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The Troubled Teen Industry / Re: Rare video of children being abused at Pasadena boot cam
« on: October 28, 2011, 12:47:05 AM »
Third link: http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_18495489
McFarland case delayed until August
By Brian Charles, Staff Writer
Posted: 07/17/2011 07:02:49 AM PDT
PASADENA - Police in Pasadena have failed to turn over vital evidence in the Kelvin "Sgt. Mac" McFarland case, causing two delays this week in the criminal court proceedings, according to the suspect's attorney.
McFarland, 40, is a Pasadena juvenile boot camp operator accused of kidnapping, child abuse, false imprisonment, extortion and unlawful use of badge.
"Investigators have presented nothing in the way of discovery," said McFarland attorney Bill Paparian, a former mayor of Pasadena. "When (the police) interrogate somebody they tape record the interview. I requested those tapes. I haven't received (the tapes) yet."
McFarland heads back to court Aug. 1.
Paparian said the responsibility lies solely with the Pasadena Police Department and not with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office prosecutors.
"It's not a prosecution issue. I have worked with Carolina Lugo and I think highly of her... The problem is with the Police Department and I don't know why," he said.
Pasadena police Chief Philip Sanchez said he did not have "intimate knowledge of the case," but added that any request by attorneys to obtain interrogation tapes is normally honored.
McFarland became embroiled in controversy after he was arrested in a May 16 incident where he allegedly handcuffed a 14-year-old and drove her to the home of a relative.
Police allege McFarland threatened to take the girl to a juvenile detention center for being truant if the family failed to pay him $100 as a deposit for enrollment into his Family First Growth Camp, a Pasadena-based juvenile boot camp the money.
He pleaded not guilty in June.
During a contentious preliminary hearing in June, Paparian attempted to impeach the credibility of the young victim in the case, dubbed Lady M in court.
On the first day of preliminary hearing testimony, Lady M failed to pick McFarland out in court despite the fact that he was sitting less than 30 feet from her.
He also has questioned whether she was truthful with her parents and other adults on the day of the May 16 incident.
Paparian put in a request for the victim's school records with the Pasadena Unified School District. The PUSD provided Paparian with those documents, he said.
[email protected]
626-578-6300, ext. 4494
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COMMENTS:
Ignacio Ruiz
wow, if this guy was white he wouldnt be introuble , he would be getting praised!
McFarland case delayed until August
By Brian Charles, Staff Writer
Posted: 07/17/2011 07:02:49 AM PDT
PASADENA - Police in Pasadena have failed to turn over vital evidence in the Kelvin "Sgt. Mac" McFarland case, causing two delays this week in the criminal court proceedings, according to the suspect's attorney.
McFarland, 40, is a Pasadena juvenile boot camp operator accused of kidnapping, child abuse, false imprisonment, extortion and unlawful use of badge.
"Investigators have presented nothing in the way of discovery," said McFarland attorney Bill Paparian, a former mayor of Pasadena. "When (the police) interrogate somebody they tape record the interview. I requested those tapes. I haven't received (the tapes) yet."
McFarland heads back to court Aug. 1.
Paparian said the responsibility lies solely with the Pasadena Police Department and not with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office prosecutors.
"It's not a prosecution issue. I have worked with Carolina Lugo and I think highly of her... The problem is with the Police Department and I don't know why," he said.
Pasadena police Chief Philip Sanchez said he did not have "intimate knowledge of the case," but added that any request by attorneys to obtain interrogation tapes is normally honored.
McFarland became embroiled in controversy after he was arrested in a May 16 incident where he allegedly handcuffed a 14-year-old and drove her to the home of a relative.
Police allege McFarland threatened to take the girl to a juvenile detention center for being truant if the family failed to pay him $100 as a deposit for enrollment into his Family First Growth Camp, a Pasadena-based juvenile boot camp the money.
He pleaded not guilty in June.
During a contentious preliminary hearing in June, Paparian attempted to impeach the credibility of the young victim in the case, dubbed Lady M in court.
On the first day of preliminary hearing testimony, Lady M failed to pick McFarland out in court despite the fact that he was sitting less than 30 feet from her.
He also has questioned whether she was truthful with her parents and other adults on the day of the May 16 incident.
Paparian put in a request for the victim's school records with the Pasadena Unified School District. The PUSD provided Paparian with those documents, he said.
[email protected]
626-578-6300, ext. 4494
***********************************
COMMENTS:
Ignacio Ruiz
wow, if this guy was white he wouldnt be introuble , he would be getting praised!
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The Troubled Teen Industry / Re: Rare video of children being abused at Pasadena boot cam
« on: October 28, 2011, 12:43:45 AM »
Second link: http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_19202277
Exclusive videos detail tactics at teen boot camps in Pasadena
By Brian Charles, Staff Writer
Posted: 10/26/2011 09:24:24 PM PDT
In a frame grab image of a Commit II Achieve Boot Camp video a youth is seen wearing a tire while being yelled at by boot camp leaders. (HAND IN 10-2011)
Video: Watch: videos offer inside look at children's boot camps
Photo gallery: Inside look at controversial children's boot camps
PASADENA - Two disturbing videos obtained by this newspaper offer an inside look at Pasadena-based boot camps.
The videos were created at least two years ago. One shows Kelvin "Sgt. Mac" McFarland forcing children to gorge themselves on water. The children in the video struggle to drink the water and several are seen vomiting as a result.
The second video shows a boy crying as he carries a truck tire around his neck. McFarland and three other boot camp instructors - at least one of whom was allegedly on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps at the time - can been seen screaming at the boy and coaxing him to say he "loves his sergeant."
The boy falls to his knees in tears and for a time it appears that he too is going to vomit.
Child abuse legal expert and USC Gould School of Law Professor Thomas Lyons did not view the videos but said the behavior described on them could easily fit the broad definition of child abuse.
"A lot of statutes will include cruelty as part of the definition of child abuse," Lyons said. "If there is no justification for this and
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you are just trying to induce pain, that could be child abuse."
Lyons also raised questions about the efficacy of the methods used in the videos.
"He can argue that this is all part of the program and part of necessary discipline," Lyon said. "But there are plenty of experts that will tell you that the behavior is beyond the pale and not effective."
McFarland, a Monrovia resident, is the operator of Family First Growth Camp in Pasadena. He denied he was in either video, although he declined the opportunity to view them. When asked about his role in the videos, McFarland acknowledged they existed. However, he said "if you look at that video, you will see Keith `Sarge' Gibbs in the video."
Gibbs operates Sarge's Community Base, Inc./Commit II Achieve Boot Camp, also based in Pasadena.
While Gibbs is not seen in either video, his voice is heard off camera in one of the recordings. Children in both videos are seen wearing Commit II T-shirts.
Gibbs denied being present during the filming of the videos. He offered no explanation for why his voice was heard on one.
He said he deplored the instructors' behavior in the videos.
"It's not the way I would run a camp," Gibbs said.
Before they were rival boot camp operators, McFarland worked for Sarge's Community Base, Inc./Commit II Achieve Boot Camp, which Gibbs owns and operates.
Both men have served in the military, with McFarland serving in the Persian Gulf War.
McFarland said he is a recovering alcoholic who at one time was homeless. He said he was turning his own life around at the same time that he was trying to reform troubled children.
The two boot camp instructors parted ways in 2009, when McFarland failed to pass a background check and allegations emerged of inappropriate training methods, Gibbs said.
McFarland launched Family First Growth Camp in Pasadena in 2009. Gibbs said at that time McFarland began recruiting children and instructors away from Gibbs' operation.
McFarland was arrested on May 27 and charged with kidnapping, child abuse, false imprisonment, extortion and unlawful use of a badge. The charges stem from a May 16 incident during which McFarland allegedly handcuffed a truant Pasadena Unified School District high school student and extorted money from her family.
