Macur Review! 2 years on and afraid to publish the truth about failed Child Abuse Inquiries

REBECCA TELEVISION has withdrawn from the Macur Review of the 1996-1999 North Wales Child Abuse Tribunal.

In a letter to Home Secretary Theresa May, Editor Paddy French expressed concern at the delay in publishing a report.

It’s more than two years since the Review was set up.

French said: “the passage of time has seriously eroded my confidence in the process.”

Prime Minister David Cameron announced the review in November 2012.

THERESA MAY
WHEN THE Home Secretary made a statement in the Commons in November 2012 about the North Wales child abuse scandal, she was asked by Labour MP Paul Flynn to examine claims made by Rebecca Television. She told him the police “will, indeed, be looking at that historical evidence. That is part of the job they will be doing.”
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It followed the BBC Newsnight report which identified Lord McAlpine as a paedophile involved in the North Wales child abuse scandal.

When the allegation was later shown to have been a mistake, the government decided to carry on with the Review.

In November 2012 Justice Secretary Chris Grayling appointed Lady Justice Macur to lead it. 

Today, 26 months later, her report is unfinished and is unlikely to be complete before the election …

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WHEN JUSTICE Minister Chris Grayling set up the Macur Review, he gave it two tasks.

The first was to look at the “scope” of the North Wales Child Abuse Tribunal, chaired by retired High Court judge Sir Ronald Waterhouse.

The second was to see if “any specific allegations of child abuse falling within the terms of reference were not investigated …”

Lady Macur was to make recommendations if she felt any further action was needed.

Long before the Macur Review, Rebecca Television was arguing — in an investigation called The Case Of The Flawed Tribunal — that the inquiry had not been fit for purpose.

SIR RONALD WATERHOUSE
THE RETIRED High Court judge chaired the £14 million Tribunal which held more than 200 days of hearings and heard the testimony of 264 people. But one important witness was never heard …

One of the key cases that led to that conclusion was the way the Tribunal handled the case of convicted paedophile John Allen.

Allen and his family owned the Bryn Alyn complex of private children’s homes in the Wrexham area.

Between 1974 and 1991 local authorities all over England and Wales paid him more than £30 million to take care of some of their more difficult children.

In February 1995 — a year before the Tribunal was set up — Allen had been gaoled for six years after a jury convicted him of indecently assaulting six boys in his care.

But the Waterhouse Tribunal did not investigate Allen properly.

It prevented a key witness from giving evidence that he had reported serious allegations of sexual abuse against Allen more than a decade before he was brought to book.

Not only did the Tribunal suppress his evidence, it also censored television journalists from reporting what he had to say.

In 1997, while the Tribunal was sitting, officials learned that the broadcaster HTV was preparing a programme about Allen.

The channel’s current affairs programme, Wales This Week, had interviewed John Allen’s number two, Des Frost.

Frost told journalists that in the early 1980s he had gone to the police about allegations that Allen was abusing boys.

This was more than ten years before Allen was finally convicted.

He claimed to have contacted detectives in Cheshire because he was concerned that if he went to the North Wales Police John Allen might get to hear of it.

Frost feared he might lose his job.

DES FROST
THE FORMER social worker and lay preacher — joint second-in-command at Bryn Alyn — was never called to give evidence to the Tribunal. Frost claimed he reported allegations against Allen many years before the paedophile was brought to book. The failure to test his evidence means the Tribunal’s conclusion that “there was no significant omission by the North Wales Police in investigating the complaints of abuse to children in care” is suspect.

When the Tribunal heard that Frost had been interviewed by Wales This Week, officials warned the programme’s lawyer not to reveal any new allegations.

This would be considered contempt of court.

Journalists believed that this was because the Tribunal was planning to call Frost as a witness and hear his testimony.

One of those reporters was Rebecca Television editor Paddy French who was working for the programme as a freelance at the time.

The allegations were removed from the programme.

In the same week that broadcasters were muzzled, North Wales Police took a statement from Frost.

Frost believed they were acting on behalf of the Tribunal — but the Tribunal only employed ex-police officers from other other forces.

Frost was never called to give evidence to the Tribunal.

The Macur Review was asked to see if “any specific allegations of child abuse falling within the terms of reference were not investigated …” .

Clearly, Des Frost’s allegation that he reported child abuse by John Allen in the early 1980s was not investigated by the Tribunal.

The fact that the Tribunal also prevented HTV from broadcasting his allegations deepens suspicion.

JOHN ALLEN
THE OWNER of a profitable string of private children’s homes in the Wrexham area, Allen is one of the central characters in the North Wales child abuse scandal. He groomed young boys — abusing many — and extended his influence with some of them by providing an “after-care” service in London and Brighton.

Was there collusion by the Tribunal, or some of its officials, and North Wales Police to suppress Frost’s testimony to protect the reputation of the force?

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AT THE same time the Macur Review was set up, Home Secretary Theresa May announced a parallel police inquiry.

