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Originally Posted by Chamaeleontidae
Isn't it a sign of today's society though, that family's search out others to straighten out their "troubled" teens. It's sad that he died, but why was he there in the first place.
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He was there because his parents were mislead into thinking they were doing something that would help!
warrrreagl, I was sent to two of these places. I wrote about it in my journal. How does it hit me? What bothers me even more than reading about ANOTHER death is the attitude of the person above. “That’s sad but what did he do to get there…?” What? NOTHING!! Since he was a difficult 14 yo he deserved to be tortured, starved, and worked like he was in a Nazi work camp??? We’re talking about
children receiving worse treatment than inmates receive in most of the US prison systems!
Not only do kids receive severe abuse in these places, they are not treated by professionals. All of these places I speak of are run by counselors with the lowest level of degrees or not even out of school yet. Many (if not all of them) hire “recovering addicts with no education to “counsel” (torture, abuse, punish, break) these children.
How does it hit? With 20 years retrospect, and a 14 year old child myself, I'd have to say that it will be my permanent life's work to educate the general public about these pricey private child prison camps and warehouses until they are all closed and made illegal.