By Sara Smile, 29

Hi, I am not a Family born person, yet I am 29 born 1975 and this makes me the same age with Ricky, plus I had lived with him for about a year during his stay in Hungary when we both were 21-22 years old. There he met Elixir – his girlfriend, who was one of the nicest people I knew at that moment and truly all you could say then is “live happily ever after”. Well… In the light of all this I have just one question to address to his recent “friends” he’s been hanging out with before his sad and shocking death.

“Guys … what the hell have you done to him?” Last time I saw Ricky he was the guy I would feel safe to go out to dinner with and during the time we’ve been in the same home I had never seen him fight, spew out hate or ever harm anyone. We had gone out for a walk with the kids together, played volleyball, cooked or washed dishes together for quite a few occasions. During all this time I had never heard him even once mention or even hint about any kind of abuse that had happened to him in his childhood or otherwise, to me or anyone else at that matter. And guess what – BIG SURPRISE – I did personally hear him defend the Family policies, mama Maria and father David on a few occasions all done in public meeting and gosh I wish I would have recorded it then. But who would ever guess, well actually no one – because at that time he was normal, happy and helpful person. Well this was of course before he got acquainted with you. I think even at the time I knew him, it was not a secret that he was at times thinking about leaving the Family and trying out something different at least for a time, but I can practically swear on the Bible that he would never had gotten this far without your “friendly” help. Lots of people leave the Family temporarily or for good and most of them are doing fine and living happy lives, working or studying, but definitely making their lives worthwhile. So again “How come he didn’t manage?”

You know, you are trying to pass the Family as some kind of threat to the society. Well let’s compare our results for the last 4 years. Being an average Family member I have recorded and photographed proof that in the last 4 years I had worked to help at least a few hundred people in 3 different countries to become more useful, members of society. Your record is now also pretty obvious – you worked to help Ricky become a murderer and a suicider! Filling him up with hate and spurring him on to violence. I don’t excuse him either, a man picks his own friends and makes his own decisions at such an age, but still I think as “friends” you also have outdone yourselves giving him lots of “friendly” advice. So looking at the facts we can easily conclude who of us is a threat to society. And honestly I don’t know how you guys sleep at night!

There is another thing you might want to consider. He is right now in the hands of God, and I am sure will find forgiveness one day, but you who are still able to make decisions on this Earth may be should rethink the path you had chosen for yourselves seeing what you had done, and choose another more constructive rather then destructive way to live and help your friends to do the same.