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The Troubled Teen Industry / SIT DOWN AMERICA DAY LABOR DAY 9/1/03
« on: August 27, 2003, 11:28:00 AM »
I have sent this to all major newspapers and media outlets coast to coast.  Forward if you feel you this message speaks to you.



SIT DOWN AMERICA DAY
LABOR DAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2003
 
 
As the mother of four, a woman divorced and separated
from family, and an American citizen who loves my
country, I would like to share a message with you.
Let us make this Labor Day, September 1, 2003 Sit Down
America Day.  This Labor Day, please America join with
me in sitting down.
We, as a nation, are moving too fast.
We, as a neighbor in our global village, are out of
control.
We, as a country in spirit,
 have forgotten how to
weave the fabric in family that binds our nature
together.
 
This past February, 2003 I traveled to the country of
Costa Rica to protect and save my daughter, Nicole
Helene Deniken, from the Academy at Dundee Ranch, a
behavior modification institute advertised by its
World Wide Association of Specialty Programs (WWASP)
as a "Paradise for Troubled Teens."  It was everything
but this.  Nicole endured 6 months of physical and
psychological "treatment" from staff who were neither
degreed nor licensed in practicing
 medicine or
psychology.  Most were former hotel and tourist
industry workers.  The director was degreed in
mechanical engineering.  Nicole was sent in violation
of a 1996 North Carolina custody order in which I am
the defendant.  Even though I formally declared that I
forbid my daughter, Nicole to be sent out of nation to
be treated for her issues of family, I was powerless
to stop this.  I contacted family attorneys, legal
aid, police and politicians, family and friends.  No
one stopped Nicole from enduring 6 months of stress
and trauma because she had been labeled a "troubled
teen."  
 
I arrived in Costa Rica in February and visited
Nicole.  I found her to be confused, depressed,
stunned, traumatized.  I went to remove her since I
had joint custody.  The staff held me off implementing
the wishes of her father who paid the $30,000
treatment fee.
 
 
The second week after arriving in Costa Rica, a
custody hearing was called for by Nicole?s father and
held in Goldsboro, North Carolina.  Judge Joseph
Setzer awarded full custody to Nicole?s father even
though she was sent out of nation and I followed to
guarantee her safety.  I faxed this judge asking for a
postponement.  I could not get anyone in Goldsboro,
including legal aid, to represent us.  Nevertheless, I
stayed in Costa Rica working for her release.
 After
networking for 3 months, I was able to convince a
Costa Rican prosecuting attorney to visit this
facility.  Fernando Vargas closed the facility within
hours of his initial visit.   He informed the 200
mostly white American teens that they were protected
by United Nations Human Rights.  If aged fifteen or
older, they could leave if they felt harmed.  Eight
American teens, worth at least $30,000 each, running
barefoot down the dirt road outside of the compound
carrying their belongings in
 pillowcases is one of the
moments captured by the leading Spanish newspaper, Al
Dia.  Many teens returned home to their families.
Some did not.  They have been forwarded to other WWASP
programs in the United States and Jamaica that have
been cited with worse conditions than Dundee. Even
though I went to the compound on the Friday following
the closing I was not allowed to see her.  In an act
of deception, the Dundee staff took her off campus and
flew her out of San Jose as I was told to wait in the
Director?s office with a representative from
 the
American Embassy.  Nevertheless, in God?s full grace,
Nicole safely returned to these United States on May
23, 2003, her 15th birthday.  In June, I returned to
America to no home with no money.  I had sold my car
to pay for this journey.  I lost a family and home
that I had built and loved in Virginia to yet another family custody court as I decided to leave for Costa Rica to protect my daughter.  If I had to, I would
do it again.
My daughter was lucky.  She roomed with a girl
 from
Alabama whose mother paid two men to break into her
home, handcuff her in front of her boyfriend, remove
her from her home and escort her to Dundee.  There are
more stories.  I am gathering them on a YAHOO! GROUP
site,
[email protected]
 
Wilson Acres, Apartment E3
Greenville, North Carolina   27834
(252) 329 - 8922

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Instituti ... tillAlive/

Description Category: Families
A tribe of American Teens who have managed to stay alive while being institutionalized in behavior modification institutes, boot camps, wilderness programs, and reform schools in and out of these United States of America.


I have started this group to collect data nationwide. Please pass this information along so I can build a database specifically from the survivors.

Thank you.
Su Flowers

I will alert all members to this website of Fornits' Home.

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Instituti ... tillAlive/

Description  Category: Families  
A tribe of American Teens who have managed to stay alive while being institutionalized in behavior modification institutes, boot camps, wilderness programs, and reform schools in and out of these United States of America.  


I have started this group to collect data nationwide.  Please pass this information along so I can build a database specifically from the survivors.

Thank you.
Su Flowers

I will alert all members to this website of Fornits' Home.

