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Tribune-Herald
By TOM CALLIS
Tribune-Herald staff writer
A former Big Island man accused of sexually abusing boys he fostered and adopted is shown fleeing a film crew in an online documentary published Monday.
The nearly 30-minute film by Vice News, an online news channel, shows interviews with men who claim abuse at the hands of Jay Ram while spending their youth on his farm north of Umauma in the late 1980s and ’90s. It also includes extensive footage on the Big Island and another communal farm in California where abuse is also alleged to have occurred.
The interviews, at times powerful and emotional, depict the man as a “hippie guru” who abused numerous boys placed in his care while creating a “Lord of the Flies” environment. …
The men are allowed to file the lawsuit because of a two-year window the state granted victims of abuse for cases outside the statute of limitations. The window doesn’t apply to criminal charges.
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