According to testimony given in a pre-trial hearing, McFarland told the victim's family that he would take the girl to a juvenile detention center unless the family enrolled her in his Family First Growth Camp.
The girl was never enrolled in the boot camp, according to court testimony.
Pasadena police have not broadened their investigation into Pasadena boot camps or their operators to include allegations outside of the May 16 incident, according Lt. Tracey Ibarra.
Gibbs' boot camp operation has not been free of controversy.
He was kicked off Pasadena Unified School District campuses in 2009, after allegations emerged that McFarland was "too rough" on the children in his program and forced several children to clean the bathrooms in the school.
Boot camps operate with little in the way of oversight, according to a 2007 Government Accountability Office report.
Boot camp staff members are often untrained, discipline hawks and many of the trainers are convinced the children under their command are faking injuries, the report said.
Children are pushed past their physical breaking points day-after-day; injuries occur, go untreated and the children often die slowly, the report said.
According to the GAO report, more than 1,600 teens have been victims of abuse in juvenile boot camp programs since 1990, and 10 have died.
In its report, the GAO admitted that the lack of oversight "hampered" efforts to count child abuse incidents at juvenile boot camps.
Rep. George Miller, D-Richmond, subsequently sponsored two bills to regulate boot camps. Both passed the U.S. House of Representatives in 2008 and 2009, respectively, but failed in the U.S. Senate.
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci ... z1c33pAMg1
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COMMENTS:
Johnny Romero
where do i sign up for this!?!
Reply · Like · Follow Post · about an hour ago
Exclusive videos detail tactics at teen boot camps in Pasadena
By Brian Charles, Staff Writer
Posted: 10/26/2011 09:24:24 PM PDT
In a frame grab image of a Commit II Achieve Boot Camp video a youth is seen wearing a tire while being yelled at by boot camp leaders. (HAND IN 10-2011)
Video: Watch: videos offer inside look at children's boot camps
Photo gallery: Inside look at controversial children's boot camps
PASADENA - Two disturbing videos obtained by this newspaper offer an inside look at Pasadena-based boot camps.
The videos were created at least two years ago. One shows Kelvin "Sgt. Mac" McFarland forcing children to gorge themselves on water. The children in the video struggle to drink the water and several are seen vomiting as a result.
The second video shows a boy crying as he carries a truck tire around his neck. McFarland and three other boot camp instructors - at least one of whom was allegedly on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps at the time - can been seen screaming at the boy and coaxing him to say he "loves his sergeant."
The boy falls to his knees in tears and for a time it appears that he too is going to vomit.
Child abuse legal expert and USC Gould School of Law Professor Thomas Lyons did not view the videos but said the behavior described on them could easily fit the broad definition of child abuse.
"A lot of statutes will include cruelty as part of the definition of child abuse," Lyons said. "If there is no justification for this and
Advertisement
you are just trying to induce pain, that could be child abuse."
Lyons also raised questions about the efficacy of the methods used in the videos.
"He can argue that this is all part of the program and part of necessary discipline," Lyon said. "But there are plenty of experts that will tell you that the behavior is beyond the pale and not effective."
McFarland, a Monrovia resident, is the operator of Family First Growth Camp in Pasadena. He denied he was in either video, although he declined the opportunity to view them. When asked about his role in the videos, McFarland acknowledged they existed. However, he said "if you look at that video, you will see Keith `Sarge' Gibbs in the video."
Gibbs operates Sarge's Community Base, Inc./Commit II Achieve Boot Camp, also based in Pasadena.
While Gibbs is not seen in either video, his voice is heard off camera in one of the recordings. Children in both videos are seen wearing Commit II T-shirts.
Gibbs denied being present during the filming of the videos. He offered no explanation for why his voice was heard on one.
He said he deplored the instructors' behavior in the videos.
"It's not the way I would run a camp," Gibbs said.
Before they were rival boot camp operators, McFarland worked for Sarge's Community Base, Inc./Commit II Achieve Boot Camp, which Gibbs owns and operates.
Both men have served in the military, with McFarland serving in the Persian Gulf War.
McFarland said he is a recovering alcoholic who at one time was homeless. He said he was turning his own life around at the same time that he was trying to reform troubled children.
The two boot camp instructors parted ways in 2009, when McFarland failed to pass a background check and allegations emerged of inappropriate training methods, Gibbs said.
McFarland launched Family First Growth Camp in Pasadena in 2009. Gibbs said at that time McFarland began recruiting children and instructors away from Gibbs' operation.
McFarland was arrested on May 27 and charged with kidnapping, child abuse, false imprisonment, extortion and unlawful use of a badge. The charges stem from a May 16 incident during which McFarland allegedly handcuffed a truant Pasadena Unified School District high school student and extorted money from her family.
According to testimony given in a pre-trial hearing, McFarland told the victim's family that he would take the girl to a juvenile detention center unless the family enrolled her in his Family First Growth Camp.
The girl was never enrolled in the boot camp, according to court testimony.
Pasadena police have not broadened their investigation into Pasadena boot camps or their operators to include allegations outside of the May 16 incident, according Lt. Tracey Ibarra.
Gibbs' boot camp operation has not been free of controversy.
He was kicked off Pasadena Unified School District campuses in 2009, after allegations emerged that McFarland was "too rough" on the children in his program and forced several children to clean the bathrooms in the school.
Boot camps operate with little in the way of oversight, according to a 2007 Government Accountability Office report.
Boot camp staff members are often untrained, discipline hawks and many of the trainers are convinced the children under their command are faking injuries, the report said.
Children are pushed past their physical breaking points day-after-day; injuries occur, go untreated and the children often die slowly, the report said.
According to the GAO report, more than 1,600 teens have been victims of abuse in juvenile boot camp programs since 1990, and 10 have died.
In its report, the GAO admitted that the lack of oversight "hampered" efforts to count child abuse incidents at juvenile boot camps.
Rep. George Miller, D-Richmond, subsequently sponsored two bills to regulate boot camps. Both passed the U.S. House of Representatives in 2008 and 2009, respectively, but failed in the U.S. Senate.
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci ... z1c33pAMg1
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COMMENTS:
Johnny Romero
where do i sign up for this!?!
Reply · Like · Follow Post · about an hour ago
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The Troubled Teen Industry / Re: Rare video of children being abused at Pasadena boot cam
« on: October 28, 2011, 12:39:15 AM »
First link I posted:
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_19202271
Watch: videos show tactics of teen boot camps in Pasadena
Posted: 10/26/2011 09:07:48 PM PDT
Before viewing the videos in question, readers should be aware that they are disturbing and not suitable for viewing by children.
PASADENA - Two disturbing videos obtained by this newspaper offer an inside look at Pasadena-based boot camps.
The videos were created at least two years ago. One shows Kelvin "Sgt. Mac" McFarland forcing children to gorge themselves on water. The children in the video struggle to drink the water and several are seen vomiting as a result.
The second video shows a boy crying as he carries a truck tire around his neck. McFarland and three other boot camp instructors - at least one of whom was allegedly on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps at the time - can been seen screaming at the boy and coaxing him to say he "loves his sergeant."
The boy falls to his knees in tears and for a time it appears that he too is going to vomit.
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COMMENTS:
Reddit TroubledTeens
This is extremely rare video as most 'troubled teen' facilities are closed environments and don't allow the abuse to be documented. Kudos to Pasadena Star News for obtaining it and publicizing it. There are hundreds of facilities in the US that use similar tactics to 'break' a child. Forced water and scream therapy are just a few, they also use sleep deprivation, isolation, withholding food, physical exertion, forced labor and many other torturous techniques. These places exist in all 50 states, it is a billion-dollar industry. More info here: http://www.reddit.com/r/troubledteens/c ... like_most/
Reply · 1 · Like · Unfollow Post · 5 hours ago
David Lutzeier
Don't these idiot's know that drinking too much water can lead to Hyponatremia??? They can certainly die from being forced to drink too much water, if you have a decrease in Sodium in your blood that's great enough you would have a dead child. If this is how you instill discipline in children this is disgusting. Why don't one of these "soldiers" pick on a person their own size? Do parents voluntarily put their children in these programs? If so they should be punished as well as the people abusing the kids on the video.
