ISAC's report on Tranquility Bay has been dug up. (
Archive) This is 102 pages long, and certainly not an easy read.
An older revision also exists (
Archive) which is included for completeness.
I thought I'd never see this again.
FUCK the Earnshaws for bitching out without even trying to resist or leak documents in a torrent, but I'll take what we can get. Both revisions are also attached here, so as long as Dear Ooperator pays the bills it will exist here, and in any future torrent backups.
What's most important about this is that it details how WWASPS worked in the 90s, be it how Brightway was a funnel, a lot of important names who were money men, or the accusations I leveled against Randall Hinton and Jay Kay for their abuse and rape.
I will provide an overview below.
Tranquility Bay was owned and directed by Jay Kay, son of Ken Kay, who dropped out of college, managed a gas station mini mart in San Diego, worked at Brightway (WWASP's mental hospital of fucking horrors) as a guard, and later became the administrator of the facility, because his dad was a money man for the Lichfields. Brightway did evaluations before sending kids to programs based on how resistant they were, and also allowed for WWASPS to dope kids up. Jay Kay never had any education or acquired any credentials that would have justified him running Brightway or Tranquility Bay.
Billing went through R&B Billing, another company under the umbrellas and shells Ken Kay and Karr Farnsworth set up.
Tranquility Bay was American for the purposes of recruiting, but when parents wanted to pull the kid out, it suddenly became Jamaican.
A New York Times article reported the annual payroll was $1 million but gross revenue was $10 million.
ISAC has had claims (evidence is sadly long gone) that Jay Kay was paying off the local government.
The facility was a former hotel, albeit guarded, gated, with barbed wire fences and barred windows.
Children could not leave until level 5 with staff permission, and could not even call home until level 3, which is standard for WWASPS. Parents were barred from visits until level 4 and having completed required seminars, which is also standard WWASPS.
Some 200 Jamaicans were on staff and were in their late teens or early 20s earning minimum wage. They were monitored at all times including when on the toilet or sleeping. It's reported kids traded sexual favors for drugs and use of a cellphone. It is also reported the staff were told they were "spoiled rich kids" so it was easier to make them justify abusing them through resentment.
Please do note this is bullshit on multiple levels, most kids were adopted, many kids' parents got loans through WWASPS itself, and even if the kid's parents were rich this doesn't justify this shit.
The only actual licensed medical professional who regularly went to Tranquility Bay was Dr Marcel Chappuis, who covered shit up and drugged the kids up to their eyeballs to keep them obedient. A proper evaluation by him cost $500 extra per evaluation, however. It was said he had been involved from the beginning and never reported any of the abuse he surely knew of in detail, and he allegedly admitted this.
Tranquility Bay (hereafter called TB) was used as a harsh program to break other kids as much as just a direct market to certain parents.
Three kids put in TB were originally from Majestic Ranch, and were put there after making sexual abuse accusations against the director at the time, Wayne Winder. Majestic Ranch was a specialty school for kids aged 7-13.
A former staff member told ISAC he pepper sprayed kids in the face from two feet away and diapering a teeanger with a plastic garbage bag after having sprayed him. This staffer said Jay Kay directly told him to do so.
Jay Kay was accused by multiple students that he pepper sprayed, tied up or otherwise restrained, and beat students. Jay Kay said they were lies to get out. WWASPS said it was just kids who refused to work the program and they were all liars.
Only about 20% ever graduate. 80% are pulled early or turn 18. However, some parents refused to repatriate their own children past 18.
One mother said, bluntly, "I don't care what happens to my daughter at TB." Another parent said "It's not about right or wrong, it's about what works and doesn't work."
TB claimed to treat addiction and other issues, except when pressed, when it would spontaneously become a 'school' and only that.
According to oen staff member, "incidental fees" came out to be $28,500 per month alone.
Less than half of all students ever make it to high levels.
Actual professional individual therapy cost $100 an hour in the 90s and was not included.
WWASPS pushed the seminar shit as did the rest of WWASPS.
TB did not have any single person with US credentials to teach a god damned thing. While saying it was a school, when pressed, it spoke of an independent study program.
TB admitted it might not have reliable ways to administer psychotropic medications or other medications that cannot be skipped or suddenly discontinued.
Medical everything was wavered away.
"The school is not liable for unauthorized actions of employees." Right.
ISAC demanded that it be authorized to restrain kids for any reason at all, but neglected to share that kids restrained kids a lot too, not that they were any worse than the Jamaicans.
TB tried to handle all lawsuits in Jamaica, West Indes, instead of the USA, despite WWASPS being clearly american.
TB tried to make parents agree to a year up front of tuition and take require 60 days written notice to take a kid out. Should they not do this they were billed $5,000 to get their own kid back.
Mail was censored.
Narvin was named as the owner of Carolina Springs, Dundee Ranch, and "Adolescent Services Incorporated" which would refer kids to TB, CSA, and DR, and other WWASPS programs. He apparently also owned a transport company - so the fucker literally owned the kidnappers. Lovely.
TB said not to send care packages with food, and used different arguments for boys and girls. Letters home repeatedly begged for food. At least one kid has claimed to have seen a pig's penis in soup served to the kids (No, not Narvin's or Jay's or even Randall's).
Lawsuits:
The oldest known happened in 97 or 98, where a child petitioned the court to be released to go home.
In 98 where state child protection officials sought charges against his parents since he was taken away in cuffs by escorts.
In 99 when a woman's ex husband had her sons taken away to Jamaica: "According to the mother her sons came home fearful, “haunted by nightmares, subject to panic attacks” and unwilling to “voice an opinion on their own, fearful that it might not find approval." The mother also said her sons wouldn’t go anywhere near a beach."
In 2002 a lawsuit a woman discovered her 12 year old cousin was taken to TB because of his dad's new wife being a cunt.
In 2003 a shitload started to drop, too many to list here, read the doc. Sheesh.
TESTIMONY TIME:
Statement A: a child discusses how regimented things are, how ants crawled over his toothbrush, how a gay child was terribly abused, how unnamed children had sex with an unnamed staff member and staff laughed it off, and how a kid afraid of OP screamed into the night once dogpiled by a bunch of Mormons and Jamaicans. He went on about trading watches or sex favors for a cellphone, drugs, or food, and showers were weekly.
Statement B: A mother talks about how her son needs to watch his language when talking about TB

. She then goes ona bout how he had sobbing melt downs after coming home, was skinny, dropped 13 lbs in the first 7 days there, that everyone was drugged up, traded drugs with guards when able, and that kids traded nice watches for cellphone calls to be rescued. She adds he was made to beg to use the bathroom for 90 minutes and was "sufficiently traumatized in just one week." [DDCC note - fuck this bitch] She adds that she's a "low income single mom" and had to borrow $10,000 for the program to "save" her child (her double quotes, not mine) and then confludes that she's in damage control mode with her son to seek family therapy.
Statement C: Another mother speaks for her son. He started in Spring Creek Lodge, claiming he 'grew', but that he was recommended to TB to benefit from enhanced structure. She's much more literate and structured her statement with line breaks, and goes into details of 90 days of enforced silence, physical restraint that damaged his joints, kept on the floor for hours at a time, and spent 50% of his time in OP (solitary confinement). She talks about academics being a joke, and finally that she smelled how bullshit it was given that there was no education and was frightened of high level students and finally went to TB to rescue him. Upon doing so, she saw teenagers like robots walking around with their eyes down, the boy's heads shaved, and how silent it was, finally saying that when she got him home he sobbed uncontrollaby and his brother, father, and the mother herself joined in.
Statement D: A former student discusses being put in OP despite being 18 years old becuase his family wanted to come down to persuade him to say. When saying he was 18 and should be let go they beat him up and made him do forced exercise all night. He then goes into seeing the aftermath Valerie Heron's well documented suicide and how all the screaming was mistaken for a riot at first. His own towel was used to clean up the blood. This was given back to him and he was told to use it, still with Valerie's blood, on himself. He had to use this until a letter he sent his mother explaining the suicide arrived. He goes into greater details of the isolation, and how disease spread, and how he got blisters that got infected and gave him a fever. He claims that he still has marks on his hands and feet where it seems something dug into his skin and tunneled in. He adds showers were only ever cold, that the showers were filthy, the laundry area was filthy, and the well that fed the plumbing with a pump had frogs in it. If the power went out, everyone sat silently in the basement until the power came on, and if it was 10pm when the power was out, only then did they go to bed in the dark. This is also the student who found a pig's penis in his food. He also had to see a child restrained right outside of his bunkroom's window for nearly an hour and a half while trying to sleep and being forced to pretend to not notice anything; the restraint involved a beating, pressure points, and twisted joints. "It got to the point when I was used to the sounds of screaming while I was doing school or trying to sleep. It happened every day. The students that were being restrained, whether male or female, were screaming at the top of their lungs. It sent chills down your spine to hear them. they were not screaming in a half-hearted way. They screamed for mercy and were not shown it."
