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« Reply #15 on: July 14, 2011, 09:26:44 PM »
Comment left for the above article, "Mount Bachelor Academy issues statement denying former students' claims of abuse" (by Helen Jung; July 07, 2011; The Oregonian):


Kelly_Matthews_775 · July 09, 2011 at 7:48AM
    Of course they are going to deny it. Check out this HUGE forum that has many discussions going about the MYRIAD of abuses that take place at ASPEN EDUCATION GROUP schools.
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Mount Bachelor Academy Denies Allegations
« Reply #16 on: July 14, 2011, 09:46:47 PM »
Video news footage at the title link:

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KTVZ.com

Mount Bachelor Academy Denies Allegations
Nine Former Students Claim Abuse, Seek Damages

By Barney Lerten and Shanna Mendiola, KTVZ.COM
POSTED: 1:42 pm PDT July 6, 2011
UPDATED: 9:16 pm PDT July 7, 2011




PRINEVILLE, Ore. -- Nine former students of Mount Bachelor Academy, a now-closed program for troubled teens east of Prineville have filed a $14 million lawsuit against the school and its parent companies, alleging serious abuse -- something its operators and supporters are strongly denying.

Their attorney, Kelly Clark of the Portland law firm O'Donnell Clark & Crew LLP, said Thursday this is only the first step toward closure and justice for what they claim happened.

"My folks have two reasons for doing this," said Clark. "No. 1 is to get this behind them, to have closure and healing and justice for themselves. But secondly and equally important to them is they want to get the word out that some of these 'Tough love' schools are not good places -- and there are hundreds of them all over the country."

People living near the closed school about 35 miles east of Prineville, had a different impression of the private boarding school.

"I thought it was a great school," said Jarrod Warren of Prineville."Every time when I was in middle school, I'd drive by there with my parents and I'd see a whole bunch of kids down there. And now I drive by and there's nothing now. "

"Not exactly what has happened at the school, but what happened in their past and how the school has changed them, but this is definitely different," said Tasha Asbow, also of Prineville.

The school was shut down by the state in 2009 after finding evidence to back allegations of repeated neglect and abuse.

The 52-page lawsuit filed by the nine former students who have chosen not to be named claim physical and psychological child abuse.

They say parents were instructed not to believe anything they say, and they were denied basic medical care. The claim also states they were sexually abused.

The attorney for Mount Bachelor Academy, Greg Chaimov Davis Wright Tremaine LLP said in a written statement Thursday afternoon, that these alleged incidents took place before the school was purchased by a "nationally recognized network of therapeutic schools and programs that espouse comprehensive best practices and safety protocols."

Chaimov closed his statement by saying, "Following review of this complaint, we firmly stand by our original statement and vigorously deny any and all charges of mistreatment."

The case now goes into civil litigation, where it could be thrown out, settled or eventuallyr heard by a jury. NewsChannel 21 looked into claims that the school might reopen, but lawyers for the school say they have no plans to do that at this time.

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Our earlier story on the two sides' news releases:

Nine former students of one of Oregon’s best known “tough love” boarding schools, a facility east of Prineville that was shut by the state two years ago, filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging emotional, physical and sexual abuse.

The suit is being brought by attorneys Kelly Clark, Steve Crew, Gilion Dumas, Kristian Roggendorf, Peter Janci and the Portland law firm O’Donnell Clark and Crew, who often bring child abuse cases in Oregon and around the nation.

The suit alleges claims of battery, negligence, and infliction of emotional distress against Mount Bachelor Academy and its parent companies, Aspen Education Group and CRC Health. The suit seeks more than $14 million in compensatory damages, and punitive damages will be sought as well.

An attorney for the school's operator, Greg Chaimov, later issued a statement denying the charges, and issued a stronger denial of the allegations Thursday. It reads:

"We have reviewed the complaint and are confident that the allegations will be proven to be untrue. The events that Mr. Clark and his clients allege happened at Mount Bachelor Academy simply did not. We regret that, of the many hundreds of students who attended the program, there are these nine who consider themselves to have been mistreated. "

"Mount Bachelor Academy (MBA) was a licensed and accredited program that helped troubled teens with serious behavioral issues who could not otherwise be successful at home, in school or in life. The truth is that MBA provided a nurturing and caring environment for over 1,000 young people over the course of its history, one that leading mental health professionals trusted enough for their own children. The strongest refutation of the claims comes from the many hundreds of families who have thanked MBA for saving their children when all else had failed. "

"All dates of alleged incidents occurred prior to the school’s acquisition by a nationally recognized network of therapeutic schools and programs that espouse comprehensive best practices and safety protocols. Following review of this complaint, we firmly stand by our original statement and vigorously deny any and all charges of mistreatment. "

The rest of the release about the lawsuit's allegations:

Located 26 miles east of Prineville, the controversial “therapeutic boarding school” known as Mount Bachelor Academy was closed by the state of Oregon in November of 2009 based on the findings of an investigation related to charges of systemic abuse and neglect.

According to a report by the Oregon Department of Human Services, Mount Bachelor Academy reportedly used “punitive, humiliating, degrading and traumatizing” tactics as “treatment” 00– an approach some say stems from the Synanon self-help group of the 1960's, which was rejected as a cult by mainstream mental health community by the late 1970s.

At the time of its closure in 2009, Mt. Bachelor Academy reportedly had more than 75 staff supervising approximately 90 students who were being charged a tuition of $6,400 per month.

“The so-called ‘treatment’ that these children were forced to endure on a daily basis at Mt. Bachelor Academy is obscene. Not only did the program ‘break kids down’, it did nothing to build them back up,” said Kelly Clark, an attorney for the plaintiffs. “We intend to prove that this wasn’t education, it wasn’t treatment and it wasn’t ‘tough love’ – this was abuse.”

The plaintiffs in Wednesday’s suit, who all attended Mount Bachelor Academy in the late 1990s, allege: that they were subjected to regular psychological abuse and shaming, including being required to reenact traumatic experiences (such as prior instances of child sexual abuse) in front of their peers; that they were subjected to extreme isolation and prolonged deprivations of food, water, shelter, and basic medical care; that students were required to go days with little or no sleep and were also regularly forced into “chain gang” style labor; that phone calls to their families were limited and were monitored by Mt. Bachelor Academy staff; and that parents were instructed by staff not to believe their children if they claimed malfeasance or abuse – i.e., the children will lie, it is all part of the treatment process, parents were told.

The allegations in the lawsuit are consistent with the findings by the Oregon Department of Human Services. In late 2009, following a seven month investigation, DHS found multiple incidences of “abuse and neglect” and “serious violations of Oregon’s licensing standards.”

The DHS report cited nine substantiated claims of abusive practices, including “punitive, humiliating, degrading and traumatizing” activities such as “sexualized role pay and reenactment of traumatic events, such as prior physical or sexual abuse.” The state also found that these were not isolated incidents; instead, “many of [the abusive] behaviors fell within the range of behavior expected, encouraged or condoned by the Mount Bachelor Academy program itself . . . .”

DHS determined that “MBA poses a serious danger to public health or safety of children . . . [and] should not be permitted to continue operating as a therapeutic boarding school for children.” Thereafter, in November of 2009, the state gave Mt. Bachelor Academy 72 hours to shut down its program and remove students from its facility. The facility closed on November 3, 2009. Later, in October 2010, as part of a settlement of a suit by Mt. Bachelor against the state contesting the DHS findings of abuse, Aspen Education Group and CRC Health Group (the parent company’s of Mount Bachelor Academy) agreed that DHS had reasonable cause to believe that abuse or neglect had occurred at the school, and that DHS had a reasonable basis to investigate and to seek corrective actions.

The lawsuit names Mount Bachelor Academy and its parent companies as defendants. Those include Aspen Education Group – a national conglomerate of therapeutic boarding schools which, at its peak had nearly 40 youth programs throughout the United States – as well as Aspen’s parent company, CRC Health Group. CRC Health Group is a large national healthcare corporation owned by Bain Capital, a private equity firm with $65 billion in assets.4

Wednesday’s lawsuit is part of a larger response to decades of abuse and mistreatment in so-called “tough love” facilities – both inside and outside of the Aspen Education Group.

According to previous news reports, at least four children have died in Aspen-owned facilities since 2004. One of those incidences occurred in Oregon in 2009 – the death of student Sergey Blashchishen during a wilderness hike in the Redmond-based Sagewalk Wilderness School.

Blashchishen, a minor at the Sagewalk facility, collapsed in August of 2009 while hiking on his second day Aspen’s Sagewalk program. Staff had reportedly ignored repeated signs of a serious medical problem, and the boy died at the scene. The lead sherif’s investigator on the Sagewalk case recommended that the Lake County district attorney file homicide charges. Sagewalk had previously been the subject of the nationally broadcast ABC television series “Brat Camp” in 2005.

As Peter Janci, one of the Plaintiffs’ attorneys explained,“Many ‘tough love’ schools have been a breeding ground for abuse – isolating vulnerable kids and subjecting them to debunked so-called ‘treatments’ by unqualified staff, while their parents are kept in the dark and bilked out of tens of thousands of dollars.”

Problems of abuse, injury and even death are present throughout the “tough love” industry. Some reports indicate that more than two dozen teenagers died in such facilities between 1990 and 2001.

The lawsuit is one in a growing number of actions by individuals who survived these facilities, only to be left with serious, long-term psychological injuries. Several weeks ago, a civil suit was filed against Silverado Academy in Utah for claims related to a staff member’s sexual abuse of at least 10 boys.

Previously, in 2006, attorneys for another group of individuals filed a major lawsuit alleging neglect, fraud and abuse against the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools and related entities. That suit is still pending in federal court in Utah, and now includes 353 plaintiffs who allege they were wronged by therapeutic boarding schools and their related entities.

“This is a watershed moment in exposing organizations that have profited from broken promises to desperate families,” said Clark. “We believe that institutions like Mount Bachelor Academy need to be exposed for what they are and held accountable for the permanent damage they have done to the lives of vulnerable teenagers entrusted to their care.”

Clark and his firm are among the most prominent child sexual abuse attorneys in the nation, having brought over 300 claims against such organizations as the Catholic Church, the Mormon Church, the Boy Scouts of America and dozens of other youth-serving organizations.

Clark has twice won landmark child abuse cases at the Oregon Supreme Court, and last year was lead counsel in a six week sex abuse trial against the Boy Scouts of America resulting in a jury verdict of nearly $20 million.

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The initial response from Greg Chaimov, a lawyer with Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, on behalf of client Mount Bachelor Academy

While we have not yet had the opportunity to evaluate the allegations in the complaint filed today, we would like to go on record that Mount Bachelor Academy was successful in resolving the dispute with the Oregon Department of Human Services last fall after abundant evidence was collected that showed the allegations of abuse made to the Department were unfounded.

DHS initially took action based on students’ allegations, but withdrew its orders, including the suspension of Mount Bachelor Academy’s license, after further information became available. Given the favorable terms of the settlement agreement, we agreed to dismiss our various legal proceedings against the state. We also independently decided to leave Mount Bachelor Academy closed due to the fact that the sudden and erroneous closure of the campus effectively shut the program down the year prior.

For over two decades, Mount Bachelor Academy (MBA) positively changed the lives of over 1,000 troubled young people. MBA was a program specifically designed for troubled students who had failed to progress in other settings. It was designed to help kids confront the worst of their behaviors and take ownership of them, whether that be substance abuse, sexual acting out or other issues. This approach proved successful at producing positive, life-changing – and, in some cases, life-saving – results. The numerous positive testimonials provided by families and students over the years further attest to the success of MBA.

MBA and its parent companies never condoned or participated in the mistreatment or deprivation of any students. As we understand, the plaintiffs in this lawsuit attended MBA prior to its acquisition by a nationally recognized network of therapeutic schools and programs that espouse comprehensive best practices and safety protocols. While we cannot comment on specific allegations from individual students due to HIPAA privacy regulations, we vigorously deny any and all charges of mistreatment.

Full Text of Suit Against Mount Bachelor Academy (Adobe Acrobat Reader required)

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Comments: "Mount Bachelor Academy Denies Allegations"
« Reply #17 on: July 21, 2011, 12:04:45 AM »
Comments left for the above article, "Mount Bachelor Academy Denies Allegations" (by Barney Lerten and Shanna Mendiola; July 6, 2011; KTVZ.com), #s 1-18:


FreedomFighter100 · 1 week ago
    This facility was all mandatory 12-Step religious cult Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Voodoo & horrifying torture to the kids...

    Little kids who stole ONE BEER from their fathers & got caught were thrown here and DIAGNOSED FOR LIFE seriously mentally ill & alcoholics....
    Kathryn Carter · 1 week ago in reply to FreedomFighter100
      Hunh?  Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Voodoo (brush up on your capitalization skills, please)?  You two people who liked this should be ashamed of yourselves.  It was absolutely not religious, and the implication of magic is just stupid.  If you're going to criticize at least make sure you're somewhat acquainted with what you're criticizing.  Horrifying torture?  I guess hard work and being made to face what you've done without excuses could be called torture, but horrifying? Please do not encourage this person by "liking" his post.
    wal52 · 1 week ago in reply to FreedomFighter100
      Little kids...one beer...diagnosed for life....?
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    rfo · 1 week ago
      I actually met someone who used to work there and learned quite a bit about the place after the fact.

