Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Troubled Teen Industry
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Deborah:
Go on with my life now?
Craig, you're a obtuse hoot.
I have a wonderful life.
A couple of times a day 'god' tells me, "check Fornits and see who's lying today".
My 'god' sees things very differently than your 'god'. My participation on Fornits is very much a part of my 'service work' in the world. Actually, a small part.
I don't NEED any information from you. Like I said, I don't care if you answer or avoid. Anyone with half their brain cells firing realizes that
something's not kosher.
Unfortunately I am not your judge. If I were I'd throw the case out based on what has been shared here. You can't just sashay into court and make damning allegations without supporting them with details. And you aren't going to get far with a cohort whose testimony refutes your allegations.
You may not want to share the "indescretions and unprofessional behavior" here; and what impact it had on the teens, but any ethical judge will expect it. You could consider our interaction a practice run. S/he might actually judge you harsher than I.
You have no rational reason to fear me. I haven't "turned anything around". You made a statement. I asked questions and pointed to things that appeared to be discrepencies. You didn't answer. You did state that the answers to those questions were in your original post. Well, they aren't. And I just don't know what to think about that. It leaves me to wonder if you are genuinely ignorant or lying like a dog.
Anonymous:
Found this on ALA site.
http://www.abundantlifeacademy.com/testimony.php
--- Quote ---Visit report by Steve Bozak, Educational Consultant - June 2003 Tel: 518-373-8069
There is something to be said in taking the troubled teens far away from their home and friends. Here is a beautiful, well kept home in Mexico in a family atmosphere where these boys, aged 14 to 18, are kept from making bad choices as they all work on academics and maturing into well behaved young gentlemen. The strong Christian Evangelical atmosphere is just what some parents find necessary to get these boys back in the straight and narrow way.
The nearest airport is in Guadalajara and is just less then a two hour plane flight from Houston Texas. Craig Rogers and two boys met me at this small airport. The school was about a 30 minute drive away.
The two students were my guides. One from Hawaii and the other from Idaho. They happily showed me around the school and town. They introduce me to all 17 boys who were currently attending Abundant Life Academy. Even the new boy whom I met who had just arrived the day before and thought he wasn?t going to enjoy being here, seemed to be adjusting very quickly soon after he was rested and fed with the good food here. The other students paled up with him showing him the positive culture of the home and quickly he felt at home with his new friends and family.
I sat in on two therapeutic type meetings which seem to occur twice a day. All the boys and many of the staff participated in a discussion of issues and plans on how to improve themselves. The students all participated eagerly and politely. The strong Christian influence was quite obvious during these meeting and everyday life at the school.
The kids here were all having fun. The house had an indoor swimming pool, pleasant chatter among the kids and there was a nearby water park that the kids visited during my stay. There were many wireless high speed online computers for the students to used under good supervisor. The many staff often carried wireless telephones and the kids seemed to call home freely apparently when ever they wanted but the phone was always under control of the staff.
Many of the boys volunteered to scout the nearby streets and pick up trash Saturday morning. My two student guides showed me where they would get a hair cut down the street at the barber shop for $3.00 US.
The conservative town this school is located in was obviously strongly catholic with a large American population. Nearby was a very large lake and the neighborhood was very artsy with many galleries owned and operated by snow bird Americans. But the town was not a tourist town. The ex-patriots I spoke to were all retired professionals from the states.
The boys at Abundant Life Academy were all working on finishing high school. They were planning to go on to college from this high school. As I observed the boys in their daily lives, I could see that all the temptation from home were now too far away to be a distraction. The kids were positive as they supported one another to do the right things. This is obviously a positive peer culture acting therapeutically to mature these kids into productive citizens.
Steve Bozak CEP
--- End quote ---
Hey Steve Bozak reccomends ALA. Isn't Steve Bozak the same guy who Carey spoke about?
Yep, found this while searching.
--- Quote ---So the court docs say that Sue's PURE, INC grossed approx. $300k.
So there is a theory on this since they don't really market that much - one would ask logically how they could do that.
