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Upstate Fire Captain Arrested for Sexual Exploitation of a Minor

Veteran firefighter loses job within hours of arrest, city officials confirm.

by ANDREW FANCHER *** An Upstate South Carolina fire captain is facing a single felony count o
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SubZeroIQ September 28, 2026 at 12:45 pm

I know NOTHING about the facts of these two cases; but I know much about many other cases where innocents’ lives were destroyed by false child abuyse charges drummed up for private gain in family court or other litigation.
All I would say for now is: (1) Remember the Virginia McMartin Pre-school cases of the 1980s which stretched into the 1990s and the 21st Century WITHOUT a single conviction. (2) Re-listen to the recording FITSNews itself released of Nancy Mace recruiting other women for a sexual molestation “group” lawsuit against Nancy Mace’s former fiance. (3) Innocent until and unless proven guilty. (4) Do not ignore or attack the Eighth Amendment; you might need it some day. And (5) Andy Fancher, for all your looking into Spartanburg County’s former Sheriff Chuck Wright, how have you not seen his former employee, Amanda Star Blanton, a raging lesbian who, when a CPD “investigator,” fabricated a false harassment case against Dr. Marie Faltas and while executing the improper search warrant, Blanton was caught on CPD-made video brandishing the search warrants to a friend and saying, “I signed them for you, Wayne” then lying to CPD Sergeant Passmore and telling him they were “felony” warrants to enable him to threaten to break Dr. Faltas’ door under the warrants if Dr. Faltas did not open voluntarily? Or is all law-enforcement misconduct A-Okay with you so long as it victimizes “only” Dr. Faltas?
Dr. Faltas had, in 1993, written and published an article (and still believes) that homosexuality is a choice, not a genetic trait. To punish Dr. Faltas’ science-based views and to please Blanton’s then-Elgin-based lesbian romance interest, Blanton lied to the courts repeatedly about her witnesses. Dr. Faltas was, thank God, ultimately FULLY acquitted but Blanton was never disciplined in any way. To the contrary, she was protected to point that, when Dr. Faltas subpoenaed Blanton for a 28 March 2011 hearing in the City of Columbia’s Municipal Court (“CMC”) and Blanton had been the day before arrested for disorderly conduct and not yet bonded out, CMC held Dr. Faltas instead in contempt of court.
Why are you not looking into this? And why are you not looking into CMC’s hiring of, and protecting, one Marion Oneida Hanna as a municipal judge when Hanna’s disrespect for judicial decorum was so well known that she was nicknamed in the legal community “Hammering Hanna”?
Why are you not looking into Hammering Hanna’s use of CMC time to write and publish two failed novels?
You see: most of the wrongs later seen in the Murdaugh saga had roots and/or parallels in the mistreatment of Dr. Marie Faltas.
Again, why are you not looking into any of that?

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