Newstories

NEWSTORIES -- from around the country.

We recommend that parents do "due diligence" before placing their child at a Special Purpose (Behavior Modification) school. (1) Contact the state agency that monitors and regulates residential programs for students with special needs and ask if they have ever received complaints or concerns about the school you are considering. (2) Contact the local D.A. and city or county social services department and ask the same question, and (3) Contact local news media and request stories from the past five years on the school. The following are news stories from around the country.

11/17-19/02; 12/12/02 BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: It's open season on children. Three part series on the link between Mountain Park Baptist Boarding Academy, Victory Christian Academy, other ultra-fundamentalist detention centers for teens spun off from the Lester Roloff's troubled homes for teens in Texas. Proposed legislation would reform these centers. (St. Louis Post Dispatch.)

11/18/02 The Handbook. If your child cries out for help, just hang up.... from the 3-part series on Mountain Park.

Mountain Park Baptist Boarding Academy - battered by dozens of lawsuits from angry parents closes Missouri and Florida Schools.

Crackdown on Mountain Park (Missouri and Florida) Baptist Reform Schools

The BOOT CAMP DEATH of AARON BACON

CLOSED: Royal Haven, Sisters, Oregon - Alleged Rapes, Child Abuse...

Child Torture: Beaten, Dehydrated, Denied Food, ... Isolated.

America is Creating a GULAG for its Children (New York Post)

Police Raid - Close About Face (Forsyth) Academy

Teen Mistreatment, Boulder Weekly Cover Story

Drug War Launches Attack on Student Financial Aid

Says FBI: 60-70% of agents HAVE used drugs. Rocky Mountain News

Troubled Teens or SCAM? Samoan Observer

Deadly Discipline, The Oregonian

Families Sue Founder

Teenage Girl Run to Death

1999-1994 News articles from Idaho's Spokesman Review

1999-1996 News articles from Boston Globe

12/7/99 Red Cliffs Ascent's Runaway Teens

11/99 Child Torture in the Death of Gina Score

11/14/99 Church Questions Methods of "Behavior Modification"

July 18, 1999 A 3-part expose in the Rocky Mountain News "If a parent sends a child knowingly into a situation where they're going to be abused, yes, the parents themselves are going to be guilty of child abuse," said Shannan Wilber, a staff attorney with the Youth Law Center. (excerpt from Desperate Measures, Part I - Eric's Daring Escape, Part II - Desperate Measures, Part III Abuse &Closures.

1/10/99 Rocky Mountain News Wyoming ranch for troubled youth

12/29/98 Associated Press -- Boy Held Captive in Metal Box

11/20/98 Times Record (TX) --Teen Tells School Horror Story

12/09/98 Rocky Mountain News -- Success! Matt Grise to be free

12/07/98 National Public Radio (NPR) -- All Things Considered (transcript)

11/15/98 Rocky Mountain News --"The children were isolated and hogtied, they reported."

Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing -- (Statement of support)

Update from Alexia Parks, June 28, 1998 Note: TeenAid is now TeenLiberty

Project NoSpank - Jordan Riak, Director

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