The American Child Torture Industry: Cons and Cults Disguised as Schools - Because Discord and Roblox aren't bad enough.

You can find this sentiment aplenty on the Farms too ('not bullied enough', 'corporal punishment is okay'). Does it mean KF is full of boomers?

I do find it peculiar none of the usual suspects have come into this thread saying shit like "lmao they should have behaved themselves" or some shit.
 
I do find it peculiar none of the usual suspects have come into this thread saying shit like "lmao they should have behaved themselves" or some shit.
Well you can find it easily on previous pages but, the dude right above you is busy making OP's point about people being completely incorrigable on this subject by equivocating the thread topic (synanon cult insanity being forced on minors) with public school abuses and corporal punishment.

Like Im not supporting corporal punishment, far less am I supporting whats in that video... but that happened in public school and is on the news. What OP is talking about goes a lot deeper than that and frankly the equivocation is what makes it possible for places like Elan to exist. This shit is less like an evil abusive boarding school teacher and more like a clandestine money generating inescapable torture prison for children.
 
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I feel that this shit would just not fly in Europe. I'm not sure if this is because there is less religious fanaticism or that it is directed to more traditional churches [...]
Without going too much off topic, most of this is due to seculariation largely removing the Church from directly running educational establishments.
Sometimes there are schools like the Odenwaldschule in Germany, an elite reform boarding school that was heavily infiltrated by pedophiles from the 60s onwards whose directors used their political connections to squash investigations for decades. And if you guess that being a reform school meant they were famously offering lots of scholarships for "disadvantaged children" offering the resident pedophiles a steady stream of meat to absue, you guessed correctly.

Honestly, the only thing close to these programs were facilities like the East German Jugendwerkhöfe where the same mixture of forced labor, violence and psychological terror was used to mould "proper socialist personalities".
 
Propublica did a great expose on seclusion and locking kids away in public schools in Illinois. It opened some floodgates.

Naturally, the governor went all "I'm surprised and appalled!" and promptly issued an emergency order. This shit operates out of the public eye, always has.

I do find it peculiar none of the usual suspects have come into this thread saying shit like "lmao they should have behaved themselves" or some shit.

You missed a few miscreants that had to come in to troll or cope.

Well you can find it easily on previous pages but, the dude right above you is busy making OP's point about people being completely incorrigable on this subject by equivocating the thread topic (synanon cult insanity being forced on minors) with public school abuses and corporal punishment.

Like Im not supporting corporal punishment, far less am I supporting whats in that video... but that happened in public school and is on the news. What OP is talking about goes a lot deeper than that and frankly the equivocation is what makes it possible for places like Elan to exist. This shit is less like an evil abusive boarding school teacher and more like a clandestine money generating inescapable torture prison for children.

Institutional torture into conformity or just to set examples is a demon we need to banish back to hell. I'm just not going to hold my breath on society getting up to the task, given that we've pivoted to social banishment (ostracism) if you don't fit in to a particular groupthink clique, and more than a few gigantic assholes on the left think we should pathologize having views they deem as too right wing. I don't know how the fuck people forgot the KGB pathologizing political dissidence, or how these fuckers got twisted up into thinking "no actually it was a good thing," but the front of the line up against the wall keeps getting crowded.
 
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if you don't fit in to a particular groupthink clique, and more than a few gigantic assholes on the left think we should pathologize having views they deem as too right wing.
Metaphysical dialectics are fake and gay.

if we got into political discussions, you would probably think I was absurdly right wing. But on this issue we're sympatico.
 
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Metaphysical dialectics are fake and gay.

if we got into political discussions, you would probably think I was absurdly right wing. But on this issue we're sympatico.

Ah, politics. I suppose I'm whatever is left after you take baggage away from anarchism and libertarianism. I'm anti group think, pro think for your self. Don't hurt others, do what you want as long as you don't create externalities for others (pollution, burning down an entire forest, covering a road with literal shit), don't be a faggot about the commons and understand the tragedy of the commons happens for a reason, negotiate like an adult, and don't overlook incentive structures.

