Chicago Tribune May 17, 1977 (third of a four part report)
...."Sexual exploitation of children is not only nationwide but worldwide."
M1 SAID , a clandestine for the "boy love" market that is published in Chicago, Its well known in Los Angeles. He also said boys are recruited in Los Angeles for a na- homosexual ring that is headquartered in Chicago.
A case in New Orleans, which led to arrests in other parts of the country, further demonstrates the connections that exist between child abusers In widely scattered localities.
New Orleans police, acting on a tip, last summer arrested Richard S. Hal- and Raymond T, Wood1all -on charges they had set up a Boy Scout troop for the purpose of sexually abusing children. .
Eventually 19 men were charged in the case with multiple counts of crimes against nature. New Orleans -Detective Mason Spong said the investigation extended into 34 states.
Among those arrested were Richard C. Jacobs of A'lington, Mass., mil- president of the Jet Spray Corp. and a former part-owner of the New England Patriots football team; Robert B. Mallers, a California millionaire; and Hugh Scott Mellor of Brighton, Mass., millionaire president of a real estate holding company.
New Orleans police said Jacobs has forfeited a $50,000 bond to avoid standing trial in Louisiana.
They said Halvorsen and Woodall went to New Orleans from Coral Gables, Fla., where they had worked as maintenance men for the Adelphi Academies, identified by Florida police as a former male prostitution front that-was recently sold to legitimate operators.
In 1974, Halvorsen nad Woodall organized Boy Scout Troop 137 with about 40 boys as members. From that group they selected about 10 to go on Scout trips. Police said sex sets between the men and boys occurred during these trips, and in the process one boy suffered inju- ries that resulted in his being hospitalized.
Halvorson and 'Richard A. 'Pass,, one of the 19 men charged in the case, also recruited boys for sex by working with community volunteer agencies dealing with runaways or boys from broken homes, police said. They said the two men gave the boys guitars and - cles as an inducement.
New Orleans District Att. Harry Connick said the Scout leaders also drew up applications for state and federal money to establish and operate homes for boys, but had not carried through with these plans.
PETER BRADFORD, formerly a CO- owner of the Adelphl Academies, is among the 19 men charged in New Orleans.
Sgt. Tony, Raimondo of the Coral Gables police Said evidence shows that Halvorsen went to a number of mothers in New Orleans and recruited six boys for the Adelphl Academies.
He told the women he could get free scholarships for their sons to a Coral Gables school that would provide better education than they were getting.
Now Orleans police said Bradford then flew to, New Orleans and had sex with one of the boys and met the parents. Bradford flew back to Coral Gables and the six New Orleans boys subsequently enrolled at the academy.
Bradford is charged with two counts of aggravated crimes against nature in New Orleans but Has forfeited bond and remained In Miorlda, where no charges have been filed against him,
As in indication of tie close links that exist among child sex abusers, police said the address book of John Norman, now in the Illinois state prison at Pontiac, contained the name of Raymond Woodall. According to Chicago police, Norman operated a ring that sent boys around the country to serve a net- work of homosexual clients.
Woodall and Halvorsen have both been' convicted and are awaiting sentencing.
A police search of. Halvorsen's files turned up the of Rev. Claudius Ira :[Bud] Jr., 47, who operated a. home for wayward boys in Winchester, Tenn.
Tennessee authorities were notified; and began an investigation. Vermilye was eventually arrested on charges that his Boys Farm, Inc., which had been partly financed with state and county funds, was a front for child pornography and sexual abuse.
Vermilye is awaiting trial on 16 charges, including 3 counts of crimes against nature, 8 of aiding and abetting crimes against nature, 4 counts of contributing to the delinquency of minors, and one of using minors in the production of pornographic materials.
Tennessee authorities were notified; and began an investigation. Vermilye was eventually arrested on charges that his **Boys Farm, Inc., **which had been partly financed with state and county funds, was a front for child pornography and sexual abuse.
Vermilye is awaiting trial on 16 charges, including 3 counts of crimes against nature, 8 of aiding and abetting crimes against nature, 4 counts of contributing to the delinquency of minors, and one of using minors in the tion of pornographic materials.
TENNESSEE ATTY. Gen. J. 1 Pope said Vermilye, divorced and the father of five sons, showed obscene m- to the boys to arouse them sexually and gave them liquor to overcome .
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Then he encouraged them to engage in orgies, and filmed the with a hidden camera, Pope said. He some of the films was sold to "sponsors" to raise money and some of the sponsors came o the farm to have sex with the boys.
Police seized a list of more than 270 "active sponsors" of the farm.
4 TRIBUNE investigation of the Tennessee case disclosed that a half-dozen Illinois men had bought films from the priest, Including one who paid more than $4,000.
