Survivor Stories

Anonymous' The High Frontier Testimony 2012-2013 At the High Frontier, I experienced physical and emotional abuse. When I turned 18 and tried to leave the facility, staff tackled me and I broke my ankle. They then restrained me in a van and placed me into an [...]

Sable's Hector Garza Residential Treatment Center Testimony 2012-2016 Hector Garza center is a residential "treatment" facility in San Antonio Texas that I was placed at twice I'm the span of a few years while in CPS custody. I was placed in this and bounced between here [...]

Taylor's CALO Program Testimony 2022-2023 I was at CALO for 4 months in total until I got pulled for the abuse I endured. I just got back from treatment in general about a month ago. I’m autistic and suffer from extreme anxiety and depression. I was [...]

Aimee's Uinta Academy Testimony 2018-2021 I was 12 years old when I entered the TTI and my first official residential program was in Cache Valley, Utah—known as Uinta Academy. I was initially told I was going on a vacation to see my dad's girlfriend’s (at the [...]

Silver's Vantage Point Behavioral Health Hospital Testimony 2016-2017 I was in this program several times, and there are various things that occurred throughout my stays that stayed consistent and was never handled. Isolation Patients were placed on isolation where they were not allowed to even look [...]

Silver's Woodridge Of The Ozarks Testimony 2017 Within the first week or two of entering the program, I was attacked brutally and had an attempted murder by a patient, completely un-instigated. The patient had managed to obtain a butcher knife due to events going on that [...]

Irene's Bluefire Wilderness Therapy Testimony 2020-2022 I knew I had problems, as they started in 6th grade. I would sneak out, vape, drink, skip class and I had (and still have) violent tendencies. and on November 4th 2020 I woke up to see two grown men [...]

Samantha's New Leaf Academy (now Embark Behavioral Health) Testimony 2007-2009 We had a Dr. Hauschka skin care party, where they gave us samples of a rose body oil and lavender bath soap. I LOVED that rose body oil to death. There were 10 girls in a [...]

Anonymous' Waterfall Canyon Academy Testimony 2012-2013 I was forced to watch kids eat dessert in front of me when I couldn’t have any; they would do “Brake Checks” in the vans where the staff was would hit the brakes hard in the middle of driving down [...]

Kelley's A Better Way Youth Academy dba Robert Louis Stevenson dba Coral Reef Academy Testimony 1996-1997 I was sent to a foster home I believe Rodney Rice is sister in Utah for a week before I was sent to Western Samoa the first month what was [...]

Bree's Lincoln Prairie Behavioral Health Center Testimony 2016 I had just turned 13 when I was forced into the Lincoln Prairie program. I had been sent for self harm/depression and suicidal ideation. My school counselor was the one to find out about a suicide plan I [...]

Anonyous' Teen Challenge Columbus Girls Academy Testimony 2017-2018 I experienced extreme conversion therapy for being “sick with homosexuality." My parents took me there after i had a suicide attempt due to undiagnosed bipolar. They told me god was punishing me and making me depressed cause I [...]

Ashley's Copper Canyon Academy Testimony 2010-2011 I was sixteen years old when I woke up to two people in my room, a retired police officer and beefy woman. I was very confused, I did not have a top on and was only wearing bottoms. The man [...]

Anonymous' Clearview Girls Academy Testimony 2020-2022 Every child looks forward to their 16th birthday. Except I didn't. A few weeks prior, I'd miscarried a baby, a child of sexual assault. I was no more than a child myself. Naturally, I was showing symptoms of depression and [...]

River's Cedar Ridge Academy Testimony 2018-2020 I had got sent to cedar ridge after coming from southwestern and in my time I had witnessed a lot of stuff I remember that the drain to my shower wasn’t working and that I had been molested by my [...]

Anonymous' Kansas City Girls Academy Testimony 2021-2022 I was sent to this program after asking for help, I was really struggling mentaly an d thought it was like a hospital. I was told I was going to get help. Instead I just got trauma. I am [...]

Anonymous' Franklin Academy Testimony 2021-2022 I went to this school thinking they’d prepare me for college. What I experienced instead was extremely traumatic and also illegal. I had my own mail searched twice during my time there, and I was also lied to several times about [...]

