Happy New Year from D.C.! Still here under the watchful eye of the Obummer portrait (which I have tilted to be “crooked” on the wall) and I can report that it was quiet at midnight...not many celebrating here. A good sign.
From 2-26-2000:
Therapist backs sex ring claim
Bienkowski: Client gave Boulder police names of people who are witnesses in JonBenét’s death
By Christopher Anderson
Camera Staff Writer
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — A private therapist said Friday she stands behind her client who claims to have crucial information that could help investigators in the death of JonBenét Ramsey.
Mary Bienkowski, a licensed marriage, family and child counselor, said her client gave Boulder police specific names of individuals who are witnesses in the killing of JonBenét as well as ongoing sexual and physical abuse of other children.
“If they do their job and investigate what needs to be investigated, the rest of the pieces will fall into place, and nobody is going to like what they find out,” she said. “This person wouldn’t be coming forward and risking everything if it were not because she wanted the abuse to stop and wanted to protect other children.”
Bienkowski said she has treated her client for the past 10 years for trauma endured as a repeated victim of sexual assault. Because her client had information that a widespread sex ring could have been behind the Dec. 26, 1996, strangulation and beating death of 6-year-old JonBenét, she encouraged the woman to take the information to authorities.