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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => The Troubled Teen Industry => Topic started by: Anonymous on July 26, 2004, 09:48:00 PM
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Look at the first page of this site where you will find contact info for people who are still investigating conditions at Wellspring. If the people who went before you had stood up and taken the time and effort to do their part to stop this, your children would not have been hurt. DO YOUR PART. CONTACT THE INVESTIGATORS, ESPECIALLY THE VIRGINIA STATE POLICE BUREAU OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS AND TELL YOUR WELLSPRING STORY. CALL 434-352-3402 AND TELL THE VIRGINIA STATE POLICE WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR CHILD AND FAMILY.
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FUCK ALL THOSE COCKSUCKIN FUCKERS....
BOB GLUHAREFF CAN SUCK MY FUCKIN DICK
HIS FAT FUCK OF A CHUMP ASS CAN BURN IN ABBOT HALL
FUCK YOU BOB
FUCK YOU CINDY
YOU SUCK.. WELLSPRING SUCKS ..
UR BOTH GOING TO HELL
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wow... a little bit of bitterness there... :eek:
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My kid went to Wellspring and it was the best thing for him. Too bad the school closed. I'd send him back in a minute!
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Too bad you can't go there yourself dear parent!
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wheres jaliel? i wanna see that nigger.
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please help me get information on one of the staff from wellspring. he has opened another place for at-risk boys and i believe the abuse continues
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I think you're going to have to give us a little more to go on. Names?
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what is the name of this new place?
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Chris Christenbury is a former high ranking staff person from Wellspring who opened his own place called Cove Creek Center in Sugar Grove North Carolina.
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Please anyone with information about Chris Christenbury and his time at Wellsprings please post it. There are boys in his care right now that might need your help. Please don't let what happened in Wellsprings happen again. If he was involved with the abuse let us know.
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Please, if anyone could give us a name or someone to contact with regard to the Wellspring allegations/class-action suit. Or details of his involvement, please post it!! We need your help.
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Bob Gluhareff has been under active investigation by the Virginia State Police Criminal Investigations Unit, US Postal Service, US Treasury Dept, Virginia Dept of Health Professions,and the North Carolina Board of Licensed Professional Counselors since he closed Wellspring 3 years ago. The investigations are being coordinated by the US District Attorney's office in Roanoake Virginia. The Assistant US Attorney in charge is Jennie Waering, PO Box 1709, Roanoke VA, 24008. Phone 540-857-2250.
I am not aware of any class action civil suits pending against Mr Gluhareff. One group consulted with an attorney in Roanoke when Wellspring first closed but since Bob went bankrupt there seemed little point in trying to win a financial judgement against him, so it folded.
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Thanks for the information on Bob. Was Chris Christenbury involved first-hand of any of the abuse or mistreatment of the students?
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The truth is that Chris was one of the best people there. He wasn't like the rest. I hope that Bob burns in hell for not knowing or ignoring what went on at the school. There was a lot of shit that went down that wasn't right.
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I went to Wellspring and luckily played it smart and got the hell out of there bout a year or two before that piece of shit closed. Well spring was a wonderful place in the beginning and then Bob let money go to his fat head. It is a shame really all we can do is pray for him. Chris Christenbury was and is one of the smartest and carrying individuals I have had the previlege of knowing, and I know most of you who were there with me would say the same. I miss the guys I was there with and got close to, and some of the staff that were actually cool and helped us yall know who you are. I hope all you fools are doin alright out there. Oh this is Mississippi by the way a.k.a. boo boo. Anybody want to get in touch or have anymore questions e-mail [email protected]
P.S. I don't know if that place really helped me or not but I am a better man for the experience.
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Yeah... this is Frank Redden.. i started all of the kids leaving when i went home on a home trip and ran away... i told my parents about all the shit Joe and Sean were doing to me.. they didnt beleive me so i ran away.. i week later i called them.. and a week after that we went to Virginia Police or Social Services or something..
