Alexa’s Diamond Ranch Academy Testimony

I got here early 2013, upon arriving I was stripped of all individuality, warmth or comfort, and what little innocence I had left. Getting there, I was on self-harm watch it started of being mainly females that searched me, but sometimes there was men. At least 3 times, I had to strip bra and underwear off in front of grown men for this search. When my parents dropped me off, they confirmed they didn’t serve fish (allergies), they did and I didn’t eat it they sent me to RFI.

I ended up having my therapist Becky restrain me for crying, she pushed on my wrist to where there was a snap and pain, I’ve fractured my ankle it was about that level of pain. For weeks my wrist was purple and swollen and hurt to have pressure put on it or be touched, they even made me do push-ups on it for being in RFI.

I would send letters to my mom, about health issues, things i was witness too like Pamela or how utterly depressed I was. Becky put a stop to my mail “if you keep sending letters like this, she might think something is wrong” and she’d hand me back my letters.

I had moccasins rash on both feet, got it from the ASTRO terf. I went 2 months none treated, they refused to take me to a doctor, and they weren’t sending my letters, so I had to wait for my visit with my mom. After showing her my feet, I was sent to a doctor where I had 3 planter warts removed, and had my rash addressed turns out their “topical solution ” wasn’t going to help my rash. I needed steroids and an anti-fungal orally to get rid of it. After having my foot cut and told not to run on it for a few days they made me run the mile literally right as i got back.

They kept the place so cold and I was top bunk right next to the ac vent. I wouldn’t sleep until i was exhausted, because I’d spend my night shivering turns out I’m anemic and they refused to give me another blanket and wouldn’t let my mom send me a thick one.

They had a school bomber (he was either schizo or evil genius). He tried to poison girl’s campuses with apple seeds. I learned apple seeds contain arsenic that day and when saved for the entirety of ones stay ground up and mixed into food does cause illness. We all got sick, but they told us drink water and run. Some girls were vomiting as we ran.

There were a bunch of people who tried to make psychedelics from rotten oranges and tooth paste that summer I went. As punishment we worked out in ungodly hot temperatures. I remember people collapsing from how hard they worked us, people were screamed at to get up. My shoes melted on the Astro terf, from the heat. They said “had anyone come forward we’d have been exempted”, the water that they wanted us to drink that day the pipes were directly under the black pavement. As soon as we turned that water on it was scolding hot, we couldn’t drink from it easily and they refused to let us leave it running so the other water could cool the pipes enough to drink.

They had a girl coming off heroin, no medical intervention and even though she was shaking throwing up and saying her heart didn’t feel right she too had to work out. They fired anyone that showed us human compassion, Tara one of the night staff was fired for giving me a hug and telling me I didn’t deserve to be there I was a good kid.

Guss… was a chef when I attended, he was a perv. My roommate K was on medical whole and half’s, and the way we’d eat is as a dorm there was no going off to sit with others. I was in line behind her as she asked if she could get her extra sausage. “Only if I can slap you in the face with my sausage .” M, another girl, was told to bounce for her food (the shirts were tight fitting). We didn’t get good food tell Robbie Diaz’s wife tried to eat with us. That day we had moldy straw berries, stale bread, peanut butter, mint jelly… Funny how they didn’t care tell one of their own went to eat only then did our quality of food change.

Chad, the science teacher from men’s side, would tell the boys if they could catch it, they could put it in with his bearded dragon. They’d go out and catch horny toed lizards and drop them in to their death. I tried report them but was sent to RFI for it. The death of innocence lizards and wildlife was his bribe to keep the boys he was assaulting quiet. I’m pretty sure he made child porn at Diamond Ranch Academy, He was arrested and booked in Iron County between the years 2014-2016 on these charges. Almost all but our English teacher on girls’ side didn’t have any real teaching experience or credits.

Aboy hung himself around October of that year he was successful in his attempt… We weren’t allowed to talk about it and had to smile towards the family that was touring the school the day after. One girl was put in RFI so long, she went nuts. 13 yo not allowed to talk to any one for months she used a shovel to smash one staff members head and flee sold herself to get away…

This place has put a rift in my family because they don’t believe me and still think this place is my savior when they traumatized me into submission. I now have a hard time speaking up out of fear of retaliation.  I’m no longer ok in silence or being left alone too long. This place was hell and the Diaz’s are Satan themselves.