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This week on December 18th, 2024, the world lost an amazing human and friends, and one of my favorite humans of all time, survivor and warrior, Kevin Sutherland. In lieu of Kevin's devastating passing, I am devoted to finish the mission he started by continuing to share his story, continuing to call out every last person who failed him, and continuing to shed a light on the darkness that Kevin and many other survivors face, fight, and overcome their entire lives. Kevin was such a special person - I can't convey this enough. He was a bright light, a brilliant mind and story-teller, a humble soul, and someone who was too good for this world.

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Today we welcome back on the show for the third time: child care, foster care home and rape survivor, warrior, dog-lover, social butterfly, travel connoisseur, content creator, absolute sweetheart, and whistleblower against some of the biggest names trending in the UK: Kevin Sutherland

I met Kevin in my first season of podcasting on an Instagram post he made saying he was ready to publicly share his story and was looking for a podcast to do his expose on. Another former podcast guest, Molly Skye Brown, tagged me in the post, I commented on Kevin’s post that I’d be happy to host him, and Kevin and I became instant friends right after. Kevin shared his testimony for the first time ever on ‘The Imagination’ and was one of the first guests I had on the show.

Just under a year ago, a massive sex abuse scandal broke in the UK where survivors and victims of Dan Wootton began speaking out making mainstream headlines and validating Kevin’s testimony. It seemed that Dan was finally being exposed for crimes against his victims and Kevin’s voice was being heard prominently again as a couple of his tweets on Twitter went viral and survivors began elevating each other’s voices. As time has gone on, however, there has been a concerted effort once again to gaslight survivors and to elevate Dan’s side of the story in order to restore his reputation in the public eye.

Kevin is coming back on today to whistleblow the politically charged narrative of the Dan Wootton scandal and the after-effects this has had - including putting to rest and directly responding to the twisted narrative and false claims that have been said against Kevin as well as discussing Dan’s allegations of being ‘falsely accused’ when nothing could be further from the truth. As you will see today, there is a conspiracy involving the media, politics, and popular podcasters to cover-up abuse allegations of survivor’s like Kevin and to restore Dan’s reputation in the public.

It’s important that we shine a light on the truth of this matter and hear all sides of the story. I personally find it sickening how the UK news media is asking for sympathy for Dan Wootton without giving any of his victims a chance to share their side of the story. Why have there been no survivor’s given a platform to share their allegations against Dan? Kevin is here to not only speak on behalf of himself, but to speak on behalf of every other victim who has come forward only to be silenced. We know that mainstream media exists to control narratives and it’s podcasts like this one that exist to share the counter-narrative and what the fake news will never share with the public. Kevin is a hero in every way and his voice and story speak for so many other abuse survivors who don’t have and were never given a voice. I ask that you put away whatever you are doing and give this brave warrior your attention as we break this massive story here on ‘The Imagination’. Lets blow up this episode everyone - our voices need

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Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com

This week on December 18th, 2024, the world lost an amazing human and friends, and one of my favorite humans of all time, survivor and warrior, Kevin Sutherland. In lieu of Kevin's devastating passing, I am devoted to finish the mission he started by continuing to share his story, continuing to call out every last person who failed him, and continuing to shed a light on the darkness that Kevin and many other survivors face, fight, and overcome their entire lives. Kevin was such a special person - I can't convey this enough. He was a bright light, a brilliant mind and story-teller, a humble soul, and someone who was too good for this world.

The abuse and torment he suffered his entire life is nothing short of horrendous, inexcusable, and just as devastating as his loss. He had a tremendous impact on me personally - he was so loving and appreciative to me for offering a space for him to share his story. I felt and feel extremely honored that Kevin shared his testimony publicly before his departure so that we can continue his mission in his memory. It's all he wanted in his passing was for us to take the torch he was too exhausted to carry anymore and cross the finish line on his behalf.

So, with that being said, here is Part 2 of Kevin's 3-part testimony. Here are the show notes I originally wrote below.

Rest in paradise, angel. I pray you are now basking in the peace you always deserved that was stolen from you.

I love you forever and ever, my sweet Kevin - I still can't believe you are gone... I will never, ever, stop fighting for you.

