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#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.
Report – Spring Creek Lodge Abandoned Records
I was in Spring Creek Lodge for 26 months. I not only witnessed abuse and brainwashing but I was subject to it.
Bethel Girls Academy – Mary-Joan Bouman
I was at Bethel Girls Academy in between the closing in Sept. 2003 and May/June 2004. It has been over 10 years and I still have nightmares that feel like I never left.
Tranquility Bay – Alexandra G
Mr. Kay stood by and watched a staff member snap my arm and break it the day before i was kicked out of the program. This program was in no way helpful , you don’t take troubled teens from sometimes broken homes and abuse them.
Cross Creek Manor – Devvon Gardner
In my 18 months, I like many others experienced physical restraint, isolation for periods exceeding a month without human contact, and inadequate clothing for the temperatures I was exposed to as part of punishment, ridiculous spaces smaller than a kennel for a dog in which my days were to be spent on constantly monitored cameras writing fictional accounts of punishable situations in which I was to take all of the blame.. “accountability” in every way imaginable.
Carolina Springs Academy/ Dundee Ranch – Patrick Putman
I was in two WWASP programs, from the age of 15 for 20 months, until I was 17 years old. During this time I experienced severe trauma through both mental and physical abuse.
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