Steve Bozak (an ed. consultant) would charge parents for a "consultation" and conveniently recommend a program which Pure is an affiliate or admissions co. So Steve takes money from parents.
Then Sue gets the contract signed and makes approx. $2000 (from what I understand it's $1000 to refer and $2000 if you actually get a contract signed). Of course the programs that they are involved with don't know what's going on. In a typical scenerio with an ethical consultant the parent would be referred directly to the program to contract saving the program $2000 approx. (some have been said to give up to $3000).
(which I figure why the hell not - the program charges the parent the same if they put them in or a place like PURE does - so why not spread the wealth).
Carey should sue Bozak and Scheff for this unethical practice.
Side note - Why shouldn't Carey take WWASP money?
Anyone with a logical brain cell in their head would say when faced by an attorney at $200-300/hr. telling you to take the money or receive a court order to give up info - why not save time, hassle, and make a little dough?
Here were the options -
1. destroy evidence (uh oh)
2. sell out (make money, and get revenge on sue)
3. hold out (no money)
It seems to me that the only ones telling her that she shouldn't have done this are Sue's chronies. Yes, I'm talking about you Colburns. You think your tone and manor about you doesn't give you away.
Back to the scam of PURE :
I wonder how deep it really goes. She could have 10 of these guys who she could kick back a portion of the admit money.
As for the thread on Berryman - He was working the msg boards to get business for PURE. He probably needed money because he couldn't get his fat ass out of bed to go to his cushy govt. job. I mean really, what does the man do for a living? Nobody knows! I'll tell you - he takes Sue's money.
Berryman, Scheff, Carey (for entertaining all the criticism about her - Carey - just say FUCK YOU! already), Bozak, etc are FUCK0's and Scam Artists (a fine one at that - I mean DAMN $300K!!!!!!!)
--- End quote ---
Wasn't it also said in a post that Bozak recommended Carey take bails bondsmen / body guards when she went to get her sons, in which she later found out they were actually escorts/kidnappers. I bet that cost her a lot of money. I wonder if Bozak or PURE got a kick back from that?
Anonymous:
ALA in Mexico...what could the truth be?
Now, Joshua says one thing about ALA.
Craig Rogers says another thing, opopsite of what Joshua has to say about ALA.
Steve Bozak, an ed con, has a whole different story to tell about the wonderful program at ALA.
Deborah:
In this thread you wrote:
Abundant Life Academy continued to work with Mr. Josue Aparicio in good faith until September 2003, when we found out that Josue was a part of Patricia Bettencort's origianl scheme.
It was also discovered that Josue Aparicio was embezzling funds from Abundant Life Academy of Utah, which was the reason ?AVADLC? failed to deliever and perform their verbal agreement to provide room, board, and food services. Basically, we believe that he was taking the money meant for the students of Abundant Life Academy and giving it to Patricia Bettencort.
In your patronizing response to Aparicio's allegations in another thread, you said TO HIM:
I am sorry, but when you decided to get back into drugs didnt you expect your life to fall apart. When you decided to embezzle money didnt you expect that our business relationship would end?. I wish you had not thrown everything away. But what else was I to do. You gave me no alternative but to end our business relationship. All you had to do was repent and stop using drugs and our friendship would have endured.
http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?to ... forum=9&52
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The person in charge of the teens was an ex/recovering drug abuser? ?When you decided to get back into drugs? seems to impy that you were privy to a previous problem with drug abuse. Did you know this when you put the teens in his care? How long had he been ?clean?? What was his drug of choice? Was he under the influence while the teens were in his care? Was he buying his drug from Bettencort?
So, if he?d just repented and stopped using drugs, again, the teens would still be in his care... despite of course, the alleged embezzelment of funds.
Anonymous:
http://www.abundantlifeacademy.com/phpb ... 8e47031441
Not enough "ACTION" on your PARENTAL (sic) counsel site? Is it here that you get your "fix?" Why even have a parental counsel site...as the site states: Jesus is the only answer :eek:
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