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Green Chimneys in Brewster, NY is nothing but a Maltreatment Center.  My child was brutalized by staff and I later learned sexual abuse was part of the picture.  DO NOT SEND ANY CHILD TO GREEN CHIMNEYS NOR RECOMMEND GREEN CHIMNEYS TO ANYBODY!!!

Dr. Samuel B. Ross Jr. is nothing but a charletan, a mountebank, a liar.  He is good at swindling, yes, swindling money from big corporations and conning famous people to do photo shoots with, all with the idea of continuing this Maltreatment Center and fooling the public at large.  It was a jaw-dropping moment for me to learn that I was not the only parent to get the "the Pope gets kicked out of my office if a child has trouble" routine.  Other parents were told the same thing, practically if not verbatim.  My own child said that you don't seek help from Dr. Ross; he is just what you need protection from!

Dr. Ross Jr. is, according to my child and other kids I've listened, yes LISTENED to a very cruel person.  Kids have disclosed genuine horror stories of being slapped and having their hair pulled and sundry physical abuses, including beatings in front of the entire student body.  I also learned that untrained staff manned the dorms and kids were left to supervise the rooms.  Abuse was common and I have since  learned that many survivors, as these Green Chimneys kids are calling themselves are coming forward with disclosures.  I only wish I'd listened to my child when my child was trying to tell me about what was taking place there.  Hiding my head in the sand and defending the powers that be was the worst thing I could have done.  Had I only listened, I could have spared my child the extreme level of abuse and resulting trauma.  

The Green Chimneys videos on YouTube are completely deceptive.  Nobody can leave comments.  If you try, you get the "comment pending moderator approval" routine.  Loosely translated, that means nobody can leave any negative comments. Again, this is with the idea of fooling the public.

This is an open request to all courts; all schools; all agencies and organizations involved with children NEVER to send them to Green Chimneys in Brewster, NY.  The worst thing I ever did to my child was twofold: sending my child to Green Chimneys and refusing to listen to my child when I first became aware of the abuse.  NEVER deny your child the chance to tell you things.  Had I listened sooner, my child would not have been abused to the extent it occurred.  Had I known sexual abuse was involved, believe me, I would have taken my child home even if my child came with nothing but the shirt of the day.  I have been reading horror stories online and they jibe with what my child has been telling me all along.

To make matters worse, I had the temerity to ask my child upon seeing the pastoral grounds and after having bought the spiel about how animals were the road to salvation, "how can you be unhappy here?"  Had I listened then, I would have gotten a crash course in the abuse industry.  I would have learned so much and could have protected my child instead of appearing to side with the abusers.  

Dr. Samuel B. Ross Jr. is nothing but a very sadistic person and a convincing liar.  My jaw dropped when I read that others had been posting about how he will tell people kids come before the Pope and that he'd oust the Pope from his office to meet a child's need.  I realize now that was a con job.  Other parents have reported being told the same thing.  Some of the kids have said that they'd rather go to jail than to Dr. Samuel Ross Jr. because they were, as one child put it, "afraid Dr. Ross will beat you until you're dead."  This is what my child lived with.  Bad enough, but I find out now kids with violent pasts often get sent to Green Chimneys by courts and other agencies and even brutalize younger kids, such as my child was.  I don't sleep well knowing this now.  My child was afraid to sleep because of a real fear of being beaten to death.  Kids have reported that Dr. Ross would beat kids in front of everybody.  That had to be very traumatic for the beaten child and those forced to watch this savagery.  Another real fear that was instilled in my child was the fear of being shipped to a hospital, which is what Dr. Ross was known for, according to the kids.  

Please.  Listen to what the kids are saying.  Green Chimneys is a truly horrendous place.