Hello everybody, welcome to part nine of the Magdalen manuscript, our reading of the Magdalen manuscript. If this is your first time on this channel, first of all, welcome. I thank you so much for being here. Second of all, you might want to go back and start with part one. I will be putting the playlist understanding the Magdalen down in the description box below where you can find all the previous parts to this book. You can also find a Megan Waterston's book on Magdalen's Gospel, as well as the Sophia Code, which we just finished up, which was perhaps one of my favorite books that we've gone through so far. As I've said before, this Magdalen manuscript, the back part of the book that we're in now has been my favorite part. The first part is a channeling from Magdalen and there was a lot of confirmation in that channeling for me, like for example, in my research and in my speaking with Magdalen myself, I know that Magdalen nor Yeshua were actually Jewish. They were born into the priest and priesthood of Isis, which is a whole other topic for another day as to why the controllers in our world made them Jewish. Again, that's a whole other topic for another day. Some other stuff in the channeling I do not resonate with, with the fact that Yeshua being crucified. We now know that crucifixion is not something that's done in a positive polarity. It's not something that the true God ever asked for. That's something that Luciferians asked for. But again, that's a whole other topic for another day. But there is such thing as confirmation bias. And since most of us were programmed to believe that the Christ was crucified, I can understand how in a channeling session someone would have confirmation bias on that. So I just wanted to make that very, very, very clear. But with that being said, I am enjoying the back part of the book a whole lot more where the writer has gotten into all the different forms of Egyptian alchemy and tantric alchemy that can help you as the reader start to understand what Magdalene and Yashua were actually doing. And this idea of Christ consciousness and Kundalini rising, which is the true rising of the Christ, is teaching you that you have the ability to do this yourself. So with that being said, let's go ahead and start on part nine. Apologies, you might see me filling with my hair a lot. A little secret about me. I am not copper at all. I have no, like, no copper trades except for my hair. I am very thick hair and I need to get it cut and need to get it thinned out. And I didn't really dry it properly this morning. So it's probably going to be bothering me.  I have very thick hair. So that's what's happening. So anyway, all right. So we're starting with one woman's story. So this starts on page 189 of my book might be different, depending on your book, but it's 189 on my book. In this story of one woman is the story of every woman. May you find the pathway into the spirit by which it was written, Mary Magdalene. Tom's introduction to one woman's story. Some might wonder why we include something so personal in the last section of this book. After all, we all have our stories and none of us in any way are more important than anybody else. Agreed. Indeed, this is what we pose to Magdalene over and over again after she asked Judy to write her story. And even after the book had been completed and was ready for the press, we asked Magdalene one last time, thinking that perhaps she had changed her mind. She had not. She was in fact quite emphatic that elements in Judy's personal story would speak to many women, that many of her experiences were shared by women universally. And this was Magdalene reminded us about the return of the feminine to a place of honor and power. But first, the patterns of abuse, betrayal, lack of honor, and disempowerment need to be owned and accepted. Now, after sitting with the material for these many months, I think I understand what Magdalene is talking about. It has to do with the principles of Sophia and the logos. For those familiar with these terms, please forgive my taking the space here to discuss them, but I find many people do not understand them. This lack of general understanding about the logos and Sophia is, I think, a result of the church father's attempt to erase the feminine from the theology of Christendom and act that stretches back in time to the first century AD. Many are probably familiar with the term logos as it's said to the core of the church's 2000 year old theology. The logos is the intelligence, the logics of the cosmos itself. It is the fundamental creative force of God. Traditionally, theologians and philosophers have considered the logos to be a masculine principle. This concept actually goes back thousands of years before Christ into the ancient pagan world. At a mythological level, gods were viewed as solar, while goddesses were seen as being more related to the moon, lunar. In this context, spirit was conceived as being in the solar realms of consciousness, male, and the earth matter resided within the lunar realms of consciousness, female. Thus the sky, heaven became associated with the masculine, while the earth became associated with the feminine, mother earth. And this is true. I've said this in our yoga studies a lot in upward rising energy as prana, the upward rising energy that's solar, downward energy as uphana, that's lunar. And men are often, the masculine energy is often associated with solar and the women are aponic, they're moon. You can see that in the body types of a male versus a woman. A man is more linear, his strength lies in his upper body, it's a rising energy, where women are more super cool, they're curvy, and their strength lies in their legs, in the lower part of their body. What is more aponic than giving birth? It's a pushing down of energy that women can do that and men can't. But with that being said, a female will carry both masculine and feminine, and a male will carry both masculine and feminine as well. Now, the other side of this, the controllers have tried to invert this in very strange ways as we see with what's going on in the world today, especially with the alphabet people. But that is true that like for example, the right side of a body for anybody is the masculine, the left side is the feminine. That's why women get their noses pierced on the left side because they are holding space for the feminine energy, even though they also carry elements of masculine energy. Myself as an example, because that's the only person I can use as an example, I am very feminine. I am very feminine. I love being a woman. I want to be the woman in a relationship. Absolutely want to be that part of that woman. I love my makeup. I love my girly clothes, my jewelry, my nail polish. But I also have a strong masculine side too. I can take care of myself. I'm very independent. I'm very strong. I'm very brave when it comes to a lot of things. And so that comes with balancing out those two cycles of energy. Doesn't mean I'm not wounded. Of course, I have man trauma and talked about that. I have a lot of trauma to work through as well. We all do. That's part of being human being. You're never going to be free of the work you have to do as a human being. So understand what he's saying here. Now, of course, because of our look into tartaria and the true history, some of this stuff might not necessarily be true at this point as far as like the narrative that we've been told. However, I don't hold it against the man who wrote this book. I think this book was released in the early 2000s. And at that point, I don't think any of us had any idea about this time in history called tartaria. So I just want you guys to keep that in mind as well. But let's keep going. The pagan consciousness understood that all creation was the result of an interplay between the cosmological forces of the masculine and the feminine spirit and matter, sky and earth. Neither force was more important than the other. Without both of them, creation was not possible. The key to fruitful creation, whether it be cosmic or individual, was seen as a balance between these forces. In the earliest period of Christianity before the politician's aspirations of the church, this was commonly understood and accepted. This understanding of the place of the feminine shows up nowhere more clearly than the concept of Sophia. Sophia was viewed as the feminine aspect of the Godhead, which we saw in the Sophia Code. She was the holy bride to the Logos, and they were viewed as inseparable. When the Logos generated an impulse, the thought to create, it was Sophia that implemented it. Without her, creation would have been impossible. There were two sides of the same coin. One remained aloof in the realms of spirit, forming the ideas of creation, but it was Sophia who received the seed, the thought of creation from the Logos. And it was she who gave it to birth into actuality in the realms of matter. And before anybody who's super religious gets your panties in a wad, Sophia is spoken about in the Apocryphon books, which are the missing books of the Bible. History will tell us that it was King James when he wrote the King James Bible that took the Apocryphon books out. Again, who knows at this point what the true story is, but this was a concept that was understood in early Christendom. Before it got infiltrated and the Christian faith was turned into a Satanic one, the concept of Sophia was very much understood by the original followers of the teachings of Christ. Sophia was known as the cosmic mother, and as such, she shared the same place of honor as Isis in Egypt and other goddesses in ancient cultures. According to the Sophanic understanding, she incarnated as Mary, the mother of Yeshua. And through this embodiment, the word Logos became flesh, Yeshua. God, man had been actualized, but it could not have happened without the sacred act of Sophia incarnating as a woman. Only then could God Logos incarnate as a man in the womb of Sophia, Mary. Now this I absolutely disagree with, because this goes against the teachings of the real Christ. The real teachings of Yeshua in Magdalen was that they were not God. They were not gods.  And that is, that was an argument at the Council of Nicaea where most of the Christians did not want Constantine turning Yeshua, who later became Jesus, which wasn't his name, which is actually Mithra, into a God.  The point of coming to earth school is working through your karma and learning how to save yourself. That's the gift that God gives us. That's the privilege God gives us. And this was understood by the early Christians. This is in a lot of the missing books of the Bible, that Yeshua was just a teacher, as was Magdalen. Yes, they had reached a form of enlightenment. And yes, they were both the Christ in the sense that Magdalen was a divine feminine. Yeshua was the divine masculine. They were twins. They were twin flames. And they were teachers. They were enlightenment, but they weren't there to do it for you.  