{"id":18254,"date":"2022-05-29T18:32:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T01:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/?p=18254"},"modified":"2022-06-10T16:54:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T23:54:10","slug":"anonymous-pinehaven-christian-childrens-ranch-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/anonymous-pinehaven-christian-childrens-ranch-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous’ Testimony – Pinehaven Christian Children’s Ranch (2013 – 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anonymous’ Testimony – Pinehaven Christian Children’s Ranch<\/h1><\/span>
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2013 – 2017<\/h3><\/span>
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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\u2019t believe me when I told them. The kids are used as free labor and is too much for children to do. I am borderline disabled due to the extreme labor I was forced to do here.<\/p>\n

All mail is opened and read before kids are allowed to read it. My own sisters would send me mail and I never got to see it. They allow 15 minute calls once a week ONLY if you\u2019re ungrounded. If a conversation with a parent is going a way they don\u2019t approve of, they\u2019ll hang up the call and then listen to future calls on another line.<\/p>\n

The punishments were cruel and unusual. I have been tackled by grown men, held down against my will by both male and female staff, and publicly humiliated in front of the other kids. I have been diagnosed with C-PTSD due the severe abuse I endured while a student here.<\/p>\n

There are only maybe 2-3 staff members that actually care about the kids and the rest are just getting off from the power and control they get over the kids. I was once thrown to the ground and restrained by way of sitting on top of me by a man that was 4x my size. I recall praying for my soul to enter heaven bc I didn\u2019t have the fight to keep breathing. Another instance I was working with a female staff member when I needed to walk away to cool down. She perceived that as me running away, before I got too far, a 7ft tall man tan and tackled me to the ground and shoved my face into the gravel road.<\/p>\n

I was sexually assaulted and abused by a former resident, both while he was a student and while he was an intern. I was too afraid to speak up due the extreme purity culture and fear that I would be humiliated in front of the other students. I once worked 36 hours straight hauling large rocks from one side of the ranch to the other. I was only allowed five minute breaks every two hours when I was finally done with my punishment I have to go to school that day with only three hours of sleep. So much more views happening within the 4 1\/2 years I attended to school but unfortunately due to a recent brain injury I cannot recall everything that happened<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"acf":[],"cp_meta_data":{"_edit_lock":["1654905115:2"],"_edit_last":["2"],"_thumbnail_id":["18255"],"_fusion":["a:16:{s:25:\"show_first_featured_image\";s:2:\"no\";s:4:\"fimg\";a:2:{s:5:\"width\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"height\";s:0:\"\";}s:17:\"post_links_target\";s:2:\"no\";s:7:\"bg_full\";s:2:\"no\";s:17:\"slider_visibility\";s:51:\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\";s:12:\"main_padding\";a:2:{s:3:\"top\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"bottom\";s:0:\"\";}s:15:\"content_bg_full\";s:2:\"no\";s:20:\"image_rollover_icons\";s:7:\"default\";s:9:\"bg_repeat\";s:7:\"default\";s:11:\"slider_type\";s:2:\"no\";s:9:\"wooslider\";s:1:\"0\";s:19:\"blog_page_title_bar\";s:7:\"default\";s:17:\"content_bg_repeat\";s:7:\"default\";s:13:\"posts_sidebar\";s:15:\"default_sidebar\";s:15:\"posts_sidebar_2\";s:15:\"default_sidebar\";s:14:\"sidebar_sticky\";s:7:\"default\";}"],"_fusion_google_fonts":[""],"fusion_builder_status":["active"],"elegant_typography":[""],"om_disable_all_campaigns":[""],"avada_post_views_count":["619"],"avada_today_post_views_count":["1"],"avada_post_views_count_today_date":["25-04-2024"],"_sq_old_slug":["?p=18254"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}