This became Operation Pallial, carried out by the newly-created National Crime Agency.

Like Macur, Pallial was to carry out an initial assessment, followed by recommendations.

Palliall was asked to “assess any information recently received” about historic child abuse in care and “review the historic police investigations into such matters”.

In stark contrast to the Macur Review, Pallial completed its review in just six months.

In April 2013, it presented its initial report.

It found “no evidence of systemic or institutional misconduct by North Wales Police …”

NORTH WALES POLICE
OPERATION PALLIAL cleared the force of any historic misconduct in relation to its investigation of child abuse allegations. But did Operation Pallial examine the circumstances which led to Des Frost being interviewed by its officers in 1997 — the week broadcasters at HTV were being censored by the Tribunal? In 2009 Rebecca Television asked the current chief constable, Mark Polin, about why this interview took place and what happened to the officer’s report. He didn’t answer. We also wrote to the officer who took the statement from Frost. He didn’t reply. An official complaint against this officer found he had raised the issue with his superiors  expecting that “ownership to respond … rest with someone higher in the organisation.” No response was ever received … 
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But it found “significant evidence of systemic and serious sexual and physical abuse …” and recommended a full-scale criminal investigation.

Since then, Pallial has charged 15 people with child abuse offences while a further 18 remain on bail while investigations continue.

One of those charged was John Allen who stood trial for the second time.

In December 2014 he was gaoled for life after a jury convicted him of abusing 18 boys and one girl, aged between seven and 15.

The offences were committed between in the 1970s and 1980s.

The allegations Des Frost claimed he brought to the attention of the police date from the 1970s …

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THE MACUR Review was also asked to look at the “scope” of the Waterhouse Tribunal.

The Tribunal was established in 1996 by William Hague who was in the Cabinet as Welsh Secretary.

He persuaded John Major to allow him to set up the inquiry, the first ever Tribunal into child abuse.

But there were conditions.

Thatcher did not want the proceedings to spill over into England — she feared it would become an over-arching inquiry into child abuse throughout England and Wales.

(This is what is happening — nearly two decades later — with the current major inquiry headed by New Zealand Judge Lowell Goddard .)

As a result, the remit of the Waterhouse Tribunal was tightly drawn by the Thatcher government.

BRYN ALYN
DURING THE Tribunal, John Allen admitted that he had spent £180,000 in presents for some of the boys at Bryn Alyn, both during and after their time in care. On one occasion, the Tribunal heard, English police found a letter addressed to him which had been found in the pocket of an ex-resident. The tone of the letter — which has disappeared — suggested blackmail but North Wales Police decided there was an innocent explanation …

It was “to enquire into the abuse of children in care in the former county council areas of Gwynedd and Clwyd since 1974″.

In other words, it was restricted to North Wales.

This prevented the Tribunal from examining another deeply disturbing aspect of the John Allen affair.

As previously noted, John Allen was paid more than £30 million to look after children in his care.

Much of this money did not go into conventional child care.

Some of it went on an expensive country mansion, a villa in the south of France and a half share in a Mediterranean yacht called Dualité.

Allen also used enormous sums of petty cash which were never properly accounted for.

But, significantly, a slice of this money also went into an informal “after-care” system for selected boys when they left Bryn Alyn.

This included the provision of accommodation in Brighton and London.

Some of the young men who lived in these properties became homosexual prostitutes.

During his first trial in February 1995, John Allen went “missing” for a week.

He turned up in Oxford claiming he’d suffered a nervous breakdown.

He claimed he could not remember anything about the previous seven days.

During the week he was missing, a former Bryn Alyn resident, Lee Johns, was found dead at his home in Brighton.

Johns had given evidence during the trial that he had been abused by Allen.

WATERHOUSE TRIBUNALTHE FORMER council chamber in North Wales used by the Tribunal during its public hearings. One issue the Tribunal could not investigate was the significance of John Allen’s informal “after-care” service for some ex-residents in London and Brighton. Events outside of North Wales were forbidden territory …  

The jury later decided that Johns was one of the six boys Allen had indecently assaulted.

The inquest verdict on Lee Johns was suicide — but his family are convinced he did not take his own life.

Three years earlier, Lee Johns had been seriously injured in a catastrophic fire at a flat in Hove.

Five people died in the blaze which had been started deliberately.

Among those who died was Lee’s younger brother Adrian, another former resident of Bryn Alyn.

Both Lee and Adrian had previously lived in properties provided by John Allen.

The man who started the blaze killed himself a few days after the fire.

These events were not examined by the Tribunal because they took place outside North Wales.

Lady Macur was asked to assess if the “scope” of the Waterhouse Tribunal was adequate.

Again, the questions surrounding John Allen’s informal “after-care” service in London and Brighton system show it was not.

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THERE IS another reason why Rebecca Television believes the Waterhouse Tribunal was suspect.

In 2000, shortly after his report was published, Paddy French had a confidential three hour meeting with Sir Ronald Waterhouse at his home near Ross-on-Wye.

