
It is time to tell the whole truth about Adopt-A-Horse.
Adopt-A-Horse has been a 20-year journey to help victims of crimes against children and animals. This is our story.
Adopt-A-Horse has been a 20-year journey to help victims of crimes against children and animals. This is our story.
Corrupt Judge DeGonia, aka the Hobo Judge, enjoys throwing people on the street at 83 years old!
Judge DeGonia Helps Johnson Crime Family Make Rescue Horses Homeless!
Judge John B. DeGonia, Jr.
30 Meadow Lane
Covington, GA 30014
Notice of Intent to Sue
Case# 22-2101DS
Dear Sir,
Last year you presided over a case involving a dispute between myself and the Johnson family of Covington. The dispute was over a provision in my 30-year lease that allowed the family to require me to purchase liability insurance for my rescue horses. You gave us thirty days to purchase liability insurance with the consent of both parties in the dispute. I purchased liability insurance within 5 days of our court date. I asked to appear in your court a week after our first appearance to ask for the dismissal of the case against me. My request was denied.
You signed an order to make my rescue horses homeless, close a rape crisis program after 18 years, and you ordered Sheriff Brown to forcibly remove our operation from the Johnson property. We wrote a letter asking you to reverse your order. You did not have the courage to answer our request directly.
Judge Melony Bell sent a terse one-line response denying our request to enforce the original order from you. Your office told a reporter from 11Alive that we had to work out our problems with the Johnson family. We did as you ordered, and we lost everything. A nonprofit operation had been operational for 18 years. We lost the 12 years left on our lease which was closed due to your corrupt behavior.
Your decision to change your mind without including us in the conversation was a serious breach of judicial ethics. Your conduct was outside the normal course of business for a Magistrate Judge. You decided it was in your best interest to allow the criminal Johnson family to sell my lease to the hunters on their property. Their relentless crusade to force us off the property and sell our valid lease over a two-year period culminated with your new judicial order.
It is obvious that you benefited personally from your action. You have been found guilty in the court of public opinion. We have publicized your theft of our secular mission on our web sites and our social media forums. We have asked the State of Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission to revoke your ability to work as a Judge and take away your license to practice law. Your career needs to end as soon as possible. We need to send a message to every Judge expected to hear our upcoming civil cases to understand there will be consequences to blindly servicing the needs of the criminal Johnson family.
I am asking you to cooperate with our search for the truth. You can count on being called to testify as both a defendant and a witness in the case against yourself, the hunters, and the Johnson family members. Any refusal for your testimony will help the Judicial Commission in their determination of our complaint against you. Any variation from the truth is going to put you, your staff, the Johnsons, and Newton County in more legal difficulties than everyone faces already.
The Johnson family spoke with someone in an ex parte conversation after our court date. We want to know the details of their outreach. We want names, dates, and exact commitments given to these criminals. We want to know if you were ordered to change your ruling or if you did it without orders from a supervising Judge. We want to know if there was any consideration given for your ruling against myself, my rescue horses, and the rape victims we help with our efforts.
You need to contribute the money needed to replace our leased land. We need to purchase our horses from the homes where they are currently living. We need money to replace the trailers, camper trailer, tools, and equipment sold last year. Our rescue horses deserve to live with the same family that they lived with, in most cases for fifteen years or more. Survivors of child molestation deserve to have a rape crisis program hidden in plain sight. Public employees and rapists need to know we will stand against the forces of evil without fear or prejudice.
You are responsible for removing an especially important experience for locals and international visitors. Our highly trained Arabian endurance horses provided over 7,000 visitors with their first experience with horses. The vast majority were novices who enjoyed a safe time on a tour of an 1,100-acre game preserve. Highly skilled people were in awe of the quality of horses in our program. Private tours were given to small groups of people by highly trained instructors working for no salary. Everyone worked to support a mission that you trashed with a corrupt action.
We offered the only driving program for outside visitors anywhere in the Southeast. The opportunity was unique enough to have Playboy TV film a segment for their network. Their fully dressed actors were given an opportunity to drive our carts for an internationally distributed segment. Our community has fully supported our desire to continue our program in a scaled down version with two driving rigs. The community knew our mission was a critical service to the community. Our service to rape victims is well known and applauded.
