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Nice work Ornery, in getting a response from this guy. Were those his superiors you cc'ed? Most responses others have gotten were even more callous. Looks like your technique worked. Everyone, take notice.

In October I wrote Scott Moreau and got the following reply:
Thank you for expressing your concerns; you are not the first nor will you likely the last. For what it is worth, in the context, I responded to what Sarah (the reporter) asked—which was how often does this come up and whether CT should follow up with a more full story. I have about five or six CT writers asking me such questions on a regular basis and answer them as I have time. I’m not a reporter so I don’t control what they do with my responses.

I thought the Sarah would be eventually writing an article for the print version rather than posting it as a blog with no other quotes. She did ask if she could quote me, and I gave permission, but again I did not know I’d be the only person who was approached and how indifferent the response would sound with no further contexting for what I was actually asked.

The response does make me sound callus, which I am not. However, I’ve found from experience that trying to straighten it out generates a new set of responses and counter responses, and chose not to pursue the matter further. You may have noticed in the posted replies that one person says she e-mailed me and that I sounded to her as though I was not very concerned about it, so I am learning that even responding privately does not guarantee that perceptions of the correspondence will be the same by both parties (how well can we truly perceive something from a few e-mail exchanges when we don’t even know each other?). Because of that experience, I ask that you please not post this nor pass it on to others. Again, not because I don’t care but because I’ve seen that it does not resolve things for any of the victims.

I hope I’m not being too bold but I would expand your statement to say that abuse of any kind should not happen to ANY children, not just to MKs. I KNOW you are not indifferent to non-MK children, but taken from its context your statement could be taken by a reporter and made it look as indifferent as mine did. My point is that you can see how things can be taken from one context and put into another in ways that we never intended in the first place.

good to know. i was forwarded several responses from him that did indeed seem callous.

Do we need to put an APB out for Ornery now???

Good one.

"Sincerely wondering what happened to Jay Cutler and the Bears"

OT: What happened is that THE PACK IS BACK!

Thanks for writing this letter. And the other hundreds. Your perseverance keeps some of us going. We don't really think you would disappear.

Yo! I looked at that link of mill stones! I had no idea!!!

I, for one, am not giving up!
Except for trying to read Portuguese ... not doing so well on that!

Ornery, you're killin' me with the Portuguese!

Maybe I can ask minha cunhada to translate.

She's a Via girl.

"I would venture a guess that it is partly because of the bonds of friendship that built up over time that field leadership/Sanford chose to minimize the crimes, preferring to protect adults while the abused children huddled in the corner."

So true, Ornery!

Tragically, so, so true!

How can ANYONE not be FURIOUS about that?!!!