Where the right wing has a valid point is, bluntly, degeneracy. Degenerate incentives lead people to hedonism instead of something wholesome. Degenerate people treat kids like objects instead of the next generation, because they don't care about the next generation. To a degenerate, a kid is nothing sacred or something precious to protect and nurture, a kid is an obligation at worst and something to extract fun out of it at best.

You also can't have a society based on a bunch of different identity or affinity groups going "ME ME ME!" while never ever conceding or trying to work together cohesively. I'm not really in favor of "a place for everyone and everyone in their place", as much as "have a place for people that matches their skills and values".

To be realistic, I'm fully aware that most people can't even discuss politics or society in such terms, nevermind actually engage in it themselves. Most people need incentives to follow. This puts the onus on those who are free enough in their own minds to create these incentives, while trying to teach people to think freely. So, yes, I think we need one set of ethics for the people who don't think, and another for people who do.

The most radical part of this, is that I think we should be open and honest about this to both sides of this divide.
 
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I do find it peculiar none of the usual suspects have come into this thread saying shit like "lmao they should have behaved themselves" or some shit.
I think it’s clear that, regardless of whatever Puritanical impulse individual parents feel that causes them to believe that something like one of these facilities could be beneficial for their child, it should be self-evident that sending children to a gulag won’t lead to actual positive outcomes. And even the people who believe that there should be more consistency in parenting and a return to some amount of social pressure in schools to stop acting like a fucking retard, can agree that there is an ocean of difference between those things and a troubled teen camp in the middle of the wilderness.
 
Ah, politics. I suppose I'm whatever is left after you take baggage away from anarchism and libertarianism.
Man fuck where you are politically, is my point. Fuck where I am politically. The issue you are raising here transcends politics, that is what I'm trying to say. The liberation of these children is in NO WAY a Republican/Democrat thing. Or a right/left thing. Or political at all.
I'm anti group think, pro think for your self.
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I found a google doc showing a list of over 100 program survivor groups on Facebook.

Many "Hey, what about $program?" questions in this thread can be answered here, though I don't know if all of them are public. Faking your way in isn't hard, but please, be respectful if you engage.

Man fuck where you are politically, is my point. Fuck where I am politically. The issue you are raising here transcends politics, that is what I'm trying to say. The liberation of these children is in NO WAY a Republican/Democrat thing. Or a right/left thing. Or political at all.

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You're right, in that regard. The DNC and GOP as self serving political money machines, though, can be distinguished and characterized, and indeed approach the torture-trafficking industry in different ways.

At any case, I'm going to tell people to BREAK OUT OF THE FUCKING D/R DIVIDE AND FUCKING THINK.
 
Are you kidding me? These pedos are still this stupid and this fucking desperate?! Jesus Christ. The survivor groups are goldmines, but keep in mind it isn't just monsters getting owned and taking the L, it's accounts of, and pictures of, abuse.

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Actually, let's do a minifeature about Midwest Academy, one of the last WWASPS programs, that closed when the owner, Ben Trane, was caught trafficking underage higher level girls over state lines and taking pictures of them in lingerie he bought them. Do note that his grooming started from the very start:

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Because of how long the post is, I'll post text from a teacher who was fired for smelling the rats, too:
It wasn't just the kids. The adults who worked there didn't last unless they joined in with the bullying or kept their heads down and their mouths shut.
I'm not the kind of person to do either of those things, so I only lasted four months as a teacher. I asked too many questions, so they made up an excuse to fire me--a non-existent rule from a non-existent rule book (not having a rule book for staff made it easy to quickly fire anyone who seemed like a threat to their abusive system).
But my point is that Ben gaslighted the staff all the time. He convinced a lot of people that things that were not okay were actually okay. I know other former staff members who realized how deep the lies and gaslighting went once we were no longer being subjected to it, and all off them (including me) feel like idiots for falling for it as long as we did.

This really gets under my skin. Being humiliated and mind-fucked, from day one, in front of other kids, groomed by owners and staff who say "it's for your own good", in a place you can't leave or beg for help, knowing that you have to play along to not be beat to a pulp and thrown away for weeks at a time, as the bullshit seeps into your brain and twists you is almost too much to bear. It should not happen.

The thought of being so helpless while feeling so disgusting and hopeless is hard to shake out of my head once the first pang of it hits. I'm an adult, this place doesn't even exist anymore, and my skin is still crawling. The injury lasts, the pain fades but doesn't cease; every time some idiot goes "well if they came out better and stopped doing drugs and are successful later in life it's okay" I pop another blood vessel and get that much closer to snapping.

Maybe some people just can't understand it unless they're a parent or were in this situation as a kid? Don't know. Don't care. As much as I'd want these people to get it, I'd settle for them shutting up.

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It appears Midwest had some survivors comb through it much like Ivy Ridge.

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Thankfully, we can have a little levity with regards to OSS/OP (isolation):

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It really impresses me how far a kid can go when in a situation like this. I hope he became a quarterback.

Final edit: The story below details that the OSS/OP rooms were where kids were processed on intake. Yes, they were put in a barren cell and ol' Ben swaggers in to "ask how they're doing".
 
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Because Ben Trane is a piece of shit and the skiddies are making edits hard, let's do another post, just for him.

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What the fuck is it about his proportions? Ugh. Whatever.

One thing to note is that this is not isolated or rare. They all fucking do this. This faggot got caught because of fortune in our favor and cops who didn't bitch out when it came to protecting kids. I don't just present this as a case of one man being a monster, rather, I present this as a case study in the kind of predator that is made by this, or is drawn to this.

WWASPS Survivors made a nice play by play of the trial with this creep. (Archive) Article's pasted in below. Warning, it's harrowing to read about a kid breaking down on the stand, and the outright rape of multiple minors.

GROSS SHIT BELOW

The prosecutor closing argument is pretty long so we’ll post some highlights here. Be warned: There are some very explicit details about the sexual abuse. The only thing that WWASP Survivors did not post is the victim’s testimony to protect the victim but there are some details from that testimony revealed in closing arguments.

The prosecutor described what the legal definition of reasonable doubt is to the jury.

The first one that is the most important in any criminal case is proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Proof beyond a reasonable doubt is the State’s burden. We gladly take it on in every criminal case that we do. This is the definition: “If, after a full and fair consideration of all the evidence, you are firmly convinced of the defendant’s guilt, then you have no reasonable doubt and you should find the defendant guilty.” Okay. That’s the standard, firmly convinced. What it doesn’t mean is beyond all doubt, beyond any doubt, beyond a shadow of a doubt. It’s called reasonable doubt for a reason. Firmly convinced. What it also doesn’t mean is that if something’s possible then that means there’s reasonable doubt. Anything is possible. It’s possible you’re going to walk out of the courthouse and get hit by a car. Is that reasonable? It’s possible that we all might not wake up tomorrow morning because the earth explodes. Is that reasonable? So just because an alternative theory is given, just because someone says, I didn’t do it and another says I did, that doesn’t mean there’s reasonable doubt. Reasonable doubt is based on your common sense. It’s based on the kind of doubt that would make a reasonable person hesitate to act.
A reasonable doubt is one also that naturally and fairly arises from the evidence or lack of evidence. It’s based on reason and common sense, not on the mere possibility of innocence. That naturally and fairly arises, what it means is you don’t go looking for it.

The prosecutor went into deciding credibility and conflicts between the two parties stories.

If you can’t reconcile the conflict–because in this case you can ’t reconcile the conflict. [Sexual abuse victim] said it happened. He said it didn’t. So if you can’t reconcile that conflict, accept the evidence you find more believable. What do you find more believable? Who do you find more believable? What do you find more credible? Who do you find more credible? Don’t throw up your hands. Make a decision.

The prosecutor discussed the imbalance of power between the students and Ben. She also went into how the staff were dependent on him as well.

