#ChildAbuse

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People (8)

Adam Starchild President of the Church of the New Revelation and Ocean Living Institute, incorporator of Brother Paul's Children's Mission, and founder of the Virgin Islands trust company that held Francis Shelden's fortune.
Claudius Vermilye Former Episcopal rector of Alto, Tennessee, who founded Boys Farm, Inc., in 1971 for wayward boys sent by state agencies and was convicted in June 1977 of crimes against nature.
Gerald Richards Port Huron teacher and organizer of Brother Paul's Children's Mission on North Fox Island, arrested in 1976 and sentenced to two to ten years, who testified to the Senate in 1977.
Hugh Mellor Brighton, Massachusetts, realtor, owner and president of a real estate holding company, arrested at Louisiana's request and charged in the Troop 137 case.
Paul Bonacci Paul Bonacci was the principal claimant in the Franklin Credit Union abuse allegations, alleging Lawrence King Jr. transported him to Washington D.C. for abuse at Craig Spence-arranged parties from approximately 1981, and won a 1999 federal civil default judgment of $1 million against King.
Raymond Woodall Former Adelphi Academies maintenance man who organized New Orleans Boy Scout Troop 137 with Richard Halvorsen in 1974; arrested in September 1976 and convicted by May 1977.
Richard C. Jacobs Massachusetts industrialist, president of Jet Spray Corporation and a former part owner of the New England Patriots, charged in the Troop 137 case in 1976, who forfeited a 50,000-dollar bond to avoid trial in Louisiana.
Richard Halvorsen Former Adelphi Academies maintenance man and New Orleans volunteer probation officer who organized Boy Scout Troop 137 in 1974 with Raymond Woodall; arrested in September 1976 and convicted by May 1977.

Organizations (1)

Bell Boys Bell Boys was a Dutch callboy service operated by Karel Maasdam under the alias 'Alex Privee' that supplied minors to clients in the Netherlands and internationally; it appears in this vault as a central node of the organized Dutch pedophile network investigated under the Rolodex Investigation, with connections to the Belgian-Dutch child abuse network examined in the Marc Dutroux X-Dossier inquiry.

Places (5)

Festival Bar The Festival Bar was an Amsterdam establishment operating as a boy brothel that was identified in Dutch pedophile network investigations of the 1990s as a venue frequented by Karel Maasdam and members of the broader Dutch-Belgian child abuse network; it appears in this vault through its documentation in the Rolodex Investigation and the testimony of witnesses connected to the Marc Dutroux affair.
Pasadena, Texas Pasadena is a city immediately southeast of Houston, Texas that appears in this vault as a location central to the Dean Corll serial murder case (1970-1973), in which Corll, David Owen Brooks, and Elmer Wayne Henley abducted, tortured, and murdered at least 28 young males in the Houston metropolitan area; multiple victims and accomplices in the case were Pasadena residents.
Stoke Lodge Australian High Commissioner's residence in Kensington, London, relevant to UK historical child abuse investigations because 15-year-old Martin Allen disappeared in November 1979 after last being seen near the property.
Walton Hop Disco Underage nightclub in Walton-on-Thames that served as a procurement center for a suspected BBC celebrity pedophile ring during the 1970s and 1980s.
Zandvoort Zandvoort is a Dutch North Sea coastal resort town that came to prominence in vault-related investigations as the location of the Apollo Bulletin Board Service, a child pornography distribution network whose archives were discovered in 1998 and contained evidence of a large-scale international child abuse production and distribution operation with connections to the broader Belgian-Dutch pedophile network investigated in connection with the Dutroux affair.