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Meanwhile, in Wasilla.

Courtesy of ADN:

Two Wasilla women remained jailed Wednesday on charges they sexually abused two children in their home during a 10-year period ending in 2003.

A now-adult victim described the situation as an extended family of adopted children living a "cult-like" existence in a sheltered Wasilla home.

Alaska State Troopers said they arrested 71-year-old Shawn M. O'Shea-Grantham and Mailea (Joan) L. O'Shea-Grantham, 40, on Friday on multiple counts of sexual abuse of a minor based on a grand jury indictment.

Charging documents say the women, separately and together, sexually abused the two children between 1993 and 2003. The abuse started when the children were 7 and 2.

Both women pleaded not guilty in Palmer Superior Court on Tuesday.

Sky Johnson, a 27-year-old Anchorage resident, said she's one of the victims.

Johnson said Wednesday she tried for years to get authorities to investigate claims of abuse in the home where Shawn O'Shea-Grantham was raising her and two other adopted children.

Johnson said the home was filthy and O'Shea-Grantham ran the family with threats and intimidation. She said the older woman beat her if she didn't clean the house and deprived her brother of food. She also encouraged her to have sex with men she selected, calling surrogate parenting "the clan way" to make a family, Johnson said.

The children were kept isolated, even from neighborhood kids, she said.

"We were not allowed to attend public school. We were not allowed to go to church consistently. Every single interaction with the community was extremely well-rehearsed," Johnson said. "We were told not to disclose any of the secrets that occurred at home."

I actually have a little inside information on this case.

The women are being held in Hiland Correctional facility, the same place that once housed Dian Palin.

I really don't wish to lump all of the people of Wasilla together, but it was the location for one of the most egregious cases of child abuse that has ever been documented up here by a foster family that horribly abused their children and kept them in cages for years.

All that plus the recent report that half of the women in the town have suffered abuse at the hands of their partners, cannot help but lead one to believe that there is definitely something fucked up about the people living in that area.

Is it any wonder really that they also produced the Palin family?
From what I hear the news is not reporting the extent of the atrocities committed by these tow women, which are so bad that at least one person who heard them threw up in response.

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