I was born in Vancouver in 1972. My mother is an atheist Catholic and my father is a Jew. When I was very young, before the age of nine, I frequently moved around many different regions of British Columbia and once to Toronto.
My most vivid memories begin around nine years old. I lived in Port Moody at that time. I was bullied quite often in elementary school. There was both physical and verbal violence I endured until I was 12 years old. I dealt with it when I got home and would play with my Lego and Atari 2600. When I was in grade six I was introduced to Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. I moved to Castlegar when I was 13 and lived there for two years. There too I was bullied often by students but more physically. I was very involved with my Lego AD&D, Atari 2600. I got so involved with my imagination that I failed my grade 7 year and had to go to summer school.
I never really cared for school at this point on my life as I found it to be boring. I was more interested in nurturing my imagination. I moved back to the Lower Mainland and lived in Burnaby for a short while before moving again to Port Moody. I went to a high school and was bullied quite a bit from students. There was lots of physical violence. Much of the time I would remain in the washrooms to eat lunch and spend lunch hours in there. I really didn't apply myself to school and was not interested in getting good grades. I was more interested in playing board games, RPG's, my Nintendo, Atari 520 STfm home computer system and Lego. I didn't see the point in going to school to voluntarily get bullied by students.
When I was 15 I invited myself to a Pentecostal church. There I accepted Jesus as my Lord. Nothing really changed although I began regularly attending youth group and Sunday services. I really enjoyed it. I stopped playing AD&D. Through my high school years I went to four high schools altogether. I dropped out of high school twice, once due to the continuing bullying and the second time because I I just didn't find school interesting. The bullying eventually stopped when I was in my later teenage years. I had a girlfriend who introduced me to sex. We broke up soon after.
I eventually ended up in Maple Ridge living with a German/Danish family when I was 19 and received a GED. I began attending a Mennonite church for a number of months. I decided I wanted to be a youth pastor. I told the youth pastor my about my family and history. I thought nothing of it. I was being honest. This was in 1992.
I went to Columbia Bible College in 1992. My experience there was not very good. To sum it up I experienced sexual exploitation, frequent physical assaults, workplace harassment in the school kitchen, frequent investigation and discipline for inappropriate sexual conduct with young children and teenage girls, swastikas posted on my dorm room door, students in the men's dorm would chant "Heil Hitler" and "Zeig Heil" outside my dorm door, threats of violence from both male and female students, verbal harassment, isolation from other students, challenges to fighting, prohibition from dating women while I was a student and there was other stuff. In my third year I threatened legal action against the college and the college president met with me and told me that seeking compensation was demonic. I was invited to return and was given a clean slate. I came back for two more years part time but was prohibited from staying in the men's dorm. I began working with mentally handicapped people during this time.
In my fifth year at college, I had a meeting with the Dean of Students and he told me that he and two other administrators commenced a discernment prayer and were told by God that I should be expelled. My college education ended. I was attending Mennonite churches in the area. There was a Mennonite woman I had a crush on and I inquired from a relative of hers about her. The response from the young woman's father was to stop sexually harassing her and that she was in danger for her life. Shortly after this the Abbotsford police came to my residence and informed me of sex crimes and violent crimes they had evidence of me committing against the Mennonite woman. I was told to leave the city. After this I was shunned out of three Mennonite churches. One church withdrew the hand of Friendship, another one excommunicated me and a third one prohibited me from entering the front doors. I left Abbotsford soon after that.
For a time I was homeless. I eventually found an apartment in New Westminster. I was suffering from mental health issues but I was unaware what they were. They were pretty serious. I was experiencing symptoms of PTSD. I got involved with prostitutes for a time, as much fun as it seems I was doing it more for illicit therapy. There was some relief for a short time until I needed to go and meet another prostitute again.. I went to Douglas College in an attempt to try to get back into going to college. I was there for a couple of weeks when an older man approached me and reminded me of that Mennonite woman who I was accused of committing sex and violent crimes against. I promptly stopped dropped out of the college.
I started an online business during the dot.com boom. I also met a young woman who was not a Christian however I really didn't want to be involved with Christians due to what happened at Columbia Bible College. Over the years I had up to seven employers simultaneously in various mentally handicapped associations. I got married, had two children. I went through five web designers and companies to complete my online website however every one of them failed. I also tried book publishing and successfully published a module for Dungeons and Dragons.
While I was married, I caught my wife with another man on one occasion and on another occasion I read an email she left visible on our computer detailing a rendezvous for sex with her first boyfriend. I went to BCIT to learn computer programming to work on my website however in my third week there an older man approached me and reminded me of the sex and violent crimes I was accused of committing against that Mennonite woman in 1997. I promptly dropped out of BCIT.
