The Waco siege was a 51-day standoff between the US government and the Branch Davidians (a religious sect led by David Koresh), near Waco, Texas in 1993. The incident resulted in the deaths of many citizens including pregnant women and children. What say you?

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The sex with children was never proven, test were run and at no point was any evidence ever discovered to support this. Those rumors relate most to his marriage to a younger woman whose parents gave consent for the marriage. The woman was still of legal age to get married.

[–]Trajan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That legal age being 14/15, hence the need for the parents to consent. Korean was 25 at the time.

I’ll grant it’s a tough sell. A guy who thought he was the son of God, took multiple wives (including a minor), and where there is no shortage of witnesses. While we can’t conclusively prove he was a nonce, there is pretty convincing evidence.

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The only people who accused David of the abuse of minors was the local paper which had a dispute with him. As mentioned the "Evidence" was never actually there, children that made it out of the slaughter and those who before the slaughter that all got tested, there was never any evidence of child molestation or abuse.

[–]Trajan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The only people who accused David of the abuse of minors was the local paper which had a dispute with him

And Kiri Jewel, among others.

As mentioned the "Evidence" was never actually there, children that made it out of the slaughter and those who before the slaughter that all got tested, there was never any evidence of child molestation or abuse.

There may have been little physical evidence as he was at the time distracted from his nonce duties by being under siege. His marriage to Rachel Jones seems fairly well established.