French laid out much of the criticism which was later revealed in the Rebecca Television articles.

The meeting was off-the-record.

It was not until Waterhouse died in May 2011 that French was able to reveal what had taken place.

SECRET CORRESPONDENCE
SIR RONALD WATERHOUSE exchanged letters with Paddy French after their meeting in 2000. But he insisted that the interview and the letters remain secret. It wasn’t until his death in May 2011 that French was free to reveal what had happened between them.

“I felt he was shocked by what I told him,” said French, “particularly the allegations concerning Des Frost.”

“But was he shocked because he and the Tribunal had been found out — or was it because he had been wrongly persuaded Frost had nothing to say?”

“He wouldn’t say.”

In 2006 Waterhouse attended a function and had a revealing conversation with Welsh Assembly member Mark Isherwood.

“He told me quite clearly,” Isherwood said, “that he now accepted that documentation had been withheld from the Tribunal which he chaired,”

But whatever Waterhouse knew or felt, he took to the grave.

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REBECCA TELEVISION warned the Macur Review it was considering pulling out of the process.

On February 18 editor Paddy French wrote to say he was “considering withdrawing my statements” to the Review and writing to the Home Secretary to explain why such a “drastic step” was necessary.

“It’s clear to me that the Review will not be complete by the election and, by the time the new administration is in place and able to take a decision, we will be into the autumn”.

“This creates a surreal situation where a Review, designed to see if there ought to be a re-examination of the territory explored by Waterhouse, will have taken almost as long as the original Tribunal itself.”

LORD LEVESON
BRIAN LEVESON managed to hold public hearings where more than 300 witnesses gave evidence and produce a 2,000 page, three volume report in just 17 months. The Macur Review is still not complete after 26 months.
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To date, the Review has taken 26 months — the Tribunal was complete in 39 months.

Operation Pallial, as has already been pointed out, produced its initial review within six months.

Lord Leveson, who also had the problem of a parallel criminal investigation to contend with, held a long series of public hearings and still managed to produce a three volume report in less than a year and a half.

Lady Macur answered by saying she had seen and “noted” the contents of the February 18 email.

On February 20 Paddy French emailed to ask her “to formally remove my statements from the Review’s report.”

He also asked her to “include my reasons … in the Review’s report when it is finally complete.”

On February 24 a spokeswoman for Lady Macur emailed to say:

“The Judge has asked me to let you know that she has found no reason to refer to your submissions specifically in her report and therefore it will not be necessary to indicate why she has removed them.”

“The report will indicate that you have made contact with the review and that you attended an interview with Lady Justic Macur.”

On March 2 French wrote to Home Secretary Theresa May.

LADY MACUR
A JUDGE in the Family Division of the High Court when she was appointed, she is now one of the senior members of the judiciary. Nine months after the Review was set up, she was appointed one of the 42 Court of Appeal judges. The position brings with a seat on the Privy Council.
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He noted that in a November 2012 press release Lady Macur had said:

“I am grateful to be assured that sufficient resources will be made available to me to conduct this Review which will be thorough and expeditious.”

French said:

“I feel the Review has left itself open to the charge that, whatever else it is, it is not ‘expeditious’.”

He added:

“I would now ask you to consider referring my concerns — and those of others — directly to Justice Lowell Goddard.”

Goddard is the chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse.

A copy of French’s letter was sent to Justice Minister Chris Grayling, who commissioned the Macur Review, to Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb and to Lady Macur herself.

No responses had been received by the time this article was posted.

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WHAT IS deeply disturbing about the Macur Review comes down to one single point.

Lady Macur must have been in a position to know which way her report was going to go within a year.

If, at that point, she had concluded the Waterhouse Tribunal had failed to carry out its task properly, then she was in a position to produce a report calling for an inquiry to take the process further.

Her report did not have to be totally comprehensive — all it needed to do was to present the evidence gathered to support that conclusion.

The work of comprehensively sifting all the evidence could have been left to the new inquiry.

In other words, a report calling for a new inquiry could have been published within a year or eighteen months.

If, however, she had concluded that the Waterhouse Report could not be challenged, then a different scenario presents itself.

She would then want to produce a more detailed report demonstrating that the criticisms of the Tribunal — including those presented by Rebecca Television — were unfounded.

This would inevitably take longer.

There might, though, be compelling reasons for dragging the process out even longer.

The first is that, if the Macur Review published a report clearing Waterhouse, it is likely there would  considerable criticism.

LOST IN CARE
THE MASSIVE 937 page report of the Waterhouse Tribunal — but was it fit for purpose? As well as the failure to hear the Des Frost allegations, Rebecca Television also pointed out shortcomings in the inquiry’s handling of freemasonry.

Such criticism might persuade Home Secretary Theresa May to refer the Waterhouse issue to the new Goddard Inquiry.

Theresa May has proved a tough Home Secretary.

She appears to want to avoid any suggestion that’s there’s been any kind of cover-up on her watch.

