Portland, Oregon--The last thing I ever expected to see displayed on my monitor was probably a photograph of Kory Wright, one of the core group of kidnappers who caused my four children to disappear from their homes in Aloha and Hillsboro in Washington County in February, 1996.
My children had a home in Hillsboro with their mother and her third husband (who were divorcing), and a home a bike ride away in Aloha, with me and my mother, Olive Cruz.
I was my mother’s sole caregiver at the time. She was frail, elderly and had been housebound for years. We had a three-generation household. Our home was the most stable part of my children’s lives; especially with their mother in mid-divorce and on her way to yet another failed marriage (#4).
But that was another life, other lives, in a faraway place and time.
Back to the present….
On a hunch, expand the search from Utah, Google….
And there it was….the face of the Devil himself, aka Beelzebub, Old Stinky, Diabolus…Kory Wright.
http://www.columbiaultimate.com/about/management.aspx
A resident of Utah at the time my children disappeared, this kidnapping bastard Kory Wright had moved back to the original scene of the crime.
I never thought he would ever want to leave Utah, much less move to the Kidnap Zone, where the crime began.
Some people think, apparently, that once the statute of limitations runs and no criminal prosecution is possible, the crime is forgotten.
But kidnappings stretch out into infinity, take my word for it….
Kory Wright arranged for the housing in Utah used to conceal my children, executing a plan that had been in the making for some months, acting in his capacity as a Mormon church official, and later committed perjury in the misdirection campaign the abduction team ran to shield themselves from criminal prosecution.
One crime begets another…and another…and another….
This plan also required the assistance of two of Kory Wright’s associates, whose part in the crime was to help get the kids out of school and on the road: David Holiday and Evelyn Taylor, both of Washington County, both officials of the Mormon Church, both acting in their official capacities to knowingly violate valid joint custody orders.
Three weeks after they disappeared, I still had no information about my children.
But Kory Wright, Evelyn Taylor, David Holliday and their associates knew exactly where they were.
Months went by. My children’s former schools in the Hillsboro School District received no requests for records from anywhere….
They were moving my children from place to place. This is the chaotic life that kidnapped children live.
Later, I received a copy of Kory Wright’s sworn affidavit, dated March 2, 1996, which states in part:
“I, Kory Wright declare under penalty of perjury of the laws of the State of Utah that the following statements are true and correct….
“In the short period they have lived here the children have increased their circle of friends, been involved in numerous activities and made a home for themselves. The schools they children attend are among the best in the state of Utah…. Clearly, the move here has been a tremendous benefit to both Gina and her children.
“If Shaun (sic) is truly seeking that which is best for his children, then let them live where they are the happiest. The economic boom in Utah would afford Shaun (sic) ample opportunity to provide for him as well as his support obligations. Since he currently has no employment restrictions keeping him in the Northwest, a relocation would not be difficult for him.”
That last paragraph has always had me wondering. I was fired from my job at Vic Alfonso Cadillac two weeks after my children disappeared, a week before Kory Wright wrote this statement.
….And at that moment, 800 miles away, in the mountains east of Ogden, Kory Wright contemplates my employment opportunities in Utah, extends an invitation via the Clark County Courthouse.
My employer was very explicit about the reason for terminating me: I didn’t have my mind on my job.
No doubt about that point; no argument at all. My mind was on nothing but my missing children and how to care for my mother. My job was definitely not in the top two.
Meanwhile, all of my children’s mail was secretly being forwarded to Evelyn Taylor in Washington County, mere blocks away from the abduction site, instead of wherever they were holding my children.
They tried to think of everything. Months of planning, secret meetings, budgeting….
Here’s what Oregon statute has to say about it, in the language of criminal law:
163.245 Custodial interference in the second degree. (1) A person commits the crime of custodial interference in the second degree if, knowing or having reason to know that the person has no legal right to do so, the person takes, entices or keeps another person from the other person’s lawful custodian or in violation of a valid joint custody order with intent to hold the other person permanently or for a protracted period.
(2) Expenses incurred by a lawful custodial parent or a parent enforcing a valid joint custody order in locating and regaining physical custody of the person taken, enticed or kept in violation of this section are “economic damages” for purposes of restitution under ORS 137.103 to 137.109.
(3) Custodial interference in the second degree is a Class C felony.
163.257 Custodial interference in the first degree. (1) A person commits the crime of custodial interference in the first degree if the person violates ORS 163.245 and:
(a) Causes the person taken, enticed or kept from the lawful custodian or in violation of a valid joint custody order to be removed from the state; or
(b) Exposes that person to a substantial risk of illness or physical injury.
(2) Expenses incurred by a lawful custodial parent or a parent enforcing a valid joint custody order in locating and regaining physical custody of the person taken, enticed or kept in violation of this section are “economic damages” for purposes of restitution under ORS 137.103 to 137.109.
(3) Custodial interference in the first degree is a Class B felony.
It boils down to this:
A. Take, entice or keep a child in violation of a valid joint custody order: Class “C” felony.
B. Take the child out of the state of Oregon OR expose that child to a substantial risk of illness of physical injury: Class “B” felony.
Guilty on both counts, guilty as Sin itself, each of them.
To this day, I have no information as to how long Kory Wright and his associates kept my children out of school.
I do know that my children never recovered academically from the abduction, and I learned in 2007 that both of my sons had dropped out of high school several years after arriving in Utah, both with academic grade point averages that had fallen to 0.0.
Kory Wright identifies himself in the affidavit as functioning in the capacity of a counselor or mediator, using both words to suggest to the Court some form of professional capacity or relationship.
But according to the Columbia Ultimate website, the company’s mainstay is “collecting money.”
http://www.columbiaultimate.com/about/press/112106.aspx
More on this later.
Count on it.
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Sean Cruz writes Blogolitical Sean: www.blogoliticalsean.blogspot.com
And Aaron’s Law:
www.aaronslaw.blogspot.com
Dedicated to ending child abduction and finding justice for the abduction of the Cruz children.
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