Presidio child molestation case
From CAVDEFStarting in 1986, children in the daycare center at the Presidio of San Francisco began to come forward with claims of molestation. Initially, the allegations only included daycare teacher and Baptist minister Gary Hambright, but theyquickly grew to include other unidenti
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ed perpetrators who took the children o
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-base to be abused. Some of the abusewas even said to be ritualistic in nature, with urine and feces, blood, and threats of violence. The case expanded inscope when one child accused Lt. Col. Michael Aquino, an Army intelligence o
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cer at the Presidio as well as a Satanistwho had founded the Temple of Set. After years of legal maneuvering, charges against Gary Hambright were
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led thendropped multiple times. Michael Aquino was never formally charged, but he was titled by the Army and processed out,following a CID investigation in which multiple children across Northern California implicated Aquino in molestationand ritual abuse. To this day, Aquino maintains not just that he was innocent, but that Hambright was innocent as welland no abuse took place at the Presidio. Evidence in the case, however, suggests that Aquino has been highly dishonestin his presentation of the case facts.
Contents
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3Investigation
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Extreme Prejudice
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6External links
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6.1Books
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6.2Articles and documents
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6.3Controversy over guilt
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6.4Potential leads
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6.5Similar and related cases
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6.6Other curiosities
VictimsAbusers
Only three suspects were speci
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Gary Hambright: Daycare teacher
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Michael Aquino: Army Lieutenant Colonel who lived in San Francisco and was stationed at the Presidio until 1986
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Lilith Aquino: Wife of Michael AquinoHowever, the testimony of the children reveals that many of them were taken o
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the Presidio base to be abused byother unknown perpetrators.
Investigation
Tobin allegationsCase against HambrightAquinos implicated
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CID investigation
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Aftermath
Lawsuit by AquinoEhrensaft article
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Mind control survivors
Main articles
: Paul Bonacci, Cathy O'Brien
Diana Napolis
Extreme Pr ejudice
References
1. 1987/01/26 FD-302 report from the Presidio case (printed on Michael Aquino,
Extreme Prejudice
, p.19):FD-302FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIONDate of transcription 1/26/87
CAPTAIN LARRY ADAMS-THOMPSON AND MRS MICHELE ADAMS-THOMPSON were interviewed at the ChildPsychology Clinic at Letterman Hospital. They were aware that the interview was in regard to possible cases of child molestation by a teacher at the Presidio Child Development Center.
Mrs. ADAMS-THOMPSON advised that her daughter, KINSEY, had been attending the school since spring, 1986.When she turned three in September, she was transferred to "Mr. GARY's" (GARY HAMBRIGHT) class. Kinseyattended Mr. GARY's class four times in September, 1986, and twice in October, 1986. She had always enjoyedschool, and liked Mr. GARY very much at
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rst. The second and third time she attended his class, she wet her pants,which was very unusual behavior for KINSEY. She became reluctant to go to school and would get fussy, whichMrs. ADAMS-THOMPSON said was very unusual. KINSEY would tell her mother that she did not want to go toschool because she did not like it.
On January 6, 1987, Mrs. ADAMS-THOMPSON took KINSEY to school for the
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rst time in several months andKINSEY said "I don't want to see Mr. GARY." When Mrs. ADAMS-THOMPSON asked if Mr. GARY had been mean toher or tried to touch her, KINSEY replied negatively. When told she would be having a new teacher, KINSEY agreedto go. She liked the new teacher very much and now enjoys going to school.
When questioned about behavioral changes, MRS. ADAMS-THOMPSON replied that during the fall of 1986,
KINSEY started waking up crying during the night. This was unusual and stopped shortly before Christmas. Shealso seemed to be more de
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ant and argumentative with family members. She described KINSEY as outgoing andsaid she is very comfortable with men and women and that her behavior has not altered.
Mrs. ADAMS-THOMPSON provided the following information regarding KINSEY:
Full name:
KINSEY MARIE ALMOND
Age:
Three years
Date of birth:
September 1, 1983
Address:
1431 "D" Battery Caul
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Presidio, California
Telephone number:
752-4795
Parents:
Captain LARRY ADAMS-THOMPSON,
Step-father
MICHELE ADAMS-THOMPSON,mother
Siblings:
One sister,seven years, two step-brothers,
nine and thirteen years. ________________________________________Investigation on 1/14/87 at San Francisco, CaliforniaFile #SF 70A-111158-58by SA PATRICIA J. PEYTON/lwDate dictated 1/14/872. Tim Tate,
Children for the Devil
, p.162-164 - interview with Cynthia Angell from May 1989
That January [in 1988] I became involved in a civil law suit. I represented a man who was
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ghting his ex-wife forcustody of his children -a
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ve-year-old boy and his three-year-old sister. Some time into the proceedings thechildren showed evidence that they had been sexually abused: the little girl, in particular, showed medical signsthat were consistent with an object being forced inside her vagina. She had two lacerations inside her vagina andthe paediatrician said there was no possibility of them being self-in
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icted since they would have caused extremepain.
Her brother showed strong psychological signs of a severe traumatisation, and it gradually emerged incounselling that both had been ritually abused. They started describing horrendous acts they had been forced totake part in - they had sex with animals; they described being forced to drink blood. They also talked aboutwitnessing people being killed and having their blood drained from them.
The children had been at the Presidio day-care centre, and so I began asking about the facility there. I wasvaguely aware that there had been allegations of ritual abuse at the centre, but I couldn't be sure that the abusethese children described to their therapist actually took place there.
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The kids said a man called 'Michael Keeno' was present and involved in the ceremonies they had been forced toattend. They told their mother this, and since I had made enquiries about the Presidio and come up with the nameof Michael Aquino I asked the mother to con
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rm the details.
She refused, and so I was left having to call as a witness, when the case went to trial, the person who hadreported the disclosure in the
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rst place. Simultaneously, I made formal enquiries about issuing a subpoena to getMichael Aquino in court and on the stand.
I have no way of knowing if he genuinely was involved in the abuse: I do know, however, that the children werein the Presidio day-care centre and identi
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ed someone who appeared to be him.
The case was due to go to start on 1 February 1989. The night before that
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rst hearing I got a telephone callfrom a woman who was going to be a key witness. She asked me to meet her at a restaurant on the main streethere in Red Blu
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because she had some important information for me. I agreed, got in my car and drovedowntown.
When I got to the restaurant she wasn't there, but before I could even get out of the car two men got in throughthe passenger side. One pointed a gun at my head and told me to drive out of town. I was made to drive aboutfour miles out of town and at that point I was blindfolded and put into a second car and driven somewhere else.
