Episode Three

they will they will put us on tv and on the radio and sell us with our backstories you can be an adopted teens support one of these kids and so sometimes these people would come

and visit sometimes they send gifts

would often some letters back to them thanking them sometimes some of the adopted teens so get kind of weird and funny in general um just adopted teen program was just that it was

a program that collects money for kids in the program

and brothers

i'm gonna be honest the whole program made me feel like i was kept out

ah from the campus of freedom village usa an international ministry dedicated to reaching the teenagers of the

united states and canada welcome to victory

my name is margaret and this is we warn them freedom village and investigative miniseries unpacking what happened freedom village usa through interviews with the people who experienced it themselves

we will mention different forms of abuse and violence throughout the series so please take care of yourself as you feel necessary

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this is the voice of jesse a friend of mine from the we warn them campaign introduced me to him because he thought i may want to know his story he was first put into foster care as a kid and raised by a couple in chicago he came to freedom village in ninety ninety one at fifteen years old and ended up staying for four years

ears i asked him how he first arrived

that is an interesting question so

when i was fifteen i

was molested by

i was actually a foster kid and i was molested by cousin i told my dad it was like his favorite nephew and so my dad was in denial and

some other things came off and my dad

oh like i was lying and at some point it got turned around on me that i was gay and that i kind of did this i projected this so they saw on health through um

psychiatric hospital or doctor um river's edge hospital in chicago

and the doctor that worked there actually recommended it he has some other students say he had referred there previously

it seemed like there were different incentives for jesse to be placed here for his parents it was marketed as a form of conversion therapy but for the doctor i wondered if there was some sort of monetary gain especially considering he personally took jesse there himself jesse describes what happened to him after he got dropped off

so then after we got out of the office they told me that they were gonna have someone take me over to the dorm to see my room so they introduced me to who's going to be my roommate and i just remember just being just completely lost and like what just happened

i think the first few hours that i was there they went through my stuff they took all my stuff and it was pretty much like this is what your life is going to be the first few days i was just terrified

i didn't even want to take a shower i'm so terrified i didn't know what was gonna happen or who's gonna try what i was just i just knew that i was taken to the school where there were these other boys that were supposedly all delinquents so there was a voice doormen and girls dorm and there was probably about

two hundred boys and about maybe one hundred fifty girls i might be wrong and my less but there are a lot there were four hallways and the boys door and at least twelve rooms in each hallway at least two people in every room summer at three and four people lady call

yesterday i mentioned it last night she shed a little off i've had my little girl fourteen years old in the back edge and ward park thirty days fifty dollars a day that's fifteen hundred dollars a you know her husband that girl didn't make fifty dollars a day

he had work a long time he worked pumping at least two months to pay for her hospital bill

for one month and i said the

i sure don't ask you one question she better should know she

jenna just heard adventure girls home in strange but girls and boys would come to us and have tried and failed on everything they've ever tried yet when jesus comes along i think

that was lester roll-off an evangelical preacher from corpus christi texas who can essentially be credited with creating the business model for the independent fundamentalist baptist home for troubled teens born in nineteen fourteen and a rural part of texas he quickly reached out of his hometown and found comfort in the spotlight of preaching

in nineteen forty four he launched a half hour radio program called the family altar which preached the old testament think fire and brimstone his audience grew significantly as his program soon expanded from texas to a total of twenty two states with this new audience lester started selling book

bullets giving speeches and soon opening facilities

in nineteen fifty one he took his growing ministry and incorporated the whole thing to incorporate is illegal act that allows someone to form a corporation ultimately people decide to incorporate for three big reasons the first is legal protection having an incorporated organization offers more protection under the law

the second is asset protection the owner of the company can have personal assets separate from the company if sued any incurred damages would not extend to the owner as personal assets would be deemed untouchable and the last is taxes a religious corporation operating with a religious tax exempt

sion does not have to pay property tax lester roll-off built an empire in texas

the volume of donations only increased when he tapped into the hearts of followers by creating homes and reform schools for children many of the kids in his homes were foster care kids last year roll-off enterprise the radio station and everything moved from corpus christi texas to fort thomas on the indian resurrect

ation this is barb and original survivor of one of lester roloff first homes the rebecca home for girls i was there when it but bill clinton's and all the governors and all the political things we were taken to the gp conventions to the rallies we had republicans rallies everywhere

