by WWASP Survivors | Dec 9, 2024 | Non-WWASP Programs, Survivor Testimony
My name is Heather [REDACTED]. I was sent to an abusive therapeutic boarding school for troubled teens when I was 15. Aside from being sexually abused as a teenager I was sent in hopes of getting help. The school was shut down for abuse. An officer was imprisoned...
by WWASP Survivors | Sep 8, 2024 | Sunset Bay Academy, Survivor Testimony, WWASP Programs
My name is Andrea and I am a survivor of the troubled teen industry. I was sent to Sunset Bay Academy (a WWASP affiliated program) in June of 2010 at the age of 16 when it was located in Rosarito, Mexico in what is now the Motel Camino Inn. I was there for six months,...
by WWASP Survivors | Sep 8, 2024 | Sunset Bay Academy, Survivor Testimony, WWASP Programs
I was only 13, when I was in a short term residential. The minute I got out, was the moment I was told I was not going home. That same day, I was being driven to Mexico for a long term residential. It took many hours due to traffic and border control. I was driven...
by WWASP Survivors | Aug 26, 2024 | Non-WWASP Programs, Survivor Testimony
i was about 10 years old at this facility i was there till i turned 15 and it was in the middle of nowhere and they were really abusive and most staff had intercourse with most of the patients and it was a private owned facility and out of nowhere sometime cops would...
by WWASP Survivors | Aug 26, 2024 | Non-WWASP Programs, Provo Canyon School, Survivor Testimony
I WENT THERE IN 2014 WHEN I WAS 9 YRS OLD I REALLY DONT LIKE FACILITIES BECAUSE WHEN I WAS ADOPTED AT THE AGE OF 7 FROM THAT AGE TO NOW BEING A 17 YR OLD FEMALE STILL INNA FACILITY I UNDERSTAND MY FIRST DAY THERE I WAS REALLY UPSET CUZ IT WAS A NEW ENVIRONMENT AND MY...
by WWASP Survivors | Aug 23, 2024 | Casa By the Sea, Survivor Testimony, WWASP Programs
I attended WWASP location Casa By The Sea from [PHONE REDACTED]. I left when I turned 18 after being subjected to major abuse and placed into solitary confinement for at least two months prior to leaving. I was forced to eat food with my hands and lay face down all...
