Shaftesbury Kids, a division of the Canadian production company Shaftesbury Films, has produced a series of sex education videos for children titled “Sex-Ed School” that have outraged parents. The videos show classrooms of young children discussing such issues as transgenderism and masturbation with instructors.
The <a href="https://sexedschool.ca/">website</a> for the series states:
<blockquote>Sex-Ed School is an entertaining and educational YouTube series about sexuality and healthy relationships for youth, ages 9-12. Each episode features two expert hosts, Nadine and Eva, leading a respectful and authentic dialogue on sexual health, and guiding participants through fun and thought-provoking activities about specific topics.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2019/november/shocking-sex-ed-videos-indoctrinate-young-children-with-drag-queens-and-explicit-sex-advice">CBN</a> notes,  “They feature Nadine Thornhill, who is described as ‘one of Canada’s foremost experts on child and adolescent sexuality’ and Eva Bloom, a ‘sex research and online sexuality educator.’”
Examples that precipitated outrage:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TPBpnZTfJQ&amp;feature=emb_logo">Episode Four</a>, titled “Gender,” is <a href="https://sexedschool.ca/episodes">described this way</a>:
<blockquote>Gender expression is how a person chooses to express themselves, while gender is how they feel on the inside. Eva and Nadine discuss pronouns and the kids learn more about what gender is all about. We meet Kaleb, a trans man who shares his gender journey during a fun and informative Q and A. As well, the kids play a game of musical-chairs-with-a-twist to learn more about how everyone can feel comfortable expressing who they are.</blockquote>
As CBN notes, in that episode, the educators play “true or false” with the children. One asks the children, “Everyone born with a vulva is a girl, true for false?” Most, but not all, of the children reply, “True,” leaving the teacher the opportunity to instruct, “Not everybody is sure, and that makes sense. Our genitals actually don’t determine our gender. Some people born with vulvas can be boys.”
Kaleb tells his life story, including this passage: “For me, in my daily life, I was a girl. But then when I went on stage and I wanted to perform, I was male and I used he/him pronouns.” Kaleb segues to hormone injections, saying, “It changed my voice a bit and changes your body a little bit. …  I basically went through a second puberty when I was in my 20’s. …  I have to take [the hormone injection] … every week … I did have my breasts removed. I have scars on my chest. I really only talk about kind of what’s in my pants if people are getting in there.”
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More: in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=347&amp;v=os5GWfpJxng&amp;feature=emb_logo">video called “Love is Love</a>”, the instructors discuss masturbation with the children, describing it as “self-love,” and asking about “things that can happen when you masturbate since some people consider masturbation a form of self-love.” One girl asks,“What does masturbate mean?” Instructor: “It’s basically when you touch yourself for sexual pleasure …  touching your genitals in a way that feels good.” Further, “you can make yourself feel good on your own so you don’t need to have sex with someone else.”
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A third example: an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=214&amp;v=SHBvQPzTwJs&amp;feature=emb_logo">episode titled “Orienta</a>tion,” which the website describes thus: “Local Drag Queens, Fay Slift and Fluffy Soufflé drop by for a delightfully candid discussion about all things orientation from their POV. The kids learn more about LGBTQ2+ and pose some very interesting questions for Fay and Fluffy.”
In that episode, a bearded man wearing an orange wig, a dress, and elbow-high pink gloves addresses the children seated on the floor in front of him and states, “Hi, I’m ‘Fay Slift’ and I use the pronouns she/her, and I’m queer-identified.” The other drag queen, Fluffy,” wearing a purple wig and a dress, adds, “I’m Fluffy Souffle; I use they/them, cause I’m a non-binary performer, and I also identify as queer.”
Fluffy asks Fay, “What does queer mean to you?” Fay answers, “For me it means limitless potential; it could be whatever it is that I feel or want to be.”
One young boy asks, “How do you teach somebody to be gay?” Fluffy answers, “Well, if it’s somebody who is gay that is like ‘I want to learn what gayness is,’ there’s the internet for that.”
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WATCH: Disturbing Sex-Ed Videos Show Young Kids Instructed On Masturbation, Transgenderism

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Former Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA) suggested on Thursday that if Americans care about the safety of children, then they need to vote for Democratic candidates so that they can pass a host of gun control legislation.
&#8220;You feel, I think, as a freshman especially just coming in, you feel this sense of powerlessness, like, we&#8217;ve done our part, what else can we do right now? And to me it just says with complete and utter clarity, we don&#8217;t have a choice but to flip the Senate and to get somebody in the White House who is going to make this a priority,&#8221; Hill told CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper. &#8220;So, regardless of your other political beliefs, if you think that the safety of our kids matter, then that&#8217;s to me what needs to get you to the polls.&#8221;
Hill&#8217;s remarks were in reference to the news of a school shooting that was happening at the time in Santa Clarita, California. As Hill talked to Cooper, the incident was still occurring and little details had been released by authorities, including who the shooter was, the motivation behind the spree, or how the firearm in question was obtained.
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&#8220;It&#8217;s your worst nightmare. I mean, every single member of Congress,&#8221; Hill said. &#8220;I think, it&#8217;s constantly in the back of their head of whether something like that is going to happen in your home district because it&#8217;s the worst thing that could happen.&#8221;
&#8220;And I think one of the hardest parts about it is that, you know, what are we supposed to say at this point?&#8221; she continued. &#8220;We have passed background checks, we have passed four different pieces of legislation that would make an immediate impact on reducing gun violence. And it&#8217;s just sitting on [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell&#8217;s desk.&#8221;
Accordingly, the Democrat-led House passed a host of anti-Second Amendment bills that subsequently stalled in the Senate. The legislation includes enacting universal background checks and so-called &#8220;red flag&#8221; laws, which allow for temporary gun confiscation for individuals deemed a danger to oneself or to others.
Once considered a rising star of the party, the former California congresswoman announced her resignation from Congress in October amid an ethics probe into allegations that she had an affair with her congressional staffer, in violation of House rules. Despite published text messages, Hill denied the relationship, but subsequently admitted to a relationship with a campaign staffer.
However, Hill, many of her Democratic colleagues, and members of the media have portrayed the ex-freshman lawmaker as a victim of so-called &#8220;revenge porn&#8221; and sexist double standards for a slew of private photographs that were widely circulated after the story of her affair emerged.
Hill revealed on Wednesday that she was &#8220;starting to resurface&#8221; following her fall from grace, and state that she might &#8220;be a little bit more unfiltered&#8221; now that she is no longer an elected official. Her interview with CNN regarding the alleged school shooting was her first public appearance since she left Washington, D.C. in disgrace.

U.S. Representative Katie Hill (D-CA) speaking at the Ignite

WATCH: Katie Hill Suggests Americans Should Vote Democrat If They Care About Children

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The cultural Left&#8217;s ongoing battle to sexualize children and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-using-children-advance-your-political-josh-hammer">deprive them of their innocence</a> is now raging in the Old Dominion.
On <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PriscillaForFairfax/photos/a.111043596987758/120923609333090/?type=3&amp;theater">Facebook</a>, Fairfax County, Virginia School Board candidate Priscilla DeStefano sounded the alarm on the news that, unless parents opt out, children in the County would be mandated to take the <a href="https://www.fcps.edu/resources/student-safety-and-wellness/youth-survey?fbclid=IwAR0jUGUdnGQ-n8iApPZVbVQbzSeqScimslGRCt8Ozig25zIPPpdwLiPAa2I">Fairfax County Youth Survey</a>. Lest that survey sound innocent enough, DeStefano highlighted how the questionnaire would reportedly grill children as young as eighth grade on whether they are sexually active, have engaged in oral sex, and how many sexual partners they have had. It would also reportedly probe children as young as sixth grade about whether they smoke marijuana or drink alcohol.
&#8220;Starting this week, 6th, 8th, 10th &amp; 12th graders will be given the Youth Survey unless you OPT THEM OUT!,&#8221; DeStefano <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PriscillaForFairfax/photos/a.111043596987758/120923609333090/?type=3&amp;theater">warned</a>. &#8220;The 6th grade survey asks about drug use, like if they’ve ever huffed aerosols to get high; please look through it to see if you are comfortable with your 11/12 year being asked the 84 questions in the survey,&#8221; she continued.
DeStefano then noted how the Fairfax County Youth Survey is even more intrusive for older students in the county&#8217;s public school system: &#8220;The 8th, 10th &amp; 12th graders are asked much worse questions like if they’ve ever used heroin or LSD, their prescription drug use, and their sexual activity — like if they use condoms, if they’ve had oral sex, and how many sexual partners they’ve had.&#8221;
In total, the survey for 8th, 10th, and 12th graders has 174 questions — quite the rigorous inspection of children as young as sixth grade. At least opt-out forms are available on the Fairfax County Public Schools <a href="https://www.fcps.edu/resources/student-safety-and-wellness/youth-survey?fbclid=IwAR0jUGUdnGQ-n8iApPZVbVQbzSeqScimslGRCt8Ozig25zIPPpdwLiPAa2I">website</a> in each of English, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Korean, Spanish, Urdu, and Vietnamese.
Many of those commenting on DeStefano&#8217;s Facebook post expressed shock, disgust, or outrage.
&#8220;My request is to continue this fight and to hold the recently elected accountable!!,&#8221; commented one. &#8220;This is the beginning in my opinion. We must stay vocal and active and not allow the degradation of our society to happen without a fight. If all the candidates who did not get elected can form an alliance and network or action league we can remain in their faces. I know that our priorities are family. We now know that their priorities are breaking up of family and all holy beliefs and traditions.&#8221;
Another user observed how this activity seems to her to be nothing new: &#8220;This is, unfortunately, nothing new. I graduated high school in Oregon in 2000 and I recall a survey very similar to this given my freshman or sophomore year.&#8221;
A <a href="https://abc11.com/4506227/?fbclid=IwAR1gtHMK9zedbmm5v_0ltILr-mpToBotXhEvdjt0AQ6SrBYUtyucpqZBfAY">similar story</a> unfolded last month in North Carolina, when a survey given out to local sixth graders inquired about the students&#8217; sexual orientation. Local ABC affiliate ABC 11 <a href="https://abc11.com/4506227/?fbclid=IwAR1gtHMK9zedbmm5v_0ltILr-mpToBotXhEvdjt0AQ6SrBYUtyucpqZBfAY">reported</a>:
<blockquote>The mother of a Terrell Lane sixth-grader is upset after a survey given to her son included a question asking about his sexual orientation.
&#8220;Why are you asking 11-year olds these questions?&#8221; asked Connie Jo Hutchinson.
The program is called Shifting Boundaries, which is funded through a federal grant. In the survey handed out to students, the sixth question asks &#8220;What is your sexual orientation?&#8221;
It lists 10 possible options: Bisexual, Gay, Fluid, Heterosexual, Lesbian, Pansexual, Queer, Questioning, Prefer not to disclose, and Self-identify.</blockquote>