During the course of this kidnapping - which lasted about three hours in total - I was told that I wasinvestigating things that I shouldn't be investigating and that if I continued with it I would be killed.
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The picture was of a naked infant... its skin had been partially peeled away and the men made it clear that thechild had been killed in a satanic ritual. The tape seemed to back this up: it contained childrens' voices. .. childrencrying. . .and adults chanting.
The chanting was not articulate - I mean, I couldn't tell you what they said - but the men made it clear that thiswas a satanic ritual and that I should stop investigating satanism if I wanted to stay alive.
They also said that if I told anyone what I saw that night, or if I reported the kidnapping to the authorities, theywould surely kill me. I was terri
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ed - of course: but I felt I had to report it, and I had to carry on with the case.3.
Record Searchlight
, "Lawyer kidnap may have satanic link", 1989/02/10 (https://archive.org/download/CorruptionNetworkSatanicDrugCultMissingChildrenCOMPLETE14Gunderson/Corruption%20Network%20Satanic%20Drug%20Cult%20Missing%20Children%20COMPLETE%201-4%20Gunderson.pdf#page=40) (old link, now taken down (https://archive.org/download/tedgunderson2/Corruption_SatanicDrugCultNetworkAndMissingChildren-Vol.1-4-623_text.pdf#page=40))
Red Blu
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— A reward of $10,000 is o
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attorney at gunpoint in a child custody case that may be linked to Satanism and ritualistic abuse.
“That’s the only motive we can see,” Red Blu
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police Detective Ted Wiley said today of the Feb. 2 kidnapping of Cynthia Angell, 32.
Ms. Angell and her husband, Anthony Edwards, also an attorney, are o
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ering the reward.
The man allegedly threatened Ms. Angell’s life several times if she continued to investigate links between aTehama County child custody case and a San Francisco Bay Area children’s day school.
The man told Ms. Angell that she was investigating something that she shouldn’t and showed her a photographof a baby whose skin had been partially removed, Wiley said.
“It looked like it could have been an autopsy photo, but the man said it was a child who had been killed during asatanic ritual,” Ms. Angell told police.
Neither Ms. Angell nor Red Blu
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police Detective Ted Wiley would disclose further details of the child custodycase today.
However, Wiley said a composite drawing and description of the man who allegedly kidnapped Ms. Angellresembles a man reportedly involved in a case in which a child or doll was seen hanging from a signpost onKirkwood Road near Corning on July 29, 1987.
In that case, a man who identi
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ed himself as a police o
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cer told a concerned citizen that everything was undercontrol while another man and woman removed the child or doll from the signpost.
Police artist Marjorie Casebeer initially noticed similarities between suspects in the two cases as she wasdrawing the man Ms. Angell described.
Tehama County sheri
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's Capt. Allen Groves said today there are some dissimilarities between the two compositedrawings, but would not rule out that the two suspects could be the same man.
"That case is still de
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nitely open,” Groves said.
On Feb. 2, a Satanic holiday called Candlemass, Ms. Angell arranged to meet a potential witness at a Red Blu
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restaurant for lunch. When she arrived at the restaurant, a man she did not recognize entered her car, pulled apistol and ordered her to drive to Dairyville.
In Dairyville, Ms. Angell was blindfolded and forced Into a second car. Later the man drove her back to her carand released her.
Information regarding Ms. Angell’s abduction should be given to Red Blu
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police Detectives Wiley or RogerMarsh at 537-3131.4. Diane Ehrensaft, "PRESCHOOL CHILD SEX ABUSE: The Aftermath of the Presidio Case", 1992/04 (https://
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1580341&dopt=Citation) (PDF here (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwnI6PcRU44reWFBMGJKMFBuams))
External links
Books
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Children for the Devil: Ritual Abuse and Satanic Crime
by Tim Tate (1991) - mainly Chapter 5
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The New Satanists
by Linda Blood (1994)
Articles and documents
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Diana Napolis, "Overview of the Presidio Case and Investigations in Northern California", 1999/02/20 (http://members.napanet.net/~moiraj/wwwboard/messages/2374.html)
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"The CID taped their interviews with the children and some of them identi
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ed Aquino from a video lineup of men dressed exactly like him. Some of these children who had described ritual molest, murder andcannibalism on videotape had testi
ed against Charlotte Thrailkill and Daryl Ball during an 18-monthpreliminary hearing which ended approximately Sept. 1988 - (Case #14750-C Santa Rosa)The children said onCID videotapes that the people who hurt them were part of a "devil worship club." The parents held a newsconference describing these allegations. The psychological trauma these children experienced was describedin an article summarizing the results of the plea-bargain and sentencing of Ball/Thrailkill."
"Michael Aquino notes these are the allegations as I've framed them to be but he states there was no meritto them and the Army didn't believe them either. However, this portrayal of the Army's position is in starkcontrast to their actual stated position as described in a transcript of the hearing on the motion to dismissdated May 31, 1991. It is also a mystery as to why there is only one child listed in the alleged victim block of the report but the word "children" is used frequently throughout the documentation. The details of the Army
Argument also gives more information about the case as well as the Army Exhibit list which includes theordering information for these documents at the end of the page."
led against Michael Aquino. Some of the details of the Army-Aquinocase would not have been made public except for the fact that Aquino's lawsuit against the Army placedthese documents within the public domain, as well as the two published reports and internal documentation.But the military will not release the Report of Investigation or any of the other items shown on the exhibit listdue to the Privacy Act. Aquino disputes much of what's stated in the documents but refuses to provide anyinformation to the contrary."
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Dave McGowan, "The Pedophocracy, Part III: Uncle Sam Wants Your Children", 2001/08 (http://www.whale.to/b/pedophocracy.html#The_Pedophocracy,_Part_III:_Uncle_Sam_Wants_Your_Children__)
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What is the source for a "soundproof room" being observed? It might be from the "MEMORANDUM INSUPPORT OF DEPENDANT'S MOTION FOR JUDGMENT ON THE RECORD" in the
Aquino v. Stone
case, since itmentions "a black room with soft walls" where Aquino abused one of the victims, and soft walls aresometimes used for soundproo
by Daniel Ryder(https://www.scribd.com/document/357790224/Cover-up-of-the-Century-by-Daniel-Ryder) (a book McGowanuses but not in this part of the Pedophocracy series), citing
Objective Evil: Satanic Cults in U.S. Intelligence
byRoy Blake: "Among the more bizarre
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ndings at Aquino’s house, said Blake, was a room with all black walls,and another room that was soundproof."