Reply · 3 · Unlike · Follow Post · 13 hours ago
Frank Larez · Los Angeles, California
I would Love to See All The Taggers And Gang Members Go there "
Reply · 1 · Like · Follow Post · 13 hours ago
Anthony Connelly · Cincinnati, Ohio
It's no wonder that kids are dying in these places. Google: Martin Lee Anderson, his death was captured on video, he was killed by several boot camp staff in florida.....and every one of the staff involved was acquitted. I guess murder is okay if you run a teen program. Federal legislation has been introduced to end this type of abuse and death: H.R. 3126 and S.1667
Reply · Like · Follow Post · 3 hours ago
Collin Mitchell · Ellison High School
Wtf is wrong with this people? They need a life. Trying to scar children for eternity is what Satin does and Satin lives in the underworld. That's why he is there burning in that wretched place, I oughta go beat some sense into these people.
Reply · Like · Follow Post · 2 hours ago
Daniel Dupill · University of Southern California
I agree that the videos are disturbing and should be seen; however, the blurring of the face of boy with the tire is totally inadequate. Anyone who knows him would recognize him. Please modify so that his privacy is protected.
Reply · Like · Follow Post · 4 hours ago
Sheila Wilson
These are troubled children that they are trying to "break". Just as they do in boot camp to adults. However... They are only showing a portion of a "clip" that was recorded.
Reply · Like · Follow Post · about an hour ago
George Martin Diaz · Alhambra, California
dood !!!there other ways to teach honor, loyalty ,courage ,....its called Little league baseball ...blow hards.just raisin MONSTERS!!
Reply · Like · Follow Post · 12 hours ago
Hailey Hubacek · Grafton, Wisconsin
I hope these boot camps are shut down and each of the "soldiers" who witnessed, made, and recorded these videos are arrested for ATLEAST 5 years
Reply · Like · Follow Post · 3 hours ago
Tony Venti · Surfside, California
LOOKS LIKE A WHOLE BUNCH OF UNDERACHIEVERS GOT TOGETHER AND OPENED A CAMP..
WHAT WILL THEY THINK OF NEXT?
Reply · Like · Follow Post · 11 hours ago
Anthony Connelly · Cincinnati, Ohio
This is sick....these staff are sick people and should not be allowed around children.
Reply · Like · Follow Post · 3 hours ago
James Smith · Pasadena, California
WHAT IS GOING ON? WHAT IS GOING ON? THIS IS NOT, AND I REPEAT NOT O.K.!!!
Reply · Like · Follow Post · 12 hours ago
Reddit TroubledTeens
No, it is not OK! There are hundreds of facilities like this one, more info here: http://www.reddit.com/r/troubledteens/c ... like_most/. They must be stopped, kids should not be abused like this!
Reply · Like · 5 hours ago
James Smith · Pasadena, California
If no one is going to do anything about this, I will!
Reply · Like · Follow Post · 12 hours ago
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_19202271
Watch: videos show tactics of teen boot camps in Pasadena
Posted: 10/26/2011 09:07:48 PM PDT
Before viewing the videos in question, readers should be aware that they are disturbing and not suitable for viewing by children.
PASADENA - Two disturbing videos obtained by this newspaper offer an inside look at Pasadena-based boot camps.
The videos were created at least two years ago. One shows Kelvin "Sgt. Mac" McFarland forcing children to gorge themselves on water. The children in the video struggle to drink the water and several are seen vomiting as a result.
The second video shows a boy crying as he carries a truck tire around his neck. McFarland and three other boot camp instructors - at least one of whom was allegedly on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps at the time - can been seen screaming at the boy and coaxing him to say he "loves his sergeant."
The boy falls to his knees in tears and for a time it appears that he too is going to vomit.
**************************
COMMENTS:
Reddit TroubledTeens
This is extremely rare video as most 'troubled teen' facilities are closed environments and don't allow the abuse to be documented. Kudos to Pasadena Star News for obtaining it and publicizing it. There are hundreds of facilities in the US that use similar tactics to 'break' a child. Forced water and scream therapy are just a few, they also use sleep deprivation, isolation, withholding food, physical exertion, forced labor and many other torturous techniques. These places exist in all 50 states, it is a billion-dollar industry. More info here: http://www.reddit.com/r/troubledteens/c ... like_most/
Reply · 1 · Like · Unfollow Post · 5 hours ago
David Lutzeier
Don't these idiot's know that drinking too much water can lead to Hyponatremia??? They can certainly die from being forced to drink too much water, if you have a decrease in Sodium in your blood that's great enough you would have a dead child. If this is how you instill discipline in children this is disgusting. Why don't one of these "soldiers" pick on a person their own size? Do parents voluntarily put their children in these programs? If so they should be punished as well as the people abusing the kids on the video.
Reply · 3 · Unlike · Follow Post · 13 hours ago
Frank Larez · Los Angeles, California
I would Love to See All The Taggers And Gang Members Go there "
Reply · 1 · Like · Follow Post · 13 hours ago
Anthony Connelly · Cincinnati, Ohio
It's no wonder that kids are dying in these places. Google: Martin Lee Anderson, his death was captured on video, he was killed by several boot camp staff in florida.....and every one of the staff involved was acquitted. I guess murder is okay if you run a teen program. Federal legislation has been introduced to end this type of abuse and death: H.R. 3126 and S.1667
Reply · Like · Follow Post · 3 hours ago
Collin Mitchell · Ellison High School
Wtf is wrong with this people? They need a life. Trying to scar children for eternity is what Satin does and Satin lives in the underworld. That's why he is there burning in that wretched place, I oughta go beat some sense into these people.
Reply · Like · Follow Post · 2 hours ago
Daniel Dupill · University of Southern California
I agree that the videos are disturbing and should be seen; however, the blurring of the face of boy with the tire is totally inadequate. Anyone who knows him would recognize him. Please modify so that his privacy is protected.
Reply · Like · Follow Post · 4 hours ago
Sheila Wilson
These are troubled children that they are trying to "break". Just as they do in boot camp to adults. However... They are only showing a portion of a "clip" that was recorded.
Reply · Like · Follow Post · about an hour ago
George Martin Diaz · Alhambra, California
dood !!!there other ways to teach honor, loyalty ,courage ,....its called Little league baseball ...blow hards.just raisin MONSTERS!!
Reply · Like · Follow Post · 12 hours ago
Hailey Hubacek · Grafton, Wisconsin
I hope these boot camps are shut down and each of the "soldiers" who witnessed, made, and recorded these videos are arrested for ATLEAST 5 years
Reply · Like · Follow Post · 3 hours ago
Tony Venti · Surfside, California
LOOKS LIKE A WHOLE BUNCH OF UNDERACHIEVERS GOT TOGETHER AND OPENED A CAMP..
WHAT WILL THEY THINK OF NEXT?
Reply · Like · Follow Post · 11 hours ago
Anthony Connelly · Cincinnati, Ohio
This is sick....these staff are sick people and should not be allowed around children.
Reply · Like · Follow Post · 3 hours ago
James Smith · Pasadena, California
WHAT IS GOING ON? WHAT IS GOING ON? THIS IS NOT, AND I REPEAT NOT O.K.!!!
Reply · Like · Follow Post · 12 hours ago
Reddit TroubledTeens
No, it is not OK! There are hundreds of facilities like this one, more info here: http://www.reddit.com/r/troubledteens/c ... like_most/. They must be stopped, kids should not be abused like this!