      It seems there really two sides to this story.  If I'm understanding what I heard correctly, there were never any charges which moved forward after the school stopped operating.  I was told that they were capable of starting back up without a problem but the parent company saw that as a bad move financially.

      Mind you, this is only what I heard.
    Kelly Matthews · 1 week ago
      There are thousands of abusive schools, camps and rehabs. This has been going on for well over 50 years. You can join the cause to get these places shut down by
    visitinghttp://www.troubledtee... Please visit today!Also check out the trailer to our upcoming documentary about Straight Inc. An abusive rehab that started back in 1976 and ran for 17 years. http://www.survivingstraightincthemovie.com/[/list]
      ImaBurthur · 1 week ago in reply to Kelly Matthews
        Really, thousands eh? So does this "statistic" mean that MBA is automatically guilty because you're a crusader?
        It's easy to be a sniper when people doing courageous hard work with troubled youth make mistakes or just perceived that way.
        Yes, there's bad apples everywhere and should be identified but there's no easy solution dealing with kids who struggle in today's society of declining morals,divorce, materialism
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      Dirty · 1 week ago
        To all those spreading rumors... My girlfriend attended Mt. Bachelor as a youth. After which she went to college and attained a B.A. and began working there for many years. She is about to receive her Masters and has a very succesful career. I don't believe a word of what these children are saying. Maybe they should take their resentment out on their parents for sending them in the first place. Cult? Witchcraft? Sorcery and Voodoo? Puhlease! Sue happy and looking for a free paycheck. The media doesn't help anything with its sensationalism either. I know many of the employees who were employed up there and none of them are witches. I would say they were doing something right. My girlfriend would be proof of that.
      yahoo-4RFYRM3CD7ESI34I6XZYI5M55E · 1 week ago
        It's my guess the next step for these "students" was the criminal courts and incarseration. I wonder which
        direction was better for them and society??
        proudparent2011 · 1 week ago in reply to yahoo-4RFYRM3CD7ESI34I6XZYI5M55E
          It's "my guess" that you have absolutely no knowledge concerning this case other than the biased article from KTVZ. Sensationalism sells. My daughter attended Mt. Bachelor Academy in 2001-2002 and graduated from there with a high school diploma. She is a happy well adjusted young woman with a steady job. If she had not attended the school it's "my guess" that she would have been incarcerated or possibly dead by now. Although I am going to be paying for her tuition for 10 more years all I can say is, "what price do you put on your child's life?" Before you get out your pitch fork and rally the mob make sure you have your facts straight.
          Barney Lerten · 1 week ago in reply to proudparent2011
            The Bulletin P.1 story today also details the allegations in the lawsuit we linked to and has similar response from its operators. Serious allegations deserve attention, as do responses.
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          Hayha · 1 week ago
            Who needs the Pledge of Allegiance and Christmas programs when you can have a "winter festival" and act out sexual role play in front of your classmates.
          pigspullsantassleigh · 1 week ago
            "My folks have two reasons for doing this," said Clark. "No. 1 is to get this behind them, to have closure and healing and justice for themselves"

            So get it behind them and move on, but of course the money doesn`t hurt either does it ? I guess when your a lawyer like this guy, the only way to healing is with money right ?
            rfo · 1 week ago in reply to pigspullsantassleigh
              I wouldn't argue with you on that point except to say that it has been proven over and over that the most painful place you can ever hit anybody is in the wallet.

              That being said, I do not see this action gaining any steam.  One of the issues is that most of the evidence presented will probably fall into the anecdotal category and there will always be the question as to why everyone waited so long to come forward.

              For everyone who thinks this suit is a good idea, there will be an equal number of people who will feel the school did their children a lot of good.

              I don't see the possibility of any real "traction" here.
              pigspullsantassleigh · 1 week ago in reply to rfo
                I agree with you RFO. I don`t care one way or the other. Lawyers dont do these lawsuits for any other reason than to line their pockets. I`d also like to point out to Mr Clark who says theres TWO reasons for doing this. Technically councilor you pointed out FOUR. I know how you lawyers like to point out technicalities. This guy is nothing more than an over priced ambulance chaser.
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              Andrew · 1 week ago
                This was an amazing school and it is shameful to claim abuse.  Geez, I would claim the opposite occurred, the staff dealt with very difficult and sometimes violent kids, they were constantly verbally abused and challenged.  I know, I was a student there 1991 & 1992.  Maybe things have changed since then, but the complaints sound like what I remember but I didn't find any of it abusive.

                If you believe in our current mental health techniques, basically take a pill and check out, then I can see how you see real emotional work to be abuse.  I you don't dig in and have people pushing you to do some real work, you are wasting your time.  Just like exercise, if the muscles aren't burning yet you probably need to push a little further to get any benefit out of it.  Again, if you'd like a pill or to sit on someones couch who is counting the minutes, be my guest.  If you want to grow, its a struggle, its painful, its exhilarating and rewarding.  You can't get past deep issues without confronting them.  That's just common sense.

                I've read countless comments on many sites since 2009 and I really am in disbelief.  The staff were warm, friendly and were there for me and others more than most of our parents (who caused most of the students issues to begin with).  I am in contact with many people I met while there and none of them have reached out to me in tears citing abuse.  Some make jokes like, "I had a hard day, I need group" (group for group counseling normally 3 days a week for 1 hour session).  

                It was intense, challenging, emotional (THUS, an emotional growth school) and life changing.  They didn't let you get away with anything, act out and someone was right there to help you understand the what and why behind it as well as provide sound and alternative behaviors.  Frankly, I found it brilliant and have began to understand its simplicity and elegance as I get older (37 now).    Is it a one size fits all program, I don't know nor am I any kind of expert on the subject.  What I do know is, nothing is for everyone, there is always a percentage that fall through the cracks.  I'll concede to that.  I won't concede that the staff  or program had any malicious intent.  That is simply ridiculous.

                For me, it opened up my world and gave me new tools that have helped me succeed.  I'm no perfect person, but I understand who I am and how to channel my energy in positive ways.  Do the right thing, stay honest, serve somebody, think about the effects of your actions on others, lead by example, know what's in your heart vs your head.  Those are things the school constantly spoke about it,and some call that brainwashing?  They were onto something.  Not sure how much it changed from my time there, but they were really onto something.If you weren't there and have no idea what a lifestep is all about, or its intent, or the spiritual nature of it, then you have no business passing judgement.  Many students and staff "wanted" to go through them and were excited, many were not.  Things have been taken completely out of context.  Nobody explained that the staff didn't sleep either during these lifesteps and sometimes they engaged in the exercises.  Claims of brainwashing, unbelievable.  More like de-brainwashing.  The brainwashed are those led to believe that any confronting yourself is bad and abusive or helping other do the same, unless some bookworm with a PhD certifies it.  There is very little backbone in left in this society anymore and it shows.  If you are looking for examples of brainwashing, turn on your TV to any 24-hour news cycle.  Geez, people, give me a break.To Sharon & Alex Blitz, Steve and Linda, Jeanine, Bill Hoffman, and Jeff, thank you from the bottom of my heart.  Took me several years to sort things out, but when I did it was worth it.  Thank you from the guitar playing Jersey boy, may "the truth about you" be told.
                rfo · 1 week ago in reply to Andrew
                  OK, .... there's part of your answer.  Kinda' sounds about like basic training in the military.  Nobody understood the seemingly stupid things that were forced on you, but at then end of 12 weeks you came out of there with a definite sense of self worth, a direction to move in, goals, and your head planted squarely  on your shoulders.  

                  Thanks for the enlightening post Andrew and I'm really glad you shared this with us.  It took guts.
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                right to bear arms · 1 week ago
                  If these kids were truly harmed by this school then any money they get for their suffering should go to some kind of program to help other kids to stay out of trouble. God forbid these kids should be held accountable for their actions from their past. Before this lawsuit goes to far they need to interview the other kids that went to this school and not take the word of just the ones filing the suit!
                lawyermom206 · 1 week ago
                  My son attended Mt Bachelor Academy in 2005-2006 and I am firmly convinced that it saved his life.  I am so grateful for the education he received there that gave him a sense of himself. He is now a part time college student and works part time, and handles life's challenges with a sane and level head.  Everyone in our family thinks he is the most grounded person we know.  That, I believe, is thanks to the program he went through at Mt Bachelor.  I am so sad to hear that others feel it necessary to pile insult onto injury to the truly fine people who ran the school and who taught there. Closing the school was bad enough, and now this? Shame on the plaintiffs.


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                Re: MT BACHELOR LAWSUIT
                « Reply #18 on: July 21, 2011, 01:13:52 AM »
                Is it just me or do alot of these responses follow a standard sort of programmie style fill in the blank Mad Libs sort of thing?

                My (victim's relationship to you here) went/is attended/ing Mt. Bacherlor Academy from (date) to (date). I feel my (victim) was/is on the road to being deadinsaneorinjail. He/she was also molesting (farm animal here) and smoking (drug here).

                blah blah..

                Just my throughts.
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                Re: MT BACHELOR LAWSUIT
                « Reply #19 on: July 22, 2011, 10:57:03 AM »
                Quote from: "Che Gookin"
                Is it just me or do alot of these responses follow a standard sort of programmie style fill in the blank Mad Libs sort of thing?

                My (victim's relationship to you here) went/is attended/ing Mt. Bacherlor Academy from (date) to (date). I feel my (victim) was/is on the road to being deadinsaneorinjail. He/she was also molesting (farm animal here) and smoking (drug here).

                blah blah..

                Just my throughts.
                Mmm. Don't forget the part where "my child's success in life is totally the result of the 1-2 years he/she spent getting chuckawalla'd at Mt. Bachelor, and has absolutely nothing to do with how I raised him/her the previous decade and a half, not to mention the native goodness or resilience inherent in his/her nature to begin with."  :D
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                MT BACHELOR LAWSUIT - Complaint
                « Reply #20 on: July 23, 2011, 03:14:35 PM »
                Below follows the complete text of the Complaint from the lawsuit against Mount Bachelor Academy, link provided in the above article. Given that the Complaint is 52 pages in length, transcription will be over the course of several posts, respective contents summarized here (pages noted in parentheses refer to original pdf, courtesy of KTVZ.com).

                There were a few errors/typos. Where the intent/source of error was obvious, e.g., due to an incompletely proofread copy-paste, I've corrected them. Where not so obvious, I've let them be...


                • Specs,
                  Introduction,
                  Common Allegations,
                  Plaintiff MLM (pp 8-13),
                  Plaintiff NAA (pp 13-17).
                • Plaintiff TGB (pp 17-21),
                  Plaintiff RB (pp 22-26),
                  Plaintiff MST (pp 26-30),
                  Plaintiff TL (pp 30-35).
                • Plaintiff BPO (pp 35-39),
                  Plaintiff NCQ (pp 39-43),
                  Plaintiff WBL (pp 43-47),
                  All Plaintiffs (pp 47-49),
                  Prayers for Judgment/Relief (pp 49-52).
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                Text of Complaint, Case No. 1107-08552, part 1/3
                « Reply #21 on: July 23, 2011, 03:37:03 PM »
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                  IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON
                  FOR THE COUNTY OF MULTNOMAH
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                    MLM, an individual proceeding under a fictitious name; NAA, an individual proceeding under a fictitious name; TGB, an individual proceeding under a fictitious name; RB, an individual proceeding under a fictitious name; MST, an individual proceeding under a fictitious name; TL, an individual proceeding under a fictitious name; BPO, an individual proceeding under a fictitious name; NCQ, an individual proceeding under a fictitious name; and WBL, an individual proceeding under a pseudonym,
                      Plaintiffs,
                    v.

                    MOUNT BACHELOR EDUCATIONAL CENTER, INC., an Oregon corporation; ASPEN EDUCATIONAL GROUP, INC., an inactive foreign corporation; CRC HEALTH OREGON, INC., an Oregon corporation; and CRC HEALTH GROUP, INC., a corporation not registered to do business in Oregon,
                      Defendants.


                  Case No. 1107-08552


                  COMPLAINT


                  (Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress/Respondeat Superior; Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress/Respondeat Superior; Battery/Respondeat Superior; Negligence)


                  PRAYER: $14,250,000.00


                  JURY TRIAL DEMANDED

                  Not subject to Mandatory Arbitration


                    INTRODUCTION

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                    This case involves institutionalized physical and psychological child abuse at Mt. Bachelor Academy, a "therapeutic boarding school" for troubled teens that was ordered closed by the State of Oregon Department of Human Services. These Plaintiffs, now all adults, had their already troubled childhoods made worse by systematic physical and psychological abuse that goes far beyond any reasonable notion of "boot camp" or "tough love" schools. Defendants program was staffed by untrained, often only high-school educated counselors and instructors who attempted to psychologically break down and indoctrinate children in their care, typically by berating them in the harshest of terms and subjecting them to extreme physical conditions and privation. Plaintiffs were isolated from their families, allowed only very limited telephone calls every other week, which were monitored by the school's staff. Parents' were instructed not to believe their children if they reported malfeasance or abuse—the children will lie, it is all a part of the treatment process—or so the parents were told by the school's staff. In fact, Plaintiffs were denied basic medical care, and run through a battery of "Lifestep" group encounters that ran for days at a time with no breaks, where little or no sleep permitted, very little food provided, and required traumatizing activities, such as making known victims of child sexual abuse act out sexual propositioning and activities on or with other residents as well as adult staff. Discipline consisited of physical punishment akin to a 1950s chain gang, being sent out into the wilderness with little or no food or supplies, at times alone, often for days. Even minor infractions were met with complete social isolation in which the child was not allowed to speak to or even make eye contact with anyone at the facility, sometimes for up to six weeks or more at a time. At the same time, this "school" would remove the children from any educational activity during these extended periods of punishment, only allowing Plaintiffs to engage in self-abusing personal examinations while in isolation, and left them without transferable academic credits. In short, Mt. Bachelor Academy was no school at all, and only made things worse psychologically for these Plaintiffs.

