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Bellefaire JCB residential treatment center experiences
Pile of Dead Kids:
--- Quote from: "asha-kun" ---Believe me, I would like to take legal action, but I don't know if there's anything I can do at this point. I don't have anything I could build a case on, other than my own experiences which weren't written down or recorded at the time they happened. My family and I are also short on money.
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This is why you talk to lawyers. They don't just do the suing. They will tell you what you need to build a case. If you're lucky you can get one to do it pro-bono; they may not get money from you up front if they expect a large payout from the defendant. It depends entirely on the lawyer. Phil Elberg (he's been mentioned on this forum more than once) is particularly good at this. My point is, ASK!
--- Quote from: "asha-kun" ---About the wiki, is there any particular format which I need to follow, or can I repost the contents of my original post in this thread?
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Post everything that happened to you as fact and organize it however you want. Try to avoid "I think" or "I saw" (there is no "I" on wikis).
blombrowski:
Another avenue that you may want to explore is to go straight to the licensing body that oversees Bellefaire JSB. Unlike many of the programs that are discussed here your program is in fact licensed, and given the relatively recent death of a youth in another licensed Ohio program, the state may be more sensitive to complaints particularly those coming from former residents.
ganymede:
I knew a number of people who were imprisoned on the "campus" at Bellefaire; I was one of the lost ones thrown to the group and foster homes, each one being worse than the next. My conservative parents thought that they were protecting me from myself and the streets. My only goal was to become a so-called "emancipated minor." Also a "gender person" and AP English student (after dropping out of school and returning to finish in order to avoid the GRE, hating and fearing the oppressive branding of standardized testing), I presented as a mad romantic poet who was pathologized and abused for my nonconformity and my gifts, I was bullied and shamed for reading philosophical texts, my own treatises viewed as aberrant, my visual art often seen as representing suicidal urges rather than an expression of the complexities of my head and heart. Asher, your posts are dead on. I've been googling Bellefaire abuses for a long time and finally found the Fornits site. This week, I added an abbreviated and likely, more restrained post to a MerchantCircle review of Bellefaire for people to read who are trying to get information because they are searching for resources (?!!?) for their teenagers and children. It's a small thing, obviously, but if only one person is spared these experiences, it is well worth it to tell our stories, if only briefly. I was the only one who had written anything. Would you consider posting a paragraph from your description there? No matter. Have you found anyone else who has written about Bellefaire JCB abuses, finally, exposing this hell which has been burning out there for far too many years. I hope you will reply to my post. All are invited and encouraged to reply. Thanks!
Lifelong Trauma JCB Bellefaire
If it were possible to travel down a negative number line beyond 0 Stars and continue on to negative infinity, I could not leave a more accurate rating of JCB Bellefaire. I was a profoundly gifted, troubled runaway escaping from an intolerable situation at home. I suffer incredible lifelong trauma largely attributable to the Jewish Children's Bureau: a series of inhumane treatments and abuses (physically and emotionally abusive foster parents, the indescribable shock of my entirely unanticipated, psychologically damaging exposure to the juvenile injustice system (although no prosecutable "crimes" were committed--stayed overnight at a friend's house without permission, which under my real parent's jurisdiction would have merited a curfew for a couple of weeks), resulting in detention home prison strip-searches akin to anal rape, solitary confinement, and various isolation punishments after being beaten by other juveniles. Shortly after, I experienced gratuitous hospitalization and unnecessary pharmacological treatment--astronomical, unwarranted doses of Thorazine (the shot was so powerful that I developed jaundice within 24 hours!) as punishment, despite the fact that I was at no time psychotic.This mega-shot given to me in restraints despite the fact that I was not physically resisting, resulted in iatrogenic hepatitis from which I nearly died, which was then covered up by JCB and Mt. Sinai, (both Bellefaire and Mt. Sinai Hospital Cleveland claimed that I had contracted hepatitis from dirty needles used to inject heroin [I have never used intravenous drugs!]). Because they had to pretend that I had infectious hepatitis, to create their self-protective sham, I was placed unnecessarily in quarantine and no one was allowed to come near me--Law suit? Too late for that. The hospital is no longer in operation, records do not exist, and more relevantly, the statute of limitations has long expired, so no legal action can ever be taken. Human rights? (teenagers still don't have them!). Criminal abuses? (teenagers have little recourse when they are legally underage.) Has this organization done anything in the last couple of decades to create humane and respectful treatment options for children and adolescents who are essentially victims of their family's problems and are just trying to find a safe space? Caveat emptor. Before considering Bellefaire as an option for your child, consider instead, saving your child's life.
asha-kun:
Ganymede,
Thank you for replying. It's very courageous of you to have posted the Caveat Emptor on MerchantCircle, and an excellent idea. I will definitely do the same.
There's an alarming lack of information, honest information, on Bellefaire to be found. All I've found by Google search is a parent testimony on http://http://www.heal-online.org/childtortureusa.htm of fraudulent and abusive happenings,and a blatant falsehood quoted in an article on the Parmadale Murder:
--- Quote ---Bellefaire JCB in Shaker Heights, which also treats troubled children, uses restraint as a last resort, said Jeffrey Cox, clinical director.
"For us, disruptive is not enough," he said. If a child were to punch a staff member and walk away, that would not be a restraint situation because the immediate danger would be over, he said.
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from http://http://realneo.us/content/parmadale-murders-another-child-faith-finley-died-after-being-restrained-bannedl-position
At the moment I don't know what else to say but thank you.
Ursus:
--- Quote from: "asha-kun" ---There's an alarming lack of information, honest information, on Bellefaire to be found. All I've found by Google search is a parent testimony on http://http://www.heal-online.org/childtortureusa.htm of fraudulent and abusive happenings,and a blatant falsehood quoted in an article on the Parmadale Murder:
--- Quote ---Bellefaire JCB in Shaker Heights, which also treats troubled children, uses restraint as a last resort, said Jeffrey Cox, clinical director.
"For us, disruptive is not enough," he said. If a child were to punch a staff member and walk away, that would not be a restraint situation because the immediate danger would be over, he said.
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from http://http://realneo.us/content/parmadale-murders-another-child-faith-finley-died-after-being-restrained-bannedl-position
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The rest of that article (containing the above assertion by Bellefaire JCB Clinical Director Jeffrey Cox) is now posted in its entirety in one of the Parmadale threads.
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