I feel sick to my stomach. If there was a way to call attention to this warning post with flashing lights and a blaring fog horn, I would do it.
I just read IHART's latest update.
I do not currently have time to retype it in full here, so it is imperative that you click here and read it for yourself:
http://www.ihart.care/progress.htmlWARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
If you (or someone you care about) have been a victim of sexual abuse or serious physical or emotional abuse perpetrated by a missionary (or missionaries) in New Tribes Mission, please, please, before you trust IHART to "investigate" this abuse, take the time to read some of the threads here in these Forums!
Learn what IHART is. It is a process of NTM! There is nothing "independent" about it!
Learn what has happened with other investigations IHART has handled! Read the reports, particularly from Panama and Bolivia, so you can get an idea of what the conclusion of such a report looks like:
No abusers named publicly. No specifics on what the consequences might be to the abusers. No way of verifying whether any consequences have actually been dealt out.
I cannot emphasize this enough.
Educate yourself before you entrust your past, your emotions, and your heart to this group of people.
Danger! Danger! Danger!I cannot bear to see anymore MK's re-abused by this farce that is nothing more than a very expensive effort to protect the mission and its assets.
Yes, I feel sick.