For the person or people who need to read this:
You know what gets me about this entire case? The fear and shame, combined, for so many years in keeping people quiet. There are probably dozens of people who know things that could be helpful, but have not come forward.
Look, when you've had your life threatened (as I have in the past), for any reason, it puts things in a different perspective. I understand. You have to face, personally, the idea of your own mortality and that you could die. Gone are your visions of peacefully slipping away in old age (you hope), and it's replaced with some frightening thoughts, that tomorrow could be the day. Or next week, next month, when you least expect it.
But, that fear is what keeps abusers--of any kind--in power, and what gives them their power.
If you can get past that, and realize that fear itself is what is keeping this all in the darkness, and gather up some courage, with others, if necessary, to reveal what you know--the retribution you fear is no longer as big. It starts to shrink the moment you say something. And the light begins to shine, on a fractured and broken huge puzzle on the table in front of all of us, and the pieces start to come together, and finally fit.
That's why my name is Bose--a speaker, a sound system.
Even if what you, or all of us see is horrible, and awful, and frightening--it's out in the light, and out in the open. And those that are holding the traumas they have experienced, in connection to this whole LISK scenario to themselves, are holding on to a piece of the darkness and hurting. But, please, if you have some of that pain in you and know something, or think you know something, be brave. I believe I am protected...by what, I can't tell you. Not for sure. But, I am--and I believe you will be, too. I will pray for you, and for courage.
I believe in final justice, I believe in directed human goodness. I believe in the once powerless having a voice greater than they realize, to bring down the mighty. I believe all these things, and more. Whether some call me naïve does not matter. I know what I've seen, and what could be.
And with that--I'm taking a little break. Next person, pick up the reins.