Nation singer Rory Feek is talking out following his older daughters’ considerations over their 10-year-old sister Indiana’s well-being.
On Aug. 31, Feek shared a prolonged weblog submit titled “love, dad” and wrote that his youngest daughter “has by no means been extra liked or higher cared for than she is correct now.” He additionally famous that his eldest daughters’ claims have “damaged my coronary heart.”
“I by no means in 1,000,000 desires would have imagined that my older ladies can be doing what they’re doing now, and I’d be sitting right here penning this weblog submit,” Feek wrote.
“However right here we’re, and right here I sit, attempting to make sense of all of the texts and photos, the web articles and accusations that individuals have been sending me, and much more than that, the issues my oldest daughter, Heidi, has been saying and doing—all within the identify of what I’m positive she thinks is for the nice of her little sister.”
Feek wrote that “Indiana has by no means been extra liked or higher cared for than she is correct now. She’s ten years previous now, and for the primary time in her life, she has a mom. She’s, after all, all the time identified that she has an actual one—Indy’s seen all the images and movies and heard all of the songs—nevertheless it’s totally different when she will be able to get up within the morning and climb on Rebecca’s lap and say, ‘Good morning, Mama.’”
Feek married Rebecca on July 14 in Greycliff, Montana in response to a earlier weblog submit. The marriage passed off eight years after he misplaced his spouse Joey to cervical most cancers.
“When Joey handed away, Indiana had simply turned two, and so she doesn’t actually keep in mind her,” he wrote. “Since then, she has desperately wished and wanted a mom in her life, and it has lastly come to be. It’s a stunning, stunning factor to see occur for her and for all of us.”
On Aug. 29, Feek’s oldest daughter Heidi posted a few Style of Nation article the place she and her sister Hopie had been requested “about rising up in our father’s care.” In her Instagram submit, she claimed “Rory usually left Hopie with individuals who took benefit of us.”
She additionally alleged, “Just lately Indy was left within the care of a gaggle with a nicely documented historical past of bodily and sexual abuse of youngsters. Indiana, who has particular wants, deserves to be in a secure and secure setting the place her well-being is the highest precedence.”
Heidi beforehand posted on her Instagram story that she and Hopie are pursuing authorized motion in opposition to Feek concerning their youthful sister, per Style of Nation.
Feek addressed allegations that Indiana was left with members of an alleged “cult” when he and Rebecca went on their honeymoon.
“Now, for those who’re asking if Homestead Heritage or Greycliff is a cult, the reply is not any,” the singer wrote in his weblog submit Saturday. “These people are simply dwelling in a approach that different folks don’t like or perceive, and it’s an entire lot simpler to name one thing a cult and dismiss it than it’s to look deeper into and truly discover out what it’s they’re doing and why they’re doing it.”
Feek wrote that whereas he and Rebecca had been on their honeymoon, Indiana “stayed with two households, each of who’ve little ones that Indy may be very near.”
He additionally famous that “for those who go to Homestead Heritage in Texas or Greycliff in Montana… what you’re going to search out is a bunch of people that have discovered the way to really love one another in neighborhood. To die to themselves and to place God first, and the fruit of it’s all over the place you look. It’s particularly seen in everybody you meet. Precisely the alternative of what a few of these foolish, salacious on-line studies are saying.”
When addressing the allegations he left her “with youngster molesters,” Feek wrote, “I’m not an ideal father, however I’m additionally not an fool.”
The “Gentleman” singer additionally responded to claims Indiana shouldn’t be allowed to talk with or see her sisters. Feek wrote that the siblings had been beforehand allowed to talk, “even by this previous spring when the sheriff confirmed up at my door with a summons saying that I used to be being sued by Heidi and Hopie, and I needed to rent a lawyer to defend myself and my toddler.”
Nevertheless, Feek wrote “when Baby Protecting Providers referred to as me out of nowhere, saying that it had been reported that Indiana was being uncared for, together with different accusations, Heidi and Hopie forfeited their proper to talk to their little sister.”
When addressing the allegations he left her “with youngster molesters,” Feek wrote, “I’m not an ideal father, however I’m additionally not an fool.”
The “Gentleman” singer additionally responded to claims Indiana shouldn’t be allowed to talk with or see her sisters. Feek wrote that the siblings had been beforehand allowed to talk, “even by this previous spring when the sheriff confirmed up at my door with a summons saying that I used to be being sued by Heidi and Hopie, and I needed to rent a lawyer to defend myself and my toddler.”
Nevertheless, Feek wrote “when Baby Protecting Providers referred to as me out of nowhere, saying that it had been reported that Indiana was being uncared for, together with different accusations, Heidi and Hopie forfeited their proper to talk to their little sister.”
On Sunday, Heidi shared a number of posts on her Instagram account commenting on parts of her dad’s weblog submit.
The primary submit started, “Hello, dad. That is Heidi and Hopie. As unhappy as it’s to say, we’re simply comfortable to listen to from you.”
The next slide famous that they agreed the web “isn’t the place to settle this,” including that they’d been reaching out to Feek, however had not gotten a response. The following slide was alleged texts that had been despatched to their dad.
“Love is motion, not phrases. We forgive you to your unkind phrases. You referred to as us cowardly in your weblog submit for not going through you. We forgive you. The final time we sat all the way down to have this dialog, and not using a mediator as you requested, you instructed us you had been carried out being our father. We forgive you.”
The ultimate slide had a photograph of Heidi and Hopie and browse, “Now we have discovered peace in our personal lives and have taken the lengthy journey of therapeutic. Now we have come out stronger on the opposite aspect of our childhoods.”
“Love is motion, not phrases. We forgive you to your unkind phrases. You referred to as us cowardly in your weblog submit for not going through you. We forgive you. The final time we sat all the way down to have this dialog, and not using a mediator as you requested, you instructed us you had been carried out being our father. We forgive you.”
The ultimate slide had a photograph of Heidi and Hopie and browse, “Now we have discovered peace in our personal lives and have taken the lengthy journey of therapeutic. Now we have come out stronger on the opposite aspect of our childhoods.”
“Over a decade in the past, our church pastors reported 4 people to native authorities for sexual assault, and all had been rightly convicted and despatched to jail,” Dan Lancaster, a Homestead Heritage spokesperson, stated in a press release to Fox Information Digital. “Solely one in all these was a member of our church when the crime was dedicated. Sadly, one in all our parishioner’s estranged daughters is attempting to rewrite historical past to realize leverage in a household custodial dispute that has nothing to do with our church.”
The assertion continued, “Like all church, having even one parishioner that commits such a heinous crime is one too many, however it is usually heartbreaking to see our 1000-plus native parishioners and our church’s 51-year historical past smeared within the press for the crimes of others that we proactively reported to authorities.”
Fox Information Digital reached out to Feek for remark.
On Heidi’s Instagram Story on Monday, she shared a video she beforehand posted in 2022 that reveals her with Hopie and Indiana ingesting out of mugs. The caption learn, “I [heart emoji] my little sisters a lot.”
Feek shared in his weblog submit that he loves his daughters “with all my coronary heart. And I don’t wish to harm them, even when their need is to harm me deeply.”
He ended the submit by asking followers to “Pray for us. Pray that we’ll put our selfishness apart and select to like one another. Pray that we’ll put our units and our accusations down, swallow our satisfaction, and get in the identical room, with out authorized counsel or mediators, and start speaking and listening to one another, even when it’s exhausting and uncomfortable.”