the men in the group would choose to become celibate. if they were married, they would, you know, not have any more relations with their wives. it s true. i do have a lot of children. it s true, i do have a lot of wives. but koresh apparently did not stop there. when david first started teaching, he began to show that god asked prophets to do what we might consider strange things a lot of times. we had evidence that he had sexually abused girls as young as 12. is it my great wonderful looking, something that women just can t resist. we also discovered that that had been going on for a couple of years, and law enforcement had not done anything really to prevent it or stop it. but a field agent from the regional atf office was doing something. secretly. though his investigation had nothing to do with the abuse allegations. his name is davy aguilera.
are you a patient person? yeah, i m really patient. you re going to see patience because the only thing that we re going to do is sit and wait. i believe that was our last best chance to get him to ever come out. he was fatigued. he was wounded. he was hurt. we had been working on him for three days. but at the very last moment he couldn t do it. if i say i m christ, the proof is if i can open up the seals or not. he couldn t leave this place where he was god with unlimited sexual favors and walk out to a cold jail cell. he tricked us. he fooled us. he played with us. on day six of the standoff another child comes out of the compound with a note pinned to her jacket. it says, once the children are out, the adults will die. we never got another child out. we got a total of 21, and i will be eternally grateful for the
everybody. he stated he received a message from god instructing him to wait. any doubts about who is calling the shots is suddenly gone. now we knew when we had a person who said he was speaking directly to god and god had told him to wait that this was not going to be normal. that was one of the first and more significant glimpses of the disingenuous nature of how david was dealing with us as far as promises and truthfulness.
it will only get worse. david, you have had your 15 minutes of fame. it s time to leave the building. we banked on the fact that a parent if they found their children exposed to that kind of discomfort would move heaven and earth to get them to a position of safety. we were wrong. the beginning of the end comes just after 12:00 noon. a wisp of smoke floats from a compound window. my instructions over the loudspeakers went from instructions to, please, david, don t do this. david, don t do this. all of a sudden you see bursts of flames. i m, like, my god, i hope they allowed the children to leave. this is not the way to end this. leave your people out, david. be a messiah, not a destroyer.
beating. so many men were hurt and wounded and laying down there. when i called the compound, it was steven snyder. steven snyder was koresh s top lieutenant. he started screaming through the phone that we had no right to be there, to get off the property immediately. i tried to stay calm. i said, steve, we have to talk. we have to work this out. you and i have to work this out. people are dying. people are hurt. we need to stop the shooting. soon cavanaugh is talking directly with david koresh. everything s okay. just you and me are talking. that s the main thing. you care for people. i had a radio mic in one ear with an agent pleading for his life and i had this guy on the phone who thought he was god. checking now our top stories