Blaze and Spring Thibaudeau - Doomsday Mormon Prepper Disaster | Ep. 1831 

I truly believe God led me to your channel. I was about to convert into the church past Sunday and decided to RU-vid more about LDS. Came across your page and wow THANK YOU so much from saving me from joining a cult

I don’t know if our little town of Rexburg is Zion anymore. We are getting a Starbucks 😂 Born and raised here in Rexburg, 5th generation LDS and I’m so thankful for Mormon Stories and all the people telling there stories so I can deconstruct.

It's repeatedly clear how upset John is over people like him being excommunicated, while others who contributed to damaging people's lives are not only tolerated by the church, but even given a platform. I can't blame him.

When I got divorced, the state of WA required that I take a parenting class. The entire point of the class was, "don't take your kid when you don't have custody, because that is kidnapping, and kidnapping is a crime." This gave me a good laugh at the time, but sadly it is a message that a lot of "adults" still don't understand.

When I was a child growing up in Alaska, my dad showed me a map and taught me how to walk with my siblings from ALASKA to Jackson County Missouri if the prophet said it was time to meet Jesus there. I remember him describing to me about getting to the Redwood trees…..etc. Can you imagine how much fear this kind of talk can cause a child?! Mormon Apocalyptic teachings used to be more prevalent in the mainstream church 30-40 years ago. I also believe my dad was a fan of Avraham Gileadi’s teachings. I remember hearing that name. My mom always said that prophets have told us that our food storage would someday be as important to us as the Ark was in Noah’s day. I think many people are becoming bored with Mormonism and are looking for something more exciting to believe in. There is quite a high you get from thinking about danger and Biblical level drama. Plus it feels really good to believe you are among the “Chosen” to have further light and knowledge about unknowable things. It’s way more exciting than being the nursery leader or cleaning the church building on Saturday night. This story is very disturbing…..and I don’t think this is the last “Mormon Prepper” incident we’re going to hear about. 😢 SAD!

When my oldest sister finally went through the Temple, she went whack-a-doodle-do. The narcissistic psychopath in her came raging out of her. She was also talking about becoming a Temple worker in the Gilbert Temple, because she was attending it so much. I had to laugh when you were making comments about ‘what’s in the Gilbert Temple water’. Yeah, something’s not right! We are no longer talking to each other. I have had to go ‘no contact’, as her abusiveness and delusions were getting ridiculous. I left the church in January of 2019.

I’m not a Mormon. I listen to understand why and how these people justify killing, kidnapping and eliminating their kids and spouses. It’s lunacy. Keep explaining from the inside perspective.

I feel so bad especially for the teen. High school and just being a teen in general can be tough, I couldn’t imagine having to deal with a religious extremist parent/extended family. I’m glad he was found safe

The ONLY good thing about this ongoing mormon prepper mayhem is I get to see the hosts of my two favourite RU-vid channels together! Lots of love from Stockholm, Sweden

I withdrew my church membership a couple weeks ago. I've never been more content with a discussion!

Great one. Man, I lived in this world once--visions and dreams ruled my ex-wife's extended Mormon family. Over a hundred family members moved on family revelation to Missouri as a group to build the New Jerusalem. This kind of thing is still strong here in the heart of rural Utah Zion. I was a young, eager LDS convert back then and I could not see it. Makes me ill now to think back on it all.

Mormon stories is my new favorite channel. I recently lost my husband, and true crime has become too hard on me. I am so thankful to find a new podcast to help fill the quiet in my home. ❤ thanks so much for the riveting content.

As a Brit 🇬🇧, I can't explain how fascinating but also hugely difficult it is to comprehend.

John, your remarks about God choosing one group over all others resonated with me. I've thought about it since my teens, and I am confident that a loving God would not operate tĥat way.

I am non-LDS but live in Gilbert, AZ and this story has been huge here. Gilbert has about 250,000 people but is small enough where we have friends who know this family very well. I know that the dad was terrified that this would turn into another Lori Vallow story. By the grace of God, they found Blaze safe at the Canadian border, but who knows what might have happened if they had disappeared into Canada. I guess that the mom and sister used to be "normal", but have descended into prepper-dom over the past several months. I lnow that neither the dad, nor Blaze, were bought in to the cult of prepper-dom. I was told that they are still just "regular mormons."

Being raised in the church, we always had a sense of having to leave our homes like the pioneers did back in the day. I remember hearing things like this all the time when I was younger.

