Whootie, didn't we have a discussion recently about questioning program survivors' "claims", as you call them? The program Settle was in, Peninsula Village, gives a handbook to parents that instructs them to disbelieve their children if they claim they're being physically abused, or one of their peers is a "psycho", it's an attempt to manipulate the parent. As Che Gookin mentioned, these are Settle's records from Peninsula, they documented the shit. Kids at PV aren't allowed to journal, don't assume kids in other programs had the same privileges your daughter did at ASR
What do we know about PV?
1. They do overuse physical restraint and improper TCI's. As Che Gookin pointed out, a TCI should take at most two people, not a gang-assault and pile-up on a kid who's face-down. Face-down restraints are the most dangerous kind.
2. The child's peer could well be dangerous and unstable, I won't use "psycho" since no one under eighteen can be diagnosed as a psychopath. Despite PV's claims to not accept violent/sexual offenders, they admitted Andrew Klepper, convicted as an adult in MD for plotting to lure a female escort to his home with the con they were going to make a porn film. When the woman arrived, Klepper assaulted the woman and sodomized her with a baseball bat and a Magic Marker while his friends watched. After he finished, Klepper robbed the woman and threatened her with more harm if she reported the crime. His "punishment" was Peninsula Village. Dominic Hawranke was convicted as an adult in Charlottesville VA of conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to use an explosive device to blow up a school. Hawranke had boasted about the plot on friends' MySpace blogs. On one of the other conspirator's blogs, Hawranke wrote:
“IM SOOOO [expletive] READY FOR THIS [expletive] DAY TO COME DUDE [expletive] ALL THIS [expletive] AROUND US [expletive] IT TO HELL." He was sent to Peninsula Village after seven months in Juvie.
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So what is PV - a therapeutic program for emotionally troubled youth, kids suffering from depression, anorexia, addiction, cutting, or is it a detention unit for violent youth? PV's both, because they all get thrown into the same milieu, cutters with sodomizers, anorexics with homicidal kids. No separation, and PV uses "peer-on-peer" confrontation which is disturbing considering the mix of kids. Aggressive, violent youths already convicted of enticing others into criminal conspiracy are going to see they get rewarded for calling group (snitching) on other patients and prey on the weaker kids like hyenas.