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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 points 4 months ago

These people have always been with us, and always will be. Now that Epstein's gone, you can be sure that someone is setting up a replacement service, and it's probably Trump. Nobody knows Epstein's business better than Trump, and he also knows how lucrative it is. He won't be able to resist the lure of those riches. It is literally impossible for him.

And now his detention centers are filled with pretty teenagers of both sexes, separated from their families, attorneys, or any adult supervision and/or protection. They could easily disappear, and it might be a long time before anyone realizes they're missing, maybe forever.

Nobody is in a better position to take over Epstein's business than Trump, and he certainly has no moral objections.

[–] spex@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Francis Shelden founded Brother Paul's Christian Mission and worked with Adam Starchild, Dyer Grossman and Gerald Richards to abuse underprivileged boys, create and distribute CSAM from North Fox Island in Lake Michigan.

Gerald Richards was arrested and testified in a congressional hearing about the CSAM industry in 1977 in which he laid out the network of organizations that facilitated the creation and distribution of material, the sourcing of victims and legal entities to protect the offenders.

Shelden was also linked to the Boys' Farm run by Claudius "Bud" Vermilye where the same child abuse scheme was being run.

More infamously, Shelden and Richards became linked to the Oakland County Child Killer case, where four children were kidnapped and murdered in the late 70s. Officially unsolved, it was linked to Christopher Busch, son of H Lee Busch, an executive at General Motors, Christopher was a known child abuser who was arrested in the midst of the murder spree, admitted to cruising for victims in the locations where previous victims had last been seen, and was released by L Brooks Patterson, a DA who would later win a Republican Party Lifetime Achievement Award. 'The Snow Killings' book and doc cover the case.

Cathy Broad is victim Tim King's sister, and she has continued to document her attempts to get justice for her brother on her blog, and wrote a book about official attempts to silence her and victims' families called 'Guarded by Jackals'.

And none of the above even touches on any of their connections to Roy Ames, Guy Strait, John David Norman etc.

So much of this is public, and has been for decades.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's Epsteins all the way down. I'm never visiting another island, I'll tell you that much.

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Every country/state/county behaves like an island. It’s islands all the way down.

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

troubled boys

troubledvulnerable

I wouldn’t be surprised if most places for troubled kids were abusing them. We’ve seen it in the American desert, to aborigines, everywhere we actually bother to look, it turns out.