Mesa, gilbert, queen creek...tons of mormons. I've lived in this area my entire life. Yes, it gets called Provo South.

The Couple's Ruse, End-Times Ruse, Apostle's Ruse and "Revelator's Ruse" ---- all have turned into huge disasters for the LDS Church.

"Patterns make us more like pigeons" was my favourite phrase of the day. Great episode!

I grew up in Rexburg and my name is David. (Holy crap!) and the last few years I have learned of all of this craziness. Wow. I live here in Utah now. Julie Rowe saying Rexburg will be the headquarters of the church (after the big earthquake) just blew me away. This whole "movement" is unreal as it unravels. Thanks for helping us understand it...a little.

So glad Blaze is safe

John, in your learning of this prepper movement, you probably need to look at the past 35-year history of part of the Lewiston, Idaho stake. I moved to this area and bought land partly due to a dream had by a stake high counselor who knew Avraham. This area is pretty quiet now but we are 2--3 hours away from the white Christian nationalist center in North Idaho. Over my residence here, I have seen polygamy, prepping more than most places. A fellow(CES) in this general region wrote "Lying for the Lord". I've been at meetings with people who said they sat at the last supper, people who gave patriarchal blessings to friends, underground bunkers filled with supplies, preppers with 2 and 3 semi-trailers filled with food, study of tent cities, a ward where a counselor told people of John the Revellator readying his people to return to Missouri. I know people who followed Julie Rowe and I have been to two of other prophesying ladies' meetings. Tom Greene, famous in the polygamy movement who the State of Utah put in jail, held a meeting where a bishop's counselor was, at a residence of a fellow I encouraged to move to from Washington to this area, who became a polygamist (RFM interviewed his wife regarding her polygamy journey.) We had people marrying soulmates in sweat lodges. Mormons put on prepper meetings in fields. Guns and ammo storage like what is found in Parrette's manual is still a big issue in this area. We have a Tactical firearms training center and a nightime sniper training center, 1000 yard shoots, in our county. Mormon preppers really fit in here. Lots of dreams pertaining to the Mormon remnant in this area. Several of the original super preppers have either died or moved on. Not attending anymore, I'm not in the loop but I know a few who are on the edge and active so I know quite a bit. It grew so fast in our area in the 90's that the stake president predicted that a stake center would be in a large ward that did split but last year it combined again. There use to be 3 covenant communities in the hills, started by war hero Bo Gritz, where one could meet people like Randy Weaver of the Ruby Ridge FBI killing of wife Vicki while holding her baby. The new move-ins, have never heard of this stuff. I shock people when I tell them. Over the years I've helped one family build a fallout shelter filled with food but a lot got moldy. But still I will talk to someone like last weeks who would tell me of the signs of the Times (Mormon Doctrine teaching) that we know the Savior is soon coming. Conspiracy theories in and out of the wards abound and there are still people around who are like the father in the book, "Educated", the author you interviewed on MS. Bulk food is easy to purchase here. I live where you would call the sticks and there are 6 TBM's within a mile radius of me and I live 8 miles form our city of 700. When I first got here, I was in a priesthood quorum meeting when a Stake President ask why people moved here and may said because the spirit told them to. One fellow that said that was a Shone-Piute, RM and student at BYU. The SP told him he came for the wrong reason. Another fellow stood up the the SP and said, "You, sir are not a lawyer in a court and you have no right to talk this way. The SP told this high priest to sit down and shut up, And the HP said, "I will not sit down and shut up." And he didn't. I watched in a county commissioner meeting where an inactive LDS through a noose in front of the leaders and said, "We don't want no building codes in this county." And we still don't have them. I remember writing letter to my friends in Washington talking about moving to the Wild West. There was a lot more happening over the time 1990 until now. But our ward is still a "last days" ward and LDS move here because of the presumed designation. Two weeks ago, on the site of the former covenant communities, "Almost Heaven", "Almost Heaven II", and "Shenandoah", I discovered a fairly large MAGA camp. I was getting computer repair done, and the wife of the repairman, either former or inactive LDS wife told me that she and her hubby are MAGA, Lots of junk and trailers. Most people coming here in the 90's were from Utah, one neighbor was involved with the Salt Lake JS letters and later killings. Many radical LDS moved here. Your interviews with preppers, while interesting, are mild compared to what has gone on here.

