CMTV: Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel

JMJ

So ... CMTV has posted another 'victim' story.

What is interesting is how the story was transformed as it made its way from Facebook to CMTV hallowed webpage.

Things that were lost in translation:

FROM: I was a girl with nowhere to go, a girl who felt lost and without guidance, a girl who struggled at the time with alcohol problems.
TO: I was a girl with nowhere to go, a girl who felt lost and without guidance, and who struggled at the time with addiction problems.

So ... I guess that perhaps there was more to her problems than just alcohol since they edited it to read as 'addiction' problems. There are a few other changes, such as when the priest was transferred to they changed the name of the country.

Perhaps there was more involved as in:

I grew up in a small town, a town outwardly but hypocritically devoted to Catholic ideals and traditions. It's a town that as someone who wore pants and smoked pot and drank a lot, I didn't fit into.

I'm not a psychiatrist, but this sounds like the definition of hypocrite would be equally applicable to herself.

Now I won't bother you with more details and oddities of her story ...

... but I will ask some questions:

Why ...

Change the word 'mansion' to 'house'?
Did the "small mission" have a spare mansion reserved for the priest's use?

This seems incredible and I suspect that is the reason it was edited.

Did they provide her with a car and a house?

This is an incredibly rich "small mission" to have a mansion, spare car and house.
Not to mention being able to afford to pay a teacher.

Was the priest the one in charge of the school?

If they are there only on the weekend. This doesn't make a lot of sense based on how I've seen other schools run when there isn't a resident priest.

Did she go to a convent after her suicide attempt?

This is totally inconsistent. Where were her family? What medical person sends a suicidal person away for medical care to a convent?

In the past I may have been shocked by such a story.

Not anymore.

I have personally seen how a person can vindictively re-cast a story by mixing in bits of fact and fantasy, attempting to shift their guilt on someone else.

There are sufficient oddities in this story that cause me to suspect that there's another version of this story.

The most probable is that she suffered some sort of cannabis induced psychosis. That would fit well with some of the narrative.

In any case, I believe that the 'CMTV' thread has gone on long enough ... it's time to move on to more profitable topics such as Fatherhood. (unless something really outrageous that I have personal knowledge about surfaces).

P^3

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