Author: Ethan Becker

Linda Hayen and Nancy Loewen published “The Everybody Club” in 2021. Now, the book is heading to Washington, D.C.

When Eden Prairie native Jessica Woodville was young, she watched as police dragged one of her parents out of the family home. Later, at the age of 16, a similar thing happened to her. “I was more or less kidnapped. A very large man twice my size, coming into my room and telling me that we could either do this the hard or the easy way,” Woodville said. “I thought I was being put up for adoption. I had no idea what was going on.” What was going on was that Woodville was taken to Cross Creek Manor, a reform…