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« Reply #75 on: April 26, 2005, 05:05:00 PM »
It isn't just those who are "out-of-control" who are subject to take-downs.  One girl was taken down for refusing to allow a staff member to censor her letter. Another time she was taken down for getting out of a chair without permission. Are these good reasons for takedowns? Basically anyone who speaks their mind or say's no to an order or rule is subject to a brutal takedown.
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« Reply #76 on: April 26, 2005, 05:16:00 PM »
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On 2005-04-20 11:20:00, cherish wisdom wrote:

"Before a child is placed in a residential program or boot camp they should most definitely have a complete psychological evaluation to determine if the intervention is correct.  No competent psychiatrist would place a child who is depressed in a tough love program or boot camp. A child who is ADDICTED to drugs should be placed in drug rehab program where they are skilled with dealing with the detox associated with each drug and or alcohol.



A complete psych eval isn't cheap - but neither are these programs.  A complete psych eval costs about $2,000 to $3,000.  It takes a lot of time. The child is evaluated and the parents are questioned thouroughly.  Other therapists and counselors are also questioned.  All of this information is then evaluated and the psychologist or psychiatrist then determines what course of action would be appropriate - counseling, drug rehab, AA, NA, medications and so forth.  



Too many people rush in - or read about these program in a magazine.  These programs should not be allowed to accept children who have not had a complete physical and psychological evaluation first and a recomendation from both a medical doctor and a psychiatrist that the program could benefit the child.  



Alot of pain and suffering and DEATH could have been prevented if this had been done in every case.  

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Just curious... when would "tough love" actually be GOOD? Why is it that somehow certain kids respond well to torment and psychological regression?

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« Reply #77 on: April 27, 2005, 07:48:00 PM »
I suppose it depends on the way tough love is used. Now if a persons definition of tough love is to torment or to psychologically injure them then tough love is a bad idea. But in certain situations tough love can work. Like to give a hypothetical example, say a perent has tried the approach of loving too much and basically enabaling a kid to behave in a certain way. They may feel like laying down ground rules and placing consequences for breaking those ground rules would be tough love. In that case i would feel like tough love would be appropriate. If a kid is living with you and doing illegal activities and bringing illegal stuff into your home then it is perfectly acceptable and not at all a bad thing to do to use tough love. It is also important when using tough love to not stop loving and caring for the child. OYu still make sure they are taken care of and have the necessities they need. But that is a life thing. If you go out into the "real world" and dont pay your rent, your landlord isnt going to let oyu get away with that for very long. Even the nice ones who will listen to your side of it and your story and will try to help you out wont do that for very long. Also if you dont show up to work and dont follow through with your responsibilities, your boss will usually fire you. So it can be effective I think if you have tried everything and the kid is just not listening or is not willing to respect you enough to not do illegal things in your home. My friend has an ex who is 34 and he still lives wiht his mom and still expects everyone he knows to accept his crappy behavior and let him get away wiht being a butt head. In that situation, it would be perfectly reasonable and probsbly the best thing to do for his Mom to say, "I love you but you have to move out and Im not going to financially pay for it all."
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« Reply #78 on: April 27, 2005, 11:26:00 PM »
So, 'tough love' is just holding them accountable, in the REAL way, not the psycho abuse 'consequences way'... like making them treat you decently or holding them legally accountable for crimes? Wowzers.

Uh... where the hell did that term come from then? Thats common sense. :???:

The only way I dont see that being a good thing, would be if some chemical or psycholgical issue is making them act out... but that requires actual therapy.

One thing tho... "I love you but you have to move out and Im not going to financially pay for it all." You cant be expected to just find a place and move out instantly. Moving takes a few days unless youre he-man or simply dont have any poessions. I've moved enough to know how much it SUCKS TO MOVE.

But yeah. Being a reasonable parent seems to be common sense, and the 'tough love' moniker seems to be a oft-used excuse to be brutal or excite emotional reactions from parents or voters. Whatever.