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Nick Bryant, "The Presidio Case, Joseph Russoniello, and the SFPD Search Warrant on Aquino's home", 2010/02/10(http://www.franklin
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les.net/t33994166/the-presidio-case-joseph-russoniello-and-the-sfpd-search-war/) (posted onFranklin Files; archive here (http://cavdef.org/FranklinFiles/The%20Presidio%20Case,%20Joseph%20Russoniello,%20and%20the%20SFPD%20Search%20Warrant%20on%20Aquino's%20home%20-%20Franklin%20Files%20Message%20Board.html)) - mentions Joseph Russoniello and claims the case was"usurped by the U.S. Attorney"
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Contemporaneous news stories on the Presidio case - many can be found in Mae Brussell's research on Presidio(http://web.archive.org/web/20101127111710/http://www.newsmakingnews.com/mbchildabuseindex.htm), otherson Rigorous Intuition (http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?p=312323#p312323)
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Los Angeles Times
, "FBI Investigates Presidio Child Molestation Report", 1987/08/11 (http://articles.latimes.com/1987-08-11/news/mn-846_1_child-molestation)
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San Francisco Examiner
, "Presidio molest probe
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nds link to satanic sect", 1987/10/30 (pages 1b (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27610000/aquino_alibi_questionable_p1/), 6b (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27610042/aquino_alibi_questionable_p6/)): "On Aug. 14, investigators raided a house on LeavenworthStreet owned by Army Reserve Lt. Col. Michael Aquino and his wife, Lilith, according to court records releasedThursday. Police seized 36 videotapes, photographic negatives, photo albums, cassette tapes and photos of costumes, masks and stars in connection with the investigation of sexual molestation and child pornography.[...] Aquino, reached by phone at his new residence in St. Louis, told The Examiner that a police search tookplace while he was vacationing in The City last August, but he denied any allegations of molestation. [...] "Thiswhole thing is pretty traumatic for both of us," Aquino said, adding that he and his wife left San Francisco in
July 1986 two months before the alleged molestation took place at the Aquino apartment. Aquino, however,would not say how many times he had visited The City since he left the Presidio to attend a one-year coursefor Army reservists at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C." - demonstrates that Aquino'ssupposed alibi about being in Washington DC the whole time is worthless
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San Jose Mercury News
, "ABUSE INVESTIGATION TURNS TO ARMY OFFICER", 1987/10/30 (http://web.archive.org/web/20140222033651/http://truthontatelabianca.com/threads/army-o
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cer-becomes-crime-suspect-satan-worshiping-colonel-implicated-in-child.247/#post-390)
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San Jose Mercury News
, "PRESIDIO CARE CENTER FIRST TO FACE ARMY SCRUTINY", 1987/11/04
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[unknown Sacramento outlet], "BAY NAVY OFFICER BEATEN TO DEATH, BLUDGEONED IN KITCHEN ON HEAD",1987/11/05
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, "SATANIST ACCUSED OF MOLESTING GIRL; SOLDIER CALLS PROBE A WITCH HUNT",1987/11/08 (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1M3QSRlW6HSwsUCAq65AsoIBDd4J2bufK)
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San Jose Mercury News
, "ARMY OFFICER BECOMES CRIME SUSPECT SATAN-WORSHIPING COLONELIMPLICATED IN CHILD SEX ABUSE", 1987/12/13 (http://web.archive.org/web/20140222033651/http://truthontatelabianca.com/threads/army-o
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cer-becomes-crime-suspect-Satan-worshiping-colonel-implicated-in-child.247/)
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, "Presidio molestation case collapses", 1988/02/17 (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/02/17/Presidio-molestation-case-collapses/1618572072400/)
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San Francisco Examiner
, "Final charge dismissed in Presidio case", 1988/02/18 (pages 1b (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27608784/the_san_francisco_examiner/), 4b (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27608835/the_san_francisco_examiner/)): "Two weeks ago, Russoniello asked that four of the 12 chargesbe dismissed because, he said, the children involved "could not stand up to the competency test; they couldnot stand up as witnesses." Last week, Judge Schwarzer dismissed seven other charges because thegovernment was unable to state what sexual abuses Hambright supposedly committed other than the broadbut unspeci
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c accusations of "lewd and lascivious" acts. [...] Inspector Glenn Pam
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said Wednesday thatSan Francisco police still were investigating allegations involving children who attended the Presidio day-carecenter and might have been molested at locations in The City. "I've got a lot of victims I'm talking to. . . . I'vetalked to numerous kids, but I'm not prepared to go into what their statements have been and what evidenceI've got," Pam
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said. "It's an ongoing investigation.""
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San Francisco Chronicle
, "Scathing Report on Presidio Child-Care Center", 1988/03/21 - described by MaeBrussell in her show bibliography (http://www.maebrussell.com/Bibliography%20Sheets/850s1%20photo.html): "The Chronicle, via Freedom of Information, obtained Col.William J. Sha
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er's report which was completed in June 1987, and never released. "Dead Spots at nurseryschool where children-adults could hide, where some incidents of child molestation took place. GaryHambright charges dropped. Lt. Col. Michael Aquino from DIA, SEALS, ARMY RESERVES, immune from the
scandal."
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les police harassment complaint", 1988/04/14 (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27609443/the_jackson_sun/): "Michael A. Aquino, founder of the California-based satanic church and aU.S. Army lieutenant colonel, directed the legal request to the O
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ce of Citizen Complaint, asking thatintelligence division detective Sgt. Sandi Gallant and juvenile division inspector Sgt. Glen Pam
"ceasetheir abusive, harassing in vestigation" of Aquino and his wife, Lilith, a priestess in the devil worshiporganization."
