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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

'In the Valley of Sin': Pastor speaks out, arrested, beaten!

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.2 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

"In the Valley Of Sin" is a six-hour docuseries 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 Pastor Roby Roberson, his wife Connie, and daughter Rebekah Osborn. As Pastor Roby speaks out about the injustice of the arrests, he and Connie arrested themselves and charged with child abuse. Joining Nancy Grace today:Pastor Roby Roberson - victimConnie Roberson - victim Rebekah Osbourn - Robersons' Daughter.    Tom 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   Elizabeth Loftus - Distinguished Professor, Psychological Science, Criminology, Law & Society Cognitive Sciences School of Law, University of California, Irvine, leading human memory expert, author “The Myth of Repressed Memory”   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

You know, we hear of scenarios like this in other countries like Russia or China or North

0:14.9

Korea where people are rounded up in the night and arrested, and they're never really

0:23.0

sure about what they're being charged with, and they don't have a voice.

0:27.7

They can't speak out, they can't fight back.

0:31.0

Well, it's not just Russia and China and North Korea.

0:36.0

It happened right here.

0:37.8

Not just in our beloved America.

0:42.6

And happened in Wenatchi, the so-called Apple Capital of the World, where there's nothing

0:49.5

but Apple orchards and green as far as the eye can see.

1:01.0

I gotta tell you, it pains me to tell the story, because I've told so many juries that they

1:09.7

should believe a child, because children don't have the skills and deception that adults

1:19.3

have, it's much harder for them to lie and stick to a long complicated story.

1:24.7

Well, that much is true, unless that statement was coerced, forced.

1:33.4

I am talking about the Valley of Sin, mothers, fathers, pastors, pastors, wives, being

1:44.6

heard it up like cattle and thrown behind bars.

1:50.4

Many of them illiterate, couldn't read, didn't understand what was going on.

1:59.2

Let me introduce to you an all-star panel joining me today.

2:04.0

First of all, Robbie and Connie Robertson.

2:08.5

Let me correct myself, Pastor Robertson and his wife, Connie, who spoke out against what

2:17.5

they saw happening and how did they get paid back?

2:22.6

They were thrown in jail, and Pastor Robertson was beaten.

2:27.2

Rebecca Osborne, the Robertson's daughter, Tom Grant, award-winning journalist, 30-plus

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