                      COMMON ALLEGATIONS

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                      Plaintiff MLM is a female California resident born in the year 1976. At all times relevant to this complaint, Plaintiff MLM was an unemancipated minor in the care and custody of Defendants at Mount Bachelor Academy located near Prineville, Oregon from approximately June, 1992 through December, 1994. Plaintiff NAA is a male California resident born in the year 1978. At all times relevant to this complaint, Plaintiff NAA was an unemancipated minor in the care and custody of Defendants at Mount Bachelor Academy located near Prineville, Oregon from approximately May, 1995 thru June, 1997. Plaintiff TGB is a female California resident born in the year 1983. At all times relevant to this complaint, Plaintiff TGB was an unemancipated minor in the care and custody of Defendants at Mount Bachelor Academy formerly located near Prineville, Oregon, and SUWS, a wilderness school run by Defendant Aspen Education Group, Inc., from approximately June, 1996 through June, 1998. Plaintiff RB is a male Florida resident born in the year 1981. At all times relevant to this complaint, Plaintiff RB was an unemancipated minor in the care and custody of Defendants at Mount Bachelor Academy located near Prineville, Oregon from approximately 1996 to 1998. Plaintiff MST is a male California resident born in the year 1982. At all times relevant to this complaint, Plaintiff MST was an unemancipated minor in the care and custody of Defendants at Mount  Bachelor Academy located near Prineville, Oregon from approximately November, 1995 through July, 1997. Plaintiff TL is a female California resident born in the year 1980. At all times relevant to this complaint, Plaintiff TL was an unemancipated minor in the care and custody of Defendants at Mount Bachelor Academy formerly located near Prineville, Oregon, SUWS, and Aspen Achievement Academy, both wilderness school subsidiaries of Defendant Aspen Education Group, Inc., and Renaissance Academy, an over-18 program run by Defendant Mt. Bachelor Educational Center, Inc., from approximately July, 1996 through some point in 1999. Plaintiff BPO is a male California resident born in the year 1978. At all times relevant to this complaint, Plaintiff BPO was an unemancipated minor in the care and custody of Defendants at Mount Bachelor Academy located near Prineville, Oregon from approximately July, 1995 through April, 1997. Plaintiff NCQ is a male California resident born in the year 1982. At all times relevant to this complaint, Plaintiff NCQ was an unemancipated minor in the care and custody of Defendants at Mount Bachelor Academy located near Prineville, Oregon from approximately 1998 to 1999. Plaintiff WBL is a male Oregon resident born in the year 1980. At all times relevant to this complaint, Plaintiff WBL was an unemancipated minor in the care and custody of Defendants at Mount Bachelor Academy located near Prineville, Oregon, and Renaissance Academy, an over 18 program run by Defendant Mt. Bachelor Educational Center, Inc., from approximately April, 1997 through December, 1998.

                        3.[/list]
                        Defendant Mt. Bachelor Educational Center, Inc., (hereinafter "MBEC"), is an Oregon corporation registered to do business in the State of Oregon. At all times relevant to this complaint, MBEC owned and operated the facility known as "Mt. Bachelor Academy" that boarded, psychologically conditioned, disciplined, and ostensibly educated teenage individuals, including Plaintiffs in this case, and purported to offer therapeutic, educational and residential services to these children. The State of Oregon permanently suspended Mt. Bachelor Academy's operating license in November of 2009. Defendant Aspen Education Group, Inc. (hereinafter "Aspen"), is a California corporation not registered to do business in the State of Oregon. At all times relevant to this complaint, Aspen operated various facilities meant to correct the behavior of teenagers viewed as behaviorally "troubled," emotionally disturbed, or suffering from addiction or other mental disorders. At all times relevant to this complaint, Aspen was the owner of or successor in interest to Defendant Mt. Bachelor Educational Center, Inc. Defendant Aspen permanently closed Mt. Bachelor Academy in December of 2009. Defendant CRC Health Group, Inc., is a California company not registered to do business in the State of Oregon, but conducting significant and sustained business in Multnomah County, and Defendant CRC Health Oregon, Inc., is an Oregon corporation with several offices or facilities located in Multnomah County, Oregon and elsewhere in the State. Plaintiffs allege that discovery will show that at all times relevant to this complaint, the collective CRC entities were the owners of, successors in interest to, and/or controlling entities of both Defendant Aspen and MBEC. The CRC entities will be referred to hereinafter collectively simply as "CRC." Where applicable, MBEC, Aspen, and CRC will all be referred to collectively as "Defendants."

                          4.[/list]
                          At all times relevant to this complaint, Defendants, through their agents, solicited and accepted teenage individuals for placement at Mt. Bachelor Academy as a "therapeutic boarding school" away from and out of contact with Plaintiffs' families and friends. At all times relevant to this complaint, Defendants advertised and represented Mt. Bachelor Academy to be a place where parents could send their teenage children with substance abuse, behavioral, motivational, emotional, and discipline problems, and a place where those problems would be remedied by caring professionals. Defendants presented their therapeutic learning model as one that provided academic and emotional growth, as well as being a boarding school that provided a warm, nurturing family atmosphere. In the course of accepting minor residents, including Plaintiffs here, Defendants undertook in loco parentis responsibilities for the Plaintiffs, and strictly controlled Plaintiffs' schedule, activities, and even basic physical movements.

                            5.[/list]
                            At all times relevant to this complaint, Defendants employed and empowered a group of adults identified as teachers, instructors, and counselors (or identified by similar titles) ostensibly to provide instruction, education, counseling, moral guidance, addiction recovery, behavioral correction, and physical supervision to minor residents at Mt. Bachelor Academy. This class of employee will be referred to generically throughout this complaint as "counselors." Defendants empowered these counselors to enforce rules and policies as part of their employment, both those policies established by Defendants and those chosen or developed by the counselors themselves. Almost every one of Defendants' counselors had no formal training in psychology, psychiatry, or child development, and in most cases possessed no education beyond high school. These individuals attempted to engage in psychological treatment and behavior modification of children at Mt. Bachelor Academy.

                              6.[/list]
                              Defendants knew and intended their counselor's authority to extend to physicl restraint, extreme physical and psychological stressing, and cruel emotional manipulation and attacks. Thus, Mt. Bachelor Academy's program was one of institutionalized physical and psychological abuse of its minor residents. At all times relevant to this complaint, Defendants knew of, approved of, authorized, ratified, and/or required the use of all of the techniques used by its counselors against Plaintiffs and described below. In engaging in or utilizing these techniques, individual counselors acted in the time and space limits of their agency with Defendants, were motivated at least in part by a desire to serve Defendants, and these actions were of a type that counselors were required to do as part of their employment duties on behalf of Defendants.

                                7.[/list]
                                Plaintiffs—all minors at the time—were subjected to physical abuse including but not limited to: exposure to the elements; extreme cold; extreme heat; forced standing; forcible and unnecessary physical restraint; denial of meals; sleep deprivation; light deprivation; sound torture; forced marches; strip searches; ingestion of spoiled or rotting food; forcing the Plaintiffs to beat on inanimate objects until their hands bled; forcing other residents to physically attack or restrain Plaintiffs; denial of restroom use; denial of prescription medication; and extended periods of extreme social isolation (during which the punished party could not look or smile at, or talk to any other residents, and had to eat all meals facing a wall). Many of these forms of abuse were an official, mandatory part of what Defendants called their "Lifestep" events—a series of group encounters sometimes lasting days during which Plaintiffs were kept in one room, not allowed to sleep, given minimal food, and forced to endure the various sensory tortures. Other abuses were part of official, sanctioned discipline during which Plaintiffs were subjected to extreme forms of punitive labor for no pay, including eight to twelve hour days of such things as digging into the frozen earth, stump removal using hand tools without assistance, construction or dismantling of large rough structures, and moving rocks up and down a hill for no reason only to return the rocks the original location, with only intermittent five minute breaks and little food during hours of such labor. All of this abusive conduct was central to Defendants' disciplinary and "therapeutic" method, and specifically approved or ratified by all Defendants at the corporate level. While all of the Plaintiffs suffered from all of these abuses to some extent, specific instances of physical abuse suffered by each Plaintiff are described below.

                                  8.[/list]
                                  Plaintiffs—all minors at the time—were subjected to psychological abuse and humiliation, including by not limited to: constant abusive and berating yelling, both by staff and by other residents who were required to verbally attack Plaintiffs as part of the Program; forced isolation from all human interaction for days and sometimes weeks at a time; denigrating sexual insults by staff; forcing Plaintiffs to verbally abuse other residents; humiliating role-playing before peers and staff (which included sexual components): disclosing and re-enacting sexual abuse episodes experienced elsewhere; forced sexual contact with/propositioning of other residents and staff; and isolation from family contacts. All of this abusive conduct was central to Defendants' disciplinary and "therapeutic" method, and specifically approved or ratified by Defendants. The specific psychological abuse suffered by each Plaintiff is described below.

                                    9.[/list]
                                    The various forms of abusive conduct and techniques discussed in paragraphs 6 through 8, above, were an offical part of Defendants' "Lifestep" program or part of the ordinary and approved discipline of the school. The abusive conduct will hereinafter be generally and collectively referred to as the "Program." Defendants knew that the Program consisted of intentional conduct engaged in by their employees and agents, that this conduct was of the type described above, that Defendants' employees and agents were conducted on Defendants' behalf, and that it resulted in physical and mental injury to residents of Mt. Bachelor Academy, including these Plaintiffs. The Program was unjustified and unregulated, it was psychologically, behaviorally and therapeutically unfounded, and it was objectively cruel to Plaintiffs. The Program was intended/designed to be cruel and psychologically damaging, particularly with regard to the culture under which these children were raised.

                                      10.[/list]
                                      Defendants' counselors used their authorized employment duties to inflict the Program on Plaintiffs, and child abuse resulted from administration of the Program. The counselors' administration of Program was: (1) committed in direct connection and for the purposes of fulfilling the counselors' employment and agency with the Defendants; (2) committed withing the time and space limits of their agency as counselor; (3) done initially and at least in part from their desire to serve the interests of Defendants; (4) done directly in the performance of their duties as counselor; (5) consisted generally of actions of a kind and nature which the counselors were required to perform; and (6) done at the direction of, and pursuant to, the power vested in them by the Defendants.

                                        11.[/list]
                                        The "child abuse" described throughout this complaint meets the definition of "child abuse" found in ORS 12.117(2), and Defendants' knowledge and approval of the use of the "child abuse" by their employees and agents amounts to "knowingly allowing, permitting, or encouraging child abuse" as those terms are used in ORS 12.117. Plaintiffs are all under 40 years of age, and pursuant to ORS 12.117(1), their claims are timely filed.

                                          FIRST CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                          By Plaintiff MLM Against All Defendants
                                          Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

                                          12.[/list]
                                          Plaintiff realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 11, above.

                                            13.[/list]
                                            Defendants formed a special relationship with Plaintiff MLM by soliciting her and/or her parents to attend their "therapeutic boarding school," accepting her as a resident, and closely governing her conduct there. Defendants assumed in loco parentis responsibility for Plaintiff MLM's well-being, took charge of every aspect of Plaintiff MLM's life, and eliminated virtually all of MLM's interaction with the outside world. At the same time, Defendants ostensibly were instructing her on her emotional and psychological condition, assisting her in changing her behavior, and claiming to provide standard educational services. In doing so, Defendants' relationship with Plaintiff MLM included a specific duty to avoid the infliction of emotional distress.

                                              14.[/list]
                                              Defendants' counselors and other agents, using the Program described in paragraphs 6 through 8, above, knowingly and intentionally caused severe emotional distress to Plaintiff MLM when they physically and psychologically abused her through the program. Defendants refused to allow Plaintiff MLM unmonitored contact with her family, and would end calls or destroy letters if Plaintiff MLM attempted to tell her family what was occurring. During all seven on-campus "Lifestep" group encounters (some lasting for several days without interruption), Defendants forced Plaintiff MLM to endure temperature extremes, meal deprivation, sleep deprivation, denial of restroom use, and rotted food, as denigrating, cruel, and abusive shouting at Plaintiff. For instance, shortly after Plaintiff MLM had been enrolled at Mt. Bachelor Academy, Defendants began their process of psychological conditioning, and forced MLM to disclose the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her biological father to her entire class. Then knowing of this earlier abuse, Defendants proceeded to require her counselors and fellow residents to call her names such as "whore" and "slut," and told that her rape by her father was her own fault. Defendants then forced Plaintiff MLM act out sexual roles with both her fellow residents and adult male counselors during Lifestep group encounters. One such example, Plaintiff MLM was required to sit down on the floor in front of each of the males in the room, spread her legs by placing one foot on each of the males' knees while they were seated above her in a chair, and say, "This leg is Christmas, this leg is New Years, why don't you come and see me between the holidays," demanding great enthusiasm from Plaintiff MLM. Plaintiff MLM was forced to repeat this process with all of the males in the room 15 times during one "Lifestep" encounter, and was required to start the cycle over and over again during these 15 times because she either lacked sufficient enthusiasm for staff, or she began to sob uncontrollably due to her prior abuse and being forced to sexually proposition adult men. Plaintiff MLM was required to go through this "Lifestep" an additional two times after expressing her ongoing depression to staff at various times. Defendants also engaged in forced isolation of Plaintiff by forbidding her any interaction with her fellow residents, including a period lasting approximately two and a half weeks on at least one occasion and an extended period when MLM was deeply depressed and suicidal from the effects of the Program. This list of abusive acts is not exclusive.

