...When the Attorney General of Texas told parents that he was going to shut the girls residence down, parents demanded the remainder of their money back from Roloff Homes and their children returned to them. The parents had signed contracts with Lester Roloff for their children's care and not all the payments had been paid. Thus when the order came through from the Texas AG that he would not force the parents to pay what was still due on the contracts - there was a show down. Lester Roloff claimed that these were legally binding contracts and he deserved to be paid the full amount even in the face of being shut down for child abuse by the Texas AG. .....
As for the reason for Roloff's resistance to licensing and inspection - this facility took girls who were pregnant or whose families thought they would become pregnant. ...
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This information is not backed up nor is it accurate. It shows a glaring oversight of things that were going on. Parents were not contacted nor told by the Texas AG, nor did parents demand their kids, nor did Lester Roloff go around demanding money so called contracted to him by parents. Lester Roloff had PLENTY of other ways and methods to have his millions without needing to do that. A lot of girls in the Rebekah Girls home were there whose parents paid paltry sums of 50 dollars a month or none at all, a lot of Rebekah girls were dumped by their parents there and left there for years with no accounting for this abandonment. Some of the Rebekah girls came from very wealthy families whose parents paid far more than the charity cases. Roloff had his own methods of gaining his millions and a lot of it had to do with churches that supported him and a general public obtuseness in the Bible Belt whom thought if it looked good it must be good.
Most of the girls in the Rebekah Home did NOT have pregnancies, and they were abuse victims from their family of origins, having been molested and raped by male family members and then canned in the Home for being a prostitute, which is a henious evil against their life and character, the idea that Roloff promoted that the girls were all witches or prostitutes shows a gross distortion of an extremist fundamentalist who did not know a thing about how to really help broken young ladies. One girl was raped by a male relative and impregnated by him and dumped off at Roloffs girls home and left for years. Most of the Girls were survivors of sexual crimes from family members and were dumped into this place and Roloffs statements against them were slanderous against their integrity to just survive in a world of abusive family members. Roloff painted all the girls as the most reprobate of the world, the ones no one else could help, the ones that were 'incorrigible'. Sorry, but Roloff was wrong, the girls were normal girls who had some very abusive family of origins, who needed counsel and were denied it, who needed to know that the abuse they had gone through in their family was a crime and evil, and instead were slandered across the nation by Roloff and Camerons and others, and who were indoctrinated with ideas that made them all out to be the bad guys, and the family of origins were the good pure white guys. Sorry, but this is evil. The biggest evil is that which masks itself as angels of light.
Roloff had good reason to keep them out of the girls and boys home. If child care workers who really cared for the reality the children were going through, got a chance to help these kids, the whistleblowing that would have occurred would have been great. What went on behind closed doors and the closed doors behind those closed doors and the next level of closed doors behind that level of closed doors had come to light, many lives that are now dead might have been salvaged and saved and brought forward to live a life of dignity and value.
My suggestion is for you or anyone to go and immerse yourself into the mind of Lester Roloff and learn how he saw things, and learn how he experienced himself to the world around him, and gain insight into his reasoning. Learning that, will show that Roloff would never have fought for some contractual monies parents supposedly signed, which I have never heard of before. Maybe they did it in the 80's under Camerons and Barretts, but when Lester was alive and in charge, i do not believe this happened.
The mentality of extremists fundamentalists is oxymoron in nature, they doublespeak and the meanings of words and ideas are not the meanings of those on the outside of the cult world.
They truly were extreme patriotic and at the same time truly, sincerely anti-government. Double speak in his language could be seen in his stance on Separation of Church and State and yet he credited himself as having won votes for Clements, by his ministry pulpit. Doublespeak.