Allen Knoll | Surviving Bethel Academy (IFB Reform School)
Preacher Boys Podcast
Eric Skwarczynski
4.6 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Get a copy of Allen's book, Surviving Bethel, FREE on Kindle Unlimited: https://amzn.to/33oR26T
Allen Knoll is the author of Surviving Bethel, a documentary director, and producer with Bethel Documentary Group. He was sent to Bethel Academy at the young age of ten, and would later attend Agape Boarding School.
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| 0:00.0 | Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:08.6 | The court adjudicated several of these children to be abused and neglected. Mark Maples is the county prosecutor. |
| 0:15.9 | The judge ruled that based on testimony from child after child from this witness stand, that the punishment |
| 0:21.6 | a majority of these children had received by the Bethel leadership amounted to cruel, extreme, |
| 0:27.6 | unreasonable and disgraceful punishment. |
| 0:29.8 | You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, |
| 0:36.1 | physical, and sexual abuse within the independent |
| 0:39.0 | fundamental Baptist movement. The testimony shared on this podcast are told from the personal |
| 0:44.6 | experience and perspective of the survivors. Not all legal outcomes are known or final. Any suspect |
| 0:51.5 | is presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. |
| 0:55.9 | To find more information about the Preacher Boys podcast and upcoming documentary, visit |
| 1:01.1 | preacherboys dock.com or connect on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter with a handle at Preacher Boys |
| 1:08.9 | Doc. Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsinski. |
| 1:14.1 | Welcome back to another episode of the Preacher Boys podcast. I'm so excited to bring Alan |
| 1:19.2 | Noel on the show. We were able to connect in person over the protest in Provo. I got to |
| 1:24.9 | introduce myself and get to hear him present his story a little bit. |
| 1:30.1 | And I've just heard so many good things about you, Alan. And I just, I just want to kind of |
| 1:35.1 | get an introduction of who you are for our audience who isn't familiar with you. And just |
| 1:39.6 | kind of let them know how you got introduced to the IFB through way of the troubled team industry? |
| 1:45.2 | I was sent away when I was 10 years old. I was a hyperactive kid, but I don't really know |
| 1:50.4 | why I was sent away. And I was sent to, you know, both programs that I went to from the age 10 to 15 |
| 1:57.1 | were, you know, IFBs. And that's how my life got turned upside down is being sent away to these two programs. |
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