And so this is something I don't agree with, that Yeshua was different than any other human being. No, he was just more of an ascended master, which one day we will all get to that place. This understanding was common among some of the early Christian theologians. No, no, not the Jesus being a deity. Not that idea, Sophia, yes, but not the deity. And although many of their writings were destroyed during the dark ages, a few of them have survived. But something ominous occurred over the first few centuries AD in regards to the feminine teachings regarding Sophia. We see a concerted effort to remove all traces of her from Christian religion, writings and thought. Yep. Metaphorically, we could say that the church subdued the moon with all of her dark mysteries. The goddess became veiled and hidden. Not only this, but it became a heresy to talk about her. One could lose one's life simply by uttering her names. The sun was at its zenith. God, the logos was all there. Then came the mysterious Holy Trinity, the father, the son and the Holy Ghost. There was no mention of Sophia or Mary. There was nothing feminine in the Trinity. And the feminine was regulated to a place of unimportance. And I'm going to stop here too, because if you read the Sophia code, you see Mary say that she's not Sophia. She was not the incarnate of Sophia. Yes, she was the incarnate of Isis, but not of Sophia. And I do have, from my understanding from my research, Magdalene's mother was the incarnate of Hathor. So that is Magdalene's connection to Hathor. Now, I, most of you know that I have a very strong relationship with Magdalene. She has been one of my guides, probably my whole life. But I heard her, I clear audience, hear her speaking to me. I've heard her since I was 16.  And from what I understand from what she's told me, Mary was never her name. Neither was Mother Mary's named Mary. And some people will say, oh, Mary was a name to symbolize a high priestess. No, that's not what I've been told. Mary back then was kind of like a chain doe. It was, it was, it was removing the identity of these women from these women and giving them a basic name.  And so Magdalene's been very clear with me that her name was actually Magdalene. And she prefers to be called Maggie, because apparently that's what her dad called her. I always refer to as Magdalene on the channel, just so people know who I'm talking about. But in my personal life, I do call her Maggie. Now there's something about the name Magdalene. And I have asked Magdalene many times to, to elaborate on why that name Magdalene is so important. And she holds back a lot, but from what I understand that name Magdalene, it is a name that it's about the chalice. It's about the womb. And that name Magdalene from what she tells me came through her mother's line. And it was a high priestess named to be named Magdalene. And so when we're talking about the Sophia, we're talking about the chalice, we're talking about the Magdalene. That's why this playlist is called understanding a Magdalene. It's not just about the person that we know as Mary Magdalene, but it's about the Magdalene within all women, that chalice, that womb, that moon energy, right? That moon, that, that, that emotional, the moon affects the water, the water, if you know, tarot cards, the, the cups are emotions. It's that emotional bond, that intuitive arts that the divine feminine carries. And yes, you see this in men as well. Many men are very emotional. I mean, I'm talking about not necessarily, you know, I think it's, we've been trained to think that that's what gay men are like. And yes, well gay men are men too, that carry both energies, but even straight men. You know, I know it's, it's common for little boys to, to want to go through a phase where they want to play with a doll. It doesn't mean anything. It just means they're exploring their paternal instincts, because men carry a paternal instinct as well that goes into that intuitive arts. Yes, women notoriously are a little bit more intuitive because they carry the baby within them. My mother used to tell us all the time she gets smell in the air when one of us were about to get sick. I think women have that, but men do as well. Men have a paternal instinct as well. They have an intuitive arts as well that's connected to their own divine feminine. And our world, the controllers have done a really good job to try to strip men of that. It's okay for a man to cry. It's okay. I find that actually really sexy. If a man, you know, if you're having a serious conversation with a man and he starts to joke up, I find that really sexy. So, you know, I want him to be alpha, like protect me too, but if he also shows that he has feelings, that's, that's pretty hot. You know, so, so when we talk about the stripping of the feminine, we're talking about the stripping of the Magdalene, which yes, does on the macro level does affect the feminine girls, women, but on the micro it also affects the feminine quality of everyone that energy cuts within every human being. All right, but worse, she was scorned and the official version of Genesis adopted by the increasingly patriarchal church, the source of mankind's downfall was weighed squarely on the shoulders of Eve. She had after all taken the apple from the serpent of Satan. And with this one fatal act, she a woman cursed all succeeding generations. You know, Genesis means the Genesis of Isis. But wait a moment, there are other versions of the creation myth. The censored version we have inherited is only one of them. According to one Gnostic account, the serpent was a good guy. Yep, that's in the Apocryphon of John as well. He was actually trying to help Adam and Eve get out from under the tyrannical rule of a jealous God, Jehovah, which we know from some of the missing books of the Bible and the missing grimoires of the Bible Jehovah is the name of a high ranking demon, not God, not source creator. And in this version, the snakes simply open the path to the godlike powers of consciousness that were part of Adam and Eve's rightful inheritance. The Gnostics for those unfamiliar with them were a long line of luminaries who traditions in various forms stretched back into ancient Egypt, if not before. They believed in the power of direct revelation without the need for an intermediate area, a priest. Same, that's why I call myself more of a mystic Gnostic than anything, because you don't need anybody to tell you. You don't need anybody to tell you about God or what's right for you. That's your gut instinct. That's that you are the antenna to God, no one else. Of course, this did not fit with the political and monetary desires of the church. And so the Gnostics were branded as heretics and similarly imprisoned or killed on a regular basis. Yes, and it wasn't necessarily about the monetary power of the church. It was about the power of the controllers, the Lucie, the Luciferians. In the view of the Gnostics, Eve was a heroine who, through her act of accepting the apple, raised humanity closer to ownership of Godlike powers. And the myth propagated by the church, however, she was weak and cursed for having tricked her maid into accepting something from Satan. Myth has power. It gets laid into the fabric of a culture and colors its attitude and beliefs. And as a result of the officially sanctioned creation story, women have suffered considerably as the dark, dangerous creatures of the moon who, by their nature's consort with evil, just read the medieval hogwash of scholars and theologians justifying their witch hunts and other abominations against women. This inciderate madness even extended into the fleeting colonies of the United States during the Salem witch trials of the 1600s, which we're going to get to, guys. And I do not believe that the witch trials were what they told us they were. I actually think we'll get into our deep dive. There are things I can't say because this video is going up on YouTube and the witch trials, the deep dive into witch trials part two where we get into what I believe the truth is we'll have to go on rumble because we're going to get into some other stuff pertaining to why the witch trials actually happened. And yes, the moon, so I've, you know, in traditional yoga for women, we are taught that it is best not to practice on the first or second day of our cycle. This is nothing to do with the red tent has nothing to do with being dirty.  And that's an aponic action. Your uterus is detoxing. And so we don't want to practice because the practice is very chronic. And so it confuses the energy flow of the body, especially if you're a woman who has not had children yet and you perhaps want to have children, you want to make sure you're honoring that detox because every month the uterus is going to rebuild the lining for potential impregnation. And we want to make sure the uterus is healthy for many women. And I've just now really getting into this, the womb is part of your powers as part of your intuition. It's part of what makes you strong as a woman. Even if you've gone through menopause, you still have that organ and anybody who has studied any type of Eastern philosophy knows your organs aren't just organs. They represent something else. Like, for example, the liver is anger, the kidneys are fear. There's something else associated with these organs besides what they do in the outward way, right? In an outward way, the womb is strictly just very productive purposes. That's all it is, is to house a baby and give birth to a baby. But in the energetic and spiritual world, the womb is far more powerful than just that, than just housing life. There's something very sacred about the woman's womb. And so that's another reason why on our periods, we don't practice is to honor that. Now, for me, most women will line up, their period will line up with a particular moon, either new moon or full moon. I'm a full mooner. I always get my cycle with the full moon. And if you go back and read about this back, you know, many years ago, they would have burned me at the stake for bleeding on the full moon. And there's quite a, it kind of goes with the queen energy. There's three different energies. So the feminine, there's daughter queen mother and our daughter mother queen. I'm queen energy. That's been told by many, many healers. And what that means, that aligns up with me bleeding on the full moon. So what that means, it doesn't mean that I wouldn't make a great mom. I would love to be a mother. I love being an aunt. I love kids. I would love to have that experience of carrying a child with a man that I love, you know, that we created together. I would love that opportunity. But as a mother, I would probably not be a helicopter mom.  That's also full moon energy. Women who bleed on the new moon are typically mother, daughter energy where they are very overly nurturing and helicopter moms want to do everything for their babies.  So they tend to, you know, work with herbs a lot. And it makes sense because of my path in my life. I've gone off to India. I've done all this I'm a light worker. I, you know, it makes a lot of sense. And so that's kind of their, they're kind of when they have children, they kind of have that divide of part of them is doing this shamanic work, light work, while the other part of them is raising your children. And so it's, it's, I hope that makes sense. And so the moon does tell you a lot about your cycle as a woman, neither is wrong, neither is right. But I know even back in India, there was a time when if I was a, I am a woman who bleeds on the full moon that my Ayurvedic practitioner would have tried to get me to move my period over to the new moon would have given me certain herbs to subdue me more. And that's not, that's just how the culture, you know, was at some, at some point, no, Ayurvedic practitioner has done that to me. They've all just been like, Okay, cool, you're full mooner, because we understand now.  