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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STATEMENT OF ROBERT VAN SCHOORL on November 21, 1995 95-687
I am Sergeant Glenn Cramer of the Washington State Patrol, Internal Affairs Section. On November 21, 1995 at 11: 15 a.m., Lieutenant Dan Eikum and I contacted Robert Van Schoorl at the Thurston County Auditor’s Office.
Van Schoorl told us he was a member of the Olympia Kiwanis Club as well as a past President. While a member, each year they would give a budget of 8,000 dollars to the OK Boys Ranch. During this time members wanted to know what was being done with the money for the ranch. Van Woerden told them it really wasn't any of their business. When pressed for what they were doing with the money Van Woerden said it was to help pay for an insurance premium. Van Schoorl told us that wasn't the truth, and there were several business men in the Kiwanis Club who felt the same way. They knew an insurance premium didn't cost 8,000 dollars. When Van Schoorl became President of the Olympia Kiwanis and it came time for the budget, he decided to cut it in half. Since they didn't know where the money was being spent he was only going to give them 4,000 dollars.
Van Schoorl told us the Olympia Kiwanis were not welcome at the boys ranch per Van Woerden. As part of their participation to become members of the Kiwanis Club they were required to go and view the operation at the ranch. He could not remember who's idea it was, but one of the board members asked why they didn't just video what was going on so they could use it as an informational video and it would suffice as their visit there.
In Van Schoorl's deposition taken on June 30, 1994, on page 52 where he was questioned by David Paul, an attorney for the plaintiff suing for the DSHS and the Olympia Kiwanis , he was asked who rebuffed him concerning his questions about the boys ranch. Van Schoorl indicated to Mr. Paul that Mr. Ernst, Mr. Bishop, and Mr. Van Woerden were the ones who rebuffed him. On page 52 line 13, he was asked who other than Ernst, Bishop, and Van Woerden. On page 52 line 15, Van Schoorl said Jane Skinner, Tom Van Woerden, to a limited extent, Virgil Clarkson, and Jeff Lane. We asked him what Jeff Lane rebuffed him on about the boys ranch. Van Schoorl replied that Lane rebuffed him strictly on the financial issue involving the ranch. He went on to say Lane was a strong defender of Van Woerden, he came across being more straight forward, and that the board was defending Van Woerden. He felt they needed to publicly support him, however, Van Schoorl felt there was a major problem at the OKBR.
Van Schoorl was not certain as to the time frame, but he said the OPD investigation report had been given to Brian Fischnaller who in turn provided the reports to the board members. Fischnailer had proposed that the board members get rid of Van Woerden. The only person who opposed this idea was Jane Skinner.
There was talk among the board-directors of the stop placement order DSHS enacted in July of 1992. The OKBR wanted the Olympia Kiwanis to exert their political muscle to have the stop placement order lifted. Van Schoorl went on to tell Lieutenant Eikum and I some of the problems he perceived on why things went wrong at the OKBR. He felt DSHS needed to provide much better information about the boys being sent to the ranch. He thinks DSHS was under pressure to place kids, and the ranch had been forced because of it. He also indicated with fewer and fewer beds at group homes, DSHS was under even more pressure to place boys in group homes, particularly the OKBR. Again, he feels DSHS neglected to provide enough information about these boys. Another problem he perceived was the lack of accountability pertaining to DSHS and group homes. Van Schoorl also mentioned, for the second time, the fact that the OKBR was putting pressure on the Kiwanis in expecting them to exert their political muscle to lift the stop placement order. He felt the foster care program at the ranch was the best part, although they eliminated this program shortly after the stop placement order was lifted. He then went on to tell us the selection of Collette Queener as director of the OKBR was the dumbest decision the Kiwanis ever made. However, he felt they had expended so much energy to get rid of Van Woerden they had no emotional energy for any assesment of Collette Queener followed in to tell her she was gone. He felt Queener followed in Van Woerden's foot steps. While he was gone he was able to run the boys ranch as an absent manager.
The conversation with Van Schoorl ended by him telling us the state needed to have more audits on group homes. He said it was a common practice for exception based auditing. In other words, unless there was an exception that needed auditing, organizations were not audited.
This concludes the conversation with Robert Van Schoorl.

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 people were involved with an "active collaboration with evil". The OKBR staff was apparently actively involved in long-term molestation and sadistic abuse of these kids. The Kiwanians and their friends could/should have stopped the abuse.

Robert Van Schoorl says that he knew nothing about the troubles of the OKBR until it was in the newspapers in late 1992.
Mr Van Schoorl became an Olympia Kiwanian on 6/22/87, was President of the Olympia Kiwanis in 1992, has been budget program specialist for DSHS, has worked for the Washington State Senate on the DSHS budget, has worked for the Washington State Department of Licensing in which he oversaw 50 boards and commissions about their licensing, was a budget manager for the Department of Natural Resources, is presently a chief deputy for the Thurston County Auditor (Olympia Kiwanian Sam Reed) and is presently (1999) an Olympia Port Commissioner, running for reelection this year. Mr. Van Schoorl ran for Thurston County Assessor in 1998, but he lost. The troubles at the OKBR since the early 1980's were common knowledge, among many Kiwanians, Thurston County Officials and citizens, Olympia Police, DSHS officials, ect..., but Mr. Van Schoorl said he was in the dark until late 1992.

Bob Van Schoorl gave a deposition on June 30, 1994 about his involvement with the Olympia Kiwanis Boys Ranch. Mr. Van Schoorl was an Olympia Kiwanis member since June 1987, and was Olympia Kiwanis President in 1992, but he said he knew very little about the Olympia Kiwanis Boys Ranch troubles.

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