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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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Here's the statement that Olympia Police Chief John Wurner made to the Wa. St. Patrol on Nov. 17, 1995, about his involvement with the Olympia Kiwanis Board Ranch. John Wurner said that Thurston County Prosecutor Patrick Sutherland & Deputy Prosecutor Gary Tabor gave "lame excuses" for not prosecuting the OKBR people.
STATEMENT OF JOHN WURNER ON November 17, 1995 95-687
I am Sergeant Glenn Cramer of the Washington State Patrol, Internal
Affairs Section. The date is November 17, 1995. The following notes have
been dictated from an interview that Lieutenant Dan Eikum and I conducted
today by contacting Chief John Wurner of the Olympia Police Department, at
approximately 11:00 a.m.
Chief Wurner told us he had a fairly significant memory of the OK Boys
Ranch. Back in 1985 he met with ranch board members to alert them of a
problem. There was a lot of criminal activity being reported to their
department involving the ranch. After the meeting in 1985, he believed Tom
Van Woerden instructed the ranch staff members to watch what they reported
to the police--he did not want any thing publicly known.
Approximately September of 1992, Nancy Gassett contacted him to request
help from Reiko Callner regarding an investigation she had conducted at the
Olympia P. D. He said Reiko reviewed the investigation and strongly
recommended criminal charges of failing to report be filed against Tom Van
Woerden, Collette Queener, and Laura Rambo.
Since the Olympia City Prosecutor did not have authority due to their
lack of statutes involving that type of crime, Chief Wurner and Reiko met
with Patrick Sutherland and Gary Tabor of the Thurston County Prosecutor's
Office. During the meeting Chief Wurner strongly suggested the prosecutor
and Gary Tabor file charges against Van Woerden, Queener, and Rambo.
However, a definitive decision concerning the prosecution of these three was
never made.
Chief Wurner volunteered the help of Nancy Gassett and Reiko Callner to
prosecute the case. A few weeks later, after their meeting, Chief Wurner
received a letter from Patrick Sutherland outlining what they needed to do
in order to prosecute the case. Wurner told Lieutenant Eikum and I it was a
lame excuse not to prosecute. Then sometime around February of 1993 he
received an official denial letter from Gary Tabor regarding the
prosecution. Again Chief Wurner said this was a lame excuse, although he
wasn't exactly sure why they didn't want to prosecute. The letter indicated
the situation at the OK Boys Ranch had been rectified and the boys along
with personnel issues at the ranch had been dealt with. When Van Woerden
resigned as director and the assistant director stepped up to director.
Wurner didn't feel any changes had taken place since the new director was
one of the key players who he thought should have been charged criminally
for failing to report.
Chief Wurner showed Lieutenant Eikum and I a manilla folder with news
articles, letters, and documentation he had compiled over the years
(beginning with 1980) pertaining to the ranch.
In concluding the conversation with Wurner, he showed us a letter he'd
written in 1992 to Jeff Lane, a Kiwanis board member. This letter
specifically documented the calls his department was receiving and the types
of criminal activity going on at the OK Boys Ranch. We asked him what Jeff
Lane did as a profession, he said Assistant Attorney General for the
Attorney General's Office. This concludes the conversation with Chief
Wurner.
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.
Below is an e-mail I received from a former Olympia, Washington resident.
From: ~~~~~~~~@aol.com
From: louis a bloom manaco@whidbey.net
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.
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