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« Reply #45 on: March 08, 2005, 11:05:00 PM »
i didnt even get a mattress in the QR.  all i had was my underwear and a tee shirt.  in the winter.
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« Reply #46 on: March 08, 2005, 11:09:00 PM »
i get the same mixed feelings too, but the bitterness always wins out.  I was there 2 years.
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« Reply #47 on: March 08, 2005, 11:12:00 PM »
are you the liz on LJ?
The director (redwine) told me that he actually has had a number of students brought in a machete point.  
One kid who tried to run while i was there got hit with a car to bring him down, then of course, two weeks in the QR.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Escuela_Caribe/
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« Reply #48 on: March 09, 2005, 08:40:00 AM »
I attended the program Jan 90- Dec 91.

While I was there two girls in my house were preyed upon sexually by a staff member....he was dismissed.

Another member who had a porn habit and was close to the original molester Kerwin begged forgiveness.  Phil let him stay on....when this 2nd staff member,RG, went to Marion, he got caught making out with a female student.  Because he was in the States, he was actually prosecuted.

I am interested in knowing the details of molestation in the program. The psychological turmoil of being preyed upon by an authority member is indescribable!  

Care to divulge any Thomas House details?  Who was the staff member? What year did it occur?[ This Message was edited by: Dre on 2005-04-15 07:20 ]
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« Reply #49 on: March 09, 2005, 08:50:00 AM »
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On 2005-03-08 20:05:00, Anonymous wrote:

"i didnt even get a mattress in the QR.  all i had was my underwear and a tee shirt.  in the winter.  "


How long were you in the QR?  Did they let you have bathroom "privileges"?  What was the crime?

regarding all these posts on people not turning out well....

According to the National Institute of Health...
?Most treatment options have not been evaluated for efficacy or are simply ineffective?.Scientifically proven interventions are not available to the children and the families who need them.?

I drifted back into negative patterns when I returned home. Actually, I went further into the gutter than I would have considered before. According to When Interventions Harm: Peer Groups and Problem Behavior,? Thomas J. Dishion, Ph.D., Joan McCord, Ph.D., and Francois Poulin, Ph.D., interventions to reduce adolescent problem behavior backfire when peers with similar behavior problems are grouped together in the intervention. Partly this is because "The more sophisticated (teens) instruct the more naive in precisely the behaviors that the intervener wishes to prevent."
   For me, my norm was deviancy. The more extreme the collective problems are, the more deviant behaviors result on the outside.

plus....when most kids come out...they have post traumatic stress disorder....the symptoms cause you to screw up...out of control emotions, dissociation, flashbacks, hyperarousal.....

Don't blame us kids...blame the cure!
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« Reply #50 on: March 10, 2005, 03:18:00 AM »
Graham Higgs molested a least one, and its possible others, in Thomas house, in 2000-2001 at least, possibly before.  He was moved to landscaping duty as a punishment.
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« Reply #51 on: March 10, 2005, 03:24:00 AM »
i was in the QR for three days.  "bathroom priviledges?"  Do you mean shitting and pissing in that little blue bowl in the corner?  
judging by your terminology, am i correct in assuming you have an interest in sociology?
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« Reply #52 on: March 10, 2005, 11:36:00 AM »
Someone posting on the Escuela Caribe listserve
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Escuela_Caribe/
was talking about this.

He mentioned a lawsuit.

Was this Higgs character single (not married to the house MOTHER)?

How old was he?

How did it all come out?  I was trying to explain to my husband (non-program) about things being so extreme down there that when stuff like that comes out you know it is true...the beatdown would be too severe to warrant a kid making it up.

The authorities running these programs are hollow men with God complexes![ This Message was edited by: Dre on 2005-04-15 07:22 ]
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« Reply #53 on: March 10, 2005, 02:20:00 PM »
I found this forum by mistake and would like to share a few things.

First, I am almost 35 and am a business owner that lives abroad.
Second, I was in Escuela Caribe from the age of 17 till two weeks shy of 20.
I wanted to leave at the age of 18 but they told me that under Donican Rep. law I was not an adult till I was 21. Sounds real fishy.
Basically what can I do about this? I know there has to be some grounds for legal action, false imprisonment?
You can email me at golani_5@yahoo.com
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« Reply #54 on: March 11, 2005, 04:31:00 PM »
Graham Higgs was married and had two kids.  he was in his mid 30's i believe.  not sure how it came out.  i'll look into it.
id check the yahoo group escuela caribe.  theres a few more ex students there, including myself.  im trying to contact some of the guys that were in his house at present.
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« Reply #55 on: March 12, 2005, 07:47:00 AM »
In a blue bowl?  How christian!

That sucks! I never went to the QR...and I never got swats...but I sufferred from PTSD for years nonetheless...

I am sorry about yr experience.  What was yr offense, if you don't mind me asking?

Yeah--I am interested in sociology, pychology, the humanities, EDUCATION...anything to get awareness out about how damaging teen "Treatment" is...

Check out the E.C. group on yahoo...
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« Reply #56 on: March 15, 2005, 12:02:00 AM »
i ran on my first day.
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« Reply #57 on: March 15, 2005, 12:03:00 AM »
i ran on my first day.
(do you use 'christian' as a derogatory term, like they promote the use of 'gay' as derogatory?)
I do.  eg. "being sick is so christian."  we started it there. :smile:
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« Reply #58 on: March 15, 2005, 03:27:00 PM »
I'm being sarcastic in the above post....but I know what you mean...and it is related...

I never knew to be afraid of Christians until I truly experienced God's love Escuela Caribe style....

**We?  you kept in touch with other graduates?

***On your first day? Crazy!  How far did you get?  I guess that is why you got put in the QR.

I never considered running.  I knew it was futile.
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« Reply #59 on: March 21, 2005, 01:54:00 AM »
i knew i wouldnt get far.  it was more of an attempt to test the boundries.  I got to the fence, I was planning to kick hrough a dead spot, but was unaware that it was also tangled in barbed wire.  so i just ran down the hill until they caught up to me on their motorcycles and circled me like a pack of rabid dogs, which i suppose is not too abstract of an analogy.  
i wrote a little stroy about it.  i dotn really wanna post a link here cuz i dont want that staffer who was on here to get it.  i was there somewhat recently, and most likely i know him/her.  
(And if you are here, IM GAY!!! YOU NEVER KNEW!!!! ONE MORE ISSUE YOU COULD'NT FUCK WITH ME FOR!!! BUWAHAHAHAHA!!!)
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