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FreeTyler:
I have a friend who should not be there and we are trying to help him.

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: ""Deborah"" ---Google DA and see what you find. You've probably seen these.

Ms. Bryant, a single parent, had given up custody of her son to his uncle after the young man began having difficulties in school.
She had raised her son and his older sister mostly as a single parent. Her husband died when her son was 5 years old and her daughter was 7.
She guided her children through the early years, and her photo album shows mostly happy times: the son doing wheelies on his bike, the daughter excelling in tennis, both children in baseball and skiing poses.
Her son began struggling academically, and after being diagnosed with what she termed a ?mild? learning disability, he was transferred into a program for special needs students during his middle school years. She pulled him out of the program because ?he did not belong there.?
As the years went on, her son began skipping school, getting suspended, sleeping late, not showing up for tutoring sessions and hanging with the wrong crowd.
Her brother had been asking for custody of the boy for a couple of years, and in April 2005, she relented, believing, she said, that her son would be placed in a school closer to home and that she would have full visitation rights.
It took her 30 days to learn the whereabouts of her son. She has seen him only twice since, and has not heard from him in the past four months.
The boy?s therapist at the Discovery Academy has recommended that he be separated from the influences that created the behavior and academic problems, and he is allowed visits from family members only by arrangement as a reward.
http://cafety.org/index.php?option=com_ ... &Itemid=87

http://www.isaccorp.org/discoveryacadem ... 29.06.html

Staff Pleads Guilty to Attempted Rape of a Student
http://www.isaccorp.org/documentsam.asp#da
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Anonymous:
http://www.isaccorp.org/documentsam.asp#da

Clive McFarlane

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

March 29, 2006

So what do you do when you think your teenager is slipping away — skipping school, hanging with the wrong crowd, experimenting with illegal substances, falling further and further behind academically, and paying less and less attention to you?

For one Blackstone mother, the answer, when she caught her 15-year-old cutting class, was to buy a chain and two padlocks and shackle the daughter’s ankles to keep track of her.

When the two went outside the house, the girl was shackled to the mother’s wrist. At least that is how the police found them after making a routine traffic stop recently.

The Department of Social Services is looking into it, and who knows, if the parent’s tactic passes muster, padlocks and chains will become the next can’t-miss investment for those looking to corral troubled teenagers.

At the moment, of course, many parents and guardians are turning to the booming for-profit boot camps and behavior modification programs that have sprung up in this country and around the globe.

These programs, euphemistically called therapeutic boarding schools, wilderness programs and residential treatment centers, can cost from $2,000 to $8,000 a month. But what is cost when you are trying to save a kid’s life?

A year ago, Paula Bryant, a Shrewsbury resident, returned home to find that her 16-year-old son had been sent away by his uncle, who had custody of the young man, to the Red Cliffs ASCENT School, a boot camp in Utah, and later to the Discovery Academy, a clinical boarding school and wilderness program, also in Utah.

Among other things, the Discovery Academy sells parents and guardians on its higher-than-the-national-average SAT scores, and an equine-assisted therapy program that uses “the principles of natural horsemanship as a pattern for productive personal relationships.â€

FreeTyler:
got all that and more first day.

Looking for hidden info, SURVIVORS, etc...

Really want to read the posts that were censored by SLAPP on the DA Forum this is no longer.

Anonymous:
[http://www.fornits.com/wiki/index.php?title=Discovery_Academy]Fornits Wiki page about Discovery Academy[/url]

I have found:

A Orem resident was convicted of attempted rape and written false statement after he had sex with a 16 year old teenager, who was detained at the facility: http://www.isaccorp.org/discoveryacadem ... 09.02.html

They are also mentioned in an article about a boy being held away from his mother by a relative: http://cafety.org/index.php?option=com_ ... 9&Itemid=2

They are also a part in a lawsuit brought against them from a mother to a boy, who is claimed to have been sexually assaulted by other detained teenagers: http://deseretnews.com/dn/print/1,1442, ... 00,00.html

Nothing much if you look at the industry in general, but read the wiki page and send some messages to members of the myspace group of former detainees. Maybe they also can help you with info.

I suspect that the address on the program homepage is not the right one. Based on google maps I can not locate the building they train horses in. A little help is needed.

But in order to free Tyler, I have an advice:

On Turnabout Ranch members of the family hide among the people in church and got the signature from a detainee, so she could be order into court where she got free. Of course she is now unable to return to utah before she is 18 because AEG have her mother a giftcard for 90 days of detention. Unfortunate she also have little contact with her siblings because all the siblings, who is minors are afraid that the giftcard can be used on them. There is a downside to all things here in life.

But how is it with relative to Tyler. Can you get some help, so he doesn't need to bend over in order to satisfy the stronger boys?

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