I know that the homes were abusing and torturing people, and to read some of the responses from girls saying it didn't happen I am sickened. Nobody from 85-86 dare say that they weren't abusive, because when the diabetic girl went in to diabetic shock and Mrs. Barrett thought she was faking, she almost died, if a staff member had not gotten her help she would have. We were forced to sit in the hall for hours and listen to a long winded but not heartfelt apology out of that woman. Nightime meds were given to anyone who they thought posed a threat, and I have no idea what they gave us. I had to take them for a month after I came back from my visit. I also didn't have periods while I was there, and never have been regular since, though it did not keep me from getting pregnant. I was made to kneel on pencils for over 8 hours in a bathtub during the first week back from my visit. Mrs. Barrett stayed all night in our room that night. If I tried to rest back on my heals, she hit me.
For those who think the nameless here are not telling the truth, my name is my screenname, I was beaten until I bled, I was put in lock-up, I was tortured, I was personnally accused of witchcraft. Yes, I had been a wild child prior to Rebekah, because of trying to cope with childhood sexual abuse. I was guilty of self medication also, but when your father is a babyraping baptist preacher these things happen. I did not hate Roloff for taking away my freedom, I hated them for saying I deserved what had happened to me. Mrs. Barrett has the heart of a rattlesnake, and is just as venomous. Bro. Barrett was a perv and a bully. Mrs. Cameron should have been a Nazi soldier in another lifetime, and Wiley was a wolf in sheeps clothing. I know this sounds like a lot of bitterness for something that happened twenty years ago, but how long is the appropriate amount of time for righteous indignation at child abuse? I will get over it when they are all in hell with private little demons using the "board of education" on them.
