Muncie Times, Muncie, Delaware County, 18 March 2004 — Page 12

Page 12 • The Muncie Times • March 18, 2004

Barnes is in the Spotlight this week

By Maurice Taylor-El. Jaylin Barnes 8, who is in the second grade at Washington Carver Elementary School, he was an A/B honor role student until recently when he got his first C grade. His favorite class is language. A Mr. Rogers is his favorite school teacher. He teaches writing. Wanika Lindsey and Jeremy Barnes are Jaylin’s parents. Lindsey is works at Sally’s Beauty Salon in Indianapolis, Barnes works for JC Penny’s Department Store in Memphis, Tenn.

Jaylin is fortunate to be blessed with two grandmothers Brenda Wilson, and Clydella Barnes. And also three great grandmothers Waunita Smith Susie Madison and Emma jean Davis. He has two great great grandmothers Opal Edminister and Navada Bumpus Jaylin’s favorite book is “Arthor’s Tooth” by Michael Brown. His favorite song is “We Lift Our Hands in the Sanctuary,” a church song. Jaylin says he likes to swim, play video games,

watch television and play basketball and baseball. He plays basketball for Christ Temple’s basketball team. He said his role model is a teammate, Faylin Lipcum. He said Faylin was good at basketball, knew his schoolwork, and at church he knew his lesson, and is a natural leader. Jaylin said his basketball team had a real tuff game coming-up the next day and he was confident his team would win and advance to the finales.

Muncie woman's book recounts litany of horrors of molestation, gang rapes

By I S. Kumbula Belinda Sue Castelow was 2 years old upon experiencing an unfornuate event of sexual molestation that scared her alomost for life. Waunita, her mother an employed woman temporarily would make previsions to leave her daughter in the care of a Chicago-area pastor and his wife. An untimely and misguided pastor went against all principles to have his hand in the diaper of a 2year old child. When the mother called her daughter's name, the pastor quickly removed his wondering hand, to start a change in play to horror in Belinda's life.That's one of the many stories recounted

by Belinda Sue Castelow in her first and newlypublished book, Angels Reported Disobedience and Whoredom. It is a litany of horrors that include repeated sexual molestation, by persons in Chicago and Muncie; incidents of rape; date rape; and gang rape. It was a struggle to deal with this frightful life and reality of rapists and molesters at family reunions, other gatherings and in the community, of watching them smile and smirk, secure in the knowledge that nothing could be done to the individuals and no charges would be leveled against them. "I learned early to

pick myself up. After the molestations and rapes. I learned to wipe off the tears and clean myself. With Christ gave purpose and faith to give direction from hell to heaven. "A friend of mine, my best friend, was raped when she was young. When she reported it, nobody believed her either. She eventually was lost to the world by killing herself." Castelow said there were times when she would have liked to seek revenge, using violence, against the men who had violated her, but she held Christ in her heart to later rebuke the scared and deep pain sustained upon her for revealing it in script to be

healed. She was born June 22, 1959, to a white mother and a black father. Her mother and the black man she thought was her father had moved to Chicago to get married because Muncie, in particular, and Indiana, in general, were very hostile to interracial liaisons or marriages. It was not until Castelow was 27 that she found out who her biological father was. While the family lived in Chicago, Castelow and her younger sister were placed in a Christian home, while their mother was in a sanitarium being treated for tuberculosis. She said," the two young girls were also molested in that home by a

Belinda Sue Castelow man who turned out to be a pedophile who took and collected pictures of his young victims. “Belinda was molested by a man who claimed to love her. In those days it was quite common for white women who had black children to leave their biracial children behind and never look back,” continue on page 27.