By Anonymous: 2008-2016 At Camp Consequence, there were kids as young as eight getting physically abused, they would be extremely homophobic and transphobic, they would force us to practice Christianity, and if we wouldn’t we did not get basic rights, if we were punished we were not allowed to have a full meal or sleep [...]
By Anonymous: 2015-2016 In the summer of 2015 my parents had hit a wall with me. They decided that I would be sent to a Therapeutic Boarding School in Montana. Turning Winds is located in Yaak, Montana and has a history of abuse allegations and issues with law enforcement specifically in 2006 after they beat [...]
By Anonymous: 2013-2017 Kids suffer from extreme abuse, me included. I was verbally, physically, and mentally abused here for almost 5 years. I was sexually assaulted multiple times by a boy and nobody helped me, in fact they didn’t believe me when I told them. The kids are used as free labor and is too [...]
By Anonymous: 2015 Hello this is my story. I attended Wingate Wilderness in the summer of 2015. I was taken from my bed by two men and transported to southern Utah to attend Wingate. The transporters told me I was going to a “fun summer camp for about a week”. After I arrived, I realized [...]
By Anonymous: 2018-2019 I was at Franklin Academy in East Haddam from April of 2018 to June of 2019. I went because I had to leave another school for complicated reasons. At first, I liked it because I was just in a wilderness program for two months. It also felt better in my first few [...]
By Earle: 2005 I was abused daily, made to eat worms for breakfast, thrown around, made to stay in push up position for hours outside during an ice storm, thrown down steps, and was scared to death everyday for 8 months. I came home with severe PTSD. I became addicted to drugs trying to cope & [...]
By Anonymous: 2006-2007 Hi, I’m a 28 year old adult who suffered abuse in multiple facilities as a child/pre-teen. One of these facilities is listed on your site. Pendleton Academies. During my time there I was 12 years old. I was subjected to physical abuse by staff. The conditions at what they called “the unit” [...]
By Anonymous: 2012-2014 I was sent to Sandy Pines when I was 14. I was told I was going for a psych evaluation. I only found out after I got there it would be a 6-9 month stay. During my stay, I watched staff actively antagonize residents. I watched a nurse announce to our entire [...]
By Anonymous: 2015-2017 While being under the care of Provo Canyon School, I got jumped in a bathroom and had my nose broken. I had to go to the hospital, and it was all set up by the staff that were at the facility. There were younger kids that got raped by other kids. Staff [...]
By Annetta: 2022 I was a voluntary patient at Sonora Behavioral Health for 12 days. During my stay, I witnessed patients being brutalized in the evening. Certain staff, particularly the technicians and even some of the nurses lack so much patience and compassion for the patients, it was no different to a psychiatric ward. Restrictions [...]
