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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => The Troubled Teen Industry => Topic started by: Watchaduen on February 18, 2005, 12:13:00 AM
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Bethel Shuts Down After Girls Flee
Feb 17, 2005, 02:59 PM MST Email to a Friend Printer Friendly Version
The director of the Bethel Girls Academy says he voluntarily shut down his school after allegations of abuse on Wednesday.
Herman Fountain Jr. says he's released the school's 50 residents into the custody of the Department of Human Services while the academy remains temporarily closed.
On Wednesday 11 girls ran away from the school, claiming they'd been abused.
Sources say all 50 girls spent last night in sleeping bags at the Forrest County DHS office. DHS will not confirm that a state investigation is underway, saying only that the department does respond to all complaints about state-inspected facilities.
Officials say when there are allegations of abuse, the state health department, DHS, the attorney general's office, and local law enforcement are required to work together.
Sources say the 11 girls who ran away have gone back to their homes, while the remaining residents wait at the DHS office to be picked up by their parents.
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*plays another one bites the dust*
MWAHAHAHA! Up yours assholes! Jailbreak kind of ruined your credibility in dismissing accuastions now, doesn't it? And that girl beaten up in the hospital also is just another nail in your coffin!
:grin: Lighthouses are more helpful then churches.
--Benjamin Franklin, American Founding Father, author, and inventor
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:eek: Wow, cool. I haven't been active on these boards alot lately, but it's nice to come back and see good things like this happenening. Hopefully more of these places will fall in the coming months. TAKE THAT, teen help industry.
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:smile: Excellent. 1 down, 500+ more to go, but we're getting there.
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YES, YES, YES!!!!! I am so glad to see this!!!!If we could just get this information in front of every parent in the US I would be thrilled. Rock On! :grin:
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Watchaduen,
Did you happen to archive a copy of this article? I have been trying to archive articles direct from their source, and when I went to WDAM's website this story was no longer available. It was however replaced with an article that defended Bethel Academy for girls and hoped for it's return soon.
Thanks, John
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I just have this copy saved to an e-mail in my filing cabinet. Anymore, those on-line papers their stories disappear fast. I read about how those two girls just loved it and can't wait to go back. Yeah right.
Worse part about it is they will get their chance to. It is time to watch the state level corruption unfold. This place will be back open soon, same owners, same name. They are in the process of doing a name change on the girls compound also to run from the past abuse allegations.
Over on the NYRA site, there is already this Mom of supposedly one of the 11 run aways. Her daughter loved it there and was NEVER abused. Great, then why in the hell did she run away? Oh, and she had to add that her daughter even explained why all 11 of them "made up" abuse stories. Oh brother.
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A name change wouldn't be a big surprise seeing how that was how his brother just recently handled a public relations problem of his own at "Bethel Boys Academy"("I hope to put a new face on it...John Fountain"), changing their name to "Eagle Point Christian Academy". According to the article, even their father followed a similar approach when he ran into trouble with the initial "Bethel Home for Children"
http://http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/10869246.htm
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A name change wouldn't be a big surprise seeing how that was how his brother just recently handled a public relations problem of his own at "Bethel Boys Academy"("I hope to put a new face on it...John Fountain"), changing their name to "Eagle Point Christian Academy". According to the article, even their father followed a similar approach when he ran into trouble with the initial "Bethel Home for Children"
http://http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/10869246.htm[ This Message was edited by: Curious John on 2005-02-18 20:55 ]
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On 2005-02-18 20:54:00, Curious John wrote:
"A name change wouldn't be a big surprise seeing how that was how his brother just recently handled a public relations problem of his own at "Bethel Boys Academy"("I hope to put a new face on it...John Fountain"), changing their name to "Eagle Point Christian Academy". According to the article, even their father followed a similar approach when he ran into trouble with the initial "Bethel Home for Children"
http://http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/10869246.htm[ This Message was edited by: Curious John on 2005-02-18 20:55 ]"
Didn't Straight, Inc. close too... and open the next day under a new name in the same building?
Just a thought.
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It will now be time to watch corruption at it's finest. Of course Bethel Girls will reopen. That is the Fountain's cash cow. Think about it. They were raided in May, 2004. All the girls removed. They were closed for a few days I believe. Then it was business as usual. Taking new victims. Only months later, they had over 40 girl victims. Raided again when the 11 victims fled from that place. They will be closed a few days. All claims of abuse will be unsubstantiated. Business as usual. According to their website, the girls compound isn't supposed to change names until June, 2005. It will become Parent Hope Ministries. Maybe, with this last round of abused kids, they will change their name faster.
