Elizabeth Phillips

Um, so many people were confused, like, what's wrong with Trey?

He was, like, a straight-A student, football player, like, Trey was it.

He was, like, the man.

All the girls wanted to date Trey, like, all the boys wanted to be Trey, like... And then, phew, suddenly he's dead.

Not so suddenly, actually.

It was a slow decline.

Uh, all horrible.

And, uh...

Yeah, so he, uh... In his obituary, we wrote all those things that were great about him, and at the end, we said he was a Kanakuk Camps abuse survivor.

Um... And a friend to other survivors he could help, and... Um... So, that was out there in the Dallas Morning News, and we started getting outreach from... You know, like, the Me Too movement?

I call this Kids Too.

Because we kept getting all these calls about, um...

our family, we think our son might have been abused at Kanakuk.

He's never talked about it.

Or a direct victim reaching out.

And I had to be really careful because... one thing we knew from the civil case is that Kanakuk would put PIs on the victims.

And they would, like, pull their trash and surveillance them to get, like, you know, any evidence of homosexual behavior, drug use, and then use it against them in depositions.

And all these victims I've talked to, like, so many of them are like, yeah, I was followed by a black SUV.

Like, I thought Trey was just, like, getting schizophrenic or something.

Like, I didn't... Not that I didn't believe him, I was just, like, skeptical.