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Maniac (2012)

2012’s Maniac is a slasher film with a lot to unpack. It’s not a movie you would ever call “fun” but that’s the point. Violent and disturbing, it's not for sensitive viewers and not the kind of picture you easily forget.

Schizophrenic Frank Zito (Elijah Wood) restores mannequins for a living. At night, he prowls the streets, latching onto women who remind him of his now-dead prostitute mother (America Olivo). After violent murdering and scalping them, Frank returns home and attaches his victim's hair to the many mannequins in his room.

The choice to shoot entirely from Frank’s point of view gets you thinking. Many slasher films have been accused of sympathizing with the killer rather than their victims; allowing the audience to see their violent crimes - crimes that often have sexual connotations - and relishing in the carnage. Often, this type of camerawork seems purely practical; it's a way to hide the killer’s identity (the original Friday the 13th for example) but it's still an unnerving choice because we switch to this point of view only when the killer is about to strike. These horror movies are shot normally, until we get to the violence. In 2012’s Maniac, there is no mystery. We know exactly who the killer is. We even know who the victims will be because we see everything Frank sees. Maniac is frightening because we never switch angles. We’re trapped in this viewpoint, unable to see anything except his violent, deranged acts.

The brutality on display is likely to be excessive for many viewers. Detractors would call the film misogynist - nearly every woman we meet is terrorized - but I’d disagree. Frank is certainly a man with severe psychological issues. His mother was an awful person who inadvertently created a monster, but nothing in the film tells us that the women he murders deserve their fate. Many of them are simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Some antagonize Frank. Others reach out and attempt to befriend him. What happens to these women has nothing to do with their behavior and everything to do with our protagonist.

You’d think that experiencing these events from inside Frank’s shoes would endear you to him in a way, but director Franck Khalfoun manages to avoid making him sympathetic. We explore his character plenty. There is a plot but most of the running time is spent with Frank and the aftermath of his actions. Despite this, he never feels anything other than sad and pathetic. I don’t mean sad in the sense that you want to hug him; this man is profoundly unhappy, completely lacking in self-control, totally delusional and an absolute menace. It’s hard to imagine anyone relating to him beyond the fact that he’s a human being. He may have experienced trauma but even his past doesn’t excuse this level of unhinged madness.

I was going to write down that the more I think about Maniac, the more I like it… but “like” is the wrong word. I’d say I admire it for the way that it doesn’t back down. There is no attempt to make gore and violence something palatable. The way it manages to put us in a different headspace than we’ve ever seen without making us empathize with this monster is admirable. You might not like it, but that doesn’t make Maniac a bad film. (On DVD, October 24, 2021)

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watching the jan broberg mini series and it is EXTREMELY swirly eyes emoji to me that the actual jan broberg is here playing her character-self and family's psychologist. on the opposite spectrum of memoir as catharsis as fun home. what if they made a movie of your life and you got to therapize your father but its because you felt guilty towards him

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Netflix documentary ‘Abducted in Plain Sight’ angers viewers, Jan Broberg Felt defends parents

Netflix documentary ‘Abducted in Plain Sight’ angers viewers, Jan Broberg Felt defends parents

Originally titled “Forever ‘B'” and released in the United States on May 26, 2017, “Abducted in Plain Sight” premiered on Netflix on January 15, 2019 but it was only recently that people started talking about it. The true-crime documentary tells how actress Jan Broberg Felt, 57, was abducted twice by a pedophile named Robert “B” Berchtold, who was married to Gail Berchtold.

Understandably,…

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Abducted in Plain sight: Documentary Review

Abducted in Plain Sight is a Netflix show. It’s about a family in Idaho and the evil they befriend. The Broberg family consist of Jan Broberg, Bob Broberg, Mary Ann Broberg, Karen Campbell, Susan Broberg. The story also centers around Robert “B” Bertchtold. Literally the most bizarre shit I have ever watched. “B” is married to Gayle, and the couple has 5 kids. Their names? I have no idea. The documentary possibly told us, but I was much too wrapped up in B’s conniving pedophila. This guy was the original pied piper of “R&B”. You see B lived a double life, one in which he loved children in a way only a pedophile could. B moved into the Broberg’s neighborhood in 1972. B was really charming guy, and that’s an understatement. After the meeting with the Broberg’s the first time, B mailed a card. It said, “I enjoyed your family”. They didn’t have a clue what was coming. Bob Broberg was thrilled about the card. He said, “B was a sharp guy”. After rewatching the documentary, I see that Bob may have had the hots for B. The signs were there. Me personally I’m thinking, don’t enjoy my family bruh. Hell wrong with you.

B took a special liking to Jan. He adopted a “Get Jan or Die Trying Mentality. He really didn’t give a fuck about who stood in his way either. My wife? Pshh. My kids? Fuck them kids. It’s all about Jan, baby. B would pick the Bertchtold kids up in the mornings. For what? I have no idea. B kept recordings of his inner most thoughts about Jan. During one of these recordings he admitted to kissing and telling Jan he loved her. Bertchtold laid his pedo game down flat. He wasn’t even trying to hid the shit. He called Mary Ann Broberg one morning and said, “I want to take Jan out horseback riding”. Mary Ann was hesitant, but Jan was persistent about going. Eventually Mary Ann concedes. This was 1974. On the drive to the stables B gives Jan an “allergy pill”. We later find out it was a sleeping pill. Instead of taking Jan horseback riding he abducts Jan for the first time. Yes, the first time. Stick with me. Jan doesn’t make it home that night. Under advice from Gayle Bertchtold they do not alert the authorities. They actually waited days before getting the law involved. They didn’t want to upset Gayle. *insert blank stare*. 5 days go on and the FBI were eventually contacted.

Fast forward. The FBI gets involved, and starts digging into the Bertchtold’s life. We get to meet Joe Bertchtold, who basically told us his brother wasn’t shit. Joe explains that B attempted to molest his younger sister when he was 12. Jan gives us a flash back before the abduction about sleeping at the Bertchtold’s. She recalls waking up panties around her ankles with B touching her. He explained that she tossed and turned all night. That’s the reason her panties were down. B didn’t just want Jan though. B wanted to divide and conquer the whole family. B went at Mary Ann’s neck. Spoon feeding her compliments. Next thing you know B was feeling up ole Mary Ann. Boy was she excited about it. Mary Anne was hot and spicy over Bertchtold. Here’s where the ride gets tricky. One day B went to visit Mr. Broberg at work. He goes on to tell Bob that his wife not upping that cat how he like. My man told Bob let’s go for a ride bruh. He goes on to explain that he needs to have sex. Now remember earlier when I noted that Mr. Broberg was hot in the pants over B? Yea. So B asks Mr. Bob, “can you give me some relief?” This shit is honestly shocking. Mr. Bob goes ahead and give B a good old fashioned band job. Bruh.. this shit is insane. Yes. You read that right. Mr. Broberg beats that mans meat in the front seat on lunch. B was playing Bob. All this shit was to get Jan.

While B has Jan abducted he inputs a white box in the motor home he is keeping her in. The box relays an alien voice. The voice tells Jan she has a mission. The mission is to have a baby by a male companion by the time she turned 16, who is later revealed to be B. Zeta and Zethra revealed that Jan was part alien. If Jan did not complete this mission her sister Susan would take her place. Aliens also explain that if the mission isn’t completed they will kill her family. So from this point Jan thinks she’s an alien. She can’t get close to her dad. She can’t talk to her family. B marries Jan in Mexico. She was 12. Eventually the FBI find Bob and Jan in Mexico, he is arrested and she is transferred home.

Damage was done. Jan believes she has a mission to complete. She hates her family. B somehow got Jan’s Mom to put this girl on a plane and send her to B in Utah. WYLD. Bruh her moms was dumb as a box of rocks. Some where in the story Jan gets back. B continues to contact Mary Ann. Mary was already curious about B. So he asked her what that cat was about. She showed him. He basically used this to split the family up. B convinced Mary Ann to move out. She was gone. That outside dick keep them hoes sick. Keep in mind this is after he fucked her husband and Molested her child. Mrs. Broberg still decided to pop it for B. That’s a wild girl. Baby left the whole family for the pedo peen. Mean while ole B called Bob, Mary’s husband. B’s telling him I’m going to take your kids away etc etc. Mary Ann comes back to her senses, she goes back home. B get his wife Gayle to meet with the Broberg’s. She had them sign affidavits saying, B and Mr. Broberg engaged in the horizontal mambo. All charges were dropped. This man basically was waking around Scott free. I think he spent 10 days in Jail after kid napping Jan 3 times. Eventually Jan turns 16 and not pregnant. She starts to realize B lied about her not being an alien. Sigh. B eventually does get arrested for posing as a CIA agent. He forges paperwork saying he’s Jan’s parent and enrolls her in a catholic school. This violated his parole. B was acquitted on kidnapping charges due to mental defect. White privilege is a mother. Never mind.