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Virginia School Board Candidate Blasts Survey For 8th Graders Asking About Sexual Activity

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A children’s elementary school distributed a flyer to children as young as second grade that promoted a clinic hosted by a medical volunteer corps. There was one problem: one side of the flyer advertised “free birth control and pre-pregnancy services” as well as free “implants, pills, condoms and more.”
That provoked the ire of one father of a seven-year-old in the class, Richard Penkoski, who runs the online ministry Warriors for Christ. Last Thursday, according to <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/father-outraged-school-giving-7-year-old-son-flyer-promoting-free-condoms-birth-control.html">The Christian Post</a>, he confronted the school board in Sullivan County about the incident at Mary Hughes School in Piney Flats. 
The flyer discussed the Nov. 1-3 Appalachian Fairgrounds in Gray hosted by the Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps.
Penkoski told the school board, “What is more, exactly? And why was this given to my seven-year- old? Since when is it the school’s job to give information to my child about birth control? When did the public schools decide they can teach my child issues regarding morality and sex?”
Penkoski explained that his outrage was triggered by the flyer putting him in a position where he would have to explain sex to a child he felt was too young to start dealing with the issue. He continued, “I know liberals on this council, specifically, will say something like, ‘Well, schools teach reproduction.’ You are right. They do teach biological facts in regard to reproduction. This flyer is not talking about reproduction. It teaches birth control. I also can’t help but notice that abstinence is not on this list.”
Penkoski told the board, “The public schools think they have the right to usurp my authority as their father. This school does not have that right.”
<a href="https://www.timesnews.net/Education/2019/11/07/RAM-birth-control-flier-upsets-parent-of-7-year-old-Piney-Flats-student.html">The Kingsport Times-News</a> reported that Sullivan County Director of Schools David Cox said the flyers were inadvertently distributed, that all the schools in the district distributed the flyers in order to enlighten disadvantaged families as to the presence of the clinic. Penkoski countered that his nine-year-old daughter did not receive one, adding, “The school can say ‘inadvertent’ all they want, but that is like accidentally giving a child with a peanut allergy a peanut.”
<a href="https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/this-was-done-purposely-birth-control-flyer-sent-home-with-elementary-students/51-0f849632-c26d-46cc-8ac6-c0bc878ed346">WBIR</a> reported that Cox explained, &#8220;What happened on the back of the information, there was another part that was inadvertently sent and it did say free birth control.”
But Penkoski remained unconvinced, telling the Christian Post, “[The school] received two pages and what the principal did was he took the two pages and put them back-to-back to make one copy. Part of it was to save paper but you can’t miss that. It is a whole page and right at the top there are big bold letters that say ‘birth control’ and ‘pre-pregnancy’ and all that stuff.”
Dale Walker, the president of the Tennessee Pastor’s Network, also addressed the board. He asked, “Our question tonight is where is the accountability of this school? Where is the accountability of this teacher? Where is the accountability of this principal? Where are the checks and balances? What are your procedures to block inappropriate subject matter to parents? Since when does our education system pick and choose what our students are exposed to without notification to their parents first?”
Walker stated to The Christian Post:
<blockquote>We have a super Republican majority in Tennessee and many times people think that because we elect so-called conservative Christians that we can just live our lives and not pay any attention to what’s going on in the public space, in our schools and in our counties. Pastors better pay attention to what their children are learning in public schools. At best, we only have a couple of hours a week with children that attend our churches and then they go to secular, godless schools … and they are teaching 7-year-olds how to fornicate.</blockquote>

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School Passes Out Flyer To Seven-Year-Olds Discussing ‘Implants, Pills, Condoms And More’

On Thursday, before Jeffery Younger was hit with a gag order from Judge Kim Cooks, LifeSiteNews reporter Madeleine Jacob spoke to the Texas dad fighting to save his seven-year-old son from a gender transition. 
During the interview, Mr. Younger explained why he’s fighting to save his son and other children from transgender indoctrination and addressed negative claims his ex-wife Dr. Anne Georgulas has leveled against him. 
Reacting to the jury’s decision not to grant Mr. Younger sole conservatorship over his son on Monday, the father told LifeSiteNews that he was shocked: “We put up an email form Ms. Georgulas to me in which she contemplates cutting the penis off my son. 20 minutes later, they go into deliberations, and they come back voting against me.” 
“The Texas I grew up in, the Texas that I live in, if a parent did that, we’re just gonna give him [the child] to the other parent; we’re not gonna tolerate that kind of craziness. So it just tells you, I think, really how far our society has changed, and how much less Christian we are,” he continued. 
Mr. Younger noted that he “predicted” the groundswell of support for James. “The very first interview that I ever did … I said, ‘I don’t believe Texans will allow this to happen to children.’”
Noting that the case will likely be appealed no matter which way the judge rules and could possibly head to the Supreme Court, Younger said he was “ready” and “willing” for the fight: “I would like to protect every child in the United States from these abhorrent practices by the medical community. It’s one of the reasons we’ve always said from the very beginning, we didn’t just say ‘save James,’ we said ‘save James; save thousands of kids.’ And the reason we said that last part is we did not want to forget the other children who are suffering from this with parents that just don’t have the resources, the will, the capacity, the circumstances to fight.”
Jacob brought up the accusations against Mr. Younger’s character, including that he supposedly exaggerated his finances to Ms. Georgulas before they were married. According to Younger, he and his ex-wife singed a prenuptial agreement that disclosed all their finances and had background checks completed prior to their wedding.
Younger also spoke of an alleged bias, explaining that his marriage of five years with Georgulas was annulled, meaning his children were now technically born out of wedlock. “As far as I know, that’s never happened before in Texas,” he said. “We don’t make children illegitimate; we don’t do that in Texas.”
Following the interview, Judge Cooks ruled that Mr. Younger will have a say in his son James’ gender “transition” by way of joint conservatorship over the boy. 
Mr. Younger was also hit with a gag order by the judge, meaning the father will have to shut down the “Save James” website, which circulated videos of his boy, testimonials, and vital court documents.
WATCH:
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-james-younger-at-age-3-to-dad-mommy-tells-me-im-a-girl">Video: James Younger, At Age 3, To Dad: Mommy Tells Me I’m A Girl</a>

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WATCH: Father Of 7-Year-Old &#8216;Trans&#8217; Child James Younger Speaks Out Before Gag Order