You came to our court date looking like a hobo dressed like a Judge. You let us know your wife complained about spending $77 on gas that morning. You were speaking to a group of people that you planned to throw out on the street that morning. You threatened us with a seven-day notice allowing the Sheriff to throw our program out on the street. You are a pathetic old man in need of relevance and power. You can share with your grandchildren your retirement job is throwing their poor fellow students out on the street for your own entertainment.
You have been convicted for theft from our program on our multiple online media. This information is not going to change. You can be courageous in your denial of responsibility for your ruining our operation. You owe a sincere public apology to your wife Sharon, your family, friends, the community, and your fellow public employees. You have permanently stained your fifty-year career as an attorney. You have brought dishonor to your fellow veterans with your behavior. The least you can do is put on your man pants and accept responsibility for you actions and cooperate with our civil cases.
Your wife Sharon needs to understand that we have email addresses for thousands of people that have ridden our horses over the years. We have helped hundreds of families deal with the rape of their children in a community where 90% of child rapists are never successfully prosecuted. Horace J. Johnson Jr. before his death spoke highly of our service to the community and assured us, we were going to continue to operate on his family property. Sharon needs to know the amount of our final damages, both real and punitive, could easily exceed the value of your home. Imagine the irony if rape victims or riding clients forced your family on the street due to this case.
Everything you do will be part of the public record. I expect you to act with honor and make your grandchildren proud of their grandfather. You may not be aware of the consequences of your actions, but they will live with your cowardly behavior for years to come. You have left an indelible mark on their family name. Their name will be linked to this case for years to come.
Newton Citizen's Review (zorrow.org)
Douch Bag of the Year (zorrow.org),
This corrupt judge went outside normal court procedure to close our rape crisis program and make our rescue horses homeless. He is dodgy character in need of a weekly thrill making people homeless. Follow the link below to find his fellow douche bags.
Newton County Judge DeGonia Investigation Begins!
Horace J. Johnson Jr.'s Legacy Tarnished by His Family
Courtney Veal, director, Judicial Qualifications Commission of Georgia Punishes Corrupt Judges
The Judicial Qualifications Commission of Georgia
Director Courtney Veal
1995 North Park Place, SE
Suite 325
Atlanta, GA 30339
Judicial Complaint
Corrupt Magistrate Court of Newton County
Case# 22-2101DS
7/12/2023
Dear Ms. Veal,
My nonprofit organization, Adopt-A-Horse Inc, is celebrating our 20-year anniversary next month. We are a micro enterprise nonprofit. We started with a limited number of trained endurance horses to help victims of child sex crimes. We had taken a land lease and turned it into a functioning nonprofit. Our organization has helped hundreds of sex crime victims and rescued dozens of horses over the years. We had expanded into a finely tuned small operation that was prepared to work the process until the end of our land lease in 2034.
I was the victim of Judicial misconduct last year. My reputation and my nonprofit organization, Adopt-A-Horse, Inc., were devastated by the corrupt behavior of Judge John DeGonia in Newton County, GA. Judge DeGonia presided over a request from the Estate of Judge Horace J. Johnson Jr, Lottie Johnson, Yvette Johnson, Bryant, Johnson, and Horace J. Johnson III to force our rescue horses and rape crisis program from their property after eighteen years. Judge DeGonia found our thirty-year lease was valid and enforceable. After our initial court appearance and judicial order, Judge Degonia changed his order with no notice to me.
During our court appearance on June13, 2022, Judge DeGonia ordered us to purchase liability insurance within thirty days. This order was given after both the plaintiff and defendant agreed to giving us thirty days to purchase liability insurance. We purchased the required policy within the first few days after our court date. I called the court requesting a place on Judge Degonia's calendar to show proof of insurance and request dismissal of the court case against me. I was refused a court date and told that he had issued a dispossession order against me and my Foundation. He changed his court order without any additional phone calls, meetings, or text messages. He obviously had an ex parte conversation with one or more of the plaintiffs in this case.