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 http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?to ... m=9&Sort=D

In response to what happened to Su Flowers' daughter, Nicole was sent out of Costa Rica while I waited in Director Fran's office to see her on the morning of May 23, three days after Prosecutor Vargas went in per my legal work.This heroic gentleman interviewed Nicole and informed her she could leave with him if she wanted to.  The Dundee staff made Nicole talk to her father by telephone who told her that if she left with this prosecutor, she would have to repeat the program.  Because of this control and manipulation, Prosecutor Vargas informed all the teens in Dundee of their right to leave at age 15 because of their protection under UN Child Rights Act. Prosecutor Vargas put his career in jeopardy that day in a bold move that rescued many American teens from the helacious nature of the Academy at Dundee Ranch.

The highlights of this story:
Last fall after Nicole became upset and then hospitalized once again living in her father's house in NC,  she was sequestered from me in New Jersey in the home of her father's brother Richard Deniken in violation of a 1996 NC Custody Order several weeks before being illegally taken out of country... Nicole and I were allowed only one telephone conversation for 2 hours which took place the night before she was taken out of country by Linda Deniken, her aunt and Kevin Deniken, her father. Ironically, the celebrity families of the Osbourne's and then Eminem's mother were being shown on network television that evening.  As I talked with Nicole that night I kept thinking, if they only knew what is truly happening in family these days...


I was powerless to stop her exportation even though I had full legal right to do so.  I contacted the police, attorneys, and politicians.I could not prevent this.
After accumulating two months of information about Dundee and other places, I knew I had to do something.
Plus, I believe I was able to feel the pain of my daughter as a mother will. She has confirmed this. One night in January I actually felt and thought that they had killed her.


On January 22, 2003 Nicole's father, Kevin Deniken, through his attorney, Janice Head of Mount Olive filed for a full custody hearing to take away my rights to be the mother of my three children, Jessica Sue, Nicole Helene, and Daniel Edward Deniken.

I left for the country of Costa Rica on Lincoln's birthday, Feb. 12 2003 only by selling the one asset I had, my new used car.
On February 17, the first day I saw Nicole, I knew she was in severe traumatic stress.  That evening I called her father and told him so.  I begged him to take her out of there.  He told me to 'get the f*** out of Costa Rica because I was ruining her tretment.'

I returned to Dundee two days later with Tim Rogers of the Tico Times and Adilia Zuniga Caravaca, an attorney from Allajuela, Costa Rica who was kind enough to donate her services for the release of my daughter.  Since I had joint custody, I should have been able to get Nicole out.  Adilia showed strength and determination to make this happen when she confronted Narvin Lichfield and his staff.  Narvin cursed me out and told me I had no right to be on his private property.  I informed him that as long as my daughter was in his 'care', I had every God-given right to be on his property.  He then called the police.  After careful negotiations I was allowed to see Nicole for several minutes.  She despaired when it was clear to both she and I that she was not leaving Dundee with me, yet...
A few days later, Adilia generously wrote and filed a Habeas Corpus with the Constitutional Court of Costa Rica on Nicole's behalf.  It was rejected as not suitable for this court, but after I spoke with the Supreme Court Justice, he turned the matter over to the Criminal jurisdiction.  Not much came of this.

 On February 27, Judge Joseph Setzer of Goldsboro, NC awarded Kevin full custody even though I did my best to send in representation while I was in Costa Rica. Two attorneys in Goldsboro that I had previously employed refused the case. The Monday before this hearing, Adilia contacted the Goldsboro, NC  Legal Aid and was informed that they could arrange for a motion to postpone.  On Wednesday, the day before the trial I received a fax from the Legal Aid office telling me that they could not represent me at all, giving me a list of things for me to do to file my own motion.  It would have taken me a week to do everything on that list which came to me less than 18 hours before the hearing.  I faxed Judge Setzer the morning of the hearing alerting him to the fact that I was working on behalf of the safety of my daughter and to please postpone judgment.  This faxed letter is in the court records on file in the family court of Goldsboro, North Carolina.  In effect, her father paid for her imprisonment in another country and then paid to take away my rights as her mother and her rights to be in my care.  Without our presence, our rights as mother and child were discounted and dismissed.

Throguh March, April, and May, I networked  with PANI (the family service agency), the American Embassy, different courts, student activists like Mariela Solano, musicians, Monte Verde Quakers, new friends throughout the country, many strangers and the press.  If you had a conversation with me in Costa Rica, you knew why I was there.

I had one hope left.  On May 15, with a document written by another wonderful Costa Rican attorney, Alvaro Jimenez Calderon of San Jose,
I sought to employ help from the Athenas prosecutor in the criminal court of Costa Rica.  This fine gentleman, Fernando Vargas took my plea sincerely and seriously.  After he researched Dundee on the Internet, he went to Dundee on May 20 and the rest is history.


The full adventure  is filled with stories of the Grace, Blessings and Miracles that I lived in coming from many people as I travelled, networked, and stayed in Costa Rica until Nicole was safe. From the United States, Carey Bock was with me every step of the way by email and phone.  She was my right hand angel.  Patti Thompson, Nicole's boyfriend's mom from Roanoke, Va was my left hand angel.


Two weeks after May 23, I returned to America. Right now, I have no home to speak of except to stay on the couches of Good Samaritans right now.
However, I have no problem with this. Keeping my voice active in the Light during these days of darkness for children in America is my reward.  These days must end.  Our children are being taken from us in a powerful scheme of conformity in this country.  I cannot believe the number of children who have died because they were labelled and instituted as troubled.  Yet I must believe to share this ugly, horrific truth.  I am blown away by the knowledge that teens have been killed in institutes and their parents have not spoken a word.