Boom. Fast forward years later. Jan and her good for nothing maw release a book about the experience. B threatens to sue them. Jan files an injunction. Jan sees B for the first time in 30 years in court. Bertchtold tells Jan to her face this story is an out right lie. B denied all accounts of the story while looking Jan in the face. A total piece of shit scum bag. The pedo privilege was so enormous in B, that he confronted Jan at a woman’s conference. B drive up to the Conference and ran over Jan’s security. Bertchtold was arrested and charged with 2 felonies and 2 misdemeanors. Found guilty in court and scheduled for sentencing. B decided to commit suicide rather than sit in jail. Good riddance.

Honestly you will just need to watch this doc. It was really too wild and bizarre for me to summarize. I felt like I needed to tell the story back to convince myself of what I watched. There’s no proper ending. The end.

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Guía de personajes y elenco de Friend of the Family

Guía de personajes y elenco de Friend of the Family

El drama original El pavo real, un amigo de la familia presenta un elenco de estrellas que da vida a un caso de crimen real. La serie se basa en el secuestro real de Jan Broberg Felt, quien fue secuestrado dos veces por un amigo de la familia, Robert Berchtold. El elenco del drama incluye actores establecidos, así como talentos emergentes. un amigo de la familia creado por Nick Acosta, mejor…

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The Night Before They Hung Ruth Ellis, and Other Stories From My Life (2006) by Margareta Strömstedt

I thought this was a witness book of some close friend to Ruth Ellis (a woman who was hanged after shooting the man who killed her unborn baby by kicking her in the stomach) but actually it's a completely childhood biographical book of this unknown author, with the telling of Ruth Ellis only happend in two pages: where she just saw and interacted with her in some hotel they both happened to be in one time. Felt a bit cheap to use her name in the title..

The overall red thread through her book is an old fashioned view that woman are to find a man and give birth to babies, she romanticize this idea heavily and describe the feeling of independence as hysteria (this is in 1955) or as a personal insanity.

There's a part where she really loses it infront of her boyfriend; obsessively chanting sentences like "tell me you love me!!", destroy property, being abusive towards him. Apologize with sex. I felt so sorry for him when she got pregnant and they HAD to marry, and she first described him as a happy poet and then became a silent shell of a man.

She sped up the car one time to 200 mph (she actually wrote 300-400 mph but that sounds like a lie), he literally screams in fright in the passenger seat, and when stops she tell us she will never forget the sound of his scream and that power she felt. I hate her.

Strömstedt tell of different scattered events in her life, some interesting and some completely boring. She likes to portray her as a victim but i'm not sure of what (when a murder has happened, she goes "wow that could have been me"), and some of the stories sound heavily exaggerated, hidden behind dressed-up words that you can totally see through.

She is jealous of beautiful women and convince herself that her husband is cheating (nothing says he is). But as soon as some man gives her attention (a doctor doing a check up for example) she confess her love to them, it's so creepy. Often they end up romantically but it sounds so ridiculous and fake like something my grandma would make up.

And oh! Ofc she is convinced she is also supernatural, can see ghosts and predict stuff.. She tells like a grandma "I told Sarah, and her eyes widened, i knew she was frightened to learn this." No, honey, she thinks you're crazy. 1/5 stars

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Our Little Secret (2007) by Duncan Fairhurst

Think i got this book at the same time as i read "A Child Called It" (2001) by Dave Pelzer and expected something similiar.

But after 92 pages out of 256 pages, i felt i can't go on anymore, i get too upset and nauseous because it's too awful.

Duncan tells how he as a six year old up til teen was manipulated to think father and sons had sexual activities together. As if everyone does it! Because his childbrain thought it was normal, the language becomes very casually detailed when telling of such disgusting things.

It really reminds me of a similiar event in a documentary called Abducted in Plain Sight (2017) when 12-year old Jan Broberg was abducted by a neighbor after he successfully convinced her they had to have sex or aliens would destroy the world. 1/5 stars

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Must-Watch Netflix Documentaries in 2020

 Netflix is one of the biggest streaming platforms across the globe. It offers an extensive catalog of movies, web series, and exciting documentaries.

In this article, we will mention some incredible Netflix’s documentaries that will keep you glued to the screen:

Abducted in Plain Sight

Abducted in Plain Sight is a spine-chilling story of a manipulative neighbor who managed to kidnap a teenage girl named “Jan Broberg Felt” twice with his manipulative skills. It is one of the best true-crime documentaries which will give you nightmares. The story was first published by Jan and her mother in a memoir named Stolen Innocence: The Jan Broberg Story.