This leads to speculation that Lady Macur and the judicial establishment of England and Wales might not be happy presenting the Review report with her still in office.

In these circumstances, perhaps, it might be better for Lady Macur to take so long producing her report that by the time it was published a more docile Home Secretary might be in place.

The Waterhouse issue could then be quietly laid to rest …

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Published: 11 March 2015© Rebecca Television♦♦♦

NOTES
1

Paddy French’s statement to the Review was dated 13 January 2013. He met Lady Macur at the Royal Courts of Justice on 5 March 2013.

2

For more details of the Rebecca Television criticism of the Waterhouse House — The Case Of The Flawed Tribunal —  see the Investigations page here. 

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Update- What will happen to whistle-blower kids who exposed Quasi Religious pedophile ring

Update from the Family Court of NO justice in London  where the fate of Alisa and Gabriel the whistle-blower kids is being decided.

Listen to Belinda from the Mackenzie Friends association give a full background and update to this shocking and compelling story

American Government structure hides an explosion of child rape, torture and murder

State Dept Dan Rosen’s Arrest: Cheat Sheet for Journos

By Lori Handrahan

When Senator Lamar Alexander’s (R TN) Chief of Staff, Ryan Loskarn, was arrested, last year, for trading in the rape and torture of children, aka child pornography, not one journalist provided context to the story. The media reported Loskarn’s arrest, and subsequent suicide pending trial, as if it were a one-off event. As if, no other high-level government employees were being arrested on child porn charges.

So, I suppose I should be thrilled to see that both Paul Farrell, the Breaking News Editor for Heavy, and Shane Harris, Sr. Intelligence and National Security Correspondent for The Daily Beast and New America Foundation Fellow, have tried to provide context to the State Department’s Director of Counterterrorism, Daniel Rosen’s arrest, 26 February 2015, on charges of computer solicit of a child under 15 years old for sex/sodomy.
Daniel Rosen’s Fairfax County PD Arrest Warrant Reported by NBC’s @JulieCareyNBC

Farrell reported Rosen’s arrest was “the Second Child Sex Scandal to Hit D.C. in 12 Months.” Harris said Rosen’s arrest marks the “3rd U.S. Official Hit With Child Sex and Porn Charges.” At least Paul and Shane poked their heads up and said something like: Hang on. Seems to me I’ve heard this story before. Haven’t there been other recent arrests of high level government officials on child sex abuse charges?

Nonetheless, both are very far off the mark. A simple Google or Twitter search reveals far more than two or three government officials arrested on similar charges in the past few months alone.

Research 101

As I have been documenting, for years now, by all accounts there is both a national child porn crisis and, within that, acrisis of American federal and state employees engaged in child porn. In what appears to be epidemic numbers men are down-loading child porn often on their work computers at The Pentagon, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), The Department of Justice (DOJ), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), The Department of Transportation (DOT), The Transportation Security Agency(TSA), The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) not to mention state-level police departments from Maine to California.

Maine’s Governor, Paul LePage, has recognized this crisis by issuing the first, to my knowledge, of its kind Executive Order, on 20 February 2015, prohibiting Maine state employees from accessing pornographic or sexually explicit material on both state computers or devices even when they were off-duty on personal time.

North Carolina’s Congressman, Mark Meadows (R) also recognizes the scope of the crisis and put forward theEliminating Pornography from Agencies Act. This law, if passed, would stop federal employees from accessing, watching or sharing pornography on government-issued computers and devices. Congressman Meadows introduced this 18 September 2014. To date, he has not one co-sponsor. Not one other member of Congress cares about this issue? Apparently not.

Other Recent Arrests of Government Employees

Because the Department of Justice is not collecting data on child porn arrests, no one knows how many government employees have been arrested on child porn related charges, much less how many are engaged in the child porn industry who have yet to be caught.

The arrests listed here are, therefore, an incomplete data-set, gathered from the most rudimentary search method: simple Google and Twitter searches. On my other Medium postings I have listed recent arrests of police and military. So many police chiefs, for example, are being arrested for trading in brutal child rape and torture, I had to create a separate section. From the record of these arrests alone, we can speculate, child porn within our government agencies has reached a crisis level.

A Few Highlights

• Acting Director of Cyber Security at the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Timothy DeFoggi, age 56, was sentenced, January 2015, to 25 years in federal prison for “participating in a child pornography ring that sources say was so depraved, it even shocked veteran investigators.” DeFoggi was a registered user of an on-line child rape and torture, aka child porn, trading site. DeFoggi “expressed an interest in the violent rape and murder of children. DeFoggi suggested meeting one member in person to fulfill their mutual fantasies to violently rape and murder children.”

• Former Undersecretary of the Navy, 70 year old James Daniel Howard, arrested on child porn possession and reproduction charges in 2013. Howard had served as special assistant to President Ronald Reagan. He plead guilty to ten child porn counts and served only seven months in jail.

• Joint Strike Fighter Program Navy officer, Bruce Babchyck, arrested in 2014 for downloading “hundreds of gigabytes” of young girls and bestiality on government computers. He received a one year sentence.

• Anthony Mangione, 50 year old Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for South Florida, was arrested on “extreme child abuse” charges on 28 September 2011. He was sentenced, November 2012, to nearly six years in prison. Mangione is a 1982 graduate of the University of Maine Orono (UMO) where former Senior Child Protection Services (CPS) Cynthia Wellman claimed, at the time, CPS was operating a child sex ring, on campus, with UMO’s involvement. “Little is known about Mangione’s time at UMaine. Originally from Rhode Island, he arrived in Orono in August 1978.”

• David Bourque, formerly the 51 year old Police Captain of Granby, Connecticut, was sentenced to ten years for child porn possession and distribution. He had more than 328,528 images and 4,000 videos on his police department computerincluding “sadistic and violent acts” against infants and toddlers. His “collection” was organized into more than 300 sub-folders named “photos — babies — men” and “6–10yo boys pics.” In this excerpt Bourque is D for defendant.
David Bourque’s Criminal Complaint

Prosecutors said the images were “extremely disturbing; some are especially horrific” including: (1) a boy between 1 and 3 years old being raped by an adult male penis in the child’s anus, (2) a boy between 3 and 6 years old with a “penis of what appears to be an adult male pressed against the child’s anus” and (3) a child, less than a year old, “performing oral sex on an adult male.” Bourque showed “callous disregard” for the children being abused telling people to “enjoy” themselves and “have fun.” Samples of his on-line chatsinclude extensive discussions of rape and bondage of children. Bourque was a decorated officer with more than 31 years in law enforcement.

• Army prosecutor and judge advocate, Daniel Wollverton, father of two, convicted in 2011 for infant sodomy and possession of over 30,000 images and 1,000 videos of brutal child sex abuse including that of a three month old infant.

• Maine Assistant Attorney General, 52 year old James Cameron, was sentenced to just over 15 years in federal prison, December 2014, for seven counts of child porn possession, receipt and transmission. Cameron, widely recognized as Maine’s “top drug prosecutor,” had been trading in PTHC - pre-teen hard core. Images/videos that investigators seized included “images depicted prepubescent children, sadistic and other violent conduct.”

• Army Colonel, 55 year old Robert Joel Rice, a war game developer at Army War College, was charged with 130 child porn counts. He had more than 30,000 images/videos of child sex abuse when his wife discovered the files and notified local police. The Army War College had continued to employ Rice, and allow him supervised access to Army computers, while on bail pending trial. Col. Rice had been scheduled for a July 2013 arraignment; however, Rice’s federal hearing was delayed until February 2015. Rice’s preliminary county hearing had been set for April 2013.

• David O’Brien, America’s chief scientist responsible for monitoring global nuclear activity at Patrick Air Force Base’s Technical Applications Center, which operates our Atomic Energy Detection System, was arrested May 2013 and charged with ten counts of child porn possession and distribution.


O’Brien had a large child porn collection on his home and Air Force computers. On 17 October 2014 he was sentenced to five years in federal prison in exchange for a guilty plea to one child porn count. O’Brien had download videos of the sex abuse of children as young as three years old. He had taken pictures of his granddaughter and placed images of her head over images of children being sexually abused. He also had pictures of Air Force employees transposed over sex abuse images.

US Department of State

• Carl Carey, a 54 year Senior Project Manager in Information Technology (IT) at the US State Department, was arrested on ten counts of child porn possession, April 2012, by the Fairfax County Police.

• Gons Nachman, a 42 year old former US diplomat “admitted taping his sexual encounters with teenage girls while stationed in Brazil and the Congo” was sentenced, August 2008, to 20 years in prison. Nachman also plead guilty to child porn possession. One of his videos was titled“Congo 2004 Sexual Adventures.” His law degree is from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was president of the Naturist Student Association and “led demonstrations involving public nudity in 1995.”

• James Cafferty, 45 year old Special Agent with the US State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security, pleaded guilty, 5 January 2012, to child porn charges and was sentenced, 26 April 2012, to 7 years in federal prison. Upon his arrest he had more than 30,000 images of child sex abuse. He “had shipped computer equipment containing many of those images from London to the United States when he returned home from his last official government assignment.”

• Timothy Towell, 75 year old former US Ambassador to Paraguay, was charged with “sex crimes” against an 18 year old in 2009.

• Howard Gutman, former US Ambassador to Belgium was accused of “routinely… soliciting sexual favors from both prostitutes and minor children” according to an Office Inspector General (OIG) investigation. Aurelia Fedenisn, a now former OIG investigator said her unit had found widespread evidence of “sex and drug scandals” but “were told not to look into it.” Fedenisn said “investigations into the allegations were called off by senior officials to avoid political embarrassment.”