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, "ABUSE CASE AT PRESIDIO QUIETLY CLOSED BY U.S.", 1988/04/19 (http://web.archive.org/web/20120520011705/http://truthontatelabianca.com/threads/abuse-case-at-presidio-quietly-closed-by-u-s.248/): "The U.S. Attorney's O
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ce apparently has quietly closed the investigation of sexual abuse at the Presidio day care center without seeking more indictments from a federal grand jury, asthe prosecutors had vowed less than two months ago. The move means that no one will have been heldresponsible for the alleged sexual abuse of more than 60 children at the center, which is run by the U.S. Armyat the Presidio of San Francisco. U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello said Monday that the case has not beenformally closed, although FBI agents involved in the case have told parents "the o
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rmed Monday that "we're waiting on something in writing."[...] Recently, however, Russoniello has said that problems had developed with the children's abilities to testifyto statements they had made earlier. His comments came after the last remaining child who was to havetesti
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ed against Hambright was removed from involvement in the case by his parents. Joyce Tobin, whose
son allegedly was abused at the center, said Monday that she and her husband, Capt. Mike Tobin, reluctantlyremoved their child from the court case on the advice of the boy's therapist. "We felt it was in his bestinterests because the prosecutors could not assure us that they could protect him from further exploitationthat might be harmful," she said. "But we know there are other children, some older than our son, aged 4,who can tell exactly what was done to them, by whom and where." Several parents of alleged victims plan toprotest closing of the case at a news conference today at the Presidio. [...] "The bottom line is that nobodylooks at a child's testimony as evidence," parent Dennis Runyan said in a recent interview. He and otherparents maintain that several children are capable of testifying what was done to them, who did it andwhere." - was Dr. Felix Polk the therapist for the Tobin boy?
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San Jose Mercury News
, "ARMY OF THE NIGHT", 1988/07/24 (http://www.outpost-of-freedom.com/
aquino01.htm)
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, "SOURCES SAY ARMY IS PROBING ABUSE CASE", 1988/12/23 (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwnI6PcRU44rY2N1U3NPd0I5Y1k) (reprinted as
cer target of sex-abuse probe"by Linda Goldston, 1988/12/25 (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27599918/aquino_cid_investigation/):pages 19a OCR (https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/106464070/))
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, "Warning: Satanists may spread AIDS" by Je
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rey Steinberg, 1989/05/12 (http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1989/eirv16n20-19890512/eirv16n20-19890512_037-warning_satanists_may_spread_aid.pdf)
"The headquarters of the Temple, Lt. Col. Aquino's Russian Hill home, was raided by the San FranciscoPolice on Aug. 14, 1987, based on allegations that the home had been the scene of a rape of a four yearold girl. In the raid, police con
scated 38 pornographic videotapes, photo negatives, and other evidencethat the house had been the hub of a pedophile ring operating in and near the base."
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"Although several of the children identi
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ed the couple as participants in the rape scenes, some of whichwere allegedly videotaped by Aquino in the bathroom of his house, and although several children hadprovided detailed descriptions of the interior of the Aquino house, the reserve o
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cer claimed that hehad been in the Washington, D.C. area for the entire year that the rapes had allegedly occurred—takinga military intelligence course at the National Defense University. Although Aquino was posted to theNDU at the time, he did retain his Russian Hill temple/home and frequently traveled back to the WestCoast, according to published accounts."
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"Aquino writes that he modeled the Temple of Set on three Weimar-era occult secret terroristorganizations that were antecedents to the Nazi Party: the Thule Society, Vehm, and Ahnenerbe."
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"One of Aquino's leading followers in the Temple of Set, Dr. Stephen E. Flowers, a professor of Germanicphilology and the history of religion at the University of Texas at Austin, has admitted to interviewersthat he is in close contact with the Republikaner Party in the Federal Republic of Germany."
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San Jose Mercury News
, "PRESIDIO CHILD ABUSE FIGURE DIES OF AIDS", 1990/01/05 (http://stopbaptistpredators.org/article/gary_hambright.html)
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San Francisco PD investigation (Case #870910025, 8114/87)
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San Francisco police search warrant for Aquino's home (http://franklinscandal.com/images/stories/michaelaquino/) (full PDF (http://web.archive.org/web/20180303170456/https://s3.amazonaws.com/
les.activeboard.com/668313?AWSAccessKeyId=1XXJBWHKN0QBQS6TGPG2&Expires=1521072000&Signature=NqqSwftv9aSEOn8Zv5E0Cr7PWak%3D))
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man, "George Bush: World Class Monster" (http://www.voxfux.com/features/bush_world_class_criminal.html), citing his article "Do What Thou Wilt, Satanism and The Temple of Set" fromSeptember-October 1995 in the
Haight Ashbury Free Press
, claims the following about a man who seems to beGlenn Pam
(also lead investigator of the Dubs family murders by Leonard Lake and Charles Ng): "Asrecently as 1995, the SFPD detective in charge, who I interviewed, was still too frightened to reveal details of the case."
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Response on 2017/10/11 to public records request #P002929-071217 (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1dXloG6C2lADJ7hTHcRpcDc6qxvMf-8P6): "Extensive research has concluded that the case for which yourequest material remains open at this time. The SFPD declines to release records pertaining to an openinvestigation under California Government Code Section 6254(f), which exempts from disclosure records of complaints to, investigations conducted by, intelligence information or security procedures of, andinvestigatory or security
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les compiled by local police agencies. Therefore, we are unable to release theinformation you request, as disclosure of case information may endanger successful completion of the
investigation."
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Follow-up on 2018/02/20 to public records request #P002929-071217 (https://drive.google.com/open?id=12121F5Ir6-Mb76IEzBJ-u5YCMja0QIEh): "The SFPD replied to your Public Records Request on October 11,2017, via Gov QA, the SFPD’s public records portal. You were noti
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ed that the case you are inquiring into isopen at this time, and that any records are exempted from release under California Government CodeSection 6254(f). On February 15, 2017, you contacted Legal Assistant, Elsa Campos, to inquire into the SFPD'sdenial to release any records to you pertaining to the "investigation of child abuse at the Presidio ChildDevelopment Center during the 1980s." Ms. Campos advised you that she must consult with her superiorsbefore providing you with any further information. Please be advised that although this case is currentlyclosed/inactive, it can potentially be reopened in the future if other victims come forward. Therefore, theSFPD cannot jeopardize any (potential) future investigation by releasing case information. During yourconversation with Ms. Campos, you also inquired into the fact that the statute of limitations for the case hasexpired, and, therefore, case information should be releasable. Please note that the statute of limitations is
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ve years from the time the sexual assault is reported to the authorities. So, for those victims that have notcome forward they still have the right to absolute privacy. Furthermore, the SFPD has ultimately determinedthat the information you requested will not be released to you, because the case you are inquiring intoinvolves the (alleged) sexual assault of juvenile victims, and information cannot be released without a courtorder"
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Federal involvement (including possible usurpation)
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From p.140 of
by Carl Raschke (1990): "Those particular charges were later dropped againstAquino and his associate. Parents of the children who were allegedly abused said it was because of strongpressure from the army on the federal investigators and the San Francisco police. Prosecutors blamed thewell-known di
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rst place. Just before this book went to press,however, authoritative sources within the military, who requested anonymity, reported that anotherinvestigation of Aquino had been opened by civilian law enforcement in California."