Azariah's Eva Carlston Academy Testimony 2020-2021 Damn. This was one of the worst experiences of my life. To Kristi Ragsdale, FUCK you. You are a heartless woman who cares only about her money. I was forced to be in your shitty place for 14 months. When [...]

Eli's KW Legacy Ranch Testimony 2007 If you want your kid to have no self-worth, send them here. The stories of abuse are real and have lifelong consequences. If your kid is there, pull them out immediately. If you don't, you will have to face up [...]

Anonymous' Cedar Breaks Academy Testimony 2006 It has been 16 years and there is some stuff that will always stick with me. I feel like this place robbed all the happiness from our childhood and created this nightmare that just won’t go away. I find myself [...]

Anonymous' Prairie Care Residential Treatment Testimony 2022 I stayed in Prairie Care Residential for a little over 3 months before getting kicked out because I couldn’t pay my first month there I had no therapist. While I was there I watched numerous assaults one in which [...]

Erin's Havenwyck Hospital Testimony 2021-2022 https://open.spotify.com/episode/52rLIOhUtIl0QMNmLiw0iM?si=uNhgZxulQQy2ZtYPillT6w https://www.youtube.com/live/g7Yj4SPmSYg?feature=share https://www.youtube.com/live/8yN-z-j9HeU?feature=share Regarding the option to attach photos, we patients had no way of taking photographs of our abuse. They took our phones and we had no access to them for the duration of our stay. We also had limited [...]

Anonymous' Aspiro Adventure Wilderness Testimony 2022 My time at Aspiro Adventure therapy was nothing short of traumatic. Even before I got there, I was verbally abused by my transport staff saying I will not last out there and this place will break me. When I arrived [...]

Shannon's Chrysalis School Testimony 2001 I went to boarding school after a wilderness program in Utah. They told my parents it was best because I was quote a troubled child and needed extensive help unquote. After surviving the wilderness program that made you march miles a [...]

Anonymous' Coastal Harbor Residential Treatment Testimony 2019 When I arrived at Coastal Harbor, it was my second time around however this time, I stayed for roughly 5/6 months on the residential side, on the girls unit for 'aggressive girls' as they (the staff) called it. I [...]

Anonymous' NorthWest Michigan House of Hope/Hope Academy/Abbas House Testimony 2007-2008 When I was a young adult I "chose" to enter a program connected with my parents church to help me with my trauma and mental health. What occurred over the next several months was spiritual abuse, [...]

Kari's Cross Creek Manor Testimony 2002-2004 Let me preface this by saying that I was not the most well-behaved child. I started smoking cigarettes and marijuana at age 15. When I was 16, I started drinking, and at 17, I was doing cocaine. I had more [...]

Anonymous' Brooklawn Testimony 2021 - 2022 I never thought I'd be in the industry. I've heard other stories and it wasn't like what I'd experienced. Turns out I was only scratching the tip of the industry's iceberg. in this facility I watched them restrain kids till [...]

Michelle's State Training School Testimony 1997 - 1999 I watched my friend dead on the floor be revived. I was 4 pointed and had my clothes cut off me while it was recorded with men in the room. I had a tb shot every year even [...]

Harley's Diamond Ranch Academy Testimony 2011 - 2012 I was taken to Diamond Ranch Academy on August 6, 2011 when I was sixteen years old. I had just gotten out of another program, Ridge Creek School, which was shut down after a riot. I was gooned [...]

Harley's Ridge Creek School Testimony 2010 - 2011 I was in the troubled teen industry from October of 2010 until July of 2012. I was fifteen years old when I went in and seventeen when I got out. I have bipolar disorder and autism and my [...]

Emma's The Meadows Psychiatric Center Testimony 2019 I was in the Meadows multiple times from the ages of 15-17. One time in particular I was very sick while I was there. The one morning I woke up and went out to the desk to tell them [...]

Alexa's Diamond Ranch Academy Testimony 2013 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 [...]

Anonymous' Timbertop Testimony 2021 So my parents sent me to a Wilderness program that claims it’s duration to be a year. It’s for troubled kids or parents who just don’t want to deal with their kids problems. I got sent there to ‘teach me a lesson’ [...]

