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Donald Cline - Wikipedia

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Donald Lee Cline (born December 10, 1938) is a former American medical doctor of obstetrics and gynecology and convicted felon.[1][2] Between 1974[clarification needed] and 1987, Cline sired over 90 children without disclosing himself as the sperm donor to his patients.[3] As of May 11, 2022, Cline has been confirmed as the biological father of 94 doctor-conceived offspring.[4]

In 2014 when Jacoba Ballard, a daughter of a former patient of Cline, reviewed the results of her at-home DNA test, she discovered a biological connection to eight previously unknown half-siblings.[a] Her genetic genealogy research ultimately revealed Cline, her mother's fertility doctor, as her biological father.[7][8] Cline is now known to have covertly fathered at least 94 offspring.[9]

Todd Foster, donor child: "It was like this gut punch. Someone just cut the tether to who I am. Because we're all taught our identity resides in our blood, right? That's why I took the damn DNA test. But yeah, this complete feeling like my whole identity, is that gone? Am I no longer a Foster? I literally had to just rest my hand and kind of sit there for a minute. Just like, whoa. The weight of it. I woke up the next morning and, again, excuse my language but just kind of like, what the fuck?! This cannot be real. This is … what? And I think it was that way for a couple of weeks."[28]

Julie Manes, donor child: "It's devastating. It's changed my entire life. I've cried every day for the past two months. It's devastating to say the least. I believed for 34 years that my dad was my father. And he still is, but knowing that Cline did this is...horrible."[30]

Elizabeth White, mother: "My first words were, 'I was raped 15 times, and I didn't even know it.'"[31]

Piece of shit still walking out there.

 

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Nasubi - Wikipedia

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Tomoaki Hamatsu (浜津 智明, Hamatsu Tomoaki, born 3 August 1975),[1] better known as Nasubi (なすび, "Eggplant"), is a Japanese comedian and media personality.[2] Hamatsu is best known for appearing on the controversial reality television show Susunu! Denpa Shōnen.

Hamatsu was challenged to stay alone, unclothed, in an apartment for Susunu! Denpa Shōnen, a Japanese reality-television show on Nippon Television, after winning a lottery for a "showbusiness-related job". Hamatsu was challenged to enter mail-in sweepstakes until he won ¥1 million (about $8,000) in total. Hamatsu started with nothing (including no clothes), was cut off from outside communication and broadcasting, and had nothing to keep him company except the magazines he combed through for sweepstakes entry forms. After spending 335 days to reach Hamatsu's target, he set the Guinness world record for the "longest time survived on competition winnings".[3]

After winning a set of 4 car tires worth around 84000¥ (about $641 in 2024), Hamatsu closed upon his goal, which he finally achieved with a bag of rice, 335 days after starting. After being informed of his victory, Hamatsu was given back his clothes, blindfolded, and taken to a surprise location. Hamatsu happily went along, believing he was going to get a special prize for his year of hard work. After they removed Hamatsu's blindfold, he found himself in South Korea. Hamatsu was given a day at Seoul Land amusement park, where he was able to enjoy Korean barbecue (his favorite food) and ride on the park's multiple attractions. However, after finishing, Hamatsu was taken to another apartment. Hamatsu was once again asked to take off his clothes and challenged to enter sweepstakes. This time, the goal was to win enough money to afford a flight on Japan Airlines to return home.

When Hamatsu had won enough to return to Japan he was blindfolded, clothed, and taken to another apartment in Japan. When the blindfold was removed, he looked around, and instinctively took his clothes off, expecting to continue the challenge. However, the walls of the apartment fell away to reveal that he was actually in a TV studio with a huge live audience, who began applauding him for succeeding at the challenge. Hamatsu was confused by this, because he thought the show had not yet been broadcast.[6]

After the rigors Hamatsu went through in order to become a famous comedian, Hamatsu was unable to succeed in the variety TV world. Instead, Hamatsu became a local talent in his native Fukushima, as well as a dramatic stage actor, founding the stage troupe Eggplant Way, performing across Japan.

In 2016, Hamatsu successfully scaled Mount Everest after three aborted attempts in 2013, 2014 and 2015.[11]

 

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Anna Stubblefield - Wikipedia

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Marjorie Anna Stubblefield (/ˈɑːnə/; born December 3, 1969) is a former professor of philosophy at Rutgers University–Newark, practitioner of facilitated communication, and convicted sexual assaulter.[1] Stubblefield was found guilty of raping a man with severe cerebral palsy when she reportedly believed to have communicated and gained consent from him using the discredited practice of facilitated communication. She was sentenced to 12 years in prison. In October 2016, the family was awarded $4 million in a civil lawsuit against Stubblefield. The 2023 documentary film Tell Them You Love Me covers the abuse case.

The victim was identified as D.J., a 33-year-old African-American man with severe mental disabilities who cannot speak, has cerebral palsy, and is unable to stand independently or accurately direct movements of his body. Based on his disability, his mother and brother were appointed his legal guardians.[4] Stubblefield stated that she had successfully communicated with him, determining he was of normal intelligence. She subsequently brought him to conferences where she "held him out as a success story". In 2011, she revealed to his mother and brother that she had had sexual relations with D.J. and said that they were in love, attributing consent to messages received while facilitating. Stubblefield stated that the two of them had a mutually consenting relationship established through facilitated communication. However, testing of D.J. by family members failed to establish the ability to communicate, and Stubblefield was thanked but denied further access to D.J. She continued to attempt to maintain contact with D.J. and began challenging control of D.J.'s legal guardians over him.[4] In August 2011, the family contacted the police.[5][7]

Before sentencing, Stubblefield wrote to Judge Siobhan Teare, stating, "I was deeply in love... I believed that he and I were intellectual equals, and that our romantic relationship was consensual and mutually loving. I intended no harm, and I had nothing to gain."[11]

In July 2017, an appeals court overturned her conviction and ordered a retrial on the basis that it was a violation of her rights to not allow her to use facilitated communication as a defense.[12][13] In 2018, she pleaded guilty to "third-degree aggravated criminal sexual contact" and was sentenced to time served.[13] In October 2016, the family was awarded $4 million in a civil lawsuit against Stubblefield.[14]

Daniel Engber covered Stubblefield's trials for The New York Times. In 2018, Engber wrote:

"From my position in the gallery, reporting on the trial, it always seemed to me that Anna was entrapped by the grandiosity of her good intentions. As an academic, she devoted much of her career to social-justice activism and the philosophy of race and disability, warning in her published work that men like D.J. (who is black) were like 'the canary's canary' in the coal mine — 'the most vulnerable of the vulnerable' — and subject to both white supremacist and ableist oppression. In teaching D.J. how to type, using a widely disavowed method known as 'facilitated communication,' she believed she was restoring his right of self-determination: empowering him to take college classes, present papers at conferences and eventually express his longing for the older, married, white woman who had been his savior."[17]

 

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Élan School - Wikipedia

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Élan School was an abusive behavior modification program and therapeutic boarding school located in Poland, Maine. It was a full member of the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP) and was considered to be a part of the troubled teen industry. The facility was closed down on April 1, 2011, due to multiple reports of abuse, many from former students, dating back to its opening in 1970.[1]

In the school's controversial[7] program, "humiliation" was identified as a therapeutic tool, as was following up on such intervention with encouragement and warm support. Students attended year-round.[12] The school's treatment methods were based on the "therapeutic community" or TC modality popularized in the 1960s at facilities such as Synanon, and later at Daytop Village.[13]

In 2002, a New Jersey educational consultant who had referred students to Élan for twenty-two years told The New York Times that he would refer only "the most serious cases" to the school, which he said would "take kids who haven't responded to other programs and who are really out of control." and that the school was "certainly not for the faint-hearted." He said "There's lots of confrontation, ... and yet there are lots of hugs."[7] Accounts of former students include mentions of physical and mental abuse, including degrading tasks such as "[sessions] of cleaning urinals with a toothbrush that can last for hours" and up to the point of critical malnourishment.[7]

On the evening of October 30, 1975, in Greenwich, Connecticut, 15-year-old Martha Moxley left with friends to participate in "mischief night", in which neighborhood youths would ring doorbells and pull pranks such as toilet papering houses. According to friends, Moxley began flirting with, and eventually kissed, Thomas Skakel, the older brother of 15-year-old Michael Skakel. Moxley was last seen "falling together behind the fence" with Thomas, near the pool in the Skakel backyard, at around 9:30 p.m.[17] The next day, Moxley's corpse was found beneath a tree in her family's backyard. Her pants and underwear were pulled down, but she had not been sexually assaulted. Pieces of a broken six-iron golf club were found near the body. An autopsy indicated that she had been both bludgeoned and stabbed with the club, which was traced back to the Skakel residence.

Michael Skakel's trial began on May 7, 2002, in Norwalk. Two former students from Élan, where Skakel received treatment for alcoholism, testified they heard Skakel confess to killing Moxley with a golf club. One of the former students, Gregory Coleman, testified that Skakel was given special privileges and had bragged, "I'm going to get away with murder. I'm a Kennedy."[18][19] Furthermore,[20] witnesses testified that beatings and public humiliation were parts of life at Élan during the late-1970s.[2][21] In trial testimony, former students also described the practice of placing a student in a "boxing ring" surrounded by classmates who confronted the student.[22][23] Michael Skakel refused to confess when staff demanded it and he was placed in the boxing ring were he was beaten by other students who took turns in the boxing ring afterwards he was spanked after six or eight hours is when he said maybe he had Martha Moxley.[24]The New York Times has reported that, at the school, "smiling without permission can lead to a session of cleaning urinals with a toothbrush that can last for hours."[7] On June 7, 2002, Skakel was found guilty of murdering Moxley and was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.[25]

Deaths related to Élan​

• In July 1990, 15-year-old runaway Brad Glickman of Bedford, New York, visited the home of Todd and Audrey Blaylock in Norway, Maine, after meeting one of Audrey Blaylock's daughters.[26] Glickman told those he met that his name was "David Smith".[26] Roy O'Hara, a resident at the house, was handling a revolver when it discharged, fatally shooting Glickman in the heart.[26] O'Hara was found guilty of manslaughter that November; however, the verdict would be partially overturned in 1993.[15][27]
• On March 21, 1993, 17-year-old student Dawn Marie Birnbaum ran away from Élan during a school outing.[15][28] On March 24, she was found dead in a snowbank near Interstate 80 having been raped and murdered by a trucker while hitchhiking back home.[15][28] 36-year-old James Robert Cruz Jr. was charged with the first-degree murder of Birnbaum, and sentenced to life in prison.[28]
• After decades of struggling with mental illness, 49-year-old Tiffany Joyce Sedaris died by suicide on May 24, 2013. Sedaris was the sister of Amy Sedaris and David Sedaris. Tiffany's two years at Élan were cited in her siblings' writings and interviews as deeply traumatic to her, and a direct cause of her inability to form normal relationships with her family members and other people.[29][30]
• In March 2016, Maine State Police announced they had opened a cold case investigation into the death of 15-year-old former Élan resident Phil Williams, who died on December 27, 1982, after participating in Élan's "ring," where students were forced to fight each other as a means of behavior modification.[11][31] Williams had been punished for talking back to staff and was beaten so badly that he died of a "brain aneurysm". The State Police later announced no charges would be filed as a result of their investigation, citing insufficient evidence.[32][11][31][33]

On March 23, 2011, the Élan School announced it would be closing on April 1, 2011.[34] The school's owner, Sharon Terry, blamed "declining enrollment and resulting financial difficulties," as well as negative attacks on the school via the Internet backlash. In a letter to the Lewiston Sun-Journal, Terry said: "The school has been the target of harsh and false attacks spread over Reddit and the internet with the avowed purpose of forcing the school to be closed."[1]

On November 17, 2024, a fire destroyed a building on the property of the former Élan School.[35] In March of 2025, two more fires destroyed another two buildings on the property.

 

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Who put Bella in the wych elm? - Wikipedia

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"Who put Bella in the wych elm?" is the final form of a series of graffiti connected with the discovery in 1943 of the remains of a murdered woman inside a wych elm on the outskirts of Hagley in Worcestershire. The body has remained unidentified and the case unsolved since then, prompting many media articles and films, as well as dramas, an opera and a musical.

On 18 April 1943, four local boys (Robert Hart, Thomas Willetts, Bob Farmer and Fred Payne) were poaching or bird-nesting[n 1] in Hagley Wood, part of the estate belonging to Lord Cobham[1][2] near Wychbury Hill, when they came across a large wych elm.[3][n 2] Thinking the location to be a particularly good place to search for birds' nests, Farmer attempted to climb the tree to investigate. As he climbed, he glanced down into the hollow trunk and discovered a skull. At first, he believed it to be that of an animal, but after seeing human hair and teeth, he realised that he had found a human skull. As they were on the land illegally, Farmer put the skull back and all four boys returned home without mentioning their discovery to anybody.[5] However, on returning home, the eldest of the boys, Willetts, felt uneasy about what he had witnessed and decided to report the find to his parents.

In 1944, graffiti related to the mystery began to appear on the walls of nearby areas. The first, reading "Who put Luebella down the wych elm?", was found at Hayden Hill Road, Old Hill, followed shortly by "Who put Bella down the wych elm, Hagley Wood?" on a wall in Upper Dean Street, Birmingham. Since the writing was too high to have been done by boys, they were taken seriously and provided investigators with several new leads for tracing who the victim could have been.[14] Since at least the 1970s, similar graffiti have sporadically appeared on the Hagley Obelisk, near where the woman's body was discovered. The latest, dating from 1999, was modified to "Who put Bella in the witch elm?", favouring the witchcraft theory. Then in 2020, the "who" in white was overpainted in red with "hers", surmised by the Stourbridge News to be the name of a Birmingham graffiti artist.[15]

Really just a wild historical event to happen and the graffiti only adds to it.