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Lester Roloffs Rebekah Home for Girls Survivors-Cult-mindcon
Anonymous:
Yes, when I was there we were all having periods...they were not regular, but that is normal for teenagers anyway. I don't recall anyone saying they were not having one. There was only one girl not getting her period, but it ended up she was pregnant and got sent home. It was her second time in the home. Now, keep in mind, when I was there the home had already been kicked out of Texas and we were in Missouri, I don't know if they had the same resources they had on the farm, as in the form of their "special home grown foods". They did send us some food from the farm but a church there in Kansas City was providing most of our meals for us. I do remember them telling us that these foods were just not as good as what they used to get on the farm. I do know that when the church brought the peanut butter it was not the same as the special peanut butter they made for us there.
Another thing we had a problem with there, we all had little red bumps all over our legs that we scratched like crazy. Some girls worse than others but almost all of us had it. Some girls legs were just big welps of red and bleeding... and we could not stop scratching. Mine were small red bumps around my ankles and calves, we thought it might be an alergic reaction to something, maybe the laundry detergent (the cheapest stuff) we all had to use. But a few girls were able to have their parents send in good detergent and a staff member would give it to them to use on their laundry day, and it made no difference. When I got out I went to the doctor and they could not figure out what it was.. but said their best guess was it was nerves. Said I just had to make the concious decision to stop scratching, try to stay low stress and it would go away. I worked at it, and stopped scratching and it did go away after a couple of weeks. But that is so unusual that we all had the same reaction.. I can't explain that.
I remember a worker there, Miss Maggie... she was a black woman, she only came to Missouri after the Palmers had taken over there and was only there a couple of months before I left, so I didn't get to know her very well, but from what I do remember I did not like her at all. She was mean and cold and played favorites. Her favorite girls got extra snacks and goodies or trips outside, and she made it very clear if she didn't like you.
Kim
Anonymous:
That was her name. She had already gone through the home by the time I got there, but came back from time to time to work. It seem like she may have gone on tour with us one time.
Lori
betty277:
who are the palmers sons?a man named mike palmer could have been one of them?its very important do you know what years it might have been??????anyone its so very important
Anonymous:
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
i have been told by sources that Mike Palmer is son of Micheal Palmer Senior, and i have been informed that Micheal Palmer Sr. was best buddy with Lester Roloff....
also have been informed that Mike Palmer of Jay florida, is a professional photographer...
when i was in rebekah home, about 26 years ago, there was a black haired hippy on the roloff compound, but i remember he took my picture , and it was wierd, it seems to me we were at a SHIPPING DOCK or warehouse....
hum.....
lots of wierd things went round ...
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Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein
Anonymous:
hey found this and will post some in parts...i past in just sections to the article..not the entire article...cause of copywrite laws...
TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT
PRIVATE REFORM SCHOOL FLOURISHES IN FLORIDA
VICTORY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY MOVED TO THE MORE CONSERVATIVE
PANHANDLE AFTER CALIFORNIA TOLD IT TO GET A LICENSE OR CLOSE.
Sunday, February 23, 1997
Section: LOCAL
Page: 9B
Bill Kaczor THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Illustration: B&W photo
Caption: JERRY KOVACH/The Associated Press
Students work silently on their individualized lessons at Victory
Christian Academy in Jay. The private school moved to Florida after California
threatened to shut it down.
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Victory
Christian Academy.
The fundamentalist school for girls moved to Jay, an isolated farming town
in the Panhandle, five years ago from Ramona, Calif., in a cloud of
controversy over its methods and refusal to abide by state regulations.
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Its 76 beds are usually filled and the Rev. Mike
Palmer,
the school's director,
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Victory Christian is one of a growing number of, in effect, private reform
schools, many with religious ties, being established across the nation.
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Palmer, an Independent Baptist minister, closed the Ramona facility rather
than submit to state regulation in 1991, ---------------------
Two years earlier, the former professional photographer had pleaded no
contest to operating an unlicensed community care facility and was placed
on
probation. When he continued operating without a license, authorities
raided
his campus and returned to court in an effort to close him down.
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The California Department of Social Services accused Victory Christian of
punishing girls through solitary confinement in a tiny ``get right'' room,
mishandling prescription drugs and violating fire codes. Officials also
questioned Palmer's practice of isolating new students from their parents.
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The agreement was
for Palmer to get licensed or shut down. -------------
``We as Christians felt that we could not operate under the requirements
of
what Social Services wanted,'' Palmer said.
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California Deputy Attorney General Beth Jacobs, who handled the 1991 case
against Victory Christian, recently said if the school is operating in the
same manner ``it would be a very scary place.''
Palmer said such views are based on erroneous perceptions from the past.
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later'
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