Luke's Newport Academy Testimony 2020 - 2021 I’m giving my testimony to this, because I feel like I was mistreated in many different ways at Newport Academy. My time there was tumultuous because I experienced abuse by other clients of the facility and emotional abuse by [...]

Anonymous' Franklin Academy in Connecticut Testimony 2018 - 2020 I wasn’t sure whether I was a victim of the troubled teen industry or not. My experience was not as terrible as others but I then realized that comparing traumas is detrimental to anyone's mental health. It [...]

Anonymous' Anasazi Foundation Testimony 1986 I was sent to a week-long internment when I was 14 years old. We were told we could only bring what would fit in a 40lb backpack and a sleeping bag. We were not told the nights would be freezing and [...]

Ellie's Trails Carolina Testimony 2021 I was sent there after years and year s of trying to get my depression managed. It was my parents last resort. They believed it would help. While I was there I witnessed many extremely distressing things. Such as: one girls [...]

Annetta's Sonora Behavioral Health Testimony 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 [...]

Anonymous' Youth Care Treatment Center Testimony 2016-2017 I’ve been scared to write a review for years, but I can no longer just sit here and not say anything.... I want anonymity because I am scared of YouthCare Utah. I simply cannot stay quiet about this place. [...]

Anonymous' Rebekah Home Testimony Early 80s My life in Rebekah...it was short lived, thank goodness. I think I was there for about 5 months. In those five months, I was there was actually a lifetime of trauma that I'll never get over.

Anonymous' Aspiro Wilderness Testimony 2022 Exactly a week after my 16th birthday, I was woken up at 4:07 in the morning with two strangers in my room. My parents told me those people would be escorting me to a residential treatment center. I was so scared [...]

Anonymous' Provo Canyon School Testimony 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 [...]

Anonymous' Forest Ridge Youth Services Testimony 2016-2017 I was in Forest Ridge Youth Services in Grover Iowa in 2016-2017 on two separate occasions, both times in shelter care for 30 days. When I was there lived through some of the most horrific things I have ever [...]

Anonymous' SUWS of the Carolinas and Lake House Academy Testimony 2020-2021 Before I was sent to SUWS of the Carolinas, I was a troubled kid with terrible trauma. Riddled with anxiety, depression, and undiagnosed autism, I could barely take a shower once a month. I was [...]

Anonymous' Ascent and CEDU Testimony 1995-1996 For now, I'd just like to state that I got to experience every type of abuse from day one, to having to be hospitalized via emergency room due to malnourishment and dehydration, enduring literal torture I never knew existed in [...]

Amy's Testimony 2012-2015 I recently finished listening to the podcast with Jordan from Maple Lake Academy and followed along with “Sent Away” several months back as it came out. I think it’s time to share how much these stories resonate with me. Here are my main [...]

Michaela's KW Legacy Ranch Testimony 2017-2019 PLEASE READ!!! WORTH THE READ!!! I went to KW Legacy Ranch for 13 months of my life and I ended up convincing my mom to sign me out early when she came to visit me. I was very nervous to [...]

Anonymous' Sandy Pines Testimony 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 [...]

Anonymous' Trinity Teen Solutions Testimony 2020 I was sent to Trinity after a ten-day stay in a psychiatric ward. I had never done any drugs or even had my first kiss. I went there as a result of suicidal ideations spurred by years of feeling trapped [...]

Nate's Aspen Ranch Testimony 2008-2009 I'm not really sure how to start with this testimonial and frankly I don't want to write it because this will mean rehashing a very painful part of my life that I have done much work to work through and put [...]

Holli's Elan School Testimony 1999-2001 Remembering this school has been such a black cloud for me. For years I have forgotten even the name of the school because I wanted to wipe out that time in my life. Because of the time that it happened and [...]

Hann's Franciscan Children's Hospital Unit 1, Worcester Recovery Center & Hospital (CCU), Arbour Hospital, and Metrowest Psychiatric Unit Testimony 2021 Trigger Warning: suicide, self-harm, eating disorder, restraints Hi, my name is Hann (any pronouns) and I would like to share my story of being a victim [...]

Anonymous' Adult Challenge Testimony 2022 My son was 28 years old, and he died last month after being in the Adult Challenge program in Brainerd for six months. He was a wonderful person who was loved by many—he was helpful, and kind, as well as being [...]

