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From: Sam Sloan <>
Subject: [DNA] Queen Victoria and the Lynchburg Story
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:24:33 -0500


Queen Victoria and the Lynchburg Story

I realize that I should just ignore this, but it bothers me that at least
two members of this group have written that I just copied what I wrote from
some book that was first published in 1995.

In the first place, the idea was by no means something that I thought of.
It was a common subject of discussion around my house when I was a child.

My mother, Dr. Marjorie Sloan, was a child psychiatrist. She was interested
in the subject of inbreeding and its genetic consequences. That may be
related to the reason why my mother moved to Lynchburg, Virginia in 1953,
because Lynchburg was the home of the "Virginia Colony" as it was called at
the time. It was later renamed the "Lynchburg Training School and
Hospital". My mother was a doctor on the staff of that hospital, although
her main job was not there but was as Psychiatrist-Director of the
Lynchburg Guidance Center, a public mental health clinic.

My mother had studied the cases of the Jutes and the Kalikaks. These were
families who lived in the boarder area of the mountains of Southwestern
Virginia and Tennessee. They were deeply inbred. They were mentally
retarded and had a characteristic deformity in their hands.

There were books written about them. I just checked Amazon Books and I can
find nothing on them, but my mother had books about them in our house. This
was within her area of specialization.

The case of Queen Victoria was well known. My mother often talked about
this. It was a common but mistaken perception that hemophilia in the
British Royal Family was the result of inbreeding. I can state that in the
early 1950s, I knew about hemophilia, that it was transmitted genetically
and that the British Royal Family had it. I did not learn about it by
reading some book published in 1995.

My mother's association with this issue had tragic consequences. The
"Virginia Colony" where my mother worked part-time became notorious because
of its practice of sterilizing mentally retarded inmates. The idea of
sterilizing the mentally retarded would seem uncontroversial, until one
considers that blue-eyed mentally retarded people were not sterilized but
that brown-eyed and somewhat darker skinned people were sterilized. Not
long ago, there was a documentary on PBS entitled "The Lynchburg Story".
The reason this became a big story was that Adolph Hitler got the idea to
sterilize people with undesirable racial characteristics from Lynchburg,
Virginia. In Lynchburg, sterilization of undesirables was a common practice
going back to at least 1910. Adolph Hitler decided that this was a
wonderful idea, so he did it too.

"Why did this have tragic consequences?", you ask. The reason is that the
Virginia Colony is not exactly in Lynchburg. It is just across the river in
Madison Heights, which is in Amherst County. In that county, just about two
miles from the Lynchburg Colony, lives a man who is not mentally retarded
but is well below average intelligence. I suspect that his family history
may involve the Lynchburg Colony because, while most inmates in the Colony
are severely retarded vegetable cases of people with IQs in the 20s or 30s,
there are some patients there who are able to live in the surrounding
community. I suspect that this is how Charles Roberts or his family members
came to live near the Lynchburg Colony.

On October 9, 1990, Charles Roberts kidnapped my daughter, Shamema
Honzagool Sloan, who was eight years old at the time. Charles Roberts
should obviously have been arrested on the spot and my daughter returned to
me, but remember that Charles Roberts lived in the same county where the
involuntary sterilization of mentally retarded people was commonplace.
Remember also that mentally retarded people do have constitutional rights
in spite of being retarded. Also, the question of who is mentally retarded
is subjective and invariably the decision maker will decide to sterilize
members of a group other than his own.

So, the practice of involuntary sterilization was commonplace in Amherst
County, Virginia whereas it is viewed with horror by the civilized world.
Every time a mentally retarded person is involuntarily sterilized at the
Lynchburg Colony, a Judge of Amherst County must sign the order. The
criminal judges who in the past had approved these involuntary
sterilizations also approved of the kidnapping of my daughter Shamema by
Charles Roberts.

But, they did not stop there. A hard-core criminal named Michael Gamble who
had originally instituted litigation against my mother in a case entitled
Sloan vs. Sloan filed in the Lynchburg Circuit Court in 1988, then got
appointed as Amherst County Judge. He ordered that my mother's house at 917
Old Trent's Ferry Road in Lynchburg be confiscated. In 1994, Judge Gamble
ordered that all of the contents of my mother's house, including all of my
mother's personal books, files, records, writings and notes, "be deposited
in a suitable waste disposal site". I filed for bankruptcy in a desperate
effort to save my mother's writings from being destroyed. I was able to
rescue a few items including an old suitcase of family photos dating back
to 1863 which form the core basis for my website, but I could only carry so
much and the rest of my mother's personal property was destroyed by order
of Judge Gamble.

My daughter recently escaped after being held for ten years by Charles
Roberts. I have learned to my great surprise that Charles Roberts brought
my daughter over, who was then 12, and they picked through my mother's
items. My daughter was able to find and rescue a photo of her own mother,
Honzagool, which would otherwise have been destroyed by order of Judge
Michael Gamble.

Judge Gamble, the criminal who was involved in the kidnapping of both my
mother and my daughter, had my mother's house sold for $75,000, which was
less than half of the free market value of the house, and then had all the
money given to a lawyer who was friends with Judge Gamble. That lawyer,
Cecil Taylor, has since died. The money has disappeared and neither my
mother nor any other family member ever got a penny. In 1990, my mother had
been kidnapped by the same criminal gang who had kidnapped my daughter. My
mother has been locked up in Aiken, South Carolina ever since and was not
allowed to come to Virginia to defend this suit. My mother is still alive,
at age 91.

Among the documents and records of my mother which Judge Gamble ordered to
be destroyed were patient records. My mother had more than ten thousand
mentally ill and mentally retarded patients during the years she worked in
the Lynchburg, Madison Heights area. She guarded these records carefully
and nobody was allowed to see them. She may have had enough to put all of
the Amherst County Judges in jail. This may explain why Judge Gamble was so
anxious to have all of my mother's personal records destroyed.

I know for a fact that my mother had a lot on Jerry Falwell. One of the
first people my mother met when she came to Lynchburg in 1953 was Jerry
Falwell. Many followers of the Falwell Ministry were mentally ill and
mentally retarded people who were psychiatric patients of my mother. My
mother often praised Jerry Falwell, because she said that Falwell was good
in dealing with and helping alcoholics. However, my mother also said that
Falwell people were dangerous. My mother many times strongly warned me not
to have anything to do with Charles Roberts, who was a Falwellite whom I
first met in 1975. My mother often spoke of how dangerous that man was.
This was years before Charles Roberts kidnapped my daughter. Unfortunately,
I did not listen to my mother.

Sam Sloan

http://www.anusha.com/mamanews.htm
http://www.samsloan.com/momsbiog.htm
http://www.shamema.com/jerry.htm


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