I work now to release into this global community the truth of this holocaust in  America of  teens.  My daughter could have died in one of these places.  Read her words.  She is willing to speak truth to power.  She has been labelled "troubled" as well as bipolar.   She is nothing more than very aware and spirited.  
.

I know if Nicole was killed, I would be at the White House NOW...

If you want to help me, please email me at
http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?TW ... um=9#15191

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PLEASE POST EVERY LIST WE CAN FIND.

Why Congress needs to be involved?



>From: [email protected]
>Subject: Of Americas children
>Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:59:31 EDT
>
>Subj: [Obstruction-of-Injustice] Of Americas children
>Date: 6/28/03 2:20:51 PM US Eastern Standard Time
>From: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>
>
>
>
>>
>
>This list is from CCHR
>
>
>The Silent Death Of America's Children
>
>A continuing litany of death
>
>The death of a child is devastating by any measure. But when a child is
>killed under the guise of "help" by uncaring mental health professionals and an
>impassive system. It is unspeakably tragic.
>The following list is a damning indictment of what amounts to legalized child
>abuse dressed up as mental health treatment. CCHR
>
>***As a side note, I would like to take this description to an even lower
>level to include that
>this is legalized murder, and for those who did not die a physical death but
>an emotional one, until we, those who do see this, stand to oppose these
>atrocities, these children will never know decency, or trust. Each of these
>children are deserving of the honor of our remembering, and only in action will we
>ensure true honor and a restoration of hope. To the ones who are gone, the
>ones who remain, and those who will never have to experience this because our
>actions prevented future loss.
>As with all of my writing pertaining to this area of abuse, it is done so in
>loving honor and memory of Matthew Smith 14, who died in 2000,
>and Shaina Dunkle 10, who died in 2001.
>Denise Marhoefer
>The Defense Foundation for children USA
>
>Jeffrey Bogrett, 9
>Died December 1, 1995 while being violently restrained at the New England
>Center for Autism
>
>Chris Campbel 13,
>Died November 2,1997 from intense, repeated restraints at the Iowa Juvenile
>Home.
>
>Edith Campos, 15
>Died February 2, 1998, while being restrained for not giving staff her family
>photo at the Desert Hills Center, Arizona.
>
>Paul Choy 16,
>Died February 4, 1992 from suffocation while being restrained at Rite of
>Passage in Nevada.
>
>Casey Collier, 17
>Died December 21, 1993 of asphyxiation after being forcibly restrained at the
>Cleo Wallace Center in Colorado.
>
>Sabrina E. Day, 15
>Died February 10.2000 after being restrained at the North Carolina Group Home
>
>Sakena Dorsey, 18
>Died June 10.1997 from suffocation during a face down restraint, with a staff
>member laying across her back at Foundations Behavioral Health in
>Pennsylvania. She had a medical history of asthma and swollen tonsils that hindered her
>breathing.
>
>Mark Draheim, 14
>Died December 1998 of asphyxiation while being forcibly restrained by three
>staff members at Kids Peace in Pennsylvania
>
>Kara Fuller-Otter, 12
>Died June 7, 2001, killing herself while suffering withdrawal from an
>antidepressant.
>
>Anthony Green, 15
>Died May 12, 1991 while being restrained face down on the floor for 15
>minutes at the Brookhaven Youth Ranch in Texas.
>
>Jamar Griffiths, 15
>Died October 18, 1994 of heart and lung failure while being restrained at the
>Allen Residential Center in New York.
>
>Diane Harris, 17
>Died April 11, 1990 after being violently restrained at the Sequin Community
>Living Center in Texas.
>
>Tony Haynes,14
>Died July 1.2001 after being restrained at America's Buffalo Soldiers in
>Arizona.
>
>Charlotte Holliman 14
>Died July 31, 1992 from hanging herself while on an antidepressant at Truckee
>Meadows Hospital, Nevada
>
>Demetrius Jeffries, 17
>Died August 26, 1997 from strangulation while in a restraint hold at the
>Crockett State School in Texas.
>
>Jimmy Kanda, 6
>Died September 20.1997 from strangulation while in a restraint hold at Crow's
>Next Family Care Home in California.
>
>William "Eddie" Lee, 15
>Died September 18, 2000, after being restrained at Obsidian Trails Wilderness
>Camp in Oregon.
>
>John McCloskey, 18
>Died February 24, 1996, from a ruptured liver and a torn color and small
>intestine after being sodomized with a broom-like handle while at Western State
>Hospital in Virginia.
>
>Shinaul McGraw,12
>Died June 5, 1994 of extremely high body temperature after being wrapped in a
>bed sheet with gauze over her mouth and being restrained to a bed at New
>Directions, Second Chance in Washington.
>
>Caitlin McIntosh, 12
>Died January 5, 2000, in Texas from hanging herself after being on a cocktail
>of four psychiatric drugs.
>
>Kristal Mayon-Ceniceros, 16
>Died February 5, 1999, of respiratory arrest after being restrained face down
>on the floor by four staff members at New Alternatives in Chula Vista,
>California.
>
>Thomas Mapes, 17
>Died July 8.1994 of asphyxiation after being handcuffed and pushed face down
>on the floor at the Youth Center at Topeka in Kansas.
>
>Amanda Mead,18
>Died 1991 from two undiagnosed brain tumors. A California school counselor