A four-year-old video taken by Texas father Jeff Younger shows his son, James Younger, saying &#8220;mommy&#8221; tells him he&#8217;s a girl, paints his fingernails nails, and puts him in dresses.
Mr. Younger, who is currently fighting for sole conservatorship of James against ex-wife Anne Georgulas, said during a podcast last year that he took the video of James, who was three years old at the time, when he noticed changes in his son&#8217;s behavior.
&#8220;You&#8217;re a boy, right?&#8221; Mr. Younger asks his son in the video.
&#8220;No,&#8221; James responds. &#8220;I&#8217;m a girl.&#8221;
&#8220;Who told you you&#8217;re a girl?&#8221; the father asks.
&#8220;Mommy,&#8221; the child answers.
Mr. Younger asks, &#8220;When did she tell you you were a girl?&#8221;
&#8220;Because, I love girls!&#8221; the three-year-old says.
&#8220;Oh, I see. So mommy told you you&#8217;re a girl?&#8221;
&#8220;Mhmm,&#8221; James answers in the affirmative.
The child tells Mr. Younger that his mother puts dresses on him, buys him headbands and hair clips, and paints his nails because he likes nail polish.
&#8220;So mommy puts you in a dress and puts nail polish on you?&#8221; Mr. Younger says.
&#8220;Mhmm,&#8221; James replies.
&#8220;And what does mommy tell you?&#8221;
&#8220;She tells me I&#8217;m a girl,&#8221; the child responds.
In January, Mr. Younger appeared on and episode of &#8220;The Luke Macias Show&#8221; podcast and recalled his taking of the video.
&#8220;My three-year-old son tells me &#8212; he&#8217;s at my home &#8212; he tells me that he&#8217;s a girl. And I had the presence of mind, thank goodness, to pull out my iPhone and videotape me asking him about that. And that was literally the first time that I really understood what was happening to my son,&#8221; Younger said, adding, &#8220;That was the first time I noticed. He was just past his third birthday.&#8221;
Younger noted, in his &#8220;personal assessment,&#8221; that Ms. Georgulas was &#8220;only giving [James] love and affection if he acted like a girl.&#8221;
The Texas father also claimed that his ex-wife &#8220;was putting my son into time-outs and she would lock him in his room and say that monsters only eat boys.&#8221;
On Monday, a consensus of 11 of the 12 jurors in a Dallas court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jury-rules-against-texas-dad-trying-to-save-7-year-old-son-from-gender-transition-potential-castration">ruled</a> against granting Younger sole managing conservatorship over James and his twin brother Jude. The jury &#8220;voted that the current Joint Managing Conservatorship should be replaced by a Sole Managing Conservatorship, but that Mr. Younger should not be that person,&#8221; <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-jury-rules-against-dad-trying-to-save-his-7-year-old-from-gender-transition">LifeSiteNews</a> reported.
Ms. Georgulas has effectively been granted authority to move forward with <a href="https://www.acpeds.org/chemical-castration-not-the-best-for-children">puberty blockers</a>, which can cause chemical castration, and, potentially, hormones, if she so chooses.
According to reporting from <a href="https://thetexan.news/dallas-custody-battle-over-alleged-transgender-seven-year-old-will-resume-next-week/">The Texan</a>, Georgulas’ lawyers Jessica Janicek and Laura Hayes said the mother does not plan on giving James hormone blockers at this time. However, “no one has stated that she (Georgulas) would not be open to using them when James begins puberty,” the report said.
Mr. Younger will also be forced to “affirm” his son’s new gender identity: a girl named “Luna.”
“Every. Single. Day. You have to see your son sexually abused, and you have to maintain your calm,” the Texas father said during the January podcast, “because the courts are not going to be fair to you. And the only way you can survive this and get your son through this alive is to calmly allow your son to be tortured right before your eyes and outlast the opposition. That’s what it’s like.”
“They’re asking me to affirm a delusion,” he noted.
The presiding judge will give her final ruling on James&#8217; fate on Thursday.
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jury-rules-against-texas-dad-trying-to-save-7-year-old-son-from-gender-transition-potential-castration">Jury Rules Against Texas Dad Fighting 7-Year-Old Son’s Gender Transition</a>

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Video: James Younger, At Age 3, To Dad: Mommy Tells Me I&#8217;m A Girl

Anthropologists in the future will spend a lot of time discussing and debating the question of when, exactly, the once-great American civilization went insane, why it happened, and how. I can only imagine what conclusions they will draw. As an American citizen in the present day, actually bearing witness to the collapse of sanity and reason in real time, I&#8217;m not sure that I can even answer those questions. Perhaps hindsight will lend some clarity to the issue.
What I do know is that <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-jury-rules-against-dad-trying-to-save-his-7-year-old-from-gender-transition">this case</a> will be viewed as a seminal moment in our collective plunge into madness. It will be seen as, at least from a legal standpoint, the point of no return. The crossing of some kind of terrible Rubicon. I refer to the story of 7-year-old James Younger, whose father, Jeff Younger, has been trying to save him from a forced gender &#8220;transition.&#8221;
Jeff has been locked in a bitter court battle with his ex-wife, Anne Georgulas. Despite being a medical professional &#8212; a pediatrician, God help us &#8212; who presumably understands basic facts about human biology and child psychology, Georgulas got it into her apparently deranged head that her son James is really a girl.
As The Texan previously <a href="https://thetexan.news/dallas-custody-battle-over-alleged-transgender-seven-year-old-will-resume-next-week/">reported</a>, the factors that convinced Georgulas that her son is really her daughter include his affinity for the movie &#8220;Frozen&#8221; and his request to get a &#8220;girl toy&#8221; from McDonald&#8217;s. She also says he started expressing a wish to dress in girl&#8217;s clothing. But Jeff Younger recently <a href="http://According to the father, the boy's mother began dressing him in girl clothes and foisting gender confusion on him when he was 3-years-old.">explained in an interview</a> that if James ever had any desire to wear dresses, it&#8217;s only because his mother started putting him in dresses and painting his nails when he was just 3-years-old. He claims that she used several other methods of manipulation, including locking the boy in his room and telling him that &#8220;the monsters only eat boys.&#8221; Jeff speculates that Georgulas would withhold affection from James if he did not act like a girl.
The court case revolved around Jeff&#8217;s efforts to rescue his sons (James and his twin brother) from the abuse of this sick and twisted woman. However, the decision was passed down yesterday, and the court <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-jury-rules-against-dad-trying-to-save-his-7-year-old-from-gender-transition">ruled against the father</a>. Virtually all control over James and his brother have now been handed to Georgulas. She is free to continue his &#8220;social transition&#8221; into a girl &#8212; a process already well under way, as he goes by &#8220;Luna&#8221; and poses as a girl at his mother&#8217;s house and at school. Eventually she can, and presumably will, start James on drugs to chemically castrate him. There is nothing his father can do to stop it, short of &#8220;kidnapping&#8221; the boy and fleeing the country (a move that would be not only morally justified, but heroic).
It should be noted that, according to Jeff, James &#8220;violently refuses&#8221; to wear girl clothes when he is at his father&#8217;s house. Free from the clutches of his mother, Jeff says, James is relieved to act like a boy, dress like a boy, and play like a boy. The mother claims the opposite, insisting that James is excited to return to his mother and his identity as &#8220;Luna.&#8221; I think both claims are probably true, in a sense. The poor boy realizes that it pleases his mother for him to be Luna, and so he &#8220;wants&#8221; to play that role for her sake.
But, in any case, the question of how he really identifies is irrelevant. The point is that James is a boy, plain and simple. Whatever confusion he is suffering from &#8212; confusion painstakingly planted in his head by a mother who, in my opinion, should be locked in prison for the rest of her life &#8212; could be alleviated through counseling and therapy. There is precisely zero chance that James is &#8220;really&#8221; a girl trapped in a boy&#8217;s body, because that concept is nonsensical. James is who he is. And he is a boy.
In a morbid coincidence, there are <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-colorado-mother-munchhausen-proxy-daughter-make-a-wish-murder-20191022-2rzishgiorgq7j23rboqltxfku-story.html">reports</a> today about the mother of a supposedly terminally ill Make-a-Wish kid who is now accused of murdering the 7-year-old daughter she claimed was sick. Investigators believe that the mother has Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, a mental disorder in which parents invent or create illnesses in their children. I bring this case up because I believe that James Younger is the victim of a new, and increasingly common, kind of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. His disturbed mother has, in effect, created gender confusion in her child. This case hopefully will not end in murder, but it may well end with the child&#8217;s physical mutilation at the behest of his mother. And considering the very high rate of suicide in the transgender community, it could certainly be argued that she is putting her son&#8217;s life at risk. She is certainly ruining it, at the very least.
We would make a huge mistake to treat James Younger&#8217;s plight as some kind of tragic anomaly. We live in a time when many children are having left-wing gender theories shoved down their throats. If most of these situations don&#8217;t result in heated legal disputes, it&#8217;s only because both parents are guilty of the abuse so there is no one around to bring the case. And the situation will only get worse if we don&#8217;t start paying attention. Children are being exploited and manipulated in the most insidious ways imaginable. We can&#8217;t sit by and watch it happen anymore.

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WALSH: Court Rules That A Mom Can ‘Transition’ Son Into Girl Against His Dad&#8217;s Wishes. This Is Evil, Insane Child Abuse.

