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This work is memoir. It reflects the author’s present recollections of experiences over time. Some names and characteristics have been changed, some events have been compressed, and some dialogue has been recreated. Joseph has released a podcast about the Mormon Cover Up. Search “Mormon Cover Up” where you listen to podcasts. Father with his children…
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Dear Murph* You were protected from the truth. I lived it. Every August, the same gravitational pull hits me. Your birthday, then Karen’s, then mine. Three dates stacked like dominoes, each one tipping me back toward a family system I spent decades trying to escape. I don’t know if you feel it. I do. My…
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Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life. My mother received a letter from school in 1984. The letter indicated that I had been sexually abused as a 6-year old first grader. My mother did not report the abusers. They were other children that learned about sexual abuse from somewhere. They sexually…
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What fears have you overcome and how? I used to be afraid of my biological mother. I used to freeze around her. I used to be so afraid of her I would wet the bed. My earliest memories are of my mother screaming. My mother hitting me. My father straddling my mother and holding her…
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What is the legacy you want to leave behind? I am a survivor. That is the legacy I want to leave. I overcame incredible odds to make a life for myself. My parents actively worked to prevent my success and happiness. My parents did not help me in any way, I made it on my…
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What were your parents doing at your age? … were hiding violent child abuse and Child Sex Abuse (CSA). By the time my parents were my age they: I am nothing like my biological parents. May they burn in the Hell they told me I was going to.


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