Sascha Riley

About Sascha Riley

Sascha Riley Barros (born 6/23/1973; birth name Manuel Sascha Barros; legal name William Sascha Riley; pronouns They/Them) is a decorated veteran who served in the U.S. Army for totaling over 21 years. They are also a survivor of extensive domestic abuse, child sexual exploitation, and subsequent trafficking into illicit networks spanning multiple states including Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Alabama. Sascha has publicly shared accounts of their experiences through interviews and online statements, detailing involvement in child sexual abuse material (CSAM) production and exploitation by high-profile political figures during the 1980s. Their testimony includes allegations against sitting U.S. President Donald J Trump, U.S. Representative Jim Jordan, U.S. Representative Andy Biggs, and others associated with a network linked to Jeffrey Epstein. Sascha’s advocacy focuses on bringing transparency to systemic institutional failures, documenting the fates of victims within these rings, and calling for federal and international investigations into political and economic figures implicated in institutionalized CSAM and trafficking operations.

Adoption and Domestic Abuse

Sascha was born in Germany as a US citizen with the original name Manuel Sascha Barros. Their birth father, Manuel Joseph Barros, served in the United States Air Force in Wiesbaden. At the age of four, they were adopted by William Kyle Riley (WKR, February 19, 1949 - April 3, 2026), a U.S. Army pilot also served in Wiesbaden at that time, and his then-wife Irene Ursula Riley. Following WKR’s divorce from Irene in 1980, he immediately married Mary Lynn Riley (October 23, 1943 - July 28, 2018), who became Sascha’s adoptive mother.

Sascha’s early childhood was defined by acute, severe physical and sexual abuse perpetrated by family members and close associates from as early as age six or seven. Both adoptive parents abused Sascha, with Mary Lynn Riley inflicting extensive physical and sexual torture. As the operations expanded, WKR repeatedly tried to murder Sascha to conceal the underlying abuse and trafficking networks, generating multiple local law enforcement responses and child protective services (CPS) interventions. Throughout their youth, Sascha was referred to the CPS systems in Texas, Tennessee, and Alabama. In Texas, three specific life-threatening incidents generated official police investigations:

The Chevy Van Incident: An intentional vehicular hazard or assault involving a family van.

The Swimming Pool Incident: WKR threw a young Sascha into the middle of a deep swimming pool, explicitly telling them to "sink or swim". A bystander witnessed the attempted drowning and contacted local authorities, generating an official sheriff's report.

The Stairwell Incident: WKR threw Sascha down a flight of stairs, causing a severe skull fracture.

To escape escalating legal scrutiny from these investigations, WKR systematically relocated the household across state lines. The family fled Texas for Tennessee when Sascha was eight or nine years old. WKR reportedly sexually abused and impregnated Sascha's teenage stepsister, Lynn’s daughter, Suzanne. Following a group decision to redirect their anger over the pregnancy and subsequent abortion, Sascha's stepmother Lynn, adult stepbrother Jimmy severely beat Sascha during Christmas, fracturing both of their legs. The injuries, which healed crookedly and later caused permanent hip complications requiring surgery, left Sascha unable to walk for weeks. The assault only ceased when Suzanne threatened to contact the police. After that incident the step-siblings moved back to Texas and lived with their father, Robert Matjeka. Sascha moved to Alabama with WKR and Lynn. Both step-siblings were also victims of abuse by WKR.

There was at least another incident after they finally moved to New Brockton, Alabama. In the backyard, WKR beat Sascha to the ground with a shovel and then tried to get a horse to trample them. The horse bit WKR instead and ran him over. It caught the attention of local law enforcement and generated a police report.

During an excursion to Florida, an incident at a sandbar in the riptide beach area resulted in a bystander rescuing Sascha from the water. This event triggered a multi-jurisdictional investigation involving witness statements taken by the local Florida sheriff, followed by cross-state coordination with the Alabama sheriff's department who interviewed WKR at the family home.

Child Trafficking

Beyond localized domestic abuse, Sascha was systematically commodified and trafficked for financial gain beginning around age 8 to 9 and continuing until approximately age 12 or 13 (circa 1978–1986). WKR was allegedly a member of the Dixie Mafia, and was deeply integrated into the Epstein-Trump criminal network. He was capable of flying various aircraft, including helicopters and fixed-wing planes. He utilized these professional capabilities to shuttle wealthy clients, political elites, and underage victims to and from secluded private gatherings. While WKR deliberately avoided crossing the line into direct narcotics smuggling out of fear of mandatory long-term federal sentences, he actively facilitated human trafficking operations under the facade of legitimate private transit.