Great to see you two together again covering these concerning topics.

I have a theory that members are growing impatient waiting for the second coming and the apocalypse. Instead of shrugging their shoulders and saying I guess I was wrong. They double down and take action or do things to perpetuate it. They need to maintain the idea that they are special and smarter than others. Mix that with current events that stoke fear and we will continue to see more cases of preppers taking more aggressive action. My fear is that we will see it escalate to a level of Branch Davidians, Or Heaven's Gate.

Maven is amazing. Thanks for putting this all together. Great collab.

Oh my the comedy in this episode is unexpected but very welcomed. I’m dying laughing at the “grinding their buckets of wheat” and “pigeons pecking in the corner” bits. Oh my goodness, I’m cackling.

Lauren, I have wondered why you were still a member of this church, which I consider a dark, controlling cult, but now I sort of get it when you say that you love to go to church to worship, to sing, to be with friends, to meditate, etc. Reminds me of the Old South black churches with so much joy & song & celebration. It's not to learn dogma but to celebrate love & joy.

As one who was a part of several groups like this, if the church denounced it it wouldn’t stop it for a second. These groups feel extremely strongly that their knowledge and beliefs are extra special and that it is a higher level of knowledge than the church leaders have… or if the church leaders do have the knowledge, they aren’t brave enough to stand up and say it (or they aren’t telling the masses because the masses aren’t ready to hear it). I needed a huge tragedy in my life to happen to wake me up and get me out of it. I don’t know how to stop others and get them out of that mindset though. 😢

As this cult loses members, what will be left is a hardcore group of fundamentalists. When cults lose most members they usually get crazier. Sadly, I think these types of stories will be quite common.

Scary beliefs….prepper and zombies. Thank you for your investigative discussion.

Another super informative and important collaboration with Hidden True Crime. Thank you to both teams!

While I did not grow up LDS, I was raised in a "Non Denominational" Church or Pentacostal (at least here in Southern Ohio and this tri state area) in hopes of not being called Snake Handlers they avoid the P word.... it absolutely blows my mind how the Vin diagram of these 2 extreme Christian sects have so little in the "Differences" sections, lol. I have been highly invested in MSP for a little over a year now. So much familiarity and literally identical teachings of being Chosen People, end times, racism, sexism, Very young marriages for women especially, traumatic child rearing, shame, Sins comparable to murder, fundamentalism as a norm, flat out hatred for anything outside of a Nuclear family etc. I haven't practiced any form of religion in many years (well before I became a mother) but This podcast (and therapy) has been such an amazing tool in my adult and parenting life. Oh, and if you haven't guessed, my Progressivism is wildly shunned in this camp too, lol Keep fighting the good fight, John Praise Be...

I love this collaboration between ms and htc. Keep it up.

Julie Rowe is a huge influence on these marriages, she convinces people that if their spouse isn’t going along with this agenda them get rid of them!

Nate Eaten is fantastic for the true crime journalist! Been following him for a while. Followed him during the Lori Vallow's trial. Excellent reporting!

Mormon literature is definitely in the horror comedy crime genres.

Thank you a lot for this episode. I am not mormon. I am not even American, so this system of beliefs is totally foreign for me. I was following the Daybell case a lot, and tried to understand the religious aspects of it too. As soon as I heard about this new case I knew that there was some connections. However, it is really hard to find any comprehensive information about the mormon ideas that are not some mormon preachings. So I was struggling to get this "davidic servant" idea. So basically, what this "Isaiah expert" said was that davidic servant would be someone least expected... so how everyone is thinking that it would be some American mormon... going on by their own patterns it should be some Buddhist monk from Tybet. The big problem here seems to be "main character syndrome". They all believe that end times would happen in their lives, start in their backyard and they personally met the messiah or they are the ones. People should learn more about statistics instead of memorising scriptures. This would humble them.

I find it interesting that someone as intelligent as Lauren is still an active member of the LDS church.

Coming out of the fundamentalist 1950-1960 movements of the Calvinist, Plymouth Brethren, Bill Gothard, Bob Jones influences of my family of origin I understand this societal malaise. Our doomsday prophets were the likes of Paisley and Lindsay that drove those generations insane with 'visions of glory'. The internet has increased the infection exponentially. Humanity has perpetuated this system of fear mongering for thousands of years. For all our progress Humanity is still mainly superstitious and primitive and doomed to a perpetually enslaved existence.