It is extremely important in this case that you consider what the power imbalance is between the Defendant and [sexual abuse victim]. You cannot ignore that. And all of those rules, all of the structure, all of that goes towards what position [sexual abuse victim] was in when she came to that school. What the position all of the students were in when they were at that school. What the position the staff was in. You know, you heard testimony about the fact that staff lived in the condominiums. The staff had cars. The staff was very dependent on him as well, okay? And that’s the environment of that place. Those children had absolutely no control over anything that they did. And that’s where all of this starts.

The sexual abuse victim moved up in statuses quickly and was doing well in the school when Ben Trane started paying more attention to her. Her peers took notice.

So [Sexual abuse victim] has been there for a while. [Sexual abuse victim] adjusts pretty well. She comes into the school. She can handle the rules. She’s one of those people that can sit back and think about her actions, and she does fairly well. She moves up fairly quickly. She gets to go on services projects. All of those things are occurring. You heard testimony that the Defendant has started to pay some more attention to her; that some of the girls were getting jealous of that; that she was getting treated like a princess.

Ben was treated like god at Midwest Academy.

How many times did you hear that in this case? The Defendant was like God there. He was worshiped there. He had all the power. He could do whatever he wanted. Him doing that in that room full of girls just set the stage for everything else to happen.

Originally Ben had told the agents that he couldn’t remember if the sexual abuse victim had been to his house. His story changed at trial where he said he remembered and Layani was there. Layani also testified that she remembered this day out of the blue as well. The prosecutor called out that the jury really needed to take account the credibility of who was testifying.

Now, here’s where you get the big diversion; right? So the Defendant says he has a really foggy memory of this, not for sure. But he does remember cinnamon rolls. He does remember Layani being there. And, you know, he told agents he could not remember if [sexual abuse victim] was in the house. But now he’s saying he has a foggy memory that that happened. Layani testified that she remembers the day out of all those days of being at the academy and with all the kids there, she remembers that particular day that Mxxxx and [sexual abuse victim] came over for cinnamon
rolls. This is where you have to start deciding credibility, not just of the Defendant but other people who are
testifying for him.
The prosecutor reminded the jury that multiple witnesses stated that you couldn’t say no to Ben at Midwest Academy.

This was when –and I know you all remember this –this is when [sexual abuse victim] was on the stand, and I asked her, why didn’t you say no? That’s when she got so quiet, and she looked down, and she said, I don’t know why. And I asked her, did you think you could say no to Mr. Ben? No. She is not the only per son you heard in this case that would say that. Rxxxxx testified, you didn’t say no there. When she was being asked about whether or not the –going to do the mirror class, well, that was voluntary, wasn’t it? Well, he said it was, but you don’t say no there. Okay? Nothing is voluntary there. And she didn’t think she could say no to Mr. Ben. And Mr. Ben knew that she wouldn’t say no to him. She didn’t tell. Life went on like nothing happened.

After the initial grooming and sex acts, the later sex acts happened in the seminar building – which happened to be the most remote building in the campus.

We’re in the fall now, and this is when things increased. And again, go back to Dr. Salter’s testimony where she talked about how that’s common in these types of situations with offenders; that they start out with the small touch, and then it keeps moving up until you’re into the full-blown sex. The rest of the sexual acts from here on out happened in the seminar building. It happened in the building that is the farthest away from anywhere else in that campus. It is a long walk back to the seminar building. You have to go through a lot of doors to get into the seminar building. The seminar building has no cameras.
The prosecutor pointed out that Ben had 2 months to get rid of any evidence which is why they couldn’t find the footage of the sex act or any DNA where the sex act occurred but they did find the camera that the victim described him using.

