Thank you for helping build a better picture of the way things were in reality; time does indeed dim the blinding and harsh reality. But, when Survivors are brave to speak up for the reality, then they are leaving a legacy of hope for the next generation, that they do not fall into that same pit of hellish horrors.
The stuff on the chickens is astounding that they thought it was just fine for you young girls to be doing all that. I wonder if they ever did anything to prevent disease being spread around through such obvious child neglect and abuses. This is an unclean thing to have allowed young children to be doing. In the Old Testament the standards of cleanliness were far higher, and Roloff with his "Platform Stance" on being holy and pure does nothing more now than ring with a hollow sound; a tinklng symbol and a clanging noise
::drummer:: .
And allowing young girls to play with the innards of animals is to me the affront to any standard of helping them to be clean nice christian young ladies. A big slap in the face of thier claim of teaching you all to be cleaned up christian young ladies: how double minded!
This was NOT the fault of the kids, this is the neglect of sound healthy child care and oversight. And this also has not one single iota of a thing to do with keeping government out of the worship services of a church. This kind of horrifying neglect is the very reason WHY laws are made, to PREVENT such lack of oversight, and to create arches of protection for the young that they will be sheilded from such abuses, and neglect, and be allowed to thrive in the healthy environments that are clean and balanced.
The memories of the Culloden compound, these are good for others to help them build a better picture of Culloden.
The unique thing about Culloden is that it was indeed a known stopping point for the Rebekah Girls, yet, there is a near absence of any Rebekah girl bravely speaknig up and talknig about the compound.
I find it vastly interesting that Roloff went and got women out of jail to work with in that compound.
Women with nothing else much to lose. Maybe women who had no advocate on thier side.
Roloff and his backwoods education system should be shamed from here to kingdom come. What do these people think?
Many of the small private schools from the 1970's did not keep professional records and there have been those who have lost all track of records: this is a crime of serious child neglect. And a real shame for them that they do this to kids whose only chance of being credited with thier education is through those small schools.
God is a God who does things in an orderly fashion. And this loss of records for you and many of the young girls and boys, shows such a disorderly manner of doing things, that it does not reflect who God is at all! And in fact, the bible explicity says, that where there is confusion and disorder, there is every evil work.
See: 1Cor.14:33; 2Thess.3:6,7
A barn has got to be the limit on things here. That is pitiful. I am shocked at these cult people of Roloffs that they let you girls do these things with the chickens! This really shows only one thing, it shows that these people in charge of you all , were irresponsible and abusive and guilty of severe child neglect. This was indeed child labor, and they should have been hiring fullbodied adults to do the chicken cleaning and food preparation on this magnitude of a scale. But it of course was far cheaper for them to use the children in this and mistreat them in this horrendous manner! I am angered that they did this to the young girls!
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I am sorry they did this to you and the other young girls. You should have been given the freedom to grow inside of healthy habits, not child labor.
Working the fields in Corpus Christi is not a laughing matter! It gets hot, and I bet some of you poor girls had sunburned skin for a good while.
The image of Lester Roloff walking the fields with his bible sounds insane! Walking the fields screaming out scripture and watching young girls who were abandoned and abused and emotionally wounded labor away getting cuts and brusise while he got to walk through the fields screaming out the Scripture, is to me a very insane image for this person. Did he spend the same amount of time in the fields as you all did? And with you all ?
This man sounds capable of many untold other areas of split thinking and acting. He was so into health and preached health foods and believed that diet was part of the issue with teen problems. Yet, he permitted you girls to be that unsupervised doing the chickens, I am still astounded that they thought this was sound Child Care in any way form or fashion. What a shocking thing that if there was a school today doing that, they would be shut down before the sun set this day!
I wonder how much he allowed and didn't blink an eye. I wonder how much Roloff saw and condoned. I wonder what made him think this stuff was sane and okay to permit and allow.
Why did the girl named Joan live with Roloff for a year? Why did she not live in the dorm with the rest of you girls? Why was she set out as different? Can you explain that? That is astounding and sheds even more light into Roloffs character and thinking.
Sharing about Mrs Roloff was very brave and very enlightening! I commend you for your bravery. But remember if you want to share something , you can also share it anonymously and or with your name to protect yourself. This is part of the safety behind this kind of forum board.
What kind of a man thought that it was okay to slap you clear across the room just because you confront him with something true? The double standard, the split between his Platform Stance and his real behind the scenes life. That is astounding! And it should be highlighted.
I wonder how he treated his wife? Did he also here have his famous "Platform Stance" and preaching marriage standards to all, and then had the split of a different man in the house he shared with his wife? If he slapped you as if you were nothing, how did he treat his wife? And notice the split in thier marriage, she disagreed with him; how interesting.
The reason behind highlighting it is to help others to see that there was a split person in Roloff. That his show and his life were two separate realities.
There have been several reports of girls being tied to beds under the Roloff Enterprises umbrella.
Since I have already heard of this prior, I want to say , that I believe you and I believe this man and his split mind cult system were from all appearances into doing such things.
Thank you!
Sincerly,
Snowdrip.
from --- PureTruth WellSpring
Snowdrip@writeme.com