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08/31/2026

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08/30/2026

Trafficking & child abuse: offenders are usually someone who has access to the children, such as family, babysitters, educators, friends, neighbors, church groups, sports, etc. Monitor your children 100% of the time. Learn the red flags, signs and what to do!

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Melissa Maranville
DeVille and Associates, LLC

Florida officials say a four-and-a-half-day operation recovered 163 missing children, with cases spanning the U.S. and 12 other countries.

08/30/2026

It’s so easy to lose sight of what truly matters. I've realized I took Dolly for granted because she was local. She was always there, part of home, part of East Tennessee, and somehow that made it easy to forget just how extraordinary she was. It saddens me that it took her passing for me to stop and really see the beautiful soul behind the person we all knew.

I feel like I’m always fighting the good fight, focused on what needs to be changed, fixed, protected, or made better... and somewhere along the way, I forget to actually live.

I don’t want to do that anymore. I don’t want to wait until someone is gone to recognize what they meant to me. I want to slow down, truly see the people I care about, appreciate them, laugh with them, make memories, and tell them what they mean to me while they are still here. While I'm still here!

So I’ll begin with YOU! Thank you for your friendship, love and support. I appreciate you more than I probably say, and I’m grateful you are part of my journey. ❤️

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Melissa Maranville
DeVille and Associates, LLC

08/30/2026

I’ve followed the Lindsay Clancy case closely, watching every minute of the court proceedings and posting throughout the trial about mental illness and mens rea. With a PhD in cognition, one of my research interests is perception based on cognitive functioning, particularly the differences between procedural memory and declarative memory.

At the beginning of the trial, I understood the evidence of mental illness, but mental illness alone does not answer the question of legal responsibility. I also understood that a person experiencing psychosis can hear voices and follow commands. That is why I wanted to hear all of the evidence before forming an opinion, especially the evidence related to intent, or mens rea.

For me, one of the most important pieces I was waiting for was the method and sequence used in the deaths of the children. First the boy was chosen, who was more likely to resist, placed him in the office, and closed the door. Then, the girl was chose and placed in a separate room. The baby was last and placed in the same room as the deceased sister, an infant who could not run, hide, scream for help, or understand what was happening. This appears organized.

That sequence brought me back to the cognitive question I kept asking throughout this trial: not simply, “Did she remember what she was doing?” but, “What does the ability to carry out an ordered sequence of complex behaviors tell us about which cognitive systems were functioning at the time?”

After hearing the evidence, my opinion is that the process that was chose does not look like a simple procedural-memory sequence or an automatic natural progression, such as moving through the children by age. Instead, the order appears individualized to the children themselves, such as ability to resist and likely behavior.

That matters.

I believe the person who killed the children intended to kill them. I have no doubt that Lindsay intended to take her own life, but either she deliberately chose to take the lives of her children with her, or another person killed them with clear intent.

To me, that deliberate and individualized sequence of actions is highly significant when considering mens rea. The order appears purposeful rather than random or automatic, which makes it difficult for me to reconcile the killings as being driven solely by severe psychosis and command hallucinations.

May Justice be served! RIP sweet babies. 🙏

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Melissa Maranville
DeVille and Associates, LLC

08/29/2026

Speak or get out of our way! 🗣 ... Often, people disagree with child abuse, mentioning, "If I only knew," but reality is when they did know, they still did nothing!

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08/29/2026

Yes, this is real. On August 25, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued this ruling.

A federal appeals court ruled that a person cannot be prosecuted simply for privately possessing completely AI-generated sexually explicit images depicting children in their own home when no real child was used or depicted.

Why? Because the U.S. Supreme Court previously ruled that virtual images involving no actual child victim are legally different from child sexual abuse material involving a real child. The Supreme Court has also recognized constitutional protection for the private possession of obscene material inside the home.

This does NOT mean AI-generated sexual images of children are now broadly legal. The ruling does not give someone a constitutional right to distribute, transmit, sell, or send this material to others. In fact, the defendant still faces other charges.

What this case really demonstrates is something we are going to see more and more: Technology has advanced faster than the laws written to address it.

AI can now create realistic images of children who never existed. Our laws were largely built around protecting real children who were victimized in the production of CSAM. That creates a serious legal and policy problem when the “child” depicted is entirely synthetic.

The court did not say this material is acceptable. It said existing Supreme Court precedent limits what the government can criminalize.

And that distinction matters.

The judges themselves appear uncomfortable with where the existing law leads. They are not saying, “AI CSAM is harmless.” They are saying, essentially, “We are an appellate court. Supreme Court precedent controls us, and the Supreme Court needs to address what has changed since 2002.

This is not the end of this issue. It is probably the beginning.

I will keep a watch and report on this ... follow me for more.

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Melissa Maranville
DeVille and Associates, LLC

08/29/2026

Reminder!

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08/25/2026

All the hearts in East TN are broken today with the news that our TN Legend, Dolly Parton, has passed away. She will forever be missed for music, stories, laughter, and her desire to give back to her comminity. Today we honor her and pray for her family! RIP Dolly, you will never be forgotten! 😢

08/24/2026

For Real! 🗣

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Melissa Maranville