by WWASP Survivors | Apr 14, 2022 | Provo Canyon School, Survivor Testimony
After several years of being an out of control teenager my Mother was at her wits. In 1989 at the age of 15, I was taken from my bed in the middle of the night along with another girl from my home town by 2 large males and a female. They took us to the airport, we...
by WWASP Survivors | Apr 14, 2022 | Survivor Testimony, Tranquility Bay
My name is Tammi and I am a WWASP survivor from likely the worst time at the infamous TranquilityBay, Jamaica. Further, once I had been there for 22 of the 24 months I attended, they shortened the program drastically; wasn’t I lucky? Anyways, just as I began to...
by WWASP Survivors | Apr 14, 2022 | Second Chances Southern Utah, Survivor Testimony
To start this out i want to say how unbelievably freeing and releasing it feels to have found so many people who have been through what i’ve been through and seen what i’ve seen. My time at scinsu started in august of 2020, i was 14 years old. I went to scinsu because...
by WWASP Survivors | Apr 6, 2021 | Diamond Ranch Academy
I left DRA with a PTSD diagnosis from the treatment I received there. On my first night, they told me to get into bed, but I wanted to call my mother because I believed they had illegally kidnapped me against her will (long story, but not outlandish since they took me...
by WWASP Survivors | Nov 14, 2020 | Spring Ridge Academy, Survivor Testimony
I personally found the second training at Spring Ridge to be traumatic. The girls were led into a dark room in the basement and instructed to lie on the floor while the facilitator gave us a guided visualization that we were on a cruise ship. We were all beginning to...