YMMV / The House of Silk

• Complete Monster: Reverend Charles Fitzsimmons is the head of the House of Silk and the headmaster of the Chorley Grange House for Boys, a guise that obscures his far more wicked pastimes. Using his position to regularly pimp out his young boys to wealthy clients to rape and sodomize at their leisure for profit, Fitzsimmons enforces a brutal campaign to snuff out any potential threats to his operation in the cruelest ways possible. Fitzsimmons has a young homeless boy named Ross brutally tortured to death and left with a white strange of silk tied to his mangled carcass as a warning. In response to Sherlock Holmes himself picking up the case, Fitzsimmons kills Ross's sister himself and frames Holmes for it, trying to have him murdered later. Fitzsimmons's response to his operation finally being exposed is smug, cheerful indifference to the well-being of the children and a gloating assurance that the position of himself and his clients will assure his immunity. A sociopath specializing in the agony of children, even Moriarty himself willingly helps Holmes against Fitzsimmons's operation.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The hints that a member of The British Royal Family is part of the pedophile ring can feel a lot more uncomfortable following Prince Andrew's disgrace after being accused of raping a minor who was allegedly supplied to him by infamous sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

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