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From p.155 of
Painted Black
by Carl Raschke (1990): "Twenty-two families
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led $66 million in personal injuryclaims against the army in connection with the Presidio case. Although charges against Aquino weredismissed, Gary Hambright who was arraigned in the case, pleaded innocent and suggested he might betaking the rap for others possibly involved in the alleged molestations. After long legal maneuvering andbickering between army and federal investigators and the San Francisco police, the case against Hambrightwas shelved as well."
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Army CID investigation
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1989/03/15 interview with a child victim
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Alex Constantine, "Satanism and Ritual Abuse - Case-by-Case Documentation", 2007/07/16 (http://alexconstantine.blogspot.com/2007/07/satanism-and-ritual-abuse-case-by-case.html) - has DianaNapolis write about the CID investigation
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Alex Constantine, "Satanist Michael Aquino at the Presidio", 2008/09/29 (http://aconstantineblacklist.blogspot.com/2008/09/satanist-michael-aquino-at-presidio.html) - mention of theMarch 15, 1989 interview by Diana Napolis, with a PDF link that is dead
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2008 Franklin Files post that has excerpts of the CID interview transcript (http://www.franklin
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les.net/t16885175/what-we-know-about-col-m-aquino/)
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U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command, report no. 0610-88-CID026-69259-5K3/6F3/6E2/6A1/5M2/5Y2/DIMIS (https://cdn.muckrock.com/foia_
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les/2019/04/26/4-18-19_MR24402_RES.pdf) - on p.8 it is said that aformer Temple of Set member recalled Aquino mentioning a ritual chamber in the apartment at 2420Leavenworth Street; on p.32 it mentions how Aquino used letters from General William Westmoreland andSenator George McGovern to defend himself from 1972 controversy over his involvement in the Church of Satan; on p.42, it is noted that Aquino claimed in a letter to the Army that he had never come across anycontemporary account of a Christian priest conducting a black mass, despite there being such an account ina book on the Church of Satan that Aquino himself wrote; on p.47 the report notes that Aquino's residencecontained four apartments, including one that his Temple of Set leader brother-in-law, yet only the top
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atwas searched by the SFPD, and the apartment that was searched by the SFPD had been repainted between June 1986 and January 1987; on p.71 it is stated that when asked about the colors of his home's interior priorto the SFPD search, Aquino refused to answer on advice of counsel; it is also noted that despite heading toWashington DC at the end of July 1986 to begin classes at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, he not
only admitted being back in San Francisco from September 19-21 and December 20-January 4, but had callsfrom his residence on August 23, August 26, September 4, and December 8; on p.84 are the notes of aninterview with Anton LaVey; on p.88-89 are the notes of interviews with Linda Blood; on p.89-90 are the notesof interviews with Cynthia Angell; on p.90-91 are the notes of an interview with the former Temple of Setmember who mentioned rumors of Aquino being excited by sadomasochistic sexual activity and claimed tohave been told about a ritual chamber in his apartment; also notes that year I in Temple of Set literaturerefers to 1966; on p.91 are the notes of an interview with somebody who visited the Aquinos' property inApril or May 1986 "in his o
cial capacity" and recalled that the front room had walls "of a dark color, possiblyblack"; on p.91 are the notes of an interview with someone who installed a security system at the Aquinos'property sometime "in early 1986", and recalled "a padded room on the upper level" and "dark rooms"; onp.114 it mentions the CID being contacted by a detective from the Mendocino County Sheri
ed Aquino, and noted that the prime
suspect in their investigation lived near where Aquino was currently assigned; it is pointed out that thisprime suspect was a former US Navy member; on p.114 it mentions a probation o
cer at the VerdemontBoys Ranch in San Bernardino County CA reporting that one of her probationers claimed his brother wasinvolved with the Temple of Set in the Lake Arrowhead CA, and that two suspects in a kidnapping/rape trial inthe area may have been linked to the group; on p.124-125 the entire section about whether Aquino had
contact with other suspects or victims mentioned in the report is completely redacted
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Documents from Aquino's lawsuit (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, no. 90-1547-A:
Michael A. AQUINO v. Michael P.W. STONE, Secretary of the Army
) where he tried to get the Presidio case out of hisArmy record
Memorandum in support of the defendant's motion for judgment on the record (http://www.outpost-of-freedom.com/aquino02.htm)
Hearing on motions, 1991/05/31 (http://www.napanet.net/~moiraj/wwwboard/messages/2455.html) (PDFcopy of court document (http://web.archive.org/web/20100120005341/http://members.cox.net:80/dnap/transcript.pdf))
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Appeal ruling, 1992/02/26 (http://web.archive.org/web/20120427230726/http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/957/957.F2d.139.91-1164.html)
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Diane Ehrensaft, "PRESCHOOL CHILD SEX ABUSE: The Aftermath of the Presidio Case", 1992/04 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1580341&dopt=Citation) (PDF here (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwnI6PcRU44reWFBMGJKMFBuams))
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Christopher Cooke claims in 2007 that he was a lawyer for a Presidio victim and the abuse was substantiated(http://volokh.com/posts/1182198907.shtml#233269)
Controversy over guilt
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Diana Napolis online debates
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ElectriCiti page on the 1997 lawsuit by Aquino (http://web.archive.org/web/20010429005133/http://www5.electriciti.com:80/curious/): early emails from Aquino and John Price to identify Curio (http://web.archive.org/web/20010504033332/http://www5.electriciti.com:80/curious/emailtrail.html), Aquinolawsuit
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ling (http://web.archive.org/web/20010430065425/http://www5.electriciti.com:80/curious/lawsuit.html), ElectriCiti response (http://web.archive.org/web/20010504031751/http://www5.electriciti.com:80/curious/answer/index.html), Curio response on May 8 (http://web.archive.org/web/20010504032248/http://www5.electriciti.com:80/curious/curio_speaks.html), explanation of howStephanie Rothman was dragged into it (http://web.archive.org/web/20010504033314/http://www5.electriciti.com:80/curious/hypno.html), part 3 of Netmag "SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL" (http://web.archive.org/web/20000531123421/http://www.netmag.co.uk:80/features/35devil/part3.asp)
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Wired
, "Satanists' Suit Against ISP Dismissed", 1997/10/01 (http://web.archive.org/web/20000303171626/http://www.wired.com:80/news/news/story/7361.html)
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San Diego grand jury and Karen Hopkins controversy: response to 1998/08/20
San Diego Reader
