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when josh was 3 years old, the family took into the home two foster children, a girl and a boy. and josh underwent really horrible and extensive sexual abuse at the hand of scott. i think that it started out playing a little sex games and having him pose naked and then proceeded to full-scale anal intercourse and to josh being burned with cigarettes. against the background of all of this, josh is in a church in which it is taught that there is evil in the world, and probably the greatest abomination of all is homosexuality, and so you have a 5-year-old, a 6-year-old, a 7-year-old listening to this, and thinking to himself that i am fundamentally evil. i have engaged in that kind of activity and not really able to tell anybody about it. there s a theme that i saw in
they ultimately posted a notice on the outside of their door. but that was it. and from that time on, they have had nothing to say. it was so disappointing, because i knew i was the last person therapeutically that met with josh, and to really paint a picture of him in a different light. i saw someone who created some beautiful designs. these sketches. i mean, this kid was amazing. how am i going to go in there and tell them that this was a good kid and that i was really close to him? after what he did. joshua was a little skinny, frail kid. i saw him behind the bars. he had on his cream-colored jail uniform. he was slight.
steven tells me that he felt betrayed by josh. he felt dragged into this horror of a crime, and he also felt in a crazy way betrayed by mrs. petit, because he looks out the window, and he sees police cars. and he realizes that mrs. petit must have informed bank officials. he is triggered into this state of rage. he strangles jennifer hawk p hawke-petit and pulls down her pants and rapes her after he
i tied her hands and feet and put pillowcases over the occupants heads so that they couldn t see us. then i went into kk s room and sat down and we were talking about school and summer plans. did she tell you kk was her name or did you make that up? no, that is how her mother referred to her as. i met josh when i was 13. josh s parents started attending the church that we went to. the evangelical bible church.