It is obvious that someone from the Johnson family contacted a Newton County Judge and requested a different outcome from our court date. This ex parte conversation occurred between Judge DeGonia and a different Newton County Judge or a member of the Johnson family. This ruling corrupted the normal order of a functioning justice system. Both parties to the case needed to be present to argue for a reasonable discussion of the change of direction.
We immediately sent a letter asking for a reversal of Judge Degonia's second ruling. Two days prior to the Sheriff coming to remove our operation and horses from the property, we received a letter from Probate Judge Melanie Bell that denied any reversal back to the second ruling. Horace J. Johnson’s Jr. name on the Newton County Judicial Center gave his family the ability to steal 18 years of our hard work, a home for our rescue horses, and a service center for rape victims. This corrupt ruling took away our ability to support our nonprofit organization for the next 12 years.
We have asked for the new head Judge of Newton County to give us some answers about those responsible for this corrupt behavior. He has ignored our request. We are asking you to use your position to investigate the corrupt judicial conduct in this case. We have documented this case in real time on both my web sites (www.Adopt-A-Horse.org & www.Zorrow.org).
1. We are asking for the name of the person or persons from the Johnson family that contacted the Newton County Judicial Center about changing Judge Degonia's ruling of 6/13/2022. We want to sue the people responsible for reversing this ruling.
2. We want to name everyone involved in closing our operation helping victims of crime and rescue horses. We are going to shame the people responsible for this theft. We want to avoid slandering an innocent party's name. We have a robust outreach to the court of public opinion.
3. We want your commission to dismiss those Judges that crossed the line in this case. We want their license to practice law permanently taken from them. We need Newton County Judges in our upcoming civil proceedings to know there are consequences for denying us impartial judicial review of our lawsuits for monetary damages.
We ask you and your staff to do your job in a timely fashion. We are publishing your leadership outcome on our websites. No need to thank us for your generous exposure on our web sites and social media. I encourage you to visit and keep up with our progress towards justice.
Johnson Crime Family (zorrow.org),
Newton Citizen's Review (zorrow.org)
Douch Bag of the Year (zorrow.org),
Adopt-A-Horse, Inc. - Horseback Riding - Covington, Georgia
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We are working to raise the money to bring our family to a new home. We are going to court to seek damages from the people responsible for stealing our lease. The process starts now!
Richard Promises Security Against Outside Rascals
Richard Saturday
50 Horseshoe Court
Covington, GA 30014
Notice of Intent to Sue
July 8,2023
Dear Richard,
You are a liar, thief, cheater, and emotionally unstable man with high powered weapons. I was responsible for overseeing your hunting contract on the Johnson property in Covington, GA. Your deteriorating behavior over several years forced me to refuse to renew your access to the Johnson property for hunting. We warned Horace about your unacceptable antics before his death. We warned his surviving family members of your moral and unhinged shortcomings after his death.
We have numerous emails and recorded telephone conversations with Horace and Bryant detailing our concerns. We will publish the emails and phone calls on my websites and social media forums. We feel it is important to give individuals and businesses ample proof of your moral and emotional shortcomings. Everyone will get the full range of problems associated with your presence in their space. No need to thank us, we do this as a public service to the community.
Since you and John Jessup conspired together to steal our land lease with the Johnson family, we will sue both of you in civil court. Since both of you live in different counties, you will be sued separately. The effort is a necessary inconvenience to address the financial harm your behavior has cost my Foundation’s rescue horses and rape victims. You will pay for your treachery against us. You need to be held liable in a public setting for your behavior. Your family needs to be aware of the man that has put their financial future at risk so you can kill some animals.
The list of ignorant nonsense is too long for this letter. We are going to save it for our websites, media forums, and your civil court appearance. Your messages telling of the harrowing tale of your chasing poachers while poaching yourself was a clear indication of all my concerns about you. The best test of stupid was your text of November 28, 2020, which stated, “Cross the street was shooting towards our way”. This last communication between us and the property manager three months after your hunting lease had been terminated was a fitting illustration of our need to get rid of you.
