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Lester Roloffs Rebekah Home for Girls Survivors-Cult-mindcon
Anonymous:
any of you ever heard of a man named michael palmer or brother palmer????? former students of roloff schools say he used to work ther also wiley cameron runs a school in pace florida called new beginings sick huh?
Micks:
Really..I cannot believe I am writing this. I was there in 1976. I was 15 years old, had lost my Mother a year before. Not a good emotional time for me. Unreal that as I sit here at age 43, I find this. I was there-I was beaten by Madame De Sade otherwise known as Mrs. Cameron. If anyone else has taken that same paddle beating by her, had you noticed that eveil almost sexually satisfied gleam she got in her eye by inflicting pain? Or that fat bastard Brother Rick Banion? Anyone ever gotten his little gifts?
I remember and everything posted on here is true. To those of you who remember what went on in that place as a "good experience" I say this-
You were allowed no books
No freedom of worship (or not to worship)
No Newspapers
Cultlike mindless recitation
Physical Abuse (Should you decide that you do indeed have a mind and can use it)
Do you remember???
I have not been too emotionally damaged by my experience there. I actually have grown to become a woman I am happy with. How weird though that I carry this with me all the time.
Anyone else have this with them all the time?
Feel free to contact me.
Anonymous:
Thank you for posting Micks! I was in there 77
it is true!
anyone else out there have "questionable" memories? Those of us who went thru those wierd foggy things, need to have a place to tell and know we are not alone in that, and realize it happened to some others there too, not all of them, obviously, but some
am glad this forum is here!
Anonymous:
Is it true that Mrs. Cameron either went to jail or had a restraining order keeping her away from children under the age of 18? Does anyone know about this?
Micks
Anonymous:
Hi again,
As I said I was there in 1976. My mother had just passed away and I wasn?t doing to well emotionally at home. My concerned but misguided aunt found the Roloff traveling road show and I was sent off to Rebekah. Anyway-I am stronger for it but not because of values that it instilled in me. It taught me at the tender age of 15 what intolerance, hatred, prejudice and zealotry could do. I?ve kept that with me all these years and am much better for it. At age 43, I consider myself happy, healthy and well-adjusted. At 15 though, the evil that men do in God?s name was a confusing proposition for me. I remember after the initial shock (I come from a large urban area) of Rebekah itself I tried my best to adjust. I was a smart kid and I liked to keep informed of the world situation (yes, political even then). I asked for a newspaper-No-No newspapers. How about a book then? Only the Bible you Blue Eyed Devil. (These are my words) Unaccustomed as I was to being without some form of printed matter, I began to read the Bible earnestly. Which of course gave me all kinds of questions-It went something like this-Aunt Neener-If Adam and Eve had Cain and Abel and they populated the world then who did Cain and Abel have children with? Aunt Neener said I was wicked to think such thoughts. I needed faith she said as she went back to sewing costumes for Brother Roloff?s traveling Roadshow. PT Barnum had nothing on him. He had quite a money-making enterprise. ?Mrs. Cameron ? says I about a week later, ?How could one man have possibly gathered on the species on earth on one boat when God flooded the earth?? She hissed (much like the snake) I think. I digress but I did want to frame it up for you. About 5 girls decided that they would tie up old Aunt Neener one night and escape I believe through the office window. I was not involved in the planning nor was I going to escape but when several were caught (2 got away-for a few weeks at least) I was implicated as knowing about it.
Well-Mrs. Cameron finally had a reason to beat me (or give me ?licks? as it was known to us, which is what I am quite sure her thoughts actually ran to). She hit me so hard and so furiously that she broke the paddle and broke a good strong sweat. She also hit me above my buttocks on my lower back which gave me mild incontinence for a good month thereafter. Still I could not be ?saved?. Hmmm?. Anyway-Just a quick idea of who I am. I saw the abuse. I was locked in a darkened room once for 3 days to contemplate my wickedness. I saw the racial prejudice when they roomed the black girls that were there (only 2 as I can recall) together and picked constantly on one of the girls. Handcuffed in fact under a sink in a lock up room for days. I saw this myself. I didn?t just hear of it.
Oh-Then there was the time we had turkey for dinner because 60 Minutes was doing a piece on Roloff. As I recall, I was allowed nowhere near them. Only the shiny happy faces in those red and white Aunt Neener costumes. Anyone else remember any of this or was it a bad trip?
Micks
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