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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => The Troubled Teen Industry => Topic started by: BuzzKill on September 26, 2004, 01:26:00 PM
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Mexico Shuts Tough-Love Center
September 26, 2004
By TIM WEINER
A behavior-modification program for American adolescents is
back in business in Jamaica after its 300 teenagers there
were evacuated in the teeth of a hurricane.
But the president of the association overseeing the program, Ken Kay, said he remained mystified federal officials' decision to shut down an affiliated center, Casa by the Sea, in Ensenada, Mexico, with about 550 youths.
Mr. Kay, president of the World Wide Association of
Specialty Programs and Schools, said a raid on Casa two
weeks ago was unjustified.
The authorities have said that the children in the
behavior-modification program, overwhelmingly Americans,
were in Mexico in violation of immigration statutes, that
the program was improperly dispensing pharmaceuticals and
that four children showed signs of abuse.
Mr. Kay said that "there were no substantiated cases of
abuse," immigration violations or major problems with
pharmaceuticals.
The programs had more than 2,200 children enrolled in
Mexico, Jamaica and the United States before the raid, and
are among the fastest-growing private behavior-modification
programs in the world.
Many parents and children praise the group's standards,
which can include prolonged isolation and, by many
accounts, tough physical and psychological treatment. But
it also has many critics.
The program in Jamaica, called Tranquility Bay, is run by
Mr. Kay's son, Jay Kay. Housed in a converted hotel on the
island's southern shore, it sustained several hundred
thousand dollars of damage when Hurricane Ivan hit it two
weeks ago, a spokesman said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/26/inter ... d6e6d8f4de (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/26/international/americas/26jamaica.html?ex=1097161766&ei=1&en=25dfc7d6e6d8f4de)
My question is; if this is so:
The program in Jamaica, called Tranquility Bay, is run by Mr. Kay's son, Jay Kay. Housed in a converted hotel on the island's southern shore, it sustained several hundred thousand dollars of damage when Hurricane Ivan hit it two weeks ago, a spokesman said.
Then how can the place be fit to occupy?
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Then how can the place be fit to occupy?
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It most likely isn't. I've read that the retaining wall is gone, and that the children are forced to clean up the place and repair the damage.
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Slave labor goes with the whole prisoner of war concept that is so closely associated with WWASP and similar programs. These children need treatment not torture and abuse. They are not qualified to repair the damage to the building. This just goes to show how money hungry these villians are - they are keeping the children in an unsafe, damaged facility just to keep making money off of them. The parents of these children must be out of their minds to allow this.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The people who ran straight had the best of intentions. I hope they reached their destination.
James Lloyd
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it seems i have missed a lot!
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Seems our most recent victims coming out of Bethel Boys Academy aka Eagle Point Christian Academy are doing the free labor also. In October when the hurricane hit Mississippi the boys were hired out to help with clean up around the town. Also, they spend their days doing repair work and improvements on the Fountain family members personal residences. One Fountain is having his whole basement redone, refurbished with his free labor. Makes me sick!!!!!