You have a full-time job at a large veterinary practice, and a part time job at a different local veterinary practice. The last time you were paying your annual fee for hunting privileges, John Jessup paid your fees for you. You clearly need more income to support your family. I feel comfortable that you saw our difficult departure under a corrupt court order as an opportunity to profit from our departure. You may have envisioned taking over our riding program. You may have thought about expanding veterinary practice into a large animal operation. You expressed your opinion that our operation could make more money. It was all a series of unrealized dreams beyond your grasp.
Every time you said something about the property, I took photos of your claims. These photos will reveal your inability to tell the truth. I have numerous emails, recordings, and text messages about you that will be released publicly. It is my obligation to inform anyone who relies on you to know the real story in advance. It is going to be an ugly story of your moral character over the years.
Documents and Depositions
I encourage you to avoid making it difficult to have the courts evaluate the merits of my civil case against you. You will be forced to submit documents and sit for a deposition prior to our final court date. You can waste a lot of time and money avoiding the inevitable or we can get the evidence collected as quickly as possible. It will be hard for all your coconspirators to keep their stories straight. Any lies can result in criminal charges of lying under oath.
Item #1
We need your copy of every contract for hunting privileges from day one. We saw you touring the property with John and a Johnson family member last year on July 14, 2022. We want a copy of any agreement you have signed with any member of the Johnson family to date. You made claims about our prior agreements that do not reflect anything in my signed documents.
After Horace’ death, you and John spoke directly with the Johnson family about taking my lease. The family tried to force me to sign a new lease. In their proposed lease, they made explicit mention of work that both of you offered in return for forcing me into a new lease. I want to know the exact offer you made to the family in return for taking over my lease. You need to inform me of any written or oral agreements offered or made during these discussions. I also want any offers of additional work beyond the terms of our earlier agreements made in the last year.
We have made numerous recordings of Horace Johnson Jr. prior to his death. We knew he was prepared to use his influence to enforce any action against us. He also stated that our agreement required my approval. He felt comfortable going against our contract because he told us he was selfish. His legacy has been tarnished by his family on your behalf.
Item #2
I want any communications between you, John, Horace, or any other Johnson family member since you began hunting on the Johnson property. I want copies of all emails, letters, and text messages included in this communication request.
Item #3
My lease required me to develop a long-term land management plan to keep the Johnson family property in conservancy. As part of this effort, I found Public Grant money to fund the implementation of this plan. Horace managed $2,000 and $4,800 grants. He failed to manage this effort in spectacular fashion.
The $4,800 grant prompted Horace to meet with John, myself, and you to discuss our ideas in the proposal. Horace spoke with us in a conference call to discuss his reluctance to accept the grant because of his inability to finance the payment of the grant contractors without John’s help. John agreed to finance the work and wait for the State of Georgia to reimburse him for his invoice on the contracted work.
It was clear from the first day the actual work started that neither you nor John had any intention of completing the work as discussed in our meetings. You clearly stated your intention to waste the money and not complete the work as discussed. I met with Horace on the first day of the work and discussed in detail the problem with the work not meeting the written proposal. The private work he requested was to be paid with public grant money.
I told Horace that I had no intention of being involved with any misappropriation of public money. He told me that he would take over all aspects of managing the property from that day forward.
I want all communications between you, John, and his contractors on this $4,800 grant money. I want copies of all invoices to both Horace, the State of Georgia, John’s contractors, and canceled checks with copies of both front and rear views. I want to add these documents to my numerous emails when I ask representatives the State of Georgia to testify about this theft of public funds. If John’s company was involved in this misappropriation of public funds, we are going to include his company in this lawsuit.
You have thirty days to provide us with the requested documents and schedule a videotaped deposition. We are asking for a signed and notarized sworn statement attesting to the facts in the documents you provide. Any failure to provide a complete copy of everything requested will be seen as a failure to comply in the court's eyes.
I will be posting our records on numerous public forums about these civil proceedings. You will not need to ask for the requested information since I will be publishing it on both my web sites and all social media in real time.
