New Bethany Home For Boys
The director, larry rapier was arrested for child abuse. New bethany home for girls in arcadia, la., opened in the early 1970s as a religious reform school for, as its founder said, “the.
Ford deposition in child abuse, clergy abuse, independent fundamental baptist, mack ford, new bethany home for boys, new bethany home for girls, sexual abuse on february 6, 2015 at 12:58 am
New bethany home for boys. I was sent to new bethany in 1979.i was there for 10 months.i was beaten ,raped,&tortured by people that worked there and by the man who ran the place his name is mack ford.i would like to know if there is any way to get justice for the crimes that were done to me and hundreds like me.there is a survivors web site i have seen. —one tin soldier by dennis lambert and brian potter as more and more revelations come to light about the treatment of residents of the new bethany home for girls and boys in arcadia and similar homes run by rev. The school was in arcadia la.the police in arcadia saved my life.
A google search of mack+ford+new+bethany will reach more information than most want to know. Abuse by new bethany staff, child sexual abuse, louisiana, mack ford, new bethany home for boys, new bethany home for girls, thelma ford. King's son, douglas, is married to the ford's youngest daughter, penny.
Boys attend public school in glendale. As you can probably imagine, a district judge ruled that the state had no authority to do so. On his second day, he recalls, he watched administrator larry.
Twelve grades are conducted in the old house and the old laundry (beatrice hope). The address is cafety.youthrights.org and it waits for your statement if you believe that your stay at a boarding school included unfair treatment or even abuse. Up to 18 boys, mostly wards of state aged between 2 and 18, lived there.
Bienville parish, jennifer halter, mack ford, new bethany home for boys, new bethany home for girls, rebecca catalanello, rebecca silva, shannon scott, tara cummings. James clark word at the new bethany home (from:youthrights.org) this story was originally written on a webpage created to provide statements for a gao hearing in 2007. He is now rotting in the grave.
In 1982 the new bethany home for boys relocated to south carolina. Bethany boys' home, run by the churches of christ, opened in dover in 1947 and moved to lindisfarne in 1956. Woody jenkins, then a member of the louisiana house of representatives, writes an article for the christian law association newsletter stating that new bethany, which had 250 girls, was not only cleared of charges that girls were abused there.
King currently operates a christian boarding school called king family ministries in danbury, nc. Tom was a gardener for new bethany. The new bethany home for boys news articles from 1984 the plot thickens, the twists continue, and i can imagine quite a bit of hand wringing.
We were told we were whores, jezebels, and drug addicts. From 1971 onwards, the home also accepted girls. New bethany home for boys in longstreet home is relocated to walterboro, s.c.
Survivors of new bethany homes for girls and boys. Npr morning edition story titled finding strength in shared stories of childhood sexual abuse, featuring my friends jo wright and tara cummings:. Netflix has begun its halloween offerings, which include another disturbing season of haunted.
The new bethany school for girls no longer exists, at least by that name. The long road to new bethany and back in child abuse, clergy abuse, independent fundamental baptist, mack ford, new bethany home for girls, sexual abuse on may 16, 2014 at 8:31 pm Ford operated a separate new bethany home for boys in longstreet, louisiana.
Bethany home (sometimes called bethany house or bethany mother and child home) was a residential home in dublin, ireland, mainly for women of the protestant faith, who were convicted of petty theft, prostitution, infanticide, as well as women who were pregnant out of wedlock, and the children of these women.the home was run by evangelical protestants, mainly (up to the 1960s) members of the. Two employees are charged with unlawful neglect of a child and conspiracy to commit unlawful neglect as well as. New bethany home for boys in walterboro, sc.
Mack ford, bethany home for girls, a lester roloff disciple and ritual child abuser. I thought mack ford was talking about someone else. New bethany home for boys & girls began in 1971 and was in trouble with the law by 1974.
Mack ford and wife thelma in other localities, many serious questions remain unanswered. Bethany has its first high school graduation with 3 graduates. Clark word, now 44, was sent there when he was about 15.
The boys move to st. That compound was shuttered in 1981 amid charges of child abuse, and its manager, l.d. Immediately, mack ford opened another boys home in south carolina, that was directed by olen king.
But it was one of an unknown number of homes for “troubled teens” that cater to the independent fundamental baptist. Ford also opened a boys' home in nearby longstreet, la., soon after creating new bethany. Do it in the name of heaven, you can justify it in the end.
After a tragedy, a mother and son created a remarkable home for teen boys. During its many years of operation, it was closed down by the state for abuse once in louisiana, at the boys home longstreet location. Bethany home houses boys in a cottage on the site of the present st.
A scene from haunted season 2 involving torture in new bethany home for boys. All kids got the same harsh religious rhetoric. The new bethany homes for boys and girls opened in 1969.
As a foster mother, sandra offers love, support, and hope for their future, driven by the believe that everyone deserves a place to belong.
