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General Interest => Open Free for All => Topic started by: elangraduate on May 25, 2010, 11:57:31 PM
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Danny Bennison worked with abusers, rapists and thugs at ELAN. He was guilty by association of abuse! Danny how can you refute this?
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MSNBC 9/14/98/:
Judge orders Joe Ricci to comply with grand jury subpoena
PORTLAND, Maine, Sept. 14 - Despite assertions that he has no information to offer, race track owner Joseph Ricci was ordered Monday to appear before a Connecticut grand jury investigating one of the country’s best-known murder mysteries. Investigators believe Ricci overheard a teen-age boy admit involvement in the 1975 slaying of Greenwich teenager Martha Moxley. At the time, the boy was a resident of the Elan School for troubled adolescents, which Ricci had co-founded. Ricci said Monday he had nothing to offer and vowed to resist the subpoena requiring him to testify September 22nd. I don’t know anything about this case and I’m not going to go to Connecticut unless the Supreme Court of the state of Maine tells me to, Ricci said after a hearing in Cumberland County Superior Court.
Michael Skakel, the teen-ager who spent time at the Elan School, has maintained his innocence in the killing of 15-year-old Moxley. Skakel, who was 15 at the time of the killing, and his brother, Thomas, who was 17, have both been considered suspects, although neither has been charged.
The Skakels, a wealthy industrial family, lived near the Moxley family in a gated Belle Haven community in Greenwich at the time she was beaten and stabbed to death. Police have said the murder weapon, a golf club, came from the Skakel house. Skakel’s father, Rushton, is the brother of Ethel Kennedy, U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy’s widow.
Michael Skakel attended the Elan school from 1978 to 1980, according to court papers filed by Fairfield State’s Attorney Jonathan Benedict. Benedict said in court documents that he has been informed by several former residents of Elan that Joseph Ricci was present and overheard Michael Skakel make admissions to the murder of Martha Moxley. Ricci said he doesn’t want to testify in Connecticut because he never heard anyone admit to a killing. He also said confidentiality rules prohibit him from discussing the cases of people who stayed at Elan, which was licensed as a mental health facility. I would have remembered that, said Ricci, who called the subpoena a fishing expedition. Ricci said Skakel was treated by his partner at the school, who has since died. He said that his own recollection of Skakel has grown dim with the passage of time. He seemed like a very shy, introverted, troubled person; very confused, not very aggressive, Ricci said. I wouldn’t know him if I bumped into him. Ricci, a two-time Democratic gubernatorial candidate, said he would appeal the order signed Monday by Justice Margaret Kravchuk to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
The Moxley murder has been the subject of at least two books, including one by former Los Angles Police Detective Mark Fuhrman. In June, shortly after the books were released, the 23-year-old case was revived with the appointment of the one-man grand jury.
(Associated Press Writer Tom Kirchofer contributed to this article.)
Another reason why Danny Bennison refuses to discuss intimate details about ELAN. He was a staffer at ELAN when Michael Skakel stayed at ELAN. Skakel confessed to the killing in 1978. Danny ole' Boy the picture is becoming very clear now.
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Danny Bennison's co workers (partners in crime) @ ELAN
1. Jeffrey Gottleib
2. Martin L Kruglik
3. Joseph Ricci
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This is how you made innocent victims feel when you where an employee at ELAN Danny ole' Boy!
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Danny Bennison ELAN Staffer in 1978
"[We] were whipped into a mob," says Arnold, an ex-speed addict who'd arrived at Elan in 1978 after a phony suicide attempt forced her affluent Ridgewood, New Jersey, parents to seek professional help. "It was brainwashing. People like Kim were gonna be junkies or hookers if we didn't make them get their shit together." Arnold soon added her voice to the eardrum-breaking sound of 100 young adults caught up in the adrenaline rush of anger. To an outsider, it must have looked like madness, a Lord of the Flies outpost with castaways who were regularly dressed in tinfoil, diapers, and "hooker" skirts. Some had signs around their necks that read: I’M AN EMOTIONAL VAMPIRE or ASK ME WHY I’M A BABY or CONFRONT ME AS TO WHY I’M A WHORE. All were red with rage. "Kim," Arnold recalls, "was semi-catatonic."
Danny > This is the place you chose to work at! Do you remember Arnold?
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Bad Company
Once upon a time, when a very different Lord of the Flies haunted the classroom.
On a February morning in 1979, deep in the piney woods of Maine, 20-year-old Liz Arnold watched as a houseful of teens berated a weeping girl who'd just wet her pants. The girl's name was Kim. She was 17. Moments before, she'd been spanked with a paddle in front of the 100 fellow delinquents and drug addicts—more than two thirds of them men—who made up the student body of the Elan School, a therapeutic community of last resort that, during its seventies heyday, may have been something far from therapeutic.
As the residents surged over the scuffed linoleum of the dining room, knocking over metal chairs, Kim curled into a ball. "You fucking bitch, fucking whore, fucking fuck-up!” Kim was enduring a "learning experience." She'd mouthed off to the school's senior residents, and at Elan in the seventies, this was the response. But the lesson was getting out of hand. "[We] were whipped into a mob," says Arnold, an ex-speed addict who'd arrived at Elan in 1978 after a phony suicide attempt forced her affluent Ridgewood, New Jersey, parents to seek professional help. "It was brainwashing. People like Kim were gonna be junkies or hookers if we didn't make them get their shit together." Arnold soon added her voice to the eardrum-breaking sound of 100 young adults caught up in the adrenaline rush of anger. To an outsider, it must have looked like madness, a Lord of the Flies outpost with castaways who were regularly dressed in tinfoil, diapers, and "hooker" skirts. Some had signs around their necks that read: I’M AN EMOTIONAL VAMPIRE or ASK ME WHY I’M A BABY or CONFRONT ME AS TO WHY I’M A WHORE. All were red with rage. "Kim," Arnold recalls, "was semi-catatonic."
