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Hello and welcome to True Crime Daily, the podcast covering high profile and under the radar cases.

I'm your host Anna Garcia and this is a special edition.

We are calling this a survivor's edition. Our guest today is Glenn Head, who is a successful

cartoonist whose work has been featured in the New York Times and in sports illustrated,

though he much prefers to be called an underground artist. Glenn, welcome to the program.

Thanks very much for having me on. We're thrilled that you're here. We have so many questions for you.

I want to explain to everyone why Glenn is here. So Glenn and dozens, perhaps even hundreds of other

children were sexually assaulted in New Jersey at a boarding school in the 1970s and the 1980s by

the headmaster who turned out to be a serial child sex abuser, a pedophile in charge of the children.

That man, Terence Lynch, was convicted and sentenced to prison for those crimes, but the scars and

the damage that he did to these innocent children has lived on for decades. Glenn, who is one of the

survivors, has just published a graphic novel, a memoir of that horrific period and in the book,

Glenn recounts what happened to him in the form of cartoons. You are an artist, Glenn.

I read that you said that writing and drawing this book was as close to an exorcism as you could have

gotten. Could you tell us about that? Yeah, and that is pretty accurate. It was a lot like that.

And that particular statement relates to certain elements of the demonic or even satanic that

exist in the book. And I relate that to the headmaster at this boarding school. He used to come

in at night and have bedtime stories, which sometimes were of a kind of ghoulish variety. And

this one case in point was he told us about when he was a child and he snuck out at night and he

happened upon a gathering of Satanists performing a black mass. And so we were all terrified and

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