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1.8 KiB
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18 lines
1.8 KiB
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tags:
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- Organization
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- Foundation
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- United_States
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- New_Jersey
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- 1970s
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- North_Fox_Island
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- Adam_Starchild
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category: "Private Organization"
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summary: "The Ocean Living Institute was a sea-steading foundation incorporated in New Jersey by Adam Starchild, who also served as the incorporating agent for Brother Paul's Children's Mission on North Fox Island."
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The Ocean Living Institute was a sea-steading foundation incorporated in New Jersey by [[Adam Starchild]], who also served as the incorporating agent for [[Brother Paul's Children's Mission]] on [[North Fox Island]]. In August 1976, [[Gerald Richards]] handed over a letter he received from [[Dyer Grossman]] postmarked 19 July 1976, which had a return address for the Ocean Living Institute. In the letter, [[Dyer Grossman|Grossman]] detailed plans to set up a series of foster homes in Michigan, citing the profitability in receiving monthly payments from the government for taking in runaways and problem kids. The letter also mentioned a twelve-year-old boy [[Dyer Grossman|Grossman]] said he had procured through a Big Brother program who he described as innocent but that some camping trips may change that.[^1]
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[[Adam Starchild]] was actually a man named Malcolm Willis McConahy, an offshore tax attorney who appeared to have faked his own death in 1975. [[Adam Starchild|Starchild]] had been a scout master in Minneapolis kicked out of the organization in 1965 after he expressed a desire to engage in sex with boys there. The Ocean Living Institute served as one of [[Adam Starchild|Starchild]]'s corporate vehicles, alongside his role in incorporating [[Brother Paul's Children's Mission]], which operated the summer camp on [[North Fox Island]] used by [[Francis Shelden]] for child exploitation.[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Dovey, S. (2023). *Eye of the Chickenhawk*. United States: Thehotstar.
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