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
But we do understand that it’s extremely difficult for anyone to comprehend people being in a cult group, standing by watching their daughter being beat seventy-five times as I did, watching children being beat, microphones held to their mouth while they’re screaming so that everyone in the building that are not in a public meeting can hear them screaming also. Going through electric shock. Treatment where they’re screaming. It’s incredibly difficult for anyone to believe a story like this. Male witness, re Jim Jones’ People’s Temple
Charlie was kicking me, and I rolled over in a ball trying to protect my body. I didn’t know why he beat me. He instilled terror towards the end there in every single person around him to have total control over them. The main reason why we all stayed was a deep-seated belief that what Charlie was saying was true: that the cities were going to burn, people were going to shoot each other, and the only way to survive was to band together with this group of people. The music was not happening any more. Everyone knew we needed money to survive. Catherine Share, re Charles Manson
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.
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: 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.
Slowly these feelings turned into my wanting to murder and eat them. Surinder Koli
Do you know Ray was abused? Ray Donovan s1e12: Same Exactly, starring Liev Schreiber & Paul Malcomson & Jon Voight & Eddie Marson & Dash Mihok & Steven Bauer et al, Abby, Showtime 2013
I received regular beatings when I was a kid. (Gangs US: New Jersey & Abuse & Mafia & Mafia: US) The Sopranos s4e8: Mergers & Acquisitions, Tony to Dr Melfi
Our Billy wasn’t born a criminal, Clarice; he was made one through years of systematic abuse. The Silence of the Lambs 1991 starring Jodie Foster & Anthony Hopkins & Scott Glen & Ted Levine & Anthony Heald & Brooke Smith & Diane Baker & Kasi Lemmons & Frankie Fraison & Tracey Walter et al, director Jonathan Demme
Hitler received quite a lot of beatings and thrashings from his father. Terry Charman, senior historian Imperial War Museum
Victoria would consent to her children being beaten. Queen Victoria’s Children I: The Best Laid Plans, BBC 2013
Victoria came to resent the children. ibid.
The children would become locked in decades of warfare with their mother. ibid.