From Reddit: A truly horrific story of abuse at a religious youth "boot camp" [View All]

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This story comes from a woman who was forced by her parents into a WWASP facility called Cross Creek Manor, where she was drugged, subjected to verbal abuse, physically abused, and pretty much forced to live the Stanford Prison Experiment. Just horrific. Reading this story just fills me with rage, and makes me want to commit acts that I can't describe here without violating DU's rules against advocating violence.

http://www.reddit.com/r/troubledteens/comments/jvcen/my_parents_paid_thousands_of_dollars_for_therapy/

In May of 1993 I was sent to a girls home called Cross Creek Manor (CCM) in southern Utah where I lived for four and a half months. This facility is owned and operated by a notorious umbrella organization called World Wide Association of Specialty Programs (WWASP). While attending I was physically attacked, suffocated, tormented, and put in isolation on a regular basis for three day periods at a time.

I was denied all access to communicate with the outside. Once a staff member (while invading my privacy) told me I wipe the wrong way after using the toilet. In addition, I was put on unprescribed and inappropriate medication that created physical side-effects, essentially I was drugged.

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I mention my attendance at a Bible college because the youth at Cross Creek Manor (CCM) were meant to feel like they were criminals or that they were somehow mentally disturbed, and I certainly was not; nonetheless, that’s how we were treated during our incarceration. The primary difference between prison and residential centers today is that prisoners are allowed a lawyer and a phone call.

While attending I was deprived of an education, lied to, and my mail was confiscated. I was denied appropriate exercise, sanitary conditions, and emotional/medical attention. I also slept on a floor in the isolation room where I peed to avoid staff monitoring me in the bathroom and making sick remarks.

(the picture is one that came from Tranquility Bay, one of the most notorious youth boot camp hellholes out there.)