she is now an activist and speaks out against trouble teen abuse

we open forum we sang for him and we were damaged children he has made out to be like bad kids i myself was a foster kid many children there were just unwanted children that the state gave to this man which was a complete lunatic and we never loved the fence unless it was

as to the republicans we were handcuffed to the drainpipes and that's how a nineteen seventy three what people don't understand in nineteen seventy three when we got the first abuse charge came

last year roll-off made a plea deal and i got all these court documents papers a plea deal not to cuff is no more to drain pipes while the next girl that got away of course was coughed and thick he broke the plea deal so dcfs the state came in they want an oversight to check on us he re

fused elect to state in to check on us

she arrived in nineteen seventy three this was also the same year that the first charges of abuse were lobbied against the rebecca home sixteen girls gave their testimony describing whippings with leather straps beating with paddles being handcuffed to drain pipes and imprisonment within isolation cells

this led to the state welfare passing the child care licensing act which required all child care facilities to be licensed by the state however roll-off refuse to license his homes arguing that he was quote satisfied by god's rules and only followed the bible he continued to appeal

eel state orders and can you imagine my lone star state my age state closing down ministers like these it's an insult to god's work and god's people that support these home to fuchsia

of doing irreversible damage to children will make no charge

and then done nothing but love them and implementation the same the praises of god the homes that brother roll-off operates in the state of texas are all in legal jeopardy

to continue their operation he must require a license from the welfare department if brother roll-off gets this license he would have to alter his standards and methods which have proved successful and adopt state standards which have proven unsuccessful in nineteen seventy eight with the election of the next texting governor approaching row

and himself with republican candidate bill clements roll-off use his substantial radio platform to encourage listeners to vote for clements in return clements promised to support the amendment to the child welfare laws if he were elected clements won by eighteen thousand votes

and nineteen seventy nine three roll-off homes were shut down after failing to comply with the new welfare laws the christian law association who represented roll-off enterprises argued that the act in pinched on the corporation's right to exercise freedom of religion that challenge was denied and three homes were forced to clay

close however by the fall of that same year all the homes were reopened under the people's baptist church the one that roll-off created back in nineteen sixty nine rather than the roll-off evangelistic enterprises

in nineteen seventy nine when the home got raided and closed down the first time when they reopen underneath the church people's church it was all off enterprise seventy nine for roll-off interface nineteen and eighty is the people's church when that happened

off took five million dollars and transferred a lot of properties these workers is always the same markers but they just moved around to different homes in different states you know it was the same circle i should say

that's when bethel open um happiness hills you know stuff like that the little branch offs the first break offs that's when nat open as in that property transferred the omer workers from our farm all the politicians very political my childhood turned very political

um we had presidents governors senators and good old bill clements if you do not know bill clements the governor that roll-up put in to office um is the beginning of the g o p y wiring he's the one that started it we're in all the articles i

got the very first articles when it happened when they announced the event you know the white room publican party and clinics you know it say right there because of the role often girls brought less roll-off and the rebecca girls he used us so much lose call his crown jewel job

we were taken everywhere and people would send him money to take care of us whores and prostitutes don't theme from hippy highs internal cases nobody wants i heard that every day sometimes two days two times a day for three years of my life i watched myself on youtube as a child being called a whore

i'm thirteen years old

and he made millions and millions once and we've counted the money one time we counted six point four million dollars he made in a week of low love donations that's really when jerry farwell payment

roll-off gained more traction through the radio and open more homes in states outside of texas with new political connections he also began connecting with more preachers across the country people like bob jones jerry falwell and paul why rick

if you look at fletcher brothers website today on the front page you'll see that he calls himself one of the founders of the evangelical right so i began to look into the history of the modern evangelical movement which led me to paul why rick

all wiring is the conscience of american conservatism for three or four decades while wiring has been the moral compass that points to conservative ideals he's been a great role model and a great mentor for a whole generation of men and women on capitol hill around the country in fact if you'd like

look in in the congress and us house of representatives the united states senate you'd find senators and house members and staffers and men and women who are governors and working in public policy institutes were journalists whose conservative ideals were really awakened and sharpened because of paul wyman

paul why rick went to washington dc in the nineteen sixties on a mission to get white evangelical christians involved in politics essentially he saw this as a huge potential voting bloc you have this large group of people evangelical christians who are not politically involved and not politically united but their belief system is

is very easy to understand it is based around fear fear of sin fear of damnation fear of the devil and fear makes people easy to manipulate so that's exactly what he did how many of our christians have what i call the goo goo syndrome

good government they want everybody to vote

i don't want everybody to vote elections are not won by a majority of people they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now as a matter of fact our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down they needed a cause an issue that would get people engaged and that issue turn

out to be school segregation many people think it was roe vs wade but that served as a later cause brown vs the board of education officially ended racial segregation in public schools and nineteen fifty four but a lot of people pushed back on this and one way that white families tried to get around this rule was to create

their own private schools and these private schools were sponsored by churches meaning that they were technically considered christian charities and were allowed to have tax exempt status these schools are sometimes referred to as segregation academies one example of this was a school open by jerry falwell

not going to go where they're not wanted any more than whites gonna go where they're not wanted and so there's no real andre please come we'd love to have it as part of this plan to take that open stand sometimes it's costly to one's social political stance jerry falwell was a preacher televangelist and one of the major political forces

his in the mid twentieth century using his encyclopedic knowledge of the bible he convinced his congregation that the most righteous interpretation of scripture was a literal one his following ballooned throughout the nineteen fifties and sixties to the point where he could only preach in spaces designed for thousands of parishioners to come together

this was the beginning of what we now know as the megachurch and nineteen sixty nine just a year after desegregation and holmes county where falwell opened his school the number of white students enrolled in public schools dropped from seven hundred seventy one to twenty eight the following year there were no white students because they'd

all transferred to the private christian schools the segregation academies jerry falwell one of the most prominent leaders of the evangelical movement in america there's this is a little bit of a sermon that he gave to his congregation in lynchburg virginia years after that ruling was rendered quote if chief justice

warren and his associates had known god's word and had desired to do the lord's will i am quite confident that the nineteen fifty four decision would never have been made the facility should be separate when god has drawn a line of distinction we should not attempt to cross that

that line the true negro does not want integration he realizes his potential is far better among his own race and quote falwell went on to assert that integration quote will destroy our race eventually so a group of black families organized and sued the tr

treasury department saying that these schools couldn't be considered charitable institutions because they were practicing racial discrimination and they won in nineteen seventy one the court ruled that any school practicing discrimination cannot qualify for tax exempt status

by nineteen seventy one these segregation academies were being investigated by the iris and a lot of christian evangelical leaders really did not like that because they were afraid of losing their tax exemption so suddenly paul wiring saw that he had an opportunity this was an issue

issue that he could use to rally evangelical christians and get them involved in politics why eric teamed up with jerry falwell and together they formulated a narrative of religious freedom versus government interference even though this was really just about racist practices in schools they totally twisted around the story and started

painting this picture saying that christian values were under attack in america and that evangelicals needed to band together to protect their rights falwell used his congregation and followers to spread his political conviction that the government should not be involved in social welfare and that the responsibility should fall on the church

by nineteen seventy nine he founded the moral majority movement which associated the republican party and conservative politics with fundamentalism they started using all sorts of propaganda and they were networking with evangelical leaders all over the country they knew which issues would have the biggest impact on their ta

target audience

means we don't have to homo sexuality is acceptable acceptable the lifestyle i do believe in civil rights housing accommodations etc on the second journey what you've written

and believe that we should condone it whether legally or otherwise as an acceptable mode of my style is not that it's moral perversion and young people need to know that need to hear that and while we should love the homosexual we should deal with homosexuality and what it is and that's wrong

somehow in the past several years we've begun to make right what is wrong and the goal of all of this was to get the right candidate elected into office they were inciting people to go out and elect conservative right-wing politicians who would be more sympathetic to their agenda the more important thing that i

i did was to bring together what is now known as the religious right those people were not active in politics i served a sort of coach to get them active in the political process today as you know they're an important element in electing even the president

of the united states and it worked in nineteen eighty a groundswell of support was organized around the campaign to elect ronald reagan and his ties to the evangelical right remains strong throughout his entire presidency i'm told the tens of thousands of prayer meetings are being held on this day for that i'm deep

be grateful we are a nation under god and i believe god intended for us to be free

and as reagan began his presidency a boy named phil began his stay at freedom village

