Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS)
Not only the number of "students" are low at CSA
Troll Control:
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--- Quote from: "DannyB II" ---How about just do the same thing to him, that he does to his horses. Tie him to a post where he can not get away and let him starve to near death.
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Watch it now. You're talking about the same guy who Maximilian swears saved his life. The Lichfields just love kids.
Sorry Max. Couldn't resist.
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I never met this person the article is talking about. The people who worked at the program were just regular people, the kind of people who will never get articles written about them. They were doing a job and it seemed liked they cared about the kids, I don't know anything about this guy other than this article. Of course I don't agree with animal abuse, or child abuse. I've said this many times before.
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The Litchfields (owners of WWASPS) are experts at child and animal abuse. Not sure how you could have missed at least one of those traits while at a WWASPS program. Damn near every one of 'em was shuttered for abuse and neglect of children.
thomasC:
Courts could seize property, animals at abandoned facility for troubled youth
--- Quote ---By ST. CLAIRE DONAGHY/ sdonaghy@indexjournal.com
Friday, September 10, 2010 7:10 PM EDT
DONALDS -- There is a possibility a civil matter between the owner of dozens of animals reported abandoned at a former facility for troubled youth and a landowner could result in the animals and other personal property being seized by the courts and sold at public auction to satisfy alleged debts.
Abbeville County Magistrate’s Court documents show plaintiff/landlord Ron Cooley, of Honea Path, filed an application and affidavit with the court stating defendant Narvin B. Lichfield owes delinquent rent totaling $21,000. Cooley’s affidavit, sworn before a notary public Aug. 23, states he owns the property at 86 Greenacres Lane, Donalds, and that Lichfield has been leasing the property for approximately nine years.
Attempts to reach Lichfield at a telephone number with a northern Utah area code Friday were unsuccessful. An automated message indicated the number was not accepting calls.
Cooley’s affidavit goes on to state “the electricity has been turned off since the end of June 2010. The property has been all but abandoned. I am asking the Court to allow me to seize some of his personal property left at the property to pay part of what is owed to me and to have him legally removed from the property.”
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Anne Bonney:
--- Quote from: "Oscar" ---Food supplies for the animals at the farm-like campus are low too.
From: Rescue Groups Claim Dozens of Animals Abandoned in Donalds, WSPA
--- Quote ---Abbeville County, S.C. -- Joe Mann has been rescuing animals since he was a little boy. He's devoted his life savings to his ranch, Big Oaks Rescue Farm in Greenwood.
"I've spent close to $400,000 out here," said Mann.
Mann claimed on August 10th he learned of dozens of animals had been abandoned at a private residential group care organization for children. That facility closed in June, according to the South Carolina Department of Social Services.
Mann said the owner of the animals is Narvin Lichfield. He said in August Lichfield told him he could take home two colts, and seven horses.
"He was the first one I had permission to remove from Narvin Lichfield," said Mann.
Mann said he also rescued more than 50 sheep who were in bad shape.
"There is nothing but bone," said Mann as he rubbed his hand over the back of one of the sheep. "When we found them three couldn't even run."
We weren't able to get permission from the owner to step on the property, but Mann said it is a virtual graveyard.
"Nobody was left to take care of them," Mann said.
"It looks like the elephant graveyard where they go off to die," said the Executive Director of the Greenwood Humane Society, Karen Pettay. "It looks like animals just dropped right there."
Pettay said she helped Mann search the property for any other survivors. Pettay claimed Lichfield even showed up and acted like nothing was wrong.
"It was as if he was looking at a healthy bunch of animals and didn't know what the problem was," said Pettay.
Mann and Pettay said pictures they took on the property tell an entirely different story. They say thee have pictures of the carcasses of animals they believe recently have starved to death.
The most heartbreaking case, said Mann and Pettay, a colt that passed away just after being rescued.
"(The mare) had nothing to eat that would allow her to produce milk," Mann said.
"It's something we all stood back with tears in our eyes," Pettay said. "You saw her try to clean and wake it up and she started tapping it with her hoof."
The Abbeville County Sheriff's office said they have been visiting the property every week since June 30th following an unrelated report of stolen cattle. They claimed the animals appeared to have enough food and water.
Mann and Pettay aren't buying it.
"I was in shock at how these animals must have died," Pettay said. "It's a man made disaster."
We tried to contact Narvin Lichfield by phone and e-mail but he has not returned our calls.
According to the South Carolina Code of Laws, abandonment of animals is against the law. It is a misdemeanor crime with penalties of up to a $500 fine or 30 days in jail or both.
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It seems that he treats the animals on the campus like the kids. The only difference is that the animals don't have to participate in therapy. We did support WSPA before we learned of this. I urge people to send a couple of cents directly to the farm where the animals are cared for now or to WSPA. You know where they came from. They deserve a better life.
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Pretty much how he acts when he gets caught abusing kids. "What?? Should I not have done that?? Was that wrong??"
Posted by eddiebar2006 on Sept. 8, 2010 - 11 p.m.
Yeah sadbuttrue. About the time he started shipping kids to that place in Jamaica is when I got out of working for him. I wasnt having any part of that and then some other abuse allegations came up and he and his partner tried to get me to falsify documents to keep them out of trouble. I flat refused and would not lie for them. I was really shocked that they even suggested it. i cut my ties very soon thereafter and hope they get a good dose of justice on this one,.
psy:
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--- Quote from: "DannyB II" ---How about just do the same thing to him, that he does to his horses. Tie him to a post where he can not get away and let him starve to near death.
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Watch it now. You're talking about the same guy who Maximilian swears saved his life. The Lichfields just love kids.
Sorry Max. Couldn't resist.
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I never met this person the article is talking about. The people who worked at the program were just regular people, the kind of people who will never get articles written about them. They were doing a job and it seemed liked they cared about the kids, I don't know anything about this guy other than this article. Of course I don't agree with animal abuse, or child abuse. I've said this many times before.
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And yet it seems the "regular people" who worked at CSA didn't lift a finger to help those animals. All it would have taken is a phone call to the state. Like Milton noted, the vast majority of people will inflict pain on others if an authority figure says it's ok. If there were bones around the property it would seem as if this sort of thing was not merely neglect after the shutdown of the school, but systemic even when the place was still open.
psy:
--- Quote from: "Anne Bonney" ---WTF is wrong with these people? Didn't this exact thing happen with the Sudweeks and the Whitmore Academy?
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Yup. And it also happened at the Sudweeks farm in Canada. Amazing how similar WWASP schools are to the ones Sue Scheff markets as "safe" alternatives. I wonder if this sort of thing is inevitable when you invite "equine therapy" into the industry. I mean, if people abuse kids for a living, why expect them to treat horses or dogs any better.
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