Reply · Like · 5 hours ago
James Smith · Pasadena, California
If no one is going to do anything about this, I will!
Reply · Like · Follow Post · 12 hours ago
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The Troubled Teen Industry / Any Philly survivors want to talk to a reporter?
« on: October 28, 2011, 12:13:05 AM »
Hey Philadelphia area survivors, want to talk to a sympathetic reporter? Whether you were locked up near Philly there or live there now, contact http://www.reddit.com/r/troubledteens/c ... area_your/
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The Troubled Teen Industry / Rare video of children being abused at Pasadena boot camp
« on: October 27, 2011, 05:03:09 PM »
TRIGGER WARNING!!
Footage like this is extremely rare, facilities usually don't allow the abuse to be documented. I fail to see how this 'treatment' would help any kid. http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_19202271
Longer story and more info here: http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_19202277
One of the men in the video was arrested in May for trying to extort money from a family. He demanded $100 as a down payment to enroll their daughter in his boot camp or he would bring her to a juvenile detention facility for truancy. http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_18495489
Footage like this is extremely rare, facilities usually don't allow the abuse to be documented. I fail to see how this 'treatment' would help any kid. http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_19202271
Longer story and more info here: http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_19202277
One of the men in the video was arrested in May for trying to extort money from a family. He demanded $100 as a down payment to enroll their daughter in his boot camp or he would bring her to a juvenile detention facility for truancy. http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_18495489
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World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS) / Re: 32,000 hits on reddit: WWASP/Cross Creek Survivor Story
« on: September 04, 2011, 05:31:26 AM »
From the comments section:
D2DTX
I was close to leaving the program when you got there Aroch, but I remember peeking into the iso room in the basement to sneak a look at the girl that had "gone crazy" and ripped the bed apart. You looked so lonely in there! So glad we are out!
aroch10027
yeah that's what they told you, now you know the truth.
D2DTX
I was close to leaving the program when you got there Aroch, but I remember peeking into the iso room in the basement to sneak a look at the girl that had "gone crazy" and ripped the bed apart. You looked so lonely in there! So glad we are out!
aroch10027
yeah that's what they told you, now you know the truth.
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World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS) / 32,000 hits on reddit: WWASP/Cross Creek Survivor Story
« on: September 04, 2011, 05:15:21 AM »
“My Parents Paid Thousands of Dollars for Therapy, and All I Got Was Locked Up, Abused, and Tortured: A Story of Teen Sex Abuse and Mind Control in Teen Prisons”
http://www.reddit.com/r/troubledteens/c ... r_therapy/
In May of 1993 I was sent to a girls home called Cross Creek Manor (CCM) in southern Utah where I lived for four and a half months. This facility is owned and operated by a notorious umbrella organization called World Wide Association of Specialty Programs (WWASP). While attending I was physically attacked, suffocated, tormented, and put in isolation on a regular basis for three day periods at a time.
I was denied all access to communicate with the outside. Once a staff member (while invading my privacy) told me I wipe the wrong way after using the toilet. In addition, I was put on unprescribed and inappropriate medication that created physical side-effects, essentially I was drugged.
I was kept in isolation on and off during my stay, including my final day, right up until being transferred into the college dorms at Seattle Pacific U (a Bible college I had been pre-accepted to prior to my incarceration). I had no contact with the outside world prior to this other than brief visits at a “hospital” called Brightway.
Brightway was more of a packaging center, than a hospital. It was a detainment center, but also the UPS for the herds of lost (or rather abandoned) children, a branding center for human cattle that decided who went where. They apparently mixed up so many “packages” and caused so much damage, they had to close; however, there are plenty of other places like it still operating.
I mention my attendance at a Bible college because the youth at Cross Creek Manor (CCM) were meant to feel like they were criminals or that they were somehow mentally disturbed, and I certainly was not; nonetheless, that’s how we were treated during our incarceration. The primary difference between prison and residential centers today is that prisoners are allowed a lawyer and a phone call.
While attending I was deprived of an education, lied to, and my mail was confiscated. I was denied appropriate exercise, sanitary conditions, and emotional/medical attention. I also slept on a floor in the isolation room where I peed to avoid staff monitoring me in the bathroom and making sick remarks.
Originally, back in California, I was told I was going to an in-state, nature focused boarding school to obtain emotional support in response to childhood abuse, something that had been obfuscated from some time.
I had two months left of high school and couldn’t finish because I was sent to a Charter Hospital for a month after having a breakdown. While attending Charter I found myself near my community in a safe therapeutic environment that offered virtually everything I needed except for a longer stay and a regular therapist that I knew well enough to confide in. They had many other specialists, therapists, and diverse forms of expressive therapy that were wonderful. I was willing to do anything to overcome what was setting me back.
Cross Creek promised to offer a high school diploma. Had the truth of their dubious unaccredited “diplomas” been revealed I might not have missed out on graduating from Catholic school.
When I got to Cross Creek what I found was that I was out of state, in Utah in a basement across the street from a cemetery. From the beginning I found myself forced into writing essays about how I was “bad” that took several hours to complete per essay. The first one was about being a liar because I showered at the wrong time (having not been informed there was a shower schedule). That incident landed me a three-day stay in isolation, a room with white walls not much larger than a twin bed.
After that I wrote a letter to friends asking them to come and get me even though I had no real idea where I was (we traveled through the night). That was a turning point for the worse, and staff repeatedly put me in isolation. One time I sat down on the bed and the frame gave way, they added three more days to my solitary confinement. I speculate the bed was already broken because the other isolation room had no bed. Despite the innocent nature of the incident it was termed “destruction of property” and “malicious mischief.” As for the cause of the latter accusation, I had to put the bed upright so I could find enough space to sleep on the floor. Both resulted in essays and more isolation.
Some girls seemed sympathetic knowing of the length of time I was spending in there and others used it as leverage to advance in the program. Many ganged up, telling me I just wasn’t working with the program. This occurred in my first group therapy session which I was quite excited about attending having just come out of isolation, but I soon learned “group therapy” for the most part was simply attack therapy.
Attack therapy involves people confronting each other in a verbally abusive way. I am yet to learn of any studies that demonstrate that it is therapeutic or helpful in any way. An example of attack therapy is telling a rape victim that the abuse was her fault, suggesting that she is a slut and that the rape was simply a reaction to her style of dress or emotional state.
Girls living in the basement with me who had less privileges than the others and little to lose began to demonstrate sympathy towards me verbally and almost unanimously towards the abuse I was being subjected to. I don’t know if staff felt intimidated by this, but either way it just became a game for them to use me as an example. Maybe they feared an uprising.
My independent education packets never came and I later learned that the organization was caught up in one of the biggest education scams having issued 113 fake diplomas just at one school alone in New York. In regards to Ivy Ridge, John Sullivan Jr. NY Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Watertown district office stated in the August 19, 2005 Watertown Daily Times “people assume there’s oversight of these programs, there’s more government oversight of dog kennels than there are of these school, and that’s not right.”
http://imgur.com/4VrKa Image of Youth in A Dog Cage (High Impact Tecate, Mexico)
http://imgur.com/aLngq Image of More Youth in Dog Cages (High Impact Tecate, Mexico)
See One of Our Great Documentaries and See Parents and Staff Testimony: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=057_1200885881
HOW TO HELP: http://www.cafety.org/volunteer Donating is a good way to help support the hiring of a volunteer coordinator. Join my STARP (Stop Teen Abuse in Residential Programs) fb site directory.
Part 2 More Images at Bottom of Part 2
Several top government officials completely failed to respond to Congressman Miller’s extensive requests for an investigation despite the widespread incidences of kids being abused, tortured, and placed in dog cages. Dog kennels wasn’t the worst of it and yet, when it came down to small isolation cells in WWASPS’ Samoan program called Paradise Cove, we still couldn’t and haven’t received any oversight or intervention to hold the residential industry to any substantial standards.
