Addressing the Accusations
We are very sad that we have to make this statement public because we believe that family issues should be handled privately, not publicly. Due to Madi Savage ( Madison Savage) starting a public smear campaign and breaking the law, we have no choice but to make this public.
Madison attempts to speak for all her siblings.
Madison is the only one, out of all her siblings who believes the way she does.
Madison is lying.
Madison is trying to make it look like she speaks for all of us, but she does not speak for us in any way. We find her false accusations extremely ridiculous, absurd, libelous, defamatory, and even comical. We were all raised by the same mother and we know the truth about her and will defend it. Our mom is the complete opposite of Madison's false accusations.
Madison claims that her family has left her, rejected her, blocked her, and abandoned her.
This is false. Madison chose to alienate us, rejected the way she was raised and chose estrangement. Madison lies and plays the victim role attempting to attract attention, money and sympathy. Madison claims she "escaped" when in reality the only thing she escaped was biblical accountability.
- Madison has accused our mom of crossing state lines with foster children. This is an outright lie. All adoptions were 100% legal, and an ICPC for out-of-state adoptions was in place. (ICPC: The Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children.)
-Madison has accused our mom of whisking her away in the middle of the night to live in Florida. This is a lie too. We have never resided in Florida. The only whisking away that happened, was in the early morning to catch flights for vacations or family mission trips.
-Madison has accused our mom of committing crimes and being charged with neglect and abuse. This is false and libelous. Our mom has never committed a crime, and she has never been charged with neglect or abuse. Our mom has never been charged with any misdemeanors or felonies. She passes a background check and is a law-abiding citizen.
-Madison has accused our mom of trafficking and buying children for $40.
Madison has also gone so far as to accuse our mom of all forms of abuse.
These false accusations are 100% false, baseless, libelous, and defamatory.
Our mom has never harmed, neglected, abused, cursed at, or trafficked any child, including Madison.
Our sister, Madison, is accusing our mom of what she is guilty of. Madison is currently trying to remove a specific child by making false claims to OKDHS. We have proof of Madison having her boyfriend's mom and others call OKDHS and even contacting the FBI making false reports. Madison's boyfriend's mom along with the other accusers do not know our family, yet still chose to make false reports to OKDHS.
Madison has initiated a false investigation and raid in the DR. Madison is trying to remove innocent orphans, shut down our ministry by falsely claiming they were all trafficked. When they were in no way trafficked. It's the most bizarre behavior to ask other ministries to raid and kidnap innocent children.
Madison linked arms with two ministry leaders in the Dominican Republic that are after care programs, like our ministry, that take in children that have been rescued from trafficking. She has lied to those ministries which have caused them to do their own personal investigations. The issue is, these ministries have never once contacted us and we find it sad that they would jump to outrageous lengths over hearsay. We are sad to see our sister causing two ministries to waste their time and resources, because of her libelous claims. We are also disturbed that these ministries would even consider taking part in kidnapping children in the guise of "rescuing" them over lies.
Madison has an inflated image of herself.
Madison has this idea that our mother was some public figure in the press and media and believed our mom had a platform. This is simply inaccurate, as our mom was not or is not a public figure. She was just doing what she felt called to do. Madison's thinking is delusional and inflated. Madison has suffered from grandiose behaviors in the past and unfortunately still suffers from grandiose ideologies. There have only been just two local non-media/ non-press articles written about our mom. And once our mom saw how they twisted her words, she has denied all interview requests for over 15 years. Our mom does not seek attention like our sister Madison does. Our mom has turned down many offers to speak on podcasts and churches because she has always said her ministry is to her children around the dinner table. Our sister has an insatiable appetite for attention. Her recent barrage of false accusations appear to be designed to create a platform for her as an online influencer, at the expense of her mom's good reputation and at the expense of truth. Our sister has repeatedly written that she wants to write a best selling memoir, have a podcast and have a documentary even if it is filled with lies.
Our sister has made many other horrific accusations against our mom, but it would probably take an entire book to list them. We have noticed our sister's accusations just continue to get more outlandish, embellished, and ridiculous as time goes by. We will be addressing the other outlandish lies Madison boasts very soon.
Madison has wasted many people's time by trying to get our parents fired from their jobs, shut down the ministry, even falsely emailing lies to the FBI and calling OKDHS. Madison has tried to get us all kicked out of church by having another pastor who does not know us write our pastor. Madison has gone so far to have a lady write another teacher and contact the board where our dad works in attempts to get him fired. Madison has contacted all friends and family with the same copy/paste lies.
Our official statement against the other false accusers, Stacie (who started the trafficking accusation, Shasta, Rebecca (she is the one who created and edits all of Madi's smear campaigns), Stephanie, Tracie etc. will be published soon along with receipt proof of their libelous slander.
Our mom takes a very different approach to libelous slander and does not believe in suing. We, however, disagree with our mom’s choice to not sue and will be taking action. We respect our mom’s views on forgiveness and you can read her official statement HERE. As her adult children who have seen everything, lived in Haiti, helped run the ministry, were first hand witnesses, and know the truth, enough is enough.
Why does Madison do what she does?
There is a book that describes our sister perfectly, called “I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me."