Charles' Louis Gossett Jr. Residential Center Testimony 2006 My name is Charles E Thorpe IV. I myself was a resident of Louis Gossett and my stay there was a horrible experience and made me worse with behavior due to mental health. I remember a staff named [...]

Anonymous' Reflections Academy Testimony 2017-2019 I was held at Reflections Academy between the ages of 15-17. In that time I witnessed and experienced horrific abuse that I am stuck dealing with to this day. in the form of severe & diagnosed PTSD. I watched Chaffin Pullan [...]

Anonymous' Bloom Teen Challenge Testimony 2019 I attended Teen Challenge Bloom when I was 12 years old. I immediately felt something off about the program, and have journal entries from my time there explaining specific situations I was put in. I was extremely manipulated and brainwashed. [...]

Addison's Trinity Teen Solutions Testimony 2016-2017 My name is Addison and I was at Trinity teen solutions in Wyoming for 9 months from October of 2016 to July of 2017, I was 15. I knew I was leaving prior to my stay unlike many girls who [...]

Anonymous' Zucker Hillside Hospital Testimony 2017-2018 I spent way too long in this place. I was admitted because of suicidal thoughts caused by medication I was taking and it was hell. There were these sheets you had to fill out, it seemed like that was the [...]

Anonymous' Devereux Glenholme Testimony 2001 I was at the school as a day student for around six months; so I guess I was lucky in that respect. The school had only two teacher's who actually taught me anything. The math teacher just sat at his desk [...]

Anonymous' Heritage School Testimony 1987-1989 I was sent to Heritage School directly from a psychiatric hospital when I had just turned 15. I am 49 now & still have nightmares. I know this is considered one of the “nicer” schools. I know it is very expensive. [...]

Anoymous' King George School Testimony 2007-2008 I could tell you stories of awful things that happened at King George School (KGS). Tales that would make even the strictest mental health employee’s eyes widen and think to themselves: "wow, that’s fucked up." Yes, there was the time [...]

Anonymous' Pendleton Academies Testimony 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 [...]

Earle's Testimony - Thayer Learning Center 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 [...]

Anonymous' Testimony - Franklin Academy in Connecticut 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 [...]

Ari's Testimony - Part 2 Island View/Elevations RTC and Uinta Academy 2019 - 2021 I wanted to submit a couple more things that happened to me while I was at Elevations RTC because I think they’re important, and due to some of the trauma I have [...]

Ari's Testimony - Part 1 Island View/Elevations RTC and Uinta Academy 2019 - 2021 I entered the troubled teen industry on April 27, 2018 when I was thirteen after a suicide attempt. After two weeks in psych and a short stay at an RTC in California, [...]

Anonymous' Testimony - Teen Challenge Columbus Girls Academy 2019-2020 I honestly appreciate the fact that I was able to disconnect from my old life and rebuild myself as a person without distractions. However, I do not support the methods used at Teen Challenge (CGA) and wholeheartedly [...]

Anonymous' Testimony - Wingate Wilderness 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 [...]

Alexandra's Testimony - Island View/Elevations RTC 2004 - 2007 I have so many things I need to say about Island View. The staff practiced a form of psychological warfare that was cruel and destructive to every child that came in those doors while I attended. My [...]

Gregory's Testimony - Vista RTC 2007 - 2008 I was raised in a single parent household by my father. I had along of angst growing up but I was never a bad kid, I just lacked parental supervision and guidance. My father trusted vista to help [...]

Anonymous' Testimony - Trails Carolina 2021 I have a lot to say about my time spent at Trails Carolina that wouldn’t remotely be enough for this one submission. I’ll do my best to cover the things I experienced. I was sent to Trails Carolina for and [...]

Alex's Testimony - Trails Carolina 2020 - 2021 Being emotionally abused would be an understatement. I was attacked by my group mates. Under fed and under clothed for the middle of winter. When it was snowing we didn’t have any snow clothes. It was freezing cold [...]

Anonymous' Testimony - Devereux Glenholme School 2012 - 2016 I was placed her for Asperger’s Syndrome, ADHD and an uncategorized bipolar disorder. I was not allowed a phone, I was only allowed a few websites. When I was in trouble for impulsive behaviors I could not [...]

