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Facility Question and Answers / Re: Ruth Home of Compassion
« on: November 30, 2010, 03:43:33 PM »
This is for 'scottnsunny'.  Thanks for pointing out that you are their grandchild.  Of course you would not have been treated the same way we were.  'Aunt Dot' was never the same person when others were around.   She was even a little nicer when 'Uncle Bert' was there.  She had her picks, and if you don't remember Tika being one of them you  are having memory issues.  In case YOU don't remember, Susie lost her good standing with 'Aunt Dot'.  She was so afraid she would be treated like some of the rest of us she slit her both arms repeatedly from wrist to elbow with a pair of scissors...horrible, very deep gashes...and was NEVER taken to the doctor.  Good Old Colleen patched her up.  Or what about the girl  (I won't share her name) who drank the Draino, trying to commit suicide?  What about the little diabetic girl who snuck into the M&M's, knowing they could kill her (she received insulin injections daily form Colleen), and went into a coma?  They HAD to take her to the hospital or risk her death.  Lots of girls in there tried suicide, and many more wanted to.
From what I can gather, they got closed down  in Rome around 1980 and moved to Calhoun.  And they may not have been horrible to you, and 'Aunt Dot' may get letters from other girls who were her 'picks', but YOU WERE NOT ONE OF US.  YOU DON"T KNOW WHAT SHE DID TO US.  And by the way, I was neither pregnant nor a drug addict when I showed up there at 12 years old.  I was a runaway.  My home life was rough.  And being there made things worse.  You may not have been taught God was sitting on ready to destroy you if you blinked wrong, BUT WE WERE.  So don't tell me what they were like to us.  However they treated you is YOUR business.  How they treated me and the other girls is mine.

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Facility Question and Answers / Re: Ruth Home of Compassion
« on: August 21, 2010, 10:07:54 AM »
As I said, the Ruth Home of Compassion was at least open until 1985 when I left there.  'Aunt Dot and Uncle Bert' may have had legal trouble in 1983, but not to the point it was closed that year.  The girls who were there when i got there were Susie and Tika, Aunt Dot's right and left arms, and many others.  Here are the ones I remember: Lorraine, two named Kathy (or Cathy), Samantha and that's about all I can remember.  Of course, Colleen lived in the house next to the 'home'.  
I remember Samantha well.  And Susie, as she was mannered very much like a pit bull, and given free reign to cause us agony.
The girls who went there were, for the most part, broken before they ever showed up at the door.  But being there had a way of making one's spirit crumble because of the treatment.  Once I left, I had nightmares for months, waking up in horror, thinking I was still there.  It was a confinement not only from the outside world, but a prison of fear.  Not allowed to talk to each other except 'yes maam' to the group leader, not allowed to shower except once a week, three squares of toilet paper for 'number 1', six squares of toilet paper for 'number 2'. Timed showers (was it two or three minutes?), on our knees sweeping or scrubbing carpet, not allowed to eat on Wednesdays, having to eat cereal with weevils in it or get beat,  and forced to go into God's house, of all places and pretend things were fine.  
Who could forget the lie we had to sing?  "I'm glad to be a Ruth HOme Girl, there's no other I'd rather be, living a life for Jesus, with my happy family, we are taught about the Bible, cause we know that's the only way, So I'm glad to be at the Ruth Home today....."
Now let me emphasize here....God is Holy, Sovreign, Creator, Ruler, AND God is love, something we were NEVER taught there.  God loved each one of us before we were born, and loves us still.  Why did He allow those people to hurt and abuse us? I don't know.  But He LOVES us Ruth Home Girls.

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Facility Question and Answers / Re: Ruth Home of Compassion
« on: August 20, 2010, 09:57:08 PM »
I was at the Ruth home of compassion from 1983 (Dec.) until 1985 (spring).  The home was open at least until then.  I found out it had closed in the year or so after I left.  The most important thing I learned since leaving there was that God is not at all how they portrayed Him.  He's not some big meanie waiting to stomp us like a bug.  He truly does love us.  The one good thing I took away from that place was a knowledge of His Word.

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