Babies

Babies is a perfect documentary for people who love babies or just had a baby. The documentary shows the vivid details about the baby’s growth and how they develop in the womb. The documentary involves the testimonials of 15 families with their babies and a group of experts on the subject.

Crip Camp

Crip Camp is a documentary depicting a revolution known as “Camp Jened” for disabled teenagers in the 1970s to empower and transform their lives. The story is narrated by a former camper with some archive videos and photos.

The Pharmacist

The Pharmacist is the story of a father who lost his son in a drug-related shooting in 1999 in New Orleans. Schneider begins a vigorous campaign against Big Pharma companies when he notices that a lot of youngsters and seemingly healthy people start visiting his pharmacy with prescriptions for OxyContin, a narcotic drug that is used as a painkiller.

The Last Dance

The Last Dance is a must-watch documentary for basketball lovers. The documentary depicts the story of Chicago’s best basketball team named “The Chicago Bulls.” The documentary features some unseen material from the golden age of the Bulls and interviews with some highly influential figures like Michael Jordan, Barack Obama, and Steve Kerr.

Flint Town

Flint Town documentary depicts the disturbing events in Flint Town, including violence and chaos. It shows the town’s people struggle like unemployment, robberies, and water shortages due to contamination. The makers of the documentary embed with the FPD officers who are facing infrastructure issues and putting their lives in danger to protect around 1,00,000 people with limited resources.

Icarus

Icarus is an award-winning documentary that depicts a thorough investigation of Russian doping and scandals. In this documentary, Bryan Fogel voluntarily takes performance-enhancing drugs to evaluate their impact on his body and athletic performance. The documentary also reveals that 99% of Russian athletes have taken these drugs to enhance their athletic performance.

Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich

Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich is one of the most recommended and most-watched documentary which depicts the imprisonment and suicide of a famous billionaire named Jeffrey Epstein. The documentary involves the details of the sex scandal, which is narrated by Epstein’s business partners and old friends.

Jim & Andy

Jim & Andy is a must-watch documentary for the fans of the famous movie named “Man on the Moon.” In this documentary, Jim Carrey depicts how his role as Andy Kaufman in the film changed his life. The documentary includes footage from the making and some real incidents during the making of this film.

Joshua: Teenager VS Superpower

Joshua: Teenager VS Superpower is a story of a Chinese teen named Joshua Wong, who initiated a youth movement with more than 1,00,000 participants when China’s communist party breaks its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong.

Trial by Media

Trial by Media depicts the influence of the media on criminal verdicts and shows the interesting facts about the justice system. The documentary involves some real-life cases where media coverage affected the judgment towards a guilty or innocent one.

Miss Americana

Miss Americana depicts the real-life struggles of today’s musical icon, Taylor Swift. In this documentary, she opens about her journey as a musician and her battle with Anorexia Nervosa.

Unsolved Mysteries

Unsolved Mysteries features some modern-day mysteries in a total of six episodes representing some real-life cases of paranormal activities, horrific murders, and suspenseful disappearances.

Conclusion

Documentaries offer in-depth information on real-life events, which makes it more interesting than fictitious movies. The documentaries, as mentioned above on Netflix, will make you more informed about some real-life incidents.

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May your birthday be filled with laughter! Jan Broberg Felt (Movie Actress), 58 years old. Happy birthday to someone who is smart, gorgeous, funny and reminds me a lot of myself… from one fabulous chick to another! https://ift.tt/3gklJ1z

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It’s Official: The Best True Crime Documentary Of Them All

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We’ve watched a lot of true crime documentaries since Above the Law’s March Madness bracket began on March 21st in an attempt to suss out the very best of the genre. Of course, as with any competition, it means we’ve had to say goodbye to some of our favorites along the way. Like Amanda Knox, the documentary that gave us an inside look at Knox’s international legal woes, or Lorena, which looks at the infamous 90s figure with the much more sensitive modern lens, or Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, an absolutely gutting look about how crime devastated one family.

But our finals pitted two classics against one another: The Jinx, about the suspicious deaths that seem to follow Robert Durst around and Abducted in Plain Sight, the wild story of the kidnapping of Jan Broberg Felt. It was a close battle, but the pure insanity of Abducted in Plain Sight has won the day.

Congrats to our winner, and thanks to everyone who voted!