2:27 "If your name is David, RUN AWAY!" I laughed so hard! I enjoy your humor! Thanks for all you do.

Christmas 2022, I recieved a gift from my grandparents (LDS) that was an emergency food bucket and the only thing written on the Christmas card was, "We believe bad things are coming." Now I'm wondering if they are following these movements.

I’m low contact with my grandma, but I I know she’s been really into 2nd coming prep and tent cities. It’s interesting to realize this is where it came from. She’s always been manipulative and a believer of some weird stuff and feels her life is not going well/out of control, so it makes sense she’d gravitate to this group where she feels a higher purpose and like she’s in on an amazing secret. She bought my dad thousands of dollars worth of food storage a few years ago, so I guess I’ll trek to my dad’s place if the world starts ending lol.

John, you and Lauren are outstanding together. You compliment each other so well. You're both so articulate, smart and well informed. Possibly a closer collaboration on a more frequent level?

We live in Tornado Alley, so it’s common sense to be prepared for extreme weather events. Absolutely nothing wrong with having emergency supplies especially now with imminent weather catastrophes. I’m just sad people are being scared witless with religious end days stuff.

I love that Blaze has this 70’s vibe in fashion and hair.❤

So glad they were found. I saw Abby’s husband on an interview before they were found and I felt so bad for him. I assume they have been reunited.

This prepper stuff goes so far back. my grandfather was very deeply involved with the man that started the Dream Mine Mormon prepper movement. I even own stock in it. my grandfather gave me stock for my 21st birthday (I’m now 49). he was claiming that this was gonna happen in his lifetime. Well, he died in his 90s and I’m almost 50 and still no end of the world.😂 the guy claimed he had a vision and that gold would pop up in this mine in the last days only those faithful Mormons would have that gold in order to live. It obviously goes a lot deeper than the gold, but my grandfather was very deeply involved in this and my dad bought into it. This was very big around the Spanish Fork/Salam/Provo area of Utah. Absolutely insane stuff!

When Blaze first went missing, I was filled with fear and heartbreak that he might end up like Tylee and J.J. Thankfully the universe has greater plans for Blaze and he was able to be reunited with his father and siblings. 💗 I really hope that he is able to heal from everything that he had to endure this past week.

Loved the portal voguing! Comic relief & sarcasm are so needed in these heavy situations

Thank you for your service! This PSA is critical for the safety of our children.

Lauren, Thank you for covering this story with John. You work well together.

Near death experiences are to Julie and Thom what buried plates are to Joseph and James Strang a power grab!

Thank you for talking about this issue, in depth, with primary source materials.

I saw Hidden True Crime’s Lauren and clicked. I subbed you after their first collaboration with you. 😊

Wow! Shut down? I'm glad I watched the whole husband & father-in-law videos from the beginning. I think they both handle the situation bravely, quickly, & responsibly. Prayers answered.

Yes John, I do have to turn down my ear buds a little when you get excited but don't dial it back. I love your passion and can adjust. :)

I learned about the Davidic servant in an Institute class about Isaiah at Utah State. Also when Avraham Gileadi has taught classes at Education week, they have always been packed, standing room only

This is the most fascinating podcast I have listened to! Thank you for the deep research and for informing me about the realities of what goes on in the Mormon church as well as the truth about Joseph Smith! I love learning about different religions and this is totally up my alley!

I have appreciated all the coverage Mormon Stories and True Hidden Crimes have done on all these news issues lately. John D. I think you need to get some rest, sounds like you have asthma or coming off pneumonia. Please take care of yourself💗🙏🏽

I am just glad that Blaze has been returned to his dad.

Joe Rawlins here on my new channel. Justwanted to say I have been happy to be a supporter of Open Stories for over 10 years.