On Monday, a jury ruled against a Texas father, Jeffrey Younger, attempting to stop his seven-year-old son from a gender transition being facilitated by Dr. Anne Georgulas, the boy&#8217;s mother and Younger&#8217;s ex-wife.
&#8220;With a consensus of 11 of the 12 jurors, the jury decided not to grant Mr. Younger Sole Managing Conservatorship over his two twin boys,&#8221; <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-jury-rules-against-dad-trying-to-save-his-7-year-old-from-gender-transition">LifeSiteNews</a> reported Monday. &#8220;They voted that the current Joint Managing Conservatorship should be replaced by a Sole Managing Conservatorship, but that Mr. Younger should not be that person.&#8221;
According to the LifeSiteNews, Georgulas has been granted authority to move forward with <a href="https://www.acpeds.org/chemical-castration-not-the-best-for-children">puberty blockers</a>, which can cause chemical castration, and, potentially, hormones, if she so chooses.
According to reporting from <a href="https://thetexan.news/dallas-custody-battle-over-alleged-transgender-seven-year-old-will-resume-next-week/">The Texan</a>, Georgulas&#8217; lawyers Jessica Janicek and Laura Hayes said the mother does not plan on giving James hormone blockers at this time. However, &#8220;no one has stated that she (Georgulas) would not be open to using them when James begins puberty,&#8221; which would be around age 11 and a half for a boy, the report said.
Additionally, with the jury&#8217;s decision, Mr. Younger will likely be forced to &#8220;affirm&#8221; his son&#8217;s new gender identity: a girl named &#8220;Luna.&#8221;
​&#8221;I want you to imagine having electronic communication with your son on FaceTime, and imagine that your ex-wife has dressed him as a drag queen to talk to you,” Younger <a href="https://lukemacias.com/afathersfight/">told</a> host Luke Macias during an episode of “The Luke Macias Show&#8221; podcast in January. “He has false eyelashes and makeup. His hair has got glitter in it. He’s wearing a dress.”
“Now imagine how you would feel seeing what I believe is actual sexual abuse — I believe this is not just emotional abuse but is the very, most fundamental form of sexual abuse, tampering with the sexual identity of a vulnerable boy,” the father continued.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38728/mom-says-6-year-old-son-transgender-dad-disagrees-amanda-prestigiacomo">reported</a> by The Daily Wire in November, court documents show that Younger’s son only dresses as a girl when he’s with his mother, who calls the boy by his trans name and has even enrolled James as “Luna” in school. According to Younger, however, James consistently chooses to wear boy’s clothes, “violently refuses to wear girl’s clothes at my home,” and identifies as a boy whenever he is around him.
James’ mother has accused Younger of child abuse in their divorce proceedings “for not affirming James as transgender” and is looking to strip the dad of his parental rights, <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2018/11/26/mom-dresses-six-year-old-son-girl-threatens-dad-losing-son-disagreeing/">reported</a> The Federalist. Georgulas is also seeking to force Younger to foot the bill for James’ visits to a transgender-affirming therapist and transgender medical alterations, which may include “chemical castration” two years from now, when the child is just eight.
The boy, according to Younger, has already been fully “socially transitioned.”
“[James] wears a dress at her (his ex-wife’s) home; he has a new made-up name, Luna – it appears in the court filings. He goes to school; the teachers call him ‘Luna.’ He uses the girl’s bathroom at school. All of his authority figures – his mother, his teacher, the librarian at school, the police officer at school, the principal at school – tell him he’s a girl. I’m the only authority figure in his life that tells him the truth; that he’s actually a boy,” Younger noted during the podcast.
The father noted that, in his opinion, he witnessed that his wife “was only giving [James] love and affection when he was acting like a girl.” She used to lock James in his room and tell him monsters only eat boys, Younger added.
“Every. Single. Day. You have to see your son sexually abused, and you have to maintain your calm,” the Texas father continued, “because the courts are not going to be fair to you. And the only way you can survive this and get your son through this alive is to calmly allow your son to be tortured right before your eyes and outlast the opposition. That’s what it’s like.”
“They’re asking me to affirm a delusion,” he said.

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Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate &#8220;activist&#8221; alarmist Greta Thunberg is all the rage right now. Thunberg, who has indubitably benefited from no shortage of formal public communication training, <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1176149492698992641">speaks</a> with the moral certitude and dripping condescension so characteristic of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51556/hammer-bernies-pagan-support-child-sacrifice-josh-hammer">broader pagan cult</a> that is &#8220;climate change&#8221; alarmism. Oppose the proposed totalitarian, socialist &#8220;remedies&#8221; for such a purported pandemic and one is called a &#8220;climate denier&#8221; at best — or a depraved madman at worst. While evidence is thus far lacking, the <a href="https://www.tellerreport.com/tech/greta-thunberg--how-big-is-the-influence-of-your-mentor-.S1bXoGcuV.html">circumstantial totality</a> suggests the real possibility that, much like the well-organized Left during the Kavanaugh confirmation imbroglio, there may be a <a href="https://theresurgent.com/2019/09/24/not-to-put-too-fine-a-point-on-it-but/">&#8220;well-orchestrated and well-funded P.R. campaign&#8221;</a> here whose over-arching goal is the shaming of free market-oriented dissenters into submission at the pagan altar of enviro-statism.
The notion that policymakers ought to consider proposing policy due to the fraught and hysterical pleas of a 16-year-old is, naturally, <a href="https://theresurgent.com/2019/09/24/we-should-not-set-global-policy-based-on-a-16-year-old-with-a-developmental-disorder/">insane</a>. And the use of Thunberg herself — who <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/this-greta-thunberg-thing-is-child-abuse">apparently began suffering</a> from depression as a child — as the leading global enviro-statist prop is, as Amanda Prestigiacomo put it, downright unethical.
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My Daily Wire colleague Matt Walsh is correct that the deification of Thunberg amounts to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52151/walsh-greta-thunberg-child-abuse-victim-matt-walsh">child abuse</a>. Indeed, the use of Thunberg as an emotionally compelling prop for zealous socialists foaming at the mouth for any excuse to enact anti-capitalistic policy ought to harken us all back to the last time leftists glommed onto malleable teenagers for use as political props: The aftermath of the school shooting in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/27443/watch-dana-loesch-called-murderer-cnn-gun-control-james-barrett">Parkland, Florida</a>. Then, as now, the Left cynically decided that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/17662/stop-alinskyization-american-right-josh-hammer">easiest means</a> by which to accomplish its ends was via the public trotting out of minors as spokespersons to emotionally manipulate a gullible public.
But such a tendentious use of minors for the promotion and advancement of a political agenda is not just wrong. It is affirmatively evil.
One can tell a lot about a society by how it treats children. In the United States, the eradication of mass legalized child labor via the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act represents that rare FDR/New Deal-era policy achievement about which even conservatives can be proud. Contrast that with the <a href="https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/worst-countries-for-child-labor.html">ubiquitous child labor</a> that still exists in much of the Third World, and one sees a paradigmatic example of what sets apart the more advanced from the more barbaric civilizations. The darker <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-hours-live-to-tell-inside-the-world-of-child-sex-trafficking-and-ashton-kutchers-high-tech-approach-to-saving-victims/">world of child sex trafficking</a> is, of course, far more harrowing still.
The <a href="https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791231/obo-9780199791231-0161.xml">innocence of children</a> is something that every proper society ought to cherish and nourish. Tim Lott <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/may/10/what-is-childhood-innocence">described</a> well this sort of innocence for The Guardian in 2013: &#8220;Innocence goes deeper than ignorance. It is some mysterious operation of the imagination, the part that can enter into mental universes from which one is soon to be forever excluded.&#8221; Societies that aim to maintain the pristine nature of childhood — with its lack of adult responsibility, simplicity, carefree nature, and purity all remaining intact — are societies that ought to be lauded. Societies that disabuse children of their innocence and foist upon children the responsibilities and sundry pitfalls of adulthood are societies that ought to be chastised. Even Hollywood, with its longstanding lionization of the child actor, is worthy of no small amount of scorn.
By all means, teenagers ought to be encouraged to think deeply about issues of global importance. They ought to be encouraged to educate themselves on current events and begin the slow, lifelong process of discovering the nature of truth. But to cynically prop up a teenager as an avatar for a political movement so as to better emotionally manipulate the masses as to the correctness of your political position is no act of valiance. It is an act of cowardice, an act of innocence deprival, an act of evil.

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HAMMER: Using Children To Advance Your Political Agenda Isn’t Just Wrong. It’s Evil.

