The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door

How can this be? One year ago on February 11, 2022 we launched our first episode. In this episode we unpack the journey from then to now…..and the bright world/dark world reality of “anniversaries”

In this episode we have a conversation with Emily who was Kait’s childhood friend. Emily shares her own memories of abuse and experiences with Cornerstone Church and some of the people there.

In this episode we continue our conversation with Alicia Cohen, familial sex trafficking survivor and advocate.

In this first episode in a two part series, we have a conversation with Alicia Cohen who is a survivor of family controlled sex trafficking and the founder of SAFE (Survivors Against Familial Exploitation).  

Join us as Alicia shares her experience of sexual abuse and exploitation at the hands of her father who who used the church to hide his crimes.  Alicia also unpacks her very frustrating attempts to leverage the criminal justice system to address the very real ongoing safety concerns for current day victims.

In this episode we unpack the phenomenon of 'staring at a pebble while the parade passes by'....otherwise known as 'majoring on the minors' or being distracted from what really matters by details that are irrelevant to the central message. Updated since we have to triple and quadruple think every single word and sentence

In this episode we will talk through the churches involved and some of the offenders there.

In this episode Laurie has a conversation with Darrin Folger, former Executive Pastor of The Well in Amherst, NY about what God has to say about a shepherds response to a predator among the flock

In this episode we share how the investigation has been going….or not going.

In this episode we talk through some of the potential paths to safety and justice and how these paths can intersect and happen in parallel.

In this episode we address the questions about naming names….Why now? What are the factors that affect the decision for us to name an offender and what is next?