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Kevin Sutherland is BACK for Part 2 of his journey to be heard and have justice served. In this Part 2, we step into the second part and phase of his story that took place after he was out of the care home system: Discovering pedophiles he found on chat lines, recording their conversations, exposing them, and ultimately serving just under 2 years in the prison system for blackmail. Not only that, but the media wrote his story painting him as a violent and malicious criminal instead of an abuse survivor looking to get retribution after no one would help him.

This episode brings up a couple very important questions and conversations:

What causes a young person to commit crimes and why is the root cause not being investigated the same as the criminal acts?

What flaws exist in our system that allow for a criminal investigation to occur on someone like Kevin who was exposing offending criminals, but no investigation took place looking into his child abuse allegations or into the allegations of the offending ped-ophiles that he was exposing and reporting to authorities?

By not validating the voices of survivors (many of them children when they first start experiencing abuse) we are massively failing our children and young adults. We know trauma and abuse come with many side effects, yet we blame the survivor for making the best choices they know how while not offering guidance into validating their stories and investigating their abusers. We talk in depth about this during the interview and I hope it shines light on your perceptions as much as it did mine.

The root cause of many misguided young adults and adults boils down to child abuse in many cases and yet it's never taken into account when they are going through the abuse system or end up being criminalized for mistakes they didn't know they didn't have to make. If we would only listen to them and validate them and guide them back to love, compassion, empathy, and justice... what difference would that make in the life of someone like Kevin?

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Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com

This week on December 18th, 2024, the world lost an amazing human and friends, and one of my favorite humans of all time, survivor and warrior, Kevin Sutherland. In lieu of Kevin's devastating passing, I am devoted to finish the mission he started by continuing to share his story, continuing to call out every last person who failed him, and continuing to shed a light on the darkness that Kevin and many other survivors face, fight, and overcome their entire lives.

Kevin was such a special person - I can't convey this enough. He was a bright light, a brilliant mind and story-teller, a humble soul, and someone who was too good for this world. The abuse and torment he suffered his entire life is nothing short of horrendous, inexcusable, and just as devastating as his loss. He had a tremendous impact on me personally - he was so loving and appreciative to me for offering a space for him to share his story. I felt and feel extremely honored that Kevin shared his testimony publicly before his departure so that we can continue his mission in his memory. It's all he wanted in his passing was for us to take the torch he was too exhausted to carry anymore and cross the finish line on his behalf.

So, with that being said, here is Part 1 of Kevin's 3-part testimony. Here are the show notes I originally wrote below.

Rest in paradise, angel. I pray you are now basking in the peace you always deserved that was stolen from you.

I love you forever and ever, my sweet Kevin - I still can't believe you are gone...

I will never, ever, stop fighting for you.

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Joining us this week is Kevin Sutherland, survivor of systemic child care home abuse, who has kept silent about telling the truth regarding his harrowing story for his entire life... until now. Breaking his silence in this 2-part series, Kevin walks us through the chronology of his complex and heart-breaking story that started when he was just an infant and continues on to this day where he is now on a mission to expose all the corruption that took place when he was in foster care and get justice once and for all.

Kevin's story is important. It's important because there are MILLIONS of children just like him who are still going through this abuse as we speak. There are millions of survivors who are silenced into never having their story heard as we speak. In Part 1, we dive into the first part of Kevin's life centered around the horrific abuses he survived and discuss in depth problems with the foster / child care system that are grossly neglected by the public. In Part 2, we go into a situation that happened as a result of Kevin's abuses that had him convicted of a crime and sent to prison, but never addressed the root cause of the crime itself: Child Abuse. His abusers are still free and the system that failed him is still sheltering children without ever taking a penalty, yet Kevin lost years of his life paying a price for doing something that could have been prevented had an adult stepped in to care for him. The media grossly misrepresented Kevin by eliminating his side of the story, so he is here today to tell you The Truth straight from his own mouth.

This story needs shared far and wide - Kevin is a brave hero and someone we need to open our ears and eyes to who stands before you today to speak on behalf of millions of children just like him who were horrifically abused and made to pay a price for the side effects of the abuse without ever having the abuse itself addressed. Please help in elevating Kevin's voice and story by SHARING, LIKING, COMMENTING, AN

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