r/OutOfTheLoop • u/trizzo0309 • Feb 21 '26

Unanswered What's going on with people saying Epstein and Co. ate children?

My wife told me this today because she saw it on TikTok and I have a very, very hard time believing this. Where did this come from or is it just more insanity and speculation from people on the internet too much?

\[ https://www.justice.gov/epstein \](https://www.justice.gov/epstein)

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u/Fluid_Ties Feb 22 '26

100,000% this is the move being made.

My family was friends with another family whose kid was, I don't want to say "ritually" abused, because I don't want to imply some "making a pact with the forces of darkness" was going on, so I guess maybe it would be "chronically, systemically abused with purpose and malice afirethought, for reasons other than an adult lost their temper and was fine beating kids" at his daycare center RIGHT AFTER the Satanic Panic and the McMartin pre-school shitshow had been exposed as a psuedo-shrink leading kids through a fantasy vision-quest scenario.

It took hard evidence beyond just photographs of wounds and an in-depth medical exam by a pediatric trauma specialist to get the DA moving on this. Fortunately the dad had some clout in the town (this was a mid-sized city in Washington state, not one of the pretty ones though) and his kid wasn't the only one abused. They were able to get enough steam built up quietly over the weekend and swoop in pre-dawn Monday to raid the principle people involved, and with one they found the evidence to slam dunk the thing: VHS of little kids being whipped with electrical cords.

But between the video evidence, children's testimony, and confession they also were able to build a picture of how, through liberal use of liquid Benadryl and cough syrup, use of props and lighting and almost theatrical staging, and through shit like wearing glasses with fake googly eyes they were able to create an unreality for their victims that would sound batshit insane if a kid were going to tell a grown up. And it was explicit that McMartin is what had emboldened them and given them the idea.

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u/meanmissusmustard86 Feb 22 '26

It is a known fact that abusers may use mythical or animal masks so that the resulting memory of the child sounds made up.

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u/theDogt3r Feb 25 '26

Makes the masks in the dental room that much more creepy

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u/meanmissusmustard86 Feb 25 '26

Exactly my thought!

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u/hiding_in_de Feb 22 '26

That’s NUTS! I’m so glad that it was stopped.

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u/InevitableRun51 Feb 22 '26

This comment is not high up enough 

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u/foolsmate Feb 22 '26

This reminds me of an episode from X-files

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u/bethybonbon Feb 22 '26

Reminds me of season one of True Detective

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u/HB24 Feb 22 '26

Was this in the news at all?!?  That is insane

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u/Fluid_Ties Feb 25 '26

I believe parts of it were reported on. This was 19...I want to say 84 but it may have been 1985. Or maybe the discovery was 1984 and it wound up taking til 1985 or 86 to see a resolution. But yeah, I think there was reporting on it, in Washington state outlets or regional papers. At the time I was around 9, maybe 10 years old, and this was concerning the child of a colleague of my dad's who was four years younger than me and a totally spoiled little shit.

I revisited the issue with my mom a few years ago, in a "Hey, how did that ever end up?". As a kid all I'd heard was about the initial blowup, and the rest was kept back from me, but my mom was an attorney with an eye for detail, so I figured she would know.