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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-08-06 02:39 PM
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Augusto Pinochet was good friends with a Child Rapist
Who let Pinochet use his compound to torture dissenters.

"Paul Schäfer Schneider (born December 4, 1921) is the founder and former leader of a sect and agricultural commune of German immigrants called Colonia Dignidad ("Dignity Colony")—later renamed Villa Baviera—located in central Chile, about 340 km south of Santiago. Investigations by Amnesty International and the Chilean National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation Report have verified that Colonia Dignidad was used by DINA, the Chilean secret police, as a torture and detention centre during Augusto Pinochet's Chilean dictatorship.

Schäfer was born in Troisdorf, Weimar Republic Germany, and joined the Hitler Youth movement at a young age. He served as a medic in the German Army during World War II, where he reached the rank of corporal. As an ex-Nazi, he lived in Germany until 1961.

Following the war he set up a children's home and Baptist (or Lutheran) evangelical ministry. In 1959 he created the Private Social Mission, supposedly a charitable organization. That same year he was charged with sexually abusing two children and fled Germany with some of his followers, possibly with ODESSA's network help.

He showed up in Chile in 1961, where the government at the time, led by conservative President Jorge Alessandri, granted him permission to create the Dignidad Beneficent Society on a farm outside of Parral. Schäfer disappeared on May 20, 1997, fleeing child sex abuse charges, this time filed by Chilean authorities after 26 children who went to the cult's free clinic and school reported abuse.

On May 24, 2006 Schäfer was sentenced to 20 years in jail for sexually abusing 25 children and was ordered to pay 770 million pesos (approximately US$1.5 million) to 11 minors whose representatives established suits. Schäfer was found guilty of 20 counts of dishonest abuses and five counts of child rape, all committed between 1993 and 1997."

It gets worse, he has also been charged with the 'disappearances' of 2 people

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sch%C3%A4fer

Cons defend Pinochet, a man who used a Child Rapist as a Torturer, SPREAD THE WORD.
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