“Charles Manson, You Are NOT The Father!”

The alleged children of the cult leader keep showing up, four years after his death

Oh Charlie, Charlie, Charlie — ye of such potent sperm, such virile loins, such a vanguard legacy — everybody wants to call you ‘Daddy!’ But is it true? Did you really father all these children — these lost souls, these glaze-eyed men and women longing to attach themselves to your fame, your infamy, and your name?

What say ye, Charles Manson?

Family Man

Charles Milles Manson was born November 12, 1934 in Cincinnati, Ohio to a 15-year old redheaded runaway named Kathleen Maddox. Maddox was from Ashland, Kentucky, the youngest of four children born to a devoutly religious family of the Nazarene faith. Impulsive and rebellious, Kathleen had run off to the big city not long before getting pregnant.

Manson’s father was a laborer named Colonel Scott, who was married to another woman. Weeks after Charlie’s birth, Kathleen married a man named Manson — giving her son a legitimate name. Five years later, Kathleen and her brother Luther were arrested for armed robbery and she was sentenced to five years in prison at Moundsville, Ohio. Charlie spent the next few years living with Kathleen’s sister…