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My daughter was one of those defending the school. She was tranferred there from another school for various problems. No, she was not one of the runaways, but gave her story to paper.
She saw no abuse, was treated good, and also did a 180. You know not what you speak!
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My daughter was one of those defending the school. She was tranferred there from another school for various problems. No, she was not one of the runaways, but gave her story to paper.
She saw no abuse, was treated good, and also did a 180. You know not what you speak!
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Hey, I believe you!!!! When we rescued my son from the Bethel Boys Academy, Lucedale, MS. (also owned and operated by the Fountain family) they were beating those boys until they were black and blue. Electrocuting them, starving them, not allowing them to use the bathroom (many then urinated on themselves), etc. Yet, there were a few boys claiming Bethel was wonderful, they never were abused, nor witnessed any abuse. When the state went in they had no trouble finding 13 victims with obvious physical abuse. Yet those faithful Bethel supporters seen nothing during their sentence there. The ones that they did witness getting beat - "well, they deserved it".
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Yes, it is true that many are not abused, but even if only one is abused, that is one too many. The reason that many do not "witness" the abuse is because they are hidden from it. Prime example, at Thayer, when they are getting ready to abuse one of the cadets they yell "grenade" which means all other cadets are to lie on the floor with their face down and their arms over the top of their head...all so that they dont "witness" it.
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There are many forms of abuse. Not all are physical. I've said before that the damage that was done to me was far worse in the psychological sense than the physical.
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.
--Thomas Paine, American revolutionary
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hello i am 15 years old i was at bethel in may when they shut that place down for like the 5th time there was some abuse going on weather MR FOUNTIN and the rest of the screwed up people think it was or not. i saw a girl be rolled im the mud 2 for cussing. one time a girl did not listin and on mr fountins orders the leader incharge was told to beat her i was awaken by her loud pain full filled screams that next morining girls went on strik for her and mr fouintin through 2 chairs and a table at her she had to do buckets and listin to preaching types for 1 week stright all day this is only a small poirtion of the story and if this is not abuse what is?
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Honest question. Did you tell your parents about your treatment? What was their response? When DHS interviewed you, did you tell them everything? Did they listen?
There is a victim from Bethel Boys Academy, Lucedale, MS. who just recently told me that a month or two ago DHS came in and interviewed those boys. He told DHS what was happening and DHS took down this boys' parents phone numbers (home, cell, work). Yet, in talking with this Mom, she never rec'd any phone calls from DHS.
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I know youre angry about this, but its hard to follow you when you type up something as angry as you are now. I myself get really worked up all the time by the crap I see here, but sometimes you just gotta take a step back and collect yourself, and then type.
Also, go to http://www.isaccorp.org (http://www.isaccorp.org) and tell them what happened to you. Get your parents to go there. GO TO THE COPS! If you dont go to the authorities then nothing will be done! Its difficult, I know, but whats done must be done. If you ever want to see these people put in jail, its gonna take a lot of work.
Because if you dont do anything... they'll just reopen in another building under a new name :sad:What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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On 2005-02-27 20:40:00, Nihilanthic wrote:
"Because if you dont do anything... they'll just reopen in another building under a new name"
No, they are going to open in the same building under a new name.
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On 2005-02-27 20:21:00, *Free_Now* wrote:
"she had to do buckets"
What are buckets?
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buckets are where you have to carry 2 buckets 25lbs each up and down a hill all day transfering water from a small pont to a large pond but when you are almost filled with the small pond they dump the small pond out (a small pond is like a little fake one that is used for decoration)i saw all i speak and i know the girl this happen too she and her parents want to sue but dont know who to contact.
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I know of a girl that had to do this. Her name started with an "M". Yet, when the last raid happened her goofy parents were one of the first to send her back. Why are they willing to listen to her now? Tell them to e-mail me, I will fill them in on what they need to do to join one of the many lawsuits against Bethel Boys Academy, Lucedale, MS., Eagle Point Christian Academy, Lucedale, MS. or Bethel Girls Academy, Petal, MS.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BethelAcademyAbuse/ (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BethelAcademyAbuse/)
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what eles do you know about the "M" girl? :question:
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I know about "M". I tried to find a way so that she did NOT have to return to that hell hole. There were some female Bethel supporters that tried to state that "M" loved it there and changed into a nice religious robot girl. WRONG. Any teen that is troubled - abuse and torture will not and cannot help.
