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Erinys:
I grew up in FL. hated it then and now...
Never been to Utah but I'm suspicious.

Check this out!
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/04/family ... index.html
"One commentator pointed out that when the mafia commits violence, no
one suggests we bomb Sicily.  Today it seems we are, in a symbolic way, not only bombing "Sicily," but are thinking about bombing "Athens" (Iraq)."

Ron Paul, 11/29/01 Speech before Congress
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Antigen:
Bingo!

"The couple moved to Beverly Hills in August. Before then, they lived in Tennessee with the seven children and apparently ran a small school in the Knoxville area."


The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
-- John Adams, (1772)

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Erinys:
Perhaps I should send a clip of this story to:

Fr. Thomas Joseph
St. Nicholas Church
PO Box 41350
St. Petersburg, FL 33743

with a suggestion that  since his associate Fr. Cassian has so much in common with these two, he may want to visit the Dollars and provide some spiritual counseling.

But that would be mean.
The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.
--Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President
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jjpinks:
I grew up in Sarasota and it was a shithole then. I shudder to think what it is like now.

Sorry to anyone that may still live there, but I got the hell out of that place and haven't been back in a LONG time.

N

Erinys:
The name of the school in TN was Mountain View Christian Academy.

http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=2903844
February 4, 2005

By CATHARYN CAMPBELL
6 News Reporter

KNOX COUNTY (WATE) -- 6 News on Friday found people who knew John and Linda Dollar, a couple wanted on child abuse charges in Florida when they lived in Knox County, where they ran a private school.

One woman tells 6 News the kids who were apparently abused were schooled by Linda.

In East Knox County, a home that was formerly Mountain View Christian Academy was owned and run by the Dollars.

According to Paula Spradlin, in 1998 her son went to Mountain View for a semester. She says the seven children taken from the Dollars' custody also attended.

"They were, you know, adopted and they'd come from different homes and they'd come from abusive homes or neglect and that's why they had adopted them."

Spradlin says Linda Dollar told her she was a certified teacher. She also says the home where classes were held was well equipped for children, with smoke detectors, fire alarms and a security system to help keep students safe.

The house had several rooms and Spradlin says the children involved in the case didn't attend class with other students. "There was like five of them that stayed together in a room. She taught them by herself. they didn't mingle in with the rest of the group."

The Dollars lived with the children in a home in Kodak. They moved to Florida nearly six years ago.

Spradlin says she never noticed any signs of abuse. "Supposedly, it was happening then too but it was in the fall and winter and they always had long clothes on so I couldn't see anything."

Spradlin says the Dollars seemed to be very religious and she never suspected they would hurt a child. "Not the way they talked about God and church and their faith."

Officials say due to privacy regulations, they can't explain why the Dollars have custody of the children.

Representatives from the state Department of Children's Services say the couple was never investigated while they lived in Tennessee.

Local law enforcement agencies say they continue to keep an eye out for the Dollars.



Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
--Francois Marie Arouet "Voltaire", French author and playwright
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