                                                15.[/list]
                                                Plaintiff MLM did in fact suffer severe emotional distress as a result of this abuse that occurred as part of the Program, and such physical and psychological abuse of a child is beyond the bounds of all socially tolerable conduct.

                                                  16.[/list]
                                                  Defendants' counselors used the Program described in paragraphs 6 through 8, above, to intentionally inflict severe emotional distress through the abuse of Plaintiff MLM. Defendants' Program was administered by their counselors within the course and scope of the counselors' agency as described in paragraphs 9 and 10, above.

                                                    17.[/list]
                                                    As a result of Defendants' intentional infliction of emotional distress, Plaintiff MLM has suffered permanent and lasting damages including bodily harm at the time of abuse, severe physical, mental, and emotional harm at the time of the abuse, as well as later-manifesting and/or later-arising permanent psychological damage that was distinct in time and logic from what was suffered at the time of the abuse. These harms resulted in Plaintiff MLM's non-economic damages in the amount of $1,000,000.00, the exact amount of which will be proven at the time of trial.

                                                      18.[/list]
                                                      As a result of Defendants' intentional infliction of emotional distress, Plaintiff MLM has incurred and/or will incur in the future costs for counseling, psychiatric, psychological, and medical treatment. Plaintiff MLM has also suffered lost economic opportunity for the interruption of her studies and the loss of family funds for secondary education. Plaintiff MLM's economic damages total the approximate amount of $500,000.00, the exact amount of which will be proven at the time of trial.

                                                        SECOND CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                        By Plaintiff MLM Against All Defendants
                                                        Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress

                                                        19.[/list]
                                                        Plaintiff MLM realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 18, above.

                                                          20.[/list]
                                                          Defendants, acting within their special relationship, subjected Plaintiff MLM to severe ridicule, harsh and unnecessary disciplinary measures, and denial of an education, as described above. additionally, as part of the Program, Defendants' counselors would engage in denigrating, cruel, and abusive berating of Plaintiff MLM, frequently yelling at her that she was worthless, a "slut," and unworthy of love. For example, on one occasion after an extended berating of this type by an adult male counselor, Plaintiff attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of a window, and was only saved at the last moment by a fellow resident. Defendants knew of this suicide attempt and of MLM's subsequent dissociative state during the following several days, but ignored it and gave MLM no assistance or counseling.

                                                            21.[/list]
                                                            Defendants' administration of the Program was an intentional or reckless disregard of Plaintiff's feelings while in this responsible relationship. Defendants brutally invaded Plaintiff MLM's protected interest in her privacy, emotional health, and psychological well-being, and this invasion was of a sufficient quality or magnitude to warrant recovery of emotional distress damages. As a result of this, Plaintiff MLM suffered the damages described in paragraphs 17 and 18, above.

                                                              THIRD CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                              By Plaintiff MLM Against All Defendants
                                                              Battery

                                                              22.[/list]
                                                              Plaintiff MLM realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 18, above.

                                                                23.[/list]
                                                                During the various "Lifestep" group encounters, Defendants controlled the physical conduct of all of the residents and counselors, and directed, coerced, or required both other residents and staff to physically batter Plaintiff MLM as part of the "Lifestep" program. Other residents were forced under duress to participate by threat of severe punishments if they did not appear to be participating fully in the physical assaults on their peers.

                                                                  24.[/list]
                                                                  Specifically, during one "Lifestep," individual residents—including Plaintiff MLM—were required to "break into" a circle of other residents by running at the circle at high speed and physically fighting to gain entry while those in the circle linked arms and fought under the orders of Defendants to prevent entry. In the course of this activity, both individual residents and those who were trying to break in sustained significant physical injuries. In particular, after one of these attempts trying to break in, Plaintiff MLM lost vision in one eye for a short period of time but was not given medical attention, and was required to continue attempting to break through the circle of bodies. In another "Lifestep," Defendants ordered Plaintiff MLM to rip out of a bedsheet that was forcibly being held down by other residents. While being held under this sheet and trying to rip through it, Plaintiff MLM sustained numerous painful abrasions and fabric burns as well as feelings of claustrophobia and helplessness.

                                                                    25.[/list]
                                                                    The "breaking into" the circle and defending it from other residents, as well as being held under a sheet, constituted harmful and offensive touching to which Plaintiff MLM did not and could not consent. At all times relevant to this complaint, the persons who battered Plaintiff MLM were acting under the forced compulsion or directions of Defendants.

                                                                      26.[/list]
                                                                      As a result of this physical battery at the orders of Defendants, Plaintiff MLM suffered the damages described in paragraphs 17 and 18, above.

                                                                        FOURTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                        By Plaintiff NAA Against All Defendants
                                                                        Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

                                                                        27.[/list]
                                                                        Plaintiff NAA realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 11, above.

                                                                          28.[/list]
                                                                          Defendants formed a special relationship with Plaintiff NAA by soliciting him and/or his parents to attend their "therapeutic boarding school," accepting him as a resident, and closely governing his conduct there. Defendants assumed in loco parentis responsibility for Plaintiff NAA's well-being, took charge of every aspect of Plaintiff NAA's life, and eliminated virtually all of NAA's interaction with the outside world. At the same time, Defendants ostensibly were instructing him on his emotional and psychological condition, assisting him in changing his behavior, and claiming to provide standard educational services. In doing so, Defendants' relationship with Plaintiff NAA included a specific duty to avoid the infliction of emotional distress.

                                                                            29.[/list]
                                                                            Defendants' counselors and other agents, using the Program described in paragraphs 6 through 8, above, knowingly and intentionally caused severe emotional distress to Plaintiff NAA when they physically and psychologically abused him through the program. Defendants also refused to allow Plaintiff NAA unmonitored contact with his family, and would end calls or destroy letters if Plaintiff NAA attempted to tell his family what was occurring. During all seven on-campus "Lifestep" group encounters (some lasting for several days without interruption), Defendants forced Plaintiff NAA to endure temperature extremes, meal deprivation, sleep deprivation, denial of restroom use, and rotted food, as well as denigrating, cruel, and abusive shouting at Plaintiff NAA. Often these stressors would trigger uncontrollable asthma attacks in NAA. Defendants also withheld NAA's asthma inhaler despite his inhaler dependence, and threatened to take it away because another student had used the inhaler without NAA's permission. Plaintiff NAA was forced to move piles of rock as punishment only to have another resident move the pile back as their punishment. On one occasion, Defendants forced Plaintiff to crawl down into a septic tank to check and see why pipes were blocked, and on another, forced Plaintiff to swing a pickax on a firebreak despite Plaintiff injuring a lumbar spinal disk. During another of the "Lifestep" group encounters, Plaintiff NAA was forced to rip through a sheet being held tightly down over him, and after he successfully did so, he was held underneath another sheet (much more tightly) for a longer period. Plaintiff also suffered from extreme cold when being forced to sleep outdoors in -20° F weather. This list of abusive acts is not exclusive.

                                                                              30.[/list]
                                                                              Plaintiff NAA did in fact suffer severe emotional distress as a result of this abuse that occurred as part of the Program, and such physical and psychological abuse of a child is beyond the bounds of all socially tolerable conduct.

                                                                                31.[/list]
                                                                                Defendants' counselors used the Program described in paragraphs 6 through 8, above, to intentionally inflict severe emotional distress through the abuse of Plaintiff NAA. Defendants' Program was administered by their counselors within the course and scope of the counselors' agency as described in paragraphs 9 and 10 above.

                                                                                  32.[/list]
                                                                                  As a result of Defendants' intentional infliction of emotional distress, Plaintiff NAA has suffered permanent and lasting damages including bodily harm at the time of abuse, severe physical, mental, and emotional harm at the time of the abuse, as well as later-manifesting and/or later-arising permanent psychological damage that was distinct in time and logic from what was suffered at the time of the abuse. These harms resulted in Plaintiff NAA 's non-economic damages in the amount of $1,000,000.00, the exact amount of which will be proven at the time of trial.

                                                                                    33.[/list]
                                                                                    As a result of Defendants' intentional infliction of emotional distress, Plaintiff NAA has incurred and/or will incur in the future costs for counseling, psychiatric, psychological, and medical treatment. Plaintiff has also suffered lost economic opportunity for the interruption of his studies, and suffered lost wages because he is unable to work in his profession of filmmaking due to the injury to his back from swinging the pickax. Plaintiff NAA's economic damages total the approximate amount of $750,000.00, the exact amount of which will be proven at the time of trial.

                                                                                      FIFTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                      By Plaintiff NAA Against All Defendants
                                                                                      Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress

                                                                                      34.[/list]
                                                                                      Plaintiff NAA realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 11, and 27 through 33, above.

                                                                                        35.[/list]
                                                                                        Defendants, acting within their special relationship, subjected Plaintiff NAA to severe ridicule, harsh and unnecessary disciplinary measures, and denial of an education, as described above. Additionally, as part of the Program, Defendants' counselors would engage in denigrating, cruel, and abusive berating of Plaintiff NAA, frequently yelling at him, mocking him harshly and requiring other residents do so, and being told that he was worthless. Defendants also required Plaintiff NAA to submit to being observed while naked and getting dressed.

                                                                                          36.[/list]
                                                                                          Defendants' administration of the Program was an intentional or reckless disregard of Plaintiff's feelings while in this responsible relationship. Defendants brutally invaded Plaintiff NAA's protected interest in his privacy, emotional health, and psychological well-being, and this invasion was of a sufficient quality or magnitude to warrant recovery of emotional distress damages. As a result of this, Plaintiff NAA suffered the damages described in paragraphs 32 and 33, above.

                                                                                            SIXTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                            By Plaintiff NAA Against All Defendants
                                                                                            Battery

                                                                                            37.[/list]
                                                                                            Plaintiff NAA realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 11, and 27 through 36, above.

                                                                                              38.[/list]
                                                                                              During the various "Lifestep" group encounters, Defendants controlled the physical conduct of all of the residents and counselors, and directed, coerced, or required both other residents and staff to physically batter Plaintiff NAA as part of the "Lifestep" program. Other residents were forced under duress to participate by threat of severe punishments if they did not appear to be participating fully in the physical assaults on their peers.

                                                                                                39.[/list]
                                                                                                Specifically, during one "Lifestep," individual residents—including Plaintiff NAA—were required to "break into" a circle of other residents by running at the circle at high speed and physically fighting to gain entry while those in the circle linked arms and fought under the orders of Defendants to prevent entry. In the course of this activity, both individual residents and those who were trying to break in sustained significant physical injuries. Plaintiff NAA suffered injuries both as the individual breaking in and as one of the members of the circle. In another "Lifestep," Defendants ordered Plaintiff NAA to rip out of a bedsheet that was forcibly being held down by other residents. Plaintiff NAA ripped through one sheet only to be held down more forcefully under a sheet a second time. While being held under these sheets and trying to rip through them, Plaintiff NAA sustained numerous painful abrasions and fabric burns as well as feelings of claustrophobia and helplessness.

                                                                                                  40.[/list]
                                                                                                  The "breaking into" the circle and defending it from other residents, as well as being held under a sheet, constituted harmful and offensive touching to which Plaintiff NAA did not and could not consent. At all times relevant to this complaint, the persons who battered Plaintiff NAA were acting under the forced compulsion or directions of Defendants.

                                                                                                    41.[/list]
                                                                                                    As a result of this physical battery at the orders of Defendants, Plaintiff NAA suffered the damages described in paragraphs 32 and 33, above.
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                                                                                                      SEVENTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                                      By Plaintiff TGB Against All Defendants
                                                                                                      Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

                                                                                                      42.[/list]
                                                                                                      Plaintiff TGB realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 11, above.

                                                                                                        43.[/list]
                                                                                                        Defendants formed a special relationship with Plaintiff TGB by soliciting her and/or her parents to attend their "therapeutic boarding school," accepting her as a resident, and closely governing her conduct there. Defendants assumed in loco parentis responsibility for Plaintiff TGB's well-being, took charge of every aspect of Plaintiff TGB's life, and eliminated virtually all of TGB's interaction with the outside world. At the same time, defendants ostensibly were instructing her on her emotional and psychological condition, assisting her in changing her behavior, and claiming to provide standard educational services. In doing so, Defendants' relationship with Plaintiff TGB included a specific duty to avoid the infliction of emotional distress. Defendant CRC Health Group also independently developed this type of relationship with Plaintiff TGB through her enrollment as SUWS Wilderness School in Idaho, another subsidiary of CRC. Plaintiff TGB was enrolled at SUWS for two weeks prior to being transferred to Mt. Bachelor Academy.

