Where would Carlo Collodi, the original author of the Pinocchi character from 1883, get these ideas about having a private, secret island where the kidnapping, torture, assraping and murdering of little boys would occur?

Carlo Collodi was from Florence, Italy and was in the Catholic Seminary in his early 20s… but was later called a "failed priest" BOOM

Carlo Collodi saw this shit during his time in the Seminary in the mid-1800s, and he probably was sickened with the Catholic pedophilia and dropped out and began to write…