Anonymous' Testimony - Devereux Glenholme School 2016 My experience at the Deveraux Glenholme School in Washington, CT was nothing short of traumatic. I still remember the day on February 1st, 2016, I was only 12 years old. Now, almost 19 I still have nightmares every night. [...]

Sadie's Testimony - Clearview Horizons 2021 I was sent to Clearview because my parents had some very close trusted friends recommend the place to them. My parents are very good Christian parents and they don't just trust anyone so this was a big thing for them [...]

Anonymous' Testimony - Happy Hill Farm 2007 - 2008 My parents were told that HHF could help me with my Bipolar and behavioral issues. There was a lawsuit a few years back regarding the school nurse. The school psychiatrist had left her a signed blank prescription [...]

Anonymous' Testimony - North Star Behavioral Health Hospital 2021 I was sent to North Star in 2021 for feeling suicidal and depressed. I came into treatment asking for help, instead I received the opposite. Throughout my time there, I was in countless predicaments no child should [...]

Heather's Testimony - Teen Challenge of Texas 2010 - 2013 When i was 17 years old, I was dropped off at Teen challenge of San Antonio by my mother. I was an angry teen who's father abandon her and had endured quite a bit of abuse [...]

Bailey's Testimony - Maple Lake Academy 2018 - 2021 I was 13 when I emerged from the woods after a long and grueling 3 months at wilderness. I was 13 when they took me to Maple Lake Academy; I was a child. I still had hope [...]

Anonymous' Testimony - Pinehaven Christian Children's Ranch 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 [...]

Anonymous' Testimony - Turning Winds Academic Institute 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 [...]

Sarah's Testimony - New Haven RTC 2017 - 2018 Wow, I have so much. My therapist, Alice, was super sensitive. I hurt her feelings a few times or she’d get sad by our conversations in therapy and she’d cry. Once she was offended because I told [...]

Melissa's Testimony - Teen Challenge Columbus Girls Academy 2017 - 2019 On September 26, 2017, I was admitted to Columbus Girls Academy, an all-girls Teen Challenge program located right on the Georgia border in Seale, Alabama. I stayed there until I completed on February 11, 2019. [...]

Giovanna's Testimony - Teen Challenge Kansas City Girls Academy 2019 - 2020 Basically, I was sent to this program a month before my fifteenth birthday due to extreme relationship dysfunction between men and my mother. Upon arrival, staff immediately told my mother to leave and I [...]

Sacheen's Testimony - Teen Challenge Kansas City Girls Academy 2019 - 2020 I sent my 15-year-old daughter to Kansas City Girls Academy in September of 2019 thinking it was my last hope and an answer to a desperate prayer. I later came to realize that this [...]

Alisa's Testimony - Hagaman Guest House and St. Jude's Retreat 1994 - 1995 I was taken off the porch of a home in Saranac Lake, NY owned by Adrienne who had recommended the house to my family and then helped them set up the plan to [...]

Beetle's Testimony - Wingate Wilderness and New Haven RTC 2017 - 2019 On October 27th, 2017,  I was woken up at 2:07 am to two strangers coming into my room, dragging me out of bed, telling me I could go the easy way or the hard [...]

Anonymous' Testimony - Midwest Academy, Sunset Bay, Hosana, Coastal Harbor, and Camp Consequence 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 [...]

Julianne's Testimony - Turn About Ranch and Bromley Brook School 2004 - 2006 When I was 14 years old I was sent, against my will, to a residential treatment center in Utah. It was a Mormon-run, working cattle ranch. I had no history of drugs, violence, [...]

Anonymous' Testimony - Heritage RTC 2014 - 2015 I'm a survivor of Heritage RTC, aka the Heritage Community, in Provo, Utah. I was sent to Heritage by my school district due to being suspended for getting into fights with other classmates, however I strongly suspect that [...]

Sasha's Testimony - Provo Canyon School (2007) 2007 My name is Sasha Oates and I am a survivor of multiple abusive programs. When I was 14, I was struggling with self harm, depression, and an eating disorder. In April of 2007, I was taken from a [...]