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« Reply #79 on: April 27, 2005, 11:39:00 PM »
I prefer to call what I use "Mom Fu" instead of tough love.

Being a parent instead of a buddy, being a loving parent instead of a matron in charge of an orphanage---good, old-fashioned, right up the middle parenting.

Yes, if you're being your kid's buddy to the extent of not being the voice of wisdom to reel them in when they are about to get into trouble, you need to shape up.

But my problem with "tough love" is that it works fine if the parents' rules are reasonable, but it never seems to me to ask that question in the first place.

And I think it's a pretty important question.

A lot of times I think parents with extremely wild kids have so much trouble because their discipline is not so much too lax or too strict as it is crazy and erratic and all over the place.

The parents I've seen have the worst kinds of hell with their kids are the ones that their rules are arbitrary, they don't make a lot of sense, they seem to change randomly, and a lot of times the parent alternates, seemingly at random, between indulgent and strict.

Most help groups or help philosophies that try to help parents with wild teens pussy-foot around the parents' tender sensibilities and just presume that the demands the parents want and decide to make are reasonable.

It's kind of a "set your rules, set your consequences, and stick to your guns and show that kid you mean business, dammit!"

It's very rare for someone to tell the parents the real hard truth that needs to be said:  the wiser your rules and the more appropriate and proportional your consequences and the better you communicate the reasons for those rules to/with your child, the better that whole "parenting" thing works.

Nobody wants to step up and tell other parents that if you're having problems with your kid, sure, maybe *part* of the problem is that you're enabling bad behavior.  But if you replace indulgence with *bad* rules, you're going to get rotten results.  And there's a good chance that some of the rules you've already got aren't too great, either.

Stupidity is doing the same thing that didn't work last time and expecting different results.

Well, a lot of tough love seems to me to be enforcing the same old bad rules, only stricter and louder.

Sure, you should have rules and be consistent and enforce your rules, etc.

But if they're not very good rules or not very good consequences (meaning not proportional to the "crime"), then you're going to get not very good results.

If they're really horrible rules or really, horribly disproportionate consequences, the harder you enforce them, the more really horrible your results will be.

It's parenting, not rocket science.

If you're having trouble, one of the first things you should do is check your rules with parents who have adult children who were difficult as teens and turned out okay.  Make sure they know (and make sure you mean it when you tell them) that you want an absolute no-shitter of whether your ground rules and expectations and consequences are reasonable.  *I* wouldn't pick parents wedded to an ideology of any stripe (like tough love, forex).  I would pick ordinary jane and joe parent whose wild-child teens are doing okay now as adults.  I'd also pick some parents of grown kids that weren't wild thangs for comparison.

Rather than asking an opinion of your rules, one thing you might do is ask them what their rules were and how that worked for them.  People are a lot more willing to talk about what they did than they are to critique what you're doing--especially if they like you or don't want to offend you.

I don't think parenting is something where you can pull a pre-made ideology off the shelf like a cake mix in the supermarket and get good results.

I think you have to pay attention, provide love, and put in a lot of time.  And you have to exercise good judgement.

If your judgement is not always so good, then you find people whose judgement is better than yours, befriend them, and pigeonhole them for their opinions and actually take their advice.

That's the only substitute I've found for having good judgement yourself.

Finding someone who has it and will give you good advice, and then *taking it*.

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« Reply #80 on: April 28, 2005, 01:24:00 AM »
These programs do not require a complete psych eval. Like WWASP many just use a hard sell approach just to get more admits because more admits means more money.  If a complete psych eval was required many of these children would not be placed in WWASP.  

When is tough love good?  The professionals say boot camps don't work.  I tend to agree. Most children with problems have problems for a reason and most often it is within the home - broken families, drug or alcohol addicted parents, child abuse, sexual abuse, neglect - there's often a reason kids are messed up and it's usually a result of BAD PARENTING AND BROKEN HOMES.  Does anyone disagree?

