RMA AND BCA SUED BY 24 PARENTS FOR ABUSE

[Anonymous]

Link

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

[Anonymous]

Mike, Humt - Funny

Students and parents - lots of them are suing.
get in on the action

[Anonymous]

OH MY GOD! I forgot about that! I remember Brandiiii calling me fake because I was nice. What a bitch! I AM nice, dammit! There is not ONE FUCKING THING WRONG with being nice! She was, all hands down, the WORST supervisor I have ever seen.  I quit!

On 2004-11-22 16:39:00, Anonymous wrote:

"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]

This is so great I just have to post it again:

http://morrock.com/synanon.htm

[Anonymous]

This is exactly how psychopaths operate. They justify their criminal behavior by flipping reality upside down so if you are nice then you are crazy, if you are not a conformist then you are crazy. Then you go crazy and you become like them - to survive. But, in the end it kills you.

On 2004-11-22 16:39:00, Anonymous wrote:

"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]

On 2004-11-16 10:14:00, Anonymous wrote:

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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]

WOW

Thank you so much!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Please tell me more and how I can help - I worked there and was appauled by how the place was run (Boulder Creek Academy)

[Anonymous]

Where are you now and what do you do?  Do you think that the kids are unsafe at the school?

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the posts and the links. How is the lawsuit going now?

[Roy]

This is the Article and the Lawsuits I was referring to. The allegations are true.

[Roy]

The Lawsuit is going well and CEDU was in the Spokesman Review Newspaper again for RMA being shut down. The journalist was wise enough to state the details in the news story of past abuse and lawsuits. CEDU lied of course saying that they needed better managers. THEN HIRE SOMEONE THAT ISN'T A CULT CONVERT WITH AND ACTUAL ACCREDITED COLLEGE DEGREE. They never will.

They have no "accountability" whatsoever, yet they talk about accountability as if it means blind obedience to CEDU. And that is exactly what their definition is of accountability.

I picture a man in a box with pictures on four walls and he is calling that reality "see, there it is!!" That is the metaphor for the CEDU mind. A man in a box looking a fake pictures. Take heart - the pictures are fading and the box is rotting.

[Anonymous]

:question:

What is the status of the most recent lawsuits?

[Anonymous]

too bad that now that cedu is closed, and bankrupt, there will be no money for any of you. you would be unsecured creditors standing in the back of a long line with the secured creditors coming first... noone will ever see a dime.

[Anonymous]

On 2004-11-21 14:59:00, Anonymous wrote:

"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





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



Does Mr. Reed still need information?  I may still have letters & records, including "restrictions."
Does he have an email?