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Franklin child prostitution ring allegations

When you are a child, you deserve to be cared for and kept safe. It is never okay for someone to hurt you or make you do things that you don't want to do. Unfortunately, some children have been hurt in really terrible ways, and one of those ways was a bad thing that happened in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s.

Some grown-ups were accused of doing very bad things to children in a group called the Franklin Child Prostitution Ring. They were accused of making children do things that they didn't want to do and hurting them in all sorts of ways.

People got really upset and wanted to know what happened, so there were investigations and trials to try to figure out what happened and who was responsible. There were a lot of different opinions, some people thought it really happened and others thought it didn't. It is still something that people talk about today, and it reminds us all how important it is to protect children and make sure they are safe from harm.