Evelyn Hockstein/ReutersSurvivors of alleged childhood abuse inside a secretive Christian group have expressed concerns about the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett’s father to a new role in the sect, reportedly fearing that he might try to prevent disclosures being made about the group’s historic handling of sexual abuse. Both the Supreme Court justice and her dad, Michael Coney, are members of People of Praise, a Christian community that ex-members have likened to a cult and which has been accus
long silence. you know everything? an extraordinary conversation at the time, even more so in hindsight. as we spoke, the police were searching for evidence at his father s house in puyallup, washington. josh seemed confident they wouldn t find anything. well according to my attorney, the less they have won a person the more they basically harass a person. so what you re suggesting is that they were trying to rattle your cage? it would seem. are you rattled? i m pretty pissed off. josh claimed he knew things about susan s childhood that her parents were hiding. susan s adult behavior, or at least stevens lewd suggestion of her behavior, claimed josh were the result of childhood abuse, an allegation the coxes dismiss as ridiculous. i ve known about things that she has told me about while she was growing up. you think that is the reason why, according to your father at least, she would come on to him?
it s going to take time. i would say that i understand. like i see her. i see her in the way that she was not an evil woman, she was not monster, she was just a sick woman. she would have needed a lot of mental health care. i see her for who she is now or who she was. that s what gypsy said when i asked her what she would tell her mother if she were still here today. this is really an unbelievable story and since gypsy has been released from prison, just about a week ago, she has over 6 million instagram followers. she has really become infamous and now famous for this story. when i asked her what she would like to do with this new found platform, she says she wants to lean into her advocacy. she knows that there are other victims of childhood abuse out there and she does not want them to end up making the same
who she was. jake, gypsy rose has amassed over 6 million followers since her release just one week ago, and she tells me that with her newfound platform she is hoping to help others who are experiencing childhood abuse. jake. all right, elizabeth wagmeister, ththank you fofor t rereport. wewe will be r right back.k. to duckduckgo on all your devie
Spain’s first official probe of sex abuse by clergy members or other people connected to the Catholic Church in the country included a survey that indicated that the number of victims could run into hundreds of thousands. The survey was part of a damning report by the office of Spain’s ombudsman, or “defensor del pueblo,” following an 18-month independent investigation of 487 cases involving alleged victims who spoke with the ombudsman’s team. Ombudsman Ángel Gabilondo criticized the church’s response to sex abuse scandals, saying it had often been to minimize if not deny the problem.