No one can say what became of Kim after she left Elan five months later. But her story, and dozens like it, continues to haunt many former students. Some three decades later, there is a growing chorus of voices waking as if from a bad dream. Many say they were paddled; others say they were put into boxing rings, chained to chairs, restrained in straight jackets, all in the name of “personal growth.”
For 31 years, Elan—which remains open to 184 residents at $44,596 a year for a two-year program—has been among the most controversial of the nation’s residential therapeutic communities. Though the school no longer employs such Draconian methods, its administrators claim that the behavior modification they practiced was the only effective way to salvage delinquents. The approach—tearing down destructive character traits through relentless peer pressure—has even been praised by several parents and by some of the psychologists who treated the students; a number of former residents claim to have found emotional and mental calm through Elan’s rigidity.
But many Elan survivors say they’ve suffered lasting psychological scars. In 1975, deep in the heart of the flower-power, bell-bottomed sexual revolution, a team of investigators from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services accused the school of abusing the eleven Illinois residents in its charge. After removing them, the team issued a report detailing “an atmosphere of pervasive fear and suspicion,” in which residents become “automatons.” The report charged Elan with starving its children, forcing them into useless labor, handcuffing them to chairs. Elan’s practices, it concluded, “violate…civil rights and liberties and deprive…children of their self-respect and dignity.” Another 1975 inquiry, by the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services, noted that residents were subjected to “severe humiliation” as well as “painful” punishments, including putting “bullies” in boxing rings to fight other residents (in one case, the bully was a pregnant girl).
Despite the charges (which were later disputed by Maine’s Department of Human Services), the attention eventually faded. And no one looked very closely into what happened to the young men and women of Elan for nearly a quarter century.
Now Elan is once again under scrutiny, this time thanks to activity surrounding the school’s most high-profile alumnus; a former teen preppy from Greenwich, Connecticut, named Michael Skakel.
Skakel, a nephew of Ehtel Kennedy’s, is charged, as the tabloids have repeatedly trumpeted, with the 1975 Halloween Eve murder of his neighbor Martha Moxley, who was found bludgeoned and stabbed with a golf club on her family’s estate. Skakel was 15.
Last year, Connecticut prosecutors filed charges after two former Elan residents told a grand jury that Skakel, now 41, confessed to the killing in 1978, when he was a resident at the school. Skakel enrolled at Elan as a 19-year-old alcoholic and spent two years dying out (he’d later call the place a “concentration camp for kids”). A fellow resident claims to have heard him brag: “I am going to get away with murder. I’m a Kennedy.”
It turns out the Kennedy name didn’t help much at this very undemocratic enclave: According to a classmate, Kennedy was pummeled in the boxing ring and forced to wear a degrading five-foot dunce cap and model a sign that read I AM AN ARROGANT, RICH BRAT. CONFRONT ME ON WHY I KILLED MY FRIEND MARTHA. Skakel’s attorney has said that any alleged admissions at the school were simply attempts to avoid more abuse.
In an effort to look back at the three decades of similar practices, Details talked to more than 30 former residents and staff members, as well as several adolescent therapists. Oddly enough, Elan opened amid the peace and understanding of the seventies counterculture. But left to its own devices, the school became and emotional cauldron of peer pressure and humiliation, scorching some of the very souls it was meant to save.
Route 26 is a two-lane highway that winds from the town of Gray, nineteen miles northeast of Portland, to the fire roads of Polan Spring, home to America’s favorite bottled water. The drive takes you past car-repair shops, plastic deer on tidy lawns, and swimming holes abandoned by tourists on this warm September day.
The Elan campus is a cluster of cream-colored cabins and trailers set on 33 acres of lakeside forest. On a picnic table, four teens chat with happy intensity. The place seems otherwise deserted. It’s a pleasant picture, making what once transpired here all the more unbelievable.
Elan was conceived in 1971 by Joe Ricci, a former addict and petty criminal from Port Chester, New York, and Gerald Davidson, a Boston psychiatrist. The pair set out, with one house and thirteen residents, to create a moneymaking venture; their small operation would grow into a multimillion dollar business with 100 staff members, fifteen buildings, and 184 residents from 26 states and three foreign countries.
More than anything, Elan was forged by Ricci’s swaggering charisma.
Raised by blue-collar grandparents just 32 miles outside New York City, Ricci was hooked on heroin by 15 (thanks to a car accident that started him up the painkiller ladder); he was busted for robbing a mail truck at 18. A judge gave him an ultimatum: seven years in federal prison, or time at the residential rehabilitation facility of Daytop Village in New Haven, Connecticut. Ricci chose rehab.
At Daytop, Ricci ran smack into a boot-camp-style commune. There was a rigid chain of command, menial jobs, and placards on addicts describing their faults, a device Daytop had adopted from California’s Synanon, the granddaddy of all therapeutic communities. The goal was sel-discipline combined with the grueling reshaping of personality through fierce confrontations. The emphasis was on pain.
At the time, corrections officials across the nation—with the blessing of sociologists—had begin to question conventional rehab, turning instead to hard-core therapeutic communities. These programs seemed to accomplish what few others could: a profound change in outlook and behavior that allowed hopeless junkies to begin their lives anew. With a surge of government money, they sprouted across the country, many of them run by Synanon graduates.