And so they wanted women to be a little bit more subdued.  So, all right. But I think the damage was overly so polarized mythos of Christianity extends far beyond the labeling of women as evil. All of our society suffers men as well. And here's why. By cutting ourselves off from the feminine aspect of creation matter itself, there is a deep spiritual dis-ease discomfort that has been infecting Western culture for two millennium agreed. Not for two millennium though, for Gog and Magog. We long for the realms of spirit heaven, but reject our experiences in the world. We have set heaven and earth at odds. Earth is after all tainted. We are only here because we have fallen from grace. If we are truly born in sin, just through the act of being born, then all that follows our birth is a lie. The truth lies above us, not here among us. The expression of the spirit in the form of the earth experiences is denied by our current cultural mythos.  At a mythological level, the earth is feminine and women are, after all, just to be used. But the danger in this fallacy is that by pillaging our earthly mother Gaia, we are destroying the very ecological roots that support us. And the biological sciences are full of dire warnings concerning the exhaustion of our ecosystem, which I don't actually agree with that. I think most of you watching don't either. Does it dawn on us that the disappearance of animal and plant species at its current alarming rate is a threat to our very survival? No. We are above it all. That I do think that humans do. We do think we're like some for some reason above the earth, like for some reason, even though the earth itself is a spirit, right? Like if we look at the Shiva Shakti, like we talk about a light, like your soul is the Shiva. It's the pure consciousness and your body is an expression is the Shakti of that consciousness. So the earth is the same thing. It's a spirit. It's a soul. And its creation as a planet is an expression of that soul. So the earth itself is a living, breathing thing. And we too, for some reason, think we're above it when we're not. We consider ourselves to be the apex of nature with an inherited God given right to dominate and subdue it according to our will. The idea that other forms of life might have wills of their own just as significant as ours does not occur to us. It does to me. It does occur to me. And the concept of equal coexistence between us and other life forms is barely a part of mass consciousness. This is essentially because we do not see life forms as expressions of spirit. At an unconscious level, we separate them. There is life and there is spirit. Heaven and earth do not meet. At a mythological level, many view the earth as a kind of in between place, a test to see if they deserve an eternal after in heaven or a hellish eternity in the bowels of where else the earth, the coin and it quatsa. I'm saying that right. A Hopi term for being out of balance with the world may very well destroy our civilization. We must come back to a place of balance if we are to survive mythologically. The moon must be unveiled within our own psyches. The feminine principle must be put back in her rightful place as a co creator, not as a dominating force nor as a subjected force, but as an equal force. I agree with this wholeheartedly. And like I said, like if we break it down, I think sometimes it's easier to break it down into like your own relationships because that's how we kind of experience the world is through our own experiences. As I said, I am very feminine. I want to be the female in the relationship, but I'm also very independent. And so in order to have an equal great relationship with a man, I need a man that's going to treat me as the feminine. He's going to be the alpha. He's going to be the protector. He's going to be the provider, but also honor my independence as well and view me as a partner, not as property, if that makes sense. All right. All of this brings me back to the personal story of one woman you're about to read. Why would this be so pertinent? Well, I believe for one thing that it goes back to the dissertation of spiritual values we have inherited. If our life as an embodied soul is tainted by the mere act of being in a body, then there is a psychological discomfort with our experiences. They are after all of the earth, not of the spirit. And yet in the balance of spirit and earth, both are valued. The shimmering vision of the spirit world and the earthquake experiences of life and body are both seen as inherently sacred. Hanging the laundry can be just as enlightening as reading scripture. Absolutely. It is all in the attitude. Someone asked me what the return of the cosmic mother meant. I suspect it means many things, some of which we won't recognize until we are all well into it. But I imagine it will bring at least one cultural shift. We will come to recognize our earthly life and all of its experiences as an expression of spirit and matter, not as a battle between these two, but a sacred marriage. Exactly. Shakti. This the body nature isn't the soul, but it's the expression of the soul. The Yoga Sutras talk about this as well, that they are bound together. Prakriti, Parusha, Shiva, Shakti, spirit, matter. This sacred marriage between spirit and matter is sometimes called the opus magnum or the great work. It is the alpha and omega in which spirit logos to sins into matter through the grace of Sophia and returns back to itself transformed. Our lives are forged in alchemical furnace of experience. For those of us who willingly choose to enter the great work of self illumination, our life experiences can become great teachers unto ourselves. You are about to read the story of one woman. She shares something in common with all women undertaking the great work of self illumination in this hour time. Restoring the feminine to a place of honor in our culture begins with women honoring both themselves and their stories. The pain and lies of the last 2000 years are brought closer to their end each time a woman takes her own power. The return of Sophia draws closer each time a man honors the woman in his life as well as the feminine within himself. Those of us striving to live this realization are part of the cosmic mother's return. We are the moon becoming unveiled in the balance to the sun and we are the restoration of the feminine in balance to the male may heaven and earth be joined in this hour time. So we're going to go ahead and read on to Judy's preface to one woman's story. The first night that Mary Magdalene came through her power and strength were palpable as her words were audible and it continued that way throughout the whole process. There was never a stumble over a word. Her words carefully chosen before she spoke. She spoke with authority and with definition.  Hers was the most powerful presence I have ever experienced same and from her first words I was deeply moved and my consciousness profoundly altered. I typed what she brought through sitting in bed with a computer propped on my pillow and my hands trembling both with excitement and with the fear that I might not get it all correctly and she was leaving that first night after she had completed the information she turned to me so to speak. I felt the definite shift to the personal almost intimately to me and she said I agree to give my story because of you because you sense the importance of the relationship the sacred marriage and that turned on requested also that I give you my story and a subsequent transmission with the manuscript itself she stated that Isis had specifically asked that she tell her story in this in the beginning of the end of time. I'm getting emotional because as I just said Magdalene has been around me since I know for sure since I was 16 and she has never changed her personality has never changed she's always been that queen energy too that she's got something to say she's going to say it but she's also very personal and I don't think I would have survived my life without her being around me so and I know that I have a story to tell as well and I know that I one day will tell my story my full story in hopes that all the women watching now will one day tell their full story too later we asked Magdalene if the best way to bring this information forward considering the format of the book her manuscript is compact there are no extra words she doesn't go on and on no she doesn't she clearly wants to give only the necessary coded information to awaken the memory of those few who are ready to end will of those few who are ready will hear it all but everything you need to know all the secrets are here in her few pages Tom felt it was important to add an overview and to fill in some blanks which he is well qualified to do he is the one of the most astute beings on the face of the earth at this time regarding the entire subject of internal alchemy as streamed through many different sources as this has been his lifetimes work and me why am I here why am I privileged to be taking space to write words to you of what I am a lifetime student relationship and sacred relationship and the inherent power and mystery of the feminine are what this book is about and so when we asked about the format over and over we were told that I must write my story I argued the point and avoided the opportunity until the book was ready to go to press and only my story was holding up the publication of the manuscript the pressure mounted I started over and over I wrote and rewrote I added sections and fleshed out parts and I still felt an adequate to the task of adding anything of value to this magnificent document this truth that Magdalen gave I recapitalized my life for deserts and mountains through blizzards and sunsets that would set your heart on fire I initially began the process under her instructions back on a little Odish in Malta I struggled with it in southern France and on Pyros island in Greece I deleted and added it to it like you might add ingredients in soup too much salt add too little sugar too much drama and violence add the humor life always provides yet I wasn't going to include it I still struggle struggled over its relevance and your criticism one day Tom said to me shouldn't you be working on the Magdalen manuscript I said oh I just don't get it I'm not able to include my life story what will people think I'm trying to do he handed me a card that just that had just arrived and it said please write your story and include it in the Magdalen script when you write your story you will be writing my story you aren't writing it for yourself you're writing it for all of us and so with my flaws and fears on my shoulder I honored what the goddess requested the first section contains my story the diary entries at the end share some of what I went through experiencing the process of receiving her information and the obstacles to flight we experience living with this material for it brought up as it well should have all of my unfinished relationship issues in my case these were essential essentially jealousy fear of abandonment fear of betrayal and general and pervasive unworthiness same and to place that information in true context demands that I also tell you my story as Metronon my beloved advisor has told me to do now for years and so I write this for Magdalen for the Hathors for Isis for Metronon for all my daughters and for Tom who plays guitars and writes songs because he dared to cross the dark moist and dangerous abyss to the portal of the feminine to risk asking me to dance in the sacred relationship in the chalice of the holy grail