Also, realize that the real world is not that way. Had we left our son at Bethel Boys, I am sure he could have complied to every "yes Sir". Forced to exercise for hours and hours. Yet, out in the real world if he decided he wasn't going to school, as parents we couldn't have electrocuted him so he would go. We would be in prison. Yet, the Fountain family allowed the boys to be electrocuted. The state of Miss. just wanted them to sign a piece of paper saying that they wouldn't do that anymore. Oh, and take down the electric fence. @@
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i think they brain wash you there into beliving that they are doing good and helping you and its strange that some of the girls love the fountian family i think that it is called stockhomes sysdrom. ( thats where you have a strange relationship with your abuser).
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Related Articles:
Reforms don't stem allegations
Academy has no mental health care professional
By Julie Goodman
jgoodman@clarionledger.com
LUCEDALE ? Students arriving at Eagle Point Christian Academy go through a two-week evaluation intended to sort out those who may need more help than the school is equipped to give.
But sometimes a child with serious psychological issues slips through.
The problem is, while the school has hired a number of staffers with some training dealing with troubled teens, it has no psychologist or mental health care professional to help with the more serious issues.
Other students at the school, usually admitted after their parents detected problems with truancy, drug use or other criminal behavior, are left to resolve their problems with a staff with no professional training in the mental health field. Some students are coming from abusive homes.
Academy Director John Fountain said he has been searching for a psychologist to hire on, and has even placed an ad in the newspaper, but has not been able to recruit one to the facility.
About 10 percent of the students who come to the school are ultimately referred elsewhere because they are deemed to have more problems than the school can handle, he said.
David Elkin, a child psychologist at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, said it's possible to function without a psychologist in these environments, but it's always better to have one around.
"Most facilities like this have input from a psychologist or a mental health care professional because you are dealing with very troubled youth," he said.
Fountain, 30, who said he had a strained relationship with his father, considered himself a troubled teen. He took over the school after battling a six-year drug and alcohol abuse problem.
Fountain, who studied air conditioning repair at a community college and worked offshore on oil rigs, said it's his experience that makes him most qualified to work with the young men.
The teenagers who come to the academy are often there because they have been rejected by a parent, a sentiment he can relate to, he said.
His parents provided well for him, but his father was always very tough.
"I had everything I wanted but that's not what I needed," he said.
His father, Herman Fountain, said the changes being made at the school are "none of my business."
And as for his son's characterization of their relationship, Herman Fountain had little to add.
"If that's what he feels, that's what he feels," he said.
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Her parents don't want to sue! The girl has given her parents hell on earth - they know she'll end up in prison someday.
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Controversial Girls Home for Sale
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The director of the troubled Bethel Girls Academy says he may move his operation somewhere else.
Herman Fountain Jr. has put the Bethel facility up for sale. He says because the school no longer has any residents it can't afford to stay open.
But Fountain says the academy may relocate to Hattiesburg or Lucedale.
Last month 11 girls fled the school, claiming they were victims of abuse by Fountain and other staff members. Bethel was temporarily shut down by the Department of Human Services pending the outcome of a state investigation.
The facility, along with 120 acres of land, has an asking price of $1.5 million.
On Wednesday News Seven filed a public records request with the Mississippi Department of Health to learn the status or results of its investigation
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On 2005-03-17 03:40:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Her parents don't want to sue! The girl has given her parents hell on earth - they know she'll end up in prison someday."
well who are you to say she'll end up in prison someday, and i know her parents want to sue asswhipe. your to fucking chicken to use your name dickface. your probaly one of the fountions so dont make up lies cock sucker. and they are sueing now.
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Yep, they are suing. Last time I checked beating and torturing a child is a felony. It is my hope and belief that a Federal Judge and jury will see this also.
John Fountain was last quoted in the paper as saying that all the recent victims are making up lies. Their parents read via the internet about all the abuse and torture and rescue their child unannounced and then claim "ABUSE". What I want to know is how are these parents obtaining all the medical evidence, photographs, etc.
There was a Dad a few months ago that had read all the horror stories on the internet so he showed up at Bethel unannounced to see his boy firsthand. The Fountain's then were forced to tell this Dad that his son was at the hospital. Honestly, did John Fountain think that Dad was simply going to reply "oh, okay, well I hope everything is fine with him. I am going back home to the state I live in now". WRONG!!!!!!!!!! Of course John Fountain's story as to what happened to this boy are quite different from what this boy claims happened to him. SURPRISE!!!!!