Ricci became convinced that such programs would make him rich. But it wasn't until he met Davidson, a psychiatrist and Harvard lecturer, that he found his true calling: his own full-blown therapeutic community, where he could implement his particular brand of in-your-face psychotherapy. The Elan School opened for business on May 30, 1971.
Ricci was soon ministering to the nation's hardest of hard-luck cases (many of whom were provided for with state money), addicts and criminals who'd bounced from jails to group homes to hospitals to rehab and back again. Alongside these felons, Ricci welcomed refugees from America's affluent suburbs—kids whose social rebellion had led them from Hendrix to heroin. Youngsters from Harlem slums worked out their pain with the children of CEOs from Chicago's wealthy North Shore. After the first year, Elan had 40 residents. Ricci was soon presiding over a student body in which residents were regularly shouted down by dozens of their peers. "I've never seen a sponge like you." "You've been a parasite all your life." Meanwhile, Ricci dug into the emotional core of his targets. "If you didn't come here, you'd be in a mental institution," he would growl. "People weren't put on earth to accommodate you."
"Joe was a Doberman," says Everett Dulit, emeritus professor of psychiatry at New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who referred several Elan patients in the seventies.
"He'd say, 'Now, you listen to what I'm going to tell you, asshole. Because it's gonna save your worthless piece-of-shit life.'"
"Joe was very challenging in groups," adds Stuart Berry, who entered Elan as a 20-year-old junkie on opening day and became its first graduate in 1972; he briefly became a therapeutic director the following year. "There were some pretty bad guys; he needed them to understand their facade wasn't working."
Berry was a typical Elan elite: white, middle-class, and strung out from "living on the lunatic fringe" of the sixties. A grandson of a Cape Cod pharmacist, he'd found his way into Grandpa's medicine locker after a book on the Hell's Angels triggered his curiosity. Drugs turned out to be a great chaser for youthful alienation.
But as Berry soon learned, Ricci had his own cure for apathy. It began with hard work and peer pressure, using the strict hierarchy of a military outfit. Newcomers toiled on kitchen and grounds crews, working their way through the ranks, from "ram- rods" (crew foremen) to department heads to expeditors (who acted as a secret police that "booked incidents" of bad behavior on notepads), and, finally, coordinators, who were charged with overseeing such house activities as group therapy.
"The goal was responsible citizenship," says Dulit, who remains committed to such tactics. "It's fighting fire with fire. These are people who have caused enormous trouble in their lives. And I think people who tiptoe around these adolescents are wimps. You need a powerhouse to fight a powerhouse. And Joe was that model for me."
If a resident disobeyed an order, or if he failed to "relate" his feelings on a regular basis, punishment could come in the form of a "haircut." At Daytop, this meant shaving one's head in atonement. At Elan, it became a verbal firing squad.
Ken Zaretzky was Elan's 22nd resident. He was 15. He'd come from swank Highland Park, Illinois, hooked on heroin. Though the program set him straight, he has many complaints about Elan's tactics—including the time he was accused of stealing cigarettes. The punishment for such a crime? A "general meeting," the highest form of retribution, in which, he says, he was forced to eat four packs of cigarettes—coated with ketchup—in front of the entire house, until he got sick.
"Things could be out-and-out abusive," Zaretzky recalls. Now 45, he owns a suburban Chicago software company and runs a Web site, ElanAlum.com, where former Elan residents (and their parents) compare experiences. "They were nuts from time to time," says Zaretsky. Stuart Berry claims the kids' value as dollar signs outweighed any cause for concern. "Joe was accepting them because of the money," he says.
When Ricci began ordering quarrelsome residents to dig pointless ditches and created a boxing ring as a learning tool for bullies, Berry was appalled. Students were suited up with headgear and sixteen-ounce gloves. Then the entire house would form a human ring as the bully was forced to duke it out with four or five people in a row, until defeated. "There would be blood, there would be crying, there would be cheering," says Cindy Rob-bins, a suburban-Chicago runaway and chronic truant who entered Elan in 1982, at the age of 16. "A lot of people were just afraid. But it's not like you could step in and stop it. You'd be punished."
"I didn't like that at all," says Berry of Ricci's ring. "But at this point, Joe was out of tricks. Sometimes I think he did it for his own amusement."
As the years progressed, Joe Riccibecame a millionaire, a larger-than-life evangelist who'd strut through Elan in a leather coat, fedora, and aviator sunglasses, his silver Mercedes parked out front. "He called himself the god of therapy," recalls Liz Arnold. "But he looked like a pimp. He was cocky as hell."
As Ricci's demeanor became more eccentric, so too did the tenor of his therapies. Promiscuous young women (even kissing is not permitted at Elan) were tarted up in hooker costumes with garish makeup and forced to carry poles with signs that said 42nd street. Their male counterparts were dressed like hustlers. A person who acted like a child would be put in diapers and given a rattle. If you "reacted" negatively, you were encased in a tinfoil box with nuclear-reactor symbols and red buttons. One guy, caught peering into the women's dorm, was forced to wear a Peeping Tom raincoat.
The physical punishments also took on a more severe character. In between the paddling and the boxing ring, says Harry Kranick, who entered Elan at 16 in 1977 with a taste for Quaaludes—and mourning the recent death of his father—"[residents] were thrown into a cold shower. When they came out, they were spanked again. This went on for days." Kranick himself—who says the program straightened him out, though he remains bitter about its tactics—was the target of humiliating punishments. After the Elan football team lost several games against local high-school rivals, Ricci screamed at them "for being a bunch of pussies," recalls Kranick. "And I said, 'You know something, Joe, we're not here to play football. We're here to get our shit together.' He made us sleep naked in the dorm, guarded by guys with bats. I had to wear a sign around the house that said I’m a pussy and I can't express my feelings." But that wasn't the worst for Kranick, a witness in the Skakel case. After getting belligerent with a senior resident one day, Kranick says, he was stripped to his underwear, forced to put on a diaper "made of a nasty rag," and ordered to climb into a Dumpster and clean it with a spoon and a toothbrush. The task took two days. When investigators from the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services made their visit in 1975, they were horrified by what they found. Jerry Docherty, a member of the team, says Elan's "born-again" philosophy was well-meaning, but that he had doubts about any positive effects. "You're reinforcing negative behavior with negative behavior," says Docherty. "I had real problems with that."