Homeland Security

• Brian Doyle, Deputy Press Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, was arrested “for trying to seduce online someone he thought was a teenage girl.” Doyle was charged with 23 felony charges related to sexually graphic conversations with a person he thought was a 14 year old girl who, in reality was, an undercover detective. On 17 November 2006, Doyle was sentenced to five years in prison with ten years probation thereafter. He is a registered sex offender and was released from prison on 11 January 2015.

• 31 year old Eric Higgins, a Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection agent in Michigan, plead guilty to child porn possession. Over forty images of a child previously identified by law enforcement were found on his laptop.

• Nicholas Bolden, a 40 year old Homeland Security Customs and Border Patrol agent, was sentenced for child porn possession on his government computer. Bolden had accessed a Russian child porn website while at work from his work computer. A child porn CD was also found at his workplace desk.

• Gilbert Lam, a 38 year old Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection agent who worked at San Francisco airport, was charged with child porn possession and distribution. Investigators said his electronic resources were “elaborate” and included “a whole closet… independent server, several computers, several hard drives…”

• Robert Rennie, a 43 year old Homeland Security agent who worked in the National Protection and Programs Directorate, was charged with attempting to solicit sexual acts from more than seventy young girls using a fake Facebook account and pretending to be both a male student at a Virginia middle schools as well as a college student at George Mason University.

• An unnamed Homeland Security agent with Customs and Border Protection and Byungki Koo an Air Marshal were arrested for trafficking “young women” from South Korea in a sex-trafficking ring in Queens, New York.

Police Departments & Military Staff

Police officers are, of course, also government employees as are US military staff. The arrests, alone, of both state government employed police officers and federally employed military staff are stunning. These arrests are so numerous, and my record is very incomplete, that it appears trading in child sex rape and torture is almost encouraged within some police departments and military units.

As I mentioned, I have listed recent arrests of Police Arrested for Trading in Child Rape & Torture andMilitary Staff Trading in Child Rape & Torture in separate postings.

Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)

• 48 year old Scott Whitcomb, a former police officer, at the time of his arrest a Drug Enforcement Agent, was sentenced for child porn production. He had been producing and distributing sex abuse of boys under sixteen years old since 2007. Whitcomb lured boys to his house with video games and porn magazines and would turn violent if the boys didn’t submit to the sex abuse. He had been an Air Marshal and a prison guard.

• DEA agent Darren Argento was arrested for possession and distribution of child sex abuse of girls between seven and fourteen years old his work laptop.

Department of Agriculture

• James Spargo, a 66 year old employee with the Department of Agriculture in Florida, plead no contest plea to 20 felonies child porn counts and was sentenced, February 2015, to 10 years in prison. Spargo was arrested when investigators found child sex abuse images/videos on his government computer. Most of the children in the images/videos were infants and toddlers. “The activity we uncovered here was just was just horrible,” said Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services spokesperson Erin Gillespie. “It was horrifying, it was disgusting, and we gathered all the evidence we could to make sure that this arrest was going to happen.”

Forest and Park Rangers

• Bobby Kelly, a 31 year old US Forest Ranger was sentenced to five years for more than two dozen child porn related charges.

• Derek Alan Lee, a 44 year old US Forest Service employee, was sentenced for child porn. Lee was sentenced with his 21 year old step-son Jeffrey McMillan. Their computers were found sending “several hundred files” of child sex abuse on the internet. Lee said he had been downloading child porn for ten years. At the time of his arrest his computer had 111 videos and 116 images of child sex abuse. He also had a collection of “incest stories.”

Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS)

• William Shaffer, a Child Protection Services (CPS) staff was arrested, July 2013, after he purchased nearly $7,000 of child rape and torture, aka child porn. According Shaffer’s criminal complaint “a 1987 police report alleged Shaffer sexually molested a boy between the ages of 8 and 9. The police report alleged the incident happened while Shafer was a Child Protective Services employee.” Investigators also seized “sexual stories” from Shaffer’s home. “One of them describes a seventh grade boy being abducted, molested and sodomized. It is not clear if Shaffer wrote the story — but refers to Michigan State University and 16 Mile Road. Shaffer’s residence is located just south of Maple Road.”

Air Marshals

• Michael McGowan, a 41 year old Air Marshal, was convicted for molesting three young boys, age eleven to thirteen, and child porn possession. He had 1,300 videos and images, along with fake FBI and CIA badges.

• Richard Castillo, a Houston Air Marshal, was indicted for indecency with a child after his daughter’s fourteen year old friend said he sexually assaulted her during a sleepover.

• Air Marshal Byungki Koo, who was mentioned under the Homeland Security section, received four years probation for participating in the sex trafficking of young women from Korea in Queens.

Transportation Security Agency (TSA)

• 59 year old Boston TSA agent Jose Salgado, charged with possession and distribution of child porn. As of this arrest April 2012, it was reported that a total of twelve child sex crimes in the previous sixteen months had been brought against TSA agents across America.

