#FindIsa: Emergency Alert for Abducted Black Transwoman in San Francisco

03/09/22 • 14 min

UPDATE: Isa was found SAFE and her friends are asking everyone who posted to remove any pictures of Isa for her privacy - we've updated this episode because we are hoping that YOU can help us hold the San Francisco and Oakland police accountable for obstructing justice and lying to both the press and public. THANK YOU EVERYONE!

PRESS RELEASE for #FindIsa read with permission of her friends, please make sure her hashtag is trending on all the social medias. IF you make your own video for Isa, tag us (@TalkTroubled) and we will reshare.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 8. 2022

Black Trans Youth Abducted in San Francisco

San Francisco, CA - On March 7, 2022 at around 11:30pm, a Black transwoman was abducted near Fisherman's Wharf. Isa Dessalines is described as a Black transwoman around 5'9" tall. a thin build, medium-length locs, and 20 years of age. She was further described as potentially wearing black pants and a black sweater. Her last known residency was at Hotel Caza, near the site of her disappearance, located at: 1300 Columbus Ave. San Francisco. CA 94133.

While on the phone with her friends on March 7, 2022 at 11:30pm, they were able to hear a car engine, a car door closing, a struggle between Dessalines and a man, in which Dessalines was heard saying, "Okay, okay, I'll get in." Later that night in a very short voice message, Dessalines was heard sobbing saying, "I don't want to die," while a man's voice yelled "shut up," in the background multiple times. At 12:30am, a case was filed with the San Francisco Police Department through Officer Samcon Hung, who did the initial intake and missing persons report in San Francisco.

Dessalines' last location was pinged on March 8, 2022 at 4:19pm, traveling in an unknown direction on the 880 freeway. The last contact Dessalines had with loved ones was through multiple calls, each lasting under 30 seconds, on March 8, 2022 around 4:54pm. During these calls, she stated she had jumped out of a moving vehicle while on the highway; detailed being in pain and a state of confusion; and agreed to call 911. Loud surrounding background noises of cars passing at high speeds were heard on the call.

On March 8, 2022 at 6:30pm, the Oakland Police Department found her phone covered in blood

at the Planned Parenthood located at: 8480 Enterprise Way, Oakland, CA 94621. The phone was found with a significant amount of blood leading to the entrance and back to the street, where the droplets disappeared. Police suspect this means she was stumbling while injured and entered an unknown vehicle or the vehicle of those who abducted her - her current status and location is unknown.

Dessalines was being stalked by a man while staying in the Tenderloin district in San Francisco during the week of February 27, 2022. On the night of March 1, 2022/early morning of March 2, 2022, a physical altercation between the man and Dessalines occurred. It is unknown whether those that abducted her are affiliated with this case. Dessalines is new to the Bay Area and has no known family contacts in Oakland. An Emergency alert is incoming and Isa Dessalines will be categorized as a high-risk missing person. Her case number is 220153598

If you have seen Dessalines or have more information on where she might be, please contact:

SFPD #: (415) 553-0123

OPD #: (510) 238-3455

Press can contact [email protected]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 8. 2022

Black Trans Youth Abducted in San Francisco

On March 8, 2022 at 6:30pm, the Oakland Police Department found her phone covered in blood

If you have seen Dessalines or have more information on where she might be, please contact:

SFPD #: (415) 553-0123

OPD #: (510) 238-3455

Press can contact [email protected]

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Amanda Householder sues Circle of Hope, Agape Boys Ranch, Berean & Agape Baptist Churches, as a Birthday Gift to Herself

Welcome back to Troubled, a podcast by/for Survivors of Institutional Youth Abuse.

THANK YOU for being here for the third season of our Independent self archival project. Two seasons bootlegged together over a cell phone, recorded in an old Prius wasn't too much for you? Well, masochism may pay off here as we embark on our most personal missions yet and play the cards we've held closest throughout the collective crucible of advocacy in a time of Covid.

Super quick 31st birthday catch-up with Amanda Householder, who just filed a lawsuit against her parents, Boyd and Stephanie Householder, owners of Circle of Hope Girls Ranch AND their complicit and culpable cohorts - Agape Boarding School for Boys, Agape Baptist Church and Berean Baptist Church. We won't be getting into the nitty gritty of the details today, out of respect for Amanda, but we HIGHLY recommend you read the Kansas City Star Article "I was born into this." Daughter of Missouri reform school sues parents over abuse" by Judy Thomas and Laura Bauer, two rare gems of journalistic integrity. It is incredibly difficult to find ethical media allies of this caliber and we would just like to thank these women for how they have treated Survivors of Institutional Abuse throughout the last year of consistent coverage in Missouri. We wish they weren't an exception, but we are infinitely grateful they're both committed to exposing this crime against humanity as it plays out in their backyards.

Forgive us our ADHD and self-defense, in this and every episode. We look forward to exploring the specific traumas of ourselves and our peers who were forever altered relationally by peer-on-peer attack therapy, but we'll also briefly address it in this update.

We hope that Survivors will see other Survivors making moves and taking names as invitations or challenges to do so themselves. We hope that you will join us on the frontlines at every fork in the road. We also understand that for a historically invalidated community, and collectively gaslit community, that it can be triggering to see the mic passed to the next advocate. Often we can feel as if we are being spoken for, or over, or disregarded entirely. But every opportunity for a Survivor to speak, is an opportunity for Survivors to be heard. If we believe that we are stronger together, then we cannot continue to allow our community to reenact our trauma. MANY Survivors are neurodiverse, many of us experience RSD (Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria) - especially since it's the most common symptom of ADHD. Even if we don't have RSD dialing up the perception of rejection, we HAVE been abandoned, excluded, silenced, and otherwise pariah-ed to the point where you don't even need 'confirmation bias' to perceive the world as wholly unsafe, as well as the people in it. I dig it. I'm living in this world with you.

PLEASE let us be aware of how we deflect and project ourselves onto the world around us. We cannot move towards an exclusionary policy as we curate our collective movement.

Please join us in advocating for youth rights to liberate all kids in cages, from the border, through foster care, to the ToughLove so-called Troubled Teen Industry.

Until next time, #iseeyousurvivor and THANK YOU to all of our allies

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Surviving Survivorland: the Institutional Child Abuse Movement in Ireland, Canada and the USA

Let's talk about Survivors of Institutional Child Abuse on a global scale. Sometimes its imperative to scroll it back to comprehend the scope of the entire cake we're cut from. Historically institutionalized communities are calling upon the international community to activate and assist them in moving their advocacy forward. This week is #MMIWAwareness and the root of the rot of institutional youth abuse in the USA and Canada were the "residential schools" for the Indigenous. There is so much valuable insight to glean from how Survivors have pushed for reform, redress and reconciliation. But as we continue to benefit from Indigenous cultures, we must likewise center, elevate and amplify their voices as we move forward with any action items or advocacy in/on Turtle Island. As the rising toll of indigenous children confirmed stolen by the Church and State's institutional atrocities surpasses 10,000 in Canada, we implore you to jump on hashtags like #everychildmatters and help to proactively expand the visibility of these Survivors and Advocates. With that in mind, please follow and support one of our favorite Nonprofits in Canada, led by an MMIW Survivor and Second Generation Residential School Survivors @ChildrenFirstSociety on all socials and activate via their website: https://childrenfirstsociety.wixsite.com/childrenfirstsociety In Ireland there are over 9,000 children confirmed killed by the Church and State in their residential homes including the Mother and Baby Homes. Please join the Survivors and Advocates via #motherandbabyhomes. If you're particularly interested in the institutional targeting of Irish Travellers in Ireland definitely support best selling author of "The Tinker Menace" Laura Angela Collins. You can support Travellers and other Nomadic Communities in the EU/UK via #WeRoamWithYou and #StopTravellerHate With everything we have to learn from the successes in these communities, as well as the obstacles they face, our hope is that we can apply this knowledge to our own quest for justice while also becoming more accessible, inclusive, diverse and accountable. We haven't used the hashtag #breakingcodesilence in a while but since we bring it up, we may as well include it here. We have to expand and round out our table of leadership, access and visibility so that all Survivors can see themselves represented whether they be from wilderness therapy, conversion therapy, religious boarding schools, or any Tough Love flavor of the so-called Troubled Teen Industry. And we must recognize when we individually or collectively DARVO ourselves and the community by deflecting the trauma we deny in ourselves and projecting it outward. Checkout "Take Back Your Life Recovery" by Dr. Janja Lalich, next deprogramming series for Survivors of High Control Groups starts in May: https://www.tbylr.com/ We hope you will join us as we move forward into this next stage of our crucible, and we are incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported us thus far. Follow us @TalkTroubled everywhere, visit our website www.talktroubled.org and rate/review us on iTunes/Spotify/Facebook. #iseeyousurvivor