The daughter of a New Jersey police chief shockingly claimed that he and a neighbor raped her and other children in the woods as part of a ‘ritualistic’ ring of satanists who also burned kids alive.
Courtney Tamagny, 20, filed an explosive lawsuit against her father, Leonia Police Chief Scott Tamagny, and her neighbor, Keith Slevin, accusing them and other grown men of committing the horrific crimes.
Both men have denied the claims and said the allegations have been investigated and proven unfounded by several authorities. Slevin has also countersued Courtney for defamation.
In Courtney’s suit, she claimed the abuse by her father began when she was just four years old at their home in northern New Jersey and also extended to an older and younger sister. She alleged that the assaults continued until she was 15.
The lawsuit accused Chief Tamagny of threatening to beat the girls if they told anyone about the abuse, and also claims he threatened to kill the girls’ mother, Jeanne Tamagny, if Courtney spoke out.
The mother joined the lawsuit as a plaintiff and is in the process of divorcing Chief Tamagny.
Some of the lawsuit’s most chilling allegations describe how the police chief and Slevin took the sisters into the woods in Rockland County, New York, where ‘there was what appeared to be other middle-aged men present with masks on their faces.’
Courtney ‘recalls there being fire and animals being burned, and they would chant as if ritualistic’ while sexually abusing her and her younger sister, according to the lawsuit.
Courtney Tamagny, 20, has filed a lawsuit against her father, Leonia Police Chief Scott Tamagny, and neighbor Keith Slevin
She alleges her father (pictured) and Slevin, along with other men, were part of a ‘ritualistic’ satanic ring that involved rape of her and other children in the woods, and claimed children were also burned alive
Courtney explained in her complaint that she suppressed memories of the abuse for years as a survival tactic, only recalling them after a doctor’s visit for vaginal pain prompted a question about sexual abuse, triggering terrifying flashbacks.
Her therapist reported the abuse to authorities in 2022, the suit says.
In April, Courtney appeared on the ‘We’re All Insane‘ podcast to expand on the claims, saying that generations of her father’s ‘bloodline’ were members of a ‘satanic cult’ that included other neighbors in their town.
She claimed the cult raped her and her siblings, trafficked children, and even ‘burned them alive in their local woods.’
She also described on the podcast ‘tunnels’ used by the alleged cultists for ‘taking kids’ blood,’ ‘drum circles,’ and all-night ‘burnings’ of animals, animal skins, and even humans, suggesting the violence was meant to terrify victims into silence.
She further claimed the cult was part of a ‘national cabal of satanists engaged in child trafficking’ and described ‘sick games’ they played like ‘Hunter and Gatherers,’ where children were chased, incapacitated, and assaulted.
Courtney did not respond to a request for comment. Her mother, Jeanne, could not be reached. The Daily Mail has also contacted Courtney’s lawyers and is awaiting a response.
In her lawsuit, Courtney accused the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and the state Department of Children and Families of failing to protect her and her siblings, alleging their investigations of the claims were inadequate and that the agencies had a custom of suppressing child welfare reports and ignoring evidence of abuse.
Courtney claims in her lawsuit the abuse by her father began at age four at their New Jersey home, extending to an older and younger sister, and continued until she was 15
In April, Courtney Tamagny told the ‘We’re All Insane’ podcast her father’s ‘bloodline’ and neighbors were part of a multi-generational ‘satanic cult’
Chief Tamagny’s attorney, Helen C. Herbert, called the allegations ‘completely uncorroborated, false and defamatory’ in a statement to the Daily Mail. She added that ‘it is believed Courtney Tamagny suffers from significant mental health issues.’
The lawyer noted that motions to dismiss the lawsuit are pending, and that the allegations were investigated three years ago by federal, state and local agencies.
Slevin’s attorney, Kevin C. Corriston, explained that probes by the Department of Homeland Security and the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office found no evidence of Courtney’s accusations.
‘No rational person would believe that for the past 11 years there has been an inter-generational secret satanic child sex cult operating out of Riverdale, New Jersey which ritualistically rapes, trafficks and burns children alive somewhere in the woods in Rockland County, New York,’ he said in a statement to the Daily Mail.
Corriston added that Slevin ‘had only incidental contact with’ Courtney and ‘has no idea why he has been dragged into this unsubstantiated lawsuit.’