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1977/05/17/page/1/article/how-ruses-lure-victims-to-child-pornographers#text
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kestrel9 ago
In case any visitor here still questions the connection between immigration and child sex rings here's the portion of the 1977 article pertaining to that:
Break in page
(for visitors) This has been going on a very long time, and by all indications, it just became worse and more entrenched throughout our society...gone are the days when newspapers pose the question: Why haven't the child pornographers been legislated out of business?
Instead we see people behaving completely infantile, bemoaning the need to more accept the sexualization of children and normalization of pedophilia, screaming for the overthrow of our Constitution and demanding that unlimited numbers of undocumented, and unaccompanied minors, be "welcomed" to stay here. (An open arms Welcome! from the US nationwide pedo rings and related international rings)
kestrel9 ago
https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1623736 Important related research from 6 months ago by @dontkillmehillary
kestrel9 ago
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(This was the topic I was originally researching (Francis Shelden and Fox Island, Brother Paul's Children's Mission) when I found this article so full of names and places! The computer translation gives odd characters and misspellings so I'm posting most of it with corrections, makes it easier to read all the way around).
Looks like that last question was never answered openly but we know...because PIZZAGATE that's why!
kestrel9 ago
Related to Francis Sheldon and Fox Island.... http://www.truecrimediary.com/index.cfm?page=cases&id=132
1975 Oakland County Child Killings
Over a 13-month period, four white, middle class kids, two boys and two girls, were abducted, kept alive for several days, and murdered. The killer was dubbed "The Babysitter," because the children showed evidence of having been cleaned and fed their favorite foods.
The Suicide
Christopher Busch. He was also the Oakland County Child Killing suspect who had implicated himself in the case during a polygraph with Larry Wasser, though the victims' families, and the public, wouldn't learn his name until that fateful conversation at a Las Vegas convention nearly 30 years after his death.
kestrel9 ago
Regarding Christopher Busch: Not the last piece of the puzzle by any stretch...
July 2012
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2176026/Arch-Edward-Sloan-Man-linked-Oakland-County-Child-Killer-Case-frightening-history-child-sex-abuse.html
Inmate, 70, linked to unsolved child rapes and murders in 1970s after breakthrough in DNA technology has horrifying history of sex abuse
James Gunnels, 47, was an alleged abuse victim of Busch and police believe he may have assisted him in the killings. His mitrochondrial DNA matches a hair found on Kristine
And this from 2006 Brings up a good question...why not take the polygraph test? Some people speculate that the ring involved people you'd rather go to jail rather then risk exposing.
http://www.macombdaily.com/article/MD/20061212/NEWS01/312129995
Ted Lamborgine
The similarities are damning. Lamborgine and a pack of sick buddies preyed on poor kids from the Cass Corridor, a particularly run-down section of the city, but Lamborgine liked to cross 8 Mile Road into the tonier areas to troll for kids and mix with suburban pedophiles. One of his victims described being held captive, assaulted, and then fed. Lamborgine packed up and moved to Ohio right around the time the murders stopped.
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abcdefg222 ago
Thank you! I will read these today.
SoSpricyHotDog ago
Wow... I wish there was a way to quickly connect dots moving forward in time. So many of these stories from the 70s/80s/90s just dead-end once it's all wrapped up. It never goes into their accomplices, lists of hundreds of clients, purchasers, distribution channels... etc.
Each of these cases are so massive, there's no way that the arrest of small groups actually damages the infrastructure. Why wouldn't these stories continue over time via the investigators? It's sick.
kestrel9 ago
I'm going to work on a timeline (one of my favorite tools lol), but there is a lot I have to work with so it'll be time consuming and there is still digging I want to do. I don't know if I'm going to have to just do the free trial subscription to get a look at that newspaper article, because all references to it are scrubbed. In the search however it appears to be a huge article done as a promo of his Fox Island Company I believe.
I cringed when reading "Many weekends he takes young friends along to North Fox Island"....
Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan on December 28, 1975 ...
Dec 28, 1975 ... Many weekends he takes young friends along to North Fox Island, as well as his .... Henry's sons formed the Shelden Land Co. after World War I, and ... Born Francis Duffield Shelden, he spent his allowance on classical records as a child. ... other things, helped develop the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island.
abcdefg222 ago
Wow. Lots of names here. I've never heard about any of this. I have a lot to look into. This is horrible. Have you looked into how much time they got? Specifically all of the active sponsors at the farm. Hundreds. what are these people doing today?
kestrel9 ago
I know, I just found the article last night...a lot of digging to do no doubt. We know how the Franklin scandal was swept over, but with such an established nationwide pedophile ring already in place in 1977, it's beyond hard to believe that there aren't ties between some of the players.
The more instances we can show of a continuity of the nationwide pedo ring, and then ties to the international UK systemic pedo nation that they are, things just keep getting uglier, and what seems like unrelated events may just be symptoms or cover up of that underlying international sex trafficking, child porn industry.