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Jury clears US government over 76 deaths in Waco siege

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David Koresh had fathered 14 of the children that died at Waco. He would single out girls as young as 12 to be his sexual partner.

He stockpiled food and ammunition, believing in a coming ‘apocalypse’ and when the first bullets were fired, it was to him a fulfilment of his persecutory prophecy.

They later found another child had been stabbed to death, meaning Koresh’s followers, perhaps even the child’s parents, had murdered their own.

The ATF and FBI have since learnt from Waco...