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'Abducted in Plain Sight' Victim Jan Broberg Fielding Movie Offers

Millie Bobby Brown is spot on for the starring role in a movie adaption of the "Abducted in Plain Sight" documentary ... so says the woman who was kidnapped and repeatedly molested.  Jan Broberg Felt, the victim who spoke out in the…

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Undercover spy exposed in NYC was 1 of many

AP Exclusive: Undercover spy exposed in NYC was 1 of many LONDON — When mysterious operatives lured two cybersecurity researchers to meetings at luxury hotels over the past two months, it was an apparent bid to discredit their research about an Israeli company that makes smartphone hacking technology used by some governments to spy on their citizens. The Associated Press has now learned of similar undercover efforts targeting at least four other individuals who have raised questions about the use of the Israeli firm’s spyware.

The four others targeted by operatives include three lawyers involved in related lawsuits in Israel and Cyprus alleging that the company, the NSO Group, sold its spyware to governments with questionable human rights records. The fourth is a London-based journalist who has covered the litigation. Two of them — the journalist and a Cyprus-based lawyer — were secretly recorded meeting the undercover operatives; footage of them was broadcast on Israeli television just as the AP was preparing to publish this story. All six of the people who were targeted said they believe the operatives were part of a co-ordinated effort to discredit them. “There’s somebody who’s really interested in sabotaging the case,” said one of the targets, Mazen Masri, who teaches at City University, London and is advising the plaintiffs’ attorney in the case in Israel. Masri said the operatives were “looking for dirt and irrelevant information about people involved.” The details of these covert efforts offer a glimpse into the sometimes shadowy world of private investigators, which includes some operatives who go beyond gathering information and instead act as provocateurs. The targets told the AP that the covert agents tried to goad them into making racist and anti-Israel remarks or revealing sensitive information about their work in connection with the lawsuits.

