by WWASP Survivors | Aug 1, 2026 | Sunset Bay Academy, Survivor Testimony, WWASP Programs
I was sent to SBA (previously known as California Leadership Academy and Bayside Academy)in May 2016 after a failed suicide attempt. While I was there I was raped by the program director Dr. Hugo Wright. I was sexually abused by a staff member named Carlos, I was...
by WWASP Survivors | Aug 1, 2026 | Dundee Ranch, Survivor Testimony, WWASP Programs
When I was twelve I started to have behavioral issues but I don’t believe that I deserved this. I fought with my mom on occasion and I drank alcohol 1X and had started smoking weed. My brother was already in and out of DT and had a couple assult charges on his...
by WWASP Survivors | Aug 1, 2026 | Sunset Bay Academy, Survivor Testimony, WWASP Programs
I was sent to Sunset Bay Academy after a failed suicide attempt at 15 years old. I was originally sent to Holy Highway in Texas but was kicked out after a month. They told my parents my depression was too severe and recommended I be sent to a long-term psych hospital...
by WWASP Survivors | Aug 1, 2026 | Spring Creek Lodge, Survivor Testimony, WWASP Programs
I am 34 now, I was 14 when I attended which was 2002 ? I had just turned 15 part way through so I believe that is accurate. I was in EXCEL. My “leader” or whatever it was called – – – there was 2, KEVIN and another younger guy Adam? My...
by WWASP Survivors | Aug 1, 2026 | Sunset Bay Academy, Survivor Testimony, WWASP Programs
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...
by WWASP Survivors | Aug 1, 2026 | Bethel Boys Academy, Survivor Testimony, WWASP Programs
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...
