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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => The Troubled Teen Industry => Topic started by: Nihilanthic on September 17, 2004, 07:22:00 PM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWASP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWASP) USED to be a very informative article about Tranquility bay, now its just fucking propaganda and free advertising.
WHAT moron at wikipedia deleted the previous article and put that shit up? ARGH. The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?ti ... id=5933301 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=World_Wide_Association_of_Specialty_Programs_and_Schools&oldid=5933301)
I found the old version still in the wiki. This is really underhanded bullshit on the part of those damn wwaspies. Seriously, seriously lame. What, can't handle Mexico so you're going after wikipedia?Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
--Thomas Jefferson
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So replace it with the old page and keep up with them. Matter of fact, back it up at a place where WWASP doesn't have access so everyone can go back to that page and copy it back into WikiPedia.
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There is a record (history) of all old versions, so no need to worry. Just copy and paste.
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Wikipedia's little troll got owned:
Please stop replacing WWASP with a press release, or I will have to block you from editing. If you have serious contributions to make or rebuttals to add, feel free to do so, or comment on the discussion page.--Eloquence*
By the way, because he was anonymous, his IP address was used to identify him - specifically, 209.33.211.198
A quick DNS revealed... 209-33-211-198.sg-wireless.infowest.net. Anyone know how to track down this joker? Seriously.
There is not a "fragment" in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
-- John Muir
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Infowest says it all. Teen Help and Adolescent Services Intl were first hosted at InfoWest and Narvin Lichfield as well as Ken Kay had email addresses that were infowest.com. Some Google searches should prove that. It's obviously someone from one of those companies.
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lol calm down my niggger you crazy :wave:
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Not only does InfoWest share a zip code with WWASP but a search on its registration reveals that the InfoWest name has been recycled four times. Sound familiar? The name is somewhat reminiscent of SkyWest too isn't it?
[ This Message was edited by: Kiwi on 2004-09-21 06:30 ]
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What's SkyWest?
When elephants ? ght, it is the grass that suffers.
Kikuyu proverb
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http://www.skywest.com/about/j_atkin_bio.php (http://www.skywest.com/about/j_atkin_bio.php)
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http://www.nospank.net/n-d77.htm (http://www.nospank.net/n-d77.htm)
Last paragraph re. J. Ralph Atkin
The Prague Post, December 11, 1998
Morava Academy heads arrested before
By Ladka Bauerova
The American couple Glenda and Steven Roach, arrested last month in the Czech Republic on charges of illegal imprisonment and torture of the 57 teenagers found at Morava Academy, have a past marred by similar offenses. The couple has managed other illicit prison-like facilities for troubled American teens and been arrested in other foreign countries.
According to U.S. social worker Donna Headrick and her research team, the couple was arrested May 1996 while running a girls' facility called Sunrise Beach on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. After three teenage girls escaped from the institution and made complaints about sexual abuse, an immigration inspector visited the facility and found that the girls did not have the proper paperwork to be in the country. The inspectors also found poor sanitation standards and signs of abuse.
Shortly thereafter, the staff with 41 girls were intercepted at the local airport trying to leave the country. Mexican federal police arrested the staff, including Steven and Glenda Roach, and charged them with depriving juveniles of their liberty and with running an unlicensed and unsanitary facility. As at Morava Academy, Sunrise Beach was shut down by police officials, and the couple eventually managed to leave Mexico.
The Roaches are longtime employees of an organization called Teen Help. Based in Utah, Teen Help operates a network of institutions that promises to set problematic kids straight. While many parents and children have defended the program and claim it has changed their lives, others report horror stories and speak of the staff's brutal practices, including starvation, chemical burns, handcuffing and psychological abuse.
"Kids are not treated well in these facilities. I saw horrible things," said Donna Burke, 48, from Houston, Texas. Her ex-husband sent their two sons to Tranquillity Bay, another of Teen Help's facilities in Jamaica. She told The Prague Post that in August 1997 an "escort service" -- two men hired by her ex-husband -- kidnapped her then-14-year-old son, Scott. "They handcuffed him and carried him out of the school screaming," she said.
