Scott Loeliger's First Wife Says Scott Would
Never Harm a Woman

Scott Loeliger left the United States in 1982 to work as a health educator/health planner for the International Rescue Committee in Somalia. Scott spent 1982 working in a refugee camp in Somalia near the Ethiopian border, 300 miles from Mogadishu. In 1983 & 1984 Scott worked for the Somalia Ministry of Health's Refugee Health Unit. Before he left for Somalia Scott had married Joy Erasmus, a political refugee from South Africa. They divorced in early 1986 and Scott married Sadia Loeliger in June of the same year.  Erasmus currently resides in Broward County, Florida.

Sadia Loeliger has repeatedly described her ex-husband Scott Loeliger as an abusive husband and an abusive father. These claims have not been substantiated, and neither Sadia nor her daughter Fatima have claimed that Scott ever physically abused them.  The entirety of their claims, if we are to believe them, is that Scott committed "verbal abuse" and "emotional abuse."

The fact that Scott is not an abuser is further bolstered by Joy Erasmus, who says:

"Scott is not the kind of person she [Sadia] describes. Not in one instant ever in our relationship did he ever do anything to me--never. Scott would never raise a hand against a woman. Like all men he's a bit of a womanizer but he treated me well when we were together. Our relationship fell apart under the long distances. We used to debate a lot of things because I'm very opinionated but Scott doesn't have a violent hair on his head. He took great care of his little girl [Fatima]. He really loved that little girl & would do anything for her. That woman [Sadia] is hell on earth."