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Saturday, September 13, 2025

The 6 Biggest Reveals In How To Create A Sex Scandal - Screen Rant

  • The 2023 docuseries, How to Create a Sex Scandal, reveals that the child sex scandal in Mineola, Texas was actually a hoax fabricated by Margie Cantrell.
  • Cantrell manipulated the Mayo siblings into making false accusations against their parents and other adults, leading to their arrest and guilt verdicts.
  • Class played a role in the case, with Cantrell demonizing the economically poor Mayos and using her Christian faith to appear morally superior.

Content Warning: This article contains references to sex crimes relating to minors and children.

Several shocking revelations were made in the 2023 Max-produced docuseries, How to Create a Sex Scandal. This three-episode show provides a deep and thorough examination of the child sex scandal that occurred in Mineola, Texas in the 2000s. According to the very young "victims" of this scandal, these kids were forced by their biological parents to engage in various sexual acts as part of a child sex ring that the parents and several other adults were running. Additionally, they also claimed that somewhere between "50 to 100 people allegedly attended..." this child sex ring, and the children often were forced to take "silly pills" (via Dallas Observer).

When this story was first covered, it received widespread mainstream attention. The adults accused of running this sex ring were arrested and charged with felony offenses. However, as shocking and terrifying as this story may have seemed, it is revealed in How to Create a Sex...



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