Three months later, the escort service came for her elder son David, now 17. "I was trying to get them back, but my ex-husband ran up my legal fees so high I finally had to give up."
She went on describing the poor hygienic conditions and maltreatment of the children in the facility. "They take a shower with a hose, using only cold water," she said. During a surprise visit, she discovered that all the kids had ringworm.
The staff attempted to treat the fungus, but with horrible results. "My younger son had scars from chemical burns," Burke said.
Complaining to state authorities didn't help, she said: "The State Department people say, 'They're out of the country, there is nothing we can do.' One guy at the State Department told me straight to my face: 'We don't like to mess with rich people's kids.' " And rich they are, she added, since one year's tuition at Tranquillity Bay costs $38,000 (1.14 million Kc).
After 13 months, Burke's older son David returned home, but his mother is distressed by his state of mental and physical health. "He's been brainwashed," she said. "We get in a fight every time we talk about the school, and he yells at me for fighting against it. And this is a boy who was begging, crying and pleading for me to take him home when I first visited him," Burke said.
Cases where one parent places the child in a behavior-modification facility against the will of the other parent are not uncommon, according to social worker Headrick. "They have their children legally kidnapped," she said. "The people usually come in the middle of the night, wake the kid up, handcuff him and take him away."
The Teen Help organization is part of a complicated network of companies and nonprofit organizations run mostly from La Verkin, a small community near St. George, Utah. They have at least eight behavior modification schools located in Mexico, Jamaica, Western Samoa, and the United States, Teen Help also operates several hospitals and other "service oriented" companies. One of them is Youth Transport Services (YTS) which, according to Headrick, does the kidnapping. Another organization, "Resources Realizations," runs seminars for parents who have placed their children in one of the Teen Help schools. Before taking part in the seminars, participants must sign a confidentiality clause.
About a year ago, Teen Help established a nonprofit organization called World Wide Association of Specialty Programs (WWASP). Its Web page provides little information and its president, Karr Farnsworth, who visited the Czech Republic during the Morava Academy crisis last month, refused to reveal details other than saying it is the umbrella organization of the Teen Help facilities. In an interview for a Utah newspaper, he compared the Czech police to the Soviet KGB, adding that Czech police don't like Americans.
One WWASP partner, attorney J. Ralph Atkin, is also registered as a majority owner of Morava Academy and an owner of EuroSky Airlines, which provides special flights to selected European cities including Vienna -- only two hours away by car from Morava Academy.
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Glenda Gabriel - editor of WWASP's "The Source" magazine(sent to parents with children in the program),was previously Glenda Ikuta was previously Glenda Roach???
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That lady uses numerous names and aliases.
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If I'm not mistaken - the same Glenda & Steve were working at Cross Creek Manor when I was there (Nov. '97-May '99). They were both in their 40s & Glenda was a white woman, and Steve was Pacific Islander, right? Am I thinking of the same people?
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Kelly,
Were you almost 19 years old when you left Cross Creek Manor? I am just curious. How did your parents convince you to stay past 18 when you were an adult? I ask this because a former friend kept her daughter at Cross Creek until she was almost 19. Then, when the poor kid finished the program, her mother still would not allow her to return home. She was to live with her therapist and go to Dixi Junior College. I know what her mother told her to make her remain at Cross Creek for nearly a year longer and I want to see if there were any similarities.
Thank you.