Do you remember the camera that he used? They found it. So there was a camera. But it h as a little SD card, so there’s no footage. They took the SD cards that were sitting around. It’s not there. But keep in mind, too, when did
[sexual abuse victim] report? December 1st is when it all came out. The Defendant knew it. In fact, he knew it was coming the week before that because little stuff started to come out. When did they go in to do a search? January 28th. He had two months to take care of what he needed to. So they found the camera, but they didn’t find any footage. That doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
We don’t have that third party witness. We don’t have that video footage. We don’t have DNA. We normally don’t in sex abuse cases like this. But what you do have is the eyewitness to the crime. Don’t hold her to a different standard than you would hold somebody who had their purse stolen. She gave you the details of that as good as she could, as well as she could, sitting up in a room full of strangers in front of the Defendant, in front of people that she knew in the back, and having to tell that.
Her testimony is believable, and it is proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Her testimony alone, if you believe it and you find it to be consistent with what else you know, her testimony alone is beyond a reasonable doubt. Because you do have to decide who to believe

The prosecutor pointed out that the victim didn’t change her story and it was always consistent. We know from the testimony and the statements Ben Trane made to agents that his did not remain the same.

She was on the stand a long time. Did you find anything inconsistent when she was up there? Did you find that she suddenly changed her story from here to there? Joe Lestina testified that her story had always been consistent with him; that she gave a description of the Defendant’s house and his basement, and it was completely consistent with what he saw when he did the search there.

The prosecutor went over how the victim disclosed and how that made her much more credible. The Trane supports have been posting on the internet about how she just said this to get out of Midwest Academy but the way she disclosed was not consistent with someone trying to get the school shut down or trying to leave the school. She was an upper level at the time she was placed on suicide watch. In fact, the victim begged Cheyenne not to tell anyone.

The circumstances of her disclosure alone are credible. They want you to believe that she was mad; that she made all of this up because she didn’t get to go home to see her sister –or she didn’t get to go off campus to see her sister . That’s what they want you to believe; that’s their motive for [sexual abuse victim] not being honest. Does that fit with what you know in this case? Because what you know is her disclosure was not so much her doing it.
All right. We know that last sex act happened mid-November, and it was shortly after that, after this had been going on for months, after you heard from some of the girls that they saw a change in [sexual abuse victim]’s behavior; that she didn’t want to be around the Defendant anymore; that it wasn’t cool to have him as a family rep; that she wasn’t happy when he came in the room.
And what you also know is that [sexual abuse victim] started having some suicidal expressions. And with that she had made the comment to a girl, a couple of girls, I’m not comfortable, I’m uncomfortable around Mr. Ben. That’s all that was said.
The girls tell. They did what they’re supposed to. They went and told what was going on; that Kxxxxxx was saying
suicidal things; that [sexual abuse victim] said Mr. Ben makes her uncomfortable.
And what happens to [sexual abuse victim]? She is written up. She is given a life buddy. She’s put out in the hallway and she’s lost her level. So [sexual abuse victim] found out really quick what happens when you tell. You know, she tested the waters and she got probably what she expected from it, punishment.
What’s important about this, too, is that it’s at this point that the Defendant knows this has been said. Now, he told you he’s busy with Thanksgiving and, you know, he knew about it at some point. He admitted he knew about it before December 1st. So he knows at this point.
Miss Cindy, Miss Jane, on the 24th, Miss Jane talks to her. [sexual abuse victim] doesn’t tell. She doesn’t say anything. Nothing at all. She takes her consequence and goes back to having her life buddy and sitting out in the hallway. Is that what someone does who is making this up, who’s trying to hurt somebody, who’s trying to get back at somebody? Not at all.
But at some point it starts rolling out. At some point it’s too much. Like Dr. Salter said, that pressure cooker in these kids that don’t tell, and then they have all these outside influences of everybody acting like it’s normal and nobody knowing what’s going on, and all of this builds up, and a lot of times it comes out when there’s anger or suicidal thoughts.
She finally tells. She tells Cheyenne, just a little. So again, if she’s trying to get to the Defendant, if she’s trying to hurt him, trying to get him in trouble, is this how she would tell? No. She tells just a little. Again, testing the waters.
They talk over a few nights. She tells Cheyenne about the birthmarks, that that part happened. And Cheyenne asked if he did anything else. And [sexual abuse victim] confirms it, that there’s more but she won’t say what. Cheyenne, the first time that’s brought up to her, do you remember that testimony from Cheyenne? The first time that’s brought up to her, she tells Cindy Crew. So they knew about it.
Cheyenne said that [sexual abuse victim] begged her not to say anything. Cheyenne said that [sexual abuse victim] didn’t want to leave; that when she was talking about this she was shaking, she was crying. But Cheyenne did do the right thing, despite what the Defendant wants you to believe. She did the right thing and she went and she told. She told Cindy Crew that night.
And then after a couple of days when she figures out nothing is going to happen, nobody is doing anything, and now I’m getting called into the office, into management? And she calls DHS. Cheyenne is one of few adults at that place that did the right thing, and she called DHS.
But we still see with this disclosure, why this disclosure makes her testimony credible , is because she still doesn’t want to tell. So Davis and Riter talk to [sexual abuse victim]. She doesn’t say anything. She doesn’t want to leave. She told you that.
And maybe that surprised you a little bit when you heard that. Because I know when I heard that, I’m like, man, I would be running out of that place as fast as I could. But she didn’t want to leave. She had friends there. It was a home. Regardless of the type of home it was, it was one that she had because she didn’t have one to go to.
She refuses to say anything. Cheyenne is called for the meeting. She called DHS. She tells them at the meeting, I’ve called DHS. Cheyenne is fired two days later. And I hope you do not buy that testimony that it wasn’t the Defendant’s decision or that he wouldn’t have been part of that decision that Cheyenne was fired.
[sexual abuse victim] is removed from the facility. It took some time but she finally told. She disclosed. It came out. It took a few days, but she got it out.