If you know me... or want to ask me anything call me 704-307-6380 or 704-660-9400
[email protected]
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Hi I'm Danny, I was at Wellspring when I was 16 I'm now 24. I really can't belive what I'm hearing. What I'm trying to say is yeah some of the daily chores such as digging outhouse holes cutting alllllll the trees on the dams on both ponds, well basicly all of the maintenance around the farm wasn't so bad, well it was at the time but I learned alot. I mean what were they doing that was so bad that they shut the place down? Its not that I don't agree or disagree I'm just curious. I do think Bobs a pompous ass and Cindy can be a stuck up bitch excuse my language. And Sean and Joe were there for a few months before I left. And I guess Sean could be an asshole sometimes and Joe was allways cool with me. I know he smokes weed a friend and I found some in his truck. anyways if some one could like explain to me what kind of abuse went on there I would really like to know. [email protected]
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THIS IS BEN LEWIS, I FUCKING HOPE BOB G BURNS IN HELL, HE STOLE SO MUCH MONEY FROM MY GRANDMA, AND OTHER FAMILYS, HE WASNT TRYING TO HELP ANYONE BUT HIMSELF. FUCK HIM I FEEL BAD FOR HIS WIFE THOUGH.
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wow.
this is mike dechiara....
its funny when the truth comes actually comes out.
i went to wellspring for a year and a half... due to my student management position i saw a lot of really shady stuff going on.
glad that bobs getting the dick in his mouth that he deserved.
we made the best of that bullshit, kept our heads up,met some tight people and learned to be manipulative and not get caught. :D
fuck it.
FWA.
i have the last "recent" staff roster + phone number lists ect that joe emailed me. any one who wants some info ...
cell: 330 703 7246
aim: xinfirmarycallsx
email: [email protected]
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What up Ben Lewis its Kevin Northup. FUCK EVERYONE THAT WORKED AT WELLSRPING CEPT LIKE 3 PEOPLE. FUCK ANYONE THAT LIKED WELLSPRING. THAT PLACE IS HELL. I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THEM ALL LOCKED ALL IN A BUILDING AND BURN THEM BITCHES TO THE GROUND.
anyone wanna talk shit about wellspring or just catch up hit me up [email protected]
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This is MIKE TALLENT, i spent more time in the box than in the school, and for anyone who wants to know, BOB committed suicide instead of going to jail, fuck that fat bastard, get at me, [email protected]
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The fornits wiki page is updated (http://http://www.fornits.com/wiki/index.php/Wellspring_Academy)
You can send Mr. Gluhareff off with some fine words here: (http://http://www.legacy.com/NewsObserver/GB/GuestbookView.aspx?PersonId=101504770)
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BOB IS DEAD!!!!!! HE KILLLED HIMSELF, YESSSSSS
FUCK THAT FAT BASTARD NIGGER, I WISH I WAS THE ONE TO PULL THE TRIGGER!!!!!
[email protected]
Ben Stewart
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Bob will never rest in peace, that bitch killed himself, FUCK YOU, FUCK DAVE, FUCK SEAN, FUCK EVERYONE THERE,
FUCK THE FINCHES, COCK RIDING BASTARDS. I WISH I COULD HAVE PULLED THE TRIGER WHEN HE KILLED HIMSELF, LETS SEND HIM OFF WITH SOME REAL WORDS.....
DIE MOTHER FUCKER DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mike Wilson
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[email protected]
[;ease post some "kind" words about this fat bastard on him death website.
He really was a peice of fat shit that deserved to die.
I also wish i was the one to pull the trigger..
MIKEY TALLENT, set the record in the box....
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Sorry if I have been a bit out of the loop... Not sure if anyone else posted the details. Here's an article:
Wellspring Academy Founder Takes Own Life (http://http://www.southernmysteries.com/sls/news/local/article/wellspring_academy_founder_takes_own_life_01_16_08_wsls/362/)
SONNY RIDDLE / Danville Register and Bee
Published: January 16, 2008
The former head of a Halifax County school for troubled boys was found dead in Person County, N.C., this past weekend.
Person County Sheriff Dewey Jones said the body of Robert S. Gluhareff, 63, of South Boston, was discovered by deputies Sunday morning in a wooded area off Edwin Robertson Road.
Jones said deputies found the body at 7:37 a.m. while on patrol. The North Carolina State Medical Examiner was called to the scene and determined Gluhareff's death was the result of a single gunshot wound, the sheriff said.
The medical examiner said the wound was self-inflicted, Jones added.
The sheriff said witnesses told authorities that Gluhareff's vehicle was parked on Edwin Robertson Road from Friday night until the discovery of his body Sunday morning. It is believed Gluhareff died sometime Saturday.
Gluhareff, former head of Wellspring Academy, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court last year to two charges related to bank fraud and one count each of mail and tax fraud. All other charges against him were dismissed.
Prosecutors said Gluhareff put the school in serious financial trouble, lied to parents about their tuition being tax deductible and obtained loans from multiple banks using the same piece of land as collateral.
He closed the school for troubled boys unexpectedly in April 2003, and told parents to pick their sons up immediately.
