Our Experience

When ELM was five years old, she fell off her bike while in Jon's care. Over a month later, Jon's ex-wife sought medical attention for ELM, based on her own allegation that ELM might have been sexually abused after the bike accident. Jon was never investigated or charged with any crime. There is extensive documentation stating that Jon never abused ELM, including medical reports, CPS records, sexual assault clinic records, a voluntary lie detector test, a voluntary psychosexual evaluation, three separate Court orders, and a Guardian Ad Litem (GAL) investigative report. However, Jon's ex-wife continues to report that Jon sexually abused ELM when she was five years old. To our knowledge, she has entered ELM into medical and mental health treatment based upon her false allegation of abuse over 15 times. Besides sexual abuse, Jon's ex-wife has also fabricated other medical and mental health conditions in ELM, including Autism, multiple allergies, multiple dietary issues, and other medical conditions, without tests or reports to substantiate these diagnoses. 

In 2024, when therapy was finally court-ordered for ELM with Jon, ELM declined to participate as she was over the age of 13 (the age of independent decision making for mental health services in the state of Washington). ELM has chosen to no longer have contact with us due to the belief that her dad abused her when she was five years old. As a result, our family has been devastated by the false accusations and Medical Child Abuse ELM has endured for years. The ultimate tragedy is that ELM continues to falsely believe she is a survivor of sexual abuse that never occurred. 

 

Our Hope

Jon and I hope that what happened to our family may never destroy or traumatize another home again. This is the reason for our ELM Foundation. We continue to hold hope that one day ELM will understand the truth that her dad never abused her, that she will finally receive the necessary treatment that she needs and deserves and that she will know we did everything possible within our means and ability to try to help save her. Jon and I hold many loving, special memories of the ELM that we both knew for the first twelve years of her life, as well as the loving family and home that the three of us built together. 

 

Please visit our ELM Foundation Facebook and LinkedIn pages for more information about our family, our personal experience, and the origins of ELM Foundation.

 

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