RMA AND BCA SUED BY 24 PARENTS FOR ABUSE

[Anonymous]

It was in the Spokesman Review Idaho edition Friday October 29, 2004

Surprized? I'm not, I worked at BCA and saw it and even tried to get the state of Idaho to do something - they would not.

I knew they would get caught sooner or later.
Antibody

[mikehunt]

just parents, not students?
still, 24 is a good number... hopefully, others will chime in.

[blownawaytheidahoway]

Spokesman review. I will look immediately but can whomever read it please post the link here?

I want to know which lawyers, and what the specifics of the case are. My parents are feeling some of what these parents are surely feeling...To have been DUPED.
Humiliating really. I wish them the best of luck and know that CEDU will employ the dirty tricks it used to keep the students there in the first place.
That is the manipulation. Fuck CEDU.

I really want to know more about this present suit. Please post what you learn people!
-blownaway

[Anonymous]

See the article on the Lawsuits

The attorneys are Powell and Reed - Reed is the one handling the case, He is in Sandpoint Idaho

[Anonymous]

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Suits allege abuse at two schools
Private CEDU academies treat troubled teens
Kevin Taylor
Staff writer
October 29, 2004

More than two dozen parents and former students at Rocky Mountain Academy and Boulder Creek Academy ? two expensive private schools for troubled teens ? have filed four lawsuits claiming a pattern of neglect and abuse inflicted upon kids by staff or by other students running out of staffers' control.

The four lawsuits can be grouped into two categories, Todd Reed, attorney for the plaintiffs, said Thursday. Two of the suits recount allegations of misconduct and breach-of-contract issues from Boulder Creek Academy near Bonners Ferry in the mid- to late-1990s; the others concern students more recently enrolled at Rocky Mountain Academy, which is near Naples, Idaho. Boulder Creek typically houses 70 students. Rocky Mountain, which typically enrolls nearly 40 students, currently has 30.


Among the allegations listed in the lawsuits filed at the Bonner County Courthouse in Sandpoint:

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One boy was forced to dig a grave, crawl into a coffin in the grave and have dirt thrown on it by staff.

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A girl was called "fatty" by staff even as she was being counseled by other staffers for bulimia.

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Another girl was called a "whore" and forced by staffers to wear a derisive sign advertising oral sex.

Another suit alleges a student at RMA was hazed, beaten and insulted constantly and with impunity by other students because staffers were not in the dormitories and didn't seem to care enough to stop the beatings when they did find out.

"We believe these allegations have no basis," Julia Andrick, marketing and communications director for CEDU Family of Services Inc., the parent company for both Rocky Mountain and Boulder Creek academies. "The charges are groundless and we are going to go ahead and litigate as appropriate."

Reed said the lawsuits focus on poor staffing levels, poorly trained staff and a lack of supervision that led to verbal and physical abuse.

"We are not asserting that all staff are bad at Rocky Mountain Academy ? my impression is that fine people work there," Reed said. "We are asserting there is a struggle between two differing thought processes ? the old CEDU and the new CEDU."

The old CEDU was verbally abusive, he said, while the newer approach "focuses more on the therapeutic process." The schism, Reed said, is problematic: "My concern is there is a lack of direction. From our perspective, the problem was RMA was going through school directors so quickly nothing has been consistent."

Andrick said Rocky Mountain Academy in September hired its third director in 10 months and fourth since 2001. She was unable to provide numbers on staff turnover, but did agree the approach at the schools has been changing in recent years because the students are changing.

Students at Rocky Mountain Academy today typically are dealing with drug or alcohol problems in addition to the types of behavioral or emotional issues ? "school failure, low self-esteem, families in turmoil" ? that drew students in the past, Andrick said.

More staffers are drug and alcohol counselors than in previous times when students were typically taken into the wilderness to either perform various tasks or suffer "natural consequences," Andrick said, citing the example of getting wet if a student re-fused to pitch a tent on a hiking trip.

"It's not a schism. It's been an evolution," she said. "We are changing with the times and changing with society's needs."

The lawsuits allege families typically pay $5,500 a month ? sometimes up to $16,000 for special six-week programs ? with promises from CEDU that their children are "cared for, taught and treated by high-quality staff."

The high price should not equate to students being forced to use scissors to cut large areas of lawn in July while dressed in winter clothing, be routinely told by staffers "your parents don't love you," or to suffer sexual assaults from other students while staffers, according to the court papers, did nothing.

CEDU is no stranger to such lawsuits. In November 2002, the company paid a $300,000 settlement to two former students who had alleged CEDU hired poorly trained, abusive staff. The students said the situation was what led to a student riot at Rocky Mountain Academy in 1997. Five students and staffers were injured in the riot.

Reed said a second lawsuit against CEDU in North Idaho also was settled, but the amount of the award has been sealed.

"You pay outrageous amounts of money and send your kid to a location where it is represented that your child is safe," Reed said, "And instead your child is exposed to alcohol and drugs and sex at that location, and couple that with abusive actions directed at children by staff," showing that the academy staffers were poorly trained and supervised, he said.

