I have been wanting to tell my story for some time however the owners of Sunset Bay Academy and Pacific Life Program threatened to murder me and my family when I was a teenager there and forced me to convince them I would not report their abuse. I have come to learn that my family has been lying to me and working with the owners behind my back this entire time even many years after I was a teenager there and forced me into silence and worked together to sabotage every goal I had worked for in life and every new relationship I began in my adulthood while encouraging me to only associate with my abusers and exploiters and using psychological treatment as a disguise to keep me silenced. This place is sinister and the operations of the administration is one you only think exist in horror movies. What happens here is so strange and disturbing when “troubled” teenagers are released they are not believed when they try to seek help. I have never encountered such base evil and dirty lowly human nature than when I was sent to Sunset Bay Academy in Mexico. This is my story and there are many others like it that have been silenced.
There is a lot that happened in SBA I have a hard time thinking about and talking about so I will do my best to at least get some things out. Aside from the standard forced stripping and initiation done here, I have experienced and heard of abuse I know are not justifiable no matter what they say about the kids in their care. The facilities are unsanitary and rooms they handcuffed students in all day and night were covered with dead bugs, literally thick and covered to an extent I had not seen before. Students clean the facilities every day and clean before parents arrive for tours. There is a front office area where the staff and administration have access to and keep their offices that look like a completely different building than the rest of the actual facility. The front office is nice and clean and looks professional and is only for show for parents, students unless they were upper level or having coerced sex with staff never spend time there and the actual living quarters and school look very different and families are not exposed to those parts as much.
Sex abuse is very common here but the owners know parents do not believe the kids, they downplay everything, and pretend it doesn’t happen when they are also part of it. Schooling is nonexistent here, and they deprive students of school as punishment. Students can also be pulled into isolation and punishment for any reason such as doing too well in the program or any accusation under the sun the staff want to come up with. It is crazy making and it works because you get a lot of low self esteem kids as a result at the end of their stay at SBA. Would not recommend but there are terrible parents in the world and programs like SBA are exactly for them and know how to appeal to them.
The owners and staff see the children as their entertainment and sexual conquests. Underage girls are forced to watch boys have diarrhea in intervention, the isolation punishment room and treated like a dog. The owners silence the abused students and keep them out of sight from the rest of the school so nobody knows what happens. They take kid’s money and then cut their schooling so they rob kids of high school and college educations then turn them homeless when they turn 18. I have seen the director of the program bully and make fun of a kid who was afraid of being homeless because they were about to turn 18 and SBA had done nothing to help. Adults who were teens at this program suffered homelessness now as a result of having their opportunities and high school education stripped from them, trapped inside these torture facilities until they turn 18, then thrown out onto the street by SBA with no care for where they end up or provisions. They work to turn many kids into the marginalized statistics and set people up for failure even sabotaging peoples life goals unless those kids kissed up to them hardcore.
Boys and girls get sexually abused here and the staff who promise they are responsible to the parents, are the child predators. They bully kids into silence and steal their money. It is not right.
The staff and owners who don’t have coercive sex with the underage teens here are in the minority. I don’t understand how it is still okay for these people to keep getting away with very illegal criminal behavior while pretending to be normal and good.
They put all the lower level and new kids on a rule that allowed no eye contact, communication, no mirrors, and no talking to each other at all so even in rooms no one was allowed to talk to each other and if anyone made eye contact they were punished. Kids went months to years here without even seeing their reflection or a mirror.
The owners and staff constantly get high and drunk on the job and get their upper level pets high as well while keeping it hidden from the rest of the students who get punished and shamed for their past “nonworking” behaviors such as partying and teen things parents hate.
There is a lot of disgusting things that happen here and the owners and staff have absolutely no plans to actually do anything they promise. I asked for help with college preparation every day and was refused it and told I did not deserve it because I was in their program because I was bad and spoiled.
They deliberately sabotaged my college education and refused to allow me to have my high school transcripts after I left, unless I paid thousands of dollars in a bribe. Keep in mind I was a teenager trying to get on with my life and adulthood. I had to contact the computer school program they use directly for it which delayed my college plans and did not help me with my future and education plans at all, instead they purposely got in the way. I don’t even know these people I never even knew the owners yet they continued to stalk me and stalk me with their student pets for years after I had left to the point I was forced to delete my personal profiles. They told my mother to constantly encourage me to get rid of my social media, get rid of my friends from home, get rid of anyone who cared, and fall into a deep depression any time I was working on my goals such as in school or adjusting back to a normal life outside of a program and as a young person.
