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Liahona Academy Affiliated with WWASPS?
Anonymous:
:flame: Reading all of this make me sick!!! because I know what it's like in one of those places. My mother sent me to Cross Creek Manor. I'm only 13 I'm glad to be home. If your having some kind of problem with your son or daughter make sure your help is near you, and you do your homework on that place. My mother didn't I'm glad she loved me enough
to bring me back to Houston. I'm doing better, but one parents is right not all get to come home alive. I saw alot in that school and it's no place for a kid to be. They abuse you one kid was force to eat her own vomit clean the toilets with a toothbrush and then brush her teeth. A girl told me that a should do what they say or they would send my out of town. With out my mother knowing. I said okay..I hate that place and whats sad is there are still children over there. Emotional nightmare!!!!!!
Anonymous:
The Ah Quin family are like cockroaches infiltrating numerous shitholes in this satanic industry. Liahona is a mormon word meaning "compass' -- compass pointing straight to hell!
Oscar:
I found some reviews on Yelp about Liahona Academy near Virgin. Here they are:
--- Quote from: Perri A. ---I sent my son here. The problem that I had with this facility is that the mental health help is not very good. The kids that are sent here deserve so much more. Even though I paid a huge amount of money for his care, they try to get away with the very least possible. Don't send your troubled teen here until you do lots and lots of homework. Ask lots of questions and keep them on their toes. I trusted them too much. My son wasn't physically harmed here, but he wasn't helped in the way I'd hoped
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--- Quote from: Anna P. ---I sent my son here and it was a mistake. Most, if not about all, of the staff are not professionally trained to handle at-risk youth. In fact, many of the staff are not great role models that put 100% into this academy. And they should because the cost is around $6,500 a month. For that price the youth should be getting top-notch counseling and a very good selection of knowledgeable teachers. The teachers are mostly cranky, old women from the neighboring area that come in just a few times a week. My child could never get any math help because there were always too many others that needed assistance and there was only one teacher for the subject. The owner is virtually absent most of the time. I can't say all, but most of the the workers at Liahona have a responsibility that they are shirking by not giving their 100% and striving to make a real difference in the lives of these youth. These are all lost opportunities. Parents, my advice is to try to get your child some help closer to home where you aren't forced to give up guardianship. See counselors in your area. Get your child in a place where you can better monitor what is going on.
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--- Quote from: Paul D. ---Sending my son to Liahona was the worst mistake of my life. He went there for a year and nine months. He got out 6 months ago and is much worse than ever before. A boy that roomed with him at Liahona calls and says that he along with four other boys have all relapsed just as before Liahona. In the last 6 months since my son got out of Liahona, he nearly died twice from heroin overdose, became a convicted felon and is now a homeless heroin addict. My son was much better before I took him to Liahona.
The staff at Liahona are like wolfs in sheeps clothing. They want money and your son's interest is irrelevant.
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--- Quote from: Ryan G. ---It's my moral obligation to inform parents of the abuse. After suffering from clinical depression and being diagnosed as having a true chemical imbalance I can tell you The actions takin at this school only worsened my condition. After attempting suicide while in attendance and being beaten by Parker Haslam (on multiple occasions) I was told by Parker himself that I should kill myself, But I wouldn't be able to because I was so selfish. Every cry for help was called manipulation by the staff and this facility left me with trauma that still creeps up till this day. I'm a grown man now, I've had real phsychological help from a therapist who actually addresses my issues including the trauma I received from the mental/physical abuse at liahona. I'm happy and have found joy in life again thanks to God and the love of my family. I just have to speak my peace about the abuses here and both me and my mother regret ever deciding to attend this program.
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--- Quote from: Teen A. ---First of all, I used to be a resident at Liahona Academy. I stayed until I graduated. Liahona Academy is a terrible place.
The therapy side is really twisted. They even tell you how they are breaking you down. First, taking your identity. Any personal items are gone, and your head is shaved. Now you have the same shirts and shorts as everybody. Then you sleep in the common room with the lights on your first night. Your first group is when they welcome your to the Liahona zoo. They trick you into thinking they are taking you to a local zoo, but then end up making you act like an animal until they can get a good laugh. I remember when they made an obese kid act like a walrus, and they dragged it on. Some amusement at the expense of a teen who just went through getting kidnapped, had to strip in his underwear in front of a staff to check for weapons, had his head shaved, and now 40 of your peers are laughing at you, because they did it too, and they got laughed at too. Brutal tearing down of your personality. Repression of expression. Lack of a change in incoming stimuli from your environment puts your brain into a susceptable place to be manipulated.
Behavior modification, your probably thinking this is just a little therapy and making you follow rules. The form of discipline they use are essays. The worse the rule you break the more words your essay has to have. they go from 300 to 3500. If you get 1200 or more words of essays in a week then you get on there worst discipline which is called work crew. And its called crew because there's rarley just one or no people on it. Its a crew of the twice-removed society "troublemakers or rulebreakers" Your on an entirely new program on work crew. When your on work crew you sit and stare at a wall all day unless you are outside running an indefinite amount of laps. Until they feel like saying stop.
It was impossible to cry for help there, we were brainwashed and they decided whether to send your weekly letter or not. We had raw chicken for dinner on Halloween of 2008. A year where time goes so slow and hell never ceases, will draw out depression for the rest of my life. Please do not send your child there.
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