but mr griffin finally escaped or appears in the amish community she had a third grade education severe p.t.s.d. and a desire to save other people from the horrors she experienced in her book tears of the silent and honest true crime memoir of childhood sexual abuse brutal betrayal and ultimate survival she tells her story from the age of six she was forced into a religion and lifestyle that saw her as less than human that punished her for her abuse or sins and her secrecy allows cruel physical psychological and sexual abuse to go unchecked and cloistered communities like the amish across the united states we started by asking mistake about how she first became a part of an amish community. well when i was about six years old my stepfather started having my family dress live like the amish so we started started down like a journey in that direction and by the time i was ten years old we were fully dressing amish and amish clothes. we started slowly like living the lifestyle we lived on a ranch when i was eleven and that's when my sister and i were sort of isolated on a mountain. and. ye

mr. whitaker was an advisory board member of a company the federal trade commission shut down because it says it was running a scam. our correspondent drew griffin has the details. >> a simple design, but a unique design. >> reporter: this is matt whitaker, before he became acting attorney general of the united states. describing an invention for a company called world patent marketing. whitaker was a paid member of the company's advisory board. the company was supposed to help budding inventors get patents and charged about $1,600 just to start. they got plenty of clients to pay up. in fact, the company collected $26 million, a lot of money. with, it turns out, little or no return at all. it was a scam, according to the federal trade commission. one that bilked thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars. which is why the ftc shut it down and slapped it with a $26 million judgment. according to this ftc press release, many customers ended up in debt or lost their life savings with nothing to show for it. >> it's going to help lots of people that have mobility issues get in and use their hot tub in a safe manner. >> reporter: and it turns