Brad Stowell Wearing an Ankle Bracelet
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Since Paul Steed talked with parole and corrections people a few days ago, they’ve put an ankle bracelet on the perp. I wonder if this is an indication that realize they made a mistake letting hime go.
I know that the people from prisons and parole are coming here, rather than the other way around, to talk to the victims families. I may be wrong - but I think there’s a good chance that Stowell will be put back behind bars to serve more time.
If they decide to hold another hearing on the matter, I’m sure the room will be packed with victims, their families, and supporters.
Any thoughts on this?
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1 I think the ankle monitor is a good idea - for both the community and Brad. The community will know where he was and he will also have proof he wasn’t in all the places people might try to accuse him of.
I think it would be very wrong to let him out and then send him back to prison again because someone, totally not Brad’s fault, made a mistake or didn’t follow a rule. I don’t believe in punishing someone for my mistakes.
Mr Steed can have his say - he can as for them to watch Brad closely, he can ask for the monitor to be kept on him for the whole parole term. But to ask for him to be sent back to prison is wrong. Mr. Steed needs to try to move on and heal and let his sons do the same. In fact, you never hear from the victims, just this father who seems to have become a junky for being in front of the news camera for whatever he can be. Maybe I would feel different if it was the real victims who were screaming and not a man who seems to be unwilling to talk to anyone who doesn’t think exactly as he does now.
I know many victims - you don’t heal if you continue to be hateful.
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1 0 Sounds like the mother of brad stowell! The fact is, the man is a menace to society and has publically admitted he can’t be trusted or rehabilitated. Which means IMO, he needs to be locked up for the rest of his life. I gaurentee you we haven’t heard the last of brad stowell and unfortunately, it will more than likely be in the form of another abuse victim when we hear from him again.
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1 0 I cannot blame Mr. Steed, if it were my sons who where abused by this pedophile, I think I could forgive, however for my own peace of mind, I would not want the person out in the public, and would do all in my power to see that he never gets the chance to molest again. I am not an expert, but I don’t think this type of sickness can be cured. He will always be a pedophile, and as such will always be attracted to children. Forgiveness of an act does not take away justice and the responsibility to protect the public.
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1 0 Mr. Steed is obsessed, but it’s understandable after all he went through to see justice done for his kids. At one point, his family was reduced to living in a house with no furniture- it was all sold to pay legal expenses. The mental cost of having so much venom thrown at him and his children took an even bigger toll, I’m sure, and left a lot of anger that will take a long time to fade.
After so many years of dissapointment, frustration, anger, and perseverance, it must seem to him that Stowell was in and out of prison in the wink of an eye. I’m sure that if Stowell had been incarcerated longer, he wouldn’t be so upset now. For him, it must seem like his family keeps losing, even when they won.
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1 0 I don’t see how anyone dare tell a man whose children were molested how to handle his feelings about it, short of keeping him from killing Brad Stowell.
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0 1 ….yet you dared to tell a mother how to handle her molested children..(calling her handling of the situation “sick, downright sick”)…..
interesting….is this one of those juxtapositions that make your posts so refreshing????
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1 0 Mr. Steed’s kids were molested. That is a fact. As for a poster claiming to be the mother of a sexually abused child who is working things out with the molester, that speaks for itself.
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1 0 Easterner, you want Crystal to chill and stop, yet you insist on bringing things up to her over and over for clarification. You expect one thing and do the opposite? It will not give you the results with her you desire. JMO
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0 1 reader,
you clearly didn’t read all the posts on this topic (some were deleted before you posted) which explains your comment…..maybe read what Joe posted in the “vulgarity” post tonight and it will clear up your concerns.
Hope that helps. Have a good night.
PS you also have me confused with another poster: I never told crystal to “chill.” 
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0 0 (Moderator Note: Duplicate comment removed -also found on “Child Molester Brad Stowell Walks Out Of Jail!”)
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0 3 Mr Steed and well as his wife are completely obsessed with attention and that is all. those kids were not molested as i know from first hand info from the alleged victims themselves. the fact that his wifes’ previous law suit against walmart was thrown out, this was all that they had to fall back on to get money for nothing. sadley it has worked
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0 3 oh and by the way, doesnt mr steeds church as well as his own belief teach that he should forgive and move on. Jesus forgave adulterers and murderers as an example. doesnt mean that they will not be punished for their crimes, but forgiveness none the less
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2 0 Okay, one more time…
The Steeds are the tips of the iceberg that is Stowell. There are 24 other victims plus the kid he did in Alaska while he was on a mission. Are you going to say that these people and their kids should shut up too? Stowell admitted what he did. There is no question of what he did and he said he would do it again! Why don’t we believe him and keep him in jail?
Good heavens, JESUS said that if you hurt a little one it would be better for you to have a millstone tied around your neck and dropped into the ocean. That’s how the forgiving Son of God feels about people who hurt kids.
Do you think that God is okay with Stowell’s actions? If so, read your Bible. Men who raped anyone were stoned to death. Jesus stopped the stoning of a woman caught in adultery. Do you see any instance of Jesus saving a child rapist from death? Forgive, yes? Stop the penalty of the law-umm, NO. Otherwise, why say what he did about stones around the neck?
It is high time that people stopped making excuses for hurting children. Stop it. In OUR church we are taught you screw up? Then you own up and pay up and then shut up about how unfair it is. Brad screwed up so he should own up and then pay up and shut up. Period. End of story.
One more thing, The Bible says that if you wish someone well who is a violator of the peace that you will be judged by God for participating in their sin. Think about that the next time you rush to the defense of the Brads of this world. Do you want to be judged by God as a supporter of child rapists? Think about it. God don’t like ugly as they say in the hood. And this is plain ugly.
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0 1 Trimelda, when you speak of “OUR church,” which church do you speak of, specifically? Speaking of the stowells in the USA, about 4 years ago I told my uncle that his older brother had sexually abused me as a child; and that he needed to keep him away from the children in the family.
My uncle is a mormon, holds the priesthood, and I felt he’d protect the children in the family. He also takes employs his older brother and watches out for him as he’s mildly developmentally disabled. Unfortunately my uncle called me a liar and did nothing to protect the children in my family.
August of 2007, while my Dad was in the hospital, and two days before he died, my cousin, who is the daughter of the uncle I’d spoken of above, called my mom’s house - looking for my home number. I happened to be there, so took the phone; thinking she was calling about my dad. But she wanted to tell me that our other uncle, the developmentally disabled one had sexually abused two of her daughters, and that he would be going to court sometime next week to be sentenced. Meanwhile he was in jail, and she’d let me know when the sentencing date was arranged. I was in shock, that was exactly what I’d tried to prevent by letting her father know the sick creep had done to me.
During the same time period I’d let that uncle know what his brother had done to me, I’d also told my parents. My sister confirmed to Dad that it was true. After my cousin’s phone call, I went up to the hospital to see dad, and told him about her call to me. Dad said he’d heard, and that after I’d told him what had happened several years earlier, he’d told his youngest brother to keep the retarded brother away from children. My Father died two days later, on August 10th, 2007.
The day after my Dad died, my cousin called me, and again, I thought she was calling me about my Father. She was calling to let me know when the sentencing date for the pedophile was. I told her I’d have Daddy’s funeral the day after the sentencing so that the family wouldn’t have any conflicts with scheduling (my parents are divorced and I’m the oldest child, so Daddy’s funeral arrangements were up to me). Then my cousin gave me news that nearly blew me away.
She and her husband are married in the mormon temple, very active in their religion, and so are all 5 of their children. It was when giving their children the teaching of appropriate and inappropriate touching, and that all inappropriate touching should immediately be reported to their parents that their two girls asked them “Even if it’s an uncle?” My cousin said she knew exactly who the girls meant when they asked, and she said, “Yes, even an uncle.” Her two oldest girls then told their parents what he’d been doing to them.
My cousin called her father, the good mormon, who begged her not to call the police, stating that his brother is just different. But she did not listen to him and did call the police. Then she told me what was as disturbing, if not even more disturbing.
My cousin let me know that her father sexually abused her between her ages of 5 and 10 years old, often times while her mother watched. When she was little, and would put on shorts and a t-shirt during the summer months, her mother would tell her she’d better go change because otherwise she’d excite her father and she knew what that would lead to.
My cousin’s parents, the good mormons, married in the temple who never miss church, and raised their only daughter and two sons in the church, with one who is now a Bishop, are co-conspirator pedophiles who act to protect other pedophiles.
I’ve long since left the mormon church and have no respect for the faih.
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1 0 Justice first, forgiveness second.
Stowell will never spend another peaceful day outside of prison on this earth. His deeds will follow him for the rest of his life, and he will be hounded from place to place. It won’t matter whether he re-offends or not. I see that as being justice with a lifetime sentence, in jail or out.
Until research finds some way to re-wire an offender’s brain forever there is no good solution for the offender or the victim. Like Wendyjo’s example, offenders often lead otherwise good lives.
It’s up to the individual families concerned.
In my own life, there are people I can never forgive, and people I forgave. It all depended on the offense and the circumstances, and I’m at peace with both. I’ve never been sexually abused, so I don’t know how I would feel about forgiveness there.
If I was one of those parents who had a child victimized by Stowell, I honestly don’t know what I would do or feel.
This is going to be one of the things society is really going to struggle with in years to come, as more people like Wendyjo speak out. Until recently, this is a crime committed in silence and treated only with denial.
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0 0 Dear Brothers and Sisters
First let me say that I am sorry that you had such a hard time Wendyjo. That’s so sad that you had to go through that mess. I am not a Mormon and I have lots of things I theologically disagree with in that church. However, in all the years I have dealt with outing pedophiles in religious institutions I can say that no large church body is safe from problems such as these.
And a worse place for such nonsense are our schools. You think child rapers run in the hallowed halls of the faithful? Schools have even more.
It takes constant vigilance to protect our kids. And denial is the enemy of vigilance. You cannot protect against that which you refuse to see. You must admit there is a problem in order to have a hope in Hell of solving it.
The difficulty is getting to that first step and for many people that admittance comes very hard.
Jesus never told anyone they were forgiven UNTIL they admitted they had a problem. The woman caught in adultery was told to go “and SIN no more.” The Good Thief confessed he was wrong, asked forgiveness and then Jesus said “Today you will be with me in Paradise.”
See the pattern? I did wrong. I am sorry. Please forgive me. I deserve punishment but I ask mercy..
If you are not sorry, you cannot be forgiven. If you are truly sorry you will want to make amends. Does anyone watch the show, “The Cleaner” with Benjamin Bratt? The whole theme of that show is own up to your screw up and then pay up. If you will not admit you screwed up, then you will refuse to own up and you will avoid the pay up. Instead you will blame the person you victimized and the end of it will be you going to Hell in a hand basket because you can’t deal.
Our church is a Christian recovery church based upon the Christian 12 steps. I am in it because I admit I have a problem with habits that are not nice. Legal? Yes. Good? No. Doing something that is legal but immoral doesn’t make breaking the Commandments okay, just legal. I realized that as an adult no one was going to stop me or control me but God and I. I had to decide to keep on in a cycle of healing or end up messed up. But first you have to admit you have a problem.
I have had sobriety from my problem for 32 years. But I have to work my program every day or I will lapse back into that set of behaviors or worse. I know that you can fall into sinful actions that are addictive very easily. So, I stay away from temptation and lean on God a lot. If I don’t do that I will make a big mess of my life. Go to jail? No. Go somewhere else very hot at the end of my life? Yep.
This realization made me understand that I have to take responsibility for my actions in life. And that’s what Brad has to do. And part of that means saying I am sorry and then never doing it again. If you can’t say that, then go to jail and stay there where you can’t hurt anyone else.
Pretty simple to me.
As for Wendyjo the more truth you bring out the better. It is like lancing a boil. Boomer, I would beat the living snot out of anyone who touched my kid. I would then ask the molester if he or she was sorry. If they were, great! I forgive you. I might even visit you in jail because jail is the penalty for what you did. But I would not hide or make excuses for you. No way.
Screw up, own up, pay up, shut up. If you aren’t willing to follow these guidelines, then you aren’t forgiven.
That’s how God does it. That’s how healed people do it.
And it’s worked out so far.
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1 0 Hi, Trimelda…
You make some good points.
Stowell was a festering boil in the community, and lancing that boil was a very hard thing for lots of folks. But now, the community is all the better for the sharp pains the opposing sides went through.
When my kids were young (they’re all grown up now; my oldest is in her mid-30’s) I discovered that one of my sons was being bullied by a kid who was a recent school acquaintance of a friend. My boy was 12 at the time, his good friend 14, and the bully was 15. At that age, a few years makes a big difference.
My boy didn’t want to talk about it at first, kids that age never do, but eventually, he realized he needed my help. The bullying hadn’t gone on for very long, but could have been serious. The kid was trying to get him to steal money from home.
When the bully showed up at the house a day or two later, I took him out on the front porch and had a little talk with him. I told him that he wasn’t to come to my home ever again. If he threatened my son with physical violence, or actually hit him, I would do the same, and he would get the hurts for sure. He blustered, and tried to threaten me with his father. I replied, telling him to bring his Dad around. I told him his Dad may be able to beat me up, or not.
Either way, he would be limping to school for a long time to come, after he picked up his teeth with his broken fingers.
Then he threatened me with calling the cops. My reply was the same. I made sure he knew my fight was with him, and only him.
I would have never beaten the kid up, but I put to him in the terms that he could understand- I played the part of a bigger and stronger, and implacable bully. Hopefully, he learned that there were limits and consequences to his actions and changed his ways.
He never came around again. Coercion is never a good thing, but sometimes there are circumstances where fear is the only behavior remedy that works with some people. I wish it was otherwise.
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0 0 I respectfully disagree, Boomer.
You were not being a bully nor were you coercing anything or anyone. You simply stated what the consequences would be if that bully decided to hurt your child.
Force is when someone makes you do something. Coercion is a type of force. Did you MAKE the bully leave your son alone? No. Did you push the kid in a corner and threaten him to do something against his will or to humiliate and upset him? No.
You simply stated the consequences of his actions. That is like saying gravity forces people not to jump out of a window. No, it doesn’t. As long as you obey the laws of gravity, you will not have to worry about smashing on the sidewalk-unless you jump from a certain height. When you push that boundary you better have a parachute or a soft cushion-something to counteract the consequences of messing with gravity. Otherwise, not so good for you.
Like wise, there is a boundary about our kids. Mess with it and you get a consequence. Stay on your side of the boundary and we will get along just fine. That ain’t force or bullying or threats. That’s the Law. You give what you get.
If Little Brad Stowell had understood that and had a father or mother who taught him that consistently, then he would not have hurt those kids and he would have a happy life.
Thank you for standing up for your kid.
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0 0 Thanks, T…
You’re right. My intent was just to show that he couldn’t get away without facing consequences from me, and that I took it very personally.
A friend was visiting at the time of the confrontation; we talked about it later- at the time, he worked for the school district, and he thought that I did the kid a favor. By the time he was in high school, it might have gotten very bad for him if he had continued his bullying.
One good thing that came out of it was a talk with my son afterwards- I wanted him to know that he had to fight his own battles, but I had his back if he was in an unfair fight.
After that, he quit picking on his much younger brother, and may have stood up for him- I never heard anything if he did. They are very close now, and have been since that incident, over 20 years ago.
The other good thing was we talked more frequently about more things in general afterward. We still do that a lot.
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0 0 That’s a wonderful story!
Thanks for sharing that.
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This is the best news that I have yet heard in this travesty. I hope that your thoughts and dare I say predictions all come true where Stowell is concerned.