Sincerely,
Dennis Horion
Johnson Crime Family (zorrow.org)
Newton Citizen's Review (zorrow.org)
We are working to raise the money to bring our family to a new home. We are going to court to seek damages from the people responsible for stealing our lease. The process starts now!
Walton County Wanker Robs Rape Victims and Rescue Horses
Mr. John Jessup
Walton County School Board
Alcovy Builders, Inc.
2834 Horseshoe Road
Loganville, GA 30052
Notice of Intent to Sue
July 3, 2023
Dear John,
You are a professional parasite. You have made a career of profiting from other people's accomplishments. As a glorified bookkeeper, you are a necessary financial burden to the real creators of products and services. You stole 18 years of our work with a bribe to the Johnson Crime Family.
You contracted to hunt from a project created to help victims of child sex crimes with rescue horses. During your time with us you lied, cheated, and stole everything you could. Your efforts were to the detriment of your hunting partner, the property owner, and our non-profit organization.
You are accustomed to looking for a way to escape paying your fair share of a group effort. Your word as a man meant nothing. You worked to avoid doing anything of value to everyone involved. You were always out for yourself no matter the task at hand. It is obvious that you have not paid the price for your behavior.
We are putting you on notice that we intend to bring you to civil court to answer for your part in a conspiracy to steal my land lease with the Johnson Crime family. Your efforts resulted in our horses being homeless and closing a rape crisis program being hidden in plain sight. In addition to this civil suit, we will be holding you up to scrutiny in the court of public opinion.
Your story will be told on both of my web sites. Your story will also be shared on our Facebook pages and many other social media mediums. You will share space with the rescue animals that lost their forever home due to your efforts. In addition, you will be featured alongside an extensive list of rapists, child molesters, public service grifters, and douche bag lawyers.
Included in our postings will be the people and organizations around you that are unaware of your behavior. We feel it is our obligation to inform unsuspecting people about your propensity to hurt rescue horses and victims of child sex crimes. If these people continue to work with you, we will expose them for their complicit acceptance of your behavior. Our efforts are a public service to unsuspecting victims of your lack of moral integrity. No need to thank us, we owe this to you.
You had several people help you in your efforts to make our horses homeless and close a rape crisis program. Since you operate from a different county than your fellow conspirators, we will be suing you separately from the others. We will use their testimony to complete the coordinated efforts to steal from myself and my Foundation. Their documents and depositions will be used in the cases in Newton. We will bring you into their case as a witness to the entire effort to steal our land lease. Liars tend to have a difficulty keeping their stories straight. We will be looking for any differences in each of your testimony for any criminal charges of lying under oath during the entire process.
Parasites try to survive by hiding in difficult locations behind their attorneys. I suspect you have just the legal legend in mind to beat us to the ground with his dazzling knowledge of the rule of law and court procedure. He will take the case with great fanfare and stern letters and court filings. He will assure you that he will get us to pay his bills for flogging us for your entertainment. We have spotlighted every opposing lawyer on our websites along with their benefactors. You can assure your lawyer that they will join you in being featured right alongside you everywhere you are being discussed. Our experience has shown that lawyers fire their clients after being featured alongside the same degenerates you will be joining.
Evidence
We can get this rodeo started with the documents we need to prove our assertions against you and your fellow conspirators. In some cases, you will be the defendant while others we may require your appearance as a witness. I suggest you provide me with the requested documents to avoid any unnecessary additional financial exposure.
You may want to shade the truth as usual, but it would take a complete trust that everyone in the process will continue to hold the lies in this conspiracy. When faced with charges of lying under oath, people tend to find God and the truth. The first one with the truth gets the deal from prosecutors.
Item #1
We need your copy of every contract for hunting privileges from day one. We saw you touring the property with Richard and a Johnson family member last year on July 14, 2022. We want a copy of any agreement you have signed with any member of the Johnson family to date. You made claims about our prior agreements that do not reflect anything in my signed documents.
