disgruntled
Verified insider/expert - Hephzibah House Case
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I have to get to bed. If I can sleep! Many thanks and good night.
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Lots of typos! Sorry. I meant "currently" not "urgently" and "facility" not "faculty".
Ugh. Autocorrect.
As far as filing a suit, where does the money go? I have some questions in order to figure out how to get someone to take the case. One possibility is trying to file yourself. With some help. Contacting Illinois law schools and asking for help from students. Calling Legal Aid groups in the region and asking if anyone would be interested.
In light of the outrage the Turpin case has caused, this could be the time. Start off emails or letters with, "Everyone has asked why no one spoke up. How did t get that bad? Well I am speaking up. I have spoken up. So have many others. But no one is listening."
Marketing interest is crucial here.
Let me give this some thought.
This is one way to take them down. Get that doctor investigated, and maybe he'll sing like a bird about what's going on.So happy to see that this topic is getting some attention. I stumbled on Websleuths via the Turpins and read Disgruntled's story and knew she must be talking about Hephzibah House - I have read her website for years and followed this incredibly frustrating case, as well as others. There are many, many schools for boys that function in the same way, with the sick protection of religious liberty. When they seem to actually have consequences for their practices, they close up shop and just open up again in another location with the same cast of characters (literally). One of the most disturbing cases is the Dozier House for Boys in Florida which I am sure many of you are familiar with.
Disgruntled has done an amazing job of gathering stories that are always hard to read, providing a visceral reaction that makes any sane person want to intervene -- it seems as though they have exhausted so many options. I am struck by the lengths they have gone to to abuse these children - even providing hormonal supplements to stop menstruation per some girls' accounts. I wonder how they have obtained these medications and if the physician working with HH has been reported to the medical board?
If you call let them know that based on the horrors you have read from actual former "students" there, you have grave concerns for the well being of any and all current students.
That you are aware there are about 12 girls urgently there.
That anyone as abusive as that creep Williams? was cannot change and should never be allowed to be around children, especially at a private school or faculty.
That you are certain abuse is still concerned despite their stammers that they don't beat the girls anymore.
That you are requesting a welfare check on the resident minors.
That you hope they question those girls away from anyone else, ask them if they are scared, when they last ate, their last three meals (when and what), of they are punished. How. If they are allowed to bathe. How. Is food or water ever withheld. Is sleep ever refused. Etc.
Fingers crossed.
I agree with Gitana about the how the letter needs to be written. How the letter opens is crucial to getting their attention. I highly suggest running it by Gitana or me (preferably both) prior to sending it.Lots of typos! Sorry. I meant "currently" not "urgently" and "facility" not "faculty".
Ugh. Autocorrect.
As far as filing a suit, where does the money go? I have some questions in order to figure out how to get someone to take the case. One possibility is trying to file yourself. With some help. Contacting Illinois law schools and asking for help from students. Calling Legal Aid groups in the region and asking if anyone would be interested.
In light of the outrage the Turpin case has caused, this could be the time. Start off emails or letters with, "Everyone has asked why no one spoke up. How did t get that bad? Well I am speaking up. I have spoken up. So have many others. But no one is listening."
Marketing interest is crucial here.
Let me give this some thought.
I don't know that Pence would say anything. His whole thing is the religious right, and he won't want to intervene or say a word that might upset his base, not when the presidency is within a stone's throw for him.Isnt Pence the former Governor or something like that?
Put him on the spot with this somehow. It was foing on under his watch and continues now.
How can it become public? Asking him about it and what to do?
Holy ship. What you've endured is incomprehensible. I wish I could give you a hug.
You're right. The difference is that with certain religious sects violent abuse is biblically justified. According to them.
Great idea! Even if he can't take this on, he may have a contact who could.How about talking with Jeff Anderson the attorney who has taken on clergy, mainly the Catholic church,
http://www.andersonadvocates.com
I can definitely contact Mother Jones, Oprah and others again. We have had no no help from the state Representative in the district Hephzibah House is in. He stated to us that he considered Ron Williams a friend. Ms Macer of the 9th district in IN did meet with one of us Dec 27th and that went better. She wants to help us set up an advocacy group for survivors. A good and nobel thing, but Indiana has it backwards a bit. IMO. Their priority should be to stop Williams. It seems a no-brainer that these girls are unlawfully imprisoned at the very least.Could you maybe get Mother Jones Magazine interested in a follow-up, in the wake of the Turpin case? Or any other reputable investigative reporters. Politicians? Or even a celebrity like Oprah?
This sadistic torture and abuse, under the guise of religious freedom, must be exposed for what it really is. How many other religious "reform" schools are there scattered around our 50 states operating with the consent of brainwashed parents? So much deceit and evil masquerading as religion "under the banner of heaven" (John Krakauer).
if there was a suit the money should go towards helping survivors get basic skills to thrive in the real world. They need tutoring, GED, help with getting driver's license and learning to use computers, how to shop and dress and apply for jobs and school and manage money and themselves and avoid being further victimized because they are compulsively sweet and compliant and obedient.I agree that the uproar that the Turpin case is causing can be used to your advantage right now.
I have written the governor of Indiana in years past. I'll have to look and see who that was and when.Isnt Pence the former Governor or something like that?
Put him on the spot with this somehow. It was foing on under his watch and continues now.
How can it become public? Asking him about it and what to do?