Statement E: I posted this in the OP. Go back to
that particular OP if you want to read it. It's fucking awful.
Statement F: A student reports going to Brightway, and then taken to TB because of not following staff orders. This student had their limbs twisted, was pepper sprayed, hog tied, and sexually abused by one Randy Cook. He also names Jay Kay, Randall Hinton, CLaud Miry, and Shawn Brown.
Statement G: Another well written mother saying she was appalled but took a long time to snap out of it. I'll post her own words:
"My son was traumatized by the fact he was always aware that the abuse was transpiring. That he too could be restraint, abused sexually molested.etc.
I have letters where my son has written "he is always stressed, unable to do his school work because of the constant screams of kids being restraint.
That is unacceptable to me. That fact is not what I paid for on behalf of my child.
The morning we went to pick up our son he was not there. H had been taken to the DR to treat a dislocated shoulder. I was never given an explanation how he dislocated a shoulder. My son won't tell.
My son upon seeing him for the first time in 16 months was pale, skinny. He had acne on his face. He appeared sad, depressed, detached, fearful, untrusting.
My heart is broken. The fallacy of this program we entrusted our precious child to."
Upon preparing to leave, Family Rep stated to me" I am glad you are taking your son home, he cries all of the time." Family Father stated "he is glad we are taking our son home, he doesn't belong here."
WHY does he cry all of the time? I now know the truth."
Statement H: A grandmother wrote to ISAC this time, saying her grandson had ADHD and learning disabilities. She is the most well written of all and says her grandson nearly died in surgery after becoming so sick he needed it. My guess is appendicitis. She concludes with "There must be a special place in hell for people who profit immensely by operating such abusive programs. In the meantime, those of us who have gone through hell must be the advocates for justice for these kids who are in such desperate need." I agree with this.
Statement I: A mother sent a kid off for running away. I'll directly quote this:
"On December 2, 2001 my husband and I went to Jamaica to bring my son home from TB. The psychologist who visits there once a month was at the facility also so we decided it would be beneficial if we all met (my son, Dr. Chappuis, my husband and me) and had a discussion about my son's homecoming and our expectations, etc. Jay Kay was not there so we met in his office. My son pointed out the monitors that were behind me. I turned and looked at them for just seconds because I was uncomfortable watching but I definitely saw that they were there and that it was the OP room that was being observed. My son explained that the cameras and monitors were installed because of accusations of abuse. He then told me that if the staff are going to restrain someone they just take the kids into the hall where there are no cameras. He also told me that the staff still do whatever they want in front of the cameras because it hadn’t made any difference. The incident where staff members were hurting a child’s injured foot happened in the room with the cameras. I assume staff members know when Mr. Kay is not on the facility (quite often) and that nobody is monitoring activities in the OP room."
Statement J: A former student speaks of being there for 3 birthdays and that it was little more than a "torture place". He then adds about an escape attempt:
"I ran away from Tranquility Bay when i was half-way through the program. What happend was , the nurse wouldnt give me any medicine so i yelled at her demanding i was sick after time after time of telling her i couldnt walk or breath with out pain in my back and nothin was done about it. so one night after a week of planning ii waited till the night staff fell asleep and then i broke through the window. Noone knew i was gone untill hours later. I had no food, no water, no shoes, no shirt or money and i am a white boy with a bald head running around the streets or jamaica. so i did what was smart and came back to the program so i could survive. the supervisor of staff told me i would be in observatory placement for 3 days. it turns out he lied i was in a torture room for 3 weeks strate. in these rooms you have to lie down on ur face with like 8 kids in a small room with no light, one bathroom. in these rooms you would get sometimes 2 or 3 tiny meals or rice a day and water, not once did i see light or drink or eat anything but rice and water for 3 weeks. as you can imagine, i went pale as a ghost and could see my ribs through my shirt, i must have lost 30 to 40 pounds.
it was crazy we had to do massive amounts of exercises and sweat with no fan on and then lie back down on the cold tile, face down with rashes building up all over me , mostly on my testicles and groin area."
Statements K1 and K2: correspondence sent to the state department regarding their niece. One of her shoulders was dislocated and they found the conditions appalling. It's a doozie, read the doc.
The doc goes into some detail about the corporate shellsgame in detail too great to summarize here.
The doc then goes into detail about how Narvin avoided paying taxes with offshore accounts and how WWASPS donated a lot of money to Utah state elections.
There is finally some 37 more pages about the abuse, food deprivation, fraud, extortion, and obstruction of justice, and that's where I'll call it. If you want to go deeper, read on.