About The Author

In 2004, Iain met his first wife, Agata Makowska, a Polish citizen who was visiting the United States on a three-month J-1 visa.  They married in 2005, and Adelle Avery Bryson was born in 2007 in New London, Connecticut. 

 

In 2008, the family of three moved to The Netherlands "to be closer to (Agata’s family in) Poland."  In 2010, at the age of three, Adelle returned from Poland with multiple signs and symptoms of child physical and sexual abuse, while Agata began the process of therapy for what appeared to be a trauma related disorder.  The couple decided to relocate back to the United States, filing the necessary preliminary paperwork with the U.S. Department of State.

 

They spent three months apart (September 2010 to December 2010) as Iain returned to the U.S. to find lodging and work while Agata’s visa was being processed.  During this time, Agata and Adelle returned to Poland to receive "support" from Agata’s family during Iain’s absence.

 

On December 10, 2010, the family reconvened at their home in The Hague, Iain returning from the United States, Agata and Adelle from Poland.  Within minutes of walking in the door, Iain tried to kiss his wife, only to be told that she hates him and has always hated him, that her family is a "cult," that she was taking their daughter back to Poland because of "mind control," and that she had "Stockholm Syndrome."

 

As on her previous return from Poland earlier in the year, Adelle appeared to have symptoms of post traumatic stress. She was having panic attacks, nightmares, and wetting the bed. In addition, she had deep bruising on her buttocks that she said was from "Grandpa" (Dziadzusz), vaginal pain, and a blood curdling fear that someone would touch her "pee pee." She repeatedly announced to Iain, "I help mommy when she's sick."

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Iain began trying to get help the next day, and during the next three weeks he contacted the police and a psychologist, pleading for assistance.  He told people that Agata was adamant that she was taking Adelle back to Poland, but nobody could or would assist.  He spent every evening desperately trying to convince Agata to voluntarily get help, but she refused, only repeating that she was taking Adelle to the "cult," and iterating that her dad had created a "red herring" so that Iain would not be believed, so that Iain would never see Adelle again.

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On December 27, 2010, Agata told Iain that she was taking Adelle to the library, and had Adelle give her dad a hug.  Iain watched them walk down the stairs, and he never saw Adelle again.  Once he realized they were gone, he sprinted to the local police in The Hague where his allegations of abuse and abduction were dismissed; they wouldn’t even make a formal report.

 

The U.S. Embassy stated that they could not help because it was out of their jurisdiction.  A Duty Officer recommended that Iain re-abduct Adelle and take her to the Embassy, where she would be evaluated, but he never saw her again.  Iain continued to try to get someone to intervene on his daughter’s behalf for the next four months, but to no avail. He filed an international parental child abduction report under The Hague Abduction Convention; they told him the processing time was up to two years. 

 

In April 2011, Iain decided that he had to take matters into his own hands, that as a dad it behooved him to pressure and oblige the world to look at what it was refusing to see: the abduction and abuse of his daughter.  He drove to Poland and assaulted his father-in-law in the street, hoping to be heard, hoping for a lawyer and an interpreter, hoping for an investigation and an evaluation of his daughter.

 

He sat in prison for eleven months before he saw a public defender, and the interpreter they gave him did not speak English well enough to understand him. He was not permitted to call witnesses on his behalf, and his allegations of severe, caregiver abuse were never investigated. He was incarcerated in Poland for a total period of fifty months, the first nineteen months in twenty-three hour per day lockdown in a cell often without a window, with eight months after that in one of Poland's two highest security prison psychiatric facilities, where they attempted to force feed him thought disconnecting drugs. He was released in June 2015.

 

Iain returned to Connecticut and began writing and seeking help from God Almighty, still all alone in his quest to protect his daughter who was abducted from their home now almost five years earlier.  With everything he cared about now destroyed, and his parental rights now stripped away, he decided to turn to the One who says, “He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He also will hear their cry and save them” (Psalm 145:19). 

 

On April 16, 2022, Iain married his second wife, Emily Ann Apatow.  Together, they see their mission as one to expose satanic ritual abuse and to fight, for Agata and Adelle, and for all others in similar situations. They have decided they will stand against the darkness, knowing that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him (Hebrews 11:6), knowing that He does have a plan and a will, one that doesn’t include Adelle Avery Bryson being abused in a cult.

 

Iain and Emily live in Connecticut with their two cats. They raise chickens and ducks for eggs, and are in the process of developing a small, homestead farm. They rely upon, and their hope comes from, the God of Abraham, who has promised "victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 15:57).

 

Iain used to tell Adelle that he loved her to the moon and back every night before she went to bed.  Now, in whatever form God has in store, it is time for “and back!”  May His kingdom come, and His will be done.