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In 1986, accusations of child abuse emerged from a daycare serving military families at the Presidio of San Francisco. Authorities eventually investigated reports involving dozens of children, several of whom were reportedly diagnosed with chlamydia.

The case became even darker when a child identified Michael Aquino, a decorated Army psychological-operations officer who openly practiced black magic and founded the Temple of Set. Army CID retained Aquino as the subject of serious alleged offenses, but he was never criminally charged.

While the investigation was still active, the daycare burned in a fire the FBI suspected was arson. The prosecution against daycare supervisor Gary Hambright later collapsed, adults refused to cooperate, and the statute of limitations expired.

In this episode of The 99th Meridian, we investigate what happened at the Presidio, why the ritual allegations were dismissed as “Satanic Panic,” and whether the greatest protection the perpetrators received was convincing the public that organized occult abuse could never be real.

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