Ironically, the 1975 state investigations at Elan— and the later exoneration by Maine health officials who ruled that its therapy was "innovative, appropriate, and beneficial"—only emboldened Ricci, says Zaretzky, who claims to have helped cover up practices during the Illinois review process.
"We lied through our teeth," says Zaretzky, a five-year Elan vet who started out as a resident and became a therapeutic director by the time he was 20. "That was my family. And my family was under attack. But everything the investigators said was true. That should have been a warning to mellow out. But we let it get worse." Zaretzky believes Elan's practices violated residents' civil rights—especially when they ran away and were hunted down. "We'd break into shooting galleries in the Boston slums, places where our guys had run off," he says. "We'd just grab them and say, Anybody that wants to fuck with us, you're welcome to.'"
By 1975, Elan's Gerry Davidson, the program's psychiatric director and co-founder, had begun accepting "full-blown" mentally ill patients, says Zaretzky. One of the biggest indignities newer residents suffered was the "electric sauce." Rumored to have contained feces, it was a simple goo, says Zaretzky, of kitchen trash, syrup, mustard, and ketchup. Upon being coated in sauce, some residents would scream, rip off their clothes, and lash out at counselors and fellow residents.
"We could not deal with these people," Zaretzky explains. "[They] should have been in a nice, warm hospital. We were absolutely not equipped."
Last January, Elan founder Joe Ricci died of lung cancer. He was 54. During his entire, 31-year tenure, Ricci had vehemently defended his practices (Elan claims that 80 percent of its graduates go on to college, though the school does not follow up on alumni academic success thereafter). Ricci also denied that Skakel ever confessed to the Moxley killing. Current school administrators, still reeling from his death, refused to comment.
Though Ricci can no longer defend his school, understanding what drove him may explain what took place there. Over the years, as residents swapped stories of abuse, Elan, with its autocratic leader and his demand for complete devotion, has drawn comparisons to cults—such as the People's Temple and the Unification Church—with Ricci standing in for Kool-Aid shillers like Jim Jones. "The group process was very powerful," says Professor Dulit, "and in some respects, very cultlike."
Ricci's rigid insistence on absolute faith in his tenets seems to have created an army of true believers. But instead of producing believers, says Daytop co-creator David Deitch, now a professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, Ricci may have been turning out "closet fascists." Elan, it seems, empowered aggressive young men—and women—to crush the weak and fragile. Its residents learned to crave that power; many became emotional despots.
"You run the risk of training sociopaths," says Dulit. "They're people who operate just this side of legal. The other person never counts for much unless he can be used or exploited."
Over the years, say former Elan staff members and residents, Ricci himself became cruel and vicious—and he freed others to do the same. "It all got crazy," says Berry of the early seventies. "He'd unleash this rage on someone in a meeting for hours." An Elan consultant, Marvin Schwarz, now chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Glen Oaks Hospital in Illinois (and a Harvard classmate of Davidson's), referred more than 100 adolescent patients to the school. But by the decade's end, he says, "the tactics were destructive rather than therapeutic," with the school's infamous haircuts little more than "symbolic castrations—and these were sick kids." He later quit in protest.
By the early eighties, several former residents claim, Ricci was getting drunk and smoking pot regularly. Though never proved, this tainted the program's credibility and made residents cynical. One day, in 1984, the internal attitude was so bad (by this time, Ricci had bought the state's largest harness racetrack, Scarborough Downs; he would later suffer two unsuccessful runs for governor) that several Elan staff members were busted to entry-level positions. Ricci sauntered in, says Ben Foster, a former truant and suburban "burnout" who was 15 at the time, and delivered a hypocritical soliloquy. "I'm going to go home, pour a nice glass of wine, and smoke a joint," he told a general meeting. "And you're all going to be here scrubbing floors."
In 1987, a woman named Bethany Berry claimed that she'd suffered sleep-and food-deprivation as well as assault as an Elan resident between the ages of 16 and 18. She later filed a lawsuit against the school, Ricci, and the state of Maine, charging abuse (it was eventually settled out of court for an undisclosed sum). No other former residents who spoke to Details say they have any interest in suing; most only want to put their toxic memories behind them. "They wasted two years of our lives," says Barrie Hughes, who entered Elan in 1983 at 14 after her mother placed her in a psychiatric hospital. "That pisses me off. But it's done."
Former residents wouldn't have much recourse if they changed their minds anyway: The Maine statute of limitations for physical or emotional abuse expires after six years, a term that begins for minors on their 18th birthday.
Nevertheless, wary perhaps of such lawsuits, Elan has changed many of its practices over the years. The school no longer forces its residents to wear humiliating signs. There are no more spankings. And the boxing ring hasn't been used in over a year, stopping, coincidentally, when the Skakel media coverage was at its height. (General meetings are still held here on occasion, as Elan's attorney, John Campbell, told Details in a brief letter, "when a student has not been responsive to other learning experiences.")