article by TimBrookes (http://web.archive.org/web/19991011015242/http://www.geocities.com:80/CapitolHill/Senate/7736/rder.html), Dr. Constance J. Dalenberg, "Another Missile In The Memory War", 1998/09/03 (http://web.archive.org/web/20000419235025/http://www.geocities.com:80/CapitolHill/Senate/7736/dahl.html),"Carol Hopkins and the Justice Committee" (http://web.archive.org/web/19991010234209/http://
www.geocities.com:80/CapitolHill/Senate/7736/hopkins.html)
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Christopher Barden accusations in October 1998: "Christopher Barden's SLAPP Lawsuit Threats" (http://web.archive.org/web/20000116124328/http://www.geocities.com:80/CapitolHill/Senate/7736/barden.html),initial email from R. Christopher Barden (http://web.archive.org/web/20000409233015/http://www.geocities.com:80/CapitolHill/Senate/7736/bardemail.html), Karen Jones response (http://web.archive.org/web/20000410070859/http://www.geocities.com:80/CapitolHill/Senate/7736/krsponse.html),Barden reply and threat (http://web.archive.org/web/20000410005650/http://www.geocities.com:80/CapitolHill/Senate/7736/barden2.html), 1998 version of the FMSF website listing Barden as a legal analyst(http://web.archive.org/web/19981202203002/http://www.fmsfonline.org:80/), David Calof on Barden (http://web.archive.org/web/20000410024726/http://www.geocities.com:80/CapitolHill/Senate/7736/calofb.html),1999/02/17 accusation by Karen Jones of others posting under her name (http://www.napanet.net/~moiraj/wwwboard/messages/2335.html), 1999/02/21 threat against Jones for what somebody else posted (http://www.napanet.net/~moiraj/wwwboard/messages/2395.html)
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Diana Napolis, "Aquino v. ElectriCiti - Harassment by Dr. Michael Aquino from the Temple of Set and hisInternet Censorship", 2000/02/18 (http://web.archive.org/web/20000304120804/http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/7736/aq.html) (Army argument (http://web.archive.org/web/20000521224242/http://www.geocities.com:80/CapitolHill/Senate/7736/armyarg.html), 1991/05/31 hearing on motions (http://web.archive.org/web/20000530213519/http://home.beseen.com:80/professionals/katyj12/trans.html), JohnM. Price tries to identify a photo of someone else as Curio (http://web.archive.org/web/20040607040829/
http://x34.deja.com/%5BST_rn=ps%5D/getdoc.xp?AN=224864592&CONTEXT=928718767.354877465&hitnum=6), John M. Price defends pedophilia from ananthropological perspective and uses the name "Curidiot" (http://web.archive.org/web/20040607041614/http://x30.deja.com/%5BST_rn=ps%5D/getdoc.xp?AN=224476758&search=thread&CONTEXT=928720376.1190985768&HIT_CONTEXT=928720180.1190068291&HIT_NUM=209&hitnum=6), "Dr. Nancy Alvarado from UCSD and sci.psychology.psychotherapy" (http://web.archive.org/web/20000309174157/http://home.beseen.com:80/professionals/katyj12/nancy1.html),Wendy J. Murphy, "Debunking "false memory" myths in sexual abuse cases", 1997/11 (http://web.archive.org/
web/19990427211247/http://idealist.com:80/facts/murphy.shtml), Lorne D. Gilsig mocking Curio in 1997/10(http://web.archive.org/web/20040607042935/http://x45.deja.com/%5BST_rn=ps%5D/getdoc.xp?AN=282512824&CONTEXT=934166195.1427898537&hitnum=0), William Scott Scherk attempt to identify
Curio (http://web.archive.org/web/20040607052533/http://x31.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=457492384&CONTEXT=940714345.744292372&hitnum=3), "The Frugal Pervert" by Tanith Tyrr (http://web.archive.org/web/19990224001937/http://www.cu
s.com/submission/pervert.html), Professor Lee Lady(of Hawaii) page (http://web.archive.org/web/20010404083841/http://www2.hawaii.edu:80/~lady/), emailchain on Lee Lady website referring to the "Stephanie Rothman [Curio] nonsense" (http://web.archive.org/web/20000305142708/http://www2.hawaii.edu:80/~lady/ramblings/jupiter.html), post of Temple of Setmaterial on a Wicca board (http://web.archive.org/web/20000519212252/http://x34.deja.com:80/getdoc.xp?AN=533647604.5&CONTEXT=939326879.1250820204&hitnum=0))
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, "The Michael Aquino Files", 2000/09/21 (http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?noframes;read=4435) - mentions Case #14750-C in Santa Rosa CA involving Charlotte Thrailkill and Daryl Ball,whose victims later testi
ed on videotape against Michael Aquino; says it's a mystery "as to why there is onlyone child listed in the alleged victim block of the report but the word "children" is used frequently throughoutthe documentation"; points out that Charlotte Thrailkill was named the
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Diana Napolis, "Ritual Abuse Victims Advocate Responds to Defamatory Article in the San Diego Union-Tribune", 2001/01/01 (http://www.konf ormist.com/2002/curio-tribune2.htm)
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Ellen Lacter, "Problems for Victims of Ritual Abuse in San Diego, California", 2000/09/29 (http://www.konformist.com/2002/curio-tribune3.htm)
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alt.conspiracy thread in 2001 by Alex Constantine calling Aquino the "Kook of the Year" (https://
groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.conspiracy/9VC5TzcoIfE/Ea867XXYkq4J) (cites alt.satanism thread from1998 with Aquino's personal information (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.satanism/zC3dzvymX6U/Mc3Tmcc2EnAJ)) - discusses Aquino's belief that he was created in a ritual by Jack Parsons andL. Ron Hubbard, which turned out to be anal sex (after which he backed o
ff
from his belief); includes
testimony of victims of Daryl Ball and Charlotte Thrailkill, and also mentions Tony Carpino (a possible suspectfor "Tony" in the Gosch abduction?); one 1998 poster makes fun of Aquino's relationship with Linda Blood
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2008 Franklin Files thread on the Diana Napolis lawsuit (http://www.franklin
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les.net/t19679671/diana-napolis-vs-michael-aquino/)
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Potential exculpatory evidence for Aquino
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Michael A. Aquino, "Corrections to Passages Concerning Michael Aquino and the Temple of Set in The NewSatanists by Linda Blood", 1995/02/02 (http://www.balanone.info/bloodbk.html) - attacks Linda Blood'swritings about him and Presidio
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Calgary Herald
, "DEVIL'S DISCIPLES", 1987/03/07 (pages 1e (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27608432/calgary_herald/), 2e (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27608275/calgary_herald/)): "
TheTemple of Set
: founded in San Francisco in 1975 by former Church of Satan "member Dr. MichaelAquino, the Temple of Set has a membership of no more than 100 in Canada and the United States, ex-temple member Linda Blood told the Herald. [...] The Temple of Set is led by a small elite priesthoodcalling itself The Order of the Trapezoid. The group — whose members claim they can communicatewith the ancient Egyptian devil-god Set — are fond of rituals once employed by Nazi SS troops, Bloodsaid from her Boston home. "Aquino is obsessed with respectability. He wants to be taken seriously,"says Blood, now an occult expert with Chicago's Cult Awareness Network. "Both the Church of Satanand the Temple of Set keep away from any kind of illegal activity for the same reason: they know that'sthe only way to survive." [has a rare photograph of Linda Blood]"
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San Francisco Examiner
, "S.F. temple, couple in 'New Satanists' sue author for libel", 1994/10/29 (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27607973/linda_blood_sued/): "But the suit claims that the book libels theAquinos and the church by falsely: Implying that the Aquinos were responsible for the late 1980skidnapping of a Bay Area lawyer who was representing a child who had allegedly been molested at thePresidio's day care center. [...] Reporting that Michael Aquino was forced out of the Army in disgrace in1990 when he actually voluntarily retired with honors in 1994."