>and psychiatrist had wrongly labeled her as manic-depressive.
>
>Travis Neal, 13
>Died November 24, 1997 , in Michigan, collapsing from a heart attack after
>taking a psychiatric stimulant for years.
>
>Candace Newmaker, 10
>Died April 2000 after being wrapped in a sheet and pushed by adults for 70
>minutes in a Colorado therapy session.
>
>Cameron Pettus, 12
>Died August 2, 1993, in Austin, Texas, from toxic levels of an
>antidepressant.
>
>
>Dustin E. Phelps, 14
>Died March 1, 1998, after being strapped in a blanket and mattress at a
>Lancaster foster home in Ohio.
>
>Bobby Jo Randolph, 17
>Died September 26.1996 from asphyxia due to compression of the neck after
>being restrained by two aides at the Progressive Youth Center in Texas.
>
>Kevin Neil Rider, 14
>Died June 3.2000 in Utah from shooting himself during antidepressant
>withdrawal.
>
>Eric Roberts, 16
>Died February 2, 1996, after being wrapped in a plastic and foam blanket with
>Velcro for one hour at Odyssey Harbor in Texas.
>
>Robert Rollins, 12
>Died April 21, 1997, from asphyxiation while being restrained face down with
>arms crossed over his chest after a dispute over his missing teddy bear at
>Deveraux School in Massachusetts.
>
>Joshua Sharpe, 17
>Died December 28, 1999, while being restrained at the Wisconsin Treatment
>Center.
>
>Macauley Showalter, 7
>Died September 30, 2000, in Hutchinson, Minnesota, of cardiac arrest while
>taking a psychiatric stimulant and three other psychiatric drugs.
>
>Earl Smith 9
>Died January 1, 1995, from asphyxiation due to chest compression while being
>restrained face down by a Children's Village staff member in Michigan.
>
>Mark Soares, 16
>Died April 29, 1998, of cardiac arrest from physical restrain when aides at
>Wayside Union Academy in Massachusetts thought he was "faking" unconsciousness.
>
>Randy Steele, 9
>Died February 6, 2000, of a heart attack while being restrained at Laurel
>Ridge Hospital in San Antonio. He had an enlarged heart and had been on several
>stimulant and several other psychiatric drugs.
>
>Jason Tallman, 12
>Died May 12, 1993 from suffocation while being restrained face down on a
>pillow at Kids Peace in Pennsylvania.
>
>Bobby Sue Thomas, 17
>Died August 16, 1996 from acute cardiac arrhythmia while being restrained
>face down at Northwood Children's Home in Minnesota.
>
>Timithy Thomas, 9
>Died March 11, 1999, while being restrained at the Grandfather Home for
>Children in North Carolina.
>
>Tanner Wilson, 11
>Died February 9, 2001, from a heart attack while being physically restrained
>at the Gerard of Iowa Facility.
>
>Michael Wiltsie, 12
>Died February 5, 2000, of asphyxiation while being restrained at Eckherd
>Youth Alternatives In Florida.
>
>Willy Wright, 14
>Died March 4, 2000, from suffocation while being restrained by staff at
>Southwest Mental Health Center in San Antonio, Texas.
>
>Jaimie Young, 13
>Died June 5, 1993, while on a hike at Ramsey Canyon Hospital & Treatment
>Center in Arizona. Autopsy found that death was caused by heat stroke with
>dehydration triggered by 10 times the lethal levels of an antidepressant in her
>system.
>
>Kelly Young, 17
>Died March 4, 1998 of asphyxiation while being restrained on the floor at
>Brisbane Child Treatment Center in New Jersey.
>
>Stephanie Hall, 11
>Died January 5, 1996, as a result of the use of psychiatric
>medications. While the coroner ruled her death to be of natural causes. It
>is anything but natural.
>
>Samuel Grossman, 13
>Died from an enlarged heart, a heart attack that was the consequence of
>long-term use of a psychiatric stimulant.
>
>Cecil Reed 16
>Died on April 7, 2000, suffering a massive heart attack while at the Bronx
>Children's Psychiatric Center in New York. With toxic levels of four psychiatric
>medications.
>
>Matthew Miller, 13
>His death is recorded as a suicide but is a direct result of the effects of
>an antidepressant.
>
>Raymond Perrone, 10
>His death recorded as a suicide, but is a result of withdrawal from a
>psychotropic drug.
>
>Daniel Ehrlich, 14
>Suicide from withdrawal of a stimulant drug.
>
>Tristan Sovern, 16
>Died of violent restraint the Charter Behavioral Health Systems hospital in
>North Carolina by two facility staff workers.
>
>Andrew McClain, 11
>Died of violent restraint while a patient at Elmcrest Behavior Network in
>Portland Connecticut by two staff members.
>
>Roshelle Clayborne,16
>Died of violent restraint at the Laurel Ridge Residential Treatment Center in
>SanAntonio Texas. Eight staff members participated in this death.
>
>
>In closing,
>and as a mother of four teenagers, ages 15, 17, 18, and 19,
>I would be arrested for any of these offenses.
>No one is entitled to commit these actions against children,
>and there is no title, program or guise for treatment, that is exempt or
>holds an entitlement of an excuse for immunity.
>We have a nation of parents whose parental rights were terminated, for even a
>very minimal coarse gesture. We have a systematic failure that is not held
>accountable to the children or the murder.
>When we remove children in an effort to modify parents behavior, or the
>childs,
>we as a society are then accountable.
>I do not believe death is the appropriate behavior modification we should be
>looking for.
>
>Denise Marhoefer
>The Defense Foundation for Children
>USA
>@2003 Touch The Thunder Publishing & Recording Co.
>
>

