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Maines Shameful Pedophile Ring, a State

Secret: Child Sex Abuse

Maine has just beenrated third worstin the country for sex trafficking. TheBangor DailyNewssays Maine a source for the entire East Coast to procure children for sex abuse. Those

who know Maines history are not surprised.

Only a few years ago when students at theBaxter School for the Deaftried to refuse sexual

abuse by their director,Dr. Robert Kelly,he tied thechildren naked to a treeand left them alone,

all night, in the Maine woods. TheState of Maineprotected Dr. Kelly and not the children.Maines Attorney General (AG) refused to prosecute. Apparently the State continues topay Dr.

Kellyhis pension. When children are tied naked to pine trees as a grooming exercise for rape

and no one is prosecuted, the devil is walking the halls of Maines Attorney Generals office.

Lawyers in the AGs office used a statute of limitations excuse to justify their protection ofabusers and not children. This is wide recognition that there can be no statute of limitations for

crimes of child abuseand Maine legislatures, in 1991, ended the statute of limitations for childsexual abuse. Then thefederal District Court for the District of Maine,in an unbelievable

judgment ruled that the Legislature clearly did not intendfor this expanded statute of limitations

to revive claims that were already barred by the previous statute of limitations in force prior tothe amendments.

Judges in Maine, both state and federal, appear eager to protect abusers and not children.FromBaxter School for the DeaftoKennebunks Zumba prostitution scandal,Maine courts have

systematically protected child abusers and not children. Child abusers like Dr. Kelly, former FBI

Bureau ChiefJohn Kenoyer,who raped a ten year old girl for over a year, and former AssistantAttorney General James Cameron, recentlyarrested for child porn,are considered importantpeopleand productive members of the community. Judges in Maine protect them. One has to

wonder why.

I stumbled upon the massive cover-up of extreme child abuse at the Baxter School for the Deaf

when I delved into the Freedom of Information Act (FIOA) files about the cover-up of child sexabuse byMaines Catholic priests.For three yearsJeannine Guttman,formerly Executive Editor

of the Portland Press Herald, fought to get the State to release these records. When Maine did

release, it was only records of abuse by deceased or Alzheimers priests. Current records of

living priests accused of child sex abuse remains protected by the State.

I thought the Catholic Church sex abuse documents would be painful enough to read but Id been

advised to dig deep intoPineland Schoolas well as what the State did toNative Americancommunities. The abuse was equally horrific. Maine has just established aTruth and

Reconciliation Commissionto create a public record of what Maines child protective services

did and continues to do to Wabanaki children.

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MainesRobert Tristram Coffinwas one of Americas great poets. Coffin spoke about sons and

daughters of Maine, rock-bound coasts, and pine-trees. A place where one can still see the Milky

Way at night; where old-fashion values are held sacred and folks are judged not by their financialwealth but the weight of their human souls.

That is the Maine I still know or so I believed until I started researchingMaines dark history ofthe cover-up of child sex abuse.So-called good Mainers who cultivate public images as

pillars of the community have been allowed to plunder, rape, and torture generations of

Maines children. Those, likeRod HothamandJames Levier,who raised their voices in pain andoutrage have been silenced. This was not the Maine Coffin loved. It is not the Maine I cherish.

Decades of shameful silence and impunity for child abuse continues in Maine with children likeAyla Reynolds,Logan Marr,David HandlerandMila Malenkotreated exactly as the child abuse

at Baxter, the Catholic Church, Pineland and Wabanakis has been handled; cover-up, deny,

protect the abuser and not the children. Maine has been recognized by theBangor Daily Newsas

a source for the entire East Coast to procure children because there is a powerful state-system in

place that allows this to happen.

Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King said Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about thingsthat matter. We must now end the silence. No more cover-ups. No more children in Maine

abused while Maine protects the abusers. US Attorney General Eric Holder must appoint a

special prosecutor to conduct an in-depth investigation into the corruption of public officials inMaine around the issues of child trafficking, child porn and child sex abuse. The silence and

abuse must end now.

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Lori Handrahan, Ph.D. is a professor in Washington DC. She ran for US Congress in Maineand is from New Sharon/Sorrento Maine. Twitter: @dcprofessor1

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