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Supreme Court of Texas, no. 04-06-00497-CV:
Peter J. Parenti v. Kinsey Moberg
, memorandum opinion,2007/05/30 (http://law.justia.com/cases/texas/fourth-court-of-appeals/2007/20222.html) - reveals that Kinsey,the
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p.10: It's falsely asserted that Joyce Tobin, the mother of the
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rst victim to come forward, changed her story.Aquino writes that Tobin told the
San Jose Mercury News
in 1988 that her son reported his molestation by GaryHambright as soon as he got out of daycare, rather than later that night as she initially claimed. Yet the
San Jose Mercury News
article in question ("Army of the Night"), which Aquino does reference as a footnote in hisbook, shows Tobin maintaining as before that her son reported the molestation at night.
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p.13-14: Chlamydia being found among several Presidio victims is disputed because the Army medical centerused the wrong culture, only doing a preliminary screening rather than conclusive follow-up testing, butAquino never questions why the Army so egregiously mishandled the evidence
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p.15: It is pointed out that although Hambright died of AIDS none of the children were found to havecontracted HIV/AIDS, but most if not all all of the abuse attributed to Hambright was described as oralcopulation, digital penetration, or molestation
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p.17: The allegations against Hambright are designated as a witch hunt started by Satanic ritual abuseadherents, ignoring that Hambright was a Baptist minister
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p.19-20: An FBI document is misrepresented to imply that Kinsey Adams-Thompson fabricated or was fed herlater accounts of abuse by Hambright. Aquino cites an FBI document stating that Kinsey was upset byHambright and didn't want to come to school, though she denied at the time being improperly touched by
him. Aquino ignores her apprehension towards Hambright, never considering why she felt that way abouthim, and
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ed Aquino's homeas the one where Hambright had driven her to be abused. Aquino cites an FBI document which quite clearlystates that Kinsey was brought to Aquino's neighborhood to identify his house and became visibly scaredimmediately upon approaching it. Then Aquino claims that this didn't constitute an identi
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Potential leads
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The lock-up garage a block from Aquino's home where he allegedly parked his car: is that detail accurate and didKinsey ever tell it to investigators?
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Obtain a copy of the Army CID investigative records
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Part of the interview uploaded by Diana Napolis but now unavailable was excerpted on Franklin Files
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Red Blu
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CA kidnapping of Cynthia Angell
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On 2018/03/08, the Red Blu
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Police Department con
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rmed that records on the kidnapping exist but withheldthem (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZDbjMm5YMfzKVC1VWLdMq_RxdDXbEvH2)
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Interview Christopher Cooke and/or con
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Dr. Felix Polk, the psychologist for Joyce Tobin, was later murdered by his wife Susan and accused of being anabusive husband who
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Je
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Wells, "Shadows and Fog", 2005/10/20 (http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/10/shadows-and-fog.html)
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2006/05/01 Rigorous Intuition thread citing articles by Virginia McCullough (http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=5038)
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Je
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Wells, "The Clown at Midnight", 2006/09/06 (http://rigint.blogspot.com/2006/09/clown-at-midnight.html)
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2006/09/11 Rigorous Intuition thread citing various news articles: pages 1 (http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=5088), 2 (http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=5088&start=15)
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Seth Allen, "Susan Polk Was Innocent Of Murder", 2010/09/02 (http://davefromqueens2.blogspot.com/2010/02/susan-polk-was-innocent-of-murder.html)
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Michael Corbin, ParaNet
Continuum
radio show #94: interview with R. Roy Blake, 1996/01/28 (https://archive.org/details/ParanetContinuumShow94) (MP3 link (https://archive.org/download/ParanetContinuumShow94/Paranet_Continuum_show_94.mp3))
Similar and related cases
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The Battle and the Backlash: The Child Sexual Abuse War
by David Hechler (1988)
Dave McGowan, "The Pedophocracy, Part III: Uncle Sam Wants Your Children", 2001/08 (http://www.whale.to/b/pedophocracy.html#The_Pedophocracy,_Part_III:_Uncle_Sam_Wants_Your_Children__)
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Contemporaneous news articles
, "Army Doctor Turns Down Promotion; Lax Response to Case of Child Abuse Cited",1985/06/25 (see here (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/11/1/404584/-))
, "$2.7 Million Settles Army Child-Abuse Case", 1991/05/23 (see here (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/11/1/404584/-))
(Middletown NY), "A Legacy of Pain: Settlement Doesn't Ease Abused Children's
Fears", 1991/06/11 (see here (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/11/1/404584/-))
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Some of what they had uncovered seemed to be corroborated when they read in the paper that thechief of military intelligence at West Point was arrested in nearby Highland Falls in September 1984 forasking a 10-year-old boy and 14-year-old girl if he could take nude pictures of them.21 According to a1986 investigation conducted by the Army's inspector general, in response to a letter Gray wroteaccusing the Army of covering up child abuse, "the incident was alcohol related," and following theo
cer's successful completion of an alcohol rehabilitation program, all charges were dismissed.Furthermore, the report said, the FBI investigated his possible involvement with the child abuse case,but "no connection was ever established, and the o
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cer was never determined be a 'prime suspect.'"22
What particularly interested the Grays at the time, though, was a rumor that the man frequented thesame bars as the day care teachers the children had named.
