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Children fed ‘silly pills,’ forced to perform sex shows – CNN.com
MINEOLA, Texas — In the windowless front rooms of a former day care center in a tiny Texas community, children as young as 5 were fed powerful painkillers they knew as “silly pills” and forced to perform sex shows for a crowd of adults.
Two people have already been convicted in the case. Now a third person with ties to the club, previously known in town only as a swingers group, is set to go on trial Monday not far from Mineola, population 5,100.
“This really shook this town,” said Shirley Chadwick, a longtime resident of Mineola. “This was horrible.”
Patrick Kelly, 41, is charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child, tampering with physical evidence and engaging in organized criminal activity.
In all, six adults have been charged in connection with the case, including a parent of the three siblings involved.
Jurors this year deliberated less than five minutes before returning guilty verdicts against the first two defendants, who were accused of grooming the kids for sex shows in “kindergarten” classes and passing off Vicodin as “silly pills” to help the children perform.
Found by Mark Parker via Twitter.
#37 No thanks. I consider “our most precious resource” as exactly being my freedom.
So, we have a stalemate. You would vote to give up our freedoms (permanently, by the way) for the off chance of ‘protecting’ our children from this year’s danger? No thanks.
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Now that you’ve read it, you see that it’s not as simple as erring on the kids or the criminals, but making sure that erring on the kids DOESN’T create criminals unnecessarily, and conversely, erring on the criminals makes crime a profitable enterprise… Well, white collar, white crime is very profitable and lightly punished… bad example.
Again, the show exploits a small subset of the weirdos out there for the uniquely American puritanical peepshow that is loved so much…
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You know, I wonder if the number of tragedies the children are enduring are of the same volume as in the past, but reporting of it and consequently the use of the Interwebitubes to get the media across is making it seem like there is “more.” I dare say that I bet the home sex assault of the bygone era were probably more prevalent than now…
#42: I ponder that every time we go through one of these especially ugly news cycles. Bad shit has always happened. I get that. The technology can amplify these events in the public consciousness. I get that too. Still miserable to read about. Still worth exploring ways to prevent in the future.
One thing we’ve kind of ignored so far was the size of this town. It was very small. Which makes me wonder, how much did the “good people” in town know and when did they know it? Some of these parties allegedly had 100 people in attendance. Each and every one of these individuals should be prosecuted to the max.
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As I said previously… it’s like a thieves den. Lots of people are guilty, but they know each other and they know their guilt, so everyone shuts up. Just like government.
And it’s sad to read about these stories. Maybe DU should do a feel good story about kids overcoming? Like this one?
http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/29/hoyt.family/
Michael Jackson got his kids drunk with ‘jesus juice’. I guess this perv needed something a bit stronger.