Geraldo's Satanic Panic Lives! "Woman recalls finding out husband was abuser, satanic"

[Ian David]

Black Collar Crime... or Satanic Panic "Recovered Memory" Nonsense?

Escaping the unimaginable: Woman recalls finding out husband was abuser, satanic
11:45 AM MST on Thursday, February 21, 2008
Doug Mouton / WWL-TV Northshore Bureau Chief

Austin ‘Trey’ Bernard was found guilty on child rape on December 3rd. He was the first of seven accused members of the former Hosanna Church to stand trial on charges of abusing young children.

His guilty verdict provided some solace to his former wife Nicole who hopes that the other defendants received a message.

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Nicole Bernard knows the other six defendants well. They include: Former Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Chris Labat, Allen Pierson, who ran an electric company on the Hosanna grounds, Pierson’s wife Trish, Pastor Louis Lamonica and his wife Robin and Paul Fontenot.

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In the initial phase of the investigation the case took bizarre twists and turns with talk of Satanism and the occult. Nicole Bernard says all of that was true.

“They were into satanic worship and they used a church, and God's name, and covered themselves with his name, with God's name to hide, to do these evil things.”

More:
http://www.fox11az.com/news/topstories/stories/kmsb-20080221-wwljc-bernard.14ecf4c8.html

[Marrah_G]

1. Not this shit again....... My people are still paying the price for the faux hysteria of the 80s :(

[Ian David]

2. It's probably all based on what Bill and Geraldo do in their S&M Sex Dungeon.

Some people say.

[knitter4democracy]

3. I think it has more to do with people not wanting to admit the truth.

They don't want to admit that people used the church for greed and evil, so they turn them into Satanists. They weren't, in all likelihood, but that's what their fellow parishioners want to believe so they can't look too closely at themselves.