The worst incident I experienced in Utah began was when I was put face-first against a wall for over ten hours and then told to stand on my tip-toes to reach a dot taped to the wall with my nose. The verbal taunting, enjoyment of this staff member, and the aggravation of not being able to do anything but stare at a wall led me to turn the corner and there I had two men that grabbed me and threw me in the isolation room again. This time they jumped me, put me in a painful police like lock position with my arms behind my back while they bashed my head into the floor causing significant and a large visible facial laceration.
They then proceeded to sit on me to so I couldn’t breathe and after gasping several times for air and pleading for my life, I became speechless. I was certain they would kill me, and they could get away with it. No one would of known about it because they were able to do all this other abuse, why wouldn’t they get away with killing me? There was no one there to stop them, and maybe no one cared. It wasn’t like I received any mail except a postcard from Bali at the time and a letter from my future college roommate that I couldn’t respond to.
So as I became asphyxiated and unable to save myself, the young staff member they had put in charge of me to make sure I didn’t try to leave looked completely shocked, and it was perhaps that look of shock that saved my life. Not all kids are that fortunate. About a dozen kids die every year in programs from abuse or torture like compression suffocation.
When I came out of isolation my face would twitch oddly, not like an eye twitch, but a full muscle spasm. It continued so much that I became worried that people would see and think I was weird. I also frequently lost control of my bladder; unfortunately, we had to ask permission to use the bathroom and only use it at designated times. Since some of the staff was annoyed we needed to use the restrooms they started to limit the amount of water we could drink.
Later I read an account by a parent saying her daughter was given Haldol, a medication given to people with schizophrenia, which wasn’t prescribed to her. I looked up the medication to see if there were any side effects such as facial twitching, and sure enough this was one of the major side effects. A girl with schizophrenia, named Emily, had left the program not much earlier than when I got there. She later committed suicide after being subjected to more frequent, but similar types of abuse including sexual abuse.
In my case, the Haldol could easily have been slipped into food before I received it in isolation. The side effects would explain my difficulty focusing and facial twitches. When Emily was part of the program her and another friend were woken up frequently in the middle of the night. It’s something that occurred in other WWASPS programs in order to sleep deprive and break the subject into submission.
A highlight of WWASPS programs is behavior modification. For parents who don’t really know what that means, it sound great; however, if they had done more research about what was really involved and the results of such experimentation I suspect many parents may not have signed their kids up. As a result of various abuses many kids have suffered from borderline personality disorder and PTSD. In the worst cases some kids are disabled for life and there have been suicides.
There are still staff currently at CCM that were employed when I attended. One, employed shortly before my departure seemed neither harmful nor helpful, but complacent. The other, the manager, sent my mom away when she came to investigate why my school packets never arrived. It so happened that her visit was the same day I received serious lacerations to my face, she was told that visiting me would interrupt the process. The manager, and many employees were talented at manipulating people, often through emotion, especially guilt.
Keeping this story short has been trying, and forcing myself not to live these things over and over has proven vexing. I’ve realized I was suffering most of the symptoms of post trauma and have since overcome my fear of therapists and received several years of ongoing therapy. I’ve been active in advocating for community issues and have found CAFETY, the Community Alliance for the Ethical Treatment of Youth, a resource of inspiration.
In my professional life and personal life, I create prevention and help people deal with trauma. The great thing I’ve found through the process of my own recovery is that people don’t think fighting for human rights and protection is crazy, but rather something that has a rich cultural history of its own called “advocacy.”
I’ve met a lot of survivors online and in person from different programs. One even moved in and became a part of my family. However, survivors really struggle with relationship issues. Some of them experienced being raped at WWASP facilities. Others witnessed children being raped and sodomized. I guess you could say being in these programs is such a strange experience that it can leave people feeling mixed up and isolated whether in their professional lives they’ve become lawyers or raised families.
Survivors often feel an instant connection; it’s refreshing to speak to someone else about these facilities without parrying assumptions that we were “out of control”. A lot of people never trust therapists again, never seek help, or share their story with other people because of the embarrassment, distrust, and initial pressure they feel to fit in, but there are several thousand of us just within a small percentage of online social groups. I’d imagine there are easily hundreds of thousands of people that have experienced some form of residential abuse.
The real issue lies within the lack of oversight and false marketing that exists in thousands of programs across the States and beyond. Politicians for years have rallied against any legislation that could interfere with their “Cash for Kids” profits. In some states, they won’t even require faith based programs to be licensed, which doesn’t even begin to make people eligible to work with kids in the first place; it simply allows there to have been some initial form of contact with a state department. It’s known too that the faith based programs tend to be also very abusive taking parts of the Bible literally into beating children with rods and pipes. This practice has resulted in kids being beaten to death.
It was a common practice in the Roloff schools that President Bush helped to stay afloat. Bush as Governor of Texas at the time, overturned legislation allowing the Roloff schools to not have to be licensed despite, the apparent severe abuse coming out in court cases. Pastor Roloff in turn, helped his campaign financially as well as through his evangelical radio shows. Roloff eventually killed a bunch of orphans flying his plane into the ground while ignoring the weather warnings.
Where the industry is huge in the fundamentally religious state of Utah, Mitt Romney also profited off these programs and chose Bob Litchfield, the owner of WWASPS, as his financial co-chairman for his presidential candidacy in 08. Romney wanted Double the Guanatanamo, so he picked, Mel Sembler as another financial co-chairman, the owner of the abusive Straight programs.
I leave you with this from a Mother Jones article “Horror Stories from Tough Love Teen Homes,” “ In March 2010, the House passed the Keeping All Students Safe Act, a bill that would have banned the use of seclusion and physical or chemical restraints by any school that benefits from federal education money. (It, too, died in the Senate.) Andy Kopsa, who covers abusive homes in her blog, Off the Record, noted that GOP members whose districts host tough-love schools rallied against the act. They included former Indiana Rep. Mark Souder (Hephzibah House), Alabama Rep. Robert Aderholt (Reclamation Ranch, Rachel Academy), and North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx (King Family Ministries), who testified: "This bill is not needed...The states and the localities can handle these situations. They will look after the children."
Limited Images of Abuse and Settings Youth Were In at WWASPS
http://imgur.com/sES7w (Tranquility Bay, Jamaica)
http://imgur.com/NM6rM (Tranquility Bay, Jamaica youth in picture killed himself after being abused there, another after being pepper sprayed numerously on a daily basis by American staff owners)
http://imgur.com/a/M3tBU (Cross Creek Manor now Cross Creek Academy, isolation rooms)
http://imgur.com/SSDMr (The Hobbit Spring Creek Lodge, Montana)
http://imgur.com/8T2EU (High Impact Tecate, Mexico)
One OF Our Great Documentaries :http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=057_1200885881
Other related articles:
Read more: http://www.wyff4.com/news/24956710/deta ... z1W4worVr6 The remains of more than 70 animal remains were found on the Due West property in varying states of decay on Lichfield’s property where the abusive and now closed Carolina Springs academy existed.
Read more: "Child welfare has evolved over the last four centuries. It finds its roots in empirical systems based on property and material value, not human values."Roch Longueepee
http://restoringdignitycampaign.blogspo ... cy-of.html
http://www.reddit.com/r/troubledteens/c ... r_therapy/
In May of 1993 I was sent to a girls home called Cross Creek Manor (CCM) in southern Utah where I lived for four and a half months. This facility is owned and operated by a notorious umbrella organization called World Wide Association of Specialty Programs (WWASP). While attending I was physically attacked, suffocated, tormented, and put in isolation on a regular basis for three day periods at a time.
