'You lived in fear, you totally lived in fear.' As more men discuss the abuse they suffered at a Texas boys ranch, the day of reckoning some had hoped for hasn't happened. The ranch president says he believes the men, but is focused on current residents.
In this Friday, March 22, 2019 photo, Allan Votaw, 66, pauses as he recalls and describes the years of abuse he suffered at the Cal Farley's Boys Ranch during an interview at this home in Kingston, Okla. Votow says his childhood years of 1957-1967 at the famed ranch near Amarillo, Texas were marked with horrible abuses against himself, his two brothers and numerous other boys placed under care of the rural institution.
that featured a handful of men — including childhood friends — describing abuse they suffered there as children. Adams also said he hadn’t considered using an outside party to investigate the allegations and produce a public report, something legal experts say can give validation to those speaking out.
“They didn’t care about us then and they don’t care about us now,” said 69-year-old Steve Smith, who was 8 when he and his 5-year-old brother arrived at the ranch in 1957.The Child-Friendly Faith Project Mental health experts say the abuse described by the men can have lifelong effects, not only by causing conditions including post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety but also increasing the risk of suicide, health problems including diabetes and cancer, and risky behaviors including alcohol and drug abuse.
Votaw’s brothers have both died — the younger one, Gregg, from a heroin overdose in 2009 at age 55. The older one, Rusty, died by suicide in 2014 at age 63; Votaw says his older brother had pancreatic cancer at the time.
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