Criminal Predators in the AA rooms (and rehabs)

Many former AA members believe that the statue of limitations has expired on the predatory actions they have seen or heard about in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous. This is not the case and there are many resources available, which can be seen by the arrest and conviction of Alcoholics Anonymous member William Beebe, 22 years after the crime was committed upon Liz Seccuro when he started to stalk her and turn her world upside down.

Liz Seccuro is an activist and would be a good resource to contact and can be found at: http://www.lizseccuro.com/

It was late summer 2005 and we were about to set out on an extended vacation with our two-year-old daughter, Ava. "Hey, you got a letter," said my husband Mike, tossing it to me like a Frisbee. It smelled faintly of vanilla, nice paper. I ripped it open and began to read the very precise, almost feminine cursive script.

Dear Elizabeth:

In October 1984 I harmed you. I can scarcely begin to understand the degree to which, in your eyes, my behaviour has affected you in its wake. Still, I stand prepared to hear from you about just how, and in what ways you've been affected; and to begin to set right the wrong I've done, in any way you see fit. Most sincerely yours, Will Beebe

In 1984, I arrived, like any other student, at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. An only child, I was the first in my family to attend college. My parents were thrilled, although the university was far from our home town, a suburb of New York City. I had graduated top of my high school class and was prepared to make something great of myself. But those hopes and dreams were dashed about five weeks later.

Read the rest: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/apr/30/rape-justice-after-20-years

Liz Seccuro also has a blog where she investigates current issues at: http://www.lizseccuro.com/blog/

Statute of limitations, which has nothing to do with this case. He admitted to it and had a willing victim to move forward with her options. Even then, she didn't feel that he got enough. The more I read about it, the more I felt for him and that he was ill advised to ever make contact with her. There is a part of the amends that says unless it would cause harm to them or others. And remember too that just because a person says something in the room, you need the cooperation of the victim.

I've never understood why this woman didn't prosecute at the time. She knew who he was, where he could be located, and she wasn't limited to campus security. I've always had mixed feelings about this case for both parties.

Ex-Supervisor at Teen Rehab Center Allegedly Raped Patient
Published November 21, 2008
The story of repeated rape at an Alcohol and Drug Rehab.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,456184,00.html

Scott Greening Dependency Center
1315 East 20th Street
Joplin, MO

Joplin's Scott Greening Center changes hands sray
Updated: 2009-09-25 11:19:23
Preferred Family Healthcare (PFH) acquired the Scott Greening Center, also known as Youth Dependency Inc., and will take over operations effective October 1, 2009. The center located at 1315 East 20th St. in Joplin provides outpatient, day and residential treatment for adolescents ages 12-17 with substance abuse and co-occurring mental health issues.

As part of their treatment, youth in the program provide community service and participate in A.R.T.C., (Achieving Recovery Through Creativity), a creative arts program recognized by First Lady Barbara Bush in 2007 for exemplifying her “Helping America’s Youth” initiative.

Preferred Family Healthcare, a not-for-profit agency, has served Missouri citizens for three decades, providing mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment services for both adults and adolescents throughout Missouri, and more recently in Texas and Kansas. PFH is nationally accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities. Services are funded by state grants, Medicaid, private insurance or private pay. This is the second Scott Greening facility purchased by Preferred Family Healthcare; the first in Kansas City in 2003. Mike Schwend is president and CEO.

Source: http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/sray1253899163

Notice the dates..... coincidence?

David Scratchley, 12 Step Councilor arrested for rape of 10 year old September 2011.

Video: David Scratchley, 'Child Safety' Expert Accused of Attempting to Rape 10-Year-Old, Says Addicts Are 'Sick'

By Nina Shapiro Wed., Sep. 7 2011 at 4:58 PM

UPDATE: Scratchley was charged today with attempted rape of a child in the first degree and communication with a minor for immoral purposes. He is being held in the King County Jail on $1 million bail, and will be arraigned on September 21.

It's not hard to get a sense of David Scratchley's personality--at least the one he presented to the world. The drug-treatment manager, arrested on Friday for investigation of attempted child rape, is all over the web.

The 52-year-old Scratchley (shown in the above picture) has posted a series of videos of himself holding forth on a number of topics--among them "power parenting" and "treatment options for addicted teens," subjects that he has also addressed in books. (See typical video below.)

So what do we learn from his online presentations? Mostly, that if Scratchley had a dark side, it was buried beneath an exceedingly bland persona. The 52-year-old, looking his age with a slightly receding hairline, goes through his material in a droning voice. After introducing himself as "Dr. David Scratchley, a psychologist working in Seattle, Washington," he cuts to PowerPoint presentations and invites viewers to follow along on a couple of his websites (www.drugseminars.net is one).

The topics of his expertise are ironic, of course, given the allegations against him. The man who is suspected of attempting to sexually assault a 10-year-old boy is frequently described, in various online bios of him, as a "child safety" expert. And, despite his work treating addiction, a woman who told police she was having a relationship with Scratchley said they got high on crack together

Read more (especially the comments): http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2011/09/video_david_scratchley_...