The prosecutor pointed out that Ben was so quick to take credit for anything good but distance himself from anything bad in that facility. He wanted everyone else to take accountability except him.

Isn’t it interesting that he had no problem taking credit for every good thing that happened at that school, but everything that wasn’t, that was somebody else fault, somebody else’s responsibility.

The prosecutor pointed out that they weren’t going only based on what the victim said. Other people noticed Ben’s behavior towards her. Ben picked her because she was vulnerable and the easiest to accuse of being a liar later. She also commented on Cheyenne’s testimony and how she didn’t appear to indulge or exaggerate to hurt Ben even though she could have.

You also have to consider the Defendant’s actions with [sexual abuse victim]. It’s not just [sexual abuse victim] saying that he paid more attention to her, all right? You also know that he knows that she’s vulnerable. She’s there for a reason. Kids like [sexual abuse victim] are the perfect kids to pick for this kind of stuff. Unfortunately, they get picked a lot for this kind of stuff. Why? Because they’re the easiest ones to later on say, they’re liars; they steal; they’re runaways; they do bad things; you can’t believe these kids. And the kids know it. They know who they are and where they come from, and you know what their self-esteem is, and you know what the issues are. They don’t think anyone is going to believe them either, so they don’t tell. He knew her vulnerabilities.
He starts paying more attention to her, taking her on the service projects, choosing her for a second. You heard that from multiple students at the academy. It wasn’t just [sexual abuse victim] saying that.
And everyone wanted to be around Mr. Ben, right? So to the outside world, she’s so lucky. She gets treated like a princess. But what did [sexual abuse victim] say to Mxxxxxx? They wouldn’t want him for a rep if they knew
So others noticed. Lxxxxx, go back to her testimony. It’s been a while back as well. He gave her more attention than the other students. He picked her more often for trips and for seconds. There was time when Lxxxxx was with them, and he let Lxxxxx go to the bathroom while he stayed alone with [sexual abuse victim]. Now, to all of us that may seem like, what’s the big deal? But you know in that school that was a huge deal for the Defendant to say, yeah, I’m fine sitting here by myself for her to go to the bathroom. That didn’t happen.
He gave [sexual abuse victim] extra points. Lxxxxx saw him pull her out class a lot. Other girls were jealous. All the other girls there were jealous. It didn’t help [sexual abuse victim] when he was giving her this attention, because they were getting mad about it and jealous.
And what did Lxxxxx say? He was the owner. He could do whatever he wanted. Everybody at the school knew Mr. Ben could do whatever he wanted.
Fxxxxxxx. She saw the Defendant pull [sexual abuse victim] out of gym class. She saw her pull her out of class multiple times. He’d always be talking to [sexual abuse victim] away from the other kids. Now, she didn’t say, you know, I saw him in the hallway alone walking up to the stairs or whatever, but she said it was normal in gym class or whatever class to have the Defendant pulling her aside in the same room and just talking to [sexual abuse victim].
He’d buy the brand products for [sexual abuse victim], not the cheap stuff. And again, to us, well, maybe not such a big deal, but to those kids, huge. They were getting the Dollar General shampoo and [sexual abuse victim] the brand name. Big deal. Staff rules of being alone did not apply to Mr. Ben. That’s what Fxxxxxxx told you.
