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Coral Reef Academy – Anonymous
I attended Coral Reef Academy. Coral Reef Academy is a corrupt “therapeutic” environment where kids are beaten in “restraints” and kept in solitary confinement for weeks and months at a time for breaking rules. A good majority of the staff are tattooed and gang affiliated Samoan ex convicts who were deported from California or Utah to get reduced prison sentences for violent crimes.
Spring Creek Lodge – Travis H.
That place was a joke. I was an internal kid when it came to my feelings. Well that cost me months and months without moving up in levels. I didn’t talk on the phone to my parents for so many months.
Paradise Cove – David D.
I’m so lucky that I was brought home before they decided to cut on me and treat cancer that I didn’t have in the first place. I still to this day have prostate problems and seems to be getting worse as I get older.
Royal George Academy – Anonymous
I was with a group of around ten other males and had to adjust to life with them. I remember my first week there every day was fight and being in shock no one would come to break it up. I remember one person got it more than any one else and always got it the worst.
Eagle Ranch Academy – Shiloh
My 11 months spent at Eagle Ranch Academy were the lowest and most emotionally painful months of my life. I have experienced a considerable amount of abuse and emotional turmoil in my life, however (unbelievably) nothing compares to the complete hopelessness I experienced at Eagle Ranch Academy.
Spring Creek Lodge – Michelle
I was one of the kids that in the program considered a “lifer” being as I was there for so long. The situations I was in and I saw the other kids being put in because of facility “rules” where horrendous! Severe mental and on most situations abusive as they (the staff) liked to call it “restraint”.
Cross Creek Manor – Alexa W.
I witnessed the program mandated “silent treatment” aka THE DESERT many times while at CCM. This treatment was something our director boasted about often that would “wear girls down until they were ready to comply.”
Cross Creek Programs – Sarah S.
The worst period in my life. The time I was supposed to be figuring out who I was and what I wanted. Was not allowed to speak freely, had to ask permission to use the rest room and was denied permission at least 40% of the time.
#BreakingCodeSilence – Kay R. (on Behalf of Sam)
Its not my story, but I am the only one left to tell it. In the last two years or so of her life, she did express the sadness and the loneliness she felt. She was having a lot of trouble adjusting back to the real world. She expressed sadness and loneliness, but for her the nightmares were the worst.
#BreakingCodeSilence – Lillian S.
Tough Love: Truth Behind The Troubled Teen Industry goes in depth of survivor Lillian Speerbrecker’s journey through the Troubled Teen Industry as a troubled youth. While going through two facilities run by the same organization, Speerbrecker goes into grave detail of what happens to children and how they are forced into the industry.
#BreakingCodeSilence – Jessica R.
I am free from all that. Years were taken due to social anxiety that developed there never trusting anyone not looking at the other gender for fear of rule violations asking to use the bathroom, even asking to speak.
#BreakingCodeSilence – Matthew F.
I personally witnessed and was subjected to multiple abuses, the use of cattle prods on children, and the hell that was ”the gravel pit”.
#BreakingCodeSilence – Chelsea F.
The program NEVER forfeits a paycheck for the sake of a child, it was simply NEVER done. If it weren’t for my grandmother’s common sense to ask an all too basic question… I still shudder to think where I might be today had I been forced to endure the future the program had set up for me and my family.
#BreakingCodeSilence – Josh P.
To reinforce the idea that you were not a person, but a broken thing that wasn’t worth fixing, they immersed us in a setting where we were forever apologetic for actions you had little to no control over.
Cross Creek Manor – Amanda Johnson
During my stay at Cross Creek Manor I suffered experimental “processes,” brainwashing techniques, worse than prison like life style, traumatic events, having my voice cut off from family or controlled, and verbal abuse by staff and other girls alike. I still have nightmares to this day of the events that took place in their “program.” Many of the seminars we were forced to attend left my psyche delicate and my self esteem non-existent.
High Impact – Charles Denny
When I was at High Impact I was forced to live in deplorable conditions as were all of the children surviving there. My time there was not as bad as some but believe me when I say we all found our personal Hell at High Impact.
Spring Creek Lodge – Adrian Tabakoff
The only justice that can be done for those who have suffered at the hands of the Pullan brothers is for them to be locked away and taken away from any children.
Tranquility Bay – Nathan F.
I am severely scared to this day, I have all sorts of night terrors, and lots of emotional problems. I pray for the rest of those who had to go through what I did
Spring Creek Lodge & High Impact – Tyson Shulman
We were told to graduate you were required to run 2,000 laps and do a certain amount of worksheets. All of this was done barefoot. For every consequence not matter how minor you would lose 80 laps. On a good day you would run a couple hundred.
Paradise Cove – Anthony Crogan
I witnessed other children beaten, was forced to listen to beatings as group punishments, and underwent severe mental stress for 3 years under the care of WWASP programs.
Tranquility Bay – Shaquan Daley
I just wish I didn’t have to feel the pain almost every day from being there.
The Truth will set them free!
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