"Thank you, Lori, for the work you are doing. The current myth that most people want to believe is that this is uncommon. But it is very common and I am well aware of this. My father was a pedophile who sexually abused myself and my brothers and sisters and who belonged to a group of Catholic men, including a doctor, a priest, a photographer, and others who regularly met to drink and sexually abuse children as young as two. I became aware of this only in my late forties when my sister and myself began having nightmares, body memories and then actual memories. I am now 80. Those men are all dead. But…it is still going on. I am now aware that in the next generation in that town, a group of Lutheran men did the same. I am now aware that in that era a group of men from the railroad companies did the same, and I am now aware that back then a group of Catholic priests at a seminary in Milwaukee WI routinely sexually abused the boys there. My late husband was one of them and he then became a sexual abuser, including abuse of at least three of our children and numerous other women. This is not uncommon. It is epidemic. The internet has made it worse but it has always been done. Always. There are two reasons I see why the world doesn’t know of this. First, these men are often very good at secrecy. Second, decent people don’t want to believe this kind of thing happens. It seems too horrible to be real. I’m sure you can see other patterns. Again, thank you for your long and careful and honest work. with kindness and love…" -- Judy Ribbens

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