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.
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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.
Now for some Election Day coverage that really matters!
their lifestyle share one thing. They want to be free to vote in public like everyone else. Their position is, that people take their civic duty seriously and nudism is a part of their lifestyle.