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Conservatives are seeking to underscore Democrats&#8217; radical gender policies, and its destructive implications for girls and women in particular, in a new hard-hitting ad supporting Republican Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin. The conservative is in a hotly-contested race against Democratic challenger Attorney General Andy Beshear.
With election day creeping up on November 5, American Principles Project (APP) Super PAC &#8220;Campaign for American Principles&#8221; released an ad Monday showcasing a grim world wherein Beshear-supported gender policies leave young female athletes behind. In the clip, which can be viewed below, young female track runners are blown out by a male competitor who identifies as female.
&#8220;All female athletes want is a fair shot in competition, at a scholarship, at a title, at victory,&#8221; a narrator says. &#8220;What if that shot was taken away by a competitor who claims they’re a girl who was born a boy?&#8221;
&#8220;Andy Beshear supports legislation that would destroy girls’ sports. He calls it &#8216;equality.&#8217; Maybe. But is it fair?&#8221; the female narrator continues.
The ad closes out urging citizens to vote against Beshear, noting he&#8217;s &#8220;too extreme for Kentucky,” and links to <a href="https://extremeandybeshear.com/">ExtremeAndyBeshear.com</a>.
If the premise seems far-fetched, reconsider the reality that is already on the ground. Soon after the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference adopted a policy allowing &#8220;gender identity&#8221; to trump biology in athletics, high school girls were smoked by female-identifying biologically male track athletes — derailing vital collegiate opportunities in the process.
&#8220;It&#8217;s scientifically proven that males are built to be physically stronger than females. It&#8217;s unfair to put someone who is biologically a male, who has not undergone anything in terms of hormone therapy, against cis-gender girls,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50501/feds-probe-whether-conn-transgender-athlete-policy-amanda-prestigiacomo">said</a> track athlete Selina Soule. The teenager took eighth place in a high-stakes high school track competition where two biological males spanked the field; Soule missed an opportunity to compete in front of college coaches by two places.
Moreover, in Ohio, parents were recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/27309/parents-lose-custody-child-refusing-support-amanda-prestigiacomo">stripped of custody</a> when they opposed their child undergoing experimental sex-change procedures.
Unlike Bevin, a solid conservative standing strong to protect females-only spaces and parental rights against the Left&#8217;s redefining of gender, Beshear is all-in on legislation like the deceptively named <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47176/hammer-house-democrats-equality-act-both-josh-hammer">federal &#8220;Equality Act&#8221;</a> and Kentucky &#8220;Fairness&#8221; bill, which &#8220;would destroy women&#8217;s sports, eliminate parental rights, and allow men to take advantage of women through loopholes in said legislation,&#8221; APP Director of Policy and Government Affairs Jon Schweppe told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;You may not know it, but the truth is that Extreme Andy Beshear supports forcing your daughters to compete against males in sports,&#8221; ExtremeAndyBeshear.com reads. &#8220;And already, parents in nearby Ohio lost custody when their child was encouraged to undergo experimental sex-change procedures. Yet Beshear refuses to support a parental rights bill that would protect families from this abuse. Beshear is too extreme for Kentucky.&#8221;
The site notes that Beshear refused to support a bill protecting parents&#8217; rights when it &#8220;came into conflict with his radical &#8216;equality&#8217; agenda.&#8221;
&#8220;When a child is struggling with mental health problems and expresses confusion about their gender to a teacher or school administrator, should the school keep it a secret from the child&#8217;s parents?&#8221; the site continues. &#8220;Should government bureaucrats and medical professionals make medical decisions for a child against the wishes of the child&#8217;s parents by encouraging a child to take experimental &#8216;gender-changing&#8217; drugs that permanently alter the child&#8217;s body?”
Schweppe put out a warning shot at Democrats. &#8220;Our plan is to show how vulnerable Democrats are on these issues and demonstrate how effective it can be for the GOP to message on them in 2020,&#8221; he told The Daily Wire. &#8220;This is about putting extreme Democrats on notice: We&#8217;re coming for you.&#8221;
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A 6-year-old girl in Florida was arrested after she threw a tantrum in her Florida classroom.
The girl’s grandmother, Meralyn Kirkland, said the girl suffers from sleep apnea and was sleep deprived when she threw the tantrum, and shouldn’t have been arrested. She <a href="https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/florida-grandmother-outraged-after-6-year-old-arrested-for-tantrum/">told</a> NBC affiliate WFLA-TV that she was told of the arrest after the fact.
“What do you mean she was arrested, he said ‘there was an incident and she kicked somebody and she is being charged and she is on her way,&#8217;” Kirkland told the outlet.
She said police officers were not persuaded by her granddaughter’s medical condition.
“She has a medical condition that we are working on getting resolved and he says, ‘what medical condition, she has a sleep disorder, sleep apnea,’ and he says, ‘well I have sleep apnea and I don’t behave like that,” Kirkland told WFLA.
The outlet reported that Kirkland’s granddaughter Kaia, a first grader at Lucious and Emma Nixon Elementary charter school, was handcuffed and taken to the police station in a squad car to be fingerprinted and have her mug shot taken.
“They told us we had to wait a few minutes because Kaia was being fingerprinted, and when she said fingerprinted it hit me like a ton of bricks,” Kirkland told WFLA. “No six-year-old child should be able to tell somebody that they had handcuffs on them and they were riding in the back of a police car and taken to a juvenile center to be fingerprinted, mug shot.”
Kirkland added that Kaia “was charged with battery!” because she kicked a staff member at her school during her tantrum. Kirkland <a href="https://www.clickorlando.com/news/grandmother-outraged-over-6-year-old-girls-arrest">told Click Orlando</a> that Kaia was sent to the head office after throwing a tantrum. Once there, a staff member tried to calm her down by grabbing her wrists, which is when Kaia kicked the staff member.
Kaia said Friday that she “felt sad that my grandma was sad, and I really missed her.&#8221;
The outlet also reported that another child at the school, an 8-year-old, was also arrested that day. Orlando Police Department officials told Click Orlando that department policy dictates school resource officers must seek watch commander approval before arresting children under the age of 12, but this particular officer did not do that in either case. That officer, Dennis Turner, is now <a href="https://www.clickorlando.com/news/orlando-school-resource-officer-under-investigation-after-arresting-elementary-students-report">facing an internal investigation</a> for the arrests.
Kirkland told the outlet that Kaia has an upcoming court date related to her arrest.
Kaia is not the only Florida child whose arrest caused national outrage. In 2017, a 10-year-old boy with autism was arrested after <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/21/health/autism-florida-10-year-old-arrested-bn/index.html">an outburst in class</a>. CNN reported at the time that John Haygood, a student at Okeechobee Achievement Academy, was throwing paper balls at students. His paraprofessional told him to take a time out, but he refused, and kicked and punched the paraprofessional instead. In a previous incident, Haygood allegedly threatened to kill the paraprofessional.
Haygood was expelled from the Academy but returned months later to take a test. He was arrested after refusing to take the test and “not being compliant.” The arresting officer told Haygood’s mother that the 10-year-old had an active warrant because the paraprofessional had filed charges. He was arrested.

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&#8220;What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.&#8221; – Ecclesiastes 1:9
Last week, Sandinista-loving, Soviet Union-honeymooning <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43796/hammer-bernie-sanders-entire-worldview-grotesquely-josh-hammer">communist loonbag</a> Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) decided to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51413/walsh-bernie-sanders-wants-exterminate-surplus-matt-walsh">proffer</a> mass genocidal child sacrifice as a means by which to alleviate the purported coming ills of global warming &#8220;climate change.&#8221; The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51397/bernie-suggests-funding-abortions-poor-countries-ryan-saavedra">reported</a> on the underlying exchange on CNN:
<blockquote>&#8220;Empowering women, and educating everyone on the need to curb population growth seems a reasonable campaign to enact,&#8221; [CNN&#8217;s Martha] Readyoff [said]. &#8220;Would you be courageous enough to discuss this issue and make it a key feature of a plan to address climate catastrophe?&#8221;
&#8220;The answer&#8217;s &#8216;yes,'&#8221; Bernie responded. &#8230; &#8220;So I think, especially in poor countries around the world where women do not necessarily want to have large numbers of babies and where they can have the opportunity through birth control to control the number of kids they have, it&#8217;s something I very strongly support.&#8221;</blockquote>
Bernie Sanders, a nominal ethnic Jew who has imbibed like mother&#8217;s milk the catastrophic nostrums posited by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43388/hammer-anti-semites-ilhan-omar-and-rashida-tlaib-josh-hammer">world&#8217;s preeminent self-hating Jew</a> of the past two centuries, <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/289002-sanders-i-am-not-an-atheist">claims</a> to &#8220;not [be] an atheist.&#8221; But Sanders has also <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-time-for-us-to-have-an-unapologetic-atheist-in-the-oval-office/2019/05/08/0f3e0020-6c27-11e9-be3a-33217240a539_story.html?noredirect=on">conceded</a> that he is &#8220;not actively involved in organized religion,&#8221; and it would be genuinely shocking if Bernie Sanders were not the kind of &#8220;spiritual but not religious&#8221; Jew who enjoys a ham and Swiss cheese sandwich on Yom Kippur. For Sanders, as for so many adherents of Reform Judaism and other politically obsessed leftist Jews in America, the notion of tikkun olam — &#8220;repair the world&#8221; — distorts, overwhelms, and conquers anything that might otherwise be recognized as authentic, halakhic Judaism. Consider Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro&#8217;s blurb for <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Heal-World-Corrupts-Judaism-Endangers/dp/1250160871">Jonathan Neumann&#8217;s 2018 book</a>, &#8220;To Heal the World? How the Jewish Left Corrupts Judaism and Endangers Israel&#8221;:
<blockquote>&#8220;For too long, Jewish leftists have used Jewish sloganeering to serve their leftism, claiming that &#8216;tikkun olam&#8217; dictates their politics. Neumann shows that the linkage between Judaism and leftism isn&#8217;t merely false, but fatally damaging to Jewishness itself, and that those who claim they are healing the world on God&#8217;s behalf are in fact ripping out the roots of Judeo-Christian civilization while cynically flying the Biblical flag.&#8221;</blockquote>
For many on the tikkun olam-obsessed, halakhically unmoored, biblically defiant Jewish Left, progressive politics becomes a de facto &#8220;religion.&#8221; The trend is widespread among non-God-fearing secularists in America today: When one excises God and religion from his or her life, that void is so often filled by the temptations of hedonistic, self-indulgent, politically leftist paganism. Whether it is the pagan &#8220;sacrament&#8221; of &#8220;abortion on demand and without apology&#8221; or the pagan cult of enviro-statist command-and-control economic radicalism, large swaths of the contemporary Left have reached a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51538/shapiro-pastor-pete-offers-indulgences-supporters-daily-wire">far greater effective level of religious zeal</a> than the &#8220;Religious Right&#8221; rubes and yokels they so contemptuously mock. They have merely replaced God with the Earth — and have replaced dutiful obedience to God&#8217;s commandments with the pagan sacrifice of the unborn.
As Erick Erickson of The Resurgent has long been <a href="https://theresurgent.com/2019/08/19/president-trump-scores-massive-pro-life-victory-planned-parenthood-defunded/">fond of saying</a>, the modern-day leftist/secularist abortion movement bears no small resemblance to the pagan child sacrifices to Moloch dating back millennia. As Erick <a href="https://theresurgent.com/2019/09/06/i-dont-care-about-climate-change-it-is-a-religious-doctrine-of-progressive-secularists/">wrote last week</a>: &#8220;[P]rogressives have replaced true religion with a new religion — a secular variety. They worship creation and sacrifice to Moloch just as tribes did thousands of years ago. Babies must be slaughtered to save the world now, just as then. People must sacrifice now, just as then.&#8221;
Indeed.
Bernie Sanders, with his acceptance of <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/larahoffmans/2011/10/31/7-billion-reasons-malthus-was-wrong/">thoroughly discredited</a> Malthusianism and promotion of the sacrifice of an entire class of children to help save the Mother Earth idol, has merely provided Americans with an unusually clear lens into the modern pagan worldview. Sanders&#8217; harrowing and affirmatively evil proposal directly mirrors the Canaanite offerings to Moloch that hail from the biblical era. There truly is, as the Book of Ecclesiastes tell us, nothing new under the sun.