I was denied all access to communicate with the outside. Once a staff member (while invading my privacy) told me I wipe the wrong way after using the toilet. In addition, I was put on unprescribed and inappropriate medication that created physical side-effects, essentially I was drugged.
I was kept in isolation on and off during my stay, including my final day, right up until being transferred into the college dorms at Seattle Pacific U (a Bible college I had been pre-accepted to prior to my incarceration). I had no contact with the outside world prior to this other than brief visits at a “hospital” called Brightway.
Brightway was more of a packaging center, than a hospital. It was a detainment center, but also the UPS for the herds of lost (or rather abandoned) children, a branding center for human cattle that decided who went where. They apparently mixed up so many “packages” and caused so much damage, they had to close; however, there are plenty of other places like it still operating.
I mention my attendance at a Bible college because the youth at Cross Creek Manor (CCM) were meant to feel like they were criminals or that they were somehow mentally disturbed, and I certainly was not; nonetheless, that’s how we were treated during our incarceration. The primary difference between prison and residential centers today is that prisoners are allowed a lawyer and a phone call.
While attending I was deprived of an education, lied to, and my mail was confiscated. I was denied appropriate exercise, sanitary conditions, and emotional/medical attention. I also slept on a floor in the isolation room where I peed to avoid staff monitoring me in the bathroom and making sick remarks.
Originally, back in California, I was told I was going to an in-state, nature focused boarding school to obtain emotional support in response to childhood abuse, something that had been obfuscated from some time.
I had two months left of high school and couldn’t finish because I was sent to a Charter Hospital for a month after having a breakdown. While attending Charter I found myself near my community in a safe therapeutic environment that offered virtually everything I needed except for a longer stay and a regular therapist that I knew well enough to confide in. They had many other specialists, therapists, and diverse forms of expressive therapy that were wonderful. I was willing to do anything to overcome what was setting me back.
Cross Creek promised to offer a high school diploma. Had the truth of their dubious unaccredited “diplomas” been revealed I might not have missed out on graduating from Catholic school.
When I got to Cross Creek what I found was that I was out of state, in Utah in a basement across the street from a cemetery. From the beginning I found myself forced into writing essays about how I was “bad” that took several hours to complete per essay. The first one was about being a liar because I showered at the wrong time (having not been informed there was a shower schedule). That incident landed me a three-day stay in isolation, a room with white walls not much larger than a twin bed.
After that I wrote a letter to friends asking them to come and get me even though I had no real idea where I was (we traveled through the night). That was a turning point for the worse, and staff repeatedly put me in isolation. One time I sat down on the bed and the frame gave way, they added three more days to my solitary confinement. I speculate the bed was already broken because the other isolation room had no bed. Despite the innocent nature of the incident it was termed “destruction of property” and “malicious mischief.” As for the cause of the latter accusation, I had to put the bed upright so I could find enough space to sleep on the floor. Both resulted in essays and more isolation.
Some girls seemed sympathetic knowing of the length of time I was spending in there and others used it as leverage to advance in the program. Many ganged up, telling me I just wasn’t working with the program. This occurred in my first group therapy session which I was quite excited about attending having just come out of isolation, but I soon learned “group therapy” for the most part was simply attack therapy.
Attack therapy involves people confronting each other in a verbally abusive way. I am yet to learn of any studies that demonstrate that it is therapeutic or helpful in any way. An example of attack therapy is telling a rape victim that the abuse was her fault, suggesting that she is a slut and that the rape was simply a reaction to her style of dress or emotional state.
Girls living in the basement with me who had less privileges than the others and little to lose began to demonstrate sympathy towards me verbally and almost unanimously towards the abuse I was being subjected to. I don’t know if staff felt intimidated by this, but either way it just became a game for them to use me as an example. Maybe they feared an uprising.
My independent education packets never came and I later learned that the organization was caught up in one of the biggest education scams having issued 113 fake diplomas just at one school alone in New York. In regards to Ivy Ridge, John Sullivan Jr. NY Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Watertown district office stated in the August 19, 2005 Watertown Daily Times “people assume there’s oversight of these programs, there’s more government oversight of dog kennels than there are of these school, and that’s not right.”
http://imgur.com/4VrKa Image of Youth in A Dog Cage (High Impact Tecate, Mexico)
http://imgur.com/aLngq Image of More Youth in Dog Cages (High Impact Tecate, Mexico)
See One of Our Great Documentaries and See Parents and Staff Testimony: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=057_1200885881
HOW TO HELP: http://www.cafety.org/volunteer Donating is a good way to help support the hiring of a volunteer coordinator. Join my STARP (Stop Teen Abuse in Residential Programs) fb site directory.
Part 2 More Images at Bottom of Part 2
Several top government officials completely failed to respond to Congressman Miller’s extensive requests for an investigation despite the widespread incidences of kids being abused, tortured, and placed in dog cages. Dog kennels wasn’t the worst of it and yet, when it came down to small isolation cells in WWASPS’ Samoan program called Paradise Cove, we still couldn’t and haven’t received any oversight or intervention to hold the residential industry to any substantial standards.
The worst incident I experienced in Utah began was when I was put face-first against a wall for over ten hours and then told to stand on my tip-toes to reach a dot taped to the wall with my nose. The verbal taunting, enjoyment of this staff member, and the aggravation of not being able to do anything but stare at a wall led me to turn the corner and there I had two men that grabbed me and threw me in the isolation room again. This time they jumped me, put me in a painful police like lock position with my arms behind my back while they bashed my head into the floor causing significant and a large visible facial laceration.
They then proceeded to sit on me to so I couldn’t breathe and after gasping several times for air and pleading for my life, I became speechless. I was certain they would kill me, and they could get away with it. No one would of known about it because they were able to do all this other abuse, why wouldn’t they get away with killing me? There was no one there to stop them, and maybe no one cared. It wasn’t like I received any mail except a postcard from Bali at the time and a letter from my future college roommate that I couldn’t respond to.
So as I became asphyxiated and unable to save myself, the young staff member they had put in charge of me to make sure I didn’t try to leave looked completely shocked, and it was perhaps that look of shock that saved my life. Not all kids are that fortunate. About a dozen kids die every year in programs from abuse or torture like compression suffocation.
When I came out of isolation my face would twitch oddly, not like an eye twitch, but a full muscle spasm. It continued so much that I became worried that people would see and think I was weird. I also frequently lost control of my bladder; unfortunately, we had to ask permission to use the bathroom and only use it at designated times. Since some of the staff was annoyed we needed to use the restrooms they started to limit the amount of water we could drink.
Later I read an account by a parent saying her daughter was given Haldol, a medication given to people with schizophrenia, which wasn’t prescribed to her. I looked up the medication to see if there were any side effects such as facial twitching, and sure enough this was one of the major side effects. A girl with schizophrenia, named Emily, had left the program not much earlier than when I got there. She later committed suicide after being subjected to more frequent, but similar types of abuse including sexual abuse.
In my case, the Haldol could easily have been slipped into food before I received it in isolation. The side effects would explain my difficulty focusing and facial twitches. When Emily was part of the program her and another friend were woken up frequently in the middle of the night. It’s something that occurred in other WWASPS programs in order to sleep deprive and break the subject into submission.
A highlight of WWASPS programs is behavior modification. For parents who don’t really know what that means, it sound great; however, if they had done more research about what was really involved and the results of such experimentation I suspect many parents may not have signed their kids up. As a result of various abuses many kids have suffered from borderline personality disorder and PTSD. In the worst cases some kids are disabled for life and there have been suicides.
There are still staff currently at CCM that were employed when I attended. One, employed shortly before my departure seemed neither harmful nor helpful, but complacent. The other, the manager, sent my mom away when she came to investigate why my school packets never arrived. It so happened that her visit was the same day I received serious lacerations to my face, she was told that visiting me would interrupt the process. The manager, and many employees were talented at manipulating people, often through emotion, especially guilt.