Thanks for doing this. I appreciate you all drawing the connection to Avraham Gileadi as he is a person I was unaware of, so him being a thread through all of these cases is interesting. I read Elizabeth Smart's book years ago and she talks about Mitchell's belief system a little bit. I just chalked it up to him being a kook at the time and being an SO looking to justify his crimes. But I think it's important to draw the connection that he didn't invent his beliefs or get them from thin air. As you said, you are looking to get at the root of why these crimes happen, and unless we understand the belief systems driving these people, that's impossible. Thanks too, for giving more context to the Book of Isaiah stuff; that wasn't something I was familiar with as it wasn't something discussed really in the mainstream protestant circles I was raised in. Something I was thinking about as you all were talking is that dreams and visions isn't just specific to Mormonism either. The idea is all through the Bible. I thought of Joseph having a vision/dream that he should claim Mary's child as his. Jesus himself came out of a long tradition of folks claiming to be the Messiah. The canon of the Bible makes it pretty clear he believed he was living in the end times and perhaps thought of himself as a doomsday prophet. All that is to say, the concept is baked in to not just Mormonism, but Christianity as a whole and there needs to be a reckoning with that. John, I noticed that having watched you for a good while now that you are always willing to platform women and give us space to promote our work and that you really embrace a collaborative and community spirit. Just wanted to say I see it and I appreciate you. It's low key healing to witness. The Christian tradition and society in general is still so patriarchal and too many men are more than willing to claim women's work without credit.

Great episode! I get so sick of people dragging other people, especially their kids, into their beliefs.

Another eye-opening episode...you and Lauren make a great team.

The crimes are a horrific pattern 😮 this is great coverage 👏 thank you both so much

The church collects 10% in tithes but doesn't make charitable donations, citing preparations for the 'end times.' It's not surprising that some members adopt this intense focus on preparing for future events.

Nate Eaton is fantastic. I had to laugh I am on replay and someone commented in chat "John get a little Shouty" haha I was thinking same. Love you all

Raised Catholic, I was never taught about a second coming of Jesus. I was always taught that I would meet him in heaven?

Thank you, again. Watching from Alaska. Arrggghhhh!!!!! Laughing, Crying, and Outraged, all at the same time.

John, when you get shouty, it just shows how excited you are to talk about the subject. It's perfectly understandable and even endearing... 😊

This is so sad. I just hope that the mother and sister get the professional help they need. Sad.

What in the heck is going on with these extreme beliefs related to the Mormon Preppers? 🙃🍁

My nephew just got home from a mission in Gilbert. 90% Mormon.

I was in the supermarket last year at the self checkout (in Wellington, New Zealand) next to a Japanese man when a Maori woman came up to him and said, "You are such a beautiful person. Like the Maori people the Japanese are part of the twelve tribes of Israel. We are all just so beautiful." I have no objection to the idea of beauty among races but I was very confused by the fact that these two specific ethnicities were two of the twelve tribes of Israel when there are so many ethnicities in the world. I actually googled it when I got home and was none the wiser.

I personally have watched several marriages end in this group because they were told that in a past life they were married and abused by this same spouse.

This is reaching all the way to California Mormon communities as well unfortunately I’ve heard from former ward members. This radicalism of Mormonism is gaining momentum and needs to be addressed by the organization and changes need to be made before more lives are lost/endangered.

Am i the only one who thinks Blaze looks like 35 and a car salesman?

Thanks for talking about it! I saw on the news definitely it was crazy

Thank you both so much for this! You’re both looking great, btw!!!

Love the way these people talk about Jesus like they have just had a chat with him, and people sit and nod in agreement sorry don’t get any religion. Not that I am against it some people need it. Unfortunately most religions seem violent in some way, they all seem to be looking for death instead of appreciating the gift of life. Glad I’m not religious.

My goodness, it is just getting weirder and weirder. Thanks so much John, you do a ton of work to uncover things and report to us all. Much appreciated. PS, Great job Lauren, on the scroll and roll and the excommunication needle threading, I agree with so much you said. John, you're a deep thinker and I appreciate the contemplation.

1:28:15 I love how passionate John gets about this guy claiming to be a prophet. Keep it up, sir!!! You are on fire!!!

I bet Blaze was really scared when his Mom and Uncle just keep driving and driving and probably keep saying weird things. This kind of mental state can lead to serious anxiety, depression and paranoia in kids.

I just saw that Angel Studios on 10/27 released a new film (documentary) on near death experiences, named “After Death”. I imagine Angel dropped it to coincide with Halloween weekend in the US, but I do worry this might add more flames to the already existing dumpster fire occurring in the LDS prepper/doomsday community. Anyone see it?

Never met a mormon prepper who wasn't totally bonkers over the 'ol "End-Times Ruse".