When parents asked for their tuition money back, which ran from $43,000 to $49,000 annually, Gluhareff filed for personal and business bankruptcy.
Gluhareff was sentenced in October to serve 30 months in a federal prison and pay more than $500,000 in restitution. He filed suit to vacate his sentence Dec. 26 in U.S. District Court in Roanoke, naming the federal government as defendant.
Gluhareff is survived by his wife, two sons, two grandchildren, his mother and two sisters.
Reprinted with permission of The Gazette-Virginian in South Boston.
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Every man's death diminishes me. Some not as much as others, though...
http://www.religionandsocialpolicy.org/ ... fm?id=4621 (http://www.religionandsocialpolicy.org/newsletters/article.cfm?id=4621)
You're right, he was a bad boy...
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Yeah, I found that one too, when I went looking... Here it is expanded out, for posterity's sake...
Counselor charged with fraud -- Prosecutors say Bob Gluhareff, owner of a school for troubled teens, padded the school's accounts (http://http://www.religionandsocialpolicy.org/newsletters/article.cfm?id=4621)
Publisher: The News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina)
By: Toby Coleman
First published: August 06, 2006
Federal prosecutors have charged a longtime Raleigh family counselor with bilking parents, the government and others in an effort to keep his faith-based school for troubled teens open.
Prosecutors claim Bob Gluhareff, 61, illegally padded Wellspring Academy accounts with more than $662,000 in bad checks -- including ones parents believed he would hold until they secured loans to cover them. Prosecutors also think he criminally misled parents into thinking they could claim some of the South Boston, Va., school's $49,000 tuition as a charitable donation.
Gluhareff called the 36-count federal indictment, unsealed Friday in Virginia, the result of a prosecutorial "witch hunt" stirred up by parents angered by his school's sudden closure three years ago. He is charged with tax, wire, mail and bank fraud; money laundering; and making false statements before a grand jury.
"The U.S. Attorney wanted somebody to pay," he said in an interview at his North Raleigh office Saturday. "They had to answer to those angry parents."
A few parents of former academy students have been calling for prosecutors and regulators to punish Gluhareff for more than three years.
"We're ecstatic," said Cindy Mitchell, a Youngsville woman who sent her son to the school and said she lost thousands of dollars when it closed. "Bob has a counseling service in North Raleigh, and I think that every parent that takes their child there should know about these charges."
Gluhareff opened Wellspring in 1986 on 510 acres outside South Boston, about an hour north of the Triangle. He started by recruiting troubled kids from the Raleigh area and eventually brought in children from across the country.
The school offered high school and two years of college instruction for boys ages 13 to 19. He promised parents their kids would be in a structured environment with Christian counseling and uniforms of khakis and polo shirts.
At its peak in 2002, the school had 90 students, 60 staff members and a nearly $3 million budget. "It was a very successful school," Gluhareff said.
Federal prosecutors claim that he struggled to keep his growing little school afloat for years. Gluhareff said the school did not start having budget woes until 2002.
Prosecutors believe that between 1999 and 2003, Gluhareff tried a series of financial maneuvers to keep his school chugging, including writing bad checks and cashing tuition checks that parents thought he would hold until they notified him that they had the money.
"Mr. Gluhareff took advantage of parents who were desperate to help their children," John L. Brownlee, the U.S. Attorney for western Virginia, said in a statement. "He was dishonest in his dealings with parents, banks and corporations."
Prosecutors claim, among other things, that none of the school's counselors were licensed in Virginia -- even though Gluhareff told parents that their kids would receive help from licensed counselors.
Gluhareff said the charges were ridiculous, in part because he says it would have been impossible for him to push enough bad checks through to hide significant financial problems in a multimillion-dollar organization.
He said it is possible that he could have cashed a parent's $25,000 nonrefundable tuition deposit check too fast. He also acknowledged that he told parents who paid his school's full $49,000 tuition that he would count $24,000 of their payment as a donation -- mainly because he figured that most of that money went to help pay for student scholarships.
He said that if he did anything wrong, it was "procedural" and that he never meant to break the law.
"What angers me more than anything else is that my wife and I gave everything to make this work," he said.
He talked about the federal charges against him Saturday afternoon, while sitting in the waiting room of his North Raleigh office. There was Christian art on the wall and a jar labeled "Warm Fuzzies" on the table to his left. He is free on $25,000 bond.
Gluhareff said he continues to blame a former school counselor, Lisa Grant, for Wellspring's collapse, and he has urged federal prosecutors to investigate her. Grant did not respond Saturday to an e-mail message.