Meanwhile, the harsh glare that came with the Skakel case may be fading. A critical witness, Gregory Coleman, one of two former residents who claimed to have heard the alleged confession, died of a heroin overdose in August, a development that has weakened the prosecution's case. As Details wentto press, Skakel's attorney was seeking to return the case to juvenile court, where, if convicted, the Kennedy cousin would likely face little or no jail time.
And back at the Elan School, safe in the woods, a new student body is learning how to get along.
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"elangraduate", Danny Bennison worked with abusers, rapists and thugs at ELAN. He was guilty by association of abuse! Danny how can you refute this.
Who were the rapist, that I have no information on. As far as abuse and being a thug. Your right I am guilty by association.
There is no refuting.
Have one new resident witness a ring run by a director with staff present that new resident would think all staff and directors were like this. Have Joe scream and debase someone and you would think all do this.
Well this was not true, Ed Freidman was the Director of E-5 and he never put a resident in the ring. Thought it was barbaric.
Many other staff felt alot that went on at Elan was wrong but did we say anything to stop it while working there, NO. Did I ever say anything, NO. I did not openly talk about it until 9/1/09 approx.
Danny
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"elangraduate", Danny Bennison worked with abusers, rapists and thugs at ELAN. He was guilty by association of abuse! Danny how can you refute this.
Who were the rapist, that I have no information on. As far as abuse and being a thug. Your right I am guilty by association.
There is no refuting.
Have one new resident witness a ring run by a director with staff present that new resident would think all staff and directors were like this. Have Joe scream and debase someone and you would think all do this.
Well this was not true, Ed Freidman was the Director of E-5 and he never put a resident in the ring. Thought it was barbaric.
Many other staff felt alot that went on at Elan was wrong but did we say anything to stop it while working there, NO. Did I ever say anything, NO. I did not openly talk about it until 9/1/09 approx.
Danny
:beat: :beat: Danny you are nuts,?? to keep going on like this,Why let these people keep beating you up ?? P.S. Eddy Friedman was a really good guy and no he was not like the rest of Joe's thugs, not by any means. :rocker: :rocker: :peace: :peace:
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Who were the rapist, that I have no information on. As far as abuse and being a thug. Your right I am guilty by association.
There is no refuting. Have one new resident witness a ring run by a director with staff present that new resident would think all staff and directors were like this. Have Joe scream and debase someone and you would think all do this. Well this was not true, Ed Freidman was the Director of E-5 and he never put a resident in the ring. Thought it was barbaric. Many other staff felt alot that went on at Elan was wrong but did we say anything to stop it while working there, NO. Did I ever say anything, NO. I did not openly talk about it until 9/1/09 approx.
If you and other staff saw all the horrific beatings and felt they were wrong, "Why did you continue to work there?"
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This is how you made innocent victims feel when you where an employee at ELAN Danny ole' Boy!
Yes I am painfully aware of this and for this I am sincerly sorry.
Danny
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:waaaa: :waaaa: :waaaa: Danny did you engage in fellatio with any young men at Elan ?. I saw in one of your post you help Marty out allot when you weren't a driver no more. Did Marty give you your orders or Joe ?. I dont remember you there and I do remember everyone else, could have been using your maiden name or some thing?. I cant figure it out, but you are funny to watch and read.I dont know why someone would punish themselves over and over, but you seem to like it. It look like insanity to me, doing the same thing over and over expecting something to eventually happen different. I think the others are right your crazy man. :beat: :beat: :beat: :beat: :beat: :roflmao: :roflmao:
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Speaking of Lord of the flies, that was Marc Rosendopes favorite movie of all time. He even played it for every house on several occassions. Marty too liked it alot, but mainly for the teenage boys wearing underwear and dressed as Marty's IMR colonists.
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Danny Bennison theme song - It is the gay Indian in my cupboard
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Who were the rapist, that I have no information on. As far as abuse and being a thug. Your right I am guilty by association.
There is no refuting. Have one new resident witness a ring run by a director with staff present that new resident would think all staff and directors were like this. Have Joe scream and debase someone and you would think all do this. Well this was not true, Ed Freidman was the Director of E-5 and he never put a resident in the ring. Thought it was barbaric. Many other staff felt alot that went on at Elan was wrong but did we say anything to stop it while working there, NO. Did I ever say anything, NO. I did not openly talk about it until 9/1/09 approx.
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If you and other staff saw all the horrific beatings and felt they were wrong, "Why did you continue to work there?"
There is really no good answer to this question. I was a young stupid kid with bid expectations that I never saw materialize. It is fucked up, trust me I know.
Danny
You have been asked, "Why did you continue to work there?" This question has been asked multiple times Danny and you still take the easy way out like an ELAN staffer would. Take accountability like a real man would and get honest with yourself like you did in AA group for fuck sake!
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Danny Bennison ELAN Staffer in 1978
"[We] were whipped into a mob," says Arnold, an ex-speed addict who'd arrived at Elan in 1978 after a phony suicide attempt forced her affluent Ridgewood, New Jersey, parents to seek professional help. "It was brainwashing. People like Kim were gonna be junkies or hookers if we didn't make them get their shit together." Arnold soon added her voice to the eardrum-breaking sound of 100 young adults caught up in the adrenaline rush of anger. To an outsider, it must have looked like madness, a Lord of the Flies outpost with castaways who were regularly dressed in tinfoil, diapers, and "hooker" skirts. Some had signs around their necks that read: I’M AN EMOTIONAL VAMPIRE or ASK ME WHY I’M A BABY or CONFRONT ME AS TO WHY I’M A WHORE. All were red with rage. "Kim," Arnold recalls, "was semi-catatonic."
Danny > This is the place you chose to work at! Do you remember Arnold?
No I don't remember Arnold, 1/78 I was in Parsonfield and by 3/78 I was Ass.Director at E-7 which was behind E-3 heading towards the lake on the left.
