MrRING
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This strange story of "satanic panic" involving a (still) missing teen is one weird story.
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The Strange Case of the Gilmer (Texas) Cannibal Cult
In 1992, fifteen children in Gilmer, Texas were removed from their extended families of origin and placed in protective, therapeutic foster care after investigations by Child Protective Services revealed their sadistic sexual abuse and victimization by parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and others.
A special prosecutor was appointed to bring the alleged perpetrators to justice. Scott Lyford, a Galveston attorney, and his investigative team were able to accumulate sufficient evidence to gain indictments and convictions against the eight defendants.
As the children became increasingly secure in their foster care environment and in their therapeutic relationship with a mental health professional, they began to reveal details of their victimization which included elements of ritualistic abuse such as being forced to ingest blood, urine and feces, deviant sex practices, and other behaviors indicative of ritual activities.
One of the abused children disclosed special knowledge regarding the disappearance of an area teenager, Kelly Wilson. This child implicated his sexual abuse perpetrators and an area police officer in the abduction, rape, torture, and murder of Ms. Wilson, a 17 year old Gilmer resident who disappeared on January 5, 1992.
When confronted with the child's testimony, two of the adults confessed to the offenses and one of the adults directed the investigative team to a property owned by the paternal grandparents of the children where the adult alleged some ritual activities had taken place, including the murder of Kelly Wilson. The two adults subsequently recanted their confessions, and later confessed again. One of the adults plea bargained to a lessor offense for which she has been convicted but not sentenced. Both adults submitted to polygraph evaluations whose results supported their confessions.
And it keeps getting weirder (if you can believe it!).
READ THE WHOLE THING HERE
The Strange Case of the Gilmer (Texas) Cannibal Cult
In 1992, fifteen children in Gilmer, Texas were removed from their extended families of origin and placed in protective, therapeutic foster care after investigations by Child Protective Services revealed their sadistic sexual abuse and victimization by parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and others.
A special prosecutor was appointed to bring the alleged perpetrators to justice. Scott Lyford, a Galveston attorney, and his investigative team were able to accumulate sufficient evidence to gain indictments and convictions against the eight defendants.
As the children became increasingly secure in their foster care environment and in their therapeutic relationship with a mental health professional, they began to reveal details of their victimization which included elements of ritualistic abuse such as being forced to ingest blood, urine and feces, deviant sex practices, and other behaviors indicative of ritual activities.
One of the abused children disclosed special knowledge regarding the disappearance of an area teenager, Kelly Wilson. This child implicated his sexual abuse perpetrators and an area police officer in the abduction, rape, torture, and murder of Ms. Wilson, a 17 year old Gilmer resident who disappeared on January 5, 1992.
When confronted with the child's testimony, two of the adults confessed to the offenses and one of the adults directed the investigative team to a property owned by the paternal grandparents of the children where the adult alleged some ritual activities had taken place, including the murder of Kelly Wilson. The two adults subsequently recanted their confessions, and later confessed again. One of the adults plea bargained to a lessor offense for which she has been convicted but not sentenced. Both adults submitted to polygraph evaluations whose results supported their confessions.
And it keeps getting weirder (if you can believe it!).