THE MOTHER of Charles Manson’s secret love child vows to fight for the helter-skelter madman until prison officials see what she calls “the error of their ways” – and release him from prison for good!
“I won’t rest until Charles is a free man,” Sister Margaret Peers told me exclusively. The nun claims she trysted with Manson just days before his arrest in 1969 and then gave birth to a daughter while his trial for the murders of actress Sharon Tate and six other people was in full swing.
“I’m not saying he isn’t guilty,” she continued in telephone interview from her apartment in Los Angeles. “I’m saying he’s been punished enough. It’s time to let bygones be bygones.
“Even Charlie Manson deserves a chance to connect with the daughter he’s never met. She‘s a respected doctor and she very much wants to bond with her dad.”
Sister Margaret, 61, says she entered a convent five years after she sizzled with Manson, who was, she claims, the first and last man to “know” her.
She declined to identify their love child by name, but did say the accomplished young woman “has Charlie’s eyes and quick wit, lives in northern California, and will celebrate her 38th birthday in August.”
Officials at California’s Corcoran State Prison, where Manson is serving a life sentence for orchestrating the LSD-fueled murder rampage that sent five members of his devoted “family” of outcasts to prison, aren’t talking a blue streak, either.
Asked about Sister Margaret’s attempts to free Manson, one high-ranking official snapped: “The only way Charlie is leaving the big house is in a pine box with pennies on his eyes and the lid nailed shut.“
The nun’s crusade isn’t going to thrill survivors of the victims, either. They’ve argued passionately against parole for “the most dangerous man in America” since he became eligible for release in 1992.
And to hear one observer tell it, “they‘re just getting warmed up.”
“I understand their pain, but Charlie can help them find closure if they‘ll just trust God and open their hearts to love,” counters Sister Margaret, who claims to have spoken to Manson “in several letters” and insists that “he wants his freedom as much as I do.”
If that’s true, he’s certainly playing it close to the vest, refusing to respond to questions from reporters who are anxious to hear what the 68-year-old “icon of evil” he has to say about the nun, his love child – and parole.
Scuttlebutt coming from prison insiders is as conflicted and contradictory as the madman himself. Sources have alternately reported that Manson:
O Doesn’t know Sister Margaret.
O Fondly recalls their one-night stand in the back of a stolen VW bus and still has “a thing” for her.
O Doesn’t want to meet his love child under any circumstances.
O Can‘t wait to meet his love child so he can kill her.
“Charlie ain’t just crazy – he’s real crazy,“ says a fellow inmate. “He’s senile, too. And all he wants to do walk down memory lane and talk about killing people and cackle like an old hen.
“But who knows? Maybe if you let him out of prison he’ll pull himself together. He’s still a charmer when he wants to be. Maybe he could become a preacher.”
The chances of a Manson parole seem slim at best. He’s already been turned down 10 times – and his next opportunity is in the year 2009.
Meanwhile, Sister Margaret vows to fight for his freedom “to my last breath.”
“Every mother in America knows where I’m coming from,” she says. “I’m not only doing this for Charlie, I’m doing this for my child.”