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Season 1: Joshua Guimond

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Good day everyone, I recently watched the episode about Josh and immediately listened to all the episodes of the podcast. One of the most interesting podcasts, I must say.

I don't have a theory about where Josh is, but I would like to write a few things here, like this, from some of my thoughts. My question is, was Josh also abused by the monks? Maybe that was the reason for breaking up with Katie, maybe that was the reason why he created a female profile on the Internet. Maybe he wasn't attracted to men. Very often in cases of sexual abuse, the victims blame themselves and begin to question their sexuality. "Am I maybe gay"? I'm writing this because I've seen a lot of cases where victims testify and this question often comes up. Somewhere in the podcast it was said that Josh's colleague was also abused by a monk and then years later became an abuser himself in St.John. Am I right? It wouldn't surprise me if the team in the car that was stalking other students was actually stalking kids for monks. In the style of not being a victim, I'll get you someone to abuse instead of me... Or they themselves were abused and became abusers themselves. In St. John, it was normal and everyone kept quiet about it. I know it sounds incredible, but as I said, such scenarios have already been seen in cases of sexual abuse. I also think that what happened to Josh will only be revealed when someone speaks up.

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Oct 29, 2022

Purely opinion but I do not think that anyone at St. Johns nor the surrounding area would go after Josh, or anyone, for exploring homosexuality. Of course you'd have many lay religious persons from a religious context likely verbally shunning a suspected or confirmed homosexual but I think the real concern would come from the attention it would bring, meaning the potential target it would make him. No matter the reason for Josh's "exploration" he would be very appealing to someone who is forced to manipulate, prey upon, someone in order to get their sexual needs met. Whether this was a monk or not the fact remains the same-predators see prey- real or imagined. Josh may have been exploring, investigating, or simply curious about sexuality but would his secret potentially open the door to someone else's fetish? Clearly there was some fetish-ing going on as evidenced by the bags of trash and the many, many accusations of sexual misconduct in the area.

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