Posted this at TOP (h/t to Not Henry Kissinger for his original post on this) in response to the story posted over there yesterday alleging the sexual assault of a minor online by Assange. I understand it has since been taken down by the author, but I was incensed enough to post it at TOP anyway.

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Yesterday, a story was posted here claiming that Julian Assange allegedly used the dating site ToddAndClare.com to “groom an eight year old girl online,” i.e. to engage in acts of pedophilia. Specifically the claim was made that:

On September 28 this year a Canadian family holidaying in the Bahamas reported to the police that their 8-year-old daughter was “sexually molested online” by Assange on Toddandclare.com, including propositioning her “to perform oral and anal sex acts.” She was presumably accessing the site through her 22-year-old sister’s account. Whether these chats were recorded or not isn’t clear but the family claims they identified Assange.

The story also charges the Bahamian police with covering up Assange’s crime, and the UN for retaliating against ToddAndClare, which is owned by T&C Solutions (hereafter “T&C)” with the UN to “reconsider their support” for Assange, by wrongfully de-listing them from the UN Global Compact after T&C filed a court complaint in the United Kingdom regarding these matters.

The sole basis for these claims of criminal child sexual abuse by Assange employing T&C are a PR release which refers to the court filing in the UK, the report filed with the UN, a blog post and a Facebook post containing a letter allegedly sent to the Prime Minister of Canada about this “outage” against white Canadian citizens by the authorities in the Bahamas, all of which were produced solely by T&C or its agents. Neither Mr. Assange, nor any representative of Wikileaks was contacted by the author of the story posted here for comment prior to publication as far as I can tell.

Today, after this story was published at Daily Kos, Wikileaks released the following statement: Here is the description of the plot from Mr Assange’s legal team, the investigative report into the front company and associated correspondence. An unknown entity posing as an internet dating agency prepared an elaborate plot to falsely claim that Julian Assange received US$1M from the Russian government and a second plot to frame him sexually molesting an eight year old girl. The second plot includes the filing of a fabricated criminal complaint in the Bahamas, a court complaint in the UK and laundering part of the attack through the United Nations. The plot happened durring WikiLeaks’ Hillary Clinton related publications, but the plot may have its first genesis in Mr. Assange’s 16 months litigation against the UK in the UN system, which concluded February 5 (Assange won. UK and Sweden lost & US State Dept tried to pressure the WGAD according to its former Chair, Prof. Mads Andenas). Timeline 2016 May, when self-claimed dating agency "ToddAndClare" (T&C) approach saying they were contacted by the Russian government Sep 3, T&C email Assange’s Swedish lawyer Per Samualson offering one million dollars for Assange to appear in a video advertisement for the "dating agency" ToddAndClare.com (See attachment). This is the first contact. Sep 15, email sent from a member of Mr. Assange’s defence team to hannah@toddandclare requesting further details (See attachment) Sep 19, hannah@toddandclare.com emailed with elaborate bonafides, proposed agreement and the claim that the source of the million dollars is the Russian government The email states that T&C was approached by Russian representatives in May 2016 and that "The source of the $1,000,000 is the Russian government". The email then goes on to "verify" bonafides by giving a detailed description of the interior of the house and desk of his lawyer, Helena Kennedy, who is a member of the UK parliament, including a reference to a photo of Tony Blair (Kennedy states that the Blair reference is accurate although out-of-date). Sep 20, a representative of Mr. Assange’s defence writes to hannah@toddandclare.com stating that the proposal appears to be an "elaborate scam designed to entrap Mr. Assange’s reputation into unwanted and unwarranted publicity" Sep 21, hannah@toddandclare.com writes stating that "The offer expires at midnight, October 31st 2016." Late Sep, WikiLeaks announce a press conference for Oct 4 for its ten year anniversary. Late Sep, Press widely misreport that WikiLeaks is going to launch its "October Suprise" against Hillary Clinton on Oct 4, misinterpreting its press conference call Oct 4, T&C files its "Assange paedophile" libel through the UN’s Global Compact system alleging that there is an active criminal investigation in the Bahamas against Julian Assange for the abuse of an eight year old girl and claiming to have chat logs and photos. The allegation appears on the UN website with UN Gobal Compact letter head and is contextualised with a complex back story. The request targets the UN WGAD (part of the UN Human Rights system) which found that Assange is being illegally detained by the United Kingdom and Sweden. Oct 4, T&C files claim through the UK courts, apparently using it as a method to place the paedophile accusation into the public record. (See attachment). Oct 4, WikiLeaks holds press conference, where it becomes clear that its publishing of Clinton related documents will occur later Oct 5, T&C UK court claim arrives at Ecuadorian embassy in London Oct 7, Friday, WikiLeaks commenses release of the Podesta Emails Oct 11, T&C pushes out Assange paedophile claim through PRWeb newswire service Oct 12, UN Global Compact delists T&C, citing "integrity" issues Oct 12, T&C issues press release opposing UN delisting with an elaborate story, claiming that Julian Assange is threatening US citizens (T&C) Oct 17, Investigative report into Toddandclare.com prepared for Mr. Assange’s lawyers is concluded, finding "T&C Network Solutions exhibits the characteristics of a highly suspicious and likely fabricated business entity." (See attachment "FINAL REPORT T&C 17 Oct 2016"). Oct 18, The paedophile part of the plot is launched through US democrat-aligned web site DailyKos and pushed by pro-Clinton twitter accounts

And here are selected excerpts from the investigative report prepared by Assange’s defence team: