DECLARATION UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY PURSUANT TO 28 USCA 1746
I, Alexandra G. declare and state as follows:
Name of Program:
Tranquility Bay
Location of Program:
Jamaica
Period of Internment (MM/YY to MM/YY)
03-04
Declarative Statement
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. When i had to share in these so called groups i was told i was a liar and that theirs no way my life was what it was in the good ole USA . The staff members hated us for being Americans with more material things then they will have in a life time. They would have a psychologist from another country come in and give all kinds of drugs for schizophrenia when i know i wasn’t schizophrenic. I was force fed meds by a nurse and staff members many times. I knew that i had to get out , the case workers would inform families that the letters written home were all lies that none of the things we were telling are parents were true. I never spoke to my parents through the 9 months i was there until the day i found out i was being kicked out. I begged my “therapist” who was a southern California native to help me that the abuse was unbearable mentally and physically. Nothing… no help. Jay Kays piece of crap father .. yes this is a business for profit. You made a profit off of a abusing and punishing children in a inhumane fashion. Now not many children have gotten kicked out of Tranquility Bay so i must have done some pretty bad stuff… if you call talking and fixing your hair without permission really bad then yes i was horrible. Those were the reasons i was put in OP . Once there is when the anger and loneliness really set in. I rebelled against staff. Male staff too , i decided the only way out would be to start a riot. Other girls were being molested and physically abused.. you would go to sleep listening to screams in the night and i couldn’t sit there and let them hurt me or anyone else anymore. Someone gave staff a heads up about what was going on and they had extra staff the night of the riot.I tried to jump over the wall but was pulled down by my shirt and was restrained in the rocks where the laundry was done in buckets. Mrs. Grahm a female staff member rubbed my face in the rocks making it bleed . The staff members were abusive and had no training .. i could have died a few times from strangulation from the positions they would hold you in cutting off the airways. I still have nightmares. Luckily there are a lot of us who went through these programs so we all share a bond a truth that no one can really understand unless they have been there. I was put in the school and they made the classroom isolation for me and a couple of my sisters. When they realized i was the ring leader they separated us . into different classrooms. Out of all the girls i was the only kicked out. I left tranquility bay looking like a dalmatian covered in bruises and with a dislocated arm. Because my parents didn’t know what happened in that place they sent me to another program but unrelated to wwasp. I am so happy that place is shutdown. No child should endure it.
I give WWASPSurvivors permission to use this statement. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
Executed on (date: MM/DD/YY): 11/12/2013
