from a hell on earth; Sexual abuse'

"A further insight into the extent of child abuse and exploitation published on the internet was revealed yesterday when British detectives said they were trying to close a website showing pictures of a man eating a dismembered baby. Scotland Yard is liaising with the FBI in the US to close the website, based in California, which has been linked with the ritual abuse of children. Last night the website was still accessible... A second website showing similar scenes of sadistic and ritualistic abuse has been successfully shut..."

"The discovery of the site comes just a week after seven British men were jailed for their involvement in the Wonderland paedophile ring..."

"The existence of the websites was revealed by two patients at the Clinic for Dissociative Studies based in London's Harley Street and run by Valerie Sinason, a psychotherapist who specialises in the treatment of adult survivors of child abuse. Dr Sinason has attracted controversy in the past over her claims that some children are abused in Satanic rituals involving ceremonies and animal or human sacrifice. She submitted a report on her claims, based on the treatment of 51 patients, to the health department last July, which funded her research...The Metropolitan Police have provided an officer to work with Dr Sinason's clinic for half a day a month to investigate claims of abuse made by patients."

"Dr Sinason said: "I heard accounts of the websites from two different survivors of abuse who didn't know each other. It is a further sign that if you want to do anything bizarre you will get away with it because no one will believe it or speak about it.""

- February 21, 2001, The Independent, 'British police discover more child abuse horror on internet'. This is just one report of many, many dozen UK reports about internet related sadomasochist child abuse or possibly (Satanic) ritual abuse. Unfortunately, newspapers have the tendency to only report the tip of the tip of the iceberg.

"In 1998, an 11-year-old boy, Rui Pedro Mendonca, vanished while walking home from school in Lousada, a town in northern Portugal. Three years later, horrific images of Rui Pedro being sexually abused were uncovered during an international police operation that cracked a global paedophile network. More than 200 paedophiles in 13 countries had exchanged more than 750,000 images of children through a private internet club called Wonderland. Analysis showed that 1,236 children had been subjected to abuse that officers described as "unimaginable". Some were abused live, to order, online. Officers said that they had wept as they catalogued the pictures and that they had been haunted by them for years. The Portuguese boy's mother, Filomena Teixera, flew to Switzerland to view the pictures and was apparently able to identify her son. But he was never found. Investigators fear that he may have been killed to cover up the abuse. "

- May 10, 2007, The Times, 'Madeleine 'abducted to order by an international child sex gang'. New members of the Wonderland club had to bring with them 10,000 new images of child abuse. There are numerous other reports in the British media about thousands upon thousands of extreme child abuse pictures being confiscated at homes of pedophiles. However, there never seems to be any follow up on all the children who have been identified on these pictures, just as some of the perpetrators. After an initial press report everything just seems to disappear in a black hole.

"Six persons were arrested in Rome on Wednesday accused of sexually abusing 15 children from the age of three to the age of six at the nursery school "Olga Rovere" of Rignano Flaminio, in the vicinities of Rome... All six were arrested and accused of a number of offences which included the abduction of minors, sexual violence within a group, sexual violence on minors under the age of 10 and obscene actions in public places. Two teachers, both grandmothers, were reported to have been in service at the school for decades and one was close to retirement... Police said the children were taken to an apartment near the school owned by one of the teachers where they were allegedly made to perform sexual acts with the Sri Lankan suspect, while the cameraman filmed [who worked at the RAI television station] the ordeal. Children who protested or resisted were given sleeping pills, tranquilisers or other types of drugs... Some victims spoke of esoteric and satanic rituals, where adults forced them to drink human blood, exited from wounds that the same persons caused. The pupils described the intimate parts of the body of the arrested persons and mentioned also piercing and tattoos, which a child at such a tender age wouldn’t know, if he or she has not seen them before. The little victims described the dreadful scenes saying: "In the villa where they took us, a man cut his arm and coerced us to drink his own blood which he poured in a glass, with other substances. Then they made us do a series of strange games, sort of performances with masked adults and massages to female teachers with oil". The parents were reportedly alarmed by signs of bruising and red swelling around their children's genital areas, as well as by the dazed and confused state in which some of them returned home from school... "It’s a nightmare" Interior Minister Giuliano Amato said, remarking the umpteenth paedophilia case in Rignano Flaminio."

- April 26, 2007, The Malta Star, 'Italy rocked by satanic, drug-induced sexual abuse in kindergarten; Children say they were forced in satanic sexual abuse and forced to drink blood in rituals'

"The Vatican has sought the intervention of the U.S. State Department to declare Pope Benedict XVI [Ratzinger] immune from a sexual abuse lawsuit filed here, according to court documents. A church official contacted the State Department May 20, asking it to notify a Houston federal court of the pope's immunity as the head of a foreign state, according to the defense motion. Vatican attorneys requested a delay on the matter Thursday. A spokesman for the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, which also was named as a defendant in the suit, could not be reached for comment Friday. The lawsuit filed by plaintiffs identified as John Does I, II and III accuses the pope, then acting as a cardinal, of conspiring to cover up the alleged abuse about a decade ago. The suit names a former seminary student as the alleged abuser."

- May 28, 2005, Houston Chronicle, 'Pope wants exemption from U.S. criminal law'

"Pope Benedict XVI [Ratzinger] faced claims last night he had 'obstructed justice' after it emerged he issued an order ensuring the church's investigations into child sex abuse claims be carried out in secret. The order was made in a confidential letter, obtained by The Observer, which was sent to every Catholic bishop in May 2001. It asserted the church's right to hold its inquiries behind closed doors and keep the evidence confidential for up to 10 years after the victims reached adulthood. The letter was signed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who was elected as John Paul II's successor last week. Lawyers acting for abuse victims claim it was designed to prevent the allegations from becoming public knowledge or being investigated by the police. They accuse Ratzinger of committing a 'clear obstruction of justice'. The letter, 'concerning very grave sins', was sent from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican office that once presided over the Inquisition and was overseen by Ratzinger... The letter states that the church's jurisdiction 'begins to run from the day when the minor has completed the 18th year of age' and lasts for 10 years. It orders that 'preliminary investigations' into any claims of abuse should be sent to Ratzinger's office, which has the option of referring them back to private tribunals in which the 'functions of judge, promoter of justice, notary and legal representative can validly be performed for these cases only by priests'. 'Cases of this kind are subject to the pontifical secret,' Ratzinger's letter concludes. Breaching the pontifical secret at any time while the 10-year jurisdiction order is operat