'Many of us alleged Jane Does have been silent throughout the months of the three IHOPKC
investigations and difficult ordeal. While other voices have chosen to clamor loudly and insistently, we have maintained our silence, desiring to retain whatever measure of privacy of life we could that was left after our lives were invaded by the violating behavior of those involved in a calculated "Jane Doe" campaign that is being done in the name of "love, transparency, justice, and advocacy."' - Misty Edwards
I am sorry but Misty Edwards enjoys a tremendous career in the public spotlight. One trade off is you generally do not have the same expectation of privacy. That aside, the opening here is designed to smear the victims of Mike Bickle. She does this by referring to them as a "calculated" Jane Doe campaign and by mocking the notion that they approached this with love, transparency, justice and advocacy. She also starts with the unverified premise that she and whoever these unnamed other Jane Does are, were actually part of the original accusations. It would help if the victim's group would clarify but they are trying to represent the actual victims.
"While a narrative has been presented of many female victims whom the "advocate" group is
representing, the true story that has not come out is how many of those victims were involuntarily labelled that and had narratives constructed by others forced upon our lives, that we have been forced to defend ourselves from. This has been painful, humiliating, and traumatizing to all of us. Some in the "advocate" group keep stating that "victims have been intimidated to come forward to talk to legal investigators." This is untrue. We have engaged with the three investigative legal teams that IHOPKC has brought in. Though all the legal teams have been professional and respectful, the nature of the circumstances and its necessary questions have caused us to endure recurring humiliation, distress, trauma, and pain as we have had to have repeated conversations about humiliating topics concerning the insinuations and suggestions that others have projected onto our lives and workplace dynamics." - Misty Edwards
Actually, the story about how some of the alleged victims were not has come out because Misty Edwards reported such several months ago. what Misty tries to do here is pretend that whatever has or has not happened to her, must be true for everyone else involved. So, I do not doubt her when she says that she has not been intimidated to not talk to investigators but that does not mean it has never occurred with other people. The real purpose here is to again muddy the waters. Just a couple of other obvious points. The "three investigative legal teams" were all brought in from IHOPKC, meaning they were completely compromised because we know they refused to bring in an outside entity to fairly examine what happened. Misty is offering this nugget here to make it seem like they have exhaustively investigated when they most certainly have not. The second observation is why were these questions painful, humiliating, and traumatizing if you claim nothing ever happened? Why would false innuendo or insinuations be embarrassing? It sounds like perhaps there was some truth to what was being asked.
"Behind the scenes we have been harassed, secretly recorded, had family members contacted, had our phone numbers given out, and been bullied and pressured to "admit" to being victims, and when we have refused such untruths, we have been gaslit, told that these people know the true stories of our lives better than we do, and had the narratives they have formed about our lives suggestively put in media articles and social media posts, or threatened to be put in public articles. When we refuse to capitulate to the narratives being promoted about our lives by some of the "advocates" we have been threatened, called liars, Stockholm syndromed, accused of covering up, being mentally compromised, having memories repressed, being complicit, and even suicidal. Now some in the "advocate" group are insisting on a fourth investigation, putting us through even further anguish and injustice, while they themselves have as of yet refused to be formally investigated even once by a legal team in context to their character, narratives, or the processes by which they have promoted various accusations against many of us. We are exhausted, humiliated, and done. We appreciate the concern for others who express victimhood, but frankly, there is another group of victimized women here - the women, and former women, of this house who have been forced to engage in this horror show against our will for the sake of someone else's agenda against Mike Bickle and IHOPKC." - Misty Edwards
So, we come to the real reason behind this outrage from Misty. She is selling the idea that this entire controversy is just a conspiracy against Mike Bickle. That it is just an "agenda." How pitifully disgusting to say that publicly. I did not realize that the true victim here in all of this is Misty Edwards. You see, I thought it was the woman who when she was 19 years old, was lied to by Bickle so he could lure her into bed. A woman who he lied to about hearing from God about. You see Misty, the then 42-year-old, married Bickle, who was about to build IHOP, which would launch your career, told this 19-year-old sheep that God told him his wife was going to die so they could one day remarry. He told her this false prophecy over and over again as he sexually abused her for four years. Oh, and then he tried to manipulate her life, tell her who she could see or not see, and even tried to break up her marriage when she finally broke free from him. Oh, and she was the daughter of a friend of his. To me Misty, this woman is the victim, not you because you had to be interviewed about what a low life Bickle was. The "horror show" was produced by your buddy Mike Bickle, not the people he victimized. That poor woman, whose entire life was victimized deserves to claim humiliation Misty, not you.
"While some in this group, comprised primarily of what would be considered righteous men of God, have clamored loudly and insistently and forcefully that they are "advocates" of a series of
abused women, the truth is that in reality our lives have been bullied and abused by them. They
