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They cannot help our students. Contacted again just before publication, she said that she stood by her account and that the comment was one of the reasons she left the organization. In addition, Spada said Meyler recently asked her what she had told us about More Than Me and did not challenge her recollection of what Borghese said on the call.

To avoid alerting Johnson to the investigation, school leadership told him he was suspended in connection with the debit card theft and sent him home. Trying to arrest him on his turf could be dangerous; police needed to entice him out of West Point. It fell to Meyler back in the U.

On June 16, four days after Martor reported the abuse to Spada, he came. The police were waiting. Board member Chid Liberty said he was first informed of the rapes when she called him right before the event. In Liberia, as news spread about the arrest, rioters gathered outside the school and police station.

Rape allegations were more commonly mediated between families in West Point, not prosecuted in court. Meyler flew in to deal with the crisis. Facing threats from West Point, only 10 girls pressed charges. The press release established how the organization would frame the rapes.

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It was community business. MTM blog posts featuring Johnson were deleted or edited without comment. Videos were also removed. One board member not in attendance was Liberty. The charity did not commission or write any report examining how the rapes had been allowed to happen. In the same week the girls came forward, Ebola claimed its first victims in Monrovia.

By August , the graph of cases was rising exponentially. West Point became a hot zone with a strict military quarantine.

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While glacial international organizations were limited by bureaucracy, MTM could jump in and do what seemed necessary. Funding for hundreds of community workers? Meyler shared each step of her Ebola journey on Instagram, posting graphic pictures of the dead and the dying, and of herself bearing witness. In an Ebola holding center filled with listless patients, she sang gospel songs, handed out toy guns and promised a dying boy a bicycle.

No one else here is doing this. Showing love n dignity in death. They found a 3-year-old girl in a pink dress crying alone in an ambulance. She had just watched her mother die, seen the corpse slung into a body bag. Then Warren sold footage to CBS, but according to an email exchange, the nature of the planned story upset Meyler and her board.

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She courted journalists who arrived to cover the epidemic, saying MTM had opened an interim care facility called Hope Meyler and her charity began to appear in stories across the world: Meyler became a face of the outbreak, the crusading American who ran toward danger to save the children. Representatives from Liberian government departments asked each other: Did anyone sign off on MTM having a care facility?

Maybe this is not your line of business. MTM provided documents showing that in the weeks following the meeting, they gained Ministry of Health clearance to operate in the health sector, and that they were registered as an educational charity when the school opened. The school would be fully accredited the following year. The Liberian government never accredited the care facility, and MTM attempted to allay its concerns by partnering with a larger international organization.

The whole thing collapsed at the end of November. In a presentation at her old church in Bedminster, N. I mean, not to say that the prayer for her to get Ebola was a good thing. But God took care of that. We could not find evidence that any government officials involved had died of Ebola. The charity gave us an email from an MTM board member, Amanda Kelso, who works at Instagram as global director of community programs and editorial.

Leaving the country in December with Ebola on the wane, Meyler posted videos of Liberians dancing and singing in the street, holding signs congratulating her for her work. Department of State and U. Agency for International Development. In the background, prosecutors were preparing their case against Johnson, but troubling news was filtering through about two key witnesses.

Spada, the complainant in the case, was to be witness No. But she told the adviser she was leaving the organization and Liberia for good. She promised she would return to testify — she would use her own money if necessary. The adviser told us he confronted Meyler about something he had heard from his colleagues at the prosecution unit — that Meyler remained in phone contact with Johnson, had visited him in prison and was giving him money and food.

Why was she doing this with the man they were trying to prosecute for raping her students? And so she was in touch with him. But the meeting with the U. He remembers telling Meyler she had to break off contact, immediately. In the dock in an orange jumpsuit, Johnson was serene, sometimes smiling. One after another, from behind a partition, the girls described rape suffered at his hands over five years, starting when they were as young as Liberian law on statutory rape criminalizes any form of penetration with a girl under Public Defender Elisha Forekeyoh cast the MTM girls as dishonest and sexualized, betraying the man who had cared for them.