I'm so relieved to hear Jenny is doing well while medicated. It's good that she is not in pain. I've had hospice in the house when my grandmother needed it. She died and I lost my whole world. She was my favorite person. Anyway, enjoy what you have, keep engaging her in daily life, and have her write letters to her babies at important milestones in their lives... ie:Going into each new grade in school and Jenny's advice on what she went through. Milestones like Jr. High, Senior High, graduations, and college! Then, the hardest part... what Jenny wants to say to her kids at their weddings. Babies too!! Tell them your experience of their birth and how to work through hard times. I hope she records just what she wants them to know. It keeps her in their lives. Jenny is the bravest person I know.❤❤❤

Pastors’ and politicians grift off people’s fears and world tragedies is appalling and so dangerous. I’m ashamed that I gave money and emotional energy to OUR. Anyone can get swept up into an emotionally charged (in what they are led to believe is a life or death situation) and think they are doing the right thing. Humanity is now having to learn to discern through our own intuition now that we are finding our leaders unable to clearly understand reality.

Nate Eaton is a national treasure!

Love Lauren! Great podcast always

It used to be a thing in the UK that the 30th October was called mischief day doing cheeky things to other people. There are some US states that keeps up this cheeky wee tradition. Kind regards, Graham.

Thank you Maven for putting this together. ❤️❤️❤️

The book is still sold online at the LDS bookstore.

Thank you John for bringing up the racism inherent in the appropriation of the tribes of Isreal and the idea that a non-Jew would be the one to reunite Isreal, whatever that means. I'm Jewish (and before anyone says anything, I do not condone anything that Isreal is doing, I'm not a Zionist) and also my degrees in Medieval and Ancient Histories mean that I have studied an excessive amount of Abramhamic scripture, religious history and religious practices. When I first started researching Mormonism from a secular angle, I was just shocked by the insanity of Joseph Smith's writings in regard to Judaism. I was explaining it to a Rabbi once and he said "So Joseph Smith wrote Biblical fan fiction?" Lol! I'm sorry if that is upsetting to current LDS members, but that is how it appears to some outsiders. But it was so disturbing to read and hear all this discussion about the tribes of Isreal and how somehow Mormons place themselves in the place of these supposedly lost tribes. First because Judaism is not simply a religion, it is an ethnicity in some ways. When you are born Jewish, you will always be Jewish, even in you are an atheist or you convert to another religion. And if you convert with no blood relation, you are only a religious Jew, it does not count the same way as those born into it. So here is my issue, no matter what Joseph Smith wrote, no one who converts to the LDS Church could ever be part of the tribes of Isreal unless they were born Jewish. It is preposterous to think otherwise! And before anyone comes to me saying that Jews are missing things that Joseph Smith completed, that's not how Judaism works, we are not like Christians and there were so many Jewish texts that were not in the Christian Bible and were not available to Joseph Smith, so yeah he did not have the full picture of Judaism and his writings make that extremely evident.

I wonder if, during the Lori Vallow trial and all of the publicity regarding Lori and Chad, Spring ever had the self-awareness to see herself going down the same path? I think this situation demonstrates that the followers of this entire faction still don't see that they are the deceived, that Mormons have been warned about. I think Spring continued, possibly in secret, her relationship with Julie Rowe. I do think her husband knew more than what he shared in his video. The same with Abi's husband. Also, Lauren made a comment about Eric Smith going down another path- I'd love to hear what is happening with him now.

Great episode!

Would love to have someone go through East Idaho and interview people and ask them what they think about all of this. That post Daybell how people are STILL into this stuff. WHY

Has Mormon Stories ever interviewed Lauren and her beliefs? I love her channel and really respect her and find myself curious about her Mormon story and why she stays in the church.

john does get shouty sometimes (it raises my anxiety, lol) but i always thought it was from being caffeinated

Have these responsible people made any statements? Avram Giliadi, Thom Harrison, Chris Perret? Surely they know they are getting called out and not in the way they speak of call-outs. Does any of this penetrate their bubble? Or is this driving them more underground and inspiring them more? I have enjoyed your collabs so much. Great work!

The main thing that bothers me, *this young man did not ask for his picture, life, privacy to be blasted all over the news and internet!* I wish all people would have the decency to ask permission to include pictures/names of anyone over 18 who is a victim. Any person under the age of 18 should not have their picture/name plastered all over the internet. This is not an attack on the story or the creators/channel, instead it is made in hopes we can educate on these issues but also start really choosing to protect the innocent/victims. He is barely starting out in the world and instead of his field plays being his shining example of self... he receives this across the video world?! *We must choose to do better as a whole society!* ❤😢😮