                                                                                                          44.[/list]
                                                                                                          Defendants' counselors and other agents, using the Program described in paragraphs 6 through 8, above, knowingly and intentionally caused severe emotional distress to Plaintiff TGB when they physically and psychologically abused her through the program. Defendants refused to allow Plaintiff TGB unmonitored contact with her family, and would end calls or destroy letters if Plaintiff TGB attempted to tell her family what was occurring. During all seven on-campus "Lifestep" group encounters (some lasting for several days without interruption), Defendants forced Plaintiff TGB to endure temperature extremes, meal deprivation, sleep deprivation, denial of restroom use, and rotted food, as well as denigrating, cruel, and abusive shouting at Plaintiff. For instance, as a collective punishment for all residents of Mt. Bachelor Academy in October of 1997, the girls were separated from the boys, and Plaintiff TGB along with the other girls were taken to a private ranch and forced to build a road, with Defendants demanding Plaintiff TGB dig up sagebrush and large rocks all day with a pickax until her hands blistered extensively. Plaintiff TGB was also subjected to weeks-long social isolation punishments (with one being 5 weeks, and 6 weeks long) during which time she was required to dig out tree stumps with hand tools, run all day long with wheelbarrows full of gravel, and clean bathroom floors without gloves using straight bleach and a toothbrush, all the while being forbidden to talk to or look at anyone. As part of one of Plaintiff TGB's final on-campus "Lifesteps," the group was taken out into the woods in the middle of winter wearing only sleeveless and legless wetsuits, then fully submerged in a partially frozen trough of water, and forced to remain outside in this condition for hours. This list of abusive acts is not exclusive.

                                                                                                            45.[/list]
                                                                                                            Plaintiff TGB did in fact suffer severe emotional distress as a result of this abuse that occurred as part of the Program, and such physical and psychological abuse of a child is beyond the bounds of all socially tolerable conduct.

                                                                                                              46.[/list]
                                                                                                              Defendants' counselors used the Program described in paragraphs 6 through 8m above, to intentionally inflict severe emotional distress through the abuse of Plaintiff TGB. Defendants' Program was administered by their counselors within the course and scope of the counselors' agency as described n paragraphs 9 and 10, above.

                                                                                                                47.[/list]
                                                                                                                As a result of Defendants' intentional infliction of emotional distress, Plaintiff TGB has suffered permanent and lasting damages including bodily harm at the time of abuse, severe physical, mental, and emotional harm at the time of the abuse, as well as later-manifesting and/or later-arising permanent psychological damage that was distinct in time and logic from what was suffered at the time of the abuse. These harms resulted in Plaintiff TGB's non-economic damages in the amount of $1,000,000.00, the exact amount of which will be proven at the time of trial.

                                                                                                                  48.[/list]
                                                                                                                  As a result of Defendants' intentional infliction of emotional distress, Plaintiff TGB has incurred and/or will incur in the future costs for counseling, psychiatric, psychological, and medical treatment. Plaintiff TGB has also suffered lost economic opportunity for the interruption of her studies and the loss of family funds for secondary education. Plaintiff TGB's economic damages total the approximate amount of $500,000.00, the exact amount of which will be proven at the time of trial.

                                                                                                                    EIGHTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                                                    By Plaintiff TGB Against All Defendants
                                                                                                                    Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress

                                                                                                                    49.[/list]
                                                                                                                    Plaintiff TGB realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 18, and 42 through 48, above.

                                                                                                                      50.[/list]
                                                                                                                      Defendants, acting within their special relationship, subjected Plaintiff TGB to severe ridicule, harsh and unnecessary disciplinary measures, and denial of an education, as described above. Additionally, as part of the Program, Defendants' coounselors would engage in denigrating, cruel, and abusive berating of Plaintiff TGB, frequently yelling at her that she was worthless, a "slut," and unworthy of love.

                                                                                                                        51.[/list]
                                                                                                                        Defendants' administration of the Program was an intentional or reckless disregard of Plaintiff's feelings while in this responsible relationship. Defendants brutally invaded Plaintiff TGB's protected interest in her privacy, emotional health, and psychological well-being, and this invasion was of a sufficient quality or magnitude to warrant recovery of emotional distress damages. As a result of this, Plaintiff TGB suffered the damages described in paragraphs 47 and 48, above.

                                                                                                                          NINTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                                                          By Plaintiff TGB Against All Defendants
                                                                                                                          Battery

                                                                                                                          52.[/list]
                                                                                                                          Plaintiff TGB realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 11, and 42 through 51, above.

                                                                                                                            53.[/list]
                                                                                                                            During the various "Lifestep" group encounters, Defendants controlled the physical conduct of all of the residents and counselors, and directed, coerced, or required both other residents and staff to physically batter Plaintiff TGB as part of the "Lifestep" program. Other residents were forced under duress to take part in these batteries by threat of severe punishments if they did not appear to be participating fully in the physical assaults on their peers.

                                                                                                                              54.[/list]
                                                                                                                              Specifically, during one "Lifestep," individual residents—including Plaintiff TGB—were required to "break into" a circle of other residents by running at the circle at high speed and physically fighting to gain entry while those in the circle linked arms and fought under the orders of Defendants to prevent entry. In the course of this activity, both individual residents and those who were trying to break in sustained significant physical injuries. In another "Lifestep," Defendants ordered Plaintiff TGB to rip out of a bedsheet that was forcibly being held down by other residents. While being held under this sheet and trying to rip through it, Plaintiff TGB sustained numerous painful abrasions and fabric burns as well as feelings of claustrophobia and helplessness.

                                                                                                                                55.[/list]
                                                                                                                                The "breaking into" the circle and defending it from other residents, as well as being held under a sheet, constituted harmful and offensive touching to which Plaintiff TGB did not and could not consent. At all times relevant to this complaint, the persons who battered Plaintiff TGB were acting under the forced compulsion or directions of Defendants.

                                                                                                                                  56.[/list]
                                                                                                                                  As a result of this physical battery at the orders of Defendants, Plaintiff TGB suffered the damages described in paragraphs 47 and 48, above.

                                                                                                                                    TENTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                                                                    By Plaintiff RB Against All Defendants
                                                                                                                                    Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

                                                                                                                                    57.[/list]
                                                                                                                                    Plaintiff RB realleges and incorporates by reference 1 through 11, above.

                                                                                                                                      58.[/list]
                                                                                                                                      Defendants formed a special relationship with Plaintiff RB by soliciting him and/or his parents to attend their "therapeutic boarding school," accepting him as a resident, and closely governing his conduct there. Defendants assumed in loco parentis responsibility for Plaintiff RB's interaction with the outside world. At the same time, Defendants ostensibly were instructing him on his emotional and psychological condition, assisting him in changing his behavior, and claiming to provide standard education services. In doing so, Defendants' relationship with Plaintiff RB included a specific duty to avoid the infliction of emotional distress.

                                                                                                                                        59.[/list]
                                                                                                                                        Defendants' counselors and other agents, using the Program described in paragraphs 6 through 8, above, knowingly and intentionally caused severe emotional distress to Plaintiff RB when they physically and psychologically abused him through the program. Defendants also refused to allow Plaintiff RB unmonitored contact with his family, and would end calls or destroy letters if Plaintiff RB attempted to tell his family what was occurring. During all seven on-campus "Lifestep" group encounters (some lasting for several days without interruption), Defendants forced Plaintiff RB to endure temperature extremes, meal deprivation, sleep deprivation, denial of restroom use, and rotted good, as well as denigrating, cruel, and abusive shouting at Plaintiff RB. For instance, in one of the "Lifesteps," Plaintiff RB—a young teenage boy—was forced to wear a bikini underwear and repeatedly dance in front of the encounter group and staff as a male exotic dancer. Also, as a collective punishment for all residents of Mt. Bachelor Academy in October of 1997, the boys were separated from the girls, and Plaintiff RB and the other boys were taken to another ranch and forced to remove a seven to eight foot pile of manure from a barn, and to remove large boulders from irrigation ditches. Also during this time, Plaintiff RB was forced to run up an extended steep grade repeatedly with other groups of boys to the point that even though he was an exceptional athlete, RB was left in excessive pain for approximately two weeks afterwards. This list of abusive acts is not exclusive.

                                                                                                                                          60.[/list]
                                                                                                                                          Plaintiff RB did in fact suffer severe emotional distress as a result of this abuse that occurred as part of the Program, and such physical and psychological abuse of a child is beyond the bounds of all socially tolerable conduct.

                                                                                                                                            61.[/list]
                                                                                                                                            Defendants' counselors used the Program described in paragraphs 6 through 8, above, to intentionally inflict severe emotional distress through the abuse of Plaintiff RB. Defendants' Program was administered by their counselors within the course and scope of the counselors' agency as described in paragraphs 9 and 10, above.

                                                                                                                                              62.[/list]
                                                                                                                                              As a result of Defendants' intentional infliction of emotional distress, Plaintiff RB has suffered permanent and lasting damages including bodily harm at the time of the abuse, severe physical, mental, and emotional harm at the time of the abuse, as well as later-manifesting and/or later-arising permanent psychological damage that was distinct in time and logic from what was suffered at the time of the abuse. These harms resulted in Plaintiff RB's non-economic damages in the amount of $1,000,000.00, the exact amount of which will be proven at the time of trial.

                                                                                                                                                63.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                As a result of Defendants' intentional infliction of emotional distress, Plaintiff RB incurred and/or will incur in the future costs for counseling, psychiatric, psychological, and medical treatment. Plaintiff has also suffered lost economic opportunity for the interruption of his studies, suffered lost wages because he is unable to work due to the injury to his back from swinging the pickax, and will require ongoing medical care. Plaintiff RB's economic damages total the approximate amount of $750,000.00, the exact amount of which will be proven at the time of trial.

                                                                                                                                                  ELEVENTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                                                                                  By Plaintiff RB Against All Defendants
                                                                                                                                                  Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress

                                                                                                                                                  64.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                  Plaintiff RB realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 11, and 57 through 63, above.

                                                                                                                                                    65.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                    Defendants, acting within their special relationship, subjected Plaintiff RB to severe ridicule, harsh and unnecessary disciplinary measures, and denial of an education, as described above. Additionally, as part of the Program, Defendants' counselors would engage in denigrating, cruel, and abusive berating of Plaintiff RB, frequently yelling at him, mocking him harshly and requiring other residents do so, and yelling at him that he was worthless. Defendants also required Plaintiff RB to submit to being observed while naked and getting dressed.

                                                                                                                                                      66.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                      Defendants' administration of the Program was an intentional or reckless disregard of Plaintiff's feelings while in this responsible relationship. Defendants brutally invaded Plaintiff RB's protected interest in his privacy, emotional health, and psychological well-being, and this invasion was of a sufficient quality or magnitude to warrant recovery of emotional distress damages. As a result of this, Plaintiff RB suffered the damages described in paragraphs 62 and 63, above.

                                                                                                                                                        TWELFTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                                                                                        By Plaintiff RB Against All Defendants
                                                                                                                                                        Battery

                                                                                                                                                        67.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                        Plaintiff RB realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 11, and 57 through 66, above.

                                                                                                                                                          68.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                          During the various "Lifestep" group encounters, Defendants controlled the physical conduct of all of the residents and counselors, and directed, coerced, or required both other residents and staff to physically batter Plaintiff RB as part of the "Lifestep" program. Other residents were forced under duress to participate by threat of severe punishments if they did not appear to be participating fully in the physical assaults on their peers.

                                                                                                                                                            69.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                            Specifically, during one "Lifestep," individual residents—including Plaintiff RB—were required to "break into" a circle of other residents by running at the circle at high speed and physically fighting to gain entry while those in the circle linked arms and fought under the orders of Defendants to prevent entry. In the course of this activity, both individual residents and those who were trying to break in sustained signigicant physical injuries. Plaintiff RB suffered injuries both as the individual breaking in and as one of the members of the circle. In another "Lifestep," Defendants ordered Plaintiff RB to rip out of a to rip out of a bedsheet that was forcibly being held down by other residents. While being held under this sheet and trying to rip through it, Plaintiff RB sustained numerous painful abrasions and fabric burns as well as feelings of claustrophobia and helplessness.

                                                                                                                                                              70.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                              The "breaking into" the circle and defending it from other residents, as well as being held under a sheet, constituted harmful and offensive touching to which Plaintiff RB did not and could not consent. At all times relevant to this complaint, the persons who battered RB were acting under the forced compulsion or directions of Defendants.

                                                                                                                                                                71.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                As a result of this physical battery at the orders of Defendants, Plaintiff RB suffered the damages described in paragraphs 62 and 63, above.

                                                                                                                                                                  THIRTEENTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                                                                                                  By Plaintiff MST Against All Defendants
                                                                                                                                                                  Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

                                                                                                                                                                  72.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                  Plaintiff MST realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 11, above.

                                                                                                                                                                    73.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                    Defendants formed a special relationship with Plaintiff MST by soliciting him and/or his mother to attend their "therapeutic boarding school," accepting him as a resident, and closely governing his conduct there. Defendants assumed in loco parentis responsibility for Plaintiff MST's well-being, took charge of every aspect of Plaintiff MST's life, and eliminated virtually all of MST's interaction with the outside world. At the same time, Defendants ostensibly were instructing him on his emotional and psychological condition, assisting him in changing his behavior and claiming to provide standard education services. In doing so, Defendants' relationship with Plaintiff MST included a specific duty to avoid the infliction of emotional distress.