She would later go into detail about the fact that she did not bleed after Johnson raped her the first time, at age Their memories were sometimes inconsistent, their stories so extreme, they were hard to believe even when corroborated. As the case went on, it became clear. Meyler told us she was never asked to testify. In her absence, Forekeyoh devised a defense theory of conspiracy with Meyler at its heart. Outside the court, only rumors circulated. No journalists could attend; no stories mentioning the trial would ever be reported.

Zero Tolerance for Sexual Abuse. It explained how big a problem rape is in Liberia, particularly in schools, and declared MTM one of the only schools to ever report it. Meyler had left Liberia the day after the trial began. She and Minister of Education George Werner had become a traveling double act, selling an idea to donors: Meyler said the government had asked MTM to take over 30 of its schools.

In December, Meyler flew back into Liberia. She had one of the victims, fresh from telling her story in court, in front of a camera telling another. Jurors, who in Liberian courts have the opportunity to question witnesses, kept asking Johnson about Meyler. What about these sleepovers involving her? Juror Raymond Roberts had watched the girls tell their stories, but something seemed off. Johnson needed 10 to go free. Then on Christmas, a gift of goat soup arrived. A few days later, the money came. It was a lot of money in Liberia. For those who believed there was a conspiracy by the charity against Johnson, the bribe offers confirmed it.

The way they saw it, only MTM could have that kind of cash. In deliberations, some jurors were adamant they should set Johnson free regardless of the bribe offers. The jurors voted 8 to 4 in his favor, but the two others he needed to go free had eluded him.

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It was a hung jury. He would have to stand trial again. On March 4, , two months after the mistrial verdict, a short postscript was added to a blog MTM had posted during the trial:. The number of girls who went to court was never acknowledged publicly, or that Johnson had been a central figure in the organization, or that rapes took place in the school. What the organization did say was not accurate. The charity added a board member with experience in education in That fall, MTM began operating six government schools as part of what had become a controversial outsourcing experiment.

In November, an anonymous WhatsApp message began circulating in Liberia. It made a series of outlandish-sounding allegations against the organization. The message said that, in addition to Johnson, a second staff member had been implicated and quietly fired. It mentioned sexually transmitted diseases being passed on to victims. He and board chair Skip Borghese had issued a statement a few days earlier. Laura Smith, country director at the time, recalled a decision being made that MTM should not report the case to the police. The employee, who denies the allegations, had already absconded.

Meyler spent 22 minutes telling her life story, then of her work on Ebola. This was a girl who had told authorities her rape by Johnson began at 11 years old.

The language echoed what, in a email, Meyler had told a new staff member. While Garlick and Meyler attacked its anonymous sender, the WhatsApp message contained much that was true. One particularly disturbing accusation had been dismissed out of hand by Garlick. HIV often goes unnamed in Liberia, due to stigma.

Some deny its existence; some believe it is best healed in church, or using traditional remedies. If diagnosed early, it can be readily controlled by medication. But if it goes undetected, maladies common in West Point, such as diarrhea, parasites, herpes and pneumonia, can become life-threatening illnesses. It took us one visit to the appropriate government ministry, one five-minute conversation, plus a couple of follow-up emails, to get written confirmation from a minister-level source that Johnson had AIDS when he died.

I have no idea. His wife said that when moved from prison to a hospital, he was handcuffed to the bed, wearing a diaper. He had sores all over his lips, legs and penis. His wife said he never shared a diagnosis with her. Back in , one student seemed chronically unwell. A distended jugular vein was a tell-tale sign of tuberculosis. Martor knew what that likely meant. The girl was HIV positive. She, too, tested positive for HIV. Smith, directing the charity on the ground fresh out of graduate school, said that at the time two girls tested positive, she learned they had also been named as victims of Johnson.

Both girls had denied it. Smith said she immediately informed Meyler about the positive tests. In another interview, Meyler responded: Smith decided the 10 self-identified victims should be re-tested. One of them tested positive, too. Some of those named in now attended different schools, their tuition still paid for by the charity. Yet four former management-level staff members, working in Liberia and in the U.

Two stated unequivocally that the MTM board also knew. Yet there was no specific outreach, even privately, to the girls or their parents over the HIV risk from Johnson. Garlick noted that the school provides HIV curriculum and health insurance. By late , the girls had returned to their families or to foster care. When we found her in December, she said she was using a pseudonym to sell herself on the same social network.

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