I will not argue any of what he is saying because it is true, why would I want to dispute someones experience, I have never done that concerning Elan and its residents.
Did you ever see Martin L Kruglik, Joe Ricci or Jeffrey Gottleib do the following:
1: Beat students
2: Rape students
3: Send students to the ring
4. Verbally abuse staff
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Danny Bennison's co workers (partners in crime) @ ELAN
1. Jeffrey Gottleib
2. Martin L Kruglik
3. Joseph Ricci
Yes your right. I did work for them. Marty was my Director at E-5 for most of my time there.
Danny
Were there other corrupt staff at ELAN? What were their names?
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Martin L Kruglik, beat and rape residents? Nah!!! Marty would never do that!
Hi yuh yuh yuh
Hi yuh yuh yuh!
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Danny Bennison ELAN Staffer of 1978 wrote:
Who were the rapist, that I have no information on. As far as abuse and being a thug. Your right I am guilty by association.
There is no refuting. Have one new resident witness a ring run by a director with staff present that new resident would think all staff and directors were like this. Have Joe scream and debase someone and you would think all do this. Well this was not true, Ed Freidman was the Director of E-5 and he never put a resident in the ring. Thought it was barbaric. Many other staff felt alot that went on at Elan was wrong but did we say anything to stop it while working there, NO. Did I ever say anything, NO. I did not openly talk about it until 9/1/09 approx.
Why did you wait until after the skakel conviction to go public about ELAN?
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Danny Bennison ELAN Staffer of 1978 wrote:
Who were the rapist, that I have no information on. As far as abuse and being a thug. Your right I am guilty by association.
There is no refuting. Have one new resident witness a ring run by a director with staff present that new resident would think all staff and directors were like this. Have Joe scream and debase someone and you would think all do this. Well this was not true, Ed Freidman was the Director of E-5 and he never put a resident in the ring. Thought it was barbaric. Many other staff felt alot that went on at Elan was wrong but did we say anything to stop it while working there, NO. Did I ever say anything, NO. I did not openly talk about it until 9/1/09 approx.
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Why did you wait until after the skakel conviction to go public about ELAN?
Here is some information for ya, Michael came to Elan one late afternoon in early July of 1978, he was brought to the conference room at the office, I was off that day at home in Windham Me. I got a call from Marty to come in Joe wanted to see me, I did but Joe wasn't there only Marty and Jeff G. They said they had a potential resident in the conference room and wanted me to do the intake evaluation. I was asked by Marty if I knew anything about a murder in Fairfield County,CT. concerning a 15 yr old girl who was bludgeoned to death with a golf club, by a cousin of the Kennedy's named Michael Skakel. I said no how could I, I was at Elan at the time in Oct. 1975 as a resident.
Well that being said they asked me to start the evaluation by asking him about the murder. I remember feeling very intimidated by this because I had no training, education or experience in interrogating (not evaluating) anyone especially for a murder.
I was also somewhat excited also because I went ahead and did it.
The long and short of this encounter with Michael is this, he never admitted anything nor gave me information about anything. He laughed and thought the whole interview was a big joke, he laughed about Martha's death and felt very disconnected (my opinion) from her. This was one of his friends he grew up with, she lived right next door, he had very romantic feelings for her and he acted like all of this information meant nothing once again (my opinion). He insinuated his brother Tom knew more about this incident then he did by deflecting all questions toward the end, "ask Tom and Tom would know". I guess that is more then a insinuation...lol. Anyway the dude was very weird and uptight and at the conclusion of our meeting I left with a genuine feeling in my gut this guy knows more then he is willing to admit. Michael knows what happened I can't prove that.
Do I feel that my assessment and report to Marty and Joe reflected exactly that sentiment yes it did.
When Michael finally came back to start his residency and was subjected to the abuse he went through at first I felt he deserved this (I know this is sick on so many levels) because I believed he knew who killed Martha (I still do), I don't have that same believe. Michael was abused by Elan for no justifiable/rational reason at all. It doesn't make a difference if he did it or not, he still should not have been abused.
Danny
You know who killed Martha Danny? You naughty little boy.
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Danny
Unless you have plagerized that story about Michael's first day,its a bald face lie Dano
That is my belief
Michael,another Michael,and myself were bunkmates for over a year. I never heard these stories you are telling,and everyone used to tell their stories,as to how they were, when they arrived. I am having a hard time understanding your purpose here, and who you really are. For some time you have left a distinct idea, in everyone's mind, that something with you is very out of place. Your words never add up. Your timelines are off. I could go on but ...
I know I am the Big Bad Art and all.. but I didnt just fall off the Turnip Truck and land in Northern Il.
Everything you write is refuted. You surround yourself with contraversy (did I spell that right)
You are active in every forum,in multiple threads,kicked out of a few of them places,and still you pick another thread to ...Do whatever you are doing??? Could you enlighten us please ? Is it attention you seek ? Or is there something else ?
I talk to Michael (many letters) all the time. He has never mentioned you. Nobody forgets their 1st day at Elan.
I dont believe you are who you say you are. I also dont think you are here for the greater good of anything
I'll be watching you
Like a Hawk
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And just when you thought it couldn't get anymore convoluted.
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Art thanks for confronting Danny.
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Danny
Unless you have plagerized that story about Michael's first day,its a bald face lie Dano
That is my belief
Michael,another Michael,and myself were bunkmates for over a year. I never heard theseories you are telling,and everyone used to tell their stories,as to how they were, when they arrived. I am having a hard time understanding your purpose here, and who you really are. For some time you have left a distinct idea, in everyone's mind, that something with you is very out of place. Your words never add up. Your timelines are off. I could go on but ...
