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Subject:Adverse Effects of Child Lures
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005, 21:09:26 – 0400
From:Bob Gasser
To: info@veilofinnocence.org
Dear Coordinators of Veil of Innocence,
I am thrilled that you are actively engaged in these issues that effect our children. I have both a kindergartener and a 4th grader that attend the St. Bernadette School in Silver Spring, Maryland. I had contacted Mrs. Cantwell, Bishop Farrell and Dr.Weitzel-O’Neil, the superintendent of schools for the ADW. I made it clear that I did not want my children to attend this program. The feedback I got was that the program was mandatory. Unfortunately my 6 year old had a bad experience. The following week after the program, she had nightmares about being taken by a stranger. What really upset me, she said she had a dream that she could not talk about. She had her head in a downward gaze and was very upset. She said, she had a dream about a teacher at St. Bernadettes openning a gogurt (yogurt freeze pop) and it exploded and landed on her “private parts”. I tried to interpret it as your uniform you mean? “No mommy, my private parts.All the children in my dream were laughing at me.” I was absolutely livid. How could they steal the innocence of my child? After that I sat down with the principal and the parish priest with no results. I also wrote an e-mail to Dr. O’Neil and Bishop Farrell.