Brother Paul's Children's Mission

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Brother Paul's Children's Mission was an organization identified in July 1976 as a front for a child pornography ring operating out of North Fox Island in Lake Michigan. It was incorporated on June 18, 1975, and was advertised as an organization which "provide[d] services to children with reading problems, minor emotional counseling, and classes in physical fitness". During paid sessions on the island, boys would be filmed engaging in sex acts with each other and adults, and were occasionally prostituted to the Mission's wealthiest customers. Francis Shelden was the proprietor of North Fox Island, while Adam Starchild was the president of the Mission's parent company. Gerald Richards and Dyer Grossman were two other men involved in the Mission. The latter three were not convicted of sex crimes in the case⁠‍—‍there was not sufficient evidence to charge Starchild, and the other two fled following Richards' arrest. During a 1977 United States Senate subcommittee hearing, gay rights activist...

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