• Michael Wilson, 41 year old Baltimore TSA agent was indicated for child porn possession including videos “depicting a prepubescent female engaged in masturbation and anal sex with an adult male.”

• Andrew Smeal, 39 year old Florida TSA agent, was charged with twenty-five counts of child porn possession. An investigator said “…the living room was loaded with electronics, storage devices, hard drives.” I couldn’t locate information on how much child porn he had or what it was depicting; however, given he was charged with twenty-five counts, one can assume he had a large amount of child sex abuse videos and images.

• Thomas Gordon, a 46 year old TSA agent in Philadelphia, was sentenced for possession and distribution of child porn. He had over 600 images and videos of child sex abuse including children as young as six years old which were described as “horrific.” He had as many as six fake Facebook accounts he was using to distribute child porn.

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TSA hired 65 year old Thomas Harkin, a former Catholic priest who had been removed from the church for the sex abuse of an eleven year old girl, among possible other victims, to work at Philadelphia airport.

• TSA Agent, 38 year old Miguel Angel Quinones, who worked at Manchester airport in New Hampshire, was indicted on twenty counts of child porn possession. He had more than 1,000 child sex abuse images and videos. He kept his child porn in his airport work locker.

Corrections and Probation Officers

• Former West Virginia Corrections Center Officer, 35 year old Joseph Roush, plead guilty to child porn possession and distribution. He had more than 500 image of child sex abuse.

• Leon Perry Brookes, a 39 year old a Corrections Officer for Jacksonville (Florida) Sheriff’s Office was arrested for child porn possession and distribution. Among others, he had child sex abuse files called “pthc- freaky latin parents and 5yr daughter.mpg” and “video-8yr orgasm and anal fuck hard ! new ! (ptch) 2007 new girl img.

• Gerald Silva, a 59 year old Rhode Island State Probation Officer, was convicted of child porn for his $1,589 USD purchase of 22 orders of child sex abuse from Azov Film’s website, spending a total of $1,589 on 75 different videos. He was caught by USPS Inspectors and Toronto Police investigation, Project Spade.

• Stuart Forrest, 62 year old Chief Probation Officer of San Mateo County, California, was sentenced for child porn possession that included the abuse of young bound boys. He had more than 400 images and videos of child sex abuse. This case was also part of Project Spade, run by the USPS and Toronto Police.

• Supervisor of Adult Probation and Parole and Sex Offender Unit in New Mexico, Larry Franco, 56 years old, was charged two counts of fourth-degree felony sexual exploitation of a minor by possession and one count of tampering with evidence. He had originally been charged with 26 new child porn counts. He was producing child porn.

• James Leone, a 50 year old Senior Parole Official in New York who supervised officers who monitored paroled sex offenders, was arrested for child porn possession. He had been downloading child sex abuse images in online searches for “preteen hard-core” including ten or twelve year old girls being sexually abused by their parents and a brother. Leone was a Child Abuse Investigator with New York City Child Welfare Bureau before he became a parole officer.

• Barry Porter Griffith, a 45 year old Parole Officer from Flint Texas, was sentenced for child porn possession after investigators noticed “significant Internet bandwidth being used by a state-owned computer to view pornography” including child sex abuse from his office computer.

• James Kriegner, a 43 year old Corrections Officer with Mercer County, New Jersey, charged with downloading more than 100 child sex abuse images.

Media Coverage of Ryan Loskarn’s Arrest

The media coverage of late Senate staffer Ryan Loskarn’s arrest for graphic and violent child porn, including the rape of a six year old girl in the woods by her father, ignored, entirely, the children in the videos. These are real children suffering real harm. Will the six year old girl raped in the woods by her father be rescued? No one asked. No one wanted to know.

John Harwood, for example, a DC reporter for CNBC and The New York Times, tweeted “Feeling so sad about Ryan Loskarn. Knew him a bit as a reporter and liked him. RIP.” I asked Harwood about the children in Loskarn’s child porn collection. Harwood’s response was “as father of daughters I’m horrified by that violent abuse. But I knew Ryan Loskarn & yes, I am sad for him & his family.”

I responded, “I appreciate that. As the father of daughters will you focus media attention on finding the 6 yr girl in Loskarn’s video? That’s all I am asking. It’s a simple & I think appropriate request. Given #Loskarn’s final words were to the children. No?”

Harwood never replied.

Child Porn as a National Security Threat

America has a child porn crisis. The disturbing number of federal and state employees arrested for child porn charges makes this a national security issue. Over the past few years, I’ve been documenting the scope of America’s child porn industry and the apparent level of involvement by America’s national security and federal employees. Forbes, The Washington Times and others have published my research.Fox News and Canadian TV (CTV) invited me for interviews. My CTV interview went mini-viral as did my Forbes article. I was the first to ask, in 2012, if White House staff might have been involved in the Colombia Secret Service scandal.

I am now researching and writing a book: Child Porn Nation: America’s Hidden Security Threat. My starting premise is men, and increasingly women, are raping children, very young children, including infants and toddlers, and sharing videos, images, and live-streaming of this abuse at epidemic levels. These criminals are, by and large, are getting away with it because America refuses to move beyond our denial.

