Re: The Golers Of Nova Scotia

[Byker]

"Greg Carr" wrote in message
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>
> The Golers are a clan of poor, rural families in Canada, on Nova Scotia's
> South Mountain, near Wolfville, known for inter-generational poverty and
> the conviction in the 1980s of a large number of family members for sexual
> abuse and incest.
>
> Due to the sensational nature of the crime, the trial received extensive
> national coverage and a book entitled On South Mountain: The Dark Secrets
> of the Goler Clan was written and published in 1998 covering their story
> in detail.[1] Donna Goler, one of the abused children who was removed from
> the Goler household when she was 11, has become an outspoken activist for
> stricter child abuse laws, and for stronger protection of children from
> convicted child molesters.[3] A year after the book On South Mountain was
> published, she began a long fight to revise the Criminal Code, saying that
> it failed to protect the young relatives of convicted child
> molesters.[3][4]
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goler_clan
>
> I read the book and it is horrific. It still goes on to this day
> apparently.

Read "TERROR IN THE NAME OF GOD: The Story of the Sons of Freedom
Doukhabors" by Simma Holt sometime:
https://www.amazon.com/TERROR-NAME-Story-Freedom-Doukabors/dp/B000RPT5MC

More: https://tinyurl.com/yd6fc2u9

They made the Golers look tame...