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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

In the Valley of Sin: CPS worker speaks up, flees to Canada with 5-year-old

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In the Valley Of Sin" is a six-hour docu-series that examines the mid-90's witch-hunt that pitted neighbor against neighbor in Wenatchee, Washington, when police uncovered a monstrous child sex ring known among its membership as 'The Circle.' Local authorities alleged that dozens of children were raped in the bedrooms of their parents, in the homes of their neighbors, and at ritualized orgies on the altar of a church. But there was one problem: there was no sex ring, a truth that only emerged after 43 parents were arrested and dozens of children were made wards of the state. Today, Nancy Grace speaks with a social worker who questioned the claims. Ultimately, Paul Glassen was fired, and he was so worried about repercussions that he moved his family, including his 5-year-old son to Canada. Joining Nancy Grace today: Paul Glassen - Fired by CPS & moved family to CanadaTom Grant - Award-winning journalist (30+ years), former reporter, KREM, Associate Professor of Journalism at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College,  co-executive producer of “In the Valley of Sin” and other documentaries, www.drthomasgrant.com Steve Lacy - Defense Attorney , former Mayor, East WenatcheeDr. Teresa Gil - Professor of Psychology and Psychotherapist, 25 years Working with Child Abuse and Trauma Victims, Teresa Gil PHD.com, Author: "Women Who Were Sexually Abused as Children: Mothering, Resilience, and Protecting the Next Generation" Kathryn Lyon - Author, “Witch Hunt: A True Story of Social Hysteria and Abused Justice”, former public defender, Pierce County, Washington.

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0:00.0

I have come to appreciate that childhood and what could be more wholesome than the Apple

0:14.7

capital of the world when at Washington.

0:18.8

Now home to one of the worst child sex scandals ever.

0:24.3

Didn't anyone stop and notice what was happening?

0:27.9

Didn't anyone stand up and say this is wrong?

0:32.5

As this couple and that couple, this mother, that father, a pastor, his wife, all thrown

0:38.7

behind bars on charges of child rape and child molestation.

0:43.9

No one thought to question what was going on around them.

0:48.8

It's so easy to blame just one person, Detective Perez, apparently drunk on power with an

0:56.3

extra dose of arrogance added in.

1:00.6

But what really happened?

1:03.1

What about all the other lawyers, the prosecutors, the social workers that were part of this

1:08.7

so-called investigation?

1:19.0

As we explore one of the worst travesties of justice, ever to take place in our country,

1:25.9

that we know of.

1:26.9

As I've said before, you hear of people being rounded up and the night dragged away from

1:33.0

their homes and countries like Russia and China, North Korea.

1:36.9

But here in America, mothers and dads literally being taken away from the supper table with

1:44.5

their children sitting there charged with child rape.

1:50.8

Give me an all-star panel to analyze what happened, players that were there when it all went

1:58.6

down.

1:59.6

But in case you're wondering who was standing by, twiddling your thums, is it all played

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