In a very sick case of torture in 2011, a Toronto, Canada man befriended another man in Alcoholics Anonymous and let him move into his home, something done often in the cult of Alcoholics Anonymous. AA member John Michael Siscoe took over the home of his victim and his wife, locked him in a closet, tortured him, blocking him off from outside contact. Siscoe was active in AA and even wanted to start a "sober home", but it wasn't the close members of AA, it was patrons at a local bar that realized something was wrong... How could this be? Were they practicing the "anonymity" clause of the cult of Alcoholics Anonymous and looking the other way?

Torture victim tells of 3-month ordeal in Toronto apartment

By Fong, Petti January 15, 2012

VANCOUVER — He says his name, his real name, almost defiantly, proud that this, at least, has not been taken from him.

Not the nickname he was called by his torturers over the months he was kept in captivity, sleeping in a tiny closet, beaten to the point where every time the blood splattered on the walls, he was surprised at the sight.

“I didn't know I had any blood left,” he says. “I didn't know there was any more way they could hurt me and cause me pain.”

He is a victim, he was tortured and he survived one of the most shocking crimes to be heard in a Toronto court.

He can name the man, John Michael Siscoe, who did this to him but he cannot name his other captor, his wife. A court ban protects his identity but in doing so, it also protects her. He wishes he could go public.

“What happened to me happened because it was behind closed doors and most people who knew or heard something didn't speak up. Only a few people were willing to say something,” he says. “If they hadn't, I would still be there, in that closet. Or I would be dead.”

The man described exclusively to the Star the three months in which he was brutally tortured, physically, sexually and psychologically.

His wife and Siscoe pleaded guilty in Ontario Superior Court last week to a series of charges, including endangering a life and sexual assault causing bodily harm, from Oct. 31, 2009, until police rescued the man from the one-bedroom west-end Toronto apartment on Jan. 19, 2010.

He spoke in the rec room of the apartment building where he now lives in a Vancouver suburb.

The complex includes three other buildings, adjoined by hallways and linked by shared weight rooms, laundry facilities and game rooms.

He is aware of the time to the minute when doors are automatically and systematically locked in the public spaces and which door locks behind him when he passes through to go outside for a smoke. That he has the access codes to unlock the doors is a point of pride for him.

There is a wariness now about people where before, his current girlfriend remembers, the man she knew was always friendly, always willing to help anyone, with nothing unkind to say about anyone. But now he trusts no one and while he's still so angry at his wife and Siscoe that his hands clench reflexively when their names are brought up, he simply wants to move on.

“I just don't want to know them anymore,” he says when asked whether he plans to divorce the woman he married in 2005 in their former hometown in B.C's Fraser Valley.

They lived off the modest income he earned as a small engine mechanic and a disability allowance from the government.

But three years into their marriage, the man’s wife began an affair with Siscoe, allowing him to move into their apartment and relegating the man to a couch in his own home. In the fall of 2009, when his wife was pregnant with Siscoe’s baby, the three of them moved to Toronto and began living in a similar arrangement in a basement apartment.

A month after their move, the beatings began.

His girlfriend today, who first met him in 2004 at a Christian gathering, says when she saw him again after his return to the west coast in late January 2010, she hardly recognized him.

“Everything about him had changed, from the way he walked to the way he talks. He's not that person I knew back then, he's changed in almost every way,” she says.

His own mother didn’t recognize him. She walked by him three times at the airport when she went to pick him up after his release from hospital in Toronto.

“He was all shrunk up,” she says during an interview at her home about 45 minutes away from where her son now lives. She demonstrates, hunching her body into a curve, hands tucked low against her side. “This was the way he looked. Half his size. Afraid. I think he thought he would be hit again even though he was back home.”

His mother doesn't want to know the details of what her son endured and his girlfriend says she listens when he wants to talk about it, which is rarely.

Only recently has he been able to sleep without an overhead light on but still insists on a light being visible somewhere, whether as a night light or in a hallway. When he’s in the shower he wants his girlfriend in the couple’s tiny bathroom with him for security.

According to the agreed statement of facts presented in court, the man was forced to sit naked in a bathtub while Siscoe poured lighter fluid on his body, then set him on fire. Siscoe also used hairspray, aftershave and rubbing alcohol as accelerants.

“Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about,” Siscoe would tell the victim. His wife would shout “Shut up” when he screamed loudly, worried police or social services would come and take the unborn baby away if anyone learned about the abuse.

The tiny closet he was forced to sleep in was so dark that pitch darkness still makes him scream. But he has made progress.

Just last month, he turned off the lights in a room, did a mock scream and then quickly turned the lights back on.

“I even laughed about it. But I can still feel that I get totally freaked out when someone accidentally turns off the light,” he says. “I'll try it again sometime. I know I won't be able to do it ever in the washroom.”

He had quit drinking in 2004 but began again during the three months he was in captivity, the better to cope with the pain of being sliced with razor blades and pierced with pins through his lips to seal his mouth.

Oozing wounds were cauterized with hot knives or sewn with a needle and thread. Cartilage was ripped from his ears with a pair of pliers.

He believes at least once, drugs were mixed in with his soup to keep him from screaming in pain. This was after he was kicked with steel-toed boots, which were later recovered by the police with blood stains on them.