NSO has previously said it has nothing to do with the undercover efforts “either directly or indirectly.” It did not return repeated messages asking about the new targets identified by the AP. American private equity firm Francisco Partners, which owns NSO, did not return a message from the AP seeking comment. The undercover operatives’ activities might never have been made public had it not been for two researchers who work at Citizen Lab, an internet watchdog group that is based out of the University of Toronto’s Munk School. In December, one of the researchers, John Scott-Railton, realized that a colleague had been tricked into meeting an operative at a Toronto hotel, then questioned about his work on NSO. When a second operative calling himself Michel Lambert approached Scott-Railton to arrange a similar meeting at the Peninsula Hotel in New York, Scott-Railton devised a sting operation, inviting AP journalists to interrupt the lunch and videotape the encounter. The story drew wide attention in Israel. Within days, Israeli investigative television show Uvda and The New York Times identified Lambert as Aharon Almog-Assouline, a former Israeli security official living in the plush Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Hasharon. By then, Scott-Railton and the AP had determined the undercover efforts went well beyond Citizen Lab. Within hours of the story’s publication, Masri wrote to the AP to say that he and Alaa Mahajna, who is pursuing the lawsuit against NSO in Israel, had spent weeks parrying offers from two wealthy-sounding executives who had contacted them with lucrative offers of work and insistent requests to meet in London. “We were on our guard and did not take the bait,” Masri wrote. Masri’s revelation prompted a flurry of messages to others tied to litigation involving NSO. Masri and Scott-Railton say they discovered that Christiana Markou, a lawyer representing plaintiffs in a related lawsuit against NSO-affiliated companies in Cyprus, had been flown to London for a strange meeting with someone who claimed to be a Hong Kong-based investor. Around the same time, Masri found out that a journalist who had written about NSO was also invited to a London hotel — twice — and questioned about his reporting. “Things are getting more interesting,” Masri wrote as the episodes emerged. —— Like Almog-Assouline, the undercover operative the AP exposed in New York, the covert agents who pursued the lawyers made a string of operational errors. The attempt to ensnare Alaa Mahajna, the lead lawyer in the Israeli suit, was a case in point. On Nov. 26 he heard from a man who said his name was Marwan Al Haj and described himself as a partner at a Swedish wealth management firm called Lyndon Partners. Al Haj offered Mahajna an intriguing proposition. Al Haj said one of his clients, an ultra-rich individual with family ties to the Middle East, needed legal assistance recovering family land seized by Jewish settlers following the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. “I believe you may be a good fit for this challenging task,” Al Haj wrote. The request made sense. As a human rights lawyer based in Jerusalem, Mahajna has defended Palestinian activists and others at the receiving end of the Israeli government’s ire. But Mahajna became suspicious as he tried to learn more about the case. Al Haj was cagey about his client and seemed unwilling to provide any paperwork, Mahajna told the AP. “Not even the basic stuff,” Mahajna said. “Usually people flood you with documents and stories.” Mahajna said he was unsettled when Al Haj suddenly offered him an all-expenses-paid trip to London; no one had even asked him whether the case had any hope of success. “At some point it was abundantly clear that this is not a bona fide approach,” Mahajna said. Ten days later, Masri, the legal adviser in the Israeli lawsuit, received an email offering him a place on the advisory board of a Zurich-based company called APOL Consulting. Masri became skeptical after he checked out the company’s website. Consulting firms typically trade on their employees’ intelligence and skill, so Masri expected the company’s site to prominently display the names, headshots and qualifications of its staff. “Here there wasn’t even a name of one human,” he said. When Masri turned down the position on APOL’s board, the representative who’d contacted him — a man who called himself Cristian Ortega — pressed Masri to see him in London anyway. “I would consider it a privilege to have a chance to meet you in person for a friendly chat,” Ortega said in a Jan. 7 email. “No strings attached of course.” Masri said that by then he and Mahajna had come to believe that Ortega and Al Haj were fictions and that their companies were imaginary. But they didn’t yet know how widespread the covert operations were. —— The undercover agents got a little further with Christiana Markou, the lawyer who is pursuing the Cypriot case against NSO-affiliated entities. Her lawsuit, like Mahajna’s, draws heavily on reports by Citizen Lab that found that NSO spyware had been used to break into the phones of the Mexican activists and journalists who are the plaintiffs in both cases. Markou told the AP she was approached over email Dec. 21 by a man who presented himself as Olivier Duffet, a partner at Hong Kong-based ENE Investments. Duffet was ostensibly interested in inviting Markou — a leading data protection and privacy lawyer in Cyprus — to give a lecture at a conference. Markou said she proposed discussing the lecture over Skype, but he insisted on an in-person meeting in London, eventually flying her out, putting her up in a fancy hotel and chatting for a little more than an hour. Most of the discussion revolved around the proposed lecture — but then Duffet suddenly pivoted to the NSO case, asking her whether she felt the lawsuit was winnable and who was funding it. Markou said she “gave