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« Reply #81 on: April 28, 2005, 04:26:00 AM »
To all those who feel sorry for me go right ahead. Feel how you want to. I'm not here to change your minds. I can't do that. Lies? No I speak the truth. Truth as far as what I experienced. To all those who think I'm brainwashed and have a "murdered soul". I don't and I'm not. To say I'm lying is crap. I know abuse can happen. It didn't happen to me or anyone other. I am not sorry for the things I have said. All my so called praise is pure. It comes from a place of true peace. I have inner peace. I don't live my life full of shame or regret. If you all want to say these programs are horrible go right ahead. I will continue to spout my experience.
The hobbit? We didn't have that. I support my program. I support my experience. I support what I know is true. If you think my truth is tainted than fine. I've been out for 4+ years and still thank it for helping me.
I don't claim to know about anyone elses program or experience. That is not my place.
Call it a cult. So is religion if you really get down to it. I think that if something works for someone than great. As long as they don't push it upon me. I'm not pushing anything on anyone. I am however telling my story.
Do I feel bad about those who have been abused? Yes. Do I think it's right? Not at all. I do have a heart.
Leave this forum? No. To the person that told me to not spout out my program rhetoric I say It's not rhetoric. I know you want to think it is. Go right ahead. No I will not just go away. No I will not shut up. Keep wishing.
Pity me? Feel sorry for me? Hey thanks...right back at you.

Antigen,
 Well if a girl refused she'd just get more time in worksheets. Phone? Sucks for that kid. I don't doubt it happened. We were in lock down so I'm not surprised it happened. Do I think it's right that he got taken down? No.


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 I need to? No I don't need to do anything. I don't need to say what you want me to. I won't. I speak my experience not those of others as I don't know the full story. Look beyond my nose? Sure and I didn't see any abuse. I (as in me) didn't. It happened I'm sure but I didn't see it. I won't lie to make you feel better. Sorry. [ This Message was edited by: Perrigaud on 2005-04-28 01:26 ]
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« Reply #82 on: April 28, 2005, 06:20:00 AM »
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In early 1995, I was 16 years old and had just been discharged from a private psychiatric hospital in Pontiac, Michigan. While in the hospital I was treated for depression and an eating disorder. I lived with my Mom, who was divorced from my Dad. My Mom was increasingly worried about my emotional health and decided she wanted me to spend what she told me would be "just a few weeks" at Cross Creek Manor. I flew to St. George, Utah voluntarily under the assumption that I would be there for no longer than 6 weeks, because that's what my Mom had promised.

Imagine how scared and upset I was to land at the tiny airport in St. George late at night to find no one there to meet me. My Mom had said I would be met by some people who would take me to Brightway Adolescent Hospital. I called my Mom from a pay phone and told her that there was no one at the airport to meet me. This should have been the first of many red flags for her. She called Brightway and about an hour later a nurse showed up in a van, accompanied by a big male technician. When I arrived at Brightway, I was shocked by the rigid, controlling, cruel atmosphere. There were about 17 other kids there, boys and girls, from all areas of the country. We were not allowed to talk to each other and if we did, we were punished by having to write an "essay" explaining why it was wrong to break the rules. I thought this was a little excessive, given the fact that teenagers are social and like to make friends. I also thoght it was excessive that we could not even enter a room without first asking a staff member, "May I cross?" Every tiny thing we did wrong, from having a wrinkle in our bedsheets to spending thirty seconds too long in the shower, was punishable by having to write an essay.

I was kind of confused as to why my Mom would choose to put me in this type of environment when I was dealing with depression and bulimia. I had never been involved with gangs, had trouble with the law, or been sexually promiscuous as had many of the other kids. Every single staff member at Brightway at that time, with the exception of 3 or 4 nurses and one psychologist, was male. The male staff were rude, cruel, and manipulated their power over us. On many, many occasions I watched staff members yell, shout, and generally berate the kids who were entrusted to their care. Once I watched four big males "take down" a skinny 15-year old boy because the boy turned his back to them while they were berating him. There was a seclusion room with a bed that had two belts across it. One belt went across the chest area and one went across the legs when a child was said to be "out of control." I am a nurse today and this form of restraint is illegal in my state, as is locking a patient in a seclusion room, even if the patient is "out of control." The technicians at Brightway would regularly threaten us with the seclusion room.

