But Duane, how can people contact you when you won't answer the phone? and how can this be? No one from 3abn contacted you? But you emaile Tommy Shelton yourself, didn't you? and he contacted you back, and again apologized and explained why you two couldn't be alone together anymore, and offered to help you in any way other than that, along with his wife and you wrote him back and said there was nothing to apologize for, and he had never hurt you and saying you didn't need help nor counseling, as he had needed and undergone, right?
So, with the letters you wrote how is it possible they could they not already have your side of the story?
I don't get it.
You are SO predictable. I PURPOSELY made sure I said I didn't answer the phone because I knew you would respond this way.
I said a member of the Shelton family tried to contact me, NOT someone from 3ABN. Carol, Tommy's wife, left a voicemail on my cell phone the morning before I released my statement asking me to give her a call. She tried to call me again that evening but didn't leave a message. I didn't return the calls because I knew she was just going to try to lay a huge guilt trip on me. She did the exact same thing to my brother. Once my statement was released she never tried to call again.
I say again, NO ONE from 3ABN has contacted me or attempted to contact me to get my side of the story. Walt Thompson can say all he wants that he thinks it would have been inappropriate, but the real reason is that he is just another one of Danny's dime-a-dozen yes people. Either that, or maybe he just isn't man enough.
As far as the emails between Tommy and I, I no longer have a copy of what I sent. I have told you that before. I probably did say the things Tommy has told you I said. You have said before you are a victim of abuse, correct? If so, you should know what it's like to be in denial. That's where I still was when I wrote those emails. It has taken a long time to admit to myself that my pastor, the man whose preaching and teaching I sat under for basically my whole life, the man I TRUSTED, took advantage of me the the way he did.
3ABN doesn't have my side of the story because they have never contacted me, bottom line. The letters you are talking about were between Tommy and myself. They were not to 3ABN. If you say it's OK for Tommy to use those in his defense, I have NUMEROUS hand written and signed letters from Tommy from throughout the years that will CLEARLY show his manipulative demeanor. Some of these were written before I was 18. Are you sure you want to go there?
I eagerly await your response.