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Facility Question and Answers / Re: Green Chimneys is Green Hell
« on: October 07, 2011, 01:45:56 PM »Quote from: "hurrikayne"
Can you expound on the abuse you personally were subjected to? A generalistic claim of abuse is typically difficult for say, a prospective parent who may be considering sending their child there to understand. If you would be willing to elaborate a little, you could prevent someone elese's child from going through what you've been through....
I will be glad to tell you. Sexual abuse took place there - there were staffers who would feel kids up. Some older kids would beat and force smaller kids into sexual acts and use that as a threat. Dr. Samuel B. Ross Jr. was threatening to send people to Rockland State Hospital and later on to David Hall, for the boys. He would beat kids; slap them; pull hair; he even made kids eat cigarettes if he thought the kids were smoking. I was thrown to the ground; I was literally stepped on; I was called retarded; I was punched, slapped and kicked by staff. Older kids would humiliate you and make you go into the bathroom where they'd surround you and laugh at you. Every day you could count on being hurt. And school was a big charade - you didn't get much in the way of grade level work and if you were in a B class in your grade, you were written of as retarded. If you were in an A class like I was, you still got called retarded and many of the teachers would slap you and call you names. In my class, there were boys who exposed themselves and there were even some kids who were mentally ill and talked to themselves and made strange noises and they were abused too. Some kids would do weird sexual things. Green Chimneys is a truly horrible place. Please, do not send anybody there and don't suggest it. Green Chimneys Survivors can tell you that Green Chimneys is Green Hell. You can read on line about Philip Zagarella and Eric Napoletano and Eric Lau, violent boys with criminal backgrounds in childhood who went to Green Chimneys and they became adult rapists and serial killers. Green Chimneys is where that kind of behavior is reinforced because of the abuse that is so widespread and runs through the whole place.