Hi guys! So, as of the time of this recording, I have just reached 30,000 subscribers, which is, like, it's ludicrous. I mean, by the time this gets out there, I'll probably have like 32 or 33,000 if this current rate of growth keeps up, which is, who, man, it's something else guys, let me tell you. I still remember, because it wasn't that long ago, that I had, like, 30 subs and I was just doing this for fun and my videos would get, like, 4 or 5 views on average. And it wasn't that long ago that I had really resided myself to the fact that I was never going to be big on this platform. I was never going to have an actual fan base. I was never really going to reach that many people with my opinions. I was never going to make money off of it, yada, yada, yada. And I was kind of okay with that. I kind of accepted it just because I enjoyed doing it. I enjoyed getting up here and doing whatever this nonsense is. And now there are thousands of you that tune in and listen to me, so just, thanks a lot. I really couldn't do this without you. But the problem is that over the past, like, month, my channel has experienced a big surge in popularity. So even though I wanted to do something to celebrate 30k, I didn't really know what to do and I didn't really have time to prepare. So over the past couple of days, I've just been thinking about it and I realized, well, what if I just did, like, a compilation of a bunch of different reviews? And who knows, that might be fun. And I'm probably planning something else I might do to celebrate as well, but for now, yeah, let's try this. And so I'm just going to review a bunch of books real quick that I just don't have a whole lot to say about that I don't think I can make an entire review about. Some of these are books that I have read recently and I just didn't think I had enough to say. Some of them are ones I read a long time ago and just haven't gotten to talk about. And, yeah, beyond that, you know the drill. Let's get going. This is the introduction song. It's not very good, but it's not too long. So the first one I'm going to talk about is How to Survive a Horror Movie by Seth Graham Smith. And just to be clear, I did get an advanced copy of this in exchange for an honest review. And this one, I just read the other day, I really, really loved it. It's great. It's basically just going over horror movies and it's saying, like, if you find yourself as a character in one of these, here's what you should do to make sure you make it to the end credits. And it's humor. You know, it's poking fun at all the cliches and tropes and character archetypes and such that horror movies have. But, one, it is genuinely really funny. Like, it's got a lot of little jokes. It's got a lot of bigger jokes. I mean, obviously the whole idea of finding yourself in a horror movie is kind of ridiculous to begin with. But the thing that really makes it work, I think, is that it's definitely coming from a place of genuine passion and love for horror movies. Like, a lot of times these sort of spoof and parody things will come across as a bit mean-spirited. At least the bad ones will. Like, it feels like they're looking down on people who enjoy that sort of thing and just saying, look at how much better I am for poking fun at the parts of the thing you like. And, you know, it can just, at that point, you lose most of the humor.  And at the end, he actually has a list of horror movies which he thinks you should check out. Like, The Thing and, well, Obviously It and Rosemary's Baby and just stuff like that. And so you can tell that, yeah, he actually does really like the genre and so the humor comes through better and it just, it doesn't feel mean-spirited. Like, not to sound too repetitive. But, um, yeah, if you are a fan of horror movies, then you'll probably get a real kick out of this. I know I certainly did because I like horror movies. If you don't have a strong opinion on them, then you can still check it out. There's still some stuff in here you might find funny. If you don't like them, I don't think you'll enjoy this as much. I don't think the humor will quite tickle your funny bone the way it does for the rest of us. But for everybody else, yeah, I definitely recommend this. This is a really funny, quick read. Whatever, keep going. Up next we have Miss Marvel, No Normal. And this one is just a collection of the first couple of the Kamala Khan issues of Miss Marvel. And, I mean, I don't normally read comics all that much. Like, when I do, I usually read graphic novels or manga just because these, like, superhero ones don't really have a beginning or an end. So it's hard to tell, like, when you should start and it's hard for there to really be stakes involved when you know it's just gonna go on forever and ever. That being said, this is a pretty solid origin, I feel. Like, it gives me really strong, like, early Spider-Man vibes because Kamala Khan and Peter Parker were both sort of outcasts, but they're outcasts for different reasons. Peter Parker was just because he was a nerd and got bullied a lot. Kamala is just Muslim, so she's kind of outcasted as well and doesn't have all that many friends. And they're both kind of socially awkward, but then they both come across these powers and they realize, okay, well, I gotta use these to do some good. And, well, they're both just kids, you know, at the end of the day, so they're both kind of feel like they're in over their head. They both have a lot of humor in them, like, you know, they're enjoyable. And even though this one doesn't really have any, like, big epic story arcs or big epic villains or anything, I thought that Kamala and everybody was enjoyable enough that I liked reading it and I might get around to reading the rest at some point, but who knows? This is a good place to get into Miss Marvel if you're not familiar with her, because I certainly wasn't. Now we have Dune by Frank Herbert, and I can sum this up in three words.  Okay, that's really all I have to say about it. Like, obviously it's kind of an amalgamation of epic fantasy and space opera, like, kind of, but a lot of people will argue that, like, no, no, it's just science fiction. There's no epic fantasy in there, like, whatever. I don't feel too strongly about that, but, like, just the way this book is written, where you can follow everybody's thoughts at one point or another, and just the stuff that goes on and the sorts of powers that people have, it's weird, man. But it's also a very complex story, which I enjoyed. The main characters are all likeable enough. I was always wondering what exactly was going to happen, or maybe not what was going to happen, but how it was going to happen, because it's one of those type of books where you know more or less what's going on. And then at the end it doesn't really surprise you. But anyways, that being said, it's just weird. It's really weird, but I liked it a lot. In fact, it was very enjoyable. And I'm excited for the movie that they're making, which is coming out next year, I believe. And I haven't read any of the sequels to this, admittedly, but this first book works pretty well as a standalone. So, I don't know, man, if you're into, like, science fiction that takes place over the course of, like, literally thousands of years and has just all kinds of crazy shit going on, then by all means, check this out. But if that's just a little too weird for you, I really don't blame you at all. But Dune, yeah, Solid, really good book. Up next we have The Stand by Stephen King. And this one is, you can see here, it is a monster even by Stephen King standards, and this is kind of a messed up copy, like you can see the ink is spread, because it got rained on one time, but that's not important. The important part is, this is actually kind of like a director's cut, if you will. Like, the original book was a lot shorter than this, and then this is like the sort of extended edition that Stephen King released later. But anyways, that being said, this one is just about a flu virus that gets out and kills 99% of the world's population. And then the survivors in the United States kind of clump into two major enclaves. There's one that is mostly good people around Boulder, Colorado, and then there's one that is like criminals and serial killers and various psychopaths that goes in Nevada. And the evil ones are following this dude named Randall Flag, who is, man, he is an interesting guy, because the thing is, in this one, he seems like mostly human, except he can do magic occasionally. But he does show up in other Stephen King stories in like the Stephen King cinematic universe, or the Stephen King expanded universe, whatever you want to call that. He shows up as villains in those as well. Like, he's the main villain in The Eyes of the Dragon. He's one of the main villains in the Dark Tower series. Like, he's everywhere. And the thing about this book is that even a review on the back kind of says that it has everything in it. It has romance. It has apocalypse. It has adventure. It has like some social commentary in there. But I would say Randall Flag is probably the best part of it. Because, you know, at the beginning when you're just like getting to know all the characters, because that's, you know, that's how Stephen King writes. You spend a very long time getting to know people, getting to know their struggles, their problems, their personalities, all that. And then once the apocalypse hits, it kind of happens in slow motion almost. Like, you're watching the world die, not all at once, because it takes place over the course of a couple hundred pages, I believe. Or maybe not that long, but it takes place over a long period of time in the story. And it's just, it's horrifying to watch. Like, you know, Stephen King is called the master of horror for a reason.  