Keeping this story short has been trying, and forcing myself not to live these things over and over has proven vexing. I’ve realized I was suffering most of the symptoms of post trauma and have since overcome my fear of therapists and received several years of ongoing therapy. I’ve been active in advocating for community issues and have found CAFETY, the Community Alliance for the Ethical Treatment of Youth, a resource of inspiration.
In my professional life and personal life, I create prevention and help people deal with trauma. The great thing I’ve found through the process of my own recovery is that people don’t think fighting for human rights and protection is crazy, but rather something that has a rich cultural history of its own called “advocacy.”
I’ve met a lot of survivors online and in person from different programs. One even moved in and became a part of my family. However, survivors really struggle with relationship issues. Some of them experienced being raped at WWASP facilities. Others witnessed children being raped and sodomized. I guess you could say being in these programs is such a strange experience that it can leave people feeling mixed up and isolated whether in their professional lives they’ve become lawyers or raised families.
Survivors often feel an instant connection; it’s refreshing to speak to someone else about these facilities without parrying assumptions that we were “out of control”. A lot of people never trust therapists again, never seek help, or share their story with other people because of the embarrassment, distrust, and initial pressure they feel to fit in, but there are several thousand of us just within a small percentage of online social groups. I’d imagine there are easily hundreds of thousands of people that have experienced some form of residential abuse.
The real issue lies within the lack of oversight and false marketing that exists in thousands of programs across the States and beyond. Politicians for years have rallied against any legislation that could interfere with their “Cash for Kids” profits. In some states, they won’t even require faith based programs to be licensed, which doesn’t even begin to make people eligible to work with kids in the first place; it simply allows there to have been some initial form of contact with a state department. It’s known too that the faith based programs tend to be also very abusive taking parts of the Bible literally into beating children with rods and pipes. This practice has resulted in kids being beaten to death.
It was a common practice in the Roloff schools that President Bush helped to stay afloat. Bush as Governor of Texas at the time, overturned legislation allowing the Roloff schools to not have to be licensed despite, the apparent severe abuse coming out in court cases. Pastor Roloff in turn, helped his campaign financially as well as through his evangelical radio shows. Roloff eventually killed a bunch of orphans flying his plane into the ground while ignoring the weather warnings.
Where the industry is huge in the fundamentally religious state of Utah, Mitt Romney also profited off these programs and chose Bob Litchfield, the owner of WWASPS, as his financial co-chairman for his presidential candidacy in 08. Romney wanted Double the Guanatanamo, so he picked, Mel Sembler as another financial co-chairman, the owner of the abusive Straight programs.
I leave you with this from a Mother Jones article “Horror Stories from Tough Love Teen Homes,” “ In March 2010, the House passed the Keeping All Students Safe Act, a bill that would have banned the use of seclusion and physical or chemical restraints by any school that benefits from federal education money. (It, too, died in the Senate.) Andy Kopsa, who covers abusive homes in her blog, Off the Record, noted that GOP members whose districts host tough-love schools rallied against the act. They included former Indiana Rep. Mark Souder (Hephzibah House), Alabama Rep. Robert Aderholt (Reclamation Ranch, Rachel Academy), and North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx (King Family Ministries), who testified: "This bill is not needed...The states and the localities can handle these situations. They will look after the children."
Limited Images of Abuse and Settings Youth Were In at WWASPS
http://imgur.com/sES7w (Tranquility Bay, Jamaica)
http://imgur.com/NM6rM (Tranquility Bay, Jamaica youth in picture killed himself after being abused there, another after being pepper sprayed numerously on a daily basis by American staff owners)
http://imgur.com/a/M3tBU (Cross Creek Manor now Cross Creek Academy, isolation rooms)
http://imgur.com/SSDMr (The Hobbit Spring Creek Lodge, Montana)
http://imgur.com/8T2EU (High Impact Tecate, Mexico)
One OF Our Great Documentaries :http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=057_1200885881
Other related articles:
Read more: http://www.wyff4.com/news/24956710/deta ... z1W4worVr6 The remains of more than 70 animal remains were found on the Due West property in varying states of decay on Lichfield’s property where the abusive and now closed Carolina Springs academy existed.
Read more: "Child welfare has evolved over the last four centuries. It finds its roots in empirical systems based on property and material value, not human values."Roch Longueepee
http://restoringdignitycampaign.blogspo ... cy-of.html
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« on: June 23, 2011, 05:58:01 AM »Quote from: "Shadyacres"
Quote from: "FemanonFatal2.0"Its weird... all of a sudden FB (and now Reddit) is blowing up with talk about the TTI... like 10 years too late to do anything about it but it's still pretty cool to see that people care. :cheers:
Many of us who are now 'blowing up Facebook and Reddit' were inspired by your words here. I kept my experience to myself for 25 years because nobody wanted to hear it, just assumed I was a whiner. Then I found fornits and read the experiences of others that were so much like mine. It gave me courage to, as Oscar said; "close this chapter in my life once and for all". I would like to give a big thank you to all you guys here at fornits just for being here and sharing your stories, they were very important to me in my struggle to get past this bullshit.
Awwww, that's a beautiful tribute to fornits! Harrah! Got a little something in my eye...
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« on: June 21, 2011, 05:39:45 PM »
Oscar, I agree with everything you said. I've read many of your posts on fornits and I'm amazed by your scope of knowledge. I love the idea of bringing the movement more international, I can't even imagine what the internet addiction camps in China are like.
I agree, too, that local treatment is the best way to go. I don't know much about flooding the internet with web pages, but I'm willing to try anything!
It's really good to get the opinions of the people that are dedicated and have been working for a long time. As a new person on the scene, I look to all of you for info, and I appreciate how kind everyone has been!
There are so many new projects springing up right now, a lot of really exciting things happening! There are things happening that I have no idea about....many surprises to come, even for me!
I agree, too, that local treatment is the best way to go. I don't know much about flooding the internet with web pages, but I'm willing to try anything!
It's really good to get the opinions of the people that are dedicated and have been working for a long time. As a new person on the scene, I look to all of you for info, and I appreciate how kind everyone has been!
There are so many new projects springing up right now, a lot of really exciting things happening! There are things happening that I have no idea about....many surprises to come, even for me!
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« on: June 21, 2011, 05:06:34 PM »Quote from: "FemanonFatal2.0"
Its weird... all of a sudden FB (and now Reddit) is blowing up with talk about the TTI... like 10 years too late to do anything about it but it's still pretty cool to see that people care. :cheers:
I only found out about the problem 12 weeks ago, sorry I'm running late, LOL! There are still kids being abused and my main mission is to save them. Next priority is justice for all! Thanks for your support! We totally love fornits and have a huge respect for all the hard work you guys have done to expose the industry, we support you guys 100% and often link to the great info you have here!
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« on: June 09, 2011, 10:13:40 AM »
We are going to be operating our organization efforts on www.troubledteenindustry.com in addition to reddit, facebook and twitter. It's a brand-new site, it will be different than fornits because it's main function is to fight the troubled teen industry. It will be the rat's nest of the movement.
We invite you to join us at any or all of our locations:
www.troubledteenindustry.com
www. reddit.com/r/troubledteens
facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=gro ... 82928&ap=1
my facebook acct, friend me!
http://www.facebook.com/RedditTroubledTeens
http://twitter.com/#!/r_TroubledTeens
We invite you to join us at any or all of our locations:
www.troubledteenindustry.com
www. reddit.com/r/troubledteens
facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=gro ... 82928&ap=1
my facebook acct, friend me!
http://www.facebook.com/RedditTroubledTeens
http://twitter.com/#!/r_TroubledTeens
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« on: June 06, 2011, 06:07:11 PM »
Hey Paul,
Nice to meet you, too! I'm actually a reddit chick, but that's ok, I think everyone on the internet is a dude, too!