when maggie and i met up with phil at a small coffee shop in buffalo his wife a nurse tagged along for moral support i could tell from the getgo that they had kind hearts we sat in the back corner of the shop where the least amount of music could be heard where did you first hear about freedom village um my mother found out about

actually i was having some trouble in school

and they went to evangel assembly of god which is over and ambers and i guess somebody there mentioned that there was a home for you know kids i really wasn't a troublemaker that that show what was really weird about going there i just didn't really believe in

and for my mother that was there was a bad thing

and i usually get picked on a lot being redhat and and believe it or not as big as i am now i was real tiny kid and i had an older brother who used to be the boy you saw when they found out that i was my little brother i used to get picked out so i had a hard time going to school mostly because i didn't want to get beat up or you know so thirty days i just didn't want to go so she took

that as i just didn't want to go to school and that was rebelling and all this other stuff so they found out about it and try to get me into the program and how old were you at the time as twelve

they gave me what they call a big brother he didn't really pay much attention just you know make sure you keep the room clean he's always he who is that who you are living with yeah yeah he was my my roommate i guess you could call them that but they consider him a big brother how old was he

usually eighteen or nineteen and you were twelve yeah

so i didn't really feel like a fit in there i was the youngest at that time i wasn't youngest person ever getting the program

and how many kids with you to estimate were in the program at the time there were

there'll be over one hundred kids there were like sixty two boys and the rest of the girls

and it was

just it's shellshock you know when you get into something like that it's not like a normal dorm school it was everything was regimented in such a way that something just didn't have time to think for yourself

you know you didn't have time to question things and they were so ill prepared to deal with somebody of my age it was even worse they they just didn't know how to deal with a twelve year old right yeah so how how would they try and deal with someone that would ignore it i remember them i'd be trying

crying begging to go home begging to call my parents you know or they taught me to pray about it or they would just leave they just leave the room i remember numerous staff members should come in and you know it'll be okay and just shut the door

you know it was tough you know i i hated it i hated every minute of it

but i resigned myself to i'm going to get out of here and the only way i can get out of here is to play the games again so i need to be the best of everything just the only way my parents are gonna ever let me come home

at this time freedom village was reaching it's peak in terms of capacity

we have laid a call center so in this tv show aired they would have the teams get on the call center the call center and that was something enlightening do near the end in case kids called in and were you want to talk to you talk to somebody they would want to talk to you know a kid that's in the program might be able to help them

this and that so they have sorry they'd have kids calling in like saying i feel suicidal are so young we used to get that a lot okay we we get kids you know i need help i need this and our job was to ascertain they were trying to ascertain if this is a real call and not real call then you were to pass it off to

one of the senior the senior members

because they didn't want the junior members in between that we'd also have the the whoever's sunday program they'd be selling the books and sewing all that stuff we'd be doing order forms for that and you know i do probably fifty to sixty orders every sunday morning you know twenty five ff

forty dollars hundred dollars thousand dollars no money was coming in that place like no tomorrow there was a lot of money a lot of it

any we couldn't you know they said they couldn't afford to buy ah was we needed a bus for

for the football team

all that football years and the you said that was bought with the money that people donated that was a lie it was like colleges another christian college donated all the gear and the footballs and everything for them money everything there was just a facade it was all fake

back in texas the attorney general again filed emotion against the roll-off homes claiming that the youth homes were still subject to state licensing in the heat of all the legal battles lester roloff died in a plane crash and his successor wiley cameron took over

but at the end of nineteen eighty four the supreme court of texas ruled that the church run child care facilities violated no first amendment religious freedoms all roll-off homes would have to be licensed or shutdown widely cameron loaded up a bus of over one hundred kids and moved all the ob

operations to missouri where state licensing was not required and just as lester roll-off began facing public and political scrutiny fletcher brothers was just getting started it was nineteen sixty eight when he dropped out of college in upstate new york to begin selling cars and appliances he filed

a personal bankruptcy and nineteen seventy one for a debt close to thirty five thousand dollars three years later he opened up his first church in rochester new york under the name of gates community chapel just like why rick falwell and roll-off he fired up his congregation by preaching that gay people porn drugs

rock music and the women's right movement was our society being taken over by satanic forces by the late nineteen seventies over four hundred people had joined his congregation he promoted this narrative where society is basically on the brink of destruction and he presents himself as the sort of white knight this crusader

