Bring Heather Home

First off, my name is Joe Johnson. I am a correctional officer at North Fork Correctional Facility in Sayre, Oklahoma. I would like to give you a little background on my family before I tell you about a man named Gary Brickhouse.(above) I am 25 years old and the oldest of five children and the only boy. In chronological order following me is: Amanda, Heather, Elaine, and Victoria. The person of interest in this story is Heather. She is currently 18 years old and is in desperate need of moral counseling. Heather was born at 5:05pm on October 4Th, 1990. Upon her arrival into this world she was met with a plethora of medical ailments. There is no precise explanation as to what follows except that doctor's speculate that my mother, working full-time at a day care center during her pregnancy, had contracted a respiratory infection called rubella, commonly known as German measles. It's a common known fact that rubella causes still births and if the child survives then they have a large chance of being born with birth defects such as heart and eye complications. When my sister, Heather, was born she was born with a very weak heart and only one eye developed, and that eye ended up with a hole in it called coloboma. She had a total of three heart surgeries by the time she was two and the doctors said she'd never make it passed 5 years of age. When she was 14 years old she was forcefully raped by an unknown man and she kept it a secret because she thought that no one would believe her. That is until the pressure of puberty began and her secrets weighed on her and she couldn't hold it in any longer. Allow me to interrupt and clarify that Heather is a wonderful girl. She's never been in any trouble with drugs or violence of any kind and is of an average intellect for a modern teen girl. She was able to obtain a glass eye and grew to be a beautiful young tween.(right) She loves to laugh and spend time with her family. She's never been a trouble child. However recently over the past several years we have had some very difficult times with her. She has become a repeat victim of online predators. Soon after she was raped she was contacted by a man named Joseph Kline, a friend through my father, who told her he was sorry for the events that occurred and offered words of encouragement. His main focus was to become Heather's best friend and get in her good graces. A couple years of tag-phone calling and online chatting through messenger services and he began to up his game. He bought her her own cell phone because our parents, once oblivious to these interactions, said that it was inappropriate for a grown 55 year old man to be having private conversations with a 16 year old girl. He began to send explicit text messages through this phone such as pictures of his member. Eventually he manages to take a trip from Wisconsin, where he currently resides, and comes to good 'ole Oklahoma. He buys Heather an Ipod and some other gifts and tells her that she's obligated to repay him by performing sexual activities for him. A couple of months later my parents find her phone and began questioning about it's existence and where it came from. After a series of lies Heather finally comes out with the truth and tells us what is really going on. She says she loves him and she wants to be with him and no one understands her like he does. My parents take Joseph Kline to court and he is now a registered sex offender. You can look up his case file on www.ODCR.com . The battle was won and Heather seemed to come to her senses when she saw the court sentence Joseph to jail and realized how wrong the situation was. We began to move passed it all as any normal family would in these circumstances but life, as it seems, has a sadistic sense of humor. A couple of months ago Heather, now 18, said she was going to visit her boyfriend out of state. She was conducting a long term relationship with a boy she met in school and had moved thereafter. My mom drove her to the airport and sent her on her way. We then received a letter about two weeks after she left explaining that she was moving in with my new target, and his name is Gary Brickhouse. He is 45 years old and separated with three children. He has a son that is 25 and another that is 22. He also has a daughter that is 15 years old. The most undiscerning can figure that this is a 3 years difference from the girl, my sister, that he is sleeping with. His wife that he is currently separated from is sickened by this news from recent phone conversations and the rest of his family has condemned his actions as well. I am trying hard to understand what causes men to demonstrate these acts of unimpressive self pity and assume that it is okay to manipulate young teenage girls and molding them into their little play things. I am sickened by this. This man currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia. His phone number is listed in the West Virginia phone directory where he previously lived. It is 757-375-2180. Give him a call and ask him why he thinks it's okay to have exploited teen sex with my little sister and see if you can get a better answer than we got.