                                                                                                                                                                      74.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                      Defendants' counselors and other agents, using the Program described in paragraphs 6 through 8, above, knowingly and intentionally caused severe emotional distress to Plaintiff MST when they physically and psychologically abused him through the program. Defendants also refused to allow Plaintiff MST unmonitored contact with his family, and would end calls or destroy letters if Plaintiff MST attempted to tell his family what was occurring. During all seven on-campus "Lifestep" group encounters (some lasting for several days without interruption), Defendants forced Plaintiff MST to endure temperature extremes, meal deprivation, sleep deprivation, denial of restroom use, and rotted food, as well as denigrating, cruel, and abusive shouting at Plaintiff MST. For instance, shortly after Plaintiff MST enrolled at Mt. Bachelor Academy, Defendants began their process of psychological conditioning, and forced MST to disclose to his entire class the physical abuse he suffered at the hands of his father. Then knowing of this earlier abuse, Defendants required Plaintiff MST to be verbally abused by staff and other residents, and to verbally abuse them himself, as well as requiring MST to blame himself for his father's abuse. Defendants also arbitrarily deprived Plaintiff MST of his psychiatric medication—a medication called valproic acid—the sudden cessation of which can cause life-threatening seizures. Faced with this abuse, Plaintiff ran away often and was subjected to severe discipline, including being left alone in the woods—as a 13 year old—for up to 24 hours, social isolation for up to six weeks at a time on several occasions, a nine week diversion to a wilderness program, and punitive, strenuous physical labor for about 10 hours a day for days and weeks at a time. This list of abusive acts is not exclusive.

                                                                                                                                                                        75.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                        Plaintiff MST did in fact suffer severe emotional distress as a result of this abuse that occurred as part of the Program, and such physical and psychological abuse of a child is beyond the bounds of all socially tolerable conduct.

                                                                                                                                                                          76.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                          Defendants' counselors used the Program described in paragraphs 6 through 8, above, to intentionally inflict severe emotional distress through the abuse of Plaintiff MST. Defendants' Program was administered by their counselors within the course and scope of the counselors' agency as described in paragraphs 9 and 10, above.

                                                                                                                                                                            77.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                            As a result of Defendants' intentional infliction of emotional distress, Plaintiff MST has suffered permanent and lasting damages including bodily harm at the time of abuse, severe physical, mental, and emotional harm at the time of the abuse, as well as later-manifesting and/or later-arising permanent psychological damage that was distinct in time and logic from what was suffered at the time of the abuse. These harms resulted in Plaintiff MST's non-economic damages in the amount of $1,000,000.00, the exact amount of which will be proven at the time of trial.

                                                                                                                                                                              78.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                              As a result of Defendants' intentional infliction of emotional distress, Plaintiff MST has incurred and/or will incur in the future costs for counseling, psychiatric, psychological, and medical treatment. Plaintiff MST has also suffered lost economic opportunity for the interruption of his studies, his subsequent dropping out of high school and never going on to secondary education, despite performing in the top percentiles of standardized tests prior to attending Mt. Bachelor Academy. Plaintiff MST's economic damages total the approximate amount of $750,000.00, the exact amount of which will be proven at the time of trial.

                                                                                                                                                                                FOURTEENTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                                                                                                                By Plaintiff MST Against All Defendants
                                                                                                                                                                                Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress

                                                                                                                                                                                79.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                Plaintiff MST realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 11, and 72 through 78, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                  80.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                  Defendants, acting within their special relationship, subjected Plaintiff MST to severe ridicule, harsh and unnecessary disciplinary measures, and denial of an education, as described above. Additionally, as part of the Program, Defendants' counselors would engage in denigrating, cruel, and abusive berating of Plaintiff MST, frequently yelling at him, mocking him harshly and requiring other residents do so, and yelling at him that he was worthless. Defendants also required Plaintiff MST to submit to being observed while naked and getting dressed.

                                                                                                                                                                                    81.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                    Defendants' administration of the Program was an intentional or reckless disregard of Plaintiff's feelings while in this responsible relationship. Defendants brutally invaded Plaintiff MST's protected interest in his privacy, emotional health, and psychological well-being, and this invasion was of a sufficient quality or magnitude to warrant recovery of emotional distress damages. As a result of this, Plaintiff MST suffered the damages described in paragraphs 77 and 78, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                      FIFTEENTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                                                                                                                      By Plaintiff MST Against All Defendants
                                                                                                                                                                                      Battery

                                                                                                                                                                                      82.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                      Plaintiff MST realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 11, and 72 through 81, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                        83.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                        During the various "Lifestep" group encounters, Defendants controlled the physical conduct of all of the residents and counselors, and directed, coerced, or required both other residents and staff to physically batter Plaintiff MST as part of the "Lifestep" program. Other residents were forced under duress to participate by threat of severe punishments if they did not appear to be participating fully in the physical assaults on their peers.

                                                                                                                                                                                          84.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                          Specifically, during one "Lifestep," individual residents—including Plaintiff MST—were required to "break into" a circle of other residents by running at the circle at high speed and physically fighting to gain entry while those in the circle linked arms and fought under the orders of Defendants to prevent entry. In the course of this activity, both individual residents and those who were trying to break in sustained significant physical injuries. Plaintiff MST suffered injuries both as the individual breaking in and as one of the members of the circle. In another "Lifestep," Defendants ordered Plaintiff MST to rip out of a bedsheet that was forcibly being held down by other residents. While being held under this sheet and trying to rip through it, Plaintiff MST sustained numerous painful abrasions and fabric burns as well as feelings of claustrophobia and helplessness.

                                                                                                                                                                                            85.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                            The "breaking into" the circle and defending it from other residents, as well as being held under a sheet, constituted harmful and offensive touching to which Plaintiff MST did not and could not consent. At all times relevant to this complaint, the persons who battered Plaintiff MST were acting under the forced compulsion or directions of Defendants.

                                                                                                                                                                                              86.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                              As a result of this physical battery at the orders of Defendants, Plaintiff MST suffered the damages described in paragraphs 77 and 78, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                SIXTEENTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                                                                                                                                By Plaintiff TL Against All Defendants
                                                                                                                                                                                                Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

                                                                                                                                                                                                87.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                Plaintiff TL realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 11, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  88.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                  Defendants formed a special relationship with Plaintiff TL by soliciting her and/or her parents to attend their "therapeutic boarding school," accepting her as a resident, and closely governing her conduct there. Defendants assumed in loco parentis responsibility for Plaintiff TL's well-being, took charge of every aspect of Plaintiff TL's life, and eliminated virtually all of TL's interaction with the outside world. At the same time, Defendants ostensibly were instructing her on her emotional and psychological condition, assisting her in changing her behavior, and claiming to provide standard educational services. In doing so, Defendants' relationship with Plaintiff TL included a specific duty to avoid the infliction of emotional distress. Defendant CRC Health Group independently developed this type of relationship with Plaintiff TL through her two temporary transfers (as punishment) to SUWS Wilderness School in Idaho, another subsidiary of CRC. Defendant Aspen independently developed this special relationship with Plaintiff TL when she was transferred (again as punishment) to Aspen Academy, a wilderness school in Idaho owned by Defendant Aspen.

                                                                                                                                                                                                    89.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                    Defendants' counselors and other agents, using the Program described in paragraphs 6 through 8, above, knowingly and intentionally caused severe emotional distress to Plaintiff TL when they physically and psychologically abused her through the program. Defendants refused to allow Plaintiff TL unmonitored contact with her family, and would end calls or destroy letters if Plaintiff TL attempted to tell her family what was occurring. During all seven on-campus "Lifestep" group encounters (some lasting for several days without interruption), Defendants forced Plaintiff TL to endure temperature extremes, meal deprivation, sleep deprivation, denial of restroom use, and rotted food, as well as denigrating, cruel, and abusive shouting at Plaintiff. Upon arrival at Mt. Bachelor Academy, Defendants' counselors began to call her names such as "whore" and "slut," and required other residents do the same. Defendants then forced Plaintiff TL to act out sexual roles with both her fellow residents and adult male counselors during Lifestep group encounters, demanding that Plaintiff TL walk up to the males in her group, including the adult male counselors, and ask them, "Do you have a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" Plaintiff TL was also sent out to wilderness schools during which time she was subjected to temperature extremes, harsh physical demands, and deprivation of education. This list of abusive acts is not exclusive.

                                                                                                                                                                                                      90.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                      Plaintiff TL did in fact suffer severe emotional distress as a result of this abuse that occurred as part of the Program, and such physical and psychological abuse of a child is beyond the bounds of all socially tolerable conduct.

                                                                                                                                                                                                        91.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Defendants' counselors used the Program described in paragraphs 6 though 8, above, to intentionally inflict severe emotional distress through the abuse of Plaintiff TL. Defendants' Program was administered by their counselors within the course and scope of the counselors' agency as described in paragraphs 9 and 10, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                          92.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                          As a result of Defendants' intentional infliction of emotional distress, Plaintiff TL has suffered permanent and lasting damages including bodily harm at the time of abuse, severe physical, mental, and emotional harm at the time of the abuse, as well as later-manifesting and/or later-arising permanent psychological damage that was distinct in time and logic from what was suffered at the time of the abuse. These harms resulted in Plaintiff TL's non-economic damages in the amount of $1,000,000.00, the exact amount of which will be proven at the time of trial.

                                                                                                                                                                                                            93.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                            As a result of Defendants' intentional infliction of emotional distress, Plaintiff TL has incurred and/or will incur in the future costs for counseling, psychiatric, psychological, and medical treatment. Plaintiff TL has also suffered lost economic opportunity for the interruption of her studies and the loss of family funds for secondary education. Plaintiff TL's economic damages total the approximate amount of $500,000.00, the exact amount of which will be proven at the time of trial.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              SEVENTEENTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                                                                                                                                              By Plaintiff TL Against All Defendants
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress

                                                                                                                                                                                                              94.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Plaintiff TL realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 18, and 82 through 93, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                95.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                Defendants, acting within their special relationship, subjected Plaintiff TL to severe ridicule, harsh and unnecessary disciplinary measures, and denial of an education, as described above. Additionally, as part of the Program, Defendants' counselors would engage in denigrating, cruel, and abusive berating of Plaintiff TL, frequently yelling at her that she was worthless, a "slut," and unworthy of love. Furthermore, the counselor who engaged in month of sexual contact with Plaintiff TL, described in paragraph 99 below, informed Defendants prior to his sexual touching of plain TL that he was concerned he would not be able to control his sexual actions with TL. Despite being told this by the man himself, Defendants did nothing to separate this man from contact with Plaintiff TL, and the sexual touching lasted for approximately two years.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  96.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Defendants' administration of the Program was an intentional or reckless disregard of Plaintiff's feelings while in this responsible relationship. Defendants brutally invaded Plaintiff TL's protected interest in her privacy, emotional health, and psychological well-being, and this invasion was of a sufficient quality or magnitude to warrant recovery of emotional distress damages. As a resul of this, Plaintiff TL suffered the damages described in paragraphs 92 and 93, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    EIGHTEENTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    By Plaintiff TL Against All Defendants
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Battery

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    97.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Plaintiff TL realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 11, and 82 through 96, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      98.[/list]

