JASON FINLINSON-CASA

[Anonymous]

Hi, I don't know who the fuck you think you are, but I was a victim at High impact, Mexico.  I was forced to shit and piss in my pant and sit in it for well over 24 hours. THat happened to me several times. The "mamas" made me sit on my knees on the hot sand that was hot enough to fry an egg. They made me eat my puke when I through up my food becuase it was rotten. The grinded my head in the ground untill my chin was bleeding from r&r position. My open cutt got so infected that it was pussing and bleeding. Did they give a fuck about me or the pain they put me through, no!!! The dirty wet backs laughed there dirty little asses off when I fainted from no water and starvation. So don't talk to me about proof and what ever the fuck else you think is bull shit. I rather have been homeless out on the street in the middle of winter in the ghettoest place in DC...or in jail. That place ruined my life and I hope everyone in that fucking place goes through what I went through times 3!!! They will go to hell and burn. For everyone out there that has the same anger or that went through the same shit I went through, be angry; be pissed; you have every right to. My anger is really saddness becuase memories of high impact consume me every day. All I want is justice.

[Anonymous]

Dude, I am sorry to hear that went down, and I have a lot of respect for you..That is unbelievable!

[Anonymous]

I knew Mary Beth Lichfield.  She worked at Cross Creek in the early 90's as a staff.  She was a very genuine, caring lady and is a sister of Narvin and Bob Lichfield.

[BuzzKill]

High Impact . . .

I hope you do see justice done.
I wonder, did you consider yourself a WWASP student while you were in High Impact?
Because, you know, they deny they had anything to do with High Impact - it wasn't them, it wasn't theirs.

That is of corse a big crock of shit -
But that is what they say.

Its seldome a "student" from High Impact comes forward to make a statement. I hope you will get in touch and "talk" with me a little bit.

[AtomicAnt]

On 2005-06-07 18:39:00, Anonymous wrote:

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On 2003-09-17 18:19:00, Anonymous wrote:


"Thats right, this guy did work at cas aby the sea in 2000-2001! I have heard about jason finlinson, he was the guy who beat a couple kids at casa by the sea. people also heard about a girl that got raped at ivy ridge acadmey. Jason finlinson seems to beat alot of teens wherever he goes. "

I have worked at AIR since almost since the place has opened I have NEVER, and I repeat NEVER seen Jason Finlinson beat any student!!!  I think that it's time that you all just admit that you made all this stuff up just to get attention from whom ever your seeking it from.  Do you people understand how many allegations have been made and how many times the State Police have been to the facility and every single time the allegations are unfounded!!!  I think it's time to just leave Ivy Ridge alone.  You all said how much you couldn't stand the place but you seem to think about it an awful lot!!!  GET A LIFE!!!"

Where there is smoke, there is fire. So tell us, how many times have the State Police had to come to AIR to investigate allegations of abuse? If parents had this statistic, they may think twice about locking up their kids there.

We already know they were fraudently issuing worthless diplomas. We already know there was a riot there earlier this year. We already know another kid pulled the fire alarm to get attention directed to the place. Now you are reporting frequent visits by the State Police. Gee, I wonder why? Could it be that there just might be something wrong there?

Having never been personally involved with any teen help program, I see an industry with many angry former customers telling consistent stories of cruel treatment. I also see stories from respected main stream media outlets saying the same things. They have and show actual videotape made by law enforcement to back these claims. The only counter from the industry is always the same; the whistle blowers are just liars. My response is always the same. If they are lying, show me the motive. Why would so many people make up bad lies about these wonderful programs? It just doesn't make sense.

So who should I believe? Those with a vested financial interest in keeping a business open, or those who claim without any chance of self gain, that these places use cruel and inhumane methods under the guise of therapy to suppress and control their unwilling victims?

Who do think you are kidding?

By the way, I have a life, thank you. Living in the middle of nowhere with a bunch of angry teens, I doubt you do.

[CCM girl 1989]

There is a lot of great information in here. I have only been on his sight for 3 months, and this is a must read!

[Anonymous]

My name is Beth Cooper and I was the one at high impact that posted that angry remark above at some asshole who didn't beleive abusive bootcamps to be true. I would also like to talk to you about my experience or whom ever wants to hear about it.  I have been holding it in for a long time and my life has been really fucked up becuase of high impact.  It's almost like they (wwasp or who ever) is trying to hide something about it.  I have spent hourse searching the net on something about high impact and all they have to show is a little news reporting saying they were raided and shut down and a picture or two without saying really anything about it.  Someone is really trying to cover something up.  I was transfered from Cross Creek Manor (LaVerkin Utah) to Mexico by these two escorts.  Ron Garrett gave my mom and dad a pamflet (I don't even know if he did that); well told my parents that it was a really intense boot camp and it would help me and make me loose my weight that I gained at cross creek.  Well I can assure you that it really did help me with my weight. I lost almost 60 pounds in 2 and 1/2 months.  My parents didn't even ask twice about it. They just shipped me off. The boot camp was aparently open in the late 90's 98 99 becuase my friend at cross creek told me they were feeding them still frozen raw chicken and someone got sick with salamanilla and almost died. We all came back with these huge scars on our chins, my skin was so bad I couldn't even see the white on my face. I had diarreah for about a year after.  We slept on a strip of sement with no pillows and we earned a mat to sleep on. We had to earn our sleeping bag in the beginning. I remember there was like 15 of us that slept in the tent on the strip of sement and one day we all got really sick. It was really weird becuase it was almost like we ended up throughing up at the same time. I just remember the beans tasteing really sour and getting really cold when it was like above 90 degrees outside and almost passing out. So anyways we were all farting really bad and throughing up really bad, so the "mamas" decided to put us all in the caged in R&R position. There was so many of us that they just had some of us sit outside of the cages in frunt of the others. It was crazy and it smelled so bad. The next thing I remember is all the "mamas" laughing there asses off becuase it smelled so bad.  That's a really crazy memory.  but anyways, some of the girls there came straight from home and others just came from other wwasp programs.  I remember this girl, her name was nadia or something....anyways...it was her second time there and she was fucking sick in the head. She was singing and dancing and just going crazy, so  the head guy (I forget his name) came and stuffed her in a sleeping bag, duck taped her mouth, put duck tape as tight as he could around the sleeping bag and rapped her up like a mummy. Then he through her in the cages all night and all day the next day with no water, no food. I guess mama Brenda woke her up by poring a bucket of water over her head the next day.  I felt so bad for her. I have so many other stories, it's crazy.  Ive been supressing mostly all of this for like 5 years. But I beleive that they have been hiding this place becuase it was the worst out of all of them. No one will ever know what we went through there and no one will ever truely find out.  My parents tell me that I need to get over it becuase I'm gonna ruine the rest of my life letting it control me, but you just don't go through something like that and come out of it alright.