Thanks for your analysis on the 'parent' posts, I totally defer to your judgment. They showed up not long after I posted here, so I'm thinking we got some of your fornits trolls.
A friend of mine is in school for leadership, she told me that she learned that people that irk us cause great ideas to happen. She had worked in a field where she was expected to come up with new ideas, she said now she realizes why management kept the people that annoyed everyone around. Now she knows it was part of a 'master plan'. I'm going to think of trolls as this...perhaps something that inspires us further.
I'm not a great marketer, I'm actually horrible but I'm getting help for the stuff I don't know. What I do have is an idea that feels right to just about everyone: let's save kids from horrific institutional abuse!
Nice to meet you, too! I'm actually a reddit chick, but that's ok, I think everyone on the internet is a dude, too!
Thanks for your analysis on the 'parent' posts, I totally defer to your judgment. They showed up not long after I posted here, so I'm thinking we got some of your fornits trolls.
A friend of mine is in school for leadership, she told me that she learned that people that irk us cause great ideas to happen. She had worked in a field where she was expected to come up with new ideas, she said now she realizes why management kept the people that annoyed everyone around. Now she knows it was part of a 'master plan'. I'm going to think of trolls as this...perhaps something that inspires us further.
I'm not a great marketer, I'm actually horrible but I'm getting help for the stuff I don't know. What I do have is an idea that feels right to just about everyone: let's save kids from horrific institutional abuse!
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World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS) / Re: WWASP survivor story goes viral, we've had 100k+ hits
« on: June 02, 2011, 07:38:21 PM »
Hmmm...I see three people on this thread so far and one is not worth addressing.
Can't stop giggling. So true.
I can only imagine what kind of mayhem is going on over at Cross Creek. I saw on a 3rd party website that someone called over there and asked to speak to the person in charge, they hung up on him. LOL, something's going down over there! I wonder how many kids have been pulled from the program?
I think I'm getting an idea of where all these 'parents' are showing up from out of nowhere with new reddit accts:
http://www.reddit.com/r/troubledteens/c ... ?context=3
http://www.reddit.com/r/troubledteens/c ... ?context=3
http://www.reddit.com/r/troubledteens/c ... ?context=3
Reddit won't put up with this nonsense, it's a pretty savvy group over there. But maybe we can take some trolls off your back, we'll call them on the carpet and clean the floor with them; our trolls can kick your troll's ass.
Sorry for your time at Daytop, Paul St. John. Ugh, I feel so bad for you, I have a friend who went there in the 70's {shudder}. Did you know they are still touting Synanon? WTF, that method has been proven harmful years ago and debunked, no reputable therapist uses their methods. It's amazing they actually have it on their website:
http://www.daytop.org/history.html
But you probably already knew that. I find it astonishing.
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Defend it while ya can prick.. In time, there will be nothing left for you to defend.
Can't stop giggling. So true.
I can only imagine what kind of mayhem is going on over at Cross Creek. I saw on a 3rd party website that someone called over there and asked to speak to the person in charge, they hung up on him. LOL, something's going down over there! I wonder how many kids have been pulled from the program?
I think I'm getting an idea of where all these 'parents' are showing up from out of nowhere with new reddit accts:
http://www.reddit.com/r/troubledteens/c ... ?context=3
http://www.reddit.com/r/troubledteens/c ... ?context=3
http://www.reddit.com/r/troubledteens/c ... ?context=3
Reddit won't put up with this nonsense, it's a pretty savvy group over there. But maybe we can take some trolls off your back, we'll call them on the carpet and clean the floor with them; our trolls can kick your troll's ass.
Sorry for your time at Daytop, Paul St. John. Ugh, I feel so bad for you, I have a friend who went there in the 70's {shudder}. Did you know they are still touting Synanon? WTF, that method has been proven harmful years ago and debunked, no reputable therapist uses their methods. It's amazing they actually have it on their website:
http://www.daytop.org/history.html
But you probably already knew that. I find it astonishing.
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World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS) / Re: WWASP survivor story goes viral, we've had 100k+ hits
« on: June 02, 2011, 07:27:10 PM »
Ya, Paul St. John, reddit is totally the vehicle to make this happen. BTW, I don't make a dime off the site, I just recognize it for what it can do and has done.
First of all, the site is one of only about 100 websites that get over a billion pageviews per month, more than the NY Times or Fox News:
http://blog.reddit.com/2011/02/reddit-b ... erved.html
Second of all, reddit is one of the kindest, most compassionate website's I've ever seen. I'm not exaggerating when I say miracles happen there every day. From people buying strangers pizzas to answering questions about car repair or helping someone find a job, the good deeds are rampant and have a snowball effect. They happen all the time. Here are a few things reddit has done:
http://voltiercreative.com/2010/11/redd ... -altruism/
Third, they cared about Elan and got it shut down. They care about this issue, that girl's story is like wildfire on reddit. It's not the last time this is going to happen, we are not going to stop until these abusive facilities are gone.
We could really use fornit's help. I am working day and night but I am only one person. If we had a whole bunch of people spread out throughout reddit, we could close these places in weeks. I am amassing my little army on reddit, you guys have a lot of supporters over there! People believe you, like I do. They aren't buying the industry garbage.
I'm working on getting a guide together for new people who come from other sites. Until then, here are the basics of making a post on reddit: http://violentacrez.wordpress.com/2010/ ... on-reddit/. The key will be reaching all the different areas of reddit, or 'subreddits'. Here is a listing of all the different subreddits: http://redditlist.com/index-full.php
You will need a catchy title and remember that reddit doesn't know program-speak. They may know WWASP, Elan and Cross Creek, but that's about it.
I will post a link to the guide when it's ready.
If you see industry people on reddit, come let us know at http://www.reddit.com/r/troubledteens and we'll take care of them. I prefer to engage them as little as possible, personally, but I will call them out and let people know what they are up to. It would be kinda cool to have a 'guide to Whooter' so people know what to look for, like his lack of good English skills, whatever is public knowledge around here. We could link it every time he tries bullying people.
First of all, the site is one of only about 100 websites that get over a billion pageviews per month, more than the NY Times or Fox News:
http://blog.reddit.com/2011/02/reddit-b ... erved.html
Second of all, reddit is one of the kindest, most compassionate website's I've ever seen. I'm not exaggerating when I say miracles happen there every day. From people buying strangers pizzas to answering questions about car repair or helping someone find a job, the good deeds are rampant and have a snowball effect. They happen all the time. Here are a few things reddit has done:
http://voltiercreative.com/2010/11/redd ... -altruism/
Third, they cared about Elan and got it shut down. They care about this issue, that girl's story is like wildfire on reddit. It's not the last time this is going to happen, we are not going to stop until these abusive facilities are gone.
We could really use fornit's help. I am working day and night but I am only one person. If we had a whole bunch of people spread out throughout reddit, we could close these places in weeks. I am amassing my little army on reddit, you guys have a lot of supporters over there! People believe you, like I do. They aren't buying the industry garbage.
I'm working on getting a guide together for new people who come from other sites. Until then, here are the basics of making a post on reddit: http://violentacrez.wordpress.com/2010/ ... on-reddit/. The key will be reaching all the different areas of reddit, or 'subreddits'. Here is a listing of all the different subreddits: http://redditlist.com/index-full.php
You will need a catchy title and remember that reddit doesn't know program-speak. They may know WWASP, Elan and Cross Creek, but that's about it.
I will post a link to the guide when it's ready.
If you see industry people on reddit, come let us know at http://www.reddit.com/r/troubledteens and we'll take care of them. I prefer to engage them as little as possible, personally, but I will call them out and let people know what they are up to. It would be kinda cool to have a 'guide to Whooter' so people know what to look for, like his lack of good English skills, whatever is public knowledge around here. We could link it every time he tries bullying people.