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In Reply to: Sarah Davidito wants to apologize posted by in the know (reposted) on February 16, 2004 at 17:32:29:
It sounds to me that she specifically asked you to share the address with those interested in corresponding with her regarding "past abuses." Presumably, she is well aware of the risks inherent in providing her mailing address to a group of people who know of her past yet she still asked you to share her P.O. box address. I don't think it is your responsibility to worry about whether it will be an "an avenue for people to go after her jugular" when she seems to be comfortable with the idea of people having her semi-anonymous P.O. box address. It would be an entirely different matter if you were to post her street address or home phone number *without* her permission. In this case however, it seems you have her explicit permission and request to post it.
I certainly would be interested in hearing what she thinks now about her childcare manual and its effects on a generation of children whose parents followed its instructions and examples religiously. My mother certainly followed it and I'm sure that it played a major role in convincing her to that it was her responsibility to sexually initiate and abuse her own children. My mother dropped out of a very conservative Christian college to join the COG and there was nothing in her background to suggest that she had an predisposition towards child abuse, incest and pedophillia. She learned it in the TF and Sarah's childcare manual provided some rather explicit instructions. In the last several years of her life, my mother was wracked by an enourmous and consuming guilt over what she had done to her children. I wonder if Sara D. also felt any remorse or guilt for the consequences of her own actions and her role in producing a child abuse howto manual.
