Both men say Bradley Earl Reger’s trips to Echo Ranch gave him access to children with little or no supervision from other adults.
A cross by the shore at Echo Ranch Bible Camp in the early 2000s. A more recent photo of the same scene now illustrates the camp’s Facebook page. : This article includes mentions of sexual assault and abuse that may be uncomfortable for some readers. Resources are available at the bottom of this post.abusing dozens if not hundreds of boys
— a place where he could gain the trust of families so he could later travel alone with their children. But Wilson said he did not know if Reger had ever abused anyone at the camp. “I was definitely abused at Echo Ranch,” he told KTOO in an interview last week. After KTOO contacted the camp director to ask about Winfrey’s and Fox’s accounts, the camp replied with a statement saying it was taking the allegations seriously.
Both men said Reger would sometimes bring the group to Echo Ranch when other groups weren’t there. During their stays, Winfrey said they would help build cabins and do maintenance around the camp. A photo Zack Winfrey took of the Mendenhall Glacier during a trip to Alaska with his church youth group in the early 2000s.
Reger enters the history as “a former camper” who “volunteered as a boy’s counselor for several years” in the 1970s. And in 1985, the book describes Reger bringing a California youth group to the camp to help “build a bathhouse, septic tank, and leach field.” The cover of “Echo Ranch Bible Camp: Celebrating 50 Years of Ministry,” published by the camp in 2014. The 195-page book includes several references to Bradley Earl Reger and describes him as a “camp supporter.”
Camp Director Randy Alderfer, who has been with the camp since 2009, said Friday that he couldnʼt confirm any details about Regerʼs time at Echo Ranch, or whether he made any donations. And Brynden Wiens, Echo Ranch’s camp administrator, told KTOO in an email that the organization would not comment on Reger as a donor.
Both men described Reger as a respected and prominent member of the church. But both men also remember Reger behaving inappropriately in public during the trips — walking around in just his briefs, or walking into children’s hotel rooms unannounced.A cabin at Echo Ranch Bible Camp. Winfrey says his church youth group built the cabin during a visit to the camp with Brad Reger in the early 2000s. in California in 1986 for child sex abuse, then again in 2003, 2006 and 2007.
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