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Name: | Nick Paletta
(@ [email protected])
| | Date: | 7/29/2009 2:29:04 PM | | Subject: | ASCENT/CEDU/RMA | | | I was sent to Ascent twice - once in 1997 and once in 98. After figuring out how the system worked, I was sent to Rocky Mountain Academy and was exposed to the real brainwashing. I refused EVERYTHING the 2nd time around and knew they couldn't make me do shit and would have to keep shipping me from place to place until my parents actually got more involved. I knew kids that were pretty cool at Ascent the first time I went, that were totally sucked in by the system at RMA by the time I came back. I remember how robotic these kids were and how much they changed. IT scared the shit out of my and I was determined not to lose my soul in the process.
It was one day before my propheet and it was the 3rd time I chose to run away, only this time I got away. Through the mountains, I found a highway and hitched to the nearest grocery store where I called my parents from a pay phone. (I remembered my calling card number amazingly) I told my parents that there was no chance they knew where they had sent me and they would never see me again if they didn't see it for themselves. They agreed, and since I knew my way out again, I agreed to go back. I went back, met my parents there 3 days later and after a day of being there, I was taken out. A miracle! I spent 7 months in rehab in Kansas and was released to finally start living my normal life.
My issues were not even close to as crazy as other kids. I met kids who sold their bodies on the street for drug money, suicides, homicidal kids, you name it. Why was I there? I liked to smoke pot and eat acid a bit in high school and my parents decided they could fix me with money and these wonderful programs. I think I would have had a lot more damage to my brain if I had submitted to them and I feel horrible for all the kids who gave in to their insane program. I havn't spoken to one person I know from CEDU/Ascent and would love to meet up with my old friends who gave me the secrets I needed. THANKS SHEA WHEREVER U ARE! Please email me....anyone! Would love to hear from kids. Oh and Mike D'amico, you will be tortured by many kids someday. | | | Post Reply | Display replies to this message
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Name: | John Baughn
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| | Date: | 6/2/2009 12:53:31 PM | | Subject: | New Horizons Youth Ministries Marion Indiana and Canada | | | I was a student at NHYM in Marion Indiana and Canada from 1981 to 1984. I seen and dealt with abuses there that a child in any normal home should not have to endure. I witnessed a married female staff member having sex with a student. When I brought it to Bud Teares attention the female and her husband were allowed to threaten me. I was then threatened if I contacted authorities. I was forced to stand in the middle of a circle of approx. 10 male students and allow them to beat the crap out of me while we wore boxing gloves. This was their idea of punishment. We were forced to clean our rooms only to have the house father or Budd Teare come in and destroy the entire house and we would have to do it again, and again. The abuse was not only physical but emotional. I did graduate from high school only because of fear of the repercussions if I failed anything in school. While in Canada we were forced to build cabins for them to house future students. I believe this is a form of child labor and if they had been forced to pay a company to come in and build these cabins, it would've cost them several thousands of dollars. If any parent had done these things to their child they would've found themselves in prison. It amazes me that Budd Teara now works for Indiana Wesleyan University. It is my personal belief that these facilities should be closed and the individuals that are running them should be investigated and prosecuted.
Thank you
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Name: | Daun Klonowski
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| | Date: | 5/4/2009 9:49:55 PM | | Subject: | Maryville Academy/ Sleezer Youth Home IL. | | | It's been close to a year since I left the Maryville Academy for Girls, which I must say was the worst time of my life. I don't know the exact terms to describe my experience, but many things that happened to myself and other girls is unspeakable. Many girls were locked in the stairway with threat of police intervention if they yelled. If you were to try to leave you would be restrained and dragged back inside. I lived at Maryville for three years and I have never been so emotionally distraught as I was while living there. They don't have a positive peer culture like Sleezer Youth Home does, they call their model the mileiu model. If you hear this name do not trust it. You will not be able to communicate with your child and your child can be punished for communicating with others if they have not earned it. Or they will end up as I did, becoming the "junior staff" to ten girls at a time. This is the worst way to go because I dealt with thisns that the staff should have but were too afraid to get hurt. I will admidt that I had problems but not nearly as many as I did when I left the facility. | | | Post Reply | | |
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Name: | MD
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| | Date: | 4/18/2009 3:33:07 PM | | Subject: | EAGLE RANCH ACADEMY-UTAH | | | Does anyone have firsthand knowledge of Eagle Ranch Academy? My child is there and I have recently been reading about negative experiences in Utah. I would appreciate any information you might offer. | | | Post Reply | | |
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Name: | Angela Smith
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| | Date: | 3/12/2009 9:59:25 PM | | Subject: | All messages must now be approved by moderator prior to posting. | | | Dear HEAL Visitors & Program Victims,
Due to abuse of our message forums, we are now not allowing any new messages without moderator approval. You may still submit messages and if they meet the necessary criteria (see underlined on main and posting pages) we will approve it.
We apologize for any inconvenience. The spamming of our message board by program staff and other spammers has made it necessary for us to take these measures to protect the integrity of our site.
For those program staff who want to learn about the legal and ethical problems with the program industry, we advise you to read through the entire HEAL site (and related links) including all news articles, lawsuits, and personal statements and educate yourself on the industry.
If you are program supporter (staff or otherwise), this is not the proper forum for you. We will not allow any comments on this forum that advocate for the illegal and unethical behavior modification industry.
Every question recently posed by alleged "former PCS staff, Mike" is already answered throughout our website. It is apparent that his posts are for the sole purpose of harassment and meant to engage survivors and HEAL members in meaningless debate in order to extract confidential information related to open cases or in a marked effort to distract us during a very important time for the teen liberty movement (HR 911 now in Senate HELP Committee, UT Dep't of Licensing's ongoing investigation into Provo Canyon School--where as recently as February, 2009, PCS was found in violation of multiple licensing requirements, and more).
We will not be engaging in a useless and futile debate with an alleged former employee of a program that tortured two HEAL coordinators in the 1980s and 1990s. Nor will we allow anyone to post inappropriate, inflammatory, or baiting statements or questions to our website and allow for disruption of our ongoing successful action(s) in exposing the industry and closing abusive programs.
Thank you for time and understanding.
Sincerely,
Angela Smith
HEAL Coordinator | | | Post Reply | | |
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