[BuzzKill]

Thank you for speaking up.
So few people from High Impact are available (or able) to talk about it. I hope you will continue to post and if you'd like, feel free to write me. You can PM or email.
Your right that there was never much in print about High Impact, but there are always reporters and authors looking for stories - and it possible some one like yourself, being willing to talk about it, could help change this.
You might want to consider contacting ISAC http://www.ISACcorp.org and providing them with your account. They can also put you on a list of people who will talk to press if you think you would ever want to do that.
You should also consider writing your US representatives in Washington; explaining what you endured, and asking their support for HR 1738 - the end institutional child abuse act.
I hope you will consider talking to a therapist who  understands and treats Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Of corse,you can not just forget it - but a good therapist could help you get were you can live your life and not always be suffering under the weight of the memories. Maybe just "talking" it out here will help. I hope so.

[Anonymous]

Kid who experineced High Impact,

I'm soory that you are feeling so stressed from your experience. You have every right to feel that way. Whta those people did to you kids was criminal.  I have spoken with other kids who have told me thier experinces. It was miserable. Yopur avaerage person would notbelieve these thisgs happened to Ameriecan children.

Senator John McCain and others are concerned about toure of the Iraquies.You experienced TORTURE at the hands of employees of Cassa by the Sea/WWASP.

Do make amn effort to find a professional to tell what you know to be true.

Isac is a start.Try ASTART professionals. Tell anyone who will listen. The story needs to be told.

Which wwasp program were you sent from? Important to know.Like Buzz stated .WWASP claims Highj Impact was not a wwasp program. (they lie)

[Anonymous]

I was sent from cross creek manor at LaVerkin Utah. high impact 2001, and than sent back to cross creek manor. I graduated CCM Aug. 26th 2002.

[Anonymous]

Cross Creek Ron Garrett and Kar told my parents it was part of wwasp associations. My parents didn't even pay high impact. They just sent the same bills as they usually did to "wwasp".  They told them it was like a wilderness camping out program.  They knew what it was and told all of us horror stories of it to scare us into working the program. I remember the night before Ron sent me off with the escorts, he told me that I was gonna be riiped apart (in souch words) and than laughed in my face about it. The thing is, is they already knew of the abuse that went on down there and were sending more and more of us. Ron even came and visited us once; it was kinda funny becuase I was in RR cage when he came. It was supposed to be some kind of taunting pep talk visit. That man was a liar and he was emotionally abusive. That's my opinion of him throughout my whole stay at cross  creek. It's almost like he got off seeing us hurt, or taken down, or screamed at. But, high impact was created from wwasp and no one else.  They only covered it up becuase the evidence of abuse and dirtyness of that place was to hard to hide.

[BuzzKill]

Its well known High Impact was WWASP.

Every kid there was a WWASP "student".
Also, we have Lon on record, that when he called to obtain info on the then new High Impact what they sent him was info on various other wwasp programs - and a price list for various other wwasp programs.

It makes me want to scream in their collective faces - "Where's your accountability!" when ever I run across a wwasp denial that High Impact was theirs.

Clearly, they do indeed know what went on there was horrible, and that no way could they sell it as acceptable, even to the legions of faithful.

Instead of admitting it was horrible, and being accountable and responsible for the harm done; instead of apologizing and compensating the victims - they just lie, and lie some more - it wasn't us.

Like a disordered/disturbed person, wwasps seems to think if they repeat the lie often enough, it will become the truth.

But as much as they like to emulate Big Brother, they lack the power to actually re-write history.

Sick, Evil Bastards.

[Anonymous]

CCM  student,

What did "Graduating the Program" mean to you as a student?  I know many kids were not going to be allowed home until they "Graduated the Program."

Please share. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, graduating the program ment nothing but "thank God I'm out of this hell hole!" It's funny becuase even though I was brain washed at the time, I still said to mysef "thank God I'm out"

[Anonymous]

Graduating means that you make it to level 6 and leave with your therapist's blessing, which usually means you must be there for 3 years first.  It means your parents don't pull you out, run out of money, or you turn 18 and walk out.  Graduating is lame-o and does not effect your chances for a successful life.