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🗓️ 12 April 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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0:00.0 | This episode contains adult content. Please use discretion. |
0:05.0 | Well, I was 13 and it was just a few days before my 9th grade year began and I went out to check the mail and there was a large |
0:16.0 | millenil envelope addressed to me and of course it's always exciting to get mail. |
0:20.0 | But when I opened it up it was page after page of black and white photocopied extremely graphic pornography. |
0:28.0 | This is Sarah Garon. The pages were images that appeared to have been cut out and arranged on new pieces of paper and then photocopied. |
0:38.0 | A stack of them, an inch thick. I hardly even knew what I was looking at and I think for that reason it was extra horrifying. |
0:47.0 | It's not even knowing what what an earth this was. And the minute I pulled it out you know you just have this gut reaction of horror. |
0:56.0 | And I just remember I was trembling shaking started to cry. |
1:01.0 | This was 1996 in Chandler, Arizona. Sarah says she grew up in a very sheltered environment. Her mother and stepfather were very active in their local evangelical church. |
1:13.0 | On the day she received the package she remembers immediately taking it inside to show them. And I said look at this. Someone sent me this. Why would someone send me this? |
1:23.0 | There was no return address on the envelope. No other markings. No note. Just pages and pages of these pictures. |
1:32.0 | What did your parents think? I mean what do you remember them saying about who did this? |
1:38.0 | I think we all just were in shock from it and and racking our brains about who would do this and why. |
1:47.0 | I think they sort of interrogated me. Are there any creepy boys at school or anybody who might have a crush on you or anyone you might have slided in some way. |
1:57.0 | You just kind of go through all of those questions in your head when you're trying to make sense of an incident like this. |
2:03.0 | Because in my mind it could have only come from of course someone that I knew and most of the people I knew were at my school. |
2:11.0 | So anytime anyone expressed interest in me in a sort of romantic way, I would add them to my list and kind of consider. |
2:20.0 | Could they have done something like this? Was this them? We decided to call the police. The police came. Took it, made a report. And nothing ever happened. |
2:32.0 | Every time Sarah went to get the mail she worried about what might be in it. But no more letters came. Weeks passed and then months, nothing. |
2:43.0 | And then one year later, something else arrived. I'm Phoebe Judge. This is criminal. |
2:50.0 | This time there was just a single business size envelope with my name on an actual printed label this time. No return address. |
3:12.0 | And I opened this one and this time it was color photographs each of which took up the entire page. And I would say it was two or three eight by 11 sheets again of very graphic pornography. |
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