Sascha was forced to participate in the production of approximately 10 to 12 commercial-grade CSAM films. These productions were structured on semi-professional sets, utilizing sophisticated filming equipment inside warehouses and hidden basements. The organizers leveraged these recordings as tools of total psychological coercion. Under the influence of heavy sedation and narcotics, Sascha was filmed in compromised positions. The ring operates on a strict model of institutional blackmail: victims are first subjected to severe abuse, subsequently captured on film being forced into abusive dynamics themselves, and then threatened with immediate incrimination if they ever seek help or contact law enforcement.

Besides CSAM filming, Sascha was trafficked to parties on farms in states like Tennessee and Alabama, organized around federal holidays for 4-day weekends. Larger parties (25–50 attendees) involved fighting, bands, and milder illegal activities, dwindling to 8–10 core participants for severe abuse, torture, rape, and murder of children, with an average victim age of 13 and an estimate of 2–3 children per small group. Within these smaller, depraved inner circles, Sascha was subjected to horrific acts of direct sexual and physical assault by high-profile clients who paid thousands of dollars for access.

The trafficking operations organized at these remote farms also included illicit, bloody fighting spectacles engineered for the entertainment of wealthy clients. Sascha’s adoptive father, drawing from his own background as a bare-knuckle brawler and "Tough Man" competitor, served as Sascha's initial trainer, teaching them how to fight from a young age. Elites and traffickers associated with the network paid to watch both adults and underage victims engage in these gruesome, un-sanctioned matches. Sascha was forced to fight other children in front of spectators at gatherings that frequently featured live musical entertainment to simulate a fair-like atmosphere. Their father further commercialized Sascha's combat abilities by offering a sadistic game to clients, telling attendees that if anyone could successfully pin or overpower the child, they were granted license to do whatever they wanted to them. While Sascha learned to use their fists effectively to keep many unathletic adults at bay, this forced exploitation directly served as the origin for Sascha's later training as an amateur boxer.

The Fallen Girls

Sascha provides explicit accounts of young girls who were systematically broken, exploited, or murdered within these underground networks. At the age of 9 or 10, Sascha was placed in a brothel in Duncan, Oklahoma for about 2 months where they met the girls who were abducted or lured into the trafficking ring. Ring operators openly told the girls that they were being evaluated to become permanent mistresses for wealthy benefactors. Once the victims realized this promise was a complete fabrication, they effectively "aged out" of the system and were marked for elimination. Half the girls from the brothel did not return from parties, either tortured to death or executed for snuff films. Sascha was also forced to make CSAM films with these girls in different places. During that time, Sascha witnessed multiple girls’ deaths.

Samantha Jackson: A young Black American runaway who ended up trapped within the brothel. Samantha was about 13 or 14 years old and was protective of Sascha. Sascha’s adoptive parents then abducted Samantha and took her to produce CSAM films with Sascha. One film was named “Betty’s Davis Eyes” or “Eyes of Betty Davis”. Following a federal investigation in Tennessee, in which the parents of another girl who was filmed with Sascha were arrested because the basement they were filming in was identified as the girl’s home, WKR and his associates grew terrified of imminent prosecution for CSAM manufacturing. They seized Samantha inside a duplex in Enterprise, Alabama, and subjected her to weeks of severe torture including cutting off her big toe. While locked in the storage room, a heavily brutalized Samantha begged Sascha to perform a mercy killing to end her suffering; Sascha ultimately complied with her request by choking her to death. WKR drove Sascha to bury Samantha’s body in a hole in either Georgia or Mississippi. The neighbor of the duplex called the police after hearing screams. After finding blood evidence in the room, FBI and local police initiated an investigation that ultimately turned Sascha into CPS, but Samantha’s body was never recovered.

Patricia: A young white girl trafficked alongside Sascha across various venues. At age 12-13, during a farm party in Alabama, Sascha met Patricia and was asked to “have fun” with her in a room, when armed perpetrators breached the room, assaulted Patricia in her bed, and executed her on camera by shooting her in the head to maximize psychological trauma and enforce compliance on Sascha. The order was allegedly given by Donald Trump, and it was followed by Trump’s assault on Sascha.