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      During the various "Lifestep" group encounters, Defendants controlled the physical conduct of all of the residents and counselors, and directed, coerced or required both other residents and staff to physically batter Plaintiff TL as part of the "Lifestep" program. Other residents were forced under duress to participate by threat of severe punishments if they did not appear to be participating fully in the physical assaults on their peers.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        99.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Specifically, during one "Lifestep," individual residents—including Plaintiff TL—were required to "break into" a circle of other residents by running at the circle at high speed and physically fighting to gain entry while those in the circle linked arms and fought under the orders of Defendants to prevent entry. In the course of this activity, both individual residents and those who were trying to break in sustained significant physical injuries. Plaintiff TL suffered injuries both as the individual breaking in and as one of the members of the circle. In another "Lifestep," Defendants ordered Plaintiff TL to rip out of a bedsheet that was forcibly being held down by other residents. While being held under this sheet and trying to rip through it, Plaintiff TL sustained numerous painful abrasions and fabric burns as well as feelings of claustrophobia and helplessness. Additionally, and unrelated to any particular "Lifestep" encounter, one of Defendants' employees—an adult male counselor—developed a romantic relationship with Plaintiff TL, seduced her, and began to fondle her buttocks and body in the course of kissing her, as well as putting his hands down the back of her pants and inside her underwear when he greeted her. This sexual abuse continued for approximately 2 years and arose out of or resulted from the authorized employment duties that the counselor had with Defendants.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          100.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The "breaking into" the circle and defending it from other residents, as well as being held under a sheet, and in Plaintiff TL's case the sexual touching, all constituted harmful and offensive touching to which Plaintiff TL did not and could not consent as a matter of law. At all times relevant to this complaint, the persons who battered Plaintiff TL were acting under the forced compulsion or directions of Defendants, and/or the touching occurred in the course of or as a result of individuals' authorized employment duties on behalf of Defendants.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            101.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            As a result of this physical battery at the orders of Defendants, Plaintiff TL suffered the damages described in paragraphs 92 and 93, above.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Text of Complaint, Case No. 1107-08552, part 3/3
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            « Reply #23 on: July 23, 2011, 04:46:49 PM »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              NINETEENTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              By Plaintiff BPO Against All Defendants
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              102.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Plaintiff BPO realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 11, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                103.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Defendants formed a special relationship with Plaintiff BPO by soliciting him and/or his parents to attend their "therapeutic boarding school," accepting him as a resident, and closely governing his conduct there. Defendants assumed in loco parentis responsibility for Plaintiff BPO's well-being, took charge of every aspect of Plaintiff BPO's life, and eliminated virtually all of BPO's interaction with the outside world. At the same time, Defendants ostensibly were instructing him on his emotional and psychological condition, assisting him in changing his behavior, and claiming to provide standard educational services. In doing so, Defendants' relationship with Plaintiff BPO included a specific duty to avoid the infliction of emotional distress.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  104.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Defendants' counselors and other agents, using the Program described in paragraphs 6 through 8, above, knowingly and intentionally caused severe emotional distress to Plaintiff BPO when they physically and psychologically abused him through the program. Defendants also refused to allow Plaintiff BPO unmonitored contact with his family, and would end calls or destroy letters if Plaintiff BPO attempted to tell his family what was occurring. During all seven on-campus "Lifestep" group encounters (some lasting for several days without interruption), Defendants forced Plaintiff BPO to endure temperature extremes, meal deprivation, sleep deprivation, denial of restroom use, and rotted food, as well as denigrating, cruel, and abusive shouting at Plaintiff BPO. For instance, Plaintiff BPO was forced to hike and camp in sub-zero temperatures during a ten day wilderness event. BPO was also punished as were the others with social isolation for periods of days and weeks during which times he was forced to perform punitive labor such as being required to dig into a frozen hillside. In the course of one of the seven on-campus "Lifestep" encounter groups, Plaintiff BPO was forced to hit a mattress until his knuckles bled. This list of abusive acts is not exclusive.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    105.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Plaintiff BPO did in fact suffer severe emotional distress as a result of this abuse that occurred as part of the Program, and such physical and psychological abuse of a child is beyond the bounds of all socially tolerable conduct.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      106.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Defendants' counselors used the Program described in paragraphs 6 through 8, above, to intentionally inflict severe emotional distress through the abuse of Plaintiff BPO. Defendants' Program was administered by their counselors within the course and scope of the counselors' agency as described in paragraphs 9 and 10, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        107.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        As a result of Defendants' intentional infliction of emotional distress, Plaintiff BPO has suffered permanent and lasting damages including bodily harm at the time of abuse, severe physical, mental, and emotional harm at the time of the abuse, as well as later-manifesting and/or later-arising permanent psychological damage that was distinct in time and logic from what was suffered at the time of the abuse. These harms resulted in Plaintiff BPO's non-economic damages in the amount of $1,000,000.00, the exact amount of which will be proven at the time of trial.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          108.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          As a result of Defendants' intentional infliction of emotional distress, Plaintiff BPO has incurred and/or will incur in the future costs for counseling, psychiatric, psychological, and medical treatment. Plaintiff BPO has also suffered lost economic opportunity for the interruption of his studies. Plaintiff BPO's economic damages total the approximate amount of $500,000.00, the exact amount of which will be proven at the time of trial.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            TWENTIETH CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            By Plaintiff BPO Against All Defendants
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            109.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Plaintiff BPO realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 11, and 102 through 108, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              110.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Defendants, acting within their special relationship, subjected Plaintiff BPO to severe ridicule, harsh and unnecessary disciplinary measures, and denial of an education, as described above. Additionally, as part of the Program, Defendants' counselors would engage in denigrating, cruel, and abusive berating of Plaintiff BPO, frequently yelling at him, mocking him harshly and requiring other residents do so, and yelling at him that he was worthless. Defendants also required Plaintiff BPO to submit to being observed while naked and getting dressed.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                111.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Defendants' administration of the Program was an intentional or reckless disregard of Plaintiff's feelings while in this responsible relationship. Defendants brutally invaded Plaintiff BPO's protected interest in his privacy, emotional health, and psychological well-being, and this invasion was of a sufficient quality or magnitude to warrant recovery of emotional distress damages. As a result of this, Plaintiff suffered the damages described in paragraphs 107 and 108, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  TWENTY-FIRST CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  By Plaintiff BPO Against All Defendants
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Battery

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  112.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Plaintiff BPO realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 11, and 102 through 111, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    113.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    During the various "Lifestep" group encounters, Defendants controlled the physical conduct of all of the residents and counselors, and directed, coerced, or required both other residents and staff to physically batter Plaintiff BPO as part of the "Lifestep" program. Other residents were forced under duress to participate by threat of severe punishments if they did not appear to be participating fully in the physical assaults on their peers.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      114.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Specifically, during one "Lifestep," individual residents—including Plaintiff BPO—were required to "break into" a circle of other residents by running at the circle at high speed and physically fighting to gain entry while those in the circle linked arms and fought under the orders of Defendants to prevent entry. In the course of this activity, both individual residents and those who were trying to break in sustained significant physical injuries. Plaintiff BPO suffered injuries both as the individual breaking in and as one of the members of the circle. In another "Lifestep," Defendants ordered Plaintiff BPO to rip out of a bedsheet that was forcibly being held down by other residents. While being held under this sheet and trying to rip through it, Plaintiff BPO sustained numerous painful abrasions and fabric burns as well as feelings of claustrophobia and helplessness.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        115.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The "breaking into" the circle and defending it from other residents, as well as being held under a sheet, constituted harmful and offensive touching to which Plaintiff BPO did not and could not consent. At all times relevant to this complaint, the persons who battered Plaintiff BPO were acting under the forced compulsion or directions of Defendants.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          116.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          As a result of this physical battery at the orders of Defendants, Plaintiff BPO suffered the damages described in paragraphs 107 and 108, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            TWENTY-SECOND CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            By Plaintiff NCQ Against All Defendants
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            117.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Plaintiff NCQ realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 11, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              118.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Defendants formed a special relationship with Plaintiff NCQ by soliciting him and/or his parents to attend their "therapeutic boarding school," accepting him as a resident, and closely governing his conduct there. Defendants assumed in loco parentis responsibility for Plaintiff NCQ's well-being, took charge of every aspect of Plaintiff NCQ's life, and eliminated virtually all of NCQ's interaction with the outside world. At the same time, Defendants ostensibly were instructing him on his emotional and psychological condition, assisting him in changing his behavior, and claiming to provide standard educational services. In doing so, Defendants' relationship with Plaintiff NCQ included a specific duty to avoid the infliction of emotional distress.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                119.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Defendants' counselors and other agents, using the Program described in paragraphs 6 through 8, above, knowingly and intentionally caused severe emotional distress to Plaintiff NCQ when they physically and psychologically abused him through the program. Defendants also refused to allow Plaintiff NCQ unmonitored contact with his family, and would end calls or destroy letters if Plaintiff NCQ attempted to tell his family what was occurring. During all seven on-campus "Lifestep" group encounters (some lasting for several days without interruption), Defendants forced Plaintiff NCQ to endure temperature extremes, meal deprivation, sleep deprivation, denial of restroom use, and rotted food, as well as denigrating, cruel, and abusive shouting at Plaintiff NCQ. For instance, during one "Lifestep" that occurred while camping, Defendants forced Plaintiff NCQ to eat pita bread with one-inch growths of mold on it. In retaliation for Plaintiff NCQ passing out flyers about "brainwashing" at Mt. Bachelor Academy, Defendants had Plaintiff NCQ committed to a mental hospital, and demanded he renounce the contents of the flyers or not be allowed to see any of his friends at Mt. Bachelor Academy again. When Plaintiff NCQ tore his meniscus while snowboarding at Mt. Bachelor Academy, Defendants refused to allow him any medical care. Plaintiff NCQ also developed severe tendinitis as a result of the forced running during various disciplinary punishments, but was refused medical care and required to continue running despite the injury. This list of abusive acts is not exclusive.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  120.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Plaintiff NCQ did in fact suffer severe emotional distress as a result of this abuse that occurred as part of the Program, and such physical and psychological abuse of a child is beyond the bounds of all socially tolerable conduct.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    121.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Defendants' counselors used the Program described in paragraphs 6 through 8, above, to intentionally inflict severe emotional distress through the abuse of Plaintiff NCQ. Defendants' Program was administered by their counselors within the course and scope of the counselors' agency as described in paragraphs 9 and 10, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      122.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      As a result of Defendants' intentional infliction of emotional distress, Plaintiff NCQ has suffered permanent and lasting damages including bodily harm at the time of abuse, severe physical, mental, and emotional harm at the time of the abuse, as well as later-manifesting and/or later-arising permanent psychological damage that was distinct in time and logic from what was suffered at the time of the abuse. These harms resulted in Plaintiff NCQ's non-economic damages in the amount of $1,000,000.00, the exact amount of which will be proven at the time of trial.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        123.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        As a result of Defendants' intentional infliction of emotional distress, Plaintiff NCQ has incurred and/or will incur in the future costs for counseling, psychiatric, psychological, and medical treatment. Plaintiff NCQ has also suffered lost economic opportunity for the interruption of his studies. Plaintiff NCQ's economic damages total the approximate amount of $500,000.00, the exact amount of which will be proven at the time of trial.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          TWENTY-THIRD CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          By Plaintiff NCQ Against All Defendants
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          124.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Plaintiff NCQ realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 11, and 117 through 123, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            125.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Defendants, acting within their special relationship, subjected Plaintiff NCQ to severe ridicule, harsh and unnecessary disciplinary measures, and denial of an education, as described above. Additionally, as part of the Program, Defendants' counselors would engage in denigrating, cruel, and abusive berating of Plaintiff NCQ, frequently yelling at him, mocking him harshly and requiring other residents do so, and yelling at him that he was worthless. Defendants also required Plaintiff NCQ to submit to being observed while naked and getting dressed. Additionally, Defendants refused to allow Plaintiff NCQ to return home when his mother began to die; she died while he was on an airplane after Defendants eventually permitted the return.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              126.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Defendants administration of the Program was an intentional or reckless disregard of Plaintiff's feeling while in this responsible relationship. Defendants brutally invaded Plaintiff NCQ's protected interest in his privacy, emotional health, and psychological well-being, and this invasion was of a sufficient quality or magnitude to warrant recovery of emotional distress damages. As a result of this, Plaintiff suffered the damages described in paragraphs 122 and 123, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                TWENTY-FOURTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                By Plaintiff NCQ Against All Defendants
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Battery

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                127.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Plaintiff NCQ realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 11, and 117 through 126, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  128.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  During the various "Lifestep" group encounters, Defendants controlled the physical conduct of all of the residents and counselors, and directed, coerced, or required both other residents and staff to physically batter Plaintiff NCQ as part of the "Lifestep" program. Other residents were forced under duress to participate by threat of severe punishments if they did not appear to be participating fully in the physical assaults on their peers.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    129.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Specifically, during one "Lifestep," individual residents—including Plaintiff NCQ—were required to "break into" a circle of other residents by running at the circle at high speed and physically fighting to gain entry while those in the circle linked arms and fought under the orders of Defendants to prevent entry. In the course of this activity, both individual residents and those who were trying to break in sustained significant physical injuries. Plaintiff NCQ suffered injuries both as the individual breaking in and as one of the members of the circle. In another "Lifestep," Defendants ordered Plaintiff NCQ to rip out of a bedsheet that was forcibly being held down by other residents. While being held under this sheet and trying to rip through it, Plaintiff NCQ sustained numerous painful abrasions and fabric burns as well as feelings of claustrophobia and helplessness.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      130.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      the "breaking into" the circle and defending it from other residents, as well as being held under a sheet, constituted harmful and offensive touching to which Plaintiff NCQ did not and could not consent. At all times relevant to this complaint, the persons who battered Plaintiff NCQ were acting under the forced compulsion or directions of Defendants.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        131.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        *******
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        As a result of this physical battery at the orders of Defendants, Plaintiff NCQ suffered the damages described in paragraphs 77 and 78, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          TWENTY-FIFTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          By Plaintiff WBL Against All Defendants
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          132.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Plaintiff WBL realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 11, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            133.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Defendants formed a special relationship with Plaintiff WBL by soliciting him and/or his parents to attend their "therapeutic boarding school," accepting him as a resident, and closely governing his conduct there. Defendants assumed in loco parentis responsibility for Plaintiff WBL's well-being, took charge of every aspect of Plaintiff WBL's life, and eliminated virtually all of WBL's interaction with the outside world. At the same time, Defendants ostensibly were instructing him on his emotional and psychological condition, assisting him in changing his behavior, and claiming to provide standard educational services. In doing so, Defendants' relationship with Plaintiff WBL included a specific duty to avoid the infliction of emotional distress.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              134.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Defendants' counselors and other agents, using the Program described in paragraphs 6 through 8, above, knowingly and intentionally caused severe emotional distress to Plaintiff WBL when they physically and psychologically abused him through the program. Defendants also refused to allow Plaintiff WBL unmonitored contact with his family, and would end calls or destroy letters if Plaintiff WBL attempted to tell his family what was occurring. During all seven on-campus "Lifestep" group encounters (some lasting for several days without interruption), Defendants forced Plaintiff WBL to endure temperature extremes, meal deprivation, sleep deprivation, denial of restroom use, and rotted food, as well as denigrating, cruel, and abusive shouting at Plaintiff WBL. For instance, in the course of one of the seven on-campus "Lifestep" encounter groups, Plaintiff WBL was forced to hit a mattress until his knuckles bled; he still has scarring on his knuckles from that activity. In another "Lifestep" encounter group, Plaintiff was required to verbally attack his mother and blame her for his problems for approximately eight hours—while being deprived of food, water, restroom use, and sleep, and subjected to the song "Mother" played at extremely high volume for the entire eight hours—despite the fact that Plaintiff WBL's parents had both died years before in separate events. Plaintiff WBL alleges that discovery will show that Mt. Bachelor Academy knew of his mother being dead, and still required Plaintiff WBL to go through this "Lifestep." Plaintiff WBL is diabetic, and Defendants refused him access to his insulin, refused him access to food, and forced WBL to stay in the woods alone without his insulin, bringing it to him only in the morning and at night.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                135.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Plaintiff WBL did in fact suffer severe emotional distress as a result of this abuse that occurred as part of the Program, and such physical and psychological abuse of a child is beyond the bounds of all socially tolerable conduct.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  136.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Defendants' counselors used the Program described in paragraphs 6 through 8, above, to intentionally inflict severe emotional distress through the abuse of Plaintiff WBL. Defendants' Program was administered by their counselors within the course and scope of the counselors' agency as described in paragraphs 9 and 10, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    137.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    As a result of Defendants' intentional infliction of emotional distress, Plaintiff WBL has suffered permanent and lasting damages including bodily harm at the time of abuse, severe physical, mental, and emotional harm at the time of the abuse, as well as later-manifesting and/or later-arising permanent psychological damage that was distinct in time and logic from what was suffered at the time of the abuse. These harms resulted in Plaintiff WBL's non-economic damages in the amount of $1,000,000.00, the exact amount of which will be proven at the time of trial.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      138.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      As a result of Defendants' intentional infliction of emotional distress, Plaintiff WBL has incurred and/or will incur in the future costs for counseling, psychiatric, psychological, and medical treatment. Plaintiff WBL has also suffered lost economic opportunity for the interruption of his studies. Plaintiff WBL's economic damages total the approximate amount of $500,000.00, the exact amount of which will be proven at the time of trial.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        TWENTY-SIXTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        By Plaintiff WBL Against All Defendants
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        139.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Plaintiff WBL realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 11, and 132 through 138, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          140.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Defendants, acting within their special relationship, subjected Plaintiff WBL to severe ridicule, harsh and unnecessary disciplinary measures, and denial of an education, as described above. Additionally, as part of the Program, Defendants' counselors would engage in denigrating, cruel, and abusive berating of Plaintiff WBL, frequently yelling at him, mocking him harshly and requiring other residents do so, and yelling at him that he was worthless. Defendants also required Plaintiff WBL to submit to being observed while naked and getting dressed. On one occasion, one of the Mt. Bachelor Academy staff exposed himself to Plaintiff WBL. In the alternative to the allegation in paragraph 94 that Defendants knew of Plaintiff's mother's death prior to the "Lifestep" in which he was forced to attack her in absentia, Defendants should have known of this, and Plaintiff suffered significant psychological trauma (apart from the physical trauma of the ordeal) of having to vilify his recently-deceased mother.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            141.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Defendants' administration of the Program was an intentional or reckless disregard of Plaintiff's feelings while in this responsible relationship. Defendants brutally invaded Plaintiff WBL's protected interest in his privacy, emotional health, and psychological well-being, and this invasion was of a sufficient quality or magnitude to warrant recovery of emotional distress damages. As a result of this, Plaintiff suffered the damages described in paragraphs 137 and 138, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              TWENTY-SEVENTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              By Plaintiff WBL Against All Defendants
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Battery