Our sister is addicted to watching crime shows. She now accuses our mom of being the dangerous convicted criminals she sees on these documentaries. We remember when our mom would encourage Madison to be careful with her obsession with crime shows. Madison would get defensive and respond "I am not a psychopath!" This shocked and scared us because no one said she was a psychopath. Madison was defending herself of sociopathic behaviors we never accused her of. It's been very difficult watching our sister's delusions turn into actions. Our sister is obsessed with becoming an influencer and making online content and loves the attention that falsely accusing brings her.
We are not mad at our sister; we are sad for her.
Family is everything to us and we are sad at her decision to separate and alienate herself from us. We are grieved she has chosen a "ministry of accusation' rather than a ministry of reconciliation. We are sad that she has chosen a platform of lies rather than a platform of truth. We find it purely evil that she has searched out anyone who doesn't like our mom and linked arms with them. We are sad that she spends her days harming her family and innocent orphans lives.
Now you may be wondering, what made your sister start falsely accusing your parents?
Well, it's simple.
It all started when my parents said "no."
Our parents put up boundaries and stopped walking on eggshells around Madison.
They encouraged her to keep her promises, have moral character, stop her hypocrisy, and directed her to biblical standards.
Madison chose to move to another state to live with her boyfriend that she dated for 13 days and only knew for a few months.
My parents encouraged her to just do the sensible thing and date him for a reasonable period of time. Then, if she wanted to marry him, she could move away with him after marriage. My parents did their best to warn her of the statistics of cohabitation and directed her to biblical standards. They encouraged her to meet with several pastors and a marriage counselor to get wise counsel, but she refused. Our parents encouraged this because of Madison’s repeated toxic patterns with many of her exes which included attaching too quickly and making impulsive decisions.
Our sister would often tell us of her plans and goals. Then all of a sudden she decided to be a stay-at-home girlfriend in a controlled and isolated environment. She went from living on her own in dorm rooms for four years, living on her own in two different states, to her own apartment, having independence, friends, and a church community to going backwards with her life by cohabitating, not working and living with her boyfriend in his parent's home.
Our sister accuses our mom of controlling her, which, if you knew Madison, you'd know is a complete lie. Our mom’s heart is to never control, but to direct us to follow the word of God. Due to Madison's level of rebellion, our parents have never been able to correct her, discipline her, much less control her. My mom talks about how being around Madison is like walking on eggshells, we agree with this statement. It’s a constant state of walking on eggshells not knowing what version or mood of Madison we will get.
We think the main reason Madison says our mom is controlling is that she agreed to let her put porn blockers and restrictions on her phone due to her sneaking, sexting, and her history of dangerous and harmful behaviors of self harming, having inappropriate relationships with random older men, bosses, someone right out of high school, along with moving her ex who she had only known for a month to Oklahoma last summer. Once she asked for all accountability to be off of her phone, my parents required her to get her own phone plan at 23 years old. My parents are simply tired of having their home and phone plan defiled. Madison is lying about her current financial situation. Our parents still pay for her Sallie Mae college loan monthly. Madison made an unauthorized charge on our parent's credit card. Our sister has always had her own bank accounts. Our sister unfortunately has a history of stealing and was even kicked out of her Bible college living situation for stealing things from her roommate.
Even though my parents disagreed with Madison's choices, she was an adult, and all they could do was love, support her, and direct her back to biblical standard.
Our sister went from posting sweet things to saying she would never speak to our family again. It was bizarre watching her contact all our friends and family, spreading lies. Madison started a GoFundMe account claiming she needed money when she has a degree and could easily get a well-paying job. She has a long history of laziness, acting entitled, and refusing to work.
None of it makes sense unless you have an understanding of the complex behaviors associated with many mental illnesses, including those who struggle with attachment disorders and borderline personality disorder.
We pray that Madison wakes up one day and realizes her smear campaign only hurts her, makes Christians look ridiculous and dangerous, and at the end of the day, she still has chosen to dishonor her family in such a wicked way. We pray that Madison one day realizes that her smear campaign doesn't glorify God, but only hurts the orphans she once claimed she wanted to help. We had a family tell us that they were considering adopting but once they saw what my parents have gone through with Madison, they don't think they want to move forward with adopting.
What a terrible witness my sister has been. We pray that those who want to adopt, remember that adult children have free will, and to look at our mom’s fruit and the fact that 90% of her adopted children are thriving. Please don’t decide not to adopt over the 10% who aren’t making good choices. Our mom's fruit outweighs any false accusations.
Satan wants to steal, kill, and destroy my sister. Satan wants to pervert her calling and purpose. My sister is supposed to be helping orphans, not harming them.
The devil is not only a liar who seeks to deceive us, a tempter who seeks to ensnare us, and a murderer who seeks to kill us. He is an accuser who seeks to condemn us.
The very name diablos means accuser. And Satan is called the accuser of the bretheren. “the accuser of our brothers . . . who accuses them day and night before our God” (Revelation 12:10). In his misery, the devil not only loves company — he demands it. He labors night and day to surround himself with the condemned.
Madison has chosen to be an accuser.
Receipt proof of all that we talk about in this statement is COMING SOON.
Our dad will be making a statement as well along with many others.
The above is a collaborative statement by:
-Mackenzie Savage-Matranga (age 29 oldest of all siblings and biological sibling to Madison, missionary to DR & Haiti)
-Victoria Savage-Matranga (age 28 and bio sibling to Madison, foster mom and business owner.)
-Alex Savage-Matranga (age 20, youngest, college student)