Kyra's Testimony - Second Nature Wilderness and Eva Carlston Academy 2014 - 2015 Four days after New Year 2014, winter of my freshman year of high school, my parents made decision to send me to a wilderness therapy program in Utah based on the recommendation of [...]

Veran's Testimony - New Haven RTC 2020 - 2021 When I was 13, in 2019, I was discharged from the UCLA psych ward and taken to Visions RTC in Los Angeles. It was a short term, so I was only there for 2 months. I had [...]

Astrid's Testimony - New Haven RTC 2016 - 2017 Trigger Warning: emotional abuse, physical abuse, self harm, suicide. I was sent to New Haven when I was 15 for severe depression, eating disorder, self harm, and suicidal ideation. I came back with all of those issues, [...]

Makaela’s Testimony - Teen Challenge New Lifehouse 2011 - 2013 I was sent to Teen Challenge at 15 for smoking weed ONCE and having a boyfriend that my newly adopted parents didn't approve of. From the very first day, I was isolated from all of the [...]

Alex’s Testimony - Teen Challenge Lakeland Girls Home 2004 - 2006 I was kidnapped from my bed in the middle of the night with my moms consent. Two people came into my room and took me from my bed by my hands and feet while I [...]

Danielle's Testimony 2011 - 2021 My name is Daniella Mutai. Today I’m 23 years old and I’m working independently on recovering from anorexia. I don’t have a job and both of my parents have passed away. I’ve been working on employing myself. I’ve quit several jobs [...]

Kim's Testimony Caron Foundation, Four Winds Hospital, Stony Lodge Hospital, KidsPeace, Lourdesmont Academy, Rancho Valmora and Horsham Clinic 1998 - 2003 In the spring of 1998, at age 12, I was sent to be evaluated by a therapist with supposed expertise in substance use problems after [...]

Mark's Testimony - Synanon 1978 I have recently written a book about my experience at Synanon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09YKW8WGB The following is a bit from my final chapter where I explain how Started and developed. Synanon is often viewed as the product of Charles Dederich. While it is [...]

Savanna's Testimony - Solstice West 2017 - 2018 The trauma was worse than anything I possibly could have imagined anything could do to a human being. The worst part of looking back at what I went through is that two of my primary abusers are still [...]

Joel's Testimony - Horizon Academy 2006 - 2008 I wasn't sexually abused, or even physically abused. For the longest time I couldn't accept that I was abused at all. They do a good job scrubbing those suggestible little minds and turning them on each other to [...]

Meg's Testimony - Chrysalis School and Intermountain Hospital 2001 - 2004 I was 15 years old in February of 2001 when I was abducted in the middle of the night by two people who told me that I had to “come with them”. They were very [...]

Thora's Testimony - Burwell for Kids 2014 - 2015 My name is Thora Lodbrok Johnston and I’m a Trouble Teen Industry survivor. I willingly when to this program that was painted to me as a program called Burwell for kids with disabilities and that they were [...]

Anonymous' Testimony - Hyde School 1977 - 1978 In 1977, I was sent to Hyde from a state 2,000 miles away at the age of 15. I was late for the beginning of the school year so my roommate was in charge of showing me around. [...]

Anonymous' Testimony - NYP Westchester, Lake House Academy for Girls, UNI, & Unnamed NATSAP Program in Arizona 2019 - 2020 I have been a victim of institutional child abuse since age twelve. As a child, I suffered from severe anxiety [...]

Anonymous' Testimony 2009 - 2010 I was locked in my room 99% of the time as a 13-year-old girl. I was only allowed out to clean. I got swine flu and was given no medication and was isolated with little food and water [...]

August's Testimony - Maple Lake Academy 2018 - 2021 I went to Maple Lake Academy when I was 14 in 2009. At this time, I had been diagnosed with NLD and Bipolar disorder. They had me on very high doses [...]

Solis' Testimony - CEDU 1989 - 1992 I was ordered to CEDU at a young 15 years old by a Santa Barbara County family judge. Upon arriving, I was isolated from everyone I knew and loved, including my family. I [...]

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Katie's Testimony - Casa By The Sea 1999 One night in early 1999, I was feeling like I was having another sinus infection. I had already slept a bit that day and it was early at night for me but [...]