After Horace’ death, you and Richard spoke directly with the Johnson family about taking my lease. The family tried to force me to sign a new lease. In their proposed lease, they made explicit mention of work that both of you offered in return for forcing me into a new lease. I want to know the exact offer you made to the family in return for taking over my lease. You need to inform me of any written or oral agreements offered or made during these discussions. I also want any offers of additional work beyond the terms of our earlier agreements made in the last year.
We have made numerous recordings of Horace Johnson Jr. prior to his death. We knew he was prepared to use his influence to enforce any action against us. He also stated that our agreement required my approval. He felt comfortable going against our contract because he told us he was selfish. His legacy has been tarnished by his family on your behalf.
Item #2
I want any communications between you, Richard, Horace, or any other Johnson family member since you began hunting on the Johnson property. I want copies of all emails, letters, and text messages included in this communication request.
Item #3
My lease required me to develop a long-term land management plan to keep the Johnson family property in conservancy. As part of this effort, I found Public Grant money to fund the implementation of this plan. Horace managed $2,000 and $4,800 grants. He failed to manage this effort in spectacular fashion.
The $4,800 grant prompted Horace to meet with Richard, myself, and you to discuss our ideas in the proposal. Horace spoke with us in a conference call to discuss his reluctance to accept the grant because of his inability to finance the payment of the grant contractors without your help. You agreed to finance the work and wait for the State of Georgia to reimburse him for his invoice on the contracted work.
It was clear from the first day the actual work started that neither you nor Richard had any intention of completing the work as discussed in our meetings. Richard clearly stated his intention to waste the money and not complete the work as discussed. I met with Horace on the first day of the work and discussed in detail the problem with the work not meeting the written proposal. The private work he requested was to be paid with public grant money.
I told Horace that I had no intention of being involved with any misappropriation of public money. He told me that he would take over all aspects of managing the property from that day forward.
I want all communications between you, your company, and your contractors on this $4,800 grant money. I want copies of all invoices to both Horace, the State of Georgia, your contractors, and canceled checks with copies of both front and rear views. I want to add these documents to my numerous emails when I ask representatives the State of Georgia to testify about this theft of public funds. If your company was involved in this misappropriation of public funds, we are going to include your company in this lawsuit.
Item #4
Your hunting contract was for you, your hunting partner, and your children. One day a man came into our pasture to hunt with your permission. Not only did he have a key to our pasture gates, but he said you allowed him to hunt the property regularly. I contacted your hunting partner, and he was not aware you were routinely allowing a poacher on the property. I told you our dogs were doing their job by cornering him in front of us.
You said he did not have to answer our questions about his presence on the property with high power weapons without our knowledge and approval. When we told you of the danger he faced due to our dogs, you told us he was authorized to kill our animals if he was in danger. He was poaching on our active pastures with your permission.
We want his contact information including name, address, phone number, and email address. We want to call him as a witness in our civil suit against you.
Current Status
I took pictures of the Johnson property on June 30, 2023, from public roads. It is obvious that the place is turning into an unkempt weed patch. I doubt the Johnson family is proud of the decision to remove us from the property. I doubt your business partners are going to be happy that we are going to place a claim against your performance bond company about the work done on the $4,800 contract.
Please forward all the requested information with a sworn statement signed with a notary confirming your signature. We want this information to be provided in the next thirty days. I will not communicate with you or your representative until I receive the requested information. If you do not provide us with the requested information voluntarily, we will seek assistance from the court to compel the delivery of the requested information.
I will be posting this correspondence online as a service to the community that you have hurt with your actions.
Sincerely,
Dennis Horion
Johnson Crime Family (zorrow.org)
Walton Citizens Review (zorrow.org)
Walton County Citizens Review
Adopt-A-Horse, Inc. - Horseback Riding - Covington, Georgia
We are fortunate to receive generous financial and emotional support every day. Sometimes the smallest gestures of good will and support are the greatest gifts to our efforts to help victims of child sex crimes.
Sunshine was a young horse when she joined us 15 years ago. She was a reluctant trainee for two years. Once a generous volunteer trained her to ride the trails, she started learning to drive. She has been the primary cart horse leading our tours for years. She is a great horse in both riding and driving.