Grant has said she quit the school in April 2003 amid budgetary problems: Staff pay had been cut and, according to court records, the school was not paying bills.
She took four students with her as she left, then called their parents and told them the school was going out of business. By the time Gluhareff had called the local sheriff's office to report that Grant had kidnapped the boys, the school phones were starting to buzz with angry parents. Word spread among the students, and soon some were refusing to wear their uniforms and threatening to start fires.
A few days later, Gluhareff closed the school. In a letter to parents, he blamed Grant, the economy and parents' failure to pay tuition on time.
He said he contemplated reopening the school, but never could come up with the money to pay off his creditors -- much less the parents who paid him tuition to help their troubled children.
"Sixty wonderful people lost their jobs, parents lost a half a million dollars of tuition," he said. "I cried for days."
He still lives near South Boston -- though he says he is too broke to own land. These days, he rents.
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This account from The Roanoke Times tells more about the timing of Gluhareff's suicide. It would appear that he was supposed to report to prison to do his time, and chose not to...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Founder of academy apparently takes his life (http://http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/147210)
Robert Serge Gluhareff did not report to federal prison Jan. 8 as he was supposed to have done.
The disgraced former head of a Christian school for troubled boys in Halifax County was found dead Sunday morning from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, five days after he was supposed to report to federal prison.
A federal judge sentenced 62-year-old Robert Serge Gluhareff in October to 2 1/2 years for two convictions for bank fraud and one each for tax fraud and mail fraud.
The Raleigh, N.C., minister founded Wellspring Academy in the 1980s, and according to court evidence, he used numerous fraudulent financial schemes to keep the struggling school open during its final years. When the school closed in 2003, parents lost thousands of dollars in tuition.
Gluhareff was scheduled to self-report to prison Jan. 8. Late the next day, the U.S. Marshals Service learned that he didn't show up, said Bill Fallon, Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Virginia. Marshals issued a warrant for Gluhareff's arrest, but learned Sunday that his body had been found in Person County, N.C.
A Person County deputy noticed an abandoned truck parked along a back road, searched the woods and found Gluhareff, dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound from a .38-caliber revolver, said Person County Sheriff Dewey Jones. Witnesses said the truck had been parked there since late Friday night, the sheriff said.
-- Mike Allen
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And from The News & Observer...
Published: Jan 17, 2008 12:30 AM
Modified: Jan 17, 2008 02:25 AM
School founder kills self instead of going to prison (http://http://www.newsobserver.com/news/crime_safety/story/886049.html)
Martha Quillin, Staff Writer
The founder of a Christian school for troubled boys who had pleaded guilty to financial fraud and deception in its operation appears to have fatally shot himself days after he was supposed to report to prison.
Robert Serge Gluhareff pleaded guilty in April to two counts of bank fraud, one count of tax fraud, and one count of mail fraud in connection with the Wellspring Academy outside South Boston, Va. The school had many students from Raleigh when it was open. A federal judge sentenced Gluhareff to 30 months, and Gluhareff was to begin the sentence Jan. 8, but he didn't appear.
Person County Sheriff Dewey Jones said that on Friday, Gluhareff left his home in South Boston and said he was going to meet a client. When he didn't return, family members started a search.
On Sunday, Jones said, a Person County deputy came across Gluhareff's truck on the side of a rural road. Witnesses told deputies the truck had been there since at least 8 p.m. Friday. Deputies searched nearby woods and found Gluhareff's body and a .38-caliber handgun.
Gluhareff started the Wellspring Academy in the 1980s, first recruiting students from the Triangle and later enrolling students from across the country. It began as a coeducational facility but was converted to a boys school. Parents whose sons had behavioral and other problems paid tuitions of more than $40,000 per year for the residential program. Gluhareff promised a structured setting with academics, religion and individual counseling on a 510-acre farm.
On Easter weekend of 2003, Gluhareff announced the school would close immediately.
Investigators with the U.S. Postal Service, the Virginia State Police and the IRS later found that the school's finances had been a shambles for years, that Gluhareff had frequently deposited fraudulent checks from his personal account into the school's account and had withdrawn the money before the fraud could be detected. They said he would demand payment of half a student's tuition with the promise that the checks would not be cashed until the parents had amassed the money, but he deposited the checks and withdrew funds against them before the money was there.
Initially, Gluhareff faced dozens of charges. Most were dismissed when he pleaded guilty.