who's on a mission to save the world this message appealed to a lot of people because this was in the late nineteen seventies when a lot of social changes were going on and people were feeling uneasy so his message played into people's sense of fear and exploited in he started his own half hour radio show where he started to gain and produce a

following he would claim quote i believe rochester can still be saved but we're going to need your help and then he would ask for eight thousand dollars during the period of nineteen seventy five to nineteen seventy nine he relocated twice to larger churches as his congregation grew and he also started expanding into youth program

rams and sunday schools brothers sent out letters to pastors all over the united states mostly places in the bible belt that would be more sympathetic to his message asking for support money and political representation ultimately exposing him to a national audience one of the biggest churches that offered support was little

town started by jerry follow

he also began organizing protests against the gay rights movement in rochester he personally hosted a concert for nita bryant the notoriously antigay pop star and work to oppose local legislation designed to protect gay rights all this to say he was not only interested in running a church

shh but also in promoting his political agenda actively soliciting money and rapidly expanding his audience he started a daily half hour radio program called victory today and later hosted a tv program by the same name which would feature the students at freedom village brothers offered a wholesale political identity

candidates representing their assumed interests it's an effective strategy a strategy that roll-off used to affect legislation in texas that jerry falwell used to expand his institutions and that paul why recuse to organize and inspire voters these evangelicals gathered together to form the moral majority money and polit

will power swinging high freedom village officially opened in nineteen eighty two under the name of gates community chapel incorporated but when rochester city inspectors served him with a notice to shut down educational services due to his refusal to apply for a license and nineteen eighty three he traveled to albany

to meet with the same group roll off did the cia christian law association he establish an organization that was designated as a christian charity which allowed him to solicit donations and qualify for tax exemption he purchased property in a remote location making it harder for kids to run away

and less likely that neighbors will come asking questions and then he targeted christian parents all over america he appealed to their sense of fear he fed them this narrative that the world was not a safe place for kids that their kids were vulnerable to the influences of homosexuality drugs crime and then he was presenting

freedom village as this ideal ic sleepaway camp where their kids will be brought back to god get an education spend time outdoors be safe from the evil influences of the outside world and he expanded his reach with the victory today television program we think she's a good kid wow what what in the world

brought you to freedom village

suicide revalue suicide you weren't successfully

to yourself if things were this bad now where are we going to be ten years from now yesterday we got to talking about rock music i like that the the the death songs the the suicide songs the ah destruction songs the murder songs call it whatever you wanna call it

there have been young people who have committed murders i'm thinking of a young man and inter-rater right now that that testified that eddie the figure that used here told him to do it

brothers was learning how to use these kids to make a lot of money he would have the kids give testimonies where they would recount the reasons why they had been sent to freedom village in the first place i asked the boys and sherry from the first episode about their experience kids are are are commodity

that's frankly what it is and i knew that because i kinda start picking up on this i was there i was a pc so i was there for about a year and you know it was coveted to be able to go on his tv programmers radio program share our stories you know it was a big deal because oh we're on tv or in the bar re in the barn so i go out to the barn it was

really weird and it gave you creepy vibes but i ran out there so they have had this little sat and he wants it was all stupid disgusting shit reality does making these started right away but um so he sits down and he you know talks a little bit and then introduces me he's got this manila folder right that's supposedly my

char he opens it up i can see my side what he's got because i'm you know facing the same direction it's literally legal pad one piece of paper with i don't even know what was around i was like two birds and a paper clip and easter screening this whole bullshit story about so this is sherry she may look innocent and sweet but she man she had a knack

nasty side on her she was flippant chairs and tables in the cafeteria for school and i'm sitting like

this is my story but okay and that's when i started question like wait a minute is he doing this to other people like

he completely made up my story to get money

thing that blew my mind it stays they sell your kids like adopt the cheese they show these kids off all these kids have nobody to have none my parents are paying twenty five hundred dollars a month my parents paid for everything anytime that i needed something a letter went to my parents and they paid for it but yeah i was still part of an adoption program

and i was still put up on stage for eight hours at a time so did a family adopt you staring like adopted teen i had i had

i had like fifteen or sixteen adopted adoptee wish they would send me gifts and stuff like that we've never even seen the gifts you're gonna need to do the gifts these people have sent

