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40 Facts About Charles Manson, the Notrious Cult-leader

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30. He was raped and sexually abused at his next juvenile detention center

Plainfield, Indiana, today, where Manson attended the Indiana Boys’ School. Ascent Indiana

This escape didn’t last long, either, and after a few more weeks of robbery and vagrancy, Manson was sent to a far harsher institution: the Indiana School for Boys at Plainfield, Indiana. He’d made a mockery of the law too many times for the ‘sadistic, perverted a**holes’ employed as prison guards, and they made it their mission to give the young Houdini a really tough life. He received daily beatings from the guards and, most horrific of all, Manson was frequently gang-raped by other inmates at the chief guard’s instigation, causing yet more humiliation and crippling psychological trauma.

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