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Charles Manson was a Sex Trafficker
And the women and men in his Family were victims
On March 21, 1967, 32-year old Charles ‘Charlie’ Manson was released from Terminal Island, a federal correction institute in Southern California. Manson had served nearly two decades in prisons, jails and youth detention centers on charges including petty larceny, auto theft, check fraud and pimping. Less than three years after his ’67 release, Charlie was again in a jail cell, where he spent the rest of his miserable life.
During an earlier stint at Terminal, Charlie sought mentorship from the pimps. They coached him on how to control girls but warned Manson to stay away from the nuttier ones.
Manson was first released from Terminal in the fall of 1958. While on release in Los Angeles, Charlie began pimping. Pimping cemented Charlie’s opinion of the fairer sex. He’d clearly developed a deep-seated resentment toward women and felt that not only was it his right to ‘knock them down a peg’ but that women actually required such treatment for them to function as the good Lord intended.
He went back to prison on mail fraud and check forging charges, and was released in 1967. He wound up in San Francisco, where he hoped to launch a music career.
If Charlie had any plans to start pimping in San Francisco, it would have been a moot point. Thanks to the pill, everybody was giving it away for free. He couldn’t sell sex here. But maybe he could peddle something else. This is how and why the Family was created. He used sex to get what he really wanted.
In order to demonstrate how Manson was a sex trafficker, I’m going to go through the list of Family members:
Mary Brunner: (the first member of the Family, met Manson in Spring 1967 and gave birth to his son a year later): invited Manson to stay on her couch and when he hit on her, she declined. The next day when she was at work, he went and got all his belongings and brought them to her house. When she started to protest that evening, he argued that she needed him.