It's a scary book, let me tell you. But, I mean, just like everything Stephen King writes, it's got a lot of heart to it. It feels very genuine, very sincere. The climax is a little, I don't want to say dull, but it's not that great. It could have used a lot of polishing, but it's not bad by any means. And, well, I'm kind of just rambling now. The stand, overall I say, very good book. If you're into apocalyptic stories, don't let the length intimidate you too much, because it really does fly by. It's Stephen King, the way he writes, it's not that hard to get into things, it goes by. But if you're into apocalyptic thing, apocalyptic type of stories, or just horror in general, I'd recommend checking this out. Now we've got the Republic of Pirates. And I didn't review this one when I first read it, because it's nonfiction, and those are just difficult to review for me, because you can't really talk about, like, oh, the plot had some holes in it, and the characters weren't that intriguing, because, like, it's real things. It's things that actually happened. But that being said, this one is kind of told in a narrative style, which means it's almost as though it's telling a story of what happened. Like I said, it's not like just long list of facts and figures, and, oh, the line of succession for kings and everything like that, because sometimes history books do wind up being that way. This one is the story of a bunch of pirates at the beginning of the 18th century who took over some islands in the Bahamas, and essentially made their own country for a couple of years. And it's usually referred to as the Republic of Pirates. And it had people like Edward Teach, Blackbeard, that were there, and it's a fascinating read, because even though it does get repetitive at some points, like, it's like, okay, the pirate crew took a ship, and then they didn't know what to do with all their loot, and they had to find a place to hide, so they went here, and then later they took another ship, but they didn't know what to do with their loot, and it gets a little repetitive. But you do really get a feel for what life was like back then. You do get a feel for why people would become pirates, why they would turn to that, and even though they are still bad people, it doesn't really paint them in a positive light, it does give you some empathy with them, and the good guys, I guess, are like the governors and the navies that eventually bring them down are kind of the same way.  Usually good guys and bad guys, it's just sort of people that feel differently about things. Anyways, that being said, this is an absolutely fascinating read, I felt. Like, if you're interested in the history of colonialism, if you're interested in the beginnings of capitalism, if you're interested in just hearing about pirates that started their own fucking country, check this one out, it's a fascinating read of a story that's just not very well known to people. This next one is also non-fiction, it's called The Crusades Through Aerovies, and it is... I mean, it's exactly what it says on the tin, man. Like, it's the story of the Crusades all the way from the first one up until the later ones where it's just telling them primarily from an era perspective. And that's fascinating to me, because, well, it's not a perspective we get very often. And that's not to say that it's more correct than the other one, it's just that, well, neither of them is going to be totally correct. And I'm not saying that the truth lies in the middle somewhere, either. I'm just saying that it's good to know both sides of that sort of thing. Because, for example, when it first started, the Arabs didn't even realize that the conflict was religiously motivated.  And so it's things like that. Just little things like that where you realize, okay, there's a different perspective on it. The main issue I have with it is that the guy who wrote it, Amin Maloof, is actually a... he's a journalist, he's not a historian. And so, like, he did research it, and he did very good research because, you know, there's a lot of detail in here, obviously. But, like, he's not a historian, so a lot of the minutia of things would probably be lost on him. And even when he's going through sources and he finds claims that are kind of incredulous and not very well accepted by historians, he still threw a couple of those in. So just keep that in mind as you're reading. But just like the last one, this is, you know, narrative history. So it's very easy for laypeople to get into.  And it just taught me a lot of new things that I didn't know before. So I would definitely recommend this to pretty much anybody that is interested in the Crusades at all. Okay, so here I have the entire Rot and Ruin series. And some of you may remember... I'm gonna set these down because they're heavy, but some of you may remember that Rot and Ruin was literally the first review I ever did on this channel. And I wouldn't recommend going back and watching that because it's not very good. It's not very good, okay? Like, I didn't know how to conduct myself on camera. Anyways, I do think it's a really good book, though. And I never reviewed the sequels. And so I just want to talk about the series as a whole for a minute here. Basically, it is young adult, yes. And it's about this kid named Benny who lives about 15 years after the zombie apocalypse has wiped out most of humanity.   And so Benny trains with him to become one. And, well, that's the basics of the series right there. In the later books, they actually leave the general area where they're hanging out and they run into different groups of survivors and there are conflicts between them and gang members or apocalyptic cults. And so, overall, this came out during the midst of the zombie craze. You know, like when the walking dead was first becoming anything and it was huge and everywhere and everyone was trying to copy it. Like, yeah, so this came out at that same time. And while I don't think it does anything particularly new with the zombie genre, I did think that it did it fairly well. So, like, even people that I knew that were, like, really, really tired of hearing about zombies all the time, they enjoyed these books all right. The main difference is that, like I said, it takes place 15 years after the apocalypse has already happened. And so it's a little bit different than stuff where the apocalypse is currently happening or it only happened a few months or years ago. So that was interesting because you got to see the new societies that emerged afterwards and how some people reacted to it differently and how the older people who remember the old world felt much differently about things than younger people who were born here or who were brought up almost entirely here. So I found that really interesting. And all the action scenes were really cool, too. I mean, well, yeah, I don't have a whole lot to say about it. I'm just like, yeah, that was cool. It feels a little bit weebish when the main characters use katanas so much, but whatever, it's not a huge deal. There are some genuinely fantastic villains in the series, too. I mentioned that they mostly fight gangsters at the beginning, guys that are just killing people for money, essentially. And those guys are pretty good. But then in the later books, they get into conflicts with this apocalyptic cult called the Reapers, who believe that humanity is supposed to be wiped out. That's why the zombies were sent by Thanatos, the God of Death. And so they aren't the most sympathetic villains, but they're very interesting. You can definitely tell that most of them believe what they're saying, and they're extremely intimidating as villains, as well. So they're very good. And the gangsters, again, they don't have much to... Well, they aren't very complex, but they're intimidating, so I felt they worked, too. Basically, overall, just good villains, besides the zombies, obviously. You had main character who got kind of annoying at times, and some of his friends got kind of annoying at times, but overall, I liked him. I enjoyed following him around enough that I wasn't, like, hurt by anything or super annoyed by anything. The main weakness of this series, I think, is just the ending, because I don't know, it just feels like it wasn't really earned. Like, things ended a little too happily. But overall, I have read this series twice, and I really liked it. So if just people going around being basses and fighting zombies appeals to you, then definitely check these out, because they're... it's a solid series. Next up, we have a book that I don't have a physical copy of, and that's The Andromeda Strain. Now, I read this back in May, and I just... I didn't have that much to say about it. I felt a little disappointed, in fact. I just... I... I don't know, because I love Michael Crichton, okay? I love Sphere, I love Jurassic Park, I am kind of ambivalent towards Kongo, but, you know, I had expectations going into The Andromeda Strain, and I was left a little unsatisfied by it. Like, this one is basically just a story about the U.S. government sends satellites up into space to try and find alien microbes, like bacteria and stuff, so that they can use it in biological warfare, and then when it crashes to the Earth and kills an entire town of people in Arizona, so they bring in a bunch of scientists to study it and figure out what's going on, and... well, that's the majority of the book there. It's mostly focusing on the scientists doing experiments, figuring out what's going on, and trying to contain this virus outbreak. And, like, it's not a bad book, okay? I... if you're into science fiction, then the premise will probably really appeal to you. If you're not into science fiction, then maybe not, but I don't know. But the point is that it takes up a lot of time with just characters who are all kind of boring and all kind of assholes. And that's my biggest issue with Michael Crichton books in general is that the majority of the characters are just assholes. Not all of them, but the majority of them. So, I don't really remember most of these guys' names or anything about them, really. Just, like, okay, they're the scientists who are doing the science stuff. And it does get a little difficult to get through at times because it's just hitting you with jargon and it's hitting you with explanations of them doing science experiments, and it's hitting you with just a lot of information about biology and about space. And so, yeah, at times it is just a little bit of a slog to get through, but it's never awful. Like, I never really considered not finishing it. And the climax, I think, is actually fairly action-packed. Like, it's better than you would expect for a book like this. And the ending... I have mixed feelings on Michael Crichton's endings as well because he almost always finishes books in such a way where it was impossible to do a sequel because, from what I understand, he hated writing them. But that being said, this one is super dark, but I feel like it's earned. I feel like it's appropriately dark. So, I don't know, I enjoyed that. And the message of the book is basically, like, be afraid of outer space and be afraid of going too far with scientific progress, which is the point of most of Crichton's books when I'm not that I think about it. But I don't know, honestly, for this, for the Androma Strain, I would recommend watching the movie from the 70s or 80s. I forget exactly when it was made, because that one does a really good job of really just copy-pasting the book. Like, they don't change much or add anything or take anything away, at least nothing major. Like, you can watch Dominic Noble's review on it if you want. Like, it follows the book very closely and it's over in, like, two hours, so it's a bit easier to get through than the book was. But I don't know. Like, if it really does sound amazing to you, like, the concept, then you'll probably like it more than I did. But to me, I thought it sounded interesting and I left a little bit disappointed. So that's all for now. I will probably, in fact, I will almost certainly be doing a part two to this, but for now, I think that's a good length to get to. I still have a whole bunch more books that I want to talk about in just these mini-reviews, and if you guys like it, I don't know, it might become a regular thing. But seriously, thanks again for getting me to 30,000 subs and thanks to all my patrons, including Christopher Hawkins, Joseph Pendergraft, and Melanie Austin and everybody else whose names you see here. You guys are amazing. I couldn't do this without you. And please consider liking the video, commenting, and subscribing if you haven't already. And I will see you next time. Bye.


