Brendan's mom sent him away so he couldn't talk about abuse.

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I have just read everything posted under "Send Postcards to Brendan". Brendan does have a last name, Spelman, and lives in Gainesville, Florida. He is/was a student at my private school for 9th, 10th, 11th and 1 week of his senior year. In April, because of a deteriorating home life, my husband and I were asked to provide our home for Brendan to live. He lived with us until the end of the school year. My take on the negative, personal attacks on Brendan's character, is that since you don't know him, you are having "fun" at his expense. He was not kidnapped, his parents paid for an escort service to pick him up without informing him. He CAN not walk away- can't figure out where that comes from. DRA? He was picked up in the parking lot of his psychiatrist, his aunt was driving him there, without her (both the aunt and the psychiatrist) knowledge either. When the psychiatrist asked the mother, who showed up to make sure Brendan was picked up, why she had not discussed this decision with her, Brendan's mother said "I am not here to explain myself." Then his mother walked out of the psychiatrist's office. The only reason we can come up with, for this behavior on the parents part, is their need to have complete control over Brendan and remove him from the family who provided him with a safe place to live and thrive ( at all times his parents knew where he was, and Brendan kept in constant contact with his aunt: how do I know, I was there). They had been unsuccessful trying to get him to return home or live with any family members. His treatment at home was very abusive, both verbally and mentally. We became aware of this while he was living with us, and several parents (including his family members) have come forth to substantiate the parental abuse. I filed a report of child abuse with DCF in both Utah and Florida. Florida will/can not do anything because Brendan is in Utah. Utah will/can not do anything because the abuse took place in Florida. I have not exhausted my legal options yet. Hopefully, this will clear up some of the misinformation about Brendan and his situation.

No, I am one of the administer. My husband has taught Brendan, and he is the high school counselor, so he has worked with Brendan and his parents in this roll. When my husband became aware of issues in Brendan's family life he offered to let Brendan stay with us for a cool off period. His mother spoke to her therapist about this offer, and she called me and said the therapist thought that our home was the best for him, not his grandmother or aunt. I don't really understand how the therapist could/would recommend us, but Brendan's mother told me she did. I told her that we would gladly help out- we have had quite a few students (all teenagers) stay with us from time to time. His aunt drove him over to our house. The private school was started by four of us in 1993 (my husband, myself, 2 long-time friends). My husband has been in the education field for 37 years- public system for 22 and then our school. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Florida in the College of Eduction. We remained in contact with his mother while he lived at our house, mostly my husband. When he went to live with another family from our school, there was no more contact with his parents, but a lot with his aunt. I did go by his house the day he was "abducted against his will", and asked his mother, "Where is Brendan?" Her reply was, "Get out of my house." So I left, and, no, with my goal of Bring Brendan Home, I probably will have no more contact with his immediate family. Think I answered all of your questions. Thank you for your real concern.

We've seen this stuff before. Looks like that psychiatrist was a little too close to finding out something mommie dearest didn't want him/her to know.

This is actually fairly common. Don't want local authorities doing an investigation about how badly you're hurting your kid after some evidence starts coming to light? Send him to another state, in a "treatment center" which promises he'll love Mommy forever no matter what and never say any hurtful thing (e.g. the truth) ever again.

It's so very easy to just get your kids out of the picture when you're willing to do damn near anything at all, isn't it? Beats having to kill him yourself.

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[Anonymous]

Yeah, the trollspam increased drastically after this one.

Stick your fingers in your ears MORE! Deny reality! Then deny your need to eat and breathe!

Extra protip: If this was actual therapy we wouldn't be seeing... well.. shit, anything that's on Fornits, really.