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Sunset Bay Academy – Paige
I survived Sunset Bay Academy in Tijuana Mexico. I was sent to SBA in May of 2016. I was there for about a year. During that time I was molested and raped by staff. I was physically abused almost daily. They would use withholding food as a punishment. I had my...
Bethel Boys Academy – “dinkjian”
This school left me as a shell of the person I could have been. My entire life has been spent unlearning and repairing myself from what they did to me, and with no support from family or anyone else. I was at Bethel for so long because my mother divorced her second...
Paradise Cove – Michael R.
Hello. I was in paradise cove and casa by the sea. I am 38 years old. I am only now BEGINNING to understand fully what happened to me. I want to help. I am from boston, when i came home the program did not stop for me. I am still being victimized by the courts and...
Spring Creek Community – Brian M.
I was there in 1985. I was on an adventure course and an excel course run by Steve & Nancey Cawdrey. At that time it was a very intense Outward Bound style program growing into a boarding program. I completed 10 days of survival, 10 days of mountaineering, and 10 or...
Cross Creek Academy – Christopher S.
I attended Cross Creek Academy from April'01 to may '02. When I first arrived I was thrown into isolation. I spent my first three weeks there. I was forced to attend the first seminar, discovery, and when I refused to claim responsibility for abuse that was inflicted...
Amity – S S.
Thirty years of trying to suppress my memories of being there and the fallout to my health and my family just, in the past few weeks, exploded to the surface when I found several other testimonials that reframed and recontextualized the story for me. I am so grateful...
Horizon Academy/Cross Creek Academy – Jarren A.
My story begins at 4am on February 20th, 2010. I was fast asleep in my bedroom when I was awaken by my father knocking on my door, asking if I could unlock it. My father told me the night before that he wasn’t feeling well so he was going to sleep on the couch, which...
Gateway Freedom Ranch (Formerly New Horizons Youth Ranch) for Girls – Isabella R.
I was sent to New Horizons which later became Gateway Freedom ranch In 2012. It was for girls aged 9-13, typically all adoptees (though it wasn't adoptees only, it just shows what kind of people send their kids to place like this. People who pay to be a parent but...
Sunset Bay Academy – Banned A.
Angel Azazel doesn't recommend Sunset Bay Academy: This place fucked me up. They put me in a room with people who would frequently molest me and wouldn't listen when I asked to be moved. There were cameras in every room watching at all times yet they did nothing. The...
Turning Winds Academic Institute – Chloe
I attended Turning Winds 2008-09 as a teenager. I was there for 14 months. The older I get, the more I am coming to terms with how traumatic my experience was there. I will keep this as short & to the point as possible - no need for me to revisit this time of my life...
Star Guides Wilderness – Camryn
I was sent away at thirteen years old. I was asleep in my bed as any teenager would be on a school night. Around 3AM I was grabbed by two men, who I did not know. My parents had let them into my room so they could take me away. I was carried through my house all the...
Midwest Academy Boarding School – Chelsea C.
This is just one testimony of mine about Midwest Academy boarding school. Although it does not reveal all the details of all wrongs done to me, it highlights the major trauma that happened. I fought harder against the program than anyone I knew there. For the first 2...
Palmetto County Behavioral Health – Abbey W.
I said some things out of complete exhaustion while I was talking to a counselor and all she had to do is sign some papers and then all my freedom was gone. I was breastfeeding my baby in the hospital when they had a police officer come and take me away! My baby is...
Casa by the Sea – Corey S.
My story is a little different than the others I’ve read. I believe my Mother suffered a traumatic brain injury while riding a horse when I was 11 years old in 1993. She instantly switched from a decently loving and fairly normal Mom to a very paranoid and angry...
JYA – Missi K.
Not trying to get anything. Just completely broken. I’ve watched girls come in my camp as they say 7 and 8 months pregnant and killed the babies and buried them in the laundry room. I honestly don’t want to talk about anything that has ever happened to me or my...
Monarch SCHOOL – Alex
This place was called a School. It was not. It was a institution where authority figures got some sort of satisfaction on watching kids breakdown and they would do anything to make them do so.got some sort of satisfaction on watching kids breakdown and they would do...
Carlbrook School – Emily T.
I was 14 years old when two escorts came to my house to handcuff me and take me away while my family stood by watching. I was told prior that I was being sent to a wilderness program, and in my nativity thought it sounded fun. I was a kid that enjoyed outdoor...
Mikan Day Treatment – Anyomous
I went to this day treatment program against my will. Although, I was allowed to go home and to school. It still didn't change what happened to me. Everyday 5 days a week for 4.5 hours we were in group therapy, and individual 1 hour once a week. The program had staff...
Dever Malv PA – Shakaya C.
I wish that I could say that when I look back at my teenage years, I am embraced by normal milestones the average teenager experiences. Buying my first prom dress, going on shopping trips with my favorite friends, making plans for the college I would choose to attend....
Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health Based in Malvern Pennsylvania – Shakaya C.
wish that I could say that when I look back at my teenage years, I am embraced by normal milestones the average teenager experiences. Buying my first prom dress, going on shopping trips with my favorite friends, making plans for the college I would choose to attend....
Solstice West RTC – Savanna P.
The trauma was worse than anything I possibly could have imagined anything could do to a human being. The worst part of looking back at what I went through is that two of my primary abusers are still employed there to this day. And what's more, is that they delete any...
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