NEW ORLEANS (LA)
WVUE Fox 8 TV
October 4, 2018
Tonight – more in our TV exclusive. We sat down with a former NOPD detective who helped crack an infamous pedophile ring in the late 70s that was tied to a Boy Scout troop here in New Orleans. And we have learned at the center of it all was Richard Windmann, the man who says he was raped by a Jesuit High School janitor while a priest watched.
Mason Spong had no idea that the case he worked in 1976 as a young NOPD detective would change his life. “A man saw some sexually explicit pictures of young children and he reported it,” Spong said. Spong says that tip would lead investigators to a pedophile ring connected to Boy Scout Troop 137.
“These guys moved in and were able to gain control of this Scout troop,” Spong said. “They took these kids across the lake to K Bar B Ranch and they had sexual acts over in St Tammany,…and this went on for a while, a couple of years before we even came on to these pictures that were turned over to us…
“…They were very young and very angelic children, very friendly, outgoing most of the times. The common denominator was a single parent home, basically poor.”
Spong says men traveled to New Orleans to have sex with the boys – and the children were even taken across state lines.
“These adults had money to some degree, you know, they were middle class, and those pedophiles would come in from out of town and have that sexual contact here in New Orleans in the homes of these other pedo
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