The lawsuit is more about a misuse of power and an abuse of trust.
When professionals make reccomondations about facilities for minors in a legal capacity where you have, under the most challenging of circumstances, placed your trust in them to hire them as a professional consultant in a field of expertise that they have advertised they are, in fact licensed to practise, there is a reasonable expectation that the professional will represent the subject facility to provide services to your minor child in need, that will be, in fact, be safe and they will be accountable to you for those services.
HLA misrepresents itself both through edcons and its own professional intake and educational staff when you visit, but then after you have signed the contract and they have taken possesion of your family situation, the terrible reality comes out!
Then when they get your child in their slimy grip, they blackmail you and your child through withholding family contact and communication to keep absolute control over your child that you trusted them with the care of.
Their misrepresentations of their abilities and their intent with your entire family dire circumstances is criminal and hopefully, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
They use their expertise in the area of "treating" manipulation and emotional disabilities to in fact, actually use manilpulation at its highest art form to take away your power to advocate for your child.
They use the very skills they are supposed to treat your child with to manipulate the family under their control to their own gain.
I pray to God that enough principaled professionals dare to come forward to expose this group so that they are able to resore some faith in the legitimate other treatment facilities.
Way to go Deborah and all those who made this happen