He says he has not consumed any alcohol since being rescued.

It was the agonizing pain and the desperate attempts to do whatever he had to do to keep from getting beaten again that has left him fuzzy about the time he was in the apartment. He was forced to fill out forms with headers such as “To do what it takes to not be stupid” and “To do what I have to do to stay alive.” He endured more beatings when his captors put an X next to boxes along the side to indicate he hadn’t done the right thing.

“They looked for any reason to start again. It felt like it never ended,” he says. He knows now, thinking about the measurements objectively, that Siscoe wasn't much bigger than he was, but the victim, who says he was always “a lover not a fighter,” felt physically threatened by the other man who knew martial arts.

Yet despite the pain inflicted on him, there was something else that he never anticipated: humiliation.

Once, he vaguely remembers someone else coming to the apartment, a woman, and he was called out of the closet by Siscoe.

“Embarrassed,” he says when asked what it was like to emerge from a closet wearing only a towel and being paraded in front of a stranger in the apartment. “Embarrassed and just felt humiliated, like nothing. Even then, I thought, it was like this was a movie. A movie that couldn't be real.”

Asked if he thought about asking her for help, the man looks uncertain. “I couldn't ask anyone for help. I prayed someone would come and find me but I didn't know if that would change anything.”

The woman reported that she saw the victim with his skin so purple and black from the beatings that she didn't know his race. She grabbed her daughter and left and he went back into the closet.

If she could leave, why couldn't he? Again, the victim thinks about this for a second. The bruises are gone but the scars remain all over his body, white healed marks so numerous they have become part of the texture of his skin, on his arms and legs and the rest of his torso.

“John said if I left, he would find me and kill me. If he couldn't find me, he would go find my parents and do to them what he was doing to me,” he says. “Those were his words. That what he was doing to me, he would do to them. I couldn't do that to them. They wouldn't survive.”

A week later, the woman who had been in the apartment and another man from a nearby bar who had also suspected something walked into a police station to report the abuse. The police officer who opened the closet door told the man he was safe. The first words out of the victim's mouth were: “I don't want to get them in trouble.”

He says now that his first thoughts were different. A phrase he kept repeating over and over in his mind but couldn't say out loud. “Thank you.”

The clearest memory he has about what happened after he was brought out of the apartment and taken to the hospital is eating ice cream, he says. A lot of ice cream and he could feel it dribble from his broken mouth but it didn't matter because there was no one to punish him for making a mess.

Then he fell asleep again and when he woke up, he was still in the hospital. His eyes traced an IV line connected from his body to the ground to a machine and from that to another tube over the hospital bed where he saw a bag of blood pumping and moving as if it was living thing.

“That's when I knew I was safe. I was hooked up to something and I was alive.”

Source: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/crime/article/1115837--torture-victim-te...

I submit that AA members protecting fellow AAs who have committed sexual abuses past and present under the cover of "anonymity" face a firing squad.

Girl kept detailed diary of rapes by mother's boyfriend

January 9, 2008 6:03pm

BURLINGTON, Vermont – An English woman has been charged with aggravated sexual assault on a child after the discovery that her 7-year-old daughter kept a diary in which she noted when she was forced to have sex with her mother's boyfriend.

The girl, who now lives in California with her father, also told investigators that while she lived in England, her mother allowed men she brought home to have sex with her.

Stacey Parnitzke, 40, and former boyfriend Shane Casey, 38, were arrested Friday in Vermont. They could get life in prison if convicted. Each pleaded not guilty to the same charge.

The assaults allegedly occurred when the girl was between 7 and 9, according to court documents.

Vermont State Police Detective Lance Burnham said he had never seen such a case.

"With these cases, when they deal with children, you have the truest definition of a victim," Burnham said. "This child could not have fought back. She was unable to do so. She was totally at the mercy of these two individuals."

A lawyer for Parnitzke and Casey did not return a call Tuesday seeking comment.

Burnham said Parnitzke was born in England but was a permanent resident of the United States. Parnitzke and her daughter moved to Vermont in 2004, but Parnitzke sent the girl to live with her father in 2006.

The father went to police in October after the 11-year-old girl told him that while living in England, Parnitzke would bring men home from Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and let them rape her beginning when she was 5.

Read more:http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/75915/news/world/girl-kept-detailed...

AA members Stacey Parnitzke, 40, and former boyfriend Shane Casey, 38 have been in jail and court since their arrest.....

"Sex slave trial resumes with 1 defendant" February 4, 2011 http://www.wcax.com/global/story.asp?s=13969057

"Guilty verdicts in child sex slave case" April 27, 2010 http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=12383357

"Jury deliberates whether adults used girl as sex slave" April 26, 2010 http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=12373387

"Couple on trial for sex assault on girl" April 19, 2010 http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=12337687

Decon- very good point. AA members are really weird...

There was a judge recently who sent a priest to jail for the cover up of pedophile priests. He complained " I did nothing" " he said , You are giving me more then those who committed the acts. "

The Judge didn't take his crap and sent his ass to jail. It was on NPR this morning. I will try to find the link and more info.