Children forced to perform sex shows in a church going community
Posted by MJ on June 23, 2008
Patrick Kelly, one of six people charged in the case, will go on trial Monday.
MINEOLA, Texas (AP) — 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.
Read the rest of the story on CNN
This has to be one of the sickest things I have read involving children and sex. This happened in the small town of Mineola, Tx with a population of 5,100. According to the article, the sex shows which were held on a regular basis involved more then the children and the six adults charged but was reported to be attended by a audience of 50 to 100.
Key parts of the article…
The one-story building where prosecutors say four children — the three siblings, now ages 12, 10 and 7, and their 10-year-old aunt — were trained to perform in front of an audience of 50 to 100 once a week has been vacant since the landlord ousted the alleged organizers in 2004.
Down a slight hill is a retirement home, and even closer is the office of the local newspaper. Doris Newman, editor of The Mineola Monitor, said rumors of swinger parties spread around town but that no one mentioned children being involved.
Newman, who can see the building from her office window, said she remembers the parking lot filling up with more than a dozen cars at night.
In August 2004, an editorial under the headline “Sex In the City” opined that if the swingers left quietly, “we’ll try and forget they’ve infiltrated our town with their set of moral standards.”
“It’s not that we’re trying to look the other way,” Newman said. “But there’s a lot more to Mineola than that.”
My question is how did the town itself not know what really was going on in that house? There was up to 100 people attending the sex shows and I doubt they were all from out of town. It seems like there must have been some in the town that who were not participates but knew what really was going on there. Why did someone not espouse this sooner? The residents callings them “swingers” seemed to be a way for them to hide from the real truth. I think their was another crime that was committed and it did not happen in that house.
The Rev. Tim Letsch is opening a church in the yellow-plastered building where the children were abused. He acknowledges that building a congregation might be difficult because of the stigma attached to the property.
“You got to decide whether you’re willing to forgive those kind of things,” Letsch said. “It’s a hard deal. Especially for a spiritual person to walk in and say, ‘This happened here.”‘
Why in the world would a small town that already has 30 churches need another one? The house should be bulldozed and not left standing! Really, why would anyone want to live in or use that house? The people of this town need more to do then go to church and pray apparently.
I admit did not research this behind the story on CNN. If anyone who is local to the area that knows more infomation or can link to local news sources that adds to the story it would be welcome.
cherokeecountytexas said
Swingers, child molesters, purveyors of child pornography and other slime disguised and sheltered as “professionals,” “dignitaries,” and “good Christian men and women”… sounds familar to a lot of attendees who live 70 miles to the south in Cherokee County, Texas. Rusk Texas and surrounding areas is finally being shown to be the hide out for pedophiles that it has been for the last 30 years.
Remember, they always mix good ol’ fashion 1930′s style religion into the fray to turn attention away from the fact that if the members of the Mineola/Rusk Texas Swingers Club were related to the district attorney, then they would be free to perform their underage sex acts for as long as the incumbent was in office.
Matthew Podoba said
MJ,
We chatted about this over lunch. What can I say? More wierdness from the conservative, sheltered mid-west. once again proving that you can’t supress hormones – no matter how many churches you build or hard you try. The ‘child sex thing’ wierds me out more than anything…really
B. Beldon said
Unfortunately they’ll probably NOT get the death penalty-CNN reports today (6-24-08) that a high court ruled death penalty too harsh in cases of child rape and the report said this would a rippling effect in states where there’s a death penalty for child rape like in Texas.
Too bad. Even touching a kid should get a death penalty in my book. Someone in my own family nearly got what these kids received, so I know-the death penalty is the LEAST they deserve, add some torture first though.
MJ "revoltingpawn" said
B. Beldon…
The death penalty is not the answer. Rotting in prison is much worse then putting them out of their misery anyway.
Yes Sir said
It is sad that people are not reading the facts on this case. If you REALLY do your homework without just commenting you will find this is a case out of ANOTHER county that was NOT prosecuted by the DA’s office because there was NO evidence of wrong doing. NO– I repeat NO DA’s office in the world would decline to prosecute a sex offense case. They didn’t pick it up because it didn’t happen — read the Dallas Morning News Article and see what the Mineola DA had to say about the situation. I would think that in this country people would be INNOCENT until PROVEN guilty. Just because someone launches horrible allegations on someone does not mean they are true. I have ZERO tolerance for sex offenders– I think they are worse than murderers– BUT I also have ZERO tolerance for trumped up charges and prosecutorial misconduct in order to gain convictions– in a town that is NOTORIOUS for this very thing! READ READ READ before you JUDGE!
MJ "revoltingpawn" said
Yes Sir…
Who is not reading the facts of the case? According to the CNN article two people already had been convicted in this case. I have personally not followed the case since posted this. Feel free to comment again and provide links to update the story.
Jereme said
I live, and grew up in Mineola. The first that the average Mineolan heard about this was when the Monitor published the story. Mineola has its share, no doubt, of close-minded, backwoods ideology, but the people involved in the abuse of these children were not from Mineola, and didnt even live here. Oh, and it was’nt a house it was originally Mineola General Hospital.
Jereme Dillard
Connie said
Where were the parents of these young innocent children? Where they involved? I live in Cherokee County, this really disturbs me. I just pray for the innocence that has been taken from these sweet babies. They will be scared for life!