Damned Mormons

[Rev. Rye]

According to Jodi Hildebrant's niece Jessi, the duct tape thing is apparently something of a trademark of Jodi's.





And given that Jodi was apparently an LDS-approved therapist (whose home apparently costs $2.34 million), I suspect that there were a lot of kids who got the duct tape treatment. Even more if that practice spread to other therapists' practices.

I also decided to look over how common the duct tape treatment was in Mormonism, and while I didn't find much confirmation, I did find this comment in a thread in an ex-Mormon subreddit:

I wouldn't call her "typical" but I definitely knew other Mormon parents like her, even my family members, who said the same things. Their kids grew up miserable.

She reminds me of the school secretary (TBM, btw) who used to make fun of me when I brought my kid's forgotten lunch to school. "I'd make him go hungry! Otherwise he'll never learn!"

Ruby's online persona was the voice of these abusive parents. She said the quiet parts out loud.

Then again, even some of the shit she made public before her arrest seems legitimately unique. I've read dozens of cases of child abuse (and I've even been following a webcomic that was about what I can only call industrial-scale child abuse; somehow, even Steven King couldn't make Maine this terrifying, but at least our hero here ends up going all Andy Dufresne in the end), but stuff like literally denying your own son a room and a bed for more than seven months over a prank that basically boiled down to "Hurry up, pack your bags! We're going to Disneyland! JKLOL." is definitely a new one to me.