Desisto School

[Anonymous]

It is my understanding and I checked this out myself he Desisto site is still up with a MA area code to call, they then take your number and someone from Cold Springs calls and lies to you.  Denies everything from MA and promises parents diploma's from MA as well.  The school superintendent as asked them to cease and desist.  Also the school from CT is not buying the property because the land is toxic it would take years to clean it up and millions.  Wonder how many bodies or dead babies are buried on that land.

Angry former student in the know :flame:

[Anonymous]

Lots of people are hunting these Desisto People down as many many lawsuits are popping up.

I agree someone has to stop them!
 :exclaim:

[Anonymous]

I am a former student of desisto school and Cedu programs. Please don't waste your money and your childs life.  It is not fair for anyone to have to be treated like that. I went thourgh it all and still became a heroin addict. but life moved on and I am clean and sober and doing wonderful. Every being needs to go through what they need to go through. The answer is not at a place where the student is scared straight the answer is with in them they need time to find it and support. Please Check out the 12 step programs in your Area.

[Anonymous]

Mike DeSisto was a big fat homo ---end of story

[Bsolomon85]

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[Bsolomon85]

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[Anonymous]

They are at the Cold Springs Academy in Florida - not far to look - someone should sue the pants off of them, someone has to stop them and if you all were not just talk you would do it.  There is enough reports in MA in the licensing office to help substantiate all of your claims. :flame:

[Anonymous]

On 2004-10-22 06:51:00, Jeff_Berryman wrote:

"I used to drive past the Florida location years ago, and the locals were terrified of it.  They were under the impression that every kid there had committed at least one murder and all would be adjudged insane on their 21st birthdays and sent on to state mental hospitals.  That pretty well assured that any runaways would get no help or sympathy from the local community, or local police or social service agencies.  I can't help but wonder if those rumors were spread deliberately.    [ This Message was edited by: Jeff_Berryman on 2004-10-22 18:05 ]"

:skull:  :skull:

[Anonymous]

Actually I went to that school. Closed sometime this year, or last, What dose it matter. But You're right, we are all killers, in one way or another.  De Sisto never should have tried to begin with.

[Anonymous]

What an idiotic statement.  No one is blaming the kids that were at DeSisto not in MA anyway it was the former owner who is now deceased, the Director and the staff.  Reasonable adults do not blame kids because they were placed in a horrific program.

[Antigen]

On 2005-05-13 17:36:00, Anonymous wrote:

"They are at the Cold Springs Academy in Florida - not far to look - someone should sue the pants off of them, someone has to stop them and if you all were not just talk you would do it.  There is enough reports in MA in the licensing office to help substantiate all of your claims. :flame: "

I think you just don't understand how things are different in rural Florida than Boston.

Here's a clue. Brother Jeb and his wife are both on the board of advisors of Drug Free America Foundation (fka Straight, Inc.) and entheusiastic advocates of Anchor Foundation (which funds SAFE, Orlando, fka Straight, Inc., Orlando)

I once spoke w/ a former CYS worker who had investigated Growing Together in Lake Worth over a decade ago. He told me that, around a year after he resigned, he asked a collegue to check on the status of 3 child abuse complaints that he personally had filed w/ the authority's in Tallahassee. They had been deleted! Not closed, not resolved, not declared unfounded, but simply erased w/o a trace.

There are people who have been hammering away at these people and organizations for decades now. Once in awhile, they achieve a name change or some up and coming cult guru gets the bum's rush (a la Loretta Parish). But if you think the authorities in Florida are going to look after the interests of children abused in their programs if they only knew, well I guess you just don't know much about the authorities in Florida.

Every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid."
--Alexander Hamilton    

[Sam]

::cheers::  ::cheers::

 I doubt that anyone here will remember me.  But what the hell...
 I ran in 93, I think,  from the 4th dime trip to Mexico.  They dragged my ass back a week or so later
when they found us in New York.  I am still proud of that little stunt.  
I hate what they did to me, but mostly I hate what they did to my friends, especially the boys.
But I'm not here to rehash old wounds.  
I did make some very memorable friendships.  I regret not being able to say good bye, or ever find any of them again.  So if anyone out there remembers Sam Geller, give her a shout.

[Anonymous]

Oh trust me Florida cares not at all, to have even let them open up without any checking into their past, or their methods is proof alone they don't care.  I also just found out that when a child is in state custody in Florida due to abuse or neglect whether they are ready or not (and a lot of states let kids stay until 21 or 22 if needed) they put them out, lock stock and barrel.  Sick to the bone it makes me.  Vermont didn't let them open up there, and Florida did so that tells me a lot even after they were made aware by state officials in MA.
Andrea

[Sam]

I am very glad that Vermont didn't let them open up.
I have read the entire forum, and it opened up alot of lost memories,and alot of old arguements, i.e. buying the party line hook line and sinker.  There was a comment posted about people comming forward with what had happened to them, so reporters could be notified. Sorry about my spelling, i'm hurrying.
I just realized that people were comming out of the woodwork to fight for the abuse and neglect that goes on. So forgive me if I'm alittle late.


My question is why didn't Vermont let them open? Was it because they couldn't find property or were they denied by the state, or what?

[Anonymous]

I am  not sure exactly but where Vermont is so close to MA and we have a NE Cable News Station they were aware of the DeSisto folks, they also are smart enough to reach out to MA and did so to find out what had gone on here.  I can say that even as PFRR we tried so hard to get them licensed and on the right track - we felt it was a beautiful property and the kids were great, as a matter of fact the licensing agency folks got to know a lot of the kids that were there at that time and were just mesmorized by them, really grew attached to them.  Honestly it was a lot of what the kids said and did that pushed the state as well to force them to license - in my opinion instead of meeting the minimal standards they chose to pack up when it got rough and go to Mexico.  I got calls from frantic parents who were told to either pick up their kids the following day or sign them over to them and 20 grand to finish in Mexico.  Blamed me for the whole thing (DeSisto did) and the state had no clue that they were at fault themselves, were in major denial.  Hope the kids in Florida are okay, this saga went on forever even after they opened in FLA they were promising MA diplomas and the Superintendent of Schools in that district in MA was so angry as this was not the case at all, had the site up as though they were still in MA and were basically pushing the FLA business that way.  Awful situation - new home same people...So sad.