by WWASP Survivors | Apr 18, 2022 | Provo Canyon School, Survivor Testimony
I was placed at Provo Canyon School by the state of California. I had run away from an abusive home, and had a lot of behavior problems stemming from the abuse so California decided to send me to Provo. Some of my memories are vague, but I do remember being...
by WWASP Survivors | Apr 14, 2022 | Breaking Code Silence, Spring Ridge Academy, Survivor Testimony
I was sent to Spring Ridge Academy, a therapeutic boarding school, when I was 17. I’d been a high-achieving, straight-A student my whole life and I had a lot of friends. I knew my parents loved me but they fought a lot of the time, so by middle school I was already...
by WWASP Survivors | Apr 14, 2022 | Academy at Ivy Ridge, Survivor Testimony
I faked an appendicitis so that I would be transported to the hospital and from there make my escape. The doctor decided to perform and appendectomy on me anyways and when I woke up from surgery my family was there. I told them all of the brutality that was happening,...
by WWASP Survivors | Apr 14, 2022 | Sunset Bay Academy
How my friend killed himself and SBA didn’t do shit, they knew he was gonna do it but later then I talked to DR. Hugo and he said, “we couldn’t do nothing, because he already had a Choice” It was a normal day at my school in San Diego, some...
by WWASP Survivors | Apr 14, 2022 | Darrington Academy, Survivor Testimony
I was a student at Darrington Academy, a WWASPS school in Blue Ridge GA. I was enrolled in 2006 and left in 2007. In my time there I witnessed multiple accounts of child abuse. Physical abuse from grown adult “chaperones” whose credentials were unknown. Mental abuse...
