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The Arcade Circus operated out of a dilapidated green-roofed brick warehouse pressed snugly against a hillside in Katoomba, an Australian town in the scenic Blue Mountains. A website affiliated with the school says the space offered neophyte performers — including special needs children — the “opportunity to learn and master circus skill in an environment balanced with circus fun and discipline.”
“My daughter joined the circus classes last year and we attended weekly for a few terms,” one mother told the Daily Mail recently. “She loved it . . . we had absolutely no inkling of anything sinister.”
Then last September, parents received an email from the school saying classes were canceled, 9 News Sydney reported. No reason was provided.
Australian law enforcement now alleges the circus school was not a venue for big top entertainment but a horror show.
Last Monday, investigators arrested seven individuals — two men and five women — affiliated with the school for allegedly sexually abusing three young boys between 2014 and 2016, according to a news release from the New South Wales Police Force.
Altogether the accused face 127 criminal counts, including rape, kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault of a child and making child abuse material. Citing police documents, the Australian newspaper reported the young victims were used in “blood rituals” on at least one occasion...
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.82638a7089f9
“My daughter joined the circus classes last year and we attended weekly for a few terms,” one mother told the Daily Mail recently. “She loved it . . . we had absolutely no inkling of anything sinister.”
Then last September, parents received an email from the school saying classes were canceled, 9 News Sydney reported. No reason was provided.
Australian law enforcement now alleges the circus school was not a venue for big top entertainment but a horror show.
Last Monday, investigators arrested seven individuals — two men and five women — affiliated with the school for allegedly sexually abusing three young boys between 2014 and 2016, according to a news release from the New South Wales Police Force.
Altogether the accused face 127 criminal counts, including rape, kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault of a child and making child abuse material. Citing police documents, the Australian newspaper reported the young victims were used in “blood rituals” on at least one occasion...
Read more:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.82638a7089f9
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