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Once they get into the hands of the military, they will be tortured brutally.

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She was seen as a dangerous political actor and tried to Pakistan security, but she was a local hero.

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In the 80s, as a little kid, we were outdoors all the time. We'd like to break dance and roller skate.

And we were always on boats and swimming and sunburned. My brother and I have a ridiculous amount of freckles.

Kristen Galvin was born and raised in a small beach town called Stewart, Florida.

Unlike some of the other kind of tourist sprawling towns on the Atlantic, it stayed small and quaint.

Sounds nice.

Yeah, it's a beautiful place.

Kristen is not one of the children from the Martinsville case, but replaced the ocean with prairie plains and she could be.

The satanic panic descended on Kristen's quiet little town in 1988, homing in on her preschool, Glendale Montessori.

I loved school. Everyone thought it was a great experience for me. I was able to tie my shoes at the age of two, which everyone was impressed by.

My mother to this day still tells everyone she had nothing but fond memories of her time at the preschool.

But that would change.

Basically, the town had organized a kind of community meeting for all the parents who had ever sent a child to this preschool.

Because earlier that year, they had arrested the owner of the preschool and also the secretary and were continuing to investigate some other people who had worked there.

And what started out as being, they thought there was like maybe some isolated boys who had been sexually abused, started to turn into actually the school has been open for however long 15 years, 20 years.

So we need to go back and start looking into everyone who ever attended this school to find out how far this spread.

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