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Actress Scarlett Johansson, a prominent advocate for the #MeToo and Time&#8217;s Up movements, said in an interview published this week that she &#8220;loves&#8221; embattled director Woody Allen and believes he is innocent against allegations of sexual abuse from his former stepdaughter Dylan Farrow.
Farrow has claimed she was abused by Allen when she was just seven years old. Allen is now married to Soon-Yi Previn — the adopted daughter of Mia Farrow, Allen’s former lover.
&#8220;I love Woody,&#8221; Johansson told <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/scarlett-johansson-talks-woody-allen-elizabeth-warren-black-widow-1235618">The Hollywood Reporter</a>. &#8220;I believe him, and I would work with him anytime.&#8221;
&#8220;I see Woody whenever I can, and I have had a lot of conversations with him about it. I have been very direct with him, and he&#8217;s very direct with me. He maintains his innocence, and I believe him,&#8221; the &#8220;Vicky Cristina Barcelona&#8221; actress added.
Farrow replied to Johansson&#8217;s defense of Allen with unvarnished fury.
&#8220;Because if we&#8217;ve learned anything from the past two years it’s that you definitely should believe male predators who &#8216;maintain their innocence&#8217; without question. Scarlett has a long way to go in understanding the issue she claims to champion,&#8221; she posted to Twitter on Wednesday. &#8220;(And my apologies in advance for disrupting her google alerts again).&#8221;
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As noted by <a href="https://radaronline.com/exclusives/2019/09/dylan-farrow-slams-scarlett-johansson-defending-woody-allen/">Radar Online</a>, Farrow was referencing a comment made by Johannson in 2014. After Farrow posted an open letter in <a href="https://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/an-open-letter-from-dylan-farrow/">The New York Times</a> detailing the abuse allegations and calling out famed actors and actresses for still working with Allen, Johannson complained: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s irresponsible to take a bunch of actors that will have a Google alert on and to suddenly throw their name into a situation that none of us could possibly knowingly comment on.&#8221;
&#8220;[W]hen I was seven years old, Woody Allen took me by the hand and led me into a dim, closet-like attic on the second floor of our house. He told me to lay on my stomach and play with my brother’s electric train set. Then he sexually assaulted me,&#8221; Farrow <a href="https://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/an-open-letter-from-dylan-farrow/">claimed</a> in the letter. &#8220;He talked to me while he did it, whispering that I was a good girl, that this was our secret, promising that we’d go to Paris and I’d be a star in his movies. I remember staring at that toy train, focusing on it as it traveled in its circle around the attic. To this day, I find it difficult to look at toy trains.&#8221;
In 2018, Johannson spoke at the Women&#8217;s March, where she called out actor James Franco for daring to wear an anti-sexual assault Time&#8217;s Up pin at the Golden Globes. Franco had been accused of his own sexual misconduct, as was <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-james-franco-allegations-20180111-htmlstory.html">widely reported</a> at the time.
&#8220;How could a person publicly stand by an organization that helps to provide support for victims of sexual assault while privately preying on people who have no power?&#8221; the actress asked of Franco, as highlighted by Salon. &#8220;I want my pin back, by the way.&#8221;
Franco has denied all accusations of sexual misconduct.

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#MeToo Darling Scarlett Johansson Defends Woody Allen. Dylan Farrow Responds.

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An Australian couple who fed their toddler a strict vegan diet that resulted in the child becoming so malnourished that she had no teeth will avoid jail time after a judge ruled that imprisoning them would deprive their children of an &#8220;important bond.&#8221;
The Sydney Morning Herald <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/vegan-parents-avoid-jail-over-malnourished-daughter-20190822-p52jlr.html">reported</a> that New South Wales District Court Judge Sarah Huggett sentenced the couple to 18 months of &#8220;intensive corrections orders&#8221; rather than send them to jail. The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46987/parents-who-fed-infant-vegan-diet-arrested-after-ashe-schow">reported</a> that the child had not been vaccinated or even taken to a doctor since her birth and suffered from rickets.
&#8220;The reckless failure of these offenders to provide their daughter with the necessities of life in fact caused serious harm,&#8221; Huggett said during sentencing, according to the Herald.
The couple was arrested in April 2018 and earlier pleaded guilty to failing to provide for their child. The father is 35 years old and the mother is 33. Australian press can&#8217;t name them for legal reasons.
The child &#8220;was fed oats, potatoes, rice, tofu, bread, peanut butter and rice milk,&#8221; according to court documents reviewed by the Herald. For a snack, she was given a &#8220;mouthful of fruit or two sultanas.&#8221;
The mother told a forensic psychiatrist that she didn&#8217;t think her child was ill until the girl suffered a seizure in March 2018. The mother called paramedics who found the child &#8220;floppy,&#8221; with blue lips and eyes rolling back into her head.
&#8220;The child was severely malnourished, underweight and undersized, and delayed as far as age-appropriate milestones were concerned,&#8221; Huggett said in court.
The parents faced five years in jail, but will not serve such a sentence because of Huggett&#8217;s ruling.
The mother had previously claimed she was severely depressed after her daughter’s birth, but a psychologist disputed the claims. That psychologist told the court that the mother’s medical records showed no evidence of her depression, and an interview with the mother revealed the same.
Huggett said during sentencing that &#8220;it is the responsibility of every parent to ensure the diet they chose to provide to their children &#8230; is one that is balanced and contains sufficient essential nutrients and vitamins for optimum growth and development.&#8221; She also said that the mother’s alleged depression made it difficult for her to care for her child &#8220;to an extent.&#8221;
&#8220;I say &#8216;to an extent&#8217; because this offence was committed over a substantial period of time,&#8221; Huggett said.
The father claimed he was not to blame because the mother &#8220;dictated&#8221; the child&#8217;s care. Huggett in May dismissed the father’s claims, saying he was an &#8220;educated man&#8221; who &#8220;could have picked her up and taken her to a doctor.&#8221;
During sentencing, Huggett further criticized the father, saying his &#8220;abandonment of his parental responsibility cannot be justified or excused on the basis that he was busy or preoccupied.&#8221;
It should have been obvious, Huggett said, to anyone that the child was unhealthy. At 20 months old, the girl couldn&#8217;t walk or talk and was the size of a 3-month old. Once medical staff determined the child was malnourished, she spent a month in the hospital and was then taken care of by a foster parent. Six months after her seizure, the little girl could crawl and had put on 13 pounds.
The little girl and her two older brothers are now being cared for by their maternal grandmother in Queensland.

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Vegan Parents Whose Daughter Was Malnourished Due To Vegan Diet Won’t Go To Jail