"We keep detailed records on students and their activities and therapy and counseling and academic records," Andrick said. "We do have information and we do feel these are groundless lawsuits. It's sad, but we will battle it out in court."
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[Anonymous]

you want to know how they learned how to take  advantage of others by emotionally convincing kids that they were trying to help them and getting them to feel that they had to be there check out the mark wasserman guy who believes his own lies

[Anonymous]

http://www.teenliberty.org/RMA.htm

[Anonymous]

Yes, Todd Reed Attorney at Law 208 263-3529 needs your testemony against RMA and BCA - he wants to hear from Therapists, Staff, Parents and Students

Keep this in Hot Topics by Commenting Regularly

I fought the abuse while a therapist there and was screwed by LaTresa Pemp, Bill Brown, Todd Degraff, and Marc Travelpiece.

Lets bring the wrath of god down upon them - lets take this chance and put them to work in the Newmeyer saw mill where they are, perhaps, qualified to work.

Here is the Article Again

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Suits allege abuse at two schools
Private CEDU academies treat troubled teens
Kevin Taylor
Staff writer
October 29, 2004

More than two dozen parents and former students at Rocky Mountain Academy and Boulder Creek Academy ? two expensive private schools for troubled teens ? have filed four lawsuits claiming a pattern of neglect and abuse inflicted upon kids by staff or by other students running out of staffers' control.

The four lawsuits can be grouped into two categories, Todd Reed, attorney for the plaintiffs, said Thursday. Two of the suits recount allegations of misconduct and breach-of-contract issues from Boulder Creek Academy near Bonners Ferry in the mid- to late-1990s; the others concern students more recently enrolled at Rocky Mountain Academy, which is near Naples, Idaho. Boulder Creek typically houses 70 students. Rocky Mountain, which typically enrolls nearly 40 students, currently has 30.


Among the allegations listed in the lawsuits filed at the Bonner County Courthouse in Sandpoint:

--
One boy was forced to dig a grave, crawl into a coffin in the grave and have dirt thrown on it by staff.

--
A girl was called "fatty" by staff even as she was being counseled by other staffers for bulimia.

--
Another girl was called a "whore" and forced by staffers to wear a derisive sign advertising oral sex.

Another suit alleges a student at RMA was hazed, beaten and insulted constantly and with impunity by other students because staffers were not in the dormitories and didn't seem to care enough to stop the beatings when they did find out.

"We believe these allegations have no basis," Julia Andrick, marketing and communications director for CEDU Family of Services Inc., the parent company for both Rocky Mountain and Boulder Creek academies. "The charges are groundless and we are going to go ahead and litigate as appropriate."

Reed said the lawsuits focus on poor staffing levels, poorly trained staff and a lack of supervision that led to verbal and physical abuse.

"We are not asserting that all staff are bad at Rocky Mountain Academy ? my impression is that fine people work there," Reed said. "We are asserting there is a struggle between two differing thought processes ? the old CEDU and the new CEDU."

The old CEDU was verbally abusive, he said, while the newer approach "focuses more on the therapeutic process." The schism, Reed said, is problematic: "My concern is there is a lack of direction. From our perspective, the problem was RMA was going through school directors so quickly nothing has been consistent."

Andrick said Rocky Mountain Academy in September hired its third director in 10 months and fourth since 2001. She was unable to provide numbers on staff turnover, but did agree the approach at the schools has been changing in recent years because the students are changing.

Students at Rocky Mountain Academy today typically are dealing with drug or alcohol problems in addition to the types of behavioral or emotional issues ? "school failure, low self-esteem, families in turmoil" ? that drew students in the past, Andrick said.

More staffers are drug and alcohol counselors than in previous times when students were typically taken into the wilderness to either perform various tasks or suffer "natural consequences," Andrick said, citing the example of getting wet if a student re-fused to pitch a tent on a hiking trip.

"It's not a schism. It's been an evolution," she said. "We are changing with the times and changing with society's needs."

The lawsuits allege families typically pay $5,500 a month ? sometimes up to $16,000 for special six-week programs ? with promises from CEDU that their children are "cared for, taught and treated by high-quality staff."

The high price should not equate to students being forced to use scissors to cut large areas of lawn in July while dressed in winter clothing, be routinely told by staffers "your parents don't love you," or to suffer sexual assaults from other students while staffers, according to the court papers, did nothing.

CEDU is no stranger to such lawsuits. In November 2002, the company paid a $300,000 settlement to two former students who had alleged CEDU hired poorly trained, abusive staff. The students said the situation was what led to a student riot at Rocky Mountain Academy in 1997. Five students and staffers were injured in the riot.

Reed said a second lawsuit against CEDU in North Idaho also was settled, but the amount of the award has been sealed.

"You pay outrageous amounts of money and send your kid to a location where it is represented that your child is safe," Reed said, "And instead your child is exposed to alcohol and drugs and sex at that location, and couple that with abusive actions directed at children by staff," showing that the academy staffers were poorly trained and supervised, he said.