Good morning. A couple of things before I get started into this case, and so right now it's a very long case. It's a very sad case. You know, we want to pray for the victim. What she went through, what she's, you know, hopefully recovering from, and that, you know, she lives a good life. Despite all the evil that she had to go through and all the evil individuals she had to deal with. And also pray for anybody who's being exploited right now.    You know, to protect the victim, we're not going to name her name, of course. This is still an ongoing investigation. So there's going to be some things that we're not going to be able to answer. There's going to be some things you're going to ask and, you know, try to put two and two together. But we want to make sure everybody involved who acted heinously, who's a criminal, gets held accountable for it. You know, the other one, too, is for our citizens out there, law enforcement needs your help. You know, we're battling human trafficking. We're battling these sex crimes. You know, deputies don't patrol out there. It's hard to spot something like this. The neighbors, the people that are involved, those that see something, that's saying, see something, say something, report it. If something looks unusual, like a teenage girl walking down the street at 1 o'clock or 2 o'clock in the morning, somebody report that. Tell us, because you don't know who you may be saving. It is not normal for a 16-year-old to be walking down the street at 3 o'clock in the morning. You know, when we post something on social media, please take it seriously for missing people. That is critical. And I said, there is evil in this world.  And the last thing I want to leave it with before I get started on this is that, please remember, Florida statute says you do not need to know somebody's age to be charged with a felony if you have sex with a minor. So whether they said they're, what's your age, what is not your age, or whatever the question was, they do not need to know her age to be charged with a felony. So as I began and said with everything, we can't do this without teamwork. You know, teamwork and law enforcement, teamwork with our citizens. With me today is Attorney General Ashley Moody. General Moody has led the charge against human trafficking in the state of Florida.  But the other one, too, is the general has an outstanding group of women and men in the statewide prosecution office. That is who we are working with right now. Those women and men are passionate about this. They're passionate about fighting crime. They're passionate about putting these bad people in prison. But the other one they're passionate about is making sure the victims get help. And I'll get that out later on, but right now the victim is getting help because of the teamwork here. And also with us is Sheriff Al Neeneheis. Criminals know no boundaries. And neither with law enforcement working together, we work together to try to save people. And in this case, we went into Hernando County. And as we had to go up there to do search warrants, Sheriff Neeneheis made sure his people were there right there with us, side by side. Because when you hear what goes on here, you have to have a heart to say we have to help out any way we can. So let me begin. The victim was living with her aunt in Newport, Richie. She was living there for a while. And starting in November of 2021, the victim at that time, she's 15 years old.  His name is Steven Graham. Steven Graham's an adult. He is, you know, knows better. It's not like you're doing a 20 year old kid. You're doing with a grown adult. Steven Graham is the pool guy. He goes once a week and he starts building a relationship with this young girl.  And from November until June, he's grooming her this whole time.  They go into the woods, they have sex. She's 15 years old, 15, 15 years old at the time. They have sex. These relationships continue for the months that go on after that. So then November 21, 2022, the victim, she gets into a fight with her aunt. She runs away from home. Her goal was to get to the pool cleaner, Steven Graham. She starts walking down the road, walking down Ridge Road. I go back, it's about one, three o'clock in the morning. She gets picked up by Mark Poor. Mark Poor is a convicted sexual predator in the state of Florida. This guy shouldn't have been on our streets. He picks her up. They go, he buys her breakfast. After that, he pays her $40 for sex. Pays a 16 year old girl's $40 for sex. He then transports her to a wall, which is State Road 54 and 19. The victim starts walking towards Steven Graham's house, up there in the corner. Well, going to Steven Graham's house, she runs into John Malley. John Malley had just come home from a jog, he was out, he was staying there. This is probably about 7, 8 o'clock in the morning. Meets her, they start talking.   Well, after sex, he tells her, hey, I have a young son who lives here, so you can't stay here all day. I don't want him to walk in and see you. So then, you're going to have to leave later on. So around 3 o'clock, Steven Graham takes her to a 7-11 because she had finally got in touch with Steven Graham. I'm sorry, John Malley took her to Steven Graham. Steven Graham and the victim are at the 7-11. While she's in the 7-11, it's about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, she sees the entree pool. She runs into the entree pool in 7-11. They start talking. She eventually slips him a phone number or some type of way to get a message to each other, so they get in contact with each other. But she ultimately leaves with Steven Graham. She then takes off with Steven Graham. They go down in U.S. 19. They find an abandoned golden corral and they have sex in the park a lot. So from there, Steven Graham says, hey, you know, you can't be here. So she then takes off and Steven Graham has to go near Florimar. Apologize here. So sorry, then she hooks up with the entree pool. She meets back up with the entree pool. Those two then go out. They start selling drugs, using drugs, getting drunk through an ecstasy. They end up driving back to the roadway in. They go to the roadway in, which is at U.S. 19 and 52. At there, they have sex. And then the entree says, see you later. He takes off. He leaves her in the room. So around midnight, she starts wandering around the hotel. And then after she's wandering around the roadway in, she meets these two individuals, criminals, Alan Chiavo and Brandon Dunn. Those two, they start drinking. They start using drugs. They have sex, the three of them. So then the evening of November 22 at the roadway in, she is the same evening. She then leaves. She meets Timothy Cologne. And these are chance encounters. People like these were setups. This is a young 16-year-old girl, totally intoxicated, totally on drugs, totally wasted, wandering around a motel. And these individuals, instead of doing the right thing, take advantage of this young girl. So she meets Timothy Cologne. Timothy Cologne meets her. They start talking. They end up having sex in his car. At that point, the victim tells him, I'm 16 years old.  You talk about absolute evilness. This is a person that, you talk about predators, somebody who's going to harm an individual. This person was absolutely, you know, the epitome of evilness here. You know, total manipulation. I'm not telling everybody else, but to tell somebody, you know straight up, the girl says I'm 16 years old. You do something about it. But this person just says no. You're going to talk about your 20. And then the evil pit that she's in gets even deeper and deeper and deeper. So then at that point, Timothy Cologne says, all right, we're going to go back to my house. Well, he goes to a wise guy's bar. They go to wise guys. It's an after-hour bottle bar. They drink some more. They're doing drugs. They go back to his house, which is in Hernando County in Spring Hill. Timothy and her have sex. They then introduce Candace Taldogen. Taldogen. Candace comes into the scene. They have a threesome at Timothy's house in Hernando.  They videotape it this time. So then at this point, Candace then starts to take control of the victim. Candace takes her back to her house in Hernando County. She starts giving her wigs. She starts giving her provocative clothing. And she also gives her stage name by the name of Sassy. So then she starts having the victim go to these strip joints. She's dancing at these strip joints. At one of the strip joints, she meets Jamie Manning. Jamie Manning and her, she's doing a dance during that time. She ends up having sex with him. Jamie then also travels the next day to Candace's house to meet the victim, and they have sex again. Another place was another club. She meets Stephen Graham. Stephen Graham comes to the club. She calls Stephen and says, say, Stephen, I'm dancing here. Stephen pays her $80. This is the bull guy from the original start all over again. He comes back, pays her $80 for a lap dance. Then he also has sex in the club. This guy just, all of them.  She then ends up at one point, going to Wise Guy's Bar again on another night. She meets Jeremy Nanosky, this guy. Why at the club? He says, I'm a record producer. She says, I'm a singer. One thing leads to another, and the next day they link up and they have sex. The other one is these two individuals here at different points in the strip joints.  They get in touch with her.  The one comes later on. They're at a house party. It was at Candace's house. Pierre Williams had just been released from state prison. Pierre Williams says that he's interested in the victim. But the victim, she says she was reluctant. She didn't want to have sex with him. At that point, Timothy Cologne sees what's going on.   And supposedly there's a very heated verbal argument that goes on. But the victim felt pressured, so she went upstairs and she had sex with Pierre Williams. So day after this, she ends up, the victim's still at the house with Candace. Candace goes to a club.  She's a runaway. And look how young she is. She's a minor. Candace then calls up Stephen Graham and says, I just got this flyer. She's a runaway. Get her out of here. They end up going, you know, Stephen Graham comes over. They end up going to La Vista motel. At that point, when she's out of her basically domain, Candace calls up and notifies law enforcement that this is where this girl is. This is where she's at the La Vista hotel. Deputies arrived at a La Vista hotel where the victim has passed out drunk on drugs, totally out of it, naked on the bed. So our deputies did the exact right thing. They got her all the help she needs to help her in the recovery. This is when our detective started taking over because we said this doesn't line up. A six-year-old passed out on a La Vista motel on 19, on drugs, on his bed. Things aren't adding up. This is where the criminal investigation started. This is where this case broke. And then we were able to start bringing all these people together. But I just want to show you how quickly things can escalate. She was only missing for two weeks. Two weeks she was missing. And all this happened to her.  