“I cry over it. I felt some guilt over it, but I know it was the right thing to do,” she said. “I know at first it was like all these questions rattling in my head, but I know if I had to do it all over again I would do it, but I would have done it sooner.”
Her struggle also made her realize there may be others facing similar dilemmas, prompting her to start the nonprofit organization.
“I realized that there might be a lot of crimes out there, a lot of cold cases, especially, where there are family members, friends, loved ones who know who did it but they are not thinking about the suffering of all people that that life impacted,” she said. “They are just thinking about their individual relationship with this person and in doing so they are causing more pain.”
How Is Joy Fluker, Who Turned In Her Mother Anna Young For House of Prayer Deaths, Helping Others Speak Up? | Oxygen Official Site
THE FOLLOWERS: HOUSE OF PRAYER | UCP Audio
Emon Harper was taken to live at the House of Prayer as a baby in 1986 after his young mother was unable to care for him, but several years later, Harper vanished from the rural Florida property.
Those who lived at the Micanopy, Florida religious community—which investigators and former members have dubbed a cult—would later tell authorities that Harper had suffered horrific abuse while living at the home.
However, not long after he disappeared, the group’s leader, Anna Young, had a simple explanation for his disappearance.
Young told her daughter, Joy Fluker, that Harper no longer lived there and had gone to live at a monastery so that he could someday become a priest, according to an affidavit in the case obtained by Oxygen.com.
How Did Anna Young, Of The House Of Prayer, Try To Explain The Disappearance Of Young Emon Harper? | Oxygen Official Site