either incorrect answers or expressly refused to answer” because she found his questions suspicious. Yet another target, Eyad Hamid, a London-based journalist who wrote a story about NSO, said he was also invited to a London hotel on two separate occasions to discuss his coverage of the Israeli company. The purported company used in the operation targeting him was Mertens-Giraud Partners Management, which was described as a Brussels-based wealth management firm. Neither MGP — nor any of the other companies — truly existed. The AP’s searches of the Orbis database of some 300 million companies, local corporate registries and trademark repositories turned up no trace of a Swiss firm called APOL, a Swedish company called Lyndon partners, a Belgian company called Mertens-Giraud or a Hong Kong-based firm named ENE Investments. Local phone books didn’t carry listings for a Zurich-based man named Cristian Ortega, a Hong Kong-based man named Olivier Duffet or anyone in Sweden bearing the name Marwan Al Haj. There was no hint of APOL when the AP visited its supposed office not far from Zurich’s central train station; tenants said they’d never heard of the company. It was the same story in Hong Kong; a management representative at the Central Building, where ENE Investments was supposedly located, said he didn’t know anything about the company. An AP journalist wasn’t able to speak to anyone at Mertens-Giraud’s alleged office on Brussels’ Rue des Poissoniers; the entire building was boarded up for renovations. At the modern office block in downtown Stockholm where Lyndon Partners claimed to have its headquarters, service manager Elias Broberger said he could find no trace of the wealth management firm. “It says they are located here,” Broberger said as he examined Lyndon Partners’ professional-looking website. “But we don’t have them in any of our systems: not the booking system; not the member system. We don’t bill them; they don’t bill us. “I can’t find them.” —— Who hired the undercover agents remains unclear, but their operational and digital fingerprints suggest they are linked. The six operatives all began approaching their targets around the same time with individually tailored pitches. Their bogus websites followed the same patterns; all of them were hosted on Namecheap and many were bought at auction from GoDaddy and used the Israeli web design platform Wix. The formatting of the websites was similar; in at least two instances — MGP and Lyndon Partners — it was identical. Even the operatives’ email signatures were the same — consisting of three neatly packed, colorful lines consisting of a phone number, web address and email. The operatives’ LinkedIn pages were similar, too, featuring men in sunglasses shot from a distance, facing away from the camera, or at unusual angles — a tactic sometimes use to frustrate facial recognition algorithms. Despite the indications that the undercover agents are all linked, there is no conclusive evidence who they might work for. An Israeli television channel, Channel 12, broadcast a report on Saturday claiming that an Israeli private investigation firm, Black Cube, had been investigating issues around the lawsuits against NSO. The TV channel showed secretly shot footage of the Cypriot lawyer, Markou, and the London journalist, Hamid, which matched the pair’s description of their encounters with undercover agents. The TV segment was critical of the lawyers suing NSO, and quoted NSO founder Shalev Hulio in an interview accusing Markou and her colleagues of pursuing the lawsuits as a “PR exercise.” NSO has previously denied hiring Black Cube, and Black Cube in a letter sent last month to the AP said it was not involved in the effort to ensnare researchers at Citizen Lab. “Black Cube had nothing to do with these alleged events,” the letter said, adding that no one acting on the company’s behalf did either. Black Cube does have a possible tie to Almog-Assouline, the man who held the hotel meeting about NSO in New York. During a long-running Canadian legal battle between two private equity firms — Catalyst Capital and West Face Capital — one man caught up in the litigation said he recognized Almog-Assouline because he’d been approached by the same operative under a different identity several years ago. “I recognized the individual, down to the accent and the anecdotes,” said the man, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. In court filings, Black Cube has acknowledged dispatching agents to meet with “various individuals” involved in in the private equity firms’ feud. But it’s unclear if other investigations firms might also have done work connected to the two companies’ legal battle. Black Cube did not respond to repeated questions about whether it had ever employed Almog-Assouline. The firm previously drew international opprobrium for its unrelated work protecting the reputation of disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. Almog-Assouline himself denied working for Black Cube when two AP reporters confronted him in New York last month. He has refused to answer any questions since. When an AP reporter rang the door at his penthouse in Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Hasharon a week ago, a woman who identified herself as his wife said he wasn’t home. When the reporter followed up with a phone call to Almog-Assouline, he said: “I have no interest in speaking to you.” —— Aron Heller in Ramat Hasharon, Israel, David Keyton in Stockholm, Sweden, Jamey Keaten in Zurich, Vincent Yu in Hong Kong, Sylvain Plazy in Brussels, Josef Federman in Jerusalem and Meneloas Hadjicostis in Nicosia, Cyprus, contributed to this report. —— Online: Documents related to the undercover operation: https://www.documentcloud.org/search/projectid:42174-Citizen-Lab-Und —— Raphael Satter can be reached on: http://raphaelsatter.com Published at Mon, 11 Feb 2019 01:30:28 +0000 Read the full article

