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It started with me going down on her

Eventually we would start to have sex she would cry when she did it like she knew what she was doing

Welcome to season 4 episode 99 of Sword and Scale a show that reveals the worst monsters are real

In this episode we have a very important topic to talk about a topic many rarely discuss male sexual child abuse

We have some stories to share and we're joined by real crime profiles Jim Clemente

Please stay with us

When I was a boy maybe around 11 or 12 years of age I would ride my skateboard or bike really around my neighborhood

It was a different era we didn't have played aits or helicopter parents we didn't even have cell phones

There was no internet cable TV was essentially one channel HBO

It felt like a more innocent time than the turmoil we see today on 24 hour news networks

But it wasn't it just seemed that way on this one day I was riding my skateboard going between my grandmother's house and my mother's house where I lived

It's a short route just around a corner the houses are but a block away from each other and I had almost reached that corner

When I noticed a white van slowing down and pulling up next to the curb where I was skating by

It was one of those non distinct white vans with no windows not too new not too old

The same kind of van that gets a hole cut on one side to be modified into a nice cream truck plastered with stickers of snow cones and cherry screw balls and orange pop-ups

While a musical horn plays an endless loop of carnival sounding music

But this van had no ice cream it was plain white no markings nothing at all that would stand out

Inside a man rolled down his window and called out to me I stopped

He held up a polaroid in his left hand on it a picture of a child

This child looked young younger than me maybe seven or eight maybe younger

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