you never saw they were some they become checks and they tell him some the check directly to us we'll put it in their account will put it in the kid's account right i never had an account i went to every bank from watkins glen geneva lake mount horseheads i went to every

town looking for a bank account with my name on it switzerland they've got it why did you go around to those banks after the o after yeah it was like i was probably in my twenties because you were trying to see if there was any money i wanted to shoot yeah well because they said there was money right because we had you had like fifteen or sixteen families giving

every money works our money yeah where's their money it's got to exist somewhere somewhere with my name on it i have my name on it nobody had anything like that no bank no bank did any business with them so what did all the money go where did all the money go families believe their money was being sent to support

a child but instead it was going into the pockets of the brother's family he would follow the awkward intense for sob stories with the plea for money by participating in adopted teen you could sponsor one or multiple teens on a monthly basis you could also become a part-time gift-giver with a one-time gift of a thousand dollars or more

more he would promote this on his radio show or have direct fund raisers

and he was always dressing on his hi nice and seuss he's got kids is going on these trips he's funneling all the money into his packets so we know hell knows i love to like have people digging into that and he's re trying to raise funds now still for kids he doesn't even have any supposedly familiar

in india these programs but the whole the whole monetary network they all funnel into each other they they pay each other i think for referrals to programs and they all help each other it's like big giant money laundering scheme to me

in two thousand and three sherry had pneumonia every time she went to the clinic and asked for antibiotics they didn't believe her and kept telling her it was just a cold it got to the point where she couldn't sleep because she was constantly coughing at this point i thought nothing could surprise me when it came to freedom village until she told me this

this wow i'm going chap with this weekly clinic though in school um

they he had another ministry called operation mercy that was supporting orphanages in ukraine nbu get truckloads of clothes donated to us and items and things to sort through and sent to ukraine meanwhile we've got kids around campus they don't have what they need and we weren't supposed to

let them take anything with us specific grain commission i knew that brothers was pulling kids from across the us into his program a large source of his income was reproducing their stories on the television the radio his pamphlets together donations to promote his adopted team program however i hadn't realised that it was international

no but long story short i had been doing that for about a year and half and they offered me the opportunity to go to ukraine with them in two thousand and three but i was dealing with that cough and i'm like why can't go overseas with this cough they won't let me so the doctor that will come in for clinic finally agreed to give me an

antibiotic and so i go overseas i'm with like three other people they're all staff um i was early and um i was junior staff i was no master school and they flew me over to ukraine you were the only kid that one yeah the implication of freedom village having connections internationally was

striking and it inspired me to look further throughout the course of this project freedom village ukraine has been one of the more mysterious aspects of this whole situation it's been hard to find any concrete information about brothers specific activities in ukraine i was able to find small advertisements through a website that arc

archives deleted web pages i found photos and videos online of fletcher brothers himself touring the ukrainian orphanages at this point it had become clear to me that fletcher brothers was acting on a profit-driven basis if he wasn't making money it wasn't worth his time which leads me to question what was he really doing

ing in ukraine

they you know we got my got my passport and everything and they should be overseas and i was with three other people and we went and stayed in this building where he had i guess at one point had tried opening a freedom village in ukraine but the government stepped in and said you don't have the proper anything to do this so this isn't happening like he was taking kids out of the orphanage

edges

to get together in freedom energy craving to get more money flowing and it was just insane and i go up there and and i spent some time in the orphanages for a week and the first night there though i got him we had only an hour's up journaling and i leaned over to coffee for going to bed and right here i felt my rep

and i couldn't move i could cry i quit scream i couldn't ask for help i couldn't get out of bed for forty five minutes straight to be forty five minutes from the pain to just get out of bed to them go down the hall in the girls' wing where there's some you know women staying there because i was flat ass

ask for help from an escrow who barely spoke english very broken english

trying to explain what happened um and about myself and it was crazy i'm going to foreign country breaking my ribs sick i mean it was just crazy it was an experience but it was crazy what i can tell you for sure is that the video footage i found was a fletcher brothers touring a ukrainian orphanage he shot a lot of the footage in an orphanage specifically

housing mentally and physically disabled children at one point he was literally giving the kids candy and having them sit on his lap this footage was accompanied by sappy music and audio of him asking his followers for donations obviously he was involved with multiple orphanages in ukraine i just didn't know to what extent