After four weeks of hell at Brightway, myself and two other girls were taken by van to remote La Verkin, Utah, home of Cross Creek Manor. Conditions there were no better than they had been at Brightway. Staff members were mean and manipulative. I had the feeling that a lot of the staff were on a "power trip," so to speak. Quite a few of them were young, not many years older than the teenage girls they were in charge of. I will never forget one disgusting male technician, a huge red-haired guy named Adrian, who was particularly fond of intimidating us. His sister Andrea worked there as well and she was equally sadistic.

During my first week at "the Manor" as we called it, some of the veteran girls gave me some very valuable information. They told me that I would be there for a much longer time than I had believed. I learned that my Mom had been encouraged to lie to me about staying only 6 weeks. Many of the girls had been told the exact same thing by their parents, including girls who had been there almost 18 months. Naturally, I was really upset to learn this, but having been tricked into going there was not nearly as traumatizing as having been "kidnapped." I remember one very sweet, friendly girl named Polly, who was from the San Juan islands of Washington state. She was walking down the street in her hometown when 3 strangers physically grabbed her and forced her into a van. She was driven to St. George, the whole time she said she felt very angry at her parents for helping plan the whole thing. The veteran girls also informed me that my parents were paying $150 a day to keep me at the Manor, that the Manor and Brightway were both owned by the same for-profit group, and that this was big business. In other words, some people were making lots and lots of money on the backs of troubled teens and our parents. I was also warned not to write home to my Mom about how bad conditions were at Cross Creek. If a girl were to mention in a letter to her parents that staff members were abusive and that we were seldom served anything but macaroni and cheese for dinner every night, there could be big consequences, such as having to spend an entire day locked in a seclusion room. It was pointless to complain to our parents anyway, because parents were warned in advance that we would complain of such things as a "guilt tactic."
So the parents were really the fools in all of this. They believed they had sent their unruly, out-of-control daughters off to be gently redirected, when in reality, we were being treated very, very poorly.

About a month after arriving at Cross Creek, it was time for me to attend my first "Seminar." The seminar was run by a lady named Jeannie and she was assisted by some of the veteran girls, or "student staffers." I will never forget having to stand before my peers and have them scream and shout at me about my "issues." My Mom had sent me there to get help for depression and bulimia, but Jeannie said she did not believe me. She told me that I was "sitting on something much bigger." It seemed to me as the seminar progressed that she was kind of encouraging us to come up with other "issues", encouraging to make things up. Jeannie continued to berate me and tell me I was "full of crap" until I decided to share with the group that I thought I "might" have been sexually abused as a child. When I shared this bit of information, her attitude toward me changed and she said that I had "arrived." I thought it was strange how bringing up the possibility of sexual abuse made everything change. It was really as if they wanted us to come up with fake "issues." During one seminar exercise we had to beat a towel against a chair as a means of venting frustration. There's nothing creepier than being in a room full of screaming teenage girls whaling towels against chairs.

After graduating from the first seminar, we were forced to attend a second seminar led by Jeannie's ex-husband, David. The central theme of the seminars seemed to be ripping us completely apart, then trying to "build us back up." What I remember most about the second seminar was the way David treated a girl named Melissa. She was forced to stand in front of all her peers and he told her she was being "kicked out" of the seminar. Melissa was one of my roommates at that time and it was extremely painful for me to watch her be humiliated in front of everyone. When David had finished yelling at her, he invited the student staffers to continue to humiliate her by hurling insults and accusations at her. She was very quiet and depressed after that incident, and I was happy when her parents took her home before she had to go through the seminar again.

