Sex Slave in California

He kidnapped her and kept her as his sex slave. When she was not sexually servicing him, she “lived” in a coffin-like box beneath his bed in sunny, sunny California. His wife knew all about it.

No, I am not talking about the ordeal of Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was kidnapped in 1991 when she was 11-years-old and who has just been rescued after an eighteen year captivity in the northern California home of Phillip and Nancy Garrido.

I am talking about 20-year-old Oregonian, Colleen Stan, who in 1977 was kidnapped by Cameron and Janice Hooker, buried alive in a coffin-like box and enslaved for seven years in southern California. The Hookers were a well-liked couple who had two children. Cameron was a 24-year-old bespectacled mill-worker at a lumber company. Janice was the kind of wife and mother who sewed, crocheted, entertained friends and who eventually worked at a nearby convenience store.

Here’s what the “average, mild, well-liked” mill worker did to Colleen Stan…Continue reading on Chesler Chronicles >>

 

American Heroes Today: The Battle to Pass the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Act

Please don’t call me an optimist-my view of humanity and of human events has become far too sober-but, it is plain to see: Although the forces of evil may triumph, the battle is at least joined. Good men and women are “doing something.” They are fighting. Sometimes, they are even winning.

For example: In addition to the widespread and increasing use of rape as a systematic weapon of war, even of genocide, the international trafficking in persons, mainly women and children, has also risen alarmingly. Children are sold and women are lured or kidnapped and then sold into sexual slavery. All this is true and seems to be getting worse.

And yet, on the evening of December 10, 2008, the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Act was passed by both houses of Congress. According to Michael Horowitz, a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, who has led a left-right coalition on this subject for a decade, the bill passed by “unanimous consent”-but only after the “intense federal lobbying against it” had failed…Continue reading on Chesler Chronicles >>