Sober Algebra

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4.4 • 803 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This flood of roughly 1,300 people who’ve come forward all started with one man. How the widespread abuse at YDC finally came to light and how people are grappling with what justice and accountability even mean in a scandal so large. If you have suffered abuse and need someone to talk to, you can call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673. If you’re in a mental health crisis, call the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 9-8-8.

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0:00.0	David Meehan was in a bad way.
0:03.0	It was 2017.
0:05.0	David was in his mid-30s, married with three kids.
0:09.0	But he was about to take his life off the rails.
0:13.0	Over the course of a week, I acquire a firearm.
0:20.0	Spend my rent money on a real nice outfit. acquire a firearm.
0:24.7	Spend my rent money on a real nice outfit and a lot of heroin.
0:29.4	David did all these things
0:31.1	because he was planning to murder someone.
0:37.4	It had been nearly 20 years since David had left YDC.
0:42.6	He was an adult now. He ran a construction company.
0:46.0	But the pain of YDC, it never left him.
0:50.2	For years, he had nightmares. He tried using heroin to numb his feelings.
0:55.4	David was detained at YDC from 1995 to 1999.
1:01.4	And during that time, David says he was raped and beaten hundreds of times by at least four YDC staffers.
1:11.6	But he says one staffer preyed on him the most, a guy named Jeffrey Busky.
1:17.6	Back when he was at YDC, David says Jeffrey Busky was warm and encouraging at first.
1:24.6	He says Jeffrey gave him extra snacks and then a coveted job inside the
1:29.0	cottage David was detained in. He even arranged to have a spot for David on a high school
1:34.2	basketball team outside of YDC. Honestly, at that point I have a father figure. I have a man in my life that I've built a relationship with.
1:48.2	In retrospect, David was being groomed. David says Jeffrey Busky began raping him regularly.
1:56.9	David was a teenager, confused.
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