A full length documentary about WWASP programs, their victims and the mother who refused to let her voice be silenced intimidation tactics and frivolous lawsuits.
Part 1
Part 2
“While at the camp, students are monitored 24 hours a day, are not allowed to speak or move without permission, and are subject to a rigid disciplinary system. Punishment at Tranquility Bay includes being forced to lie on the ground for months without moving or speaking, being sprayed in the face with pepper spray, or having your arms and limbs twisted into unnatural positions – the idea being to cause extreme pain without leaving marks. At other WWASPS camps, students have been beaten, put in dog cages and starved. Teenagers who cooperate with the program rise in a complex system of internal ranks, eventually becoming enforcers against new students. In so-called “group therapy” sessions, students are punished if they do not hurl abuse at one another, reveal personal information and proclaim their salvation by the program.
Child abuse has slowly grown out of the family sphere and turned into an industry.
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Several institutions run by the organization in Latin American countries and elsewhere have been shut down, but for the most part they continue to operate, and are expanding. Sending your son or daughter to one of these camps is very expensive, and WWASPS has become a multi-million-dollar organization, with thousands of staff and a network of Web pages online designed to spread misinformation about the programs and convince desperate parents to send their children into the system.
But very few people even know about the issue, to a large extent because the camps are run privately rather than by the government. Letters have been sent to congressmen, court cases have been fought and articles have been published, but there are at least as many people working to support these camps as there are working to shut them down.”
Read more here: Exposing WWASPS camp abuse
Full Video Here: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=057_1200885881
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I’m very curious to know how Steven is doing now, in 2015. I sincerely hope that he is living a happy, healthy life now.
Just a heads up, the embedded vids don’t show up (at least not to me). I watched this on LiveLink but there are only two parts, it cuts off— there’s definitely more. This was a VERY hard thing to watch, and I cannot find ANY other versions of it, or even any other listings of its existence. I feel like this is an incredibly important documentary. Who made this? Is it uploaded anywhere else in full?
A therapist treating a survivor. I too can find nothing online. Horrible and telling.
Here’s a link to full version (best quality I could find) https://vimeo.com/487417353
Any TB1/TB2 people out there that were on the boys side in 99-01?