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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / Troubledteen.com questionnaire
« on: July 17, 2003, 07:31:00 PM »
http://www.troubledteen.com/questionnai ... n=physical

This is on the web to determine if your teen is troubled.
I don't think any one with any spirit in America could pass this.

I know as one who spent the last few years as a latent teen, I could not...Maybe I should have been inside of Dundee with Nicole...
then I could have polished Flori's ring...
 :nworthy:

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I am the mother of Nicole Helene Deniken, my child who last November, 2002 as a teen was illegally sent out of our beloved country of America to an institute, Academy at Dundee Ranch, Costa Rica that raped and pillaged her mind, body, and soul. As a mother, cultural psychologist, and music promoter,I travelled and networked in Costa Rica for 3 months to close Dundee. By Nicole's 15th birthday, May 23, 2003, WWASP's Academy at Dundee Ranch was officially closed.

In response to this sinister system of boot camps, institutes, and schools of reform and with the will and power of our ever redeeming Lord, I will be staging musical concerts across this nation to make aware the cultural epidemic of Neo-Nazi homeland reform destroying our children and families in these United States. I will begin this rock and roll crusade in Greenville, North Carolina in late August, 2003.

If you are a survivor of ANY INSTITUTE MODIFYING TEENAGE BEHAVIOR IN OR OUT OF AMERICA, PLEASE CONSIDER TRAVELING TO GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA. I will be seeking medical help for all those afflicted with POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER from these instituted halls of horror which are sickly profitting by annihilating the very spirit of our country, the spirit of our beautiful and healthy children in America.

If you are interested in the update of my work in which I have dedicated my life, please share with me your his-story or her-story at

[email protected]

God Bless to you all.
None of you deserved to be hurt in this way.
NOT ANY OF YOU.
I PROMISE YOU THIS.

In Peace with You All Ways,
SU FLOWERS

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I am the mother of Nicole Helene Deniken, my child who last November, 2002 as a teen was illegally sent out of our beloved country of America to an institute, Academy at Dundee Ranch, Costa Rica that raped and pillaged her mind, body, and soul. As a mother, cultural psychologist, and music promoter,I travelled and networked in Costa Rica for 3 months to close Dundee. By Nicole's 15th birthday, May 23, 2003, WWASP's Academy at Dundee Ranch was officially closed.

In response to this sinister system of boot camps, institutes, and schools of reform and with the will and power of our ever redeeming Lord, I will be staging musical concerts across this nation to make aware the cultural epidemic of Neo-Nazi homeland reform destroying our children and families in these United States. I will begin this rock and roll crusade in Greenville, North Carolina in late August, 2003.

If you are a survivor of ANY INSTITUTE MODIFYING TEENAGE BEHAVIOR IN OR OUT OF AMERICA, PLEASE CONSIDER TRAVELING TO GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA. I will be seeking medical help for all those afflicted with POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER from these instituted halls of horror which are sickly profitting by annihilating the very spirit of our country, the spirit of our beautiful and healthy children in America.

If you are interested in the update of my work in which I have dedicated my life, please share with me your his-story or her-story at

[email protected]

God Bless to you all.
None of you deserved to be hurt in this way.
NOT ANY OF YOU.
I PROMISE YOU THIS.

In Peace with You All Ways,
SU FLOWERS

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I am the mother of Nicole Helene Deniken, my child who last November, 2002 as a teen was illegally sent out of our beloved country of America to an institute, Academy at Dundee Ranch, Costa Rica that raped and pillaged her mind, body, and soul. As a mother, cultural psychologist, and music promoter,I travelled and networked in Costa Rica for 3 months to close Dundee. By Nicole's 15th birthday, May 23, 2003, WWASP's Academy at Dundee Ranch was officially closed.

In response to this sinister system of boot camps, institutes, and schools of reform and with the will and power of our ever redeeming Lord, I will be staging musical concerts across this nation to make aware the cultural epidemic of Neo-Nazi homeland reform destroying our children and families in these United States. I will begin this rock and roll crusade in Greenville, North Carolina in late August, 2003.

