Interesting that your daughter's name is Emily 'cause I knew an Emily at TAR. She obviously wasn't your daughter since this was only a few months ago, but she is someone's daughter. She was beautiful, very long black hair, the bluest eyes you've ever seen, very slim and tiny build.
I met her at Roundy and while we were alone, with Wayne gone, she told me that she had wrestled with Wayne the night before on his overnight stay. Just at that moment, he appeared out of the blue, from behind us and around the corner, booming, "Yes, we wrestled and I won, didn't I?" (Wayne always reinforces to the kids that he's the only winner, and they're the biggest losers, at Roundy.)
Later that day I caught Wayne and Emily around the corner of Roundy and he was instructing her to put her hands on him. She didn't want to do it, so he reached down and picked her hands up and placed them on his body.
Would you want your Emily being broken down, beaten into submission, and intimidated in this manner?
If your Emily was there in 1993, that was when Dave Townsend, a local person here, owned it. He started the facility, they served good food, did things with the kids (which is sorely missing these days, bored, nothing for 'em to do, TAR strips away the negative lifestyle and replaces it with zero, zip, zilch, and these kids' minds are clean and zooming, they could be shown sooooooo many positive things to reinforce a positive lifestyle . . . oops, I forgot, they teach them how to lift bales of hay wrong for their backs, afterall it is a working ranch and how to brown nose and backstab to the top of the lists, how to hate as their ethnicity is derated, and more!).
That was before Aspen Education Group bought it out. It changed from being a small, locally owned and operated facility to corporate America, one of what? 50 or so facilities owned by Aspen now? And, corporate America needs their fair share of the profits.
Yeah, so I had the Sheriff's Office, the Utah CPS office, and the Utah Licensing Board, all of 'em, sweep the sexual abuse case under the carpet, over and done with in only days. This, in spite of another incident involving duct tape (duct tape = totally illegal in Utah) of a female student, at night, in her pajamas on a wet and cold ground at Roundy on the very night that I turned in my written report.
So be it . . . I come here to tell the truth in the hopes that prospective parents will be reading these forums. I too am a parent, I know what parenting is about. I know about wild and crazy kids -- I took care of the entire neighborhood 'cause none of the other parents were ever at home. I was involved in their schools, their friends, boy/girl scouts, animals, games, shows, plays, whatever. That's what parenting is about -- loving, teaching and being involved.
Toni