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Sep 13, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read Read on X
This.

I'm horrified and outraged at the movie too.

And I also know that sending letters asking for investigations accomplishes nothing, and does nothing for any of the victims of the 70 MILLION images the federal government ALREADY possesses just from LAST YEAR.
We need Senators using their platforms and power to tell the truth about what's really going on in our justice system,and equipping that system with training, funding and accountability so it can actually work.

Don't write a letter asking a broken system for an investigation.
We need Senators who are looking at reform to give victims access to our civil and criminal justice systems.

Without that, an investigation does nothing.
We need accountability for, and recourse against, investigators and prosecutors who cover up abuse or simply don't do their jobs.

Without that, a letter demanding an investigation does nothing.
Make no mistake - these issues and desperate needs have been well known and long discussed by advocates and survivors who have begged and plead for help.

There has been no lack of opportunity to learn, advocate, speak on or spearhead real reform.
Make no mistake - these issues and desperate needs have been well known and long discussed by advocates and survivors who have begged and plead for help.

There has been no lack of opportunity to learn, advocate, speak on or spearhead real reform.

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Jan 14
On Larry Nassar and Paul Pressler, Michigan State University, USAG and the SBC, and all the ways they are different…

There are so many unsung heroes in my case. . .people that lent their voices, provided pieces of the puzzle, helped put away a predator, that no one knows about.
But they meant everything to me back then, and they still do.

1 – An MSU employee for the medical clinic who reached out to say “I don’t know Rachael. But I can tell you he’s not following the chaperone policies. None of us even knew he was supposed to be chaperoned.”
It didn’t prove I was telling the truth, but it showed that he was pushing the rules and boundaries. That he was disregarding the warnings he was given in 2014 about sexual assault. That he wasn’t following accepted practices regarding privacy and appropriate contact.
Read 31 tweets
Oct 31, 2023
Correct - notice in the photo her father is in uniform, with the dept being one of the parties in the brief.

So what is a "non-offending third party?" Does it mean a party who is innocent?
No, it doesn't mean "innocent" or "didn't do anything wrong". It means people or entities who didn't personally commit the crime, but includes those who may have:

1. Violated mandatory reporting.
2. Knew and did nothing.
3. Intentionally hid it.

And more.

So for example:
Catholic Priest John Geoghan, who raped at least 130 boys, is the perpetrator.

The Catholic Church who systematically hid the knowledge of his rape of children and put him in new parishes, allowing him to keep raping children, is the "non-offending third party".
Read 15 tweets
Jul 10, 2023
Justice is conformity to what is right. It should be pursued and fought for.

Forgiveness is releasing personal vengeance and desiring for the offender to find true repentance and peace.

I am holding both especially today.

freep.com/story/news/loc…
I still mean these words I spoke years ago:

"Larry, I want you to understand why I made this choice knowing full well what it was going to cost to get here and with very little hope of ever succeeding. I did it because it was right. No matter the cost, it was right..."
And the farthest I can run from what you have become is to daily choose what is right instead of what I want.

You have become a man ruled by selfish and perverted desires, a man defined by his daily choices repeatedly to feed that selfishness and perversion...
Read 11 tweets
Jun 5, 2023
If you have not watched “Shiny Happy People” on Amazon, do. If you are in the evangelical circles, please, you really should. Most importantly, we need to consider the breadth of IBLP’s influence and teachings, and ask how this affects what we see happening today...
Much has (rightly) been made of Josh Duggar’s abuse, how it was minimized and glossed over. How the girls were pressured into acting like it was ok. How the focus was immediately on forgiveness, and not on caring for survivors or assessing real change in an abuser...
How everyone defended the Duggar’s handling of it and ignored the dangers of failing to get Josh and his sisters help. But did you know that the Duggar’s pastor when the story first broke and all of that was happening, was eventual SBC Executive Committee President Ronnie Floyd?
Read 12 tweets
Apr 21, 2023
No, MSU, you are not sorry. You are choosing over and over to refuse transparency and truth to the 100's of children you allowed to be assaulted by your doctor.

There are multiple ways we could set this up to get answers in a trauma-informed, truthful way.

You simply refuse.
Stop telling us that you are sorry in the same breath that you refuse to tell the truth, 6 yrs later.

You are not paying the price. We are. It's an insult to pretend an apology as you literally refuse the steps for healing and the truth.
Institutional transformation, crisis response and legally-sound strategies for achieving both objectives is one of my professional fields of expertise. I've offered to help set this up.

Your response is silence, dishonesty and feigned sorrow.

Stop with excuses. I know better.
Read 5 tweets
Mar 27, 2023
They knew. In 2004. They did nothing, and there were more victims.

How exactly did an SBC mega church respond to disclosures of sexual abuse by well- known leader Paul Pressler? Much like Penn State. See the screenshots in the thread...
Screenshots of the victim's testimony in 2004. He reported Pressler requiring him to perform massages with Pressler in his underwear, making him remove his clothes and sit nude with Pressler, and then forcefully removing his swim trunks and touching his buttocks. ImageImage
How did the church respond? See the deposition in the current civil suit:

Pressler's behavior was classified just like "pantsing" and said to be "not uncommon". Image
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