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Registered sex offender and multimillionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein allegedly had three poor 12-year-old girls living in France flown in as a &#8220;birthday present&#8221; for him from a friend, an alleged sexual assault victim claimed in a Florida civil suit.
The disturbing allegations resurfaced in light of Epstein&#8217;s apparent suicide in his Metropolitan Correction Center jail cell last week.
&#8220;The worst one that I heard from his own mouth was this pretty 12 year old girls he had flown in for his birthday,&#8221; alleged victim Virginia Roberts, who now goes by Virginia Giuffre, said of Epstein, according to <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9751878/jeffrey-epstein-12-year-old-french-girls-birthday-gift/">The Sun</a>.
“It was a surprise birthday gift from one of his friends and they were from France. I did see them, I did meet them,&#8221; she said, noting, &#8220;Jeffrey bragged afterwards after he met them that they were 12-year-olds and flown over from France because they&#8217;re really poor over there, and their parents needed the money or whatever the case is and they were absolutely free to stay and flew out.&#8221;
According to a report from <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-billionaire-pedophile-goes-free">The Daily Beast</a>, &#8220;These same civil complaints allege that young girls from South America, Europe, and the former Soviet republics, few of whom spoke English, were recruited for Epstein&#8217;s sexual pleasure.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11359139/Jeffrey-Epstein-offered-sex-slave-a-mansion-to-have-his-baby-according-to-court-documents.html">The Telegraph</a> reported in 2015 that Epstein proposed Roberts have a child for him and former partner and alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell.
&#8220;He offered me a mansion and some of his money every month, I forget what he called it, a monthly income of what he made to bear one of his children,&#8221; she recalled, adding, &#8220;The proposition was that if anything ever happened between Jeffrey and I, that I would have to sign my child over to him basically and that the child would be his and Ghislaine&#8217;s, and I would be looking after it as long as nothing happened between Jeffrey and I.”
Epstein was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50567/cbs-report-shouting-and-shrieking-heard-epsteins-amanda-prestigiacomo">reportedly</a> found hanging in his jail cell on the morning of August 10 and was transferred to an area hospital, where he arrived in cardiac arrest.
As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50654/breaking-epstein-had-multiple-broken-neck-bones-ryan-saavedra">The Daily Wire</a> last week, Epstein&#8217;s autopsy results showed that the disgraced financier had multiple broken bones in his neck, which can occur from suicide-by-hanging, but is a more common finding in homicide victims.
&#8220;Among the bones broken in Epstein&#8217;s neck was the hyoid bone, which in men is near the Adam&#8217;s apple,&#8221; <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/autopsy-finds-broken-bones-in-jeffrey-epsteins-neck-deepening-questions-around-his-death/2019/08/14/d09ac934-bdd9-11e9-b873-63ace636af08_story.html">The Washington Post</a> reported. &#8220;Such breaks can occur in those who hang themselves, particularly if they are older, according to forensics experts and studies on the subject. But they are more common in victims of homicide by strangulation, the experts said.”
&#8220;The revelation about the broken bones that were found in Epstein&#8217;s neck followed the revelation on Tuesday night that the two guards who were supposed to be monitoring him fell asleep for three hours and allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50608/breaking-prison-records-were-falsified-morning-ryan-saavedra">falsified prison records</a> to cover up their actions,&#8221; The Daily Wire&#8217;s Ryan Saavedra <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50654/breaking-epstein-had-multiple-broken-neck-bones-ryan-saavedra">noted</a>.

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Epstein Given 3 Poor 12-Year-Old Girls As Birthday Present: Report

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Not knowing you’re pregnant is something most women could not even fathom. Childless women, especially, can’t understand how another woman could be pregnant and not know it. Yet examples of the phenomenon are more common than we think.
The latest example comes from South Dakota.
Dannette Giltz began having pain in her abdomen that felt like kidney stones – a health problem she had previously. She also has two other children, so she would know the difference. Yet on August 10, Giltz went to the hospital for kidney stone pain and was instead told she was in labor. She then proceeded to give birth to triplets within the span of four minutes.
ABC 4 News <a href="https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/woman-thought-she-had-kidney-stones-gave-birth-to-triplets-08-17-2019">reported</a> that each baby weighed just 4 pounds.
KOTA TV <a href="https://www.kotatv.com/content/news/Sturgis-woman-who-thought-she-had-kidney-stones-gives-birth-to-triplets-545674841.html">reported</a> that Giltz and her husband, Austin, had been together for 12 years and didn’t plan to have any more children. Their 10-year-old son, however, wanted little siblings.
“One time I seen a shooting star and I wished for a baby brother, and I wished for like two sisters for my little sister because she always wanted a little sister, I knew this day was always going to come,” said their son, Ronnie.
Ronnie apparently got his wish, as the couple was blessed with two girls and a boy.
Dannette said doctors told her to expect twins, so everyone was surprised when she ended up with triplets.
“It was quiet, we thought they were done. He’s over there, kind of like rocking like, thinking of the names and then she’s like well we need another blanket and his reaction is like excuse me, put it back, no, I was told I have twins, I’m not doing triplets. She’s like no, there’s three babies in here, there’s triplets,” Dannette said, according to KOTA TV.
The couple named their children Blaze, Gypsy, and Nikki.
“Once we left the hospital, she’s out of the hospital, I know she’s okay. I’m overwhelmed honestly, it’s still exploding in my head,&#8221; Austin told the outlet.
Dannette said she was still in shock over how she didn’t know she was 34 weeks pregnant and how she was able to conceive triplets without medical help.
“You don’t ever see triplets being conceived naturally, let alone going 34 weeks without knowing. So, everyone’s like I can’t believe it, I’m like we’re still in shock, trust me, we know what you mean like I go to the doctor’s thinking I’ll have surgery for kidney stones and end up going into labor with a c-section that night. It’s crazy,” she said.
The couple also told the outlet that they were thankful for the outpouring of support from friends and strangers who donated supplies for their surprise children.
“It’s amazing in a small town how many people will come together for stuff that&#8217;s not expected,” Dannette said.

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Woman Thinks She Has Kidney Stones. Then She Gives Birth To Triplets.

On Monday, author and New York Times columnist James B. Stewart <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-interview.html">published</a> his recollections of an interview he had with registered sex offender and multimillionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein in August of 2018, about a year before Epstein&#8217;s apparent suicide at Manhattan&#8217;s Metropolitan Correction Center on Saturday morning.
According to Stewart, Epstein compared homosexuality and pedophilia, suggesting the taboo regarding the latter should be abolished as it has with the former (at least in the United States, generally).
&#8220;[Epstein] said that criminalizing sex with teenage girls was a cultural aberration and that at times in history it was perfectly acceptable. He pointed out that homosexuality had long been considered a crime and was still punishable by death in some parts of the world,&#8221; the Times columnist wrote.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a disgusting comparison made by a disgusting man,&#8221; LGBT outlet <a href="https://www.queerty.com/jeffrey-epsteins-chilling-remarks-homosexuality-shortly-death-will-make-cringe-20190814?utm_campaign=wp-to-twitter&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_source=twitter">Queerty</a> reacted to the apparent Epstein remarks. &#8220;Being gay and being a pedophile are nothing alike.&#8221;
Clearly unbothered by his connections to girls and young women, Stewart said a young female, whom he pegged to be in her late teens or perhaps 20 years old, opened the door for him at Epstein&#8217;s New York City residence at the time of the interview. &#8220;Given Mr. Epstein&#8217;s past, this struck me as far too close to the line,&#8221; Stewart noted. &#8220;Why would Mr. Epstein want a reporter&#8217;s first impression to be that of a young woman opening his door?&#8221;
The registered sex offender also emphasized his connections to the rich and powerful, from former President Bill Clinton, to director Woody Allen, to Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Mohammed bin Salman.
&#8220;Before we left the room he took me to a wall covered with framed photographs,&#8221; Stewart recalled of Epstein. &#8220;He pointed to a full-length shot of a man in traditional Arab dress. &#8216;That&#8217;s M.B.S.,&#8217; he said, referring to Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. The crown prince had visited him many times, and they spoke often, Mr. Epstein said.&#8221;
The Times columnist added: &#8220;Behind him was a table covered with more photographs. I noticed one of Mr. Epstein with former President Bill Clinton, and another of him with the director Woody Allen. Displaying photos of celebrities who had been caught up in sex scandals of their own also struck me as odd.&#8221;
Stewart said Epstein asked him to join him for a dinner with Allen about a week after the interview had passed. &#8220;I said I&#8217;d be out of town,&#8221; Stewart said. Then, weeks after that, Epstein asked him to a dinner with anti-Trump author Michael Wolff and former adviser to President Donald Trump Steve Bannon. Stewart, again, declined. &#8220;I don’t know if these dinners actually happened,&#8221; he noted. &#8220;Mr. Bannon has said he didn&#8217;t attend. Mr. Wolff and a spokeswoman for Mr. Allen didn&#8217;t respond to requests for comment on Monday.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50640/there-sexual-picture-bill-clinton-jeffrey-epsteins-ryan-saavedra">There Is A ‘Sexual Picture’ Of Bill Clinton In Jeffrey Epstein’s Mansion, Report Says</a>

