Throughout the aftermath of the Ben Trane guilty verdict, there have been two former women who have been popping up everywhere on social media to defend Ben Trane’s honor: Stephanie Nordyke and Justine Sobotta. What’s interesting about both of them is that they both parrot to non-program folks how Ben Trane was nothing but a caring loving individual and that the former students claims against Ben are all lies.
If you dig down a little deeper though, you’ll actually find that they don’t disagree completely with why Ben Trane was convicted but they rationalize it with the belief that the “ends justify the means” as you can see from the below screenshots:
In this screenshot, Nordyke admits that she sent 15 months in OSS. OSS is a small locked room with no furniture and blowing cold air all the time where children often spent large amounts of time locked away in complete isolation. The court and psychologist that testified during the trial found this extremely psychologically damaging to children and it’s part of the reason why Ben Trane was found guilty of child endangerment. Note to Nordyke: Just because you weren’t sexually abused does not mean others were not.
In this stunning confession, one woman tells Justine Sobotta that she was abused by Ben and Justine simply responds with the ultimate victim-blaming question: What did you do to deserve it? It’s not that she doesn’t believe abuses occurred, it’s that she believes the victims must have deserved it somehow.
In another message private message, Justine Sobotta admits Ben Trane is guilty of some of his crimes, she just doesn’t believe he’s a pedophile. The reason she doesn’t believe he’s a pedophile is simply for the fact that he never raped her as she stated in other public posts.
I’m not sure if Stephanie Nordyke or Justine Sobotta have provided notarized affidavits to the defense stating that they never witnessed any abuse in Midwest Academy but we are happy to provide the screenshots that show the full context of the above conversations and information to the investigators in this case.
