Akchually they were transported in black unmarked vans
Isn’t this just satanic panic nonsense?
Shout out to that young girl who refused to retract her abuse allegations even when the feds threw over 200 years at her for perjury.
200 years
What even is the American legal system :michael-laugh:
Also :desolate:
The Franklin child prostitution ring allegations began in June 1988 in Omaha, Nebraska and attracted significant public and political interest until late 1990, when separate state and federal grand juries concluded that the allegations were unfounded and the ring was a “carefully crafted hoax.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_child_prostitution_ring_allegations
Discovery Channel produced a documentary on the scandal called Conspiracy of Silence that explored a potential cover-up, but the documentary’s release was abruptly canceled shortly before it was scheduled to air.
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Well, I mean, of course. Because it was debunked. Can’t have Discovery out there peddling Fake News.
Canceled but not destroyed and still available
CW: I’d say it’s as bad as you think but it’s probably worse Here it is
I haven’t watched it in like a year or so since I first found this rabbit hole but I don’t feel like watching it again, I already hate :amerikkka: about as much as I can which will somehow be surpassed the next time I find out about something like this
when separate state and federal grand juries concluded that the allegations were unfounded
Any time a grand jury bounces a case, that’s an enormous red flag.
The saying is any decent prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. There is no representation from the defense – you can just put up whatever you want uncontested.
NGL as soon as I saw it was foster kids, I believed it immediately. The amount of abuse foster kids face in the US is harrowing. Even if this one isn’t true, this shit happens. But this reeks of a cover up to me. They prosecuted the accusers for perjury and threw them in jail
This sort of thing makes me wonder if the Satanic Ritual Abuse moral panic was an op to preemptively discredit people who uncovered the actual organized pedophile rings in the Anglosphere
I still remember before Pizzagate had coalesced into a single narrative, there was a lot of virtual labor being put into amateur research on child sex trafficking. And maybe I’m misremembering or just wasn’t on the “right” parts of the internet at the time, but that Comet Ping Pong attack happened and suddenly everyone who was following these email leaks and digging through them also seemed to believe this one very specific interpretation of everything. The libs and normies thought that “Pizzagate” meant stochastic terrorist who makes up fake basements. And iirc that movement later coalesced into QAnon, which is definitely an op of some kind.
There’s enough evidence to suggest the beef between Temple of Set/Aquino and Church of Satan/Lavey, which featured heavily in the panic, was in all likelihood an op to deflect from larger networks of this shit. Aquino himself had deep military and intelligence connections. Rupert Murdoch heavily pushed the satanic panic nonsense with his media networks for a reason.
I worked extensively with foster kids over the last 4 years and the MAJORITY had suffered physical and sexual abuse. Shit fucks up kids so bad
Nick Bryant’s book is not for the faint of heart, in case anyone wants to read it. Some of the ritualistic abuse described by one of the victims is hellishly horrifying. As was the case with so much of the horrible shit that went on in the 70s and 80s, the Franklin scandal has ties to the Iran-Contra affair
One other thing I want to add is that after spending some time looking into this, as gruesome as it all is, it also shows how crazy the human spirit is when you look at someone like Alisha Owen, who stayed true to her story this whole time, and eventually found stability in her life.
Few if any of the satanic ritual abuse “cases” actually happened. “Investigators” sat with kids and asked leading questions ot just told kids what to “remember”. Six year olds will just make shit up if you ask them enough leading questions. The biggest useful take away from the sra panic was that most sexual abuse doesn’t involve strangers, it involves close friends and family.
