The criminal proceedings moved quickly.At Alder County Superior Court, the self-proclaimed spiritual adviser, Silas Crowe, could no longer maintain his mystical performance.As prosecutors presented bank transfers, private messages, and recordings of his group arguing over money, sweat gathered across his forehead.His associates turned on one another and blamed everyone but themselves.They faced charges for large-scale fraud, conspiracy, child trafficking, kidnapping, and the exploitation of minors through a fabricated occult scheme.Delia stood at the defense table and wept.She insisted she'd been a manipulated believer and claimed she'd wanted children only for the good of our family.Then prosecutors played recordings of her discussing how to use the boys to transfer fortune and how to divide the payments promised by my parents.The judge found that she knew the children had an uncertain and suspicious origin yet actively helped plan the false paternity scheme. She recei
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