Day 162. Survivors found: 2
Courtesy of AP | ED ANDRIESKI
This is Connell Watkins, photographed while arriving at district court in Golden, Colorado on April 16, 2001.
As you can see, there is nothing particularly out of the ordinary about her. She is neither deformed nor striking in any sense. Black pools of hellfire do not emanate [...]
Day 160. Survivors found: 2
Hello darkness, my old friend.
I’m back from faraway lands… Can you guess where?
This “traveling for leisure” is a new thing to me. I think I’m finally getting the hang of it though, seeing its appeal beyond the patina of worldliness you immediately acquire if you’ve been overseas a lot.
The time abroad [...]
DAY 114. Survivors found: 2
The abridged transcript of 10-year old Candace Newmaker’s last session with attachment therapists Connell Watkins and Julie Ponder (aided by Candace’s foster mother Jeane) is public record.
The two therapists, who operated out of Watkins’ Evergreen, Colorado, home, labeled their treatment of Candace as “rebirthing,” though it was in actuality merely a [...]
DAY 65. Fellow survivors found: 2
And so it goes, on and on and on…
9-year old “reactive attachment disordered” boy abused and starved to death by adoptive parents
From the article:
Donna and Samuel Merryman were each sentenced to 22 years in prison Thursday for the 2005 starvation death of their 9-year-old adopted son, Dennis. The Whiteford couple [...]
Somewhere out there exist veritable libraries of videotapes, on which you will see children screaming and crying for help as they are tortured and humiliated at the hands of their therapists.
Assuming, of course, that they haven’t already been destroyed. Many attachment therapists have fled their states to avoid prosecution and have “lost” or taken their [...]