The Plaza Hotel 18 August 1992: I am greatly saddened … [by] allegations instigated by her of child abuse on my part. Allen v Farrow I, Woody’s press conference, Sky Documentaries 2021
For the longest time I’ve been trying to set the record straight. ibid. Dylan Farrow
That’s the great regret of my life that I wasn’t perceptive enough. It’s my fault. I brought this guy into our family. You know, there’s nothing I can do to take that away. ibid. Mia
I had seven children and he didn’t want to meet them at all. ibid. Mia
Sometimes there’s a murder or mystery or something but it’s basically always an older guy trying to deal with this younger woman and him dealing with that. Allen v Farrow II, Richard Morgan, journalist, or unused film scripts
Both Allen’s doorman and the building manager testified in court to having seen Soon-Yi visit Allen many times during her senior year of high school and first year of college … Several months after Soon-Yi graduated high school, Mia discovered explicit photos of her in Allen’s apartment. ibid. caption
The private lives of Woody Allen and the Farrow family would become very public in August of 1992. A series of investigations and law-suits followed which generated tens of thousands of court and police documents most of which were never made public. Allen v Farrow III
‘Mr Allen’s behaviour toward Dylan was grossly inappropriate and that measures must be taken to protect her.’ ibid. trial judge
Woody Allen denies ever having been sexually inappropriate or abusive with Dylan and was never criminally charged. ibid. caption
How would you know? So I never brought them home. Allen v Farrow IV, re further boyfriends
It’s a dirty secret but it’s also a hidden secret deep inside you. Football’s Darkest Secret I: The End of Silence, Andy Woodward victim, BBC 2021
I just had to pretend it never happened and block it out. I knew it could never come out and I was absolutely petrified. ibid. Steve Walters, Guardian article
The sex abuse scandal in football continues to snowball as more former players come forward and more offenders are named. ibid. BBC news
The inquiry into child sex abuse in football has broadened in scope beyond what anyone could have imagined. Football’s Darkest Secret II: Missed Opportunities, BBC news
So why have the English FA never offered guidance to clubs on preventing child abuse or made any checks on those coaching? ibid.
A former football coach who molested young boys has been jailed for six years. George Ormond of Wickham View in Newcastle carried out the attacks over a period of twenty-five years. Football’s Darkest Secret III: The Reckoning, local news
Bob Higgins was found guilty at retrial of 45 counts of sexual abuse against 24 boys. He was sentenced to 24 years in jail. ibid. caption
Barry Bennell was found guilty of 50 counts of sexual abuse against 12 boys. He was sentenced to 30 years in jail. In October 2020 he was sentenced to an additional four years in jail for offences against two boys. ibid.
Follow our journey to a hidden world where outsiders are the enemy, loved ones are banished, families are torn apart, and one man – the prophet Warren Jeffs, still calls all the shot even while locked up for life. 20/20 Breaking Polygamy: Secrets of the Sect, ABC 2012
But behind the facade of normalcy is something you can’t see: every aspect of this family’s life, who they marry, what they wear, even what they eat, is controlled by the man they call the prophet Warren Jeffs. ibid.
Jeffs had over 80 wives, but he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the assault of under-age girls. ibid.
It started with an order to destroy all the children’s toys … You cannot eat corn … No sex between husband and wife … He selected fifteen men to father all the children in the community. ibid.
They were taught that Warren Jeffs is the president of the United States. ibid.
They put in long hours, often seven days a week, with no pay. ibid.
Plural marriage is what Joseph Smith called ‘the most holy and most important doctrine revealed to any man on Earth.’ Each Mormon males would need at least three wives to reach that Celestial kingdom. Prophet’s Prey, Sundance 2015
In 1986 A single family, the Jeffs family, gained control of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. ibid.
All worldly media has been banned by the prophet Warren Jeffs. ibid.
‘You need to be perfectly obedient to all of your teachers and your father.’ ibid. Warren Jeffs’ nephew
‘Behind closed doors he is a predator; he is abusing these kids.’ ibid. victim
‘Soon a day of judgment will be upon us.’ ibid. Warren’s 2000 prediction
Being married at 16 [to the prophet] took away my entire life.’ ibid. victim
‘He started casting out anybody that he felt was a threat to the power of his authority.’ ibid.
‘People finally getting enough courage to go after him.’ ibid.
‘I have been a liar. And the truth is not in me.’ ibid. Jeffs’ temporary confession upon incarceration, later recanted
Q: Do you feel any remorse for what you’ve done?
Jeffs: Fifth amendment. ibid.
Polygamous Sect and Child Labor. ibid. CNN report
An estimated 10,000 FDLS members under the control of Warren Jeffs. ibid.
The State of Texas vs Warren S Jeffs July 2011: ‘The trial of Warren Jeffs was as bizarre as anything I have ever seen.’ Warren Jeffs: Prophet of Evil, Mike Watkiss, reporter, CI 2018
‘Warren Jeffs is a monster.’ ibid. critic
His crime: the sexual assault of two minors. Some allege the number is much higher. Yet he remains the Prophet of his devoted followers. Warren has an estimated 78 wives. ibid. captions
Polygamy has been practised by Fundamentalist Mormons for generations. ibid.
‘Warren Jeffs was absolutely abusing children from the get-go.’ ibid. victim
‘I was eight years old when he started his abuse … He couldn’t help himself.’ ibid. victim daughter
‘Keep Sweet mask – look at the eyes though.’ ibid. Flora Jessop
‘This guy is a conniving rat who seized power.’ ibid. Watkiss
‘Anyone who stood in his way he eliminated.’ ibid. victim
In March 2005 the State of Arizona convenes a grand jury to investigate the FLDS and Warren Jeffs. ibid.
‘Warren established a very effective social architecture to deal with getting rid of the boys.’ ibid. Watkiss
‘I have been the most wicked man.’ ibid. Jeffs’ temporary bout of conscience, later recanted
‘The 55-year-old Jeffs will be eligible for parole in 35 years. Jeffs’ led a radical offshoot of the Mormon church; his 10,000 followers see him as God’s spokesman on Earth.’ Cults and Extreme Belief s1e2: FLDS, news report
As part of the media firestorm that followed Warren Jeffs’ conviction, several other victims have come forward with abuse allegations. ibid. caption
Jeffs has also been publicly accused of rape by two of his own children. ibid.
‘If the world knew what I was doing, they would hang me from the highest tree.’ ibid. Jeffs’ diary entry 25 January 2004
One of America’s worst serial killers – Dean Arnold Corll, otherwise known as the Candyman. The Clown & the Candyman s1e1, Sky Crime 2021
Evidence they [Corll & Gacy] were linked to a secret nationwide [paedophile] network. It was a massive network and one of its masterminds a shadowy figure – John David Norman: ‘He’s a paedophile and he ran a ring.’ ibid.
Body after body, hour after hour, the more they dug, they more they found. ibid.
[Elmer Wayne] Henley [victim] said that the murders took place at a torture chamber in this house. And he killed Corll yesterday afternoon in self-defence after a paint-sniffing sex party. ibid.