007 came to us from a local auction. He was donated by a generous family. We told their young girl that he was doing undercover work before he came to us. He has continued his long history of working undercover to help victims of child sex crimes. He is a talented horse both under saddle and driving a cart.
A family is the sum total of the strength of its members. When one family member falls the others take up the cause. No one member offered excuses or anger when we were tested. We all stood up for our mission helping each other and victims of child sex crimes. We are in mourning for the loss of long-time members of our family. We all came together when we were no longer welcomed in our old circumstances.
Our horses and victims of crime are needed now more than ever. The new Federal law eliminating the statute of limitations for suing child molesters has created new opportunities for justice. We encourage you to follow our efforts to help victims of child sex crimes. The Johnson Crime Family's greed has consequences for our horses and victims of crime.
Our mission has always been to incarcerate every child molester for their crimes. No victim needs to be afraid their rapist is still targeting other children for sexual assault.
Victims need to be financially compensated for the failure of adults to protect children from their rapist. The cost of counseling and addiction needs to be paid for by those who failed in their duty to protect their children. We have always offered survivors of child sex crimes access to our comfort horses.
You can see Dennis Horion's advocacy efforts on his web site www.zorrow.org.
Adopt-A-Horse started as a vision to help public and private organizations help victims of child sex crimes. A reporting victim has to manage conflicting issues between parents, police, forensic therapists, child protective services, county prosecutors, civil attorneys and parole officers. Our goal was to provide a location that helped victims get advice and coordinated support for justice against their abuser.
A young child has no hope of finding justice against their abuser without someone capable of pressuring the process to work for them. The current system has little incentive to convict a child rapist. Convictions rate are 10% or less in most jurisdictions. A child reporting their abuse is treated like the problem in the conversation. Children have virtually no one in the process without a financial incentive to look the other way.
It became clear early in our time in Covington that our chance of being successful would not be helped by the local law enforcement or child welfare organizations. We made a conscious decision early in our existence to refuse any public funds. We did not want to compromise our victims of crime with money to fund our organization.
We have maintained our independence at great cost to our organization. We can look in the mirror with our head held high. Our mission has not been compromised by public officials or taxpayer money. We are proud to represent victims of child sex crimes without compromising our integrity.
The Johnson Family gave our therapy horse's home to hunters to kill wild game. Liars, cheaters, and thieves have stolen our land lease. Rape victims and therapy horses lose their safe haven to these killers. We encourage you to follow this story on our advocacy web site by going to the link below.
Dennis has been working to help rescue horses and child sex crimes victims for 18 years. Coral is entering her 10-year working hard to help the program every day.
A large group of volunteers and supporters donated time or money or both. Adopt-A-Horse was a product of hard manual labor and tours for approximately 8,000 paying clients. Dennis and Coral worked these tours together. We are pa
Our family of horses lived, trained, and worked together as a team for over fifteen years. Our donations were a result of people learning about our mission through our horses.
In addition to their hard work, they helped victims of child sex crimes with emotional support. Our family of horses gave victims a reason to continue seeking support without dwelling on their childhood sexual assault
Our ponies worked with our horses for over fifteen years. They were all cross trained to drive carts. Driving a cart allowed them to help both children and adults.
Our ponies worked trail rides, provided therapy to victims of crime, and hauled all the equipment needed to maintain the 176 acres of our land lease. They were the hardest working horses in the program.
We have continued our prog
Valentino is still MIA!
We offered our services to public agencies across Newton County. The Police Chief of Oxford asked us to work with a 13-year-old boy with behavioral issues. I asked if he was a victim of child sex crimes. I was told he was not a confirmed victim. He was being forced to live with a registered sex offender that was not his biological father. I asked if this was a common practice in the community. I was told there were 23 children being forced to live with sex offenders that were not biological family members.
It was obvious that he would probably disclose some active abuse once he was with us. I began going to each of the appropriate public agencies to identify services offered to young men in his circumstances. My questions were deeply troubling, and the answers were either vague or not answered at all.