Sarah and Others: Sascha witnessed multiple additional fatalities within the brothel network, including a girl named Sarah who died by assisted suicide by Samantha, and at least two other unnamed young girls who were brutally shot and killed in snuff films or executions. 

Allegations Against High-Profile Individuals

Sascha’s testimonies directly implicate high-profile political figures in their childhood abuse. While they could not provide detailed memories about most of the individuals involved, they specifically identified Donald Trump, Jim Jordan, and Andy Biggs among others.

Donald Trump: Sascha describes Donald Trump as the primary organizer of the trafficking ring above Epstein, and a highly violent actor within these elite gatherings. Trump assaulted Sascha sexually and physically, including choking him unconscious repeatedly while threatening death. In their first encounter, Sascha witnessed Trump killing puppies in various ways to traumatize them before sexually assaulting them. In their last encounter when Sascha was age 12 or 13, Trump orchestrated the torture, rape, and murder of Patricia when she and Sascha met in the room of the Alabama farm. Following the on-set execution of Patricia, Trump entered the room to assault Sascha before asking Sascha to mount him. Driven by a homicidal rage following the murder of Patricia, Sascha attempted to kill Trump by affixing a condom to a wooden tent stake in the room, inserting it into Trump's rectum, and kicking it with full force. The counter-attack caused catastrophic internal injuries, necessitating an emergency medical air evacuation for Trump. This severe trauma might have left permanent internal scarring, which can be linked directly to modern reports of Trump's incontinence. Following the event, Trump’s associates threatened Sascha’s life. However, WKR intervened, as Sascha was already under the scrutiny of CPS. Disappearing Sascha would have placed them all in grave legal jeopardy. Consequently, Sascha was taken to a series of station-to-station events where they were brutally beaten, urinated on, and knocked unconscious by a large crowd of participants, including Jim Jordan and Andy Biggs. Sascha did not know Trump’s name until they recognized him on Robin Leach’s TV show Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous years after all the trafficking events had happened. In 1989 Sascha was hospitalized at Charter Woods Hospital in Alabama, where their parents claimed drug use; during this time, they first mentioned Donald Trump by name in relation to abuse.

Jim Jordan: Following the confrontation with Trump, Sascha was brought to station-to-station “parties” on different farms as a form of punishment. In those parties the participants could "do whatever they wanted" if they pinned Sascha. Sascha was injected drugs including heroin, and was not allowed to fight back. The first man assaulting Sascha was future Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, then in the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and an NCAA wrestling champion. Jordan used his wrestling expertise to tackle and sexually assault Sascha in front of 25-50 people, which was possibly filmed.

Andy Biggs: Sascha was brought to another event participated by future Arizona Congressman Andy Biggs as part of their ongoing "punishment”. Biggs beat and raped Sascha, subjecting them to an assault so physically extreme that it resulted in severe concussive symptoms, intense nausea, vomiting, and fractures that nearly proved fatal. It also led to a heated altercation between Biggs and Sascha’s adoptive father WKR, in which WKR scolded Biggs, “I didn’t say you could f*** kill him!” That was the last time Sascha remembered to be taken to a trafficking event, as they “aged out” for no longer being a young boy.

Lindsey Graham: Sascha recalls Graham as a regular attendee of the parties, noting effeminate mannerisms and distinct voice. They are fairly sure Graham assaulted them but cannot swear to it due to uncertainty in memory.

Clarence Thomas: Sascha recalls Thomas at a party as unusual due to being Black in a predominantly white group. Sascha cannot confirm the assault but notes their adoptive father's excitement over Thomas's 1991 Supreme Court nomination as "protection."

Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein: WKR maintained a direct operational relationship with Jeffrey Epstein's network. Sascha remembers seeing Ghislaine Maxwell with her nervous laugh in one of the parties as a person “higher up in the chain”. They also recall a distinct conversation where family members repeatedly rehearsed the correct linguistic pronunciation of Ghislaine Maxwell’s first name to ensure proper social etiquette during an elite gathering.

