Some Thoughts
16/10/08 22:40
When and Why?
As I read Wayne Bent’s ”Mentally Challenged” 43 page
letter, I thought “WOW”
ALL the
name-calling and 4 letter words, he must be full of
resentment. All the things that he accuses me of, I
think he must be looking in a mirror. I felt sorry
for him. He says that he wouldn’t go hurt anyone.
Well, it is too late for that. Wayne has hurt many
people.
I want to address a few things that he talked about I
will keep this as short as possible:
I will address the first subject with a
question. If you quit
eating on purpose, and you die, is that
suicide? I remember when he fasted
till he walked through the prison walls. Jeff was
boasting about not paying the bail one day, the next
day he runs down there with the $55,000 to bail him
out.
Wayne talks about how respectful they are. I have
NEVER seen a bunch of people in my life that are SO
disrespectful and unreliable. They try to covers up
their disrespect by pretending to care for you and,
saying sir and ma'am. Through the years I often
wondered about some of the things that “we” would do
as a group. We would start a job, and Wayne would
call a meeting and off we would run. Then we would
say, “I warned them that I might not be able to
finish the job, Oh Well!” It is not uncommon for them
to make fun of and laugh at anyone less fortunate
than himself or herself. I have watched and
participated in these things, I am truly sorry, and
my heart didn’t feel right about it.
Wayne boasts about how he loves and understands
everyone… and especially the parents. Wayne has NO
IDEA what the parents are feeling. He said that the
parents abandoned the children there. I will only
make one point here. Two of the children were going
to see their grandparents for a short time, and Rick
Bergman picked them up. He took them to NM, and they
were supposed to come home to their mother after
their visit. BUT Rick wrote a blackmail letter to the
mother, and told her that if she didn’t leave them
there he was going to cause her some trouble. Oh, and
not buying oranges is child abuse? Wayne thinks it
is.
They make big deals about people changing their phone
numbers and not telling them. BUT when Pam asked for
a phone number to reach her son “Matthew” when he
lived at Strong City, the response she got from Jeff
was something like, “Why don’t you go down to the
phone company and order him a phone and pay for it
then you can call him whenever you want, and why your
at it… order everyone else one too. (That is Jeff at
his best) They don’t think about anyone else except
themselves. Oh, and Wayne said that he allowed them
to contact their mother anytime they wanted. That is
why “Matthew” was always emailing his mother begging
her for phone cards so he could call her. When she
has free long distance and could call him at no extra
charge. Once in awhile he would use his grandma’s
calling card that was bought by her “heathen”
daughter.
Wayne said, “The beast
would be utterly embarrassed if it only knew how
little I care about its authority.” For some reason,
I don’t think anyone is surprised at how little Wayne
cares for authority.
Wayne also talks about how he takes care of everyone
so well out of the “common pot” Is that why Judy
Halstead’s teeth are rotting out of her head?
Why did Prudence leave? When did she make up her mind
to leave? What was the catalyst that led her to call
the State Police?
It was in the fall, and there was a meeting called
one Friday night. We lived in Raton NM. It was about
75 miles from Strong City. We had not gone to many
meetings since it had been suggested that the
families with evil kids leave. We rushed out there.
It was supposed to be some sort of a camp meeting. It
was traditional that you drop whatever your doing and
run to meetings. I remember the look on my mother's
face when she saw me that night... The look was “oh
you made it your going to be saved after all” We had
a couple of people invite us to stay at their house;
I just wanted to go home. We didn’t know that it was
going to be a series of meetings that would last
several days…. And we were not prepared. We went home
and came back the next day.
I was standing on the front porch of the main ranch
house. I could hear “Esther” in the kitchen talking
to someone. She said, “I don’t know what is the
matter with the Welch family, the kids are always
getting hurt. I walked in and asked if my ears were
burning. She did some back peddling. It kind of
surprised me, because she was ALWAYS getting hurt.
Then I was sitting out on the Rock Wall eating my
lunch. When Tonda (Matthew’s sister) came up to me
and started telling me something about my family that
wasn’t even correct. I asked her where she got her
information. She said Esther.
We went home that day after the last meeting. I
started feeling all stressed out. The next day there
was more meetings. I decided I wasn’t going. I told
Jim, “I am not doing this anymore” So that was the
last meeting I was at. That was
a couple MONTHS
before I got a
divorce. Several
MONTHS
after
my divorce, I got a
boyfriend. I don't think that one boyfriend makes you
a whore
10 months after I left (Aug 2006), I was forwarded an
email that Wayne had sent out. In it he was trying to
make everyone guess what the newest vision was. I
knew immediately what he wanted to know. I was really
surprised that only 20 of them “got it” He was
planning on having sex (consummating) with the
virgins. Everyone was supposed to go talk to him and
tell him that. I was laying on my bed thinking about
it wondering why no one was doing anything about it.
It came to me that I was the one to do something. So
I called the State Police. I wasn’t angry, NO ONE had
said anything about my EVIL lifestyle. I had not been
called a Whore yet. I hadn’t even gotten an email
from Wayne since I had left. (Dec. 2005) I felt that
what he was doing was wrong and I wasn’t going to sit
back and not say something. I NEVER denied that.
After I called the State Police Wayne got ANGRY with
my sister for emailing me the letter he had emailed
out. AFTER that he started hammering me in letters
that he would send to people. (NOT TO ME) Then in
July 2007 I started a website that had His Virgin’s
Testimonies on it. It grew from there. After I
started my website, he started emailing me
manipulating letters. He was trying to control me by
his words, but since he didn’t have control over me
anymore… it didn’t do any good.
So my point is. Wayne said I was offended because
they were condemning my lifestyle… That wasn’t even
true. If they were condemning my lifestyle, it was
behind my back. The truth is Wayne got offended
because I called the state police when he started
laying naked with underage girls, then I started a
website publishing some things that he really hadn’t
made public yet. He knew he had done some REALLY
wrong things. So NOW he is trying to make me look bad
so he can look good…. Which he hasn’t been successful
yet!
So know you know the when and why I left. I did go
into detail about my personal life on my forum for
those that are interested.
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