We are sustaining crisis-level numbers of seemingly normal, often powerful and successful men, and some women, involved in America’s child sex abuse industry; far too many of whom are federal or state employees.

It does not matter if the perpetrator is on the demand-side, with incessant appetites for graphic child abuse to achieve sexual gratification, or the supply-side of abusing children, often their own or children of friends and relatives, and selling this abuse on-line. Both supply and demand, which often cross over, have reached epidemic proportions and no one is talking about it.

My research is intended to be a wake-up call. The problem of child sex abuse and its cover-up is real. A generation of American children are being destroyed. If you think this only happens to other children, and your children are safe, you are sadly mistaken. Your children might be enduring sexual abuse right now while you remain dangerously ignorant. Ryan Loskarn’s parents never knew, until they read hissuicide note, that he had suffered sex abuse as a child.

America’s appetite for child porn puts all our children at risk. Your children and mine. Whether you acknowledge it or not.

Dr. Paul Farmer, a humanitarian and personal hero, has said we must find the words to talk about the most painful subjects if we hope to have any positive impact on this world of ours. This is my attempt to find those words and open a subject no one wants to discuss.

That is, that while no one was watching, America has become a child porn nation and that puts us all at risk.

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Dr. Lori Handrahan’s forthcoming book Child Porn Nation: America’s Hidden National Security Risk details America’s child sex abuse epidemic. Her Ph.D. is from The London School of Economics. She can be reached on Twitter @LoriHandrahan2    https://medium.com/@LoriHandrahan2/daniel-rosen-s-arrest-1f7befb1762c?source=tw-lo_b1239110f8e1-1425334105708

Do you have evidence of Child rape, torture, murder or the cover-up ?

Do you have evidence to submit to the Peoples Tribunal headed by world famous Barrister Michael Mansfield QC who Theresa May  was too afraid to put in charge of the whitewash to  come Public Inquiry into CSA.

Live Recording as Police raid Pedophile Ring Whistle-blower kids mum's home

The now notorious Hampstead Pedophile ring which includes, a school, police officers, lawyers from Cafcass, and Social Services all members of  a quasi religious sect which includes the rape of children and the murder of babies.

What do the Great British Police do they try to arrest the whistle-blowers mum and her lay advisor Sabine McNeill?  Both Ella and Sabine have been forced to flee persecution  in  the UK and are in hiding.

Live Recording of  police raid on the Whistle-blower kids home Finchley Road, Hampstead. Mother Ella  escaped out of the window and fled abroad to escape from police persecution. Police are protecting the quasi religious pedophile  ring 




You can also listen and read a transcript at  https://vid.me/mefw

The target of the raid was Ella Draper. Ella escaped the British Gestapo via a rear window and made a hazardous escape across neighboring buildings. Sabine McNeil, the prominent blogger and child abuse activist, has also fled the country following threats to her liberty. It is now expected that the authorities will issue European Arrest Warrants for the two women.

1. Why did the police seek entry to the premises on the pretense of wanting "to talk to Ella" in the first instance.

 2. It was not until later that the police started to mention they were there to arrest her. That is when they threatened to force entry.

 3. The police confirm in the recording that they did not have a warrant either to search the premises, demand enter, or to arrest Ella

 4. The complaint the Police talk about is from the Papa (who kills babies)

 The Father Ricky Dearman  currently residing in 47 Hollycroft Avenue,London, NW3 7QJ. is  the complainant, he feels harassed by being exposed as the leader of a cult that rapes kids and kills babies.   Dearman is also the owner of a company called Lighthouse Media Group Ltd  believed to be a front for the distribution of videos of child rape and torture and snuff movies. Lighthouse Media  listed address is 244 Fifth Ave New York New York a Maildrop Lighthouse Media Group Ltd industry is listed as providing Media Advertising Srvcs.

UK Police are too under resourced to arrest named pedophiles  and investigate a snuff movie criminal business but they can send  9 police officers to arrest one Russian lady because she complained that her children had been raped and tortured by a British quasi religious Pedophile Ring

Meanwhile the school at the center of the scandal 'Christchurch Elementary'  has revamped their website  and changed a lot of their staff. McDonald’s in Hampstead London  named by the children has also closed.

 Ella Draper , a Russian national, has now  fled the UK  and can seek the protection of her native Russia from the Persecution of the British State. But what will happen to Ella's beloved, tortured and desensitized little children.

Ever since notorious pedophile  and child trafficker Peter Righton, a child expert employed by the Home Office, was exposed  it has become clear that pedophiles and child traffickers  are attracted to professions where they have power over innocent children.

Listen to the children  (this video of children talking about what happened tp them has been removed by the UK police and courts to protect pedophiles )

The Whistleblower kids http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5453/video-darren-calls-on-police-to-arrest-dolphin-square-abusers