The Strange Abduction of Jan Broberg 

It seems very common in traditional religious circles. It's common in Evangelical circles, like Baptist and Wesleyan circles too.

I haven’t seen it! Is it a topic on RU-vid or somewhere?

Oh or do you mean within this story in particular??

@@MormonTrueCrimelike, noticing a pattern of these abrahamic religions being great tools for these monsters, they practically groom perfect victims for the worst people on the planet, and scripture is so flowery and vague it can be twisted to support anything you want, also a convenient tool fpr manipulators that comes pre-brainwashed into many people. These religions actively harm people, in so so many ways, but we can’t call them out on that because “freedom of religion” somehow applies to systemic grooming if you just say god told you to. They ruin lives with the indoctrination of children into a belief system that imbues self hatred for totally normal things that is nearly impossible to shake, ive yet to meet an ex religious person that doesn’t still have some lingering trauma from it that interferes with their day to day life, their ability to have a healthy relationship with themself, their body, their spirituality, their family. Spirituality is a human need, but organized religion seems impossible without turning into hate groups and causing widescale mental and physical trauma. We as a species need to recognize that and stop pretending you can just do whatever you want if you say your god told you to.

Context changes everything!

It’s terrible stuff! It’s overwhelming realizing how many stories like this there are, and the sheer amount of denial! 😭

Agreed, Beth is an awesome storyteller. I’m a ‘never-Mo, hadn’t heard much of this story/seen it on Netflix. It’s 🤯😳, cringe, infuriating, and a lot of other words that would get me banned.

Thank you both!!

They agree. Thats why they speak out now - to protect every other child they possibly can because they know they were blind to this and wish they had done it all different.

Exactly the vibe I was going for!

So I can't remember whether or not I said it in this episode but the family found out later that this was a therapist whose license had been revoked.

@@MormonTrueCrime And still recommended by the church it sounds like? Similar to Jodi all these years later.

@Teajay21 I'm not sure how he found this therapist in particular. But this happened 50 years ago so I'm betting this guy is thankfully gone.

From what she told me that was the only letter, but that his membership was reinstated anyway.

And no she wrote a letter, as I stated that he was a predator and exposing what he had done. I feel that communicates it isn’t a yes. The thing with these episodes is I’m literally in a studio recording up against a timer in one go. So any missed details are impossible to add in or correct unfortunately.

@@MormonTrueCrimethanks for the reply. I’m really sad Jan had to go through the same victim invalidation I did. If her experience is like mine was, EVERY victim had to have been badgered by their church leaders every 3-6 months for a yes until they gave consent. They are told that the greater sin lies in them. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CJN4pG_bdkE.htmlsi=302S5IXSYOSgsglm

@@Oilstories that’s such a nightmare. What a way to add to PTSD. I’m so sorry you endured the trauma and then the invalidation after. This is why I need to tell these stories. Because we have to create pressure to for systemic changes and stop protecting predators!!

@@MormonTrueCrimeI agree! Thank you for doing this podcast! I fully support you in your purposes for making it.