Military Service and the Early Disclosures

To escape their abusive domestic environment, Sascha enlisted in the United States Army on September 4, 1991. They maintained a long-term military career that spanned over 21 combined years across two separate eras: an initial enlistment from 1991 to 1998, followed by a post-9/11 re-enlistment from 2002 until their formal retirement in 2016.

Sascha served extensively in overseas operations, which included multiple active combat deployments to Iraq, totaling 34 months across three distinct combat tours (2003–2004, 2005–2006, and 2010–2011), and eventually achieved the rank of Sergeant First Class. For their conduct in active combat zones, Sascha was highly decorated, receiving the Bronze Star Medal, the Army Commendation Medal with Valor for heroic actions under direct enemy fire, six Army Commendation Medals, two Army Achievement Medals, five Army Good Conduct Medals, and the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary and Service Medals, among many other honors.

Between deployments, during a garrison rotation at Fort Carson, Colorado around 2009 or 2010, Sascha’s past collided with their military career. A fellow soldier, Staff Sergeant Timothy Scott Habel (confirmed as a sex offender) who was deployed to Iraq at that time, was apprehended by the Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) after being caught with possession of CSAM on his personal computer.

Sascha was called into the Fort Carson headquarters office by First Sergeant Michael Balis and Captain Ryan Mendenhall. They described one film with a black girl and a boy resembling Sascha. From the description, Sascha confirmed that it was one of the CSAM they were forced to make at ages 11-13. Timothy Habel received punishment from Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and was discharged with a reduced rank and less-than-honorable status. Since Sascha’s story broke in 2025, Michael Balis has confirmed with at least two independent journalists that the charge and conversation happened as Sascha described.

However, the chain of command did not extend the investigation to civilian authorities or look into the original producers of the material, limiting their scope strictly as an internal disciplinary issue. The re-traumatization continued when the films were circulated among the peer soldiers, and Sascha confronted a few who had watched them and insulted Sascha.

Around 2015, Sascha publicly disclosed portions of the trauma surrounding Samantha Jackson's death for the first time while instructing a Resiliency training seminar of over 100 lieutenants at Fort Sill, Oklahoma as the Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge. Referring to Jackson as a deceased girlfriend, Sascha was overcome with emotion during the presentation, dismissed the class early, and abruptly walked out of the building. Following their departure, control of the seminar fell to either Staff Sergeant Stewart or then-Captain Kimberly Kopack, the Officer in Charge of the Basic Officer Leader's Course. Because this incident marked Sascha's initial open discussion regarding their trafficking story, Kopack and the other service members in attendance serve as critical corroborating witnesses to these early disclosures of trauma.

Pursuing Justice

After the military retirement, Sascha came forward to openly speak about the abuse and trafficking. They’ve posted pieces of their stories on Facebook and Twitter since 2020, speaking out about their experiences with the high-profile abusers and the tragedy of the trafficked girls.

In 2022, Sascha contacted the FBI but was referred to local police. They then walked into Lawton PD, Oklahoma to file a comprehensive criminal report, detailing the entirety of the interstate ring, including a full confession regarding the death of Samantha Jackson in Alabama. After the case was referred to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI), Sascha did a more detailed interview with OSBI, naming Trump, Maxwell and others. Despite the severity of the disclosure, local law enforcement failed to execute any visible follow-up or coordinate with out-of-state agencies.

Refusing to be silenced by institutional inertia, Sascha expanded their efforts globally. Starting from July 18, 2025, Sascha provided a series of detailed, recorded testimonial interviews to a Canadian advocate, which were released on November 23, 2025. They followed this on March 29, 2026, by participating in a live panel interview alongside multiple other advocates to further clarify specific aspects of their statement. Currently, Sascha is actively engaged in raising public awareness regarding sexual assault and human trafficking, while advocating for other survivors across various social network platforms.

Concurrently, Sascha and advocates reached out to numerous congresspeople and senators, requesting an opportunity for Sascha to testify under oath before Congress, though these requests have gone unanswered. Despite this lack of institutional response, Sascha remains resolute in their commitment to speak out, actively gathering more corroborative materials while continuing to press for formal congressional inquiries and legal procedures.

Crucially, Sascha does not seek profit or any form of financial gain through coming forward and sharing their sexual assault and trafficking history, maintaining that their sole objective is institutional transparency and systemic accountability.