It became obvious we were targeted for asking the hard questions. Our fence lines were cut, and horses were on the street 36 times over the next two years. Valentino (pictured above) was eventually stolen on the fourth attempt to steal a horse. Netposse.com located him In Florida. The Sheriff Department purposely refused to bring him back. He was moved under very suspicious circumstances.
All three Atlanta television stations featured his theft for an entire week. The entire episode was the community's way of deterring our efforts on behalf of victims of child sex crimes. We never stopped representing victims with aggressive advocacy efforts at no cost to the people we represented. We are still offering our help to this day.
No Justice / No Peace
We arrived in Covington with a vision to help victims of child sex crimes. Our efforts were appreciated since the community was receiving services without any contributions from local government agencies. Our efforts presented services without consequences or financial support.
Twenty years ago, I decided to come out against my second cousin, Father Francis Talbot, for his seven-year effort to abuse me as a boy from the age of 7-12 years old. I told my story to help one of his victims who was seeking financial compensation from Francis. In addition, he was working to get Francis incarcerated for his crimes against him. I came forward to testify about his history as a child molester.
I contacted the victim's lawyer to confirm my willingness to testify on his behalf. I contacted the Manchester, NH Police Department to file an official criminal case against Franics, and I contacted the New Hampshire Catholic Diocese to confirm that he was a child molester. The New Hampshire Diocese had suspended him as a priest even though multiple victims had come forward with allegations of child rape.
When I was a college student, I worked as a Transportation Officer at the Juvenile Detention facility for the State of New Hampshire. At the end of this job, I saw Francis on the property. When he saw me, he ran from me for fear of consequences from his abusive behavior. I asked the administration about his role at the institution. I confirmed he was the chaplain for the incarcerated children. I said nothing and his behavior continued due to my silence. I became deeply depressed knowing my silence was responsible for his abusing young boys for the next thirty years.
The penance I gave myself for this silence was the decision to help victims of crime with the skills I acquired as a public administrator in the criminal justice system. I wanted to create a safe place where victims would find an advocate along with the help of therapy horses. My extensive experience with horses and the criminal justice system led to the start of a twenty-year journey called Adopt-A-Horse.
Horses and victims of crime suffer in silence. Horses came to us from homes where they were no longer welcomed. Survivors of child sex crimes suffer their history in silence. A safe place for horses and survivors to help each other has been an amazing place for helping people and horses. Adopt-A-Horse.org has been the story of horses and dogs helping victims of crime. Zorrow.org is the story of Dennis Horion's advocacy efforts for victims seeking justice. Zorrow was the hidden role needed against a system of abusive politicians and bureaucrats failing child molestation victims at every turn. Please press the link below to find out more about our advocacy role for the last twenty years.
During the course of 2003, I received a financial settlement from both my cousin and the NH Diocese. These funds gave me the seed money needed to set up a physical location and setup my nonprofit Foundation.
After extensive negotiations, The Johnson family signed a thirty-year lease for 176 acres of land. The lease included land on both sides of Johnson Terrace in Covington, Georgia. Approximately 30 acres of the land was weeds with the balance being recently logged woodland. Most of the property was impassable due to the debris while the balance was a large poorly maintained cut area. The property had very little fencing, no water or utilities, and no fire breaks. The property had no plan to meet the conservation tax break being claimed by the Johnson family.
Over the last 18 years, we created a rape crisis program that was self-sustaining with a combination of riding tours and donations. We were hiding our real work for victims by offering riding tours on the renovated property. No one knew which visitors were rape victims and which were paying clients. We encouraged rape victims and their families to tell anyone asking about their association with us to tell people that they were volunteering to help the rescue horses. It proved to be a reliable cover story for all involved.
We managed the property for the first fifteen years. We got the DNR to make a formal plan to get the property in compliance with the conservancy tax break. We installed over 6500 feet of fence lines. We installed utilities including water, electricity, and internet with a camping trailer and storage buildings for our horse operation. We built a herd of ponies and horses with equipment for riding and driving over the years. All the horses received training, a job, and the stability of a good family with loving handlers. The horses lived at the property until their death mainly of old age in their thirties.
You can contribute your support for our horses feed fund here.