I know I am the Big Bad Art and all.. but I didnt just fall off the Turnip Truck and land in Northern Il.
Everything you write is refuted. You surround yourself with contraversy (did I spell that right)
You are active in every forum,in multiple threads,kicked out of a few of them places,and still you pick another thread to ...Do whatever you are doing??? Could you enlighten us please ? Is it attention you seek ? Or is there something else ?
I talk to Michael (many letters) all the time. He has never mentioned you. Nobody forgets their 1st day at Elan.
I dont believe you are who you say you are. I also dont think you are here for the greater good of anything
I'll be watching you
Like a Hawk
DannyB II
First off I have no big agenda here, I don't float around threadjacking, most threads I talk on is to rebut someones crap like yours here. Now just like you said you talked with Harry Kranick all the time (bullshit), now your saying you write letters to Michael (bullshit). Art if your looking to shake me or try to skip me up you can't because everything I say and do here is the truth. "CHECK IT OUT". If you read my post it was not Michael's first day I interviewed Michael in July, his first day was not until late August early September. If Alan Frey was still alive (God rest his soul) he could second everything I'm saying since he was my roommate and fellow confidant. Why would Michael tell you about that interview it was not that special to him as it was on my part. I'm sure after he left that office he went back home for another month and a half and continued to get high and drink. I don't believe I left that big of a impression. Now on my behalf it did leave a impression how many folks have interviewed a dude who potentially murdered a women.
Another thing Art, your not going to be able to recollect anything I am talking about because as I was leaving Elan you were just getting there if in fact you got there in 1978. I left in 11/78. I worked as a Ass.Director with Joe Rodriqiiz at E-7 just down from E-3 on the left. Used to be the cottage I slept in when I first got there.
Art I leave a (distant) "distinct idea in your mind", you don't know me dumbass. What is the big idea. Go on my facebook site look up my friends and you will find several friends from Illinois who were at Elan ask them about me. You folks have had access to this for what 9 months now but no everyone wants to run around saying, "Oh I don't know you, nobody knows you". I have befriended all of you at one point on my facebook site, all of you could have gone through my friends list, most of you found Marty why not the others, because you weren't there with me. Mike O'Neil was staff and you don't even remember him, Anna Goodman was staff, Tracy Robbins, Sean Ohara, all these folks and more were staff in 1978 through 1979. Did you know them Anna Goodman and Alice Dunne were roommates, Diane Hozman ran Elan 7. Do you remember the Elan Mens fast pitch softball team of 1979. I do I was there for a game in June of 1979. Do you remember Tommy Agos and Carmela Cuccaro. Don't tell me I don't know what I am talking about Art. I have so much information I have forgotten more then you'll ever know about Elan.
I am the real deal, my problem here is you folks. You, Felice, Mark, Tim, Sharon, Matt busting my balls from day one. You want answers well I have them but I want a responsible, competent, even tempered, individual to ask me rational questions without being sarcastic. Ya know Art this is a very vulnerable subject and very hard to talk about. So help me to trust you and I will answer any question you want. Just stop telling me I don't know what I am talking about.
It is like a paradox you folks want answers from me and at the times I try, then you throw it back in my face and say I am full of shit. Then you want answers again then the cycle happens again. Well I am ready to stop this circle.
Danny
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So you are claiming to be a victim ? Is that what I am hearing Danny. Everyone is wrong but Danny. Seems I have heard that before.
I dont know what your purpose here is. I have no interest in your FB page. You were bloccked months ago for your part in attacking me with your pals Sharon and Mark. You are as,or more toxic than they are.
Lets be clear... There is no paradox Danny. This is you being in 50 plus threads argueing with people,calling them names,making an ass out of yourself
Just like Mark and Sharon
If you are the "real deal" .. Why does everyone else think different ?
Danny.. The things you say dont add up. They never have since you started posting here
I wont be darkening this board with the truth anymore danny. Feel free to live your delusions,for whatever your personal reasons/goals
I'm just saying
the truth shall set you free
Its a concept that seems un-attainable here within these forums
Best of luck
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Danny Bennison
You stated on page two of this thread:
When Michael finally came back to start his residency and was subjected to the abuse he went through at first I felt he deserved this (I know this is sick on so many levels) because I believed he knew who killed Martha (I still do)
Are you lying about this Danny? Is the right man in jail? Did Michael Skakel really kill Martha Moxley?
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I interviewed TCK about Michael and TCK had this to say:
TCK> Me suh tried very hard to brain wash Michael and convert him to the way of the Kruglik but he suh was too difficult to get into his head, hi yuh yuh yuh. So me suh placed him in corner and told him he suh would be in corner until he gave into the way of the hi yuh yuh. After month past, he suh still would not respect me, hi yuh yuh yuh, so me suh decided to frame Michael and me suh scalped Martha with me suh's tomahawk and then me suh took golf club and attached rubber dicky to it and shoved it way up me suh's ass and danced around fire like mongoloid indian chanting many hi yuh yuh yuh's and masterbate to the great white spirit horse. Me suh will not allow and white mans teen to disrespect me and me suh will go to any length to get revenge on disrepectful white mans teen, hi yuh yuh yuh.
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When is this going to strop......
Sent: 13 minutes ago
From: DannyB II
To: elanasshole
You have to go to every thread and jack it, your not hurting or bothering me your injuring other folks who posted and want to have a responsible talk.
Why don't you come out and tell me who you are so you and I can deal with this. You are so powerful hiding behind your fake name.
Sooner or later they (fornits) will dispense with you because you are a tick sucking off their ass and they will grow tired of you. You don't bring anything to the table, my friend.