Jackie Mitchell Jr. was one of many parents who lost tens of thousands of dollars in tuition. He had paid in the hope that Gluhareff could help his son, then 13 and diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Mitchell, a contractor who lives outside of Raleigh, said his son told him immediately that things "were not right" at the school, but Mitchell thought it was just because his son didn't want to be there.
Mitchell and other parents, who were never reimbursed for their losses, considered Gluhareff's 30-month sentence too lenient. When he learned Gluhareff had killed himself, Mitchell said, "I don't know how I feel. There was no justice done in the first place."
[email protected] or (919) 829-8989
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Here is a summary of the charges from the U.S. Attorney's Office (Virginia, Western district). What he was actually convicted of was a subset of these.
Of course, what he was actually guilty of is anybody's guess, and many a parent's private nightmare.
NEWS RELEASE
UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA (http://http)
John L. Brownlee
United States Attorney
Heidi Coy
Public Affairs Specialist
BB&T Building
310 1st Street, S.W., Room 906
Roanoke, Virginia 24011
(540) 857-2250
FAX (540) 857-2180
August 4, 2006
FOUNDER OF WELLSPRING ACADEMY CHARGED WITH BANK, WIRE, AND MAIL FRAUD
United States Attorney John L. Brownlee announced today that Robert Serge Gluhareff, age 61, of South Boston, Virginia, was indicted by a federal Grand Jury sitting in Roanoke, Virginia on July 25, 2006.
Gluhareff was charged in a 36 count indictment with bank fraud, assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, mail fraud, wire fraud, perjury, and money laundering.
"Mr. Gluhareff took advantage of parents who were desperate to help their children. He was dishonest in his dealings with parents, banks, and corporations. His deceptions hurt these families financially, and the manner in which the school suddenly closed scarred these families as well," said United States Attorney John Brownlee.
According to the indictment, Gluhareff was the founder and CEO of Wellspring Academy in Sutherlin, Virginia. Wellspring Academy opened in the late 1980's, and was a residential school that was promoted as providing counseling in a Christian setting to young people with academic and behavioral problems. Wellspring Academy operated under the corporate name "The Religious and Educational Institute of Raleigh, Inc."
For a time, Wellspring Academy admitted both girls and boys. By 1997, it was a school for boys only. From 2000 to 2003, approximately 60 to 100 boys attended Wellspring Academy at any one time. Tuition during this time ranged from $43,000 to $49,000 per student.
According to the indictment, Gluhareff's wife, two sons, daughter in law, and a girlfriend all lived on the Wellspring Academy Campus and received paychecks from Wellspring Academy.
The Grand Jury has alleged that from 1999 to 2003, Gluhareff and Wellspring Academy experienced serious financial problems and didn't have the money to meet expenses.
When parents brought their sons to Wellspring Academy, they were required to pay the initial $21,500 to $25,000 tuition payment that day. Many parents did not have the funds available and were forced to apply for loans. Gluhareff would convince students' parents to write tuition checks, but promised not to deposit the checks for an agreed upon period. Gluhareff would then deposit the checks in the Wellspring Academy account, knowing that the parents' accounts had insufficient funds to cover the check.
Gluhareff would write checks on his own credit card accounts and loan accounts and deposit them into the Wellspring Academy checking account, knowing they would be returned for insufficient funds. This enabled Gluhareff to create artificially higher account balances in the Wellspring Academy checking account.
The Grand Jury has also alleged that Gluhareff would tell parents that certain tuition payments were tax deductible as "scholarship donations" if they were paid in advance. Gluhareff also asked parents to have their employers donate matching gifts to Wellspring Academy, even though Gluhareff knew the "scholarship donations" were actually student tuition payments and not charitable contributions.
Gluhareff promised parents that each student would meet individually with a licensed counselor weekly, while knowing that none of the Wellspring Academy Counselors were licensed in Virginia. To increase the marketability of Wellspring Academy, Gluhareff made false statements about the license status of the Wellspring Academy "counselors."
In July 2002, Gluhareff obtained a business loan for "The Religious and Educational Institute of Raleigh, Inc." from BB&T. Gluhareff secured the loan with a Deed of Trust on all of his land. As part of the loan agreement, BB&T required that Gluhareff's credit card debt, which was in excess of $180,000, had to be paid in full, and all credit card accounts had to be closed except one. In addition, Gluhareff was not allowed to incur additional debt. Despite this restriction, In November, 2002, Gluhareff, without consent of BB&T, obtained a loan from Beneficial Finance for $35,000 in exchange for a Deed of Trust on a portion of the same land already pledged to BB&T for the July loan. In April, 2003, Gluhareff sold timber from land securing the BB&T loan.
