Posted on 06/16/2022 5:32:57 PM PDT by Morgana
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - The case for a couple charged with ongoing abuse at the Circle of Hope Girls Ranch was back in front of a Cedar County judge Monday.
Boyd and Stephanie Householder face 100 charges of abuse combined, including molestation and statutory rape related to their operation of the boarding school near Stockton. They have pleaded not guilty.
Our cameras are not allowed inside the courtroom. The judge is trying to keep publicity involving this case to a minimum to ensure that the Householders get a fair trial.
The Householders were not in court either. Defense attorneys told the judge that Boyd Householder is sick and in the hospital.
Their daughter Amanda Householder was at the hearing. She tells us that she will continue to speak out about the charges against her parents.
“I would like to see them held accountable,” she said.
Amanda Householder says her parents abused her when she was a child.
“I actually picked up the phone and called 911. My dad slammed the phone into my face and said go ahead, go for it. They’re not going to believe you,” she explained. “It was extremely important for me to start speaking out because other people’s kids were being abused.”
The couple was arrested in March of 2021 but has since been released until their trial starts. They received bonds due to health concerns.
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt condemned their release. Attorneys for the state believe the pair should stay in jail pending the outcome of this case.
Amanda Householder says she doubts that they are being truthful.
“My mom has always dealt with blood clots. My dad has diabetes. I do feel like this was a tactic to get them out of jail.
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Sad story.
I know more about this case than most here. What is really sad is the parents who sent their girls to that school to start with. I can’t believe some parents are that stupid.
We have always said to never trust a day care that won’t let a parent come anytime and visit a child after the McMartin preschool disaster well what about boarding schools? They won’t let you see your own child when you want to and monitor your phone calls and mail going in and out? Hugh red flags there.
Breen was a world-famous numismatist, science fiction writer, and homosexual pedophile who was a public member and promoter of NAMBLA. He abused countless children, and was married to a female child abuser and SF writer named Marion Zimmer Bradley. Bradley abused her own daughter for years, among others.
Breen, utterly unrepentant, ended his days in Chino (the California Institution for Men). He had been convicted of child molestation at least three times in all.
After he was dead, his daughter revealed that she was one of those who turned him in to the authorities. Her name is Moira Greyland.
I used to love Bradley as an author then I read that about her. In her last days she joined the Episcopal church so I don’t know if she repented or not.
boarding school... how old are these kids?
From the daughter’s own accounts the parents were abusive with her, then more abusive with the girls that attended the “camp”.
May justice prevail.
Very brave young woman! I hope justice prevails.
Girls aged 12 to 17. It’s not unheard of for these schools to take in girls even younger like 9 or 10.
Wow, I did not know that. That sucks. I loved “Mists of Avalon” and “The Firebrand” in my younger days. How disappointing.
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