In October of 1996, 6 months after she had tricked me into going to Utah, my Mom flew in from Michigan for a visit. During her stay, she was informed that my Dad had not paid Cross Creek any money in almost 3 months. They told her that they would keep me if she made a payment that day, but my Mom had made up her mind that my Dad should be responsible for paying them, even though he'd had nothing to do with me going there. She was so adamant that I needed to go there, but when she was put on the spot to make a payment out of her own pocket, she refused to do it. I was released that very day. 9 years later, I look back on that time in my life with a mixture of emotions. Disgust at how our parents were deceived into paying thousands of dollars, thinking that their daughters would be miraculously "cured." Sadness at how few of the girls made any improvement whatsoever. Longing because I made some really good friends at Cross Creek and have no idea what became of them. We were forbidden to exchange addresses or phone numbers. If we were found to possess a friend's address, there would be severe consequences. I remember a really nice girl and dear friend named Leslie Suarez from Arlington, Texas, Lindsay Lazarus from Dallas, Texas, Shelley Karn from Las Vegas, Nevada, Kim Stout from Malibu, California, Katie Goode from San Diego, California, Nicole Krieger from San Leandro, California, Shelley Anteshevich from West Bloomfield, Michigan, Michelle Harbottle from Anchorage, Alaska, and Carrie Baake from Seattle, Washington. My name at that time was Elisabeth Thomas. If any of you girls should happen to see this, know that I still remember each and every one of you. I wish you all the very best and hope that life has been good since those dark days at the Manor.
I got married in 1999 and went on to graduate from nursing school. I live in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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Despite all the lies, the facts stand: Cross Creek Manor is an abusive, destructive gulag, just like all the other gulags in WWASPS' network. Parents beware.
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« Reply #83 on: April 28, 2005, 10:11:00 AM »
Perri- I am curious why you find it necessary to defend the program, some four years after you graduated? I understand if someone was abused or tortured why they would feel the need to let others know what happened. However, I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around your motives. Are you simply a WWASP apologist or do you have a motive?
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« Reply #84 on: April 28, 2005, 01:04:00 PM »
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On 2005-04-28 01:26:00, Perrigaud wrote:

Antigen,
Well if a girl refused she'd just get more time in worksheets.

What next? What if she just persisted in making small talk w/ the other girls in worksheets and never wrote a word?

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Phone? Sucks for that kid. I don't doubt it happened. We were in lock down so I'm not surprised it happened. Do I think it's right that he got taken down? No.


But you don't think it's abusive?

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« Reply #85 on: April 28, 2005, 01:13:00 PM »
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On 2005-04-27 22:24:00, nite owl wrote:

"These programs do not require a complete psych eval. Like WWASP many just use a hard sell approach just to get more admits because more admits means more money.  If a complete psych eval was required many of these children would not be placed in WWASP.  


When is tough love good?  The professionals say boot camps don't work.  I tend to agree.

I've heard a number of times about shrinks refering kids to WWASP and Straight spin off programs. I want to know how in the world these idiots conclude that this form of "therapy" is likely to help any of them. I mean, come on! There is no science to it. Well, that's not true. There's a science to it, lots of studies showing how much damage you can do to a person through these tactics. But there's no study I know of to show that the TC model is helpful in any way. If a GP were to prescribe purging or blood letting as a cure for som physical ailment, they'd lose their license and possibly land up in a psyche ward or worse. So how do these shrinks get away w/ recomending this particular brand of witchcraft?

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Most children with problems have problems for a reason and most often it is within the home - broken families, drug or alcohol addicted parents, child abuse, sexual abuse, neglect - there's often a reason kids are messed up and it's usually a result of BAD PARENTING AND BROKEN HOMES.  Does anyone disagree?


Yeah, I agree. But I also think that these issues are usually situational. It's not asif we didn't have these problems prior to the advent of the troubled parent industry. We did, in spades! We just didn't view angry teenagers as mentally ill and in need of psyche treatment. We just tried to keep them out of too, too serious trouble till they could grow up and figure things out.

