Facts:
Mel Riddile was at Straight VA in 1982, because he was there when Fred Collins was. A 1987 news article mentions that he had left Straight recently, so he was probably there for at least half of 1987.
Mel Riddile knows about KHK in Ohio and will not do anything about it.
Mel Riddile knew about food consequences.
Mel Riddile was there when [from posts here and on other survivor boards ] the following alleged incidents occurred: food and sleep deprivation, the use of painful physical restraint to coerce minor children, the use of known thought reform techniques on minor children without their consent, kidnapping, extreme public humiliations such as making teenagers play in a baby's playpen, additional physical tortures such as making a client walk up and down a ladder for hours (?) ...
(Does anyone know who took over when Riddile left in 87?)
If you personally witnessed any of these events, or would like to make any other story you have to tell from when you were in Straight be RESPECTED and KNOWN, you should write it up for ISAC using their victim/witness statement. Possible another good idea is to file a report with the police, in accordance with crime reporting procedures.
This way, your signed witness story can be respectably used as a source. Since people are meeting up now who knew each other in Straight and can corroborate memories, that gives any story extra impact, if people can see more than one person has signed a statement about the incident.
Mel Riddile is not ever likely to serve a deserved prison sentence for his abusive treatment of thousands of teenagers at 5515 Backlick Road. However, the story is what it is, and it is very significant for Mel Riddile that we are of the age when we are sure of ourselves enough to call abuse for what it is, and getting back memories...