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  The victims of catholic rape?
context: In the messages in the court order, Tate explained to the woman that he had used a webcam business to “launder money” and that he’d also started teaching men to start their own. “It’s all a cover,” he wrote, assuring her she could trust him. He told the victim that he’d meet her in Romania after taking care of some work in Prague and spoke about the prospect of marriage.  
  “I want to know that you are determined … serious about marriage,” Tate stated in one message, according to the court order.  
  “Yes. I am serious,” the woman replied.
  
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  According to the court order, Tate replied that the women in the house work for “Only Fans” — an internet subscription service used extensively by sex workers.  
  “I mean, do they undress and stuff? Or something else,” the woman responded.  
  “No, just bikini,” Tate wrote. “And underwear.”  
  “I thought I would come here and live with you,” she wrote the next day. “It’s a little strange to have you put me with girls who work for you.”
  
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  In a message reproduced in the court order, for instance, the Moldovan woman said she was thinking about going into town.  
  “NO,” Tate writes. “Going out alone … without telling me. Mall. Supermarket. NOWHERE. FROM NOW ON. It’s the last warning.”
  
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  One of Tristan’s “rules” for her in Romania was “you never talk to anyone unless I introduce you,” messages between the two show. “Romania is my world. No friends from the outside,” he wrote. >
  
  Ah the classic abusers/pimps move of making false promises, isolate, threaten and profit. >
  
  Well this sets a dangerous precedent, if manipulating people like that is illegal, then those poor religions will have to answer to all the abuse they cause! >
  
  It seems disingenuous to conflate mass religion with intimate partner abuse. >
  
  It only seems that way if you're willfully ignorant about what goes on in a lot of churches. >
  
  I am an ex-Catholic who went to Catholic school. I understand perfectly well. I still think it does a disservice to the victims.