This ain't what happened. This is a sad reality for this girl. This wasn't a movie.  You know, these are things. Drugs, alcohol, sex, coercion. These are all the things that go on with human trafficking. But this is what I go back to. Why do we do these things to bring it out to your public light? Because we need your assistance. When we post those runaways, when we post people out there we need help with, we need help. When you see that 16-year-old girl walking down the street in the middle of the night, make a call to law enforcement. Because it's better that law enforcement show up to try to help that kid than a convicted sexual predator picks her up and starts her down that path to the hell she was living in. These are all the individuals that were involved. These are the charges that are going on. As I go back to, this is still an ongoing investigation. I know there's people watching and you're standing here right now going, what about this? What about that? All those what about this and what about that are being investigated right now. Because we're working with General Moody's team, we are going to get to the bottom of it. Anybody that was involved in this, we're going to keep coming after you. Because that's what the victim deserves here. As a parent, be involved in kids' life. Her aunt had a very tough job. She was trying to raise her, do the right thing. But in general, always be aware of social media what your kids are on. Always know who your kids are talking to. I know it's hard as a parent. I know it's absolutely hard, especially in today's day and age. But you got to be involved. Because the more you're involved, the more you know.  So that being said, I want to thank General Moody again. I want to thank Detective Reagan who's here with us and he'll be able to answer some questions. But Florida Attorney General Moody has led the charge. When I told her about this case, you could tell when General Moody gets mad, she gets really mad sometimes. She was really mad. She was very upset because I know how passionate she is to protect these kids and to make sure that this victim is going to be taken care of. So with that, General? Sure. Thank you. Sure. If you did a remarkable job of piecing together in a coherent way, a lot of independent situations that are built by a common thread and that is the victimization of a child.  We're so lucky in the state of Florida to have you leading the charge here in Pasco County. Thank you so much. And thank you to your deputies that as they described this case and the work that went into it and piecing it together and the partners that they worked with, you could feel their sense of purpose and passion and responsibility of protection for this community. And that is meaningful to me as the Attorney General and not just as the Attorney General. In a state where protecting our kids is one of our highest priorities but as a mother of young school age child to know that there are people like you in this state protecting them 24-7 it gives us great comfort and we thank you. Thank all of you here. It is not lost on anyone that today is the day after human trafficking awareness month. And what is significant about that is it's important to remember that though we recognize prevention and awareness of human trafficking in January of every year, it is a year round effort and it is not just an effort by those of us in this room right now that are announcing this case that are wearing a badge. It is an effort of all of us responsible community members that want to be a part of this effort that want to be a part of protecting our children and what today's case shows is that it really will take not just those who have signed up for these dangerous jobs these incredibly important positions of being deputies and police officers but those of us that care about the children in our community and want to be more proactive what today's case shows us is there are ways that you can. It takes one person noticing something out of place one person noticing that a child might be in danger and reporting that and knowing how to report that that will help us solve these cases and take these dangerous predators off the street. This involved many different adults taking advantage of a young child in numerous ways and while we're looking at human trafficking charges statutory rape charges child exploitation charges what's important to remember is there were dozens of adults that are not being charged today that did come in contact with this child over the course of these two weeks and could have reported this. The silver lining in this case is that this child has been rescued has been recovered and is now receiving the services that she has long needed and will need into the foreseeable future. The cases don't always end this way where a smart deputy responding to a call takes notice digs in brings in intelligence and other partners to help build out the case many children and young adults women live in long periods of time of torture and sexual exploitation sexual abuse the silver lining in this case is we had rapid-responsing deputies that had been trained who knew how to follow up knew how to build this case and that's what we're consistently trying to improve and build upon here in the state of Florida. I commend not only Sheriff Naco but Sheriff Nienheis whose deputies in Orlando County spring into action as you know human trafficking knows no jurisdictional boundaries which is often why the Attorney General's office is brought in to assist as this crosses over circuit lines it crosses over county lines and we're so grateful for your efforts as well. The operation that led to the rest of this individuals is a remarkable demonstration of the dedication and expertise that our law enforcement officers in Florida have and that they're willing to work in collaboration with prosecutors and I have full confidence that my prosecutors will continue working this case there will be others that are a part of this investigation I want to thank Rita Peters who is a longtime sex prosecutor works with our office she's been invaluable as we develop and uncover facts and bring charges Florida is as the governor has said many times a law and order state and part of that is we will do everything in our capacity to protect children many of you saw last week I stood at his side as we announced new legislation that would be proposed to come down even harder on adults that sexually exploit and offend against our children we will seek enhanced penalties we will make sure that the minimum if you rape a young child is life if you even have an inkling that you might harm or sexually offend against a child in this state you may want to think about moving Florida is zero tolerance we will catch you as today's case demonstrates and you will be put behind bars where you belong for a very long time I started off by saying why this case is so important not only in that we rescued a victim but that the community needs to see how they can be a part of solving these crimes again there were dozens of people who are not charged who at any moment could have called and reported to our abuse hotline in fact in Florida if you suspect that a child is being abused everyone has a responsibility to report that it is your business let me repeat that if you are suspect that a child is being abused in the state of Florida it is your business and you do have a duty to report it and if you see that you can always call 1-800-96 abuse if you want to be more engaged in our fight against human trafficking you can go to youcanstopht.com and report human trafficking to 855 FLA as attorney general this has been one of my highest priorities to build better collaboration among our partners to develop an expertise within law enforcement to take advantage of of our cyber tools and use those to rescue victims you will see us focusing on this more and more in the coming years I appreciate the vigor and the passion of the deputies that are with us today I thank all of you for digging in and learning from this case and moving ahead and rescuing others throughout our state thank you so much and with that I will turn it over to the FSA president not just the sheriff of Hernando county the honorable sheriff thank you good afternoon thank you again as the general said I'm Hernando kind of sheriff president of the floor sheriff's association and as I'm listening to this I don't think there's a law enforcement officer in this room no matter how much experience they have that these cases don't turn in their stomach you listen to it and you almost find it hard to believe that this was a two-week ordeal it's something if you saw on TV on some sort of show or movie and said all this happened two weeks ago that's not realistic that could never happen and here we're living it so I think it's important a couple things are important remember there's a reason that our laws are different and that's because minors their brains are forming they're automatically rebellious they're very susceptible to something like this from the right individuals who do some grooming offer them some promise of some excitement and then of course like we see all too often once they get in the middle of this and they say whoa I didn't sign up for this it's too late and then they have to become survivors and they do things and say things and act in ways that they normally wouldn't do and if you ran into this individual sometime in the middle of that two weeks you might find it hard to believe that she was that age but that's a defense mechanism to be able to survive in an environment that the rest of us can't even begin to imagine much less survive in so I think it's important to remember as the general said and as Sheriff Nako said that just because somebody is 20 years old and they seem very street smart that could be because they learned it in less than two weeks it doesn't necessarily mean they're actually that age and it certainly doesn't mean that they are willing participants they may just strictly be in survival mode and not know who they can trust and who they can't and as we've seen very quickly their life spirals out of their control into a situation that is people this age they're doing drugs especially if fentanyl is involved they're going to likely overdose and very likely end up deceased at a very young age and so that's why it's so important what the general said about if you see something and Sheriff Nako did as well if you see something that looks unusual if the hair in the back of your neck stands up about a situation it just doesn't seem right even if there's things in that you know those types of things it's still important to call law enforcement this is a case where we'd rather be wrong and inconvenienced a little bit than be right and have nobody call so please call another thing I want to talk about is I don't know if they can change the slides I don't know who's up here but Timothy Cologne that was our involvement mainly in this case and our involvement became much late in the investigation assisting as a member of the Florida Sheriff's Association I can tell you that