These audio snippits are from a videotape from the Institutional Negligence of Children:The OK Boys Ranch Case. Attorney John Connelly Jr. and principal psychiatric expert Gilbert Kliman, M.D. Details of how children won compensation of over 35 million dollars from the Kiwanis Club and the State of Washington. Three hour video tape and 100 page handbook.
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This is a 29 minute audio that starts out with a Seattle King 5 TV news report from 1992 about the Olympia Kiwanis Boys Ranch, and then has portions of 13 OKBR kids giving videotape depositions in 1996 about their treatment at the OKBR. These kids were abused by other kids, and by the staff. They complained to the staff, the police, DSHS, Thurston county detention officials, judges, school people, friends, ect... They were punished for complaining. Their abuse was long-term and sadistic, and many people could have stopped it. These kids allegations of fact are frightening.
This is a 3 minute audio, where attorney John R. Connelly Jr. talks about how the OKBR case started. An OKBR 13 year old kid went to an Olympia attorney in 1992, otherwise it would have been covered up.
This is a 7 minute audio where attorney John R. Connelly Jr. tells how the OKBR kids hoped for help at the ranch. The insurance for the OKBR had exclusions for sex abuse, but allowed claims for "institutional neglect." The OKBR defense attorney (Don Law), was a former OKBR board member. Jack Connelly said that the OKBR was comparable to a Nazi camp. A "smoking gun" memo was discovered late from DSHS that said "if plaintiffs attorneys find this information, the whole department will be compromised." Discovery documents were withheld and OKBR attorneys were sanctioned $160,000 and DSHS attorneys were sanctioned $417,000.
This is a 2 minute audio, (from the longer 7 minute portion), where attorney Jack Connelly Jr. tells how the OKBR defense attorney (Don Law), was a former OKBR board member. John R. Connelly Jr. said that the OKBR was comparable to a Nazi camp. A "smoking gun" memo was discovered late from DSHS that said "if plaintiffs attorneys find this information, the whole department will be compromised." Discovery documents were withheld and OKBR attorneys were sanctioned $160,000 and DSHS attorneys were sanctioned $417,000.
This 2 minute audio is the beginning of the John R. Connelly Jr. attorney seminar talk about "giving voices to children in the court room" held in San Francisco on June 12, 1998.
In this 1 minute audio, OKBR attorney John R. Connelly Jr. talks about how the Washington State Attorney Generals (Christine Gregoire) Office had the task of defending DSHS for the abuses at the OKBR and also halfheartedly prosecuted some OKBR officials.
There were many obvious and long-term warnings about the 1970-94 OKBR.