If you are a survivor of ANY INSTITUTE MODIFYING TEENAGE BEHAVIOR IN OR OUT OF AMERICA, PLEASE CONSIDER TRAVELING TO GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA. I will be seeking medical help for all those afflicted with POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER from these instituted halls of horror which are sickly profitting by annihilating the very spirit of our country, the spirit of our beautiful and healthy children in America.

If you are interested in the update of my work in which I have dedicated my life, please share with me your his-story or her-story at

[email protected]

God Bless to you all.
None of you deserved to be hurt in this way.
NOT ANY OF YOU.
I PROMISE YOU THIS.

In Peace with You All Ways,
SU FLOWERS

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I am the mother of Nicole Helene Deniken, my child who last November, 2002 as a teen was illegally sent out of our beloved country of America to an institute, Academy at Dundee Ranch, Costa Rica that raped and pillaged her mind, body, and soul. As a mother, cultural psychologist, and music promoter,I travelled and networked in Costa Rica for 3 months to close Dundee. By Nicole's 15th birthday, May 23, 2003, WWASP's Academy at Dundee Ranch was officially closed.

In response to this sinister system of boot camps, institutes, and schools of reform and with the will and power of our ever redeeming Lord, I will be staging musical concerts across this nation to make aware the cultural epidemic of Neo-Nazi homeland reform destroying our children and families in these United States. I will begin this rock and roll crusade in Greenville, North Carolina in late August, 2003.

If you are a survivor of ANY INSTITUTE MODIFYING TEENAGE BEHAVIOR IN OR OUT OF AMERICA, PLEASE CONSIDER TRAVELING TO GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA. I will be seeking medical help for all those afflicted with POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER from these instituted halls of horror which are sickly profitting by annihilating the very spirit of our country, the spirit of our beautiful and healthy children in America.

If you are interested in the update of my work in which I have dedicated my life, please share with me your his-story or her-story at

[email protected]

God Bless to you all.
None of you deserved to be hurt in this way.
NOT ANY OF YOU.
I PROMISE YOU THIS.

In Peace with You All Ways,
SU FLOWERS

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I am the mother of Nicole Helene Deniken, my child who last November, 2002 as a teen was illegally sent out of our beloved country of America to an institute, Academy at Dundee Ranch, Costa Rica that raped and pillaged her mind, body, and soul. As a mother, cultural psychologist, and music promoter,I travelled and networked in Costa Rica for 3 months to close Dundee. By Nicole's 15th birthday, May 23, 2003, WWASP's Academy at Dundee Ranch was officially closed.

In response to this sinister system of boot camps, institutes, and schools of reform and with the will and power of our ever redeeming Lord, I will be staging musical concerts across this nation to make aware the cultural epidemic of Neo-Nazi homeland reform destroying our children and families in these United States. I will begin this rock and roll crusade in Greenville, North Carolina in late August, 2003.

If you are a survivor of ANY INSTITUTE MODIFYING TEENAGE BEHAVIOR IN OR OUT OF AMERICA, PLEASE CONSIDER TRAVELING TO GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA. I will be seeking medical help for all those afflicted with POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER from these instituted halls of horror which are sickly profitting by annihilating the very spirit of our country, the spirit of our beautiful and healthy children in America.

If you are interested in the update of my work in which I have dedicated my life, please share with me your his-story or her-story at

[email protected]

God Bless to you all.
None of you deserved to be hurt in this way.
NOT ANY OF YOU.
I PROMISE YOU THIS.

In Peace with You All Ways,
SU FLOWERS

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I am the mother of Nicole Helene Deniken, my child who last November, 2002 as a teen was illegally sent out of our beloved country of America to an institute, Academy at Dundee Ranch, Costa Rica that raped and pillaged her mind, body, and soul. As a mother, cultural psychologist, and music promoter,I travelled and networked in Costa Rica for 3 months to close Dundee. By Nicole's 15th birthday, May 23, 2003, WWASP's Academy at Dundee Ranch was officially closed.

In response to this sinister system of boot camps, institutes, and schools of reform and with the will and power of our ever redeeming Lord, I will be staging musical concerts across this nation to make aware the cultural epidemic of Neo-Nazi homeland reform destroying our children and families in these United States. I will begin this rock and roll crusade in Greenville, North Carolina in late August, 2003.

If you are a survivor of ANY INSTITUTE MODIFYING TEENAGE BEHAVIOR IN OR OUT OF AMERICA, PLEASE CONSIDER TRAVELING TO GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA. I will be seeking medical help for all those afflicted with POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER from these instituted halls of horror which are sickly profitting by annihilating the very spirit of our country, the spirit of our beautiful and healthy children in America.

If you are interested in the update of my work in which I have dedicated my life, please share with me your his-story or her-story at

[email protected]

God Bless to you all.
None of you deserved to be hurt in this way.
NOT ANY OF YOU.
I PROMISE YOU THIS.

In Peace with You All Ways,
SU FLOWERS

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I am the mother of Nicole Helene Deniken, my child who last November, 2002 as a teen was illegally sent out of our beloved country of America to an institute, Academy at Dundee Ranch, Costa Rica that raped and pillaged her mind, body, and soul. As a mother, cultural psychologist, and music promoter,I travelled and networked in Costa Rica for 3 months to close Dundee. By Nicole's 15th birthday, May 23, 2003, WWASP's Academy at Dundee Ranch was officially closed.

