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### International Networks
In Amsterdam, the trade continued into the 1990s. [[Warwick Spinks]] managed boy brothels masquerading as gay nightclubs in the Spuistraat district, including the [[Gay Palace]]. Spinks was involved in mail order boy prostitution and pornography through the 1980s and 90s, pioneering the trafficking of boys as young as ten from the streets of London and, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, from Eastern Europe. Having brought them to Amsterdam, he used these "chickens" himself, sold them into brothels or through escort agencies, and put them in front of the camera. Some resisted, some ran away, but most were made to comply through the removal of their passports and doses of drugs and violence. Further allegations implicated prominent figures including members of the Dutch Royal family, with witnesses claiming they had been used as boy prostitutes during the 1980s. The callboy service called Bell Boys, operated by [[Karel Maasdam]], catered to Dutch justice officials and was linked to senior government figures whose names appeared in a rolodex kept by a professor serving as a go-between.[^1]
In Amsterdam, the trade continued into the 1990s. [[Warwick Spinks]] managed boy brothels masquerading as gay nightclubs in the Spuistraat district, including the [[Gay Palace]]. Spinks was involved in mail order boy prostitution and pornography through the 1980s and 90s, pioneering the trafficking of boys as young as ten from the streets of London and, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, from Eastern Europe. Having brought them to Amsterdam, he used these "chickens" himself, sold them into brothels or through escort agencies, and put them in front of the camera. Some resisted, some ran away, but most were made to comply through the removal of their passports and doses of drugs and violence. Further allegations implicated prominent figures including members of the Dutch Royal family, with witnesses claiming they had been used as boy prostitutes during the 1980s. [[Nick Davies]] wrote in 1998 that [[Karel Maasdam]] owned the Bell Boys escort agency in Amsterdam.[^2] The Dutch government's summary of the [[Rolodex Investigation]], a probe of an Amsterdam brothel for homosexual clients with an attached escort agency, records a witness's statement that the names of two chief prosecutors were on a rolodex of the brothel owner's clients, and that the rolodex was never found.[^3] S. Dovey wrote that the rolodex was kept by a university professor serving as a go-between.[^1]
### Washington D.C. Political Networks
A contemporaneous but geographically separate case documented connections between child prostitution networks and senior Republican Party figures. The [[Franklin Credit Union Scandal]] emerged in 1988 with the collapse of the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union in Omaha, Nebraska, operated by [[Lawrence King Jr.]], a prominent Republican Party fundraiser. Allegations - which two grand juries in 1990 found unsubstantiated - connected King to a network reaching Washington D.C. through lobbyist [[Craig Spence]]. Spence's White House access and connections to an escort service were independently documented by the Washington Times in June-November 1989, including a confirmed 1 a.m. White House tour with male prostitutes. The documented Washington connection between King and Spence rests on contemporaneous journalism rather than criminal proceedings; Spence died in November 1989, ruled a suicide.[^2]
A contemporaneous but geographically separate case documented connections between child prostitution networks and senior Republican Party figures. The [[Franklin Credit Union Scandal]] emerged in 1988 with the collapse of the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union in Omaha, Nebraska, operated by [[Lawrence King Jr.]], a prominent Republican Party fundraiser. Allegations - which two grand juries in 1990 found unsubstantiated - connected King to a network reaching Washington D.C. through lobbyist [[Craig Spence]]. Spence's White House access and connections to an escort service were independently documented by the Washington Times in June-November 1989, including a confirmed 1 a.m. White House tour with male prostitutes. The documented Washington connection between King and Spence rests on contemporaneous journalism rather than criminal proceedings; Spence died in November 1989, ruled a suicide.[^4]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Dovey, S. (2023). Eye of the Chickenhawk. United States: Thehotstar.
[^2]: Hedges, Michael, and Jerry Seper. "Power Broker Served Drugs, Sex at Parties Bugged for Blackmail." Washington Times, June 29, 1989. Douglas County Grand Jury Report, July 23, 1990.
[^2]: Nick Davies, "Paedophile network trafficks young boys across Europe," nickdavies.net, dated October 1, 1998. https://www.nickdavies.net/1998/10/01/paedophile-network-trafficks-young-boys-across-europe/
[^3]: "Samenvatting van de aanleiding, het verloop, de resultaten en de besluitvorming in het Rolodex-onderzoek," December 23, 2013. https://eerstekamer.nl/9370000/1/j4nvgs5kjg27kof_j9vvkfvj6b325az/vjigib8p5szh
[^4]: Hedges, Michael, and Jerry Seper. "Power Broker Served Drugs, Sex at Parties Bugged for Blackmail." Washington Times, June 29, 1989. Douglas County Grand Jury Report, July 23, 1990.