Seventh-Day Adventism: Harrowing Escape… and Inevitable Return

Charlotte was adopted as a baby to Seventh Day Adventist parents who used the doctrine to harm her in unimaginable ways. More details on her chiIdhood can be found in part one linked below. Finally, at 18 years old, she enlisted a couple friends through Snapchat to help her escape just days before her former father, who made threats on her life for exposing his ab*se, returned home. With only a bag of clothes, an erased iPad and a notebook with handwritten contacts, she did her best to survive in a world she had been completely sheltered from. Including confronting her former parents in an attempt to get more of her belongings, then falling into another pred*tory living situation.

Watch pt 1 of Charlotte's interview: https://youtu.be/Y3akgnP9wAk?si=K0-nyCx6hzh7IYf1

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Chapter Markers

00:00:00 Intro
00:02:05 Recap
00:03:38 Charlotte plans her escape
00:19:39 Finding work after running away
00:26:42 Returning to her old church
00:28:46 CW r*pe
00:32:57 Moving away from her strict diet
00:35:06 Living with another secret pred*tor
00:36:19 Confronting her former parents after escaping
00:44:02 Deconstructing fear and shame
00:50:25 Charlotte leaning into her s*xual preferences
00:56:58 Meet Hadley
00:57:29 What brings Charlotte joy now
01:03:09 Linda, listen

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