Gluhareff called parents on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2003, informing them that Wellspring Academy was closing and that they should pick up their sons immediately.
On August 7, 2003, Gluhareff and his wife filed for personal bankruptcy and corporate bankruptcy.
On May 24, 2006, Gluhareff appeared in front of a Grand Jury in the Western District of Virginia sitting in Roanoke, Virginia. The Grand Jury has charged that Gluhareff knowingly made a false material declaration in regards to the licensing of the counselors that worked at Wellspring Academy.
If convicted on all counts, the maximum penalty faced by the defendant is 297 years imprisonment and/or a fine of $7,400,000.
The investigation of the case was conducted by the United States Postal Inspection Service, the Virginia State Police, and the IRS. Assistant United States Attorney Jennie L. M. Waering will prosecute the case.
A Grand Jury indictment is only a charge and not evidence of guilt. The defendant is entitled to a fair trial with the burden on the government to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Gluhareff called parents on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2003, informing them that Wellspring Academy was closing and that they should pick up their sons immediately.
Talk about the irony of the timing... Geez. These kids were given license to emerge from the tomb on Easter. lols
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Ursus wrote
Talk about the irony of the timing... Geez. These kids were given license to emerge from the tomb on Easter. lols
Ouch, that's funny!
Auntie Em
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Yea this is Travis Glass I was going to wellspring when the closed down that wonderful Easter day. As Far as abuse from authority figures goes I don't really believe there was any (maybe some mind fucking here and there). The only abuse came from the students, but take 100 kids that dont want to be somewhere and they're gonna fuck with each other. Thats common sense.
I was sent to wellspring on my 14th birthday and was there 11 months I spent a total of 35 days in the box with many other students. I wasnt a drug addict nor did I smoke. During my time there I learned everything I needed to become the addict I became. I saw Josh Detox off crystal meth, took kevins lithium, and started smoking in the shop. I was a shithead who needed my ass kicked, not to be taken 1000 miles from home and put with a bunch of soon to be convicts.
I oftten think about the people Wellspring did help. Landon Holcom got into the Virginia Military Institute, Cunningham got multiple felonies droped, Morrow Multiple felonies dropped, And one of the smartst people I've met in my life Alex Barnes Scored an 800 on this math SATs. Barnes left with an Associates degree due to the extra classes he was taking but was kicked out with a few other people for having pot in their cars.
Wellspring sucked ass and if you can look past the fact that Bob was robbing our parents and grandparents. There were people at that school mainly Hank Irving, Lisa Grant, Alexandros Demetritous, Keith, Jerry, Chris Christianbury (6 out of 30) that were there because they truly wanted to help us kids. So in conclusion Bob, I hope your burning... Cindy don't worry there's a place right next to Bob for you to!!! Lisa and Hank I wish you the best. Pretty much everyone else GO FUCK YOURSELVES!!!!!!!
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thx Travis. that was too real. hope your doing ok.
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i bet a million dollars the last post was by hank irving.
love ya hank. lol
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I know this post is really old, but just now heard that Bob committed suicide. What is so crazy is that all of the crimes he got convicted of were far less harmful than what he did to some of the girls while I was going there. Does anyone have any info about what happened to the staff there. I do remember Sean, Chris, Cindy, Greta, but can't really remember any of the other staff there. I hate to say he got what he deserved, but I will say that his guilty conscious must have gotten to him. He treated some of us young girls like his girlfriends or at least tried to. His inappropriate behavior is the whole reason I left. Was not a good experience for me considering that I was rebellious and distrusting of others before I even went.
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Yeah... this is Frank Redden.. i started all of the kids leaving when i went home on a home trip and ran away... i told my parents about all the shit Joe and Sean were doing to me.. they didnt beleive me so i ran away.. i week later i called them.. and a week after that we went to Virginia Police or Social Services or something..
If you know me... or want to ask me anything call me 704-307-6380 or 704-660-9400
[email protected]
hey Frank! I went to Wellspring way back in 1996 and remember Sean, but not Joe. Hate that place and Bob was a pervert. He tried to mess with several of us girls when he got us alone. I think we were the whole reason he turned it into an all boys school. If you don't mind me asking, what did Sean and Joe do to you?
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I was at Wellspring 96-97ish.... Heard about Bob.... I bet Mark is getting a real kick out the recconing... I still think of the place. Not great memories but there were some good peeps there- Greta, Matt,....