Epstein Compared Homosexuality To Pedophilia In Interview Before His Death

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Another &#8220;Drag Queen Story Hour&#8221; program is making headlines, this time for a featured drag queen captured on video teaching children how to so-called &#8220;twerk,&#8221; a popular sexually suggestive dance move practiced by the likes of strippers and adult entertainers.
&#8220;All you need to do is you just need to stand with your feet sort of shoulder-width apart like so,&#8221; an adult male in full drag with the stage name &#8220;Mama G&#8221; instructed children at a United Kingdom library earlier this month, <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/drag-queen-teaches-kids-to-twerk-at-library-story-hour">according</a> to LifeSiteNews. &#8220;And then you crouch down in this sort of position, so you&#8217;re bump&#8217;s sticking out … then you just move your bum up and down like that. And that&#8217;s twerking.&#8221;
The Twitter account for Devon Library, which is a network over 50 libraries in the U.K., boasted about the performance online. &#8220;Mama G is back in Devon this week. Combining panto, drag and the traditional art of story-telling: Mama G will be sharing tales that celebrate being who you are &amp; loving who you want,&#8221; a promotional tweet said. Mama G was booked at the Bideford and Barnstaple libraries.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Mama G is back in Devon this week. Combining panto, drag and the traditional art of story-telling: Mama G will be sharing tales that celebrate being who you are &amp; loving who you want. Wed 7th <a href="https://twitter.com/BarnstapleLibr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BarnstapleLibr</a> &amp; Thu 8th <a href="https://twitter.com/BidefordLibrary?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BidefordLibrary</a> <a href="https://t.co/LdRVQelm6U">pic.twitter.com/LdRVQelm6U</a>
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Several Twitter users voiced their concerns over the performance. &#8220;Wholly inappropriate for children,&#8221; one person wrote, adding, &#8220;what on earth were you thinking.&#8221;
&#8220;Shameful, would like to see his DBS and proof of some kind of safeguarding procedure at the libraries. The name of the person who ok&#8217;d this would also be interesting,&#8221; another user wrote.
One reply to Devon Library said, &#8220;Heavens, this abomination is in UK now. Twerking for toddlers. Hiding in plain sight.&#8221;
&#8220;FFS this is so not appropriate for children,&#8221; another comment read. &#8220;It&#8217;s disgusting misogynistic, over-sexualised and wrong on so many levels.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/devon-libraries-responds-after-parents-3184188">According</a> to Devon Live, a spokesperson for the company that represents the drag queen, Petite Pantos, said in a statement that &#8220;Mama G is a pantomime dame character who has been all over the UK (and Canada) telling stories about being who you are and loving who you want — a really important message that I&#8217;m pleased Barnstaple and Bideford Libraries are supporting.&#8221;
The spokesperson apologized for the tweet publicizing the event. &#8220;The tweet was intended for parents of children who have enjoyed my storytime sessions, especially parents that may have been looking for activities to fill the inevitable rainy days of the summer holidays,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;I am, of course, sorry that it was worded in a way that caused concern to some people.&#8221;
&#8220;Mama G is very popular with all age groups and she is looking forward to meeting all the book loving families on her visits to Barnstaple and Bideford,&#8221; the spokesperson concluded.
Libraries Unlimited, which runs Devon&#8217;s libraries on behalf of Devon County Council, according to Devon Live, also defended the event: &#8220;Story times and bounce and rhyme sessions are some of our most popular events across the county, with thousands of children attending each year. We host a variety of themed storytimes and they are always a huge success,&#8221; the group said in a statement.
&#8220;As a charity, we are committed to ensuring our libraries are welcoming, safe and inclusive places for all. We celebrate the arts, equality and diversity and are proud that our libraries offer a space for communities to come together and enjoy the power of words, reading and storytelling,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;At Libraries Unlimited we take our safeguarding responsibilities very seriously and have a safeguarding policy that is followed by all staff across the organisation.&#8221;
&#8220;In this case, we can also confirm that the artist involved has a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check,&#8221; the organization added.
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Viral Video Shows Drag Queen Teaching Children To ‘Twerk’ As Parents Look On

According to a former Metropolitan Correction Center (MCC) inmate, there is &#8220;no way&#8221; registered sex offender and millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein could have pulled off killing himself in the Manhattan facility.
&#8220;There&#8217;s no way that man could have killed himself. I&#8217;ve done too much time in those units. It&#8217;s an impossibility,&#8221; the former inmate told <a href="http://nypost.com/2019/08/10/former-mcc-inmate-theres-no-way-jeffrey-epstein-killed-himself/">The New York Post</a>&#8216;s Brad Hamilton and Bruce Golding on the condition of anonymity.
Epstein was found to have apparently hanged himself on Saturday morning at the MCC facility and was transferred to a hospital in Manhattan where he arrived in cardiac arrest, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50485/breaking-millionaire-sex-offender-jeffrey-epstein-ashe-schow">reports</a> say.
The former convict is highly skeptical of the apparent suicide due to the conditions and precautious nature of MCC. &#8220;Between the floor and the ceiling is like eight or nine feet. There&#8217;s no way for you to connect to anything. You have sheets, but they&#8217;re paper level, not strong enough. He was 200 pounds — it would never happen,&#8221; he told the Post.
The man explained that inmates on suicide watch are put in a &#8220;white smock, a straight jacket.&#8221;
&#8220;They know a person cannot be injurious to themselves,&#8221; he noted. &#8220;The clothing they give you is a jump-in uniform. Everything is a dark brown color.&#8221;
Could Epstein have had help killing himself from the bed provided in the cell? According to the former inmate, there’s not a chance of that, either. &#8220;There&#8217;s a steel frame, but you can&#8217;t move it. There&#8217;s no light fixture. There&#8217;s no bars,” he said.
&#8220;They don&#8217;t give you enough in there that could successfully create an instrument of death. You want to write a letter, they give you rubber pens and maybe once a week a piece of paper,&#8221; the man added. &#8220;Nothing hard or made of metal.&#8221;
NBC <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50485/breaking-millionaire-sex-offender-jeffrey-epstein-ashe-schow">reported</a> on Saturday, however, that was Epstein was not on suicide watch at the time of the incident, conflicting with original reports. It&#8217;s also a curious revelation, since the registered sex offender was found with marks around his neck three weeks earlier, sparking reports of Epstein being on suicide watch. As noted by <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/50485/breaking-millionaire-sex-offender-jeffrey-epstein-ashe-schow">The Daily Wire</a>&#8216;s Ashe Schow, it&#8217;s unclear, however, if the injury to his neck was from a suicide attempt, an attempt to get transferred to another prison, or an attack from another inmate.
The former inmate also said that Epstein was likely alone in his cell. &#8220;There&#8217;s up to 80 people there,&#8221; he told the Post. &#8220;They could put two in cell. It&#8217;s one or two, but I&#8217;ll never believe this guy had a cellmate. He was too blown up.&#8221;
Inmates are treated like animals at MCC, he said, telling the Post he told his parents not to come there because it was so grim.
&#8220;But it&#8217;s my firm belief that Jeffrey Epstein did not commit suicide. It just didn&#8217;t happen,&#8221; the former inmate stated.
Conspiracy theories have been circulating online since Epstein&#8217;s shocking death, many pointing to the large number of powerful people implicated in his case, including high-profile politicians.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50511/autopsy-jeffrey-epstein-has-been-completed-amanda-prestigiacomo">Autopsy On Jeffrey Epstein Has Been Completed</a>

Former Inmate At MCC: Impossible For Jeffrey Epstein To Kill Himself There

New York

Suicide

Actor Danny Trejo is best known as a villain in numerous movies and TV shows, but in real life, the 75-year-old is much different than his onscreen persona.
On Wednesday, Trejo was in the Sylmar neighborhood of Los Angeles when he witnessed a car crash that caused one vehicle to overturn. Trejo rushed to help a child that was in the overturned vehicle strapped to a car seat. CNN <a href="https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/08/07/entertainment/danny-trejo-saves-baby-trnd/index.html">reported</a> that Trejo at first tried to crawl through one of the vehicle’s broken windows but was unable to unhook the seat belt holding the child seat. Another bystander, Monica Jackson, helped him and the two were able to save the child. The child’s grandmother was still trapped in the driver’s seat, but firefighters were able to rescue her using special equipment.
Security footage <a href="https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/video/4140957-security-video-shows-actor-danny-trejo-running-to-help-after-rollover-accident-traps-woman-child-in-suv/">shows</a> Trejo rushing to the overturned vehicle as one of the first people on the scene.
ABC7 reporter Veronica Miracle reported that the child was special needs and Trejo “distracted the boy until grandma was OK.”
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Not only is <a href="https://twitter.com/officialDannyT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@officialDannyT</a> (Danny Trejo) one of the nicest actors, he’s also a <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hero?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#hero</a>!
He was right behind a crash in Sylmar and pulled a special needs baby out of an overturned car. He distracted the boy until grandma was OK. ️ —&gt; <a href="https://t.co/tS2Za4bZVZ">https://t.co/tS2Za4bZVZ</a><a href="https://twitter.com/ABC7?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABC7</a> <a href="https://t.co/U9iLzAkHkA">pic.twitter.com/U9iLzAkHkA</a>
— Veronica Miracle (@ABC7Veronica) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC7Veronica/status/1159257677190422528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trejo told reporters at the scene that he works with special-needs children and knew what to do to calm the child.
“He was panicked. I said, &#8216;OK, we have to use our superpowers.&#8217; So, he screamed &#8216;superpowers&#8217; and we started yelling &#8216;superpowers,'&#8221; Trejo said, <a href="https://abc7.com/actor-danny-trejo-helps-save-child-in-sylmar-car-crash/5451006/">according to ABC7</a>. &#8220;I said do this, with the muscles. He said &#8216;muscles.'&#8221;
&#8220;We got kind of a bond. I kept facing him away from the accident,&#8221; Trejo added.
He later told a photographer at the scene that “The only thing that saved the little kid was his car seat.”
“Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of helping someone else,” Trejo told ABC7. “Everything.”
Trejo has not always been a Hollywood actor. He spent an entire decade in and out of prison when he was a teenager and said he started smoking marijuana when he <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/20/from-prison-to-profits-danny-trejos-secret--do-not-act-like-a-movie-star.html">was just 8 years old</a>. He has been sober for more than 40 years since his last prison sentence. After he was out, he began working as a youth drug counselor and was asked by a patient to help with drug problems on a movie set. Trejo’s menacing appearance landed him a job as an extra in the film.
The movie’s screenwriter recognized Trejo from prison — where Trejo became a boxer. The screenwriter hired Trejo to train one of the stars of the film. From there he was offered another small part in another movie and the rest is history.
Outside of his film career, Trejo owns several successful restaurants: Trejo’s Tacos, Trejo’s Cantina, and Trejo’s Coffee &amp; Donuts. He also still helps kids avoid drugs and alcohol, using his own life as an example.

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