Janet
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Hi Janet,
Yes, I was almost 19 when I finally left Cross Creek. My parents (under the influence of my therapist & the program as a whole) told me in no uncertain terms that if I decided to leave CCM before graduating the program (all the way through phase 6, PC1 & 2), that they would not accept me home under any circumstances. By the time I turned 18, I had been there about 9 months, and was on phase 4, I think. I even signed a "contract," of sorts, stating that I would remain at CCM and finish the program after my 18th. If I chose not to do this, my option was to get $10 in my pocket and a bus ticket to Denver (not Houston, where I'm from) - this was obviously not an attractive choice (especially since I couldn't remember any of my other family/friends' phone numbers and we were not allowed to write any down). Well, a couple of months after my 18th birthday, I had moved up to phase 5, and my family came up to Utah & took me on an off-grounds pass. A couple of weeks after that, I had a major meltdown at St. George, and felt like I was going to lose my mind if I had to stay there another second (I think being "on the outs" broke down a couple of layers of the brainwashing), so I decided to take my "exit plan." I told the head staff at St. George that I wanted to leave, and then spent the next 4 hours or so having gut-wrenching phone calls with my therapist, case manager, parents & brothers. My parents continued to hold firm that they would not allow me home - they were both crying, and telling me "goodbye" like it was the last time they were ever going to speak to me. Then they put one of my younger brothers on the phone who was sobbing and begging me not to leave, because he "didn't want me to die." Finally after several hours of this I decided to stay, solely due to the fear I felt of getting off a bus in a strange city and not knowing where to go or how to survive (I grew up in the suburbs, for Christ sakes!). Then of course, I got reamed in Group the next day by my therapist and all the other girls. I had to go around to everyone and prove that I could be trusted, and that this time, I was serious about "working my program," etc. After that, I completely gave in to all the brainwashing & program ideology and actually became one of its most vocal supporters (at the time). Luckily after I graduated, my parents didn't make me stay in Utah and go to Dixie - but I knew a lot of other girls that did. You have to understand the depth of the control that they have over your mind when you get that far into the program - its extremely hard to shake and harder still to seperate reality from fiction. I hope this sheds a little bit of light onto your questions about your former friend's daughter. What was the girl's name that you are referring to? When was she at Cross Creek?
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Kelly, thank you for your informative answer.
The girl I am worried about entered Cross Creek the beginning of August, 2000 and finished in April, 2002 less than a month before she turned 19. Since I moved away from my former friend and I haven't spoken to her since April, 2002, I do not know what happened to her daughter. I tried for almost a year to convince this woman that something was very wrong with Cross Creek, but she would not hear it.
I eventually told this woman that she was lucky that her daughter was so loving and good-natured, because if she was MY mother I would never forgive her. Your mother and father are also lucky because you want to maintain a family relationship with them. I sincerely hope your family will see the light and understand what happened to you.
By the way, this woman told me over and over that the staff at Cross Creek wondered why such a sweet girl with no serious adolescent problems,(She drank alcohol once and had sex with her boyfriend),was doing at the school. You'd think her mother would get a clue, but all she cared about was imprisoning her daughter. The girl did need a talking to and some discipling, but Cross Creek was a little severe! I wonder if your parents were also told about how nice you are, because you sound very caring.
Janet
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Dealing with parents that continue to support the program, despite everything that I've told them - is extremely difficult, to say the least. I don't know what your friend's daughter's attitude about CCM is at this point, but it took me a good year or so after graduation for most of the brainwashing to break down (a process that, honestly, I'm still plugging away at). I really don't place a lot of blame on my parents for sending me there in the first place, because I was doing some drugs (although not much more than plenty of other teenagers out there) & was threatening to move out - so I understand that they felt pretty desperate. You also have to understand how adept WWASP is at manipulating the parents and preying on their fears. I DO blame them, however, for not supporting me in speaking out against the program after the fact. Trust me, there's quite a bit of anger there - your friend's daughter may be feeling the same thing. I knew a lot of girls at CCM like her, that didn't really get into too much trouble before they were sent there, but maybe were beginning to head in that direction. We had 12 yr olds there who had never drank, smoked, done drugs or had sex - most of them were just pretty hyperactive and had a lot of tantrums. Anyhow - I've posted a link to the PURE website, where I've just added my story, if you'd like to know more about Cross Creek. I hope this helps.
http://www.helpyourteens.com/news/cross ... duate.html (http://www.helpyourteens.com/news/cross_creek_manor-story_of_a_graduate.html)