IOW, most of these kids don't need any formal treatment. They just need to get out from under the thumbs of their neurotic, immature, self serving parents.

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« Reply #86 on: April 29, 2005, 04:31:00 AM »
Phone? Abusive? Yeah that's abusive. It didn't happen to me or anyone I knew. My personal program had no abuse. I can't speak for others.

Why defend it 4 years later? Alterior motives? No. Just want people to know the truth. My personal truth. I support the program for those who are/were like how I was. It helped me. It has helped those I know. Yes abuse rears it's ugly head. Amanda and I want reform to happen. We have been helped and are so grateful for that.
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« Reply #87 on: April 29, 2005, 04:45:00 AM »
And yet another report of abuse:

Celece Dochterman was a defiant teen when her mother sought help in 1995 and again in 1997. According to a lawsuit she and her mother filed in November, Celece already had been seen by psychologists and counselors and spent time in a psychiatric hospital. Nothing seemed to work.

Finally, her mother turned to Cross Creek Manor, the girls treatment facility Teen Help founder Robert Lichfield launched in 1990 in La Verkin, Utah. It was less expensive than a psychiatric hospital, and Cross Creek brochures promised "a powerfully impacting intervention that includes a proven behavior modification program."

Celece, however, was not the kind of teen-ager who could adapt to Teen Help's strict behavior control programs, according to the suit, which is pending.

"This case has absolutely no credibility," Teen Help said in a statement. The organization said Celece's mother insisted that her daughter be placed at Cross Creek Manor although the staff believed the girl would be better served somewhere else.

Teen Help has officially denied the allegations in court and has countersued Ceta Dochterman, the mother, charging her with breach of contract.

According to the Dochtermans' lawsuit, Celece was kicked, grabbed and routinely called a "slut" and "family destroyer."

Celece, like other teens there, was assigned a buddy who followed her everywhere, even to the bathroom. This disturbed Celece so much that she refused to eat or drink to try to slow digestion, the suit said.

Once, after she soiled her clothes, a male staff member taped a plastic bag around her waist as a form of diaper. When she refused to shower, she was stripped and placed in a bathtub, the suit said.

Finally, Cross Creek staff members took her to Brightway Adolescent Hospital, Teen Help's intake center, in nearby St. George.

That's where Neal and Sheryl Dorenbosch say they saw marks on her body that disturbed them. The couple were working as minimum-wage staff members at Brightway.

"She (Celece) claimed to have been sexually abused, physically abused, emotionally abused," Neal Dorenbosch said. "When they brought her in, my wife observed bruises all over her body. And she was begging my wife for some help, to call her parents."

Neal Dorenbosch called the hospital in St. George for advice. He was told that Utah state law requires that suspected abuse be reported immediately to law enforcement authorities.

He said he and his wife brought their concerns to the professional staff at Brightway and were told the matter would be handled "in house."

"At that point, we just waited out the night," Neal said. "That morning when we left the shift, we went home and called the state and called the sheriff. Within two or three hours, we were called to come in and talk with our supervisor. They were threatening to sue us for breach of confidentiality."

The Dorenbosches say Brightway then fired them from their $6-an-hour jobs. Teen Help did not respond to the Dorenbosches' allegations.

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« Reply #88 on: April 29, 2005, 04:49:00 AM »
And another one-- this time from Struggling Teens... I had no idea they publish anything but program propaganda.

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« Reply #89 on: April 29, 2005, 04:59:00 AM »
A girl we?ll call Amanda spent almost two years at Cross Creek Manor, which is a Teen Help facility located in Utah. She was a pretty girl who had the most beautiful, long, red hair. A male staff member began screaming at Amanda for no good reason; calling her a "ugly bitch." The staff member screamed that he was sick of her 'hiding behind her hair,'' because her hair was in her face. The hysterical staff member grabbed a pair of scissors and chopped off all of her beautiful hair, while Amanda begged and pleaded for him to stop, but he would not stop. Not until every inch of Amanda?s' hair was cut off. Amanda lost her beauty.

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