Walt decided to contact the man directly. It was a gambit inspired by frustration and should not beseen as a model for others in his situation. At best it was potentially dangerous to himself and the
investigation. He called the man, told him that he believed children had been photographed naked bychild care workers, and said that he wanted to talk to him. The Grays had come to believe that the onlyway the case would ever be broken was if someone confessed.
The man agreed, and they met in a restaurant. Donna and Mary were watching from a distance.If theman did not confess, the Grays were hoping that at least Donna would recognize him. That partworked, the Grays said. "He's not hurting Daddy! He's not hurting Daddy!" Mary said her daughterexclaimed. "He said he'd hurt Daddy!" It was a turning point in the child's recovery, her parents said. Itwas clear to them now that she had been threatened, and she could see for herself that they were allsafe.
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Times Herald Record
(Middletown NY), "Army o
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cer charged with endangering child", 1984/09/25(https://i.imgur.com/epYbFhB.jpg): "An Army o
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cer stationed at the U.S. Military Academy was arrestedSept. 11 on a misdemeanor charge of endangering the welfare of a child after he allegedly asked twolocal children to pose in the nude. According to documents
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led in the Town of Highlands Court, theincident occurred about 9:50 p.m. on Aug. 23 in a "secluded area o
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ed as Capt. Patrick Burke, allegedly asked a 10-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl to lie down ona blanket while he took pictures of them. According to the court documents, Burke then asked them totake o
ff
their clothes so that he could take more pictures. There is nothing in the court records tosuggest that the two complied. Burke, 39, lives at 3022A Lamb Place, West Point. According to Maj. AlexMondragon, a West Point spokesman, Burke was a sta
cer in the Directorate of Operations at theacademy. Mondragon said Burke is in the hospital. The case against Burke was adjourned onWednesday until Oct. 17. The adjournment was granted at the request of Burke's attorney. Ned Kopald,Orange County's chief assistant district attorney, said he believes Burke is undergoing treatment in analcoholic rehabilitation program, and that the court case will resume following his release. HighlandFalls Police Chief William E. Stone, whose agency arrested Burke, refused to give out any details of theincident except to say that someone had been arrested and that the case was on
le in Town of Highlands Court."
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Possible connection to NAMBLA
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Testimony of California congressman William E. Dannemeyer on 1990/03/05 (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1990-pt3/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1990-pt3-2-3.pdf): "Pam
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reports that many butnot all child molesters belong to a group called NAMBLA, North American Man-Boy Love Association,which has about 125 members in California and 600 worldwide. The group was founded about 12 yearsago, and men with close ties to the group have been arrested in Sacramento, San Francisco, Boston andthe U.S. Military Academy at West Point."
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San Francisco Chronicle
, "Satanism Linked To Scores of U.S. Child Abuse Cases", 1987/11/05 (http://childabusedata.blogspot.com/2009/05/satanism-linked-to-scores-of-us-child.html)
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Mendocino County (Ukiah, Fort Bragg) and Sonoma County (Santa Rosa) child molestation cases - allegedly involveAquino
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Interesting to note that Ukiah was also the location of the Peoples Temple
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San Jose Mercury News
, "SATANIC PRIEST QUESTIONED IN NEW SEX CASE", 1989/05/13 (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwnI6PcRU44rdXMydFFJalN2eDg): "Lt. Col. Michael Aquino, a satanic priest whowas investigated in connection with the sexual abuse of children at the U.S. Army's Presidio of San Francisco,has been questioned about the abuse of at least
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ve children in Sonoma and Mendocino counties. [...] In thenew investigation, police in Ukiah already had been looking into the ritual abuse of two boys and a girl whenthe children accused Aquino of being involved, parents and police said. Aquino also was accused of molestations in Santa Rosa and Fort Bragg. "Basically, we have a multi-jurisdictional investigation" of Aquinoand others, said Ukiah Police Chief Fred Keplinger. Keplinger said that his department is working with theArmy's Criminal Investigation Division. [...] Keplinger declined to discuss the details of the investigation butsaid, "the children are believable. I have no doubt in my mind that something has occurred. It's just beingable to prove who the perpetrators are." Army investigators recently videotaped the children's stories.O
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cials would not discuss their investigation. [...] The Army broadened its investigation to Sonoma andMendocino counties after children there recognized Aquino during television and newspaper coverage of him and the Presidio case. One of the children, a boy, was watching a television program about the case withhis mother when he recognized Aquino, his mother said. "He just grabbed the rocking chair and hung on real
tight," she said. "His eyes got huge and he said, 'Mommy, that's the man from the church in Fort Bragg.' "Allegations of ritual abuse erupted in Fort Bragg in Mendocino County in 1985 when several children at the Jubilation Day Care Center said they were sexually abused by a number of people at the day care center andat several locations away from the center, including at least two churches."
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Ukiah Daily Journal
, "Satanic cult fears rekindled", 1989/05/15 (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27605302/ukiah_daily_journal/) (pages 12a (https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/2063546/))
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Press Democrat
, "Satanic chief tied to Mendocino sex abuse", 1989/05/15 (pages 1 (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27605676/aquino_tied_mendocino_p1/), 8 (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27605707/aquino_tied_mendocino_p8/))
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Press Democrat
, "Ukiah pair keep molest case alive", 1989/05/16 (pages 1b (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14089807/withrow_aquino_link/), 3b (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14089904/greg_withrow_aquino_link_part_2/))
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San Jose Mercury News
, "Mendocino County cops, parents seek help in child abuse probe", 1989/05/17 (http://web.archive.org/web/20100120010357/http://members.cox.net:80/wordpress/hartnetnews.pdf)
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Anderson Valley Advertiser
, "The Great Fort Bragg Witch Hunt", 2002/05/23 (https://www.theava.com/archives/70409)
Other curiosities
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SFGate
, "Mysterious predator haunts rural judge / Jurist
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nds dog poisoned, arson
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res at home", 2001/09/02(https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Mysterious-predator-haunts-rural-judge-Jurist-2881479.php) - targeting of Cynthia Angell and her (now-former) husband Anthony EdwardsRetrieved from "http://cavdef.org/w/index.php?title=Presidio_child_molestation_case&oldid=11644"Category: Human tra
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