I was involved in an assault with a young woman in the community and my employer was involved. A year later I went to trial and the charge was stayed. My employer met with me and during a disciplinary meeting the executive director told me they had received an anonymous letter from Columbia Bible College that contained some inflammatory content against me. I was promptly fired. The union actually was supportive of the employer and also wanted to get rid of me. I was out of two employers both full time and part time.
My mental health was continuing to deteriorate. We moved to Langley. I still was trying to launch my website but no programmer could finish the website. For seven years I continued waiting for the various programmers to complete the website but no one did. During that time, in 2004, I started to return to church and was taking my wife occasionally however she was not happy with it as she and her family were atheists. I was not doing well financially for our family.
I started to work in the Alberta Oil Patch. I left home for two years and worked in the Oil Fields. My wife would encourage me to stay up there as long as I could. I continued sending money home to her to support our family however my debts never got paid off. I was homeless for a time so one day I drove home unannounced. When I arrived, my wife met with me and told me that she wanted a divorce, she was seeing someone else, she had fallen out of love with me and told me to start writing up my will. I returned to Alberta to continue working however I lost interest. I came back to the Lower Mainland and looked for a place to live and also for work. I was separated from my wife. I was seeing my children on weekends when we were not working.
I was not happy about the man who committed adultery with my wife and replaced me as father of my children. My daughter was four years old and my son was three years old at the time. On one occasion my son had a black eye and when I investigated there were conflicting stories between my son and my wife about what happened. My daughter and son both accepted Jesus as Lord and I regularly took them to church. On one occasion my wife's husband instructed me to tell our daughter to stop talking about Jesus anymore at there home. I reluctantly complied with his wishes.
Some time later, I had a psychotic break. I violently attacked my wife's husband. I was arrested. I went to Surrey Pretrial Center where I was introduced to the criminal community. I was there for a month then released and then one of my previous web designers had me charged with another crime and I was arrested again and returned to prison. In the first day I was in prison I suffered a very serious beating to my head. I was not prepared for the world of criminal violence in my mid-thirties. A black inmate who was the range rep took me under his wing and helped me out. I was in Pretrial for about eight months. While I was in Pretrial a Mennonite man came onto the range and told me to plead guilty to the crimes circulating on the internet and that I was charged with or the information on the internet would be distributed to the inmate population. On another occasion that Mennonite woman appeared in the gym during a health fair and recruited a Hells Angels Sergeant-at-arms to harass me on my range. On another occasion while in Pretrial I met with a psychiatrist and his assistant. The psychiatrist told me that his assistant I met the day prior was the Mennonite woman I was accused of committing sex crimes against in Abbotsford.
Soon after this I had my trial and plead guilty to all crimes I was accused of against my wife's husband, the web designer, the Mennonite woman and many others who had been publishing crimes I was accused of committing, using social media. In 2008 I was sentenced to a five year federal sentence. When I was in federal prison I came across a neo-nazi gang. I was practicing Judaism at that time since Christianity was not working for me. I was receiving lots of undesirable attention from a Mennonite prisoner, the neo-nazi's and others. A man I met in federal prison while I was in RRAC showed me a photograph of that Mennonite woman wearing a Tallit and participating in a Jewish service. That man left the range the next day. I voluntarily went to RTC (a prison psychiatric hospital) and was eager to receive counselling to deal with my mental illness. While I was in prison, I received an unprovoked violent assault from an inmate in the gym. The neo-nazi community began targeting me with anti-semitism and I also received anti-semitism from prison guards.
I did not receive any counselling for the four-and-a-half years I was there. I received drugs. I went on parole twice and both times I was recalled. During my time in RTC I was certified mentally ill under the Health Act and during my certification I was summoned to court twice without a lawyer and was divorced on one court appearance and on another time I lost custody of my children to my ex-wife. When my sentence was finished I was placed on a Section 810 order which is a long term probation order in the community. I was transferred to a psychiatric hospital in the community where I remained for one year. I was drugged up pretty heavily. I was receiving 500 mg injection of Zuclopenthexol every two weeks. I got no counselling.
After about a year I was given a leave from the hospital and went to live with my sister in Maple Ridge. I started attending a Pentecostal church there. I also found a full-time job. I worked for a couple of years then worked at a factory full time and also was able to work at my previous job part time. I also began an internet business and it successfully launched. I moved out into my own apartment in town. I remained certified mentally ill for ten years in the community. Eventually my medications were discontinued and I was decertified Currently, it is 2022. I have an online hobby/business and two employers. Since my wife and I have parted ways my life has actually improved. I am divorced now. I am still single with no prospective female partner. I identify strongly with my Jewish heritage. I am not really involved with church anymore.
There is much much more that I could add to my story.
This is a very brief synopsis of my life. If you want to know more, feel free to contact me with questions and I will be happy to respond.