"We keep detailed records on students and their activities and therapy and counseling and academic records," Andrick said. "We do have information and we do feel these are groundless lawsuits. It's sad, but we will battle it out in court."
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[Anonymous]

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CEDU is no stranger to such lawsuits. In November 2002, the company paid a $300,000 settlement to two former students who had alleged CEDU hired poorly trained, abusive staff. The students said the situation was what led to a student riot at Rocky Mountain Academy in 1997. Five students and staffers were injured in the riot.



Reed said a second lawsuit against CEDU in North Idaho also was settled, but the amount of the award has been sealed.



"You pay outrageous amounts of money and send your kid to a location where it is represented that your child is safe," Reed said, "And instead your child is exposed to alcohol and drugs and sex at that location, and couple that with abusive actions directed at children by staff," showing that the academy staffers were poorly trained and supervised, he said.



"We keep detailed records on students and their activities and therapy and counseling and academic records," Andrick said. "We do have information and we do feel these are groundless lawsuits. It's sad, but we will battle it out in court."

JULIE ANDRICK IS A LIER. THEY KEEP VERY POOR AND UNDETAILED RECORDS OF EVERYTHING. THEY LEAVE OUT ANYTHING THEY KNOW IS ABUSIVE OR ILLEGAL. WE HOWEVER REMEMBER IT ALL VERY WELL AND WE WILL TESTIFY

[Anonymous]

I hate raps, they are useless, have absolutely no theraputic value, and although at times they were entertaining, raps were nonetheless a total waste of time. I got nothing out of them except for some very bad memories of other people's problems, which I never wanted to hear about in the first place.

I didn't want to hear about the girl who got ganged raped every night at the foster home, or about the guy who fucked his sister, or even his brother (I heard that one too). One guy used to make the dog lick his dick. I never needed to know how many times so & so made herself throw up, or how many times a week some guy jerks off in the shower fantasizing about raping his dorm mates. One guy used to stuff carrots up his ass to entertain his friends at parties, he even let people take pictures.....WHY THE FUCK DID I NEED TO HEAR ALL THAT?

I was a stupid, skinny, 14 year kid. I thought I knew everything when I really didn't know shit.... just like any other normal teenager!

Did I really need to know how many different places one could shoot heroin? Did I really need to hear some 45 year old guy (Rudy Bentz) talk about how great it felt to fuck a piece of warm liver thru a hole in a milk carton? Or how about what it feels like to be fucked by your own father? Did I really need to hear a 30+ year old male staff (steve laird) recall how tight a 13 year old pussy is?.... FUCK NO!!!

And what pray tll did these kids really get out of revealing all of this embarassing personal information (cop outs), besides humiliation that is?

Did they find real compassion, understanding, or even some sound wisdom and/or guidance to ease their guilt?....FUCK NO!!! They got nothing of the sort from the child fucking, white trash, cedu staff assholes to whom the confided in. Instead staff took this information and used it to degrade and label these kids. They beat down on this kids over and over again. They broke both spirits and hearts,not to mention minds. For many former students, the damage that raps inflicted is irreversible.

Raps are nothing but a very sick tool that staff use to exercise control, and in the use of their tool, Cedu staff know no limits to their cruelty.
Raps are sick, but then again, what else can you
expect from Cedu?

.[ This Message was edited by: SON OF SERBIA on 2004-11-22 09:55 ]


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Anonymous
Unregistered User Too many memories, too many raps
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 blownawy tells it like it is. I forgot so much yelling crying lying screaming and yelling. Picking on people anyone who resisted anything anyone who yelled back and got defensive. i remember black chairs and boxes of tiissues andmy ass falling asleep from four hours of not moving. I hated raps i hated raps i hated raps. so much lying and mean people picking on kids. seems being nice was not allowed.
why why why
 


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Sara-1984


Joined: 2003-07-21
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From: LIFE Sarasota - 1984
 Posted: 2004-11-20 13:45:00  
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 Here's about as down and dirty as you can get: http://morrock.com/synanon.htm

Straight from a horse's mouth.

[Anonymous]

when were you all at running springs you ask why being nice was not allowed ?  well back when  allgood, benz, and others were there  it was seen as been phony and not real. to take advantage of others and to disregard other's feelings and think only of your own was considered being honest and was how all were encouraged to be meaning that if you did not abuse others you were considered not being serious about being there. many demanded that it be that way and the staff used that demand to in their own narcissistic minds make it okay to be as nasty as they wanna be

[Anonymous]

What Riot at RMA in '97?  I was there from 95-98 and there was no riot that I was aware of...?

[Anonymous]

Actually The Riot was at Northwest Academy - One of their other facilities in Bonners Ferry Idaho

[Anonymous]

This is a very Good post - On why they act so nasty and why it is ingraned in their culture to be mean. I left my wife of 20 years for this very reason. She had spent so much time learning that narcissistic "be real" crap that the became a monster who would not talk unless she was yelling. She was in CEDU for over 20 years. She was a very fine person before CEDU. She was Impossible to be around afterword.

[Anonymous]

Here is the link you asked for

http://www.teenliberty.org/RMA.htm