Long after Laurie and Brian are gone off to jail...we have an obligation to the children that became men harassed by this technology. I, probably better than any, know what it would be like for someone to understand what she's put them through. I was 11 when Laurie started hating on me. Using her harsh attitude and language of sexual innuendo. I was fortunate enough, though I don't really know how, to have been able to have survived what she did to me in school, but the terror would last a lifetime.
There are young men out there that aren't gay that are now implanted with devices and likely infected with HIV that have no idea that she has ruined something very important for them. Their future. It's is very Pollyanna-ish of our police department to think that these men will be able to live "normal" lives now that they have run into the monster that is Laurie LaFreak. If they don't get treatment soon, they may die. Some of them may have already died. Not knowing what this pair did to them as children while knocked out isn't a blessing...it is a lifelong curse. They need tremendous amounts of counseling and love to understand that what they were a part of wasn't supposed to happen.
From the time I was a sixth grader my life has been an open book to almost everyone I know. It was a family situation posted all over the newspapers that would appear to have affected me...but that situation, itself, resolved itself with an acquittal, but I might as well have had a guilty verdict against me. The incident had nothing to do with me, but when a predator like Laurie gets a hold of an idea in her mind, she takes advantage of it as often and a painful as she can make it. Nothing about what my family went through was ever directly involving me...it surrounded me and when it left them, the circle of Laurie's hate suffocated me. That suffocation would last for the next 30 plus years behind my back, but taking hold of my world. Her hate for me, affected my life in ways that even I still don't know all about. It still does.
What I am most concerned about is taking away her dreams and fantasies for these little boys, now men, that she thinks she's going to play with for the next twenty years. I can't be the person that she did this to without being the person to help them. It is essential for me to find them, talk to them and let them know that this is over. There is hope, but it's going to take a lot of work. I don't know the secrets she and Brian have used to threaten these young men, but you can rest assured that their parents safety is at risk because of them. They are afraid...but they need to know they shouldn't be.
I know I'll never be right because of this. I've given that hope up. Too much time has passed with too many opportunities taken away for me to be successful in my former life, so I have what I am left with. I credit Lt. Reyes with stealing the last seven years when he had everything he needed to arrest these two and stop them. That would have left me at 41 years old. Time to still enjoy my forties...but now it's just a matter of salvaging my retirement...
The real loser in this game of stalking and hate is still Laurie and Brian. They thought that they'd stolen my future, and for a while so did I. Now I'm healthy, living and sober and she can't find a single way to take the meds that she needs to get her that way. The clock in her liver is ticking away...soon she won't be able to take the meds at all. Then you will all understand that taking a person's life was what really turned her on, it might just be the thing that turns her off permanently.
The real loser in this game of stalking and hate is still Laurie and Brian. They thought that they'd stolen my future, and for a while so did I. Now I'm healthy, living and sober and she can't find a single way to take the meds that she needs to get her that way. The clock in her liver is ticking away...soon she won't be able to take the meds at all. Then you will all understand that taking a person's life was what really turned her on, it might just be the thing that turns her off permanently.