In response to this sinister system of boot camps, institutes, and schools of reform and with the will and power of our ever redeeming Lord, I will be staging musical concerts across this nation to make aware the cultural epidemic of Neo-Nazi homeland reform destroying our children and families in these United States. I will begin this rock and roll crusade in Greenville, North Carolina in late August, 2003.

If you are a survivor of ANY INSTITUTE MODIFYING TEENAGE BEHAVIOR IN OR OUT OF AMERICA, PLEASE CONSIDER TRAVELING TO GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA. I will be seeking medical help for all those afflicted with POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER from these instituted halls of horror which are sickly profitting by annihilating the very spirit of our country, the spirit of our beautiful and healthy children in America.

If you are interested in the update of my work in which I have dedicated my life, please share with me your his-story or her-story at

[email protected]

God Bless to you all.
None of you deserved to be hurt in this way.
NOT ANY OF YOU.
I PROMISE YOU THIS.

In Peace with You All Ways,
SU FLOWERS

 


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Costa Rica school called 'horror story'

07/05/03

DANA TIMS

From the moment her ringing telephone woke her well past midnight May 20, Robin Crawford of Dundee knew something was wrong with her son, Cody.

Crawford had flown with her 16-year-old son to Orotina, Costa Rica, two weeks earlier to place him in what she understood to be a "supportive boarding school."


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A very different picture is emerging amid allegations of torture and abuse, two police raids, a Costa Rican court inquiry, U.S. Embassy intervention and talk of class-action lawsuits against the Academy at Dundee Ranch and its operators.

"What I saw when I finally got down there was something out of a horror story," said Crawford. She has since retrieved her son and is helping him recuperate at Pacific City. "Nightmare doesn't begin to describe it."

School officials did not return telephone calls this week seeking their side of the story.

Other people, however, are speaking out after what's been described as riots involving Cody Crawford and dozens of the 200 mostly U.S. students at the facility.

Cody, along with other Dundee Ranch students, gave closed-court testimony to a judge in Costa Rica before leaving the country with his mother in late May.

Robin Crawford said she has been contacted by at least two attorneys in two states seeking to initiate class-action lawsuits against the ranch.

Dundee Ranch -- not to be confused with Dundee, Ore. -- is a former ecotourism resort 55 miles west of San Jose, Costa Rica. It is coordinated by the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools. The association, which coordinates nine other schools with a total of 2,200 students in the United States, Mexico and Jamaica, is based in St. George, Utah.

The school's Web site promises prospective students a "world-class program in a world-class environment." A section titled "Behavior Modification" says, "Appropriate behavior is reinforced and rewarded" using a "merit system requiring each teen to earn their status and privileges through a standard program using a level system."

That's far from what Cody and other teens encountered once at the school, his mother said.

"At one point, they made him lie on the ground with his face in feces and urine," Robin Crawford said. "He was threatened with beatings if he so much as moved. Other children have separately and independently verified these things."

Crawford said she first heard of Dundee Ranch from her sister. Crawford persuaded court officials to let Cody attend the ranch after he was arrested on possession of marijuana and breaking and entering.

Mother inspected school Crawford inspected the ranch and found its facilities satisfactory. She agreed to pay $1,990 a month in tuition and figured her son would be in good hands.

"I only learned later that they showed me just a portion of the place," she said. "And the students I met turned out to be upper-level students who earned extra credit for taking part in their little show."

School officials imposed and enforced endless rules, Crawford said, which included keeping one's eyes focused downward, a prohibition on using the bathroom for hours after meals and bans on looking at someone of the opposite gender.

"It's extremely warm in that climate, yet the kids got only 20 ounces of water a day to drink," Crawford said. "Cody saw kids with open sores. They were getting almost no medical treatment."

Parents of some Dundee Ranch graduates defend the facility, which apparently is trying to mount a defense of its own against the allegations.

Owner defends program Narvin Lichfield, Dundee's owner, bought airline tickets to fly John Sortomme, a retirement planner in San Diego, and his daughter, a 17-year-old Dundee graduate, to Costa Rica to defend the school to journalists, according to Associated Press reports.

Chanel Sortomme went to Dundee "a very intelligent screw-up" who had run away from home three times, her father told reporters. She came out "a beautiful, intelligent, powerful young lady."

Even so, a number of students, including Cody, fled the ranch when Costa Rican authorities showed up May 20 and told them no one could be forced to remain. Riots broke out two days later, according to media reports, when Lichfield tried to reverse the order.

By that time, Cody had sprinted into the nearby jungle. He later said he tried to use the stars to guide him through the foliage to the U.S. Embassy in San Juan. Instead, a passing motorist picked him up and provided shelter until Cody's mother retrieved him.

Child agency investigating

PANI, Costa Rica's child welfare agency, is investigating complaints of abuse against the facility, which has closed. Ken Kay, president of the specialty schools association, will try to reopen Dundee Ranch this month, according to news reports.

Kay has not returned telephone calls.

