News Reports about the Mormon Gulag on Utah Fox 13 and KSL

[_Eric]

A lot of people say no, but I have no firsthand experience as I left in 2002. All I can say is I get contacted by people who are still there or had just left.

When those people contact you, what do they say about the place?

http://utahboysranchwra.wordpress.com/testimonials/

Also check out the comments on the KSL articles.

[_Jersey Girl]

Eric...I have to tell you that I didn't open any of the links because I assumed they were about other cases and not yours. I didn't think your case was ready to go public yet.

Oh.
My.
God.

I don't even know where to start. It is a rare person who has been victimized in childhood and who finds the courage to publicly accuse and *name* his abusers in a lawsuit. It is rarer still for that person to go before the camera and make it known, to let people attach a face and name to abuse of the kind that you endured while at Utah Boys Ranch.

I do not have words to fully convey how proud I am to know you, for what you are doing is so completely right to do. You could have shrunk back into the shadows, hidden your abuse and carried it with you, concealed, throughout your life, never speaking of it, as so many others before you have done.

Instead, you have stepped forward to say, "This was done to me, this is part of the narrative of my life, this is part of who and what I am today." and use the legal system for all it's worth to nail these people to the wall!

I have always subscribed to the philosophy that the childhood makes the man. In your case, it has made a man who has found the courage of his convictions, a man who is willing to move publicly forward to charge his abusers and your actions will give voice and courage to other victims of abuse, Eric.

My God, Eric. Well done!

Jersey Girl

[_Jersey Girl]

Here are the lyrics to one of my favorite songs that has to do with connecting your childhood to yourself as an adult.

Memories
by Tom Hunter

What do you remember from the time you were a child?
Do you think of moments memory knows well?
Are there little things like trinkets you carry with you now,
That trigger stories memory wants to tell?
Like the people, or the places, the fun or food or games,
Like family trips or chores or how you played,
Is it painful? Is it pleasant? Is it somewhere in between?
Are there things you always wished that you could say?

May the memories wrap their arms around you,
May your childhood take you by the hand,
And may what you remember find healing when it hurts,
So the memories will protect you when they can.

What songs and smells and gatherings come easily to mind?
What have you learned of love from who loved you?
Do the memories need forgiveness to free them from the past,
And find a future you can still make new?


May the memories wrap their arms around you,
May your childhood take you by the hand,
And may what you remember find healing when it hurts,
So the memories will protect you when they can.

And what about the children you find around you now?
Are you making time to sing and talk and play?
So someday they'll have memories of love and being loved,
Protection that'll never go away.


May the memories wrap their arms around you,
May your childhood take you by the hand,
And may what you remember find healing when it hurts,
So the memories will protect you when they can.

Look at this, Eric...

Is it painful? Is it pleasant? Is it somewhere in between?
Are there things you always wished that you could say?

SAY it!

:-)

p.s. You are just the kind of person that I admire most in this world.

[_Yoda]

Eric...I have to tell you that I didn't open any of the links because I assumed they were about other cases and not yours. I didn't think your case was ready to go public yet.

Oh.
My.
God.

I don't even know where to start. It is a rare person who has been victimized in childhood and who finds the courage to publicly accuse and *name* his abusers in a lawsuit. It is rarer still for that person to go before the camera and make it known, to let people attach a face and name to abuse of the kind that you endured while at Utah Boys Ranch.

I do not have words to fully convey how proud I am to know you, for what you are doing is so completely right to do. You could have shrunk back into the shadows, hidden your abuse and carried it with you, concealed, throughout your life, never speaking of it, as so many others before you have done.

Instead, you have stepped forward to say, "This was done to me, this is part of the narrative of my life, this is part of who and what I am today." and use the legal system for all it's worth to nail these people to the wall!

I have always subscribed to the philosophy that the childhood makes the man. In your case, it has made a man who has found the courage of his convictions, a man who is willing to move publicly forward to charge his abusers and your actions will give voice and courage to other victims of abuse, Eric.

My God, Eric. Well done!

Jersey Girl

Beautiful post, Jersey Girl! I couldn't have worded this any better.

Eric, I echo, Jersey Girl in telling you how proud I am of you. As a parent, it is very gratifying to see you speak out against this horrible "school" which has systematically abused so many children.

You have my support and deep respect.

Job well done, my friend! :-)

[_Jersey Girl]

Liz

Beautiful post, Jersey Girl! I couldn't have worded this any better.

No matter the outcome of this case, I admire and respect this man.