when a Sheriff says we need some assistance whether it's us going to their county or them coming to our county Sheriff's don't ask a lot of questions whatever you need you got because often times it involves something like this but I will tell you from a little bit of personal experience Mr. Cologne is not unfamiliar to Hernando County Sheriff's Office which I think is also an important point to make that these individuals are often well known criminals and he was recently charged with conspiracy rather to commit armed robbery he is well known in our our county and maybe this case will help us solve other crimes that are very very serious that he may be involved in I think it's also important to realize that this case had ties to at least Pascoe and Hernando County and maybe at least a couple other counties in that two week period so it is important to be able to work together on these intersectional cases and the Attorney General whether she's talking in front of a camera or privately what you see is what you get she does not tolerate this and her and her folks we had a similar case actually a relative was involved in the sex trafficking of a minor and she was just fired up on that case as she is on this one and so I'm sure that this victim will get justice but the Florida Sheriff's Association is very hard at protecting working with partners like the Attorney General and the Governor helping keep our young people who aren't always the best at making decisions safe from predators like the several you see up here so again thank our media partners for coming out and I guess I'll turn it back over to Sheriff Malcolm. So again I want to thank General the Sheriff and you know with us today Detective Reagan he was going to lead on it Sergeant I was there in Lieutenant Myers but we wanted to have him here because if there's any specific questions to have them answer but is there anything we can talk there's some things we won't be able to talk about because it's an ongoing investigation the places where she had been working at there's an ongoing investigation so I just want to put that out there right now so she's at a a center right now for human trafficking victims and you know she was brought there trying to get her there as quick as we could I don't know her day to day it's one of those things that it takes a long time I can tell you in general with human trafficking victims our fear is that you know like to Sheriff Lutu in those two weeks she probably transformed way faster way more than she ever wanted how do you take that out of a child how do you get that how do you get that you know you're never going to remove a memory all you can do is help them out so you know this is somebody that you know like in any human trafficking case we're always fearful that they run away again we're fearful that you know she tries to link up with this group of people that were involved in it so those are the separate things from all indications as I said I know her day to day I've been told that she's doing better but at the same time as this is not something you know it's not like you broke your arm and you're in a cast and you'll be fine this is physically she was absolutely abused mentally she was tortured also how do you help that person that has Stockholm syndrome how do you help that person that you know doesn't know absolutely what they've gone through how do you help them out through that talk about this issue in Pasco County this is no different in Pasco than it is anywhere else this is this is a united states issue this is probably a global issue in different ways you know in different ways and the fact that I know we're talking about human trafficking people often think it's people that are being trafficked out of you know different countries and brought here for sex slavery you know labor slavery those things happen what we deal with is a lot of times you know there's kids that are in the foster care system and there's some phenomenal foster care parents there's some people that probably shouldn't be foster care parents because these kids are going from house to house to house and what happens is these kids end up going from you know one location to another they're constantly moved and at some point they break and they're looking for somebody who loves them and they find out usually in a guy such as a Timothy Cologne style person that takes them in and they feel like oh this person's going to take care of me and then they pass them off to a person like the canvas technician and they keep going down that trap those are the things we find the other one is the runaways the runaways like in this situation with this victim they get caught up in this lifestyle because they don't know how to get out of it these are kids we know what kids are like when they do something bad they can look around how do I get out of this situation I don't want to be in trouble now her trouble keeps getting worse and worse and she has no idea how to get out of it she's just surviving and so this is what we deal with I see more in the Tampa Bay region I see more in Pasco is it's not you know there is a human smuggling element that absolutely is true it's coming through Mexico absolutely 100% that is coming through our country that you know we see more and more of our cases such as this is the runaways but absolutely human smuggling that is a huge industry on the border right now where the cartels are smuggling people into this country they smuggle them into the country they got to pay a fine so the fee is a couple thousand dollars these young girls, young boys are coming in and I'll tell you right now you never pay off your debt you're always brought in so basically by an open border all these people are bringing there's human smuggling coming in these kids are crossing the border they're in our country and they're being exploited also but what we see here in Pasco is more cases such as this and I know this is an ongoing investigation they were looking for someone it sounds like in most cases yeah I mean this guy John Malley literally a guy walking down the street sees a 16 year old kid and says hey you want to come to my house and take a shower hey let's start having sex oh by the way I can't let my kid know because I don't want to basically be embarrassed I don't want to ask him questions how many more strikes is like you see a 16 year old kid on the street you don't want to invite them in a house what is wrong with you unless you're just an absolute deviant which he is he's an absolute deviant that's a predator in my eyes you know this guy this guy shouldn't have been a society anymore he should have been locked up forever this is all my opinion is that these people this is a convicted sexual predator what is he doing on our streets this is what General Moody and Governor DeSantis is talking about these people do not belong back in society again if you have a house why would you allow predators like this in your house but we allow them in society we can't lock our kids in our house forever we have to let them outside we have to let them on the playgrounds we have to let them on the streets we have to let them walk to them all we have to let them do stuff but you can't allow the predators to be out there predating all these kids you have to protect them but that's what I go back to these are the individuals we're dealing with the Timothy Collins of the world these people don't get me started this guy should never see the light of day again he should never even make it out of prison so we're going to find out we're going to keep digging into this see what goes on so I'll tell you a senior in high school can be 18 years old state of Florida that's an adult you know Candace I think she was just looking for anybody she was going to be able to use what I'm saying here right now we're talking because the girl was 16 years old what if I was saying she was 19 years old I mean there's a difference age wise there's a difference legally but if you're a mother father grandparent uncle or aunt still a little girl that you help ride a bicycle teach her how to ride a bicycle learn how to walk do those things but a three years difference doesn't matter if it doesn't matter if it's 25 years old basically it sounds like all they're doing is making them dance I don't know it's part of the investigation it's a theory my theory but I mean who knows what she's making off the side of this you know if she's dancing okay did she get a cut of that money I don't know part if I screw up the investigation on this but that's what you're dealing with I mean it's all about these people it's all about money and their own pleasure they're evil that's all there is to it question to the detective just to try to unravel this web it was created in just two weeks so difficulty absolutely it's from the moment that we received the investigation and I began my interview and the investigation on December 5th I mean me my team and pasco sheriff's office as a whole were collectively we were able to identify where she visited through video surveillance I mean it wasn't until January 20 28 was when we made our last physical arrest so I mean you can imagine it was long days weekends you know just trying to put everything together so we got time for one more Detective Paul Reagan what's that I'm sorry what's that I'm sorry oh yes P-A-U-L-R-E-A-G-A-N so for I will say you know if you're a citizen you're like what are they trafficker which trafficking look like it's a house in your neighborhood that always stands out unfortunately it could be a house that just you know young girls young boys are constantly moving in and out of you know things that are going on weird things are happening like the sheriff said you know Timothy Cologne is not you know he's not on known to law enforcement Hernando County those are type of things to look for the other one too is I mean this girl is going into strip joints that I said it's part of the investigation going on you know what is happening out there why you know we're going to be digging into that one if there's a young girl just wandering down the street when she probably should be in school she should probably be in bed at home that's you know that's something that raises eyebrows you know I'll tell you when our detectives our deputies are on patrol at two or three o'clock in the morning and there's the young girl in the car with an adult you bet like the general said they're being trained because of her training the general's training that human trafficking training we go through they know now ask more questions keep digging deeper those are some things but I'll tell you it's our citizens we need our citizens out there so badly because when there's that flyer that goes out for a missing child you know share that go on there look at that when you're in that convenience store I know it sometimes are but hey maybe you do remember you do to see those faces so that's the one thing human trafficking is a very hard crime to say that's it that's I can see it I spot it's the little peripheral things around it that help you identify what is what's going on human trafficking because once you start finding those little things you connect them together and then you get into the nasty weave like you see here so thank you all very much I appreciate it God bless you