Due to the graphic nature of this episode, listener discretion is advised.

This episode contains discussions of murder, sexual assault, child abuse, and self-harm that some listeners

may find disturbing. Extreme caution is advised for listeners under 13.

Pastor Robert Roberson was frowning. 13. For the last several months his small town of Wenatchee, Washington had been embroiled in a dark investigation.

Children were accusing their parents and the parents of their friends of sexual abuse.

Every day it seemed more children came forward and more adults

were revealed to be part of a massive underground sex ring.

And while several the neighbors were horrified,

Pastor Roberson was skeptical.

He'd led the local Pentecostal church for years.

Several of the accused were part of his congregation,

and he just couldn't believe that this vast

conspiracy could really have been hiding under their noses for so long.

The more he listened to the police briefing, the more agitated he became.

When they opened the floor for questions, Roberson cleared his throat and stood up.

None of this seemed right to him.

Were the police sure they had their facts straight?

The accused were uneducated. Were the police sure they had their facts straight?

The accused were uneducated, many of them immigrants, and a lot of them barely made ends meet.

He knew the members of his church.

They would never do such a thing.

At the front of the room, Detective Robert Perez crossed his arms.

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