This is only a sugar coated and light version of my experience at this disgusting human trafficking program. There is a lot that goes on that needs to be investigated deeper and the lasting damage they cause.
Sunset Bay Academy – Anonymous
Name:
Anonymous
Program:
Sunset Bay Academy
Location:
baja california, mexico
Years Attended:
2010 – 2011
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I went to sunset bay academy in 2018. All I can say it is the worse place a parent can send their teenager. It didn’t help me at all. I saw a lot of abuse there and the staff were nothing but rude. There were some staff that actually wanted to help the children but most of them were at the job just to get paid money.
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i wqs there from 2009 to 2010 and i was there when it was first called oceanside and while i was in tbere they changed the name to sunsetbay academy
my name is steve munoz please someone call me so i can get inestigative help ? 415-378-1042 i was there from 2009 to 2010 when the name was first called oceanside and then changed to sunsetbay
No one of this name went there. This is a sunset bay academy owner a sad pathetic smelly heredia piece of poop trying to lure abuse victims. All Activism done on sba did not require any personal contact information or phone contact or anything so intrusive, no phone calls were done or needed for all the awareness raised. Anonymity is encouraged when raising awareness on SBA due to the creepy desperate delusional invasive intrusive stalker nature of the old aging grown sick heredias Do not give personal info or contact information out to anyone online, real sba advocates did not care or need your personal contact at all to raise all the awareness thats been done. Survivors know what public sites are available if they want to post, dont get lured into private grooming conversations with these weird sick ugly brown freaks. Do not talk to strangers online. Do not use activism as a substitute for a personal social life. Nice try troll go stalk more of your abuse victims you creepy ugly derrangedloser.
This place is so creepy. The owners stalk kids after they leave and have their pets message them and send friend requests and creepy messages to kids nonprogram friends who have nothing to do with them.
The creepy owners, pets and staff refuse to leave former captives alone. They have parent online portals where they scheme with bad actor parents, spy on kids through their adult lives, even install spyware on kids electronics, catfish their personal contacts, disrupt peoples lives. They force adult former captives to take medication and be controlled by psychiatric abuse, encourage familys to physically abuse and intimidate former inmates or frame them for incarceration and murdered a kid named Odai Abuzaid this year.
There have been many suicides, overdoses and deaths of kids after they left sunset bay. Corey burnett their “success story” became a corrupt cop who regularly smuggled steroids from corrupt sba staff in mexico and died of heart complications from steroid abuse. This past year alone 3 sba students have died. One of them was a residing teenage hostage in sunset bay who died suspiciously and two others were adults who had been at sba in the past.
Hi umm i,m in my visita rogativa im in the programa, help me i really dont know how to get out , I have so much trauma and my parents don’t understand, I’m level 5 ,I’m destroyed.
i care about you all i will not stop trying to help you its going to be over your going to be okay
Hi umm i,m in my visita rogativa im in the programa, help me i really dont know how to get out , I have so much trauma and my parents don’t understand, I’m level 5 ,I’m destroyed. SBA needs to stop
I went here. I graduated 2015. I was then sexually pursued by staff. Lived at the owners home after my own father refused to get me after I graduated.
I graduated SBA and while I know that the physical abuse was rampant my experience mostly included the mental trauma from the stringent rule set clearly intended to retain students, and the “security” that encouraged students to hit kick, spit on and verbally attack students he didn’t deem worthy as “Lions.” I can’t speak as to what the school is like now, under largely new management since Amy Ritchie (the asst. Director of Ivy Ridge) left. I like to think that I made a difference when Edgar left after I started reporting his abuse, but I don’t know…
To the original poster of this testimony,
Hey, I’m Jo. I’m so so sorry about what you went through.
I will have to admit though, I am angry… really angry at these people and these operations. Enough is enough.
If you feel the same way, please consider contacting me –
I don’t want money, I don’t want information, or anything from you.
I just want justice.
– light worker
@FreethepeopleSTK@hotmail.com