When Crawford got the call telling her of trouble at the ranch, she wanted to fly to Costa Rica immediately. She said she delayed her trip a week on the advice of Dundee Ranch officials.

Once she got there, she located her son, who was living with a San Juan family. After talking with police and judicial officials, she and Cody returned to Oregon, she said.

After rushing to Idaho to attend her father's funeral, the pair returned home to Dundee last week.

"I don't know what's going to happen at this point, other than my own crusade to make sure these people don't harm any more kids," Crawford said. "Cody's been having nightmares every night. This can't happen to anyone else."

Dana Tims: 503-294-5973; [email protected]

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Metro Southwest News

Costa Rica school called 'horror story'

07/05/03

DANA TIMS

From the moment her ringing telephone woke her well past midnight May 20, Robin Crawford of Dundee knew something was wrong with her son, Cody.

Crawford had flown with her 16-year-old son to Orotina, Costa Rica, two weeks earlier to place him in what she understood to be a "supportive boarding school."

 
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A very different picture is emerging amid allegations of torture and abuse, two police raids, a Costa Rican court inquiry, U.S. Embassy intervention and talk of class-action lawsuits against the Academy at Dundee Ranch and its operators.

"What I saw when I finally got down there was something out of a horror story," said Crawford. She has since retrieved her son and is helping him recuperate at Pacific City. "Nightmare doesn't begin to describe it."

School officials did not return telephone calls this week seeking their side of the story.

Other people, however, are speaking out after what's been described as riots involving Cody Crawford and dozens of the 200 mostly U.S. students at the facility.

Cody, along with other Dundee Ranch students, gave closed-court testimony to a judge in Costa Rica before leaving the country with his mother in late May.

Robin Crawford said she has been contacted by at least two attorneys in two states seeking to initiate class-action lawsuits against the ranch.

Dundee Ranch -- not to be confused with Dundee, Ore. -- is a former ecotourism resort 55 miles west of San Jose, Costa Rica. It is coordinated by the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools. The association, which coordinates nine other schools with a total of 2,200 students in the United States, Mexico and Jamaica, is based in St. George, Utah.

The school's Web site promises prospective students a "world-class program in a world-class environment." A section titled "Behavior Modification" says, "Appropriate behavior is reinforced and rewarded" using a "merit system requiring each teen to earn their status and privileges through a standard program using a level system."

That's far from what Cody and other teens encountered once at the school, his mother said.

"At one point, they made him lie on the ground with his face in feces and urine," Robin Crawford said. "He was threatened with beatings if he so much as moved. Other children have separately and independently verified these things."

Crawford said she first heard of Dundee Ranch from her sister. Crawford persuaded court officials to let Cody attend the ranch after he was arrested on possession of marijuana and breaking and entering.

Mother inspected school Crawford inspected the ranch and found its facilities satisfactory. She agreed to pay $1,990 a month in tuition and figured her son would be in good hands.

"I only learned later that they showed me just a portion of the place," she said. "And the students I met turned out to be upper-level students who earned extra credit for taking part in their little show."

School officials imposed and enforced endless rules, Crawford said, which included keeping one's eyes focused downward, a prohibition on using the bathroom for hours after meals and bans on looking at someone of the opposite gender.

"It's extremely warm in that climate, yet the kids got only 20 ounces of water a day to drink," Crawford said. "Cody saw kids with open sores. They were getting almost no medical treatment."

Parents of some Dundee Ranch graduates defend the facility, which apparently is trying to mount a defense of its own against the allegations.

Owner defends program Narvin Lichfield, Dundee's owner, bought airline tickets to fly John Sortomme, a retirement planner in San Diego, and his daughter, a 17-year-old Dundee graduate, to Costa Rica to defend the school to journalists, according to Associated Press reports.

Chanel Sortomme went to Dundee "a very intelligent screw-up" who had run away from home three times, her father told reporters. She came out "a beautiful, intelligent, powerful young lady."

Even so, a number of students, including Cody, fled the ranch when Costa Rican authorities showed up May 20 and told them no one could be forced to remain. Riots broke out two days later, according to media reports, when Lichfield tried to reverse the order.

By that time, Cody had sprinted into the nearby jungle. He later said he tried to use the stars to guide him through the foliage to the U.S. Embassy in San Juan. Instead, a passing motorist picked him up and provided shelter until Cody's mother retrieved him.

Child agency investigating

PANI, Costa Rica's child welfare agency, is investigating complaints of abuse against the facility, which has closed. Ken Kay, president of the specialty schools association, will try to reopen Dundee Ranch this month, according to news reports.

Kay has not returned telephone calls.

When Crawford got the call telling her of trouble at the ranch, she wanted to fly to Costa Rica immediately. She said she delayed her trip a week on the advice of Dundee Ranch officials.

Once she got there, she located her son, who was living with a San Juan family. After talking with police and judicial officials, she and Cody returned to Oregon, she said.

After rushing to Idaho to attend her father's funeral, the pair returned home to Dundee last week.

"I don't know what's going to happen at this point, other than my own crusade to make sure these people don't harm any more kids," Crawford said. "Cody's been having nightmares every night. This can't happen to anyone else."

Dana Tims: 503-294-5973; [email protected]

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