Com'on man up and start acting like a grown up, you want to ask me questions fine, lets go to the Elan site and yak, but this stupid shit your doing on all these different threads you feel comfortable with. You enjoy acting like this.
Danny
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Same shit, different day. Doesn't this, among others, belong in the Elan forum (or the drama box more appropriately) instead of shitting all over the other forums?
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Seriously, can't this shit be taken to the Elan forum or the Drama Box? Along with all the other Elan shit that clogs up the other forums? Why the need to put it in Open Free For All?? ::deadhorse::
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Are you done "purging" yourself yet Danny ?
You have been "Purging" yourself for 5 months,through hundreds of posts,in dozens of threads.
They all say the same thing.. NOTHING
I think what people are saying is they are sick of you,and yoru attention seeking antics. Its time to grow up,grow a pair,and leave it alone.
You have done far more harm than good.
WTF is wrong with you ? Do you take medication for this disorder ?
You and Sharon and Mark should have a threesome,and post it on the comedy channel. You are all but the same. Me Me Me
Here's a heads up
Fuck you ! :jerry: :jerry: :jerry: :jerry: :jerry: :jerry: :jerry:
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Seriously, can't this shit be taken to the Elan forum or the Drama Box? Along with all the other Elan shit that clogs up the other forums? Why the need to put it in Open Free For All?? ::deadhorse::
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Who are you talking to Sharon ?
Who do you think the Drama Box was made for ?
Go hug your kids and mind your own business you dizzy bitch
You see.. when YOU start something you cannot finish
Someone always will
Fuckin crybaby/Attention seeker
Are ya 12 ?
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Seriously, can't this shit be taken to the Elan forum or the Drama Box? Along with all the other Elan shit that clogs up the other forums? Why the need to put it in Open Free For All?? ::deadhorse::
agreed
let me correct myself FULLY AGREED ::deadhorse:: ::deadhorse:: ::deadhorse:: ::deadhorse::
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Seriously, can't this shit be taken to the Elan forum or the Drama Box? Along with all the other Elan shit that clogs up the other forums? Why the need to put it in Open Free For All?? ::deadhorse::
agreed
let me correct myself FULLY AGREED ::deadhorse:: ::deadhorse:: ::deadhorse:: ::deadhorse::
Let me correct myself again UTTERLY FULLY MASSIVELY agreed.... ::deadhorse:: ::deadhorse:: ::deadhorse:: ::deadhorse:: ::deadhorse:: ::fullofshit:: ::fullofshit:: ::fullofshit:: ::deadhorse:: ::deadhorse::
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Seriously, can't this shit be taken to the Elan forum or the Drama Box? Along with all the other Elan shit that clogs up the other forums? Why the need to put it in Open Free For All?? ::deadhorse::
agreed
let me correct myself FULLY AGREED ::deadhorse:: ::deadhorse:: ::deadhorse:: ::deadhorse::
Just what 3 weeks ago you facebooked me a friend request for the upteenth time as Morgan Mitchell. You needed friends remember your altered personality Raving Mad told me you were having emotional issues for the hundredth time. You had opened a new site and the book was on the way.
Now since I have had a spat with Matt, Felice and Ginger you are back as Sharon McCarthy being a dip shit. Well that will be fine. Anne seems to have taken to ya so everything should be great in your world.
Always a pleasure hearing from ya Sharon tell all the kids I said hi.
Danny
First lets correct something I do not speak to Ginger or to Felice I am sure they will agree with me there. Second you brought on your own bullshit by your own means. Do not blame anyone but yourself Daniel. Third Matt is more of a man then you will ever be or could even try to be.
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Psycological Shit Spewing Disorder
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Are we "Getting the Big Picture" yet.
Do you know your "rules of the road"
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DUUUUUUDE nobody buys Zoloft.
I wish!
I could get tons of that for free!
Your really out of touch with the street value reality 4 a STEPCRAFTER...... :jawdrop:
Supply and demand Spamlick, Buy low sell high and the customer is always right.
Obviously you are no Business Wizzard. :on phone:
Hell I would not even put you on the corner with a pocket full of crack at this point.
"I traded your crack for Seroquel is that good?" "Duh..." :shamrock: CARTOON CROCH ::OMG::
You are Making the Irish look bad at this point!
Irish are never this stupid or out of touch with reality.
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But many Elan survivors say they’ve suffered lasting psychological scars. In 1975, deep in the heart of the flower-power, bell-bottomed sexual revolution, a team of investigators from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services accused the school of abusing the eleven Illinois residents in its charge. After removing them, the team issued a report detailing “an atmosphere of pervasive fear and suspicion,” in which residents become “automatons.” The report charged Elan with starving its children, forcing them into useless labor, handcuffing them to chairs. Elan’s practices, it concluded, “violate…civil rights and liberties and deprive…children of their self-respect and dignity.” Another 1975 inquiry, by the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services, noted that residents were subjected to “severe humiliation” as well as “painful” punishments, including putting “bullies” in boxing rings to fight other residents (in one case, the bully was a pregnant girl).
That's pathetic.
They must be treated with the psychologists for treatment to avoid a lot of damage on the psycological part of being.
And to avoid a so called Trauma... :waaaa:
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Danny Bennison theme song - It is the gay Indian in my cupboard
http://www.neilrogers.com/sounds/dat001/179.mp3 (http://www.neilrogers.com/sounds/dat001/179.mp3)
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Danny Bennison theme song - It is the gay Indian in my cupboard
http://www.neilrogers.com/sounds/dat001/179.mp3 (http://www.neilrogers.com/sounds/dat001/179.mp3)
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Why don't you unclean heathens show some respect towards Master Danny? :rasta: