Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy
Ridge Creek "School" - Serious Safety Issues/ORS Violation
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--- Quote from: "Dysfunction Junction" ---It's interesting that although Len Buccellato is just now "officially" announcing "Ridge Creek School" (RCS is HLA for those of you who don't already know they just changed their name), RCS already has a sordid history of ORS violations including extreme violence, unreported incidents, police involvement, arrests, assaults, failure to follow treatment plans and a generalized underpinning of poor/unqualified staffing.
RCS has been hit with many serious ORS violations already and it sure looks like there will be plenty more to come. Parents, beware Ed Cons promoting RCS and don't fall for RCS marketing spin. They are already in serious trouble with watchdogs and they are reportedly colocated on a property where RCS principals also operate a privately run Georgia DOC juvenile lockup facility where convicted criminals are sent to do their time on a contract basis.
This is a recipe for disaster for children who need legitimate help.
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The "new thread" has many posts missing. I'm sure we'll be fine if we keep this one going.
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--- Quote from: "scroft" ---Just for clarification sake for those of you who don't actually have the insight that I do, the majority of the students at RCS are actually NOT inner city. Another point is that my daughter attended that school and luckily we were able to get her out of there. All of this is true, as well as incident in Dec. with my daughter, where she was severely beaten, at the same time as a counselor. Gues who had to pay the medical expenses ? I did, because the privacy rights, of the other student had to be protected, as well as even though inadequate staffing allowed for this to occur, RCS did not pay.
Two points : 1) after reading these posts I definitely am pursuing legal action. 2) This school needs to be shut down immediately.
The kids are running that place. Nearly all the kids are having sex in the dorms, in the bathrooms at the SAC, in the bathrooms in the "school" bldg, everywhere !
Poor education, unqualified staff, abuse and many other incidents.
Some families are selling their homes and spending life savings to send their children there. Obviously filing complaints does not work. I also have reason to believe drug trafficking as I have filed complaints on this already. Complete mismanagement of medication, unmarked bottles, little baggies of drugs and no original prescriptions to be found. I gladly will provide more information on the specifics of the numerous incidents at RCS. All the children's health and safety are in danger there. Due to confidentiality, I have no contact information for any other parents, but to hope that they google and find this site.
Nov 2009 to May 31, 2010 my daughter was at that "school". I am now paying for counseling for her to be treated for the trauma received from that school, in addition to the issues that were present prior to her attending.
Having met many of the parents, during this time, they are most definitely not inner city. It is a sad situation. I do hope that this school gets shut down as soon as possible, and hopefully can refund me some of my money to put towards continued care now. Any attorney's please feel free to send me your information. So far the two I have seen are in LA and TX. I am in Nashville, TN.
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Hello, scroft. Thank you for posting your experience at RCS. It is indeed dangerous and violent. Len Buccellato has run other facilites the same way - uneducated staff, phony degrees, no treatment plans, violent kids, sexual predators, etc, etc, etc. This is no surprise to anyone here. We've all seen it before when RCS was called "Hidden Lake Academy" and amassed over 1600 pages of ORS violations, but due to cozy relationships between "regulators" and Buccellato, HLA never faced any consequences for their mammoth violations. It appears RCS is now getting the same free pass from ORS.
Of course, all of us who know about RCS know it is not populated with "inner city kids," but rather "upper and middle class suburban kids." There are several "pro-program" trolls here who will do and say quite literally anything to spin abusive shitholes like RCS as "gentle" and "effective" and to paint all of you parents who were snookered and had their kids hurt, maimed, raped or killed as "disgruntled by the expense of the program." Keep that in mind when you see posters like "DannyB II" and "Whooter" posting.
If I were you I'd call Phil Elberg immediately and get the ball rolling with an attorney who knows how these places operate and has won several big cases against programs like RCS. He's an attorney out of NJ, which is kinda far for you, but he's by far the best.
In the meantime, please post your experiences here in detail to warn others and attract co-litigants. People here will be happy to help with your research and uncover similar cases.
Again, thanks for posting your experience and I look forward to hearing more about it.
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Whooter:
If you continue to paste posts or post new posts which attack other posters then we will go back to this, DJ. Stop your derailment. If you want to start another thread with the personal attacks I am fine with it. If you want to continue here with your personal attacks then we can continue this way also... its up to you.
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Well I think he would but one problem that upper middle class to higher class poster could not be more of a phony then you. Yep, just keep lying DJ, just shows how desperate you are.
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DJ makes it up as he goes, Danny:
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--- Quote from: "Dysfunction Junction" ---Walking away from the facility is NOT considered "running away" (unless kid is court ordered, which many HLA kids are).
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Court ordered kids are not typically upper or upper middle class. We have shown that DJ fabricated his education to try to get people to respect him here and now he is lying to new people who come here for honest information. Not sure why he does this.
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Thank you very much, Whooter, damn it you are good. Whooter .
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Thanks, DannyB II, Someone has to call DJ on his lies. He is out of control this week. Look what he did to this thread just to cover his tracks. Its a mess, it will be difficult to make any sense of it now.
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There's not much more I can do here, Jill. He's determined that you will not be heard. And the mods here will let him silence you. They really don't care whether or not you have your right to be heard. That's why this site is in bad shape. The mods don't enforce policy and allow each and every thread to be derailed by this troll.
Whooter:
--- Quote from: "Dysfunction Junction" ---There's not much more I can do here, Jill. He's determined that you will not be heard. And the mods here will let him silence you. They really don't care whether or not you have your right to be heard. That's why this site is in bad shape. The mods don't enforce policy and allow each and every thread to be derailed by this troll.
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Just dont attack other posters, DJ. That is what started the derailment in the first place. You are responsible. If your posts contain attacks on other posters then you will derail this thread again. Try to be civil.
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