The women have to hand over their children in order for the men to abuse them in this organisation. What they would say is that this is how they have been raised, this is what they’ve been taught, and it’s true – there is a cycle of abuse that creates the organisation that they are. Marci Hamilton, legal scholar, re FLDS
I also believe that it’s a criminal organisation, and it is founded on the exploitation and abuse of children. Flora Jessup, former FLDS member
The infants are trained not to cry by waterboarding them. Flora Jessup
His crimes against children shocked the world. His arrest sparked protests that brought his home country Belgium to the brink of revolution. Serial Killers: Monster of Belgium s/a Crimes that Shook the World
91% of abducted children are murdered within twenty-four hours. ibid.
Soon more young girls will disappear. ibid.
A man who has readily confessed to committing horrific and callous crimes. ibid.
In 1989 ... Detroux and his wife had been convicted of the abduction and rape of five girls. Detroux was released just three years into a thirteen year sentence. ibid.
He states he is part of a national paedophile network whose tentacles stretch right to the top of Belgium society. ibid.
Twenty people connected with the case have died in suspicious circumstances. ibid.
Marc Detroux is found guilty of the abduction and rape of six girls, and killing four of them. ibid.
It’s the European trial of the century. Six young girls vanish without a trace. Snatched from their families. They are raped, tortured and locked in a cage. The crimes were so horrific they sent the country of Belgium reeling into national mourning. Which erupts into fury over revelations of how police bungled the investigation. Great Crimes & Trials/Killer Trials: Marc Dutroux
Detroux was released in 1987 after serving just six of his thirteen year sentence for kidnapping and raping children. ibid.
Rumours of a police cover-up start to circulate. ibid.
Over 300,000 people protest in the streets of Brussels. ibid.
In April 2008 the world was stunned by revelations of one of the most horrific cases of abuse ever recorded. Fritzl: Story of a Monster, 2010
Josef Fritzl, a respected businessman, father and husband was discovered to have held one of his own daughters captive in the cellar of the family home for twenty-four years. Over that period he repeatedly raped her. She bore him seven children. ibid.
On October 6th 1967 ... Josef Fritzl raped a local woman ... serving a year of an eighteen-month sentence. ibid.
The fourth of Rosemary and Josef’s seven children was Elizabeth, born in 1966. ibid.
Josef Fritzl has been writing begging letters to the daughter he locked up and raped in a secret dungeon for 24 years.
Every two weeks Fritzl, 74, pens a pleading note to daughter Elisabeth, 43, who suffered over 3,000 rapes at his hands and bore him seven incest children.
He says he needs money ‘to study to be a lawyer so I can defend myself’ – but Elisabeth never replies.
In some of the notes he asks for £3,500 to ‘get me started’ on his legal career.
He even moans about not being able to get special shampoo he claims he needs for his implanted hair.
Elisabeth is building a new life with the six children who survived the cellar hell beneath the family home in Amstetten, Austria, after she was freed in 2008.
The seventh child died three days after birth; Fritzl is serving a life sentence for his death and the rapes.
He was sentenced in March last year after dramatically reversing his not guilty pleas on multiple charges when he saw Elisabeth suddenly enter the courtroom.
From his cell at the psychiatric top security prison of Stein in Austria he bombards Elisabeth with the letters, seeking in turn forgiveness, money, understanding – and expressing the misguided hope that he will one day be free to spend his life with wife Rosemarie again. Mail online 15th February 2010 Allan Hall, ‘Cellar monster Josef Fritzl begs his rape victim daughter for cash ... to fund his legal training’
Best friends Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman slipped out of the house unnoticed. Murders that Shocked Britain
One of the biggest hunts of its kind ever mounted in Britain. ibid.
Huntley had originally been ruled out of the investigation by an alibi from his girlfriend Maxine Carr. ibid.
Huntley had been investigated for a series of sex attacks. ibid.
Holly and Jessica. They were almost perfect victims ... Their crime become more symbolic. Professor David Wilson
On August 4th 2002 two ten-year-old schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman went missing in the small Cambridgeshire village of Soham. Their disappearance sparked the biggest man-hunt Britain had ever seen. Soham 10 Years On, Crime Channel 2012
Ian Huntley knew his victims – he worked at their school. He had been helping the police in their searches. ibid.
There was much more to Ian Huntley’s shadowy past. ibid.
The police searched the caretaker’s storage hanger and found the burnt remains of Holly’ and Jessica’s clothes. ibid.
Two bodies had been found near RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. ibid.
Maxine Carr – did she know more than she let on? ibid.
I want Ian Huntley to rot in Hell. David Blunkett, former Home Secretary
Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman left a family barbecue to play outside on the sleepy streets of their rural village of Soham: their parents never saw them again. They had been murdered by school caretaker Ian Huntley. Soham: A Parent’s Tale, ITV 2012
Hundreds of others had relentlessly scoured the fields, lanes and houses in and around Soham but there was no sign of the girls. ibid.
They’d been dumped in a waterlogged ditch near an American airbase six miles from Soham. ibid.
The caretaker was later charged with two counts of murder; his teaching-assistant girlfriend Maxine Carr had provided him with an alibi and lied to the police. ibid.
Massive flaws in the system had been highlighted by the case. ibid.
The loss of Holly is still felt keenly by her whole family. ibid.
Urgently to enquire into child protection procedures in Humberside Police and Cambridgeshire Constabulary in the light of the recent trial and conviction of Ian Huntley for the murder of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells.
In particular to assess the effectiveness of the relevant intelligence-based record keeping, the vetting practices in those forces since 1995 and information sharing with other agencies, and to report to the Home Secretary on matters of local and national relevance and make recommendations as appropriate. Michael Bichard Inquiry December 2003
It was a quarter of a century before the police discovered who the killer was ... Why did Ronald Jebson admit to his guilt? Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook s3e5: Babes in the Wood, CI 2013
11 year old Susan Blatchford and 12 year old Gary Hanlon ... were found in the shallow in a wood at the edge of Epping Forest. ibid.
In 1970 24 children under the age of fourteen had gone missing in London but most had been found. ibid.
An alcoholic and amphetamine addict. ibid.
On 27th April 2008 the horrific case of Josef Fritzl sent shock-waves around the world ... For twenty-four years Josef Fritzl had kept his own daughter captive in a cellar beneath his house. In that time he had used her as a sex slaves and fathered seven children. Fritzl by Fred Dinenage, CI 2014
In 1967 he was convicted of a rape. ibid.
At first Josef Fritzl entered a plea of not guilty. ibid.
Slowly these feelings turned into my wanting to murder and eat them. Surinder Koli