The Olympia Washington Kiwanis members and their friends have cost the Washington State taxpayers over $50 million dollars (so far), because of their willful ignorance of long term, merciless and well known, child abuse that occurred at the Olympia Kiwanis Boys Ranch.

October 2006 note: This Olympia Kiwanis stuff is old news. I've left this information on the web, because I like the thought that someone will say to one of these Kiwanis friends or members: "Grandma, (Grandpa), are you still friends with those Olympia Kiwanians?"

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Until Oct 1999, I believed that the Kiwanians and their friends were guilty of careless neglect or callous indifference. After hearing frightening audio depositions from some of the abused kids, I now believe that these Thur Co citizens were involved with an "active collaboration with evil." According to these depositioned kids, (which was not contradicted by Kiwanian attorney Don Miles), the OKBR staff was involved in long-term molestation and sadistic abuse of these helpless children. DSHS, Olympia, & the Kiwanians criminally ignored the warning signs and then justified their inaction by claiming ignorance. Many of these inattentive judges, lawyers, & politicians want your vote for re-election.

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There were many obvious and long-term warnings about the 1970-94 child abusing Olympia Kiwanis Boys Ranch.

  • DSHS knew since at least 1977.
  • The OKBR staff certainly knew.
  • The abused kids told staff, schools, counselors, police, caseworkers, therapists, ect.., about their abuse at the OKBR, but nobody investigated.
  • Olympia Police Chief Wurner came to an Olympia Kiwanis meeting in 1986 and told the Kiwanis about the troubles at the OKBR. Chief Wurner was ignored. Maybe he should have done more, but he probably wanted to keep his job.
  • It was well know by the Thurston County courts. These kids were constantly in and out of the Thurston County legal system.
  • The OKBR was written about in the Kiwanis Komments newsletters, and the Kiwanis Board Ranch minutes.
  • All the OKBR Board Members had a legal oversight of the OKBR.
  • Were all Olympia Kiwanis Attorneys & Judges and/or Politicians uninformed?
  • It's amazing how blissfully ignorant some people were about the OKBR. You can read about their guiltlessness in some of their Washington State Patrol and Office of Special Investigation statements.
  • Here's Wa St Patrol Olympia Kiwanis member lists of 1987, 1990, 1994
  • Here is a 49 page index of 5,223 pages of documents that the WSP collected about the OKBR. Anybody can order any of those public documents by following the instructions on that page.
  • The OKBR sent kids for weekend visits to child abusers who donated land to the Kiwanis. The Kiwanians sold the land in 1993 for $125,000.
  • Can the Olympian Newspaper claim ignorance?

    The Olympian Sept. 25, 1994
      Serious charge: Donald Law’s   legal opponents are stunned by the six-digit fine for allegedly holding back evidence in the sexual-abuse case.

    An Olympia attorney representing the O.K. Boys Ranch faces $160,000 in sanctions for allegedly withholding evidence from more than a dozen boys who filed suit against the home.

    Pierce County Superior Court Judge Thomas Sauriol, imposed the sanctions Friday against Donald Law, a partner in the firm Law Lyman Daniel & Karne. Law is representing the OK Boys Ranch and its two insurance companies in a case that involves allegations of negligence for failing to halt sexual and physical abuse at the home. The sanctions, which reportedly equal Law's litigation expenses, are believed to be among the highest to have been imposed  in the state. Law declined to comment on the case Saturday. But even his legal adversaries were stunned by the decision. "The sanctions are a sad and unfortunate event in an extremely difficult case," Olympia attorney Richard J. Kelley said Saturday. Along with two other lawyers, Kelley represents the 15 plaintiffs in the case.

    Sauriol said Law's failure to produce more than 20,000 pages of evidence until 10 days before the case against the O.K. Boys Ranch was scheduled to go to trial had harmed the boys chances of a fair settlement. "Mr. Law, I think you've been hiding the ball," Sauriol  told Law on Friday, according to the Seattle Post Intelligencer. Law reportedly apologized for the late delivery of the documents but contended they wouldn't have increased the boys' settlements.

    Among the documents were staff-written logs describing how younger boys were   sexually assaulted or beaten by older ones. During Friday's court hearing, David Paul, a Portland attorney for the boys, read several excerpts from the logs:
    "T is frightened to death of his peers at the ranch. He hangs around me all night complaining about people hitting him. ... T got pounded tonight. I found him laying in the hall, doubled up. I don't know who did that." This boy, who was 11 when he arrived at the ranch, was allegedly raped repeatedly over a two-year, period by older boys, according to the lawsuit. The boys'  lawsuits allege the state was negligent for failing to stop physical and sexual abuse at the home between 1985 and 1992.

    If the logs had been made available at an earlier date, they "certainly would have affected the dollar amount of the settlement with the state and Kiwanis,"  the Judge said. "There's no question in my mind." The state has tentatively. agreed to pay a $4 million settlement to more than a dozen former residents of the OK Boys Ranch. The Kiwanis Club of Olympia, which has operated the home since 1970, has so far agreed to pay $2.5 million to 14 of the 15 boys in the case. On Oct. 1, Community Youth Services in Olympia is slated to assume control of the home, which will be renamed Our House.

    Below is an e-mail I received from a former Olympia, Washington resident.

    From: ~~~~~~~~@aol.com
    To: Louis Bloom manaco@whidbey.net
    Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 11:34 AM
    Subject: OKBR
    Just came across your pages and felt the urge to respond... In the early 80's (81-83) I was at the OKBR frequently as a young kid walking to/from school, I became friends with some of the boys. At one point a small boy confided to me that he was being raped by another boy in the home. The abusing boy talked about it openly!
    Days later I walked the victim to OPD where we both gave statements. Later that evening I began to receive these incredibly threatening phone calls from a woman employee of the ranch who's name I believe was Paulette at my home. She kept calling over and over screaming at me calling me names. It was horrible. I thought I was helping someone. Nothing came of it. Then all these years later, it all comes out ... one of the boys that I had known there left as a young adult and still couldn't get it together, he eventually killed himself. As an adult now I don't often think back to those times but it still saddens me. All those boys that needed a safe nurturing place to be, and how many of them were better off for having been taken there? It's not about money. It cost these boys their lives, their souls, their trust. Those people who knew, who didn't care, they should feel such shame. Just my opinion.

    From: louis a bloom manaco@whidbey.net
    To: ~~~~~~~@aol.com
    Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 7:30 PM
    Subject: Re: OKBR
    thanks for your e-mail. from what i've read, dshs, the olympia police department, and other "authorities" didn't consider child on child rape to be against the law. it was considered "normal experimentation". The "paulette" you mention, may have been Collette Queener who was an assistant director at the OKBR. Collette, OKBR Director Tom Van Woerdan, and OKBR counselor Laura Rambo Russell were ineptly charged by Wa. St. with "criminal mistreatment for failing to stop abuse". The charges were dismissed by Thurston County Judge Daniel Berschauer on technicalities. The lawyer who represented Collette Queener said, (Nov. 14, 1996 Olympian), that it was a "witch hunt", and that " a more innocent person (than Queener) you could not have for a client. She's an ex-nun ..... I don't see how you could view her in an evil or negative light."
    I congratulate you for doing the right thing, when all those adults looked the other way. I repeat on most pages that the " OKBR has cost the Washington State taxpayers over $35 million dollars (so far)", because I think most people don't care about the kids involved, but they may care that it has cost them (taxpayers) money.
    louis bloom


    manaco@whidbey.net