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he mothers of the two accusers in HBO's "Leaving Neverland" said they were lulled by Michael Jackson's forlorn demeanor and fairytale world when they allowed him to take their boys into his bed. An aunt who introduced her underage niece to R. Kelly and suspects abuse said in the six-part "Surviving R. Kelly" docuseries on Lifetime that she hoped the embattled star would propel the teen's music career. She alleges the girl wound up on a sex tape instead. The parents of a 12-year-old girl kidnapped twice and chronically abused over several years by a trusted neighbor in Idaho called themselves "naive" in the Netflix documentary on the bizarre 1970s ordeal, "Abducted in Plain Sight." The trio of high-profile cases, the latest in a long line of media fare focused on child abuse over the years, have generated intense scrutiny of the people who should matter most to kids: their parents. For those in these sad and painful documentaries, support and understanding have been abundant among strangers, abuse survivors and advocates fighting sexual violence. However, some viewers and commenters online, likely many who know nothing of how sexual abusers groom their victims, can't fathom how any parent could allow a child to be placed in the intensely vulnerable situations depicted. There were missed red flags. Mistakes made and acknowledged. There were professional ambitions to be pursued for their starry-eyed kids, murky monetary payments and plenty of perks. And there was lots of regret once their children disclosed. Experts, abuse survivors and their supporters said that when young victims are groomed by perpetrators so, too, are their parents in a vast majority of cases that don't include such crimes committed by parents themselves. "The basic facts are that somebody who's intent on sexually abusing a child does actually groom both a child and a caregiver," said Esther Deblinger-Sosland, who has written two books on the subject and is a psychology professor and co-director of the Child Abuse Research Education Service Institute at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. "They're looking for situations and families that they can exploit. Any child can be sexually abused. That has to be put out there. It really could happen to any child. But when an offender is really looking to target a child, they do look for a child that might be more vulnerable, from a family that they think they might be able to manipulate in some way," she said. Parents may be coping with stresses and adversities that distract them, Deblinger-Sosland explained, but at the same time, "most people don't assume anyone who talks articulately, who appears to be friendly and caring, is a sex offender." Child sex offenders, she said, are often viewed by society as the "most heinous criminals," she said. "If you have that image of a sex offender then it's unlikely, whoever you are, to just look at someone and assume that they're going to sexually abuse your child. And that's what's so difficult." Jackson, who died in 2009, was found not guilty in a 2005 trial of 14 charges alleging he had molested a boy, at times in the presence of the boy's brother. While acknowledging that he befriended numerous children, including some he invited into his bed, he denied molesting any. His two accusers in "Leaving Neverland" allege that they were 7 and 10 when the abuse began. Now in their 30s, they appear in the docuseries with their mothers. Loyal Jackson relatives and fans object to the one-sided nature of the unsparing two-part documentary, which aired March 3-4 and is HBO's third most-watched documentary of the past decade. The R. Kelly series aired over three nights in January. By late February, he had turned himself in on 10 counts of aggravated sexual abuse involving four victims, including at least three between the ages of 13 and 17. He denies the charges. A jury in 2008 acquitted Kelly of 14 counts of child pornography after concluding they couldn't verify a female in a sex video with the singer was underage. Two women currently live with Kelly in Chicago and say they are his girlfriends, including 21-year-old Azriel Clary. Both have said in interviews they are willingly by his side, but their parents remain unconvinced. "I feel like I failed my daughter because I should have saw different signs," Clary's father, Angelo Clary, told Gayle King on "CBS This Morning." He added: "I should have saw the change in my baby girl instead of the love that we instilled in her, that she was showing us and putting on a charade. So, guess what? We can take responsibility. But to the world, how much responsibility did R. Kelly take?" As for Jan Broberg Felt, the now 56-year-old survivor who appears with her parents in "Abducted in Plain Sight," the neighbor who sexually abused her died in an apparent suicide decades later. During her teen years, he slowly drew both of her small-town, churchgoing parents into situations he knew they would be ashamed to reveal, including having sex with the mother and convincing the father to perform a sex act on him. Shaming or condemning the parents of child victims is one of those things "offenders exactly want to happen," said Deblinger-Sosland and other experts. "They want the blame to be not on them." A majority of offenders are known to child victims and their families. When a child discloses sexual abuse, Deblinger-Sosland said, they often do so to their mothers. Years after that happened in the case of James Safechuck, one of the Jackson accusers, his mother, Stephanie Safechuck, said in "Leaving Neverland" of their years in the superstar's life: "This was all so overwhelming, and like a fairytale, and I got lost in it. And I know my husband got lost in it, too." Although statistics vary, generally 1 in 9 girls and 1 in 53 boys under the age of 18 experience sexual abuse or assault by an adult, according to the nonprofit RAINN, for the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. In fiscal year 2016 alone, child protective services agencies substantiated or found strong evidence to indicate that more than 57,000 children were victims of sexual abuse in the U.S., the organization said. That, experts said, is just a small portion of such cases overall. Psychologist David Wolfe of the Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children at Western University in London, Ontario, also works as an expert witness in mostly civil court cases involving child sexual abuse allegations. Whether they're dealing with a trusted coach, priest or neighbor, Wolfe said, parents of victims are making decisions as abuse plays out based on non-threatening interactions with a perpetrator, or in the case of Safechuck and others, once-in-a-lifetime opportunities for their children. In 1986, when he was 10, Safechuck was chosen to appear in a Pepsi commercial with Jackson. The psychology involved for parents in such a scenario is common, Wolfe said. "I put myself in that position and think, what would I have felt like if my son was the one that was in the commercial and gets invited to Neverland?" he said. "I would have thought that was pretty cool, I'd like to do that. At what point does a parent say, maybe this isn't the way I thought it was. Maybe he wants something that I didn't see. It's very tough to go back on your decision and say I've been led down a path here. Someone else may point it out and say, are you sure you want your kid over there? You're going to defend your choice because otherwise you'd look stupid." Robin Gurwitch, a professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, is an expert in understanding and supporting children in the aftermath of trauma and disasters. In the case of high-profile child sexual abuse perpetrators, the feeling of being singled out for special treatment — parents and children alike — makes parents vulnerable to missing warning signs that might seem obvious to others, she said. "As a family member, I may not see any of those red flags because this is somebody that I respect, this is somebody that I trust, this is somebody who on the surface says I'm only interested in what's best for your children, plus I think you're an incredible parent for helping your child achieve their goals," she said. "Parents are trusting of people who are important in their child's life."

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