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              142.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Plaintiff WBL realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 11, and 132 through 141, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                143.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                During the various "Lifestep" group encounters, Defendants controlled the physical conduct of all of the residents and counselors, and directed, coerced, or required both other residents and staff to physically batter Plaintiff WBL as part of the "Lifestep" program. Other residents were forced under duress to participate by threat of severe punishments if they did not appear to be participating fully in the physical assaults on their peers.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  144.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Specifically, during one "Lifestep," individual residents—including Plaintiff WBL—were required to "break into" a circle of other residents by running at the circle at high speed and physically fighting to gain entry while those in the circle linked arms and fought under the orders of Defendants to prevent entry. In the course of this activity, both individual residents and those who were trying to break in sustained significant physical injuries. Plaintiff WBL suffered injuries both as the the individual breaking in and as one of the members of the circle. In another "Lifestep," Defendants ordered Plaintiff WBL to rip out of a bedsheet that was forcibly being held down by other residents. While being held under this sheet and trying to rip through it, Plaintiff WBL sustained numerous painful abrasions and fabric burns as well as feelings of claustrophobia and helplessness.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    145.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The "breaking into" the circle and defending it from other residents, as well as being held under a sheet, constituted harmful and offensive touching to which Plaintiff WBL did not and could not consent. At all times relevant to this complaint, the persons who battered Plaintiff WBL were acting under the forced compulsion or directions of Defendants.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      146.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      As a result of this physical battery at the orders of Defendants, Plaintiff WBL suffered the damages described in paragraphs 137 and 138, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        TWENTY-EIGHTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        By All Plaintiffs Against All Defendants
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Negligence

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        147.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Plaintiffs reallege and incorporate by reference paragraphs 1 through 146, above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          148.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          At all times relevant to this complaint, Defendants had a special relationship with all of these Plaintiffs by virtue of Defendants' role as a residential boarding school, their control over the lives of Plaintiffs, and their near-total elimination of all of Plaintiffs' contacts with the outside world. Defendants also had full control over the actions of Defendants' counselors while they performed their employment duties on behalf of Defendants. This special relationship created a duty of care on the part of Defendants to ensure Plaintiffs' safety while participating in Defendants' Program or interacting with Defendants' agents.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            149.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Defendants knew that children were suffering physical and mental abuse in the Program run by Defendants' counselors, and that several children had gone so far as to kill themselves in the course of the Program, specifically because of the Program. Defendant created and maintained this Program, employed the counselors, and retained their exclusive right to control every aspect of the Program and the actions of the counselors within that Program.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              150.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Defendants knew of the danger that they had created with the Program and/or given their special in loco parentis relationship with Plaintiffs, yet Defendants did nothing to change the substance or format of the program in any respect while Plaintiffs resided at Mt. Bachelor Academy. In fact, the Program was institutionalized/ritualized abuse. Thus, it was foreseeable—in fact certain—that unless Defendants changed the Program, children would continue to be physcially and mentally abused. Alternatively, Defendants knew that the manner in which their minimally educated and untrained counselors conducted the Program caused physical and mental injury to children, yet failed to more closely supervise and train their counselors to avoid such injuries. It was therefore foreseeable that the refusal or failure to better train and supervise their employees would result in continued abuse of children.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                151.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Knowing of the risks of physical and mental injury posed by the Program and/or the counselors' running of the Program, it was unreasonable for Defendants to fail to alter the nature of the program or more closely supervise and train their agents and employees.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  152.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Plaintiffs have a right to be free from physical and mental abuse at the hands of Defendants' agents. Plaintiffs were all residents at Mt. Bachelor Academy, and thus were within the class of persons to be protected by Defendants' proper operation of their Program.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    153.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    All of the damages suffered by Plaintiffs, as described above, were caused by Defendants' refusal or failure to correct the known risks to Plaintiffs' health, safety, and mental health posed by Defendants' running of the Program. But for Defendants' program, these Plaintiffs would not have been subjected to the "Lifesteps" or the harsh and cruel discipline that Defendants inflicted upon Plaintiffs.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      154.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      As a direct and foreseeable result of Defendants' refusal or failure to correct the problems in the Program, each of the Plaintiffs suffered the abuses described above and incurred the respective damages described above in the Plaintiffs' individual claims for relief.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        155.[/list]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Plaintiffs here provide notice that at any time after the filing of this complaint, Plaintiffs intend to move for punitive damages against the Defendants pursuant to ORS 31.725.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        WHEREFORE, Plaintiffs pray for judgment against Defendants, and each of them, as follows:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. If successful on the First, Second, or Third Claims for Relief, non-economic damages for Plaintiff MLM in the amount of $1,000,000.00, the exact amount to be determined by the jury at the time of trial;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        2. If successful on the First, Second, or Third Claims for Relief, Economic damages for Plaintiff MLM in the amount of $500,000.00, the exact amount to be determined by the jury at the time of trial;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        3. If successful on the Fourth, Fifth, or Sixth Claims for Relief, non-economic damages for Plaintiff NAA in the amount of $1,000,000.00, the exact amount to be determined by the jury at the time of trial;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        4. If successful on the Fourth, Fifth, or Sixth Claims for Relief, economic damages for Plaintiff NAA in the amount of $750,000.00, the exact amount to be determined by the jury at the time trial;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        5. If successful on the Seventh, Eighth, or Ninth Claims for Relief, non-economic damages for Plaintiff TGB in the amount of $1,000,000.00, the exact amount to be determined by the jury at the time of trial;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        6. If successful on the Seventh, Eighth, or Ninth Claims for Relief, economic damages for Plaintiff TGB in the amount of $500,000.00, the exact amount to be determined by the jury at the time of trial;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        7. If successful on the Tenth, Eleventh, or Twelfth Claims for Relief, non-economic damages for Plaintiff RB in the amount of $1,000,000.00, the exact amount to be determined the jury at the time of trial;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        8. If successful on the Tenth, Eleventh, or Twelfth Claims for Relief, economic damages for Plaintiff RB in the amount of $750,000.00, the exact amount to be determined by the jury at the time of trial;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        9. If successful on the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, or Fifteenth Claims for Relief, non-economic damages for Plaintiff MST in the amount of $1,000,000.00, the exact amount to be determined by the jury at the time of trial;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        10. If successful on the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, or Fifteenth Claims for Relief, economic damages for Plaintiff MST in the amount of $750,000.00, the exact amount to be determined by the jury at the time of trial;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        11. If successful on the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, or Eighteenth Claims for Relief, non-economic damages for Plaintiff TL in the amount of $1,000,000.00, the exact amount to be determined by the jury at the time of trial;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        12. If successful on the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, or Eighteenth Claims for Relief, economic damages for Plaintiff TL in the amount of $500,000.00, the exact amount to be determined by the jury at the time of trial;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        13. If successful on the Nineteenth, Twentieth, or Twenty-First Claims for Relief, non-economic damages for Plaintiff BPO in the amount of $1,000,000.00, the exact amount to be determined by the jury at the time of trial;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        14. If successful on the Nineteenth, Twentieth, or Twenty-First Claims for Relief, economic damages for Plaintiff BPO in the amount of $500,000.00, the exact amount to be determined by the jury at the time of trial;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        15. If successful on the Twenty-Second, Twenty-Third, or Twenty-Fourth Claims for Relief, non-economic damages for Plaintiff NCQ in the amount of $1,000,000.00, the exact amount to be determined by the jury at the time of trial;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        16. If successful on the Twenty-Second, Twenty-Third, or Twenty-Fourth Claims for Relief, economic damages for Plaintiff NCQ in the amount of $500,000.00, the exact amount to be determined by the jury at the time of trial;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        17. If successful on the Twenty-Fifth, Twenty-Sixth, or Twenty-Seventh Claims for Relief, non-economic damgages for Plaintiff WBL in the amount of $1,000,000.00, the exact amount to be determined by the jury at the time of trial;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        18. If successful on the Twenty-Fifth, Twenty-Sixth, or Twenty-Seventh Claims for Relief, economic damgages for Plaintiff WBL in the amount of $500,000.00, the exact amount to be determined by the jury at the time of trial;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        19. If successful on the Twenty-Eighth Claim for Relief, respective economic and non-economic damages for each of the Plaintiffs, as described above;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        20. For Plaintiffs' costs and disbursements incurred; and

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        21. For any other relief this Court deems just and equitable.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Dated this 6th day of July, 2011.


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The Register-Guard · Eugene, Oregon

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Ex-students charge abuse at Oregon boarding school

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            By Tim Fought · The Associated Press
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Published: (Thursday, Jul 14, 2011 12:04AM) Midnight, July 7


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            PORTLAND — Nine former students of a boarding school in Central Oregon charged Wednesday in a lawsuit that they were deprived of sleep, water, food and medical care at a place where parents paid more than $6,000 a month to straighten out troubled teens.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The allegations are similar to those that led the state of Oregon to order the Mount Bachelor Academy closed in 2009. A year later the state reached a settlement that withdrew the suspension but maintained the investigation was justified.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The school remains closed, and its lawyer denied charges of mistreatment.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Portland lawyer Kelly Clark, who filed the suit, said the school's residents were aged 14 to 18, often were in trouble with alcohol or drugs and from families able to foot the bill for a year or more at the school 26 miles east of Prineville in Crook County. There were about 90 students, from throughout the country, when it closed, he said.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Clark said parents were told not to believe reports of mistreatment, and the young people were made to feel isolated.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            They were abused in a systematic way, Clark said, sent into the wilderness with few supplies and participated in group encounters that ran for days with few breaks and little sleep or food. Some were forced to act out sexual situations, the suit said.


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            « Reply #26 on: September 11, 2011, 06:52:44 PM »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Hopefully the jury sees through their games because they are in it for the money.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            « Reply #27 on: September 17, 2011, 07:57:14 PM »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Hopefully the jury sees through their games because they are in it for the money.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            « Reply #28 on: September 17, 2011, 10:45:27 PM »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            They were abused in a systematic way, Clark said, sent into the wilderness with few supplies and participated in group encounters that ran for days with few breaks and little sleep or food. Some were forced to act out sexual situations, the suit said.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The students were not dancers at a strip club, so I highly doubt they were forced to act out sexual situations! lol
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