Wife of Jon Ruben labels him ‘a sadistic, monstrous paedophile’published at 12:40 GMT<\/p>\n
12:40 GMT<\/p>\n
Jon Ruben’s wife Susan is now addressing the court. <\/p>\n
She said Ruben was “not the man I thought I had married”. <\/p>\n
“My life has been turned upside down,” she said. “I believed we understood and supported each other. I have now found out I have no idea who Jon Ruben is. <\/p>\n
“I feel completely betrayed.” <\/p>\n
She said the camp, which she had been involved with for 34 years, was meant to provide “moments of happiness” for children who would not usually have a chance to have a holiday in the countryside. <\/p>\n
“I feel terribly guilty that the offending against the children happened at an event I helped organise,” she said. “But it was Jon and Jon alone who was behind what happened.<\/p>\n
“In one moment, he was gathering children around the campfire and then the next, he was perpetrating the most awful crimes against the children and myself. <\/p>\n
“I am still unable to come to terms with the manipulation from Jon and hiding in plain sight. <\/p>\n
“He thinks he is untouchable – and that he can assert control over the others and play games with their bodies and their health. <\/p>\n
“It’s even worse that he did this against innocent vulnerable children.”<\/p>\n
Susan said Jon had told officers that issues with their sex life had contributed to his offending.<\/p>\n
“He painted himself as a Christian man and a pillar of the community.<\/p>\n
“He is in fact a sadistic, monstrous paedophile,” she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wife of Jon Ruben labels him ‘a sadistic, monstrous paedophile’published at 12:40 GMT 12:40 GMT Jon Ruben’s wife…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-411198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}