Cheyenne Jerred. Cheyenne was –I put that down wrong. She was not her family rep. Cheyenne was the night staff. Cheyenne would see the Defendant come in and talk to the girls at night. Now, Cheyenne–they’re going to say Cheyenne is a disgruntled employee. Did Cheyenne seem like she was trying to add things to the story, to make things up? Because if she wanted to tell a really good story, if she really wanted to stick it to the Defendant, wouldn’t she have come in and said, yeah, I saw him come in one time and I saw him walk down the hall with [sexual abuse victim], and they didn’t come back for, like, fifteen minutes? But Cheyenne didn’t do that, which is what makes her credible.
She said, I can’t say that I saw him with [sexual abuse victim], but he did come on the floor. So you know that happens. It was usually between 9:00 and 11:00 at night, and that they didn’t –the staff didn’t keep track of st aff who came on the floor. And Cheyenne also knows Mr. Ben could go wherever he wanted.
Mxxxxxx. The only staff you could hug was Mr. Ben. So again, it’s that kind of all -powerful position that he had. All the kids wanted to be with him. He was the only staff that you could hug. He had all these special things that he would do for everyone. Mxxxxxx said it was usually [sexual abuse victim] that he would take on errands. It was usually [sexual abuse victim] that he would take as a second.
Mxxxxxx said [sexual abuse victim] at first was excited to see Mr. Ben. She thought –I mean, everybody thought it was cool that Mr. Ben was the family rep. Over time, she didn’t want to go with him. She made excuses why she wouldn’t or couldn’t go with Mr. Ben.
And one time Mxxxxxx and [sexual abuse victim] were talking about the other girls’ jealousy, and Mxxxxxx was bringing up what some of the other girls were saying and how they were so jealous. And [sexual abuse victim] says, yeah, well, they don’t even want Mr. Ben as a rep if they knew
The prosecutor pointed out that Ben Trane made the decision to be the victim’s family rep and states that both Layani and Ben lied about it in their testimony. It was not decided by a committee. Mike Davis even testified that he would not have wanted her with male family rep and Jane Riter said she was not involved in the decision but Layani and Ben both testified that some committee decided it and he just unwittingly went along with it. She also pointed out that the victim was moving up in levels and doing great – so why would no one want to be her family rep?

He chose to be [sexual abuse victim]’s family representative. This choice was not made by some committee. This choice was made by him. Mike Davis testified that he told the Defendant that he shouldn’t be [sexual abuse victim]’s family rep. He told him that [sexual abuse victim] was better suited with a female family rep, as was Mxxxx. And those are the two people the Defendant chose to have on his caseload.
Jane Riter says she was not involved in that decision. Now, Ben and his wife Layani, it was a whole big group committee, and everybody thought it was a great idea. Everybody agreed to it. And the Defendant, well, he’d just reluctantly take that on; he was trying to help the other people out, too busy of a caseload.
The other thing that was interesting to me is when the Defendant testified he said, well, nobody wanted [sexual abuse victim]. That’s why he took [sexual abuse victim] on his caseload. Did you find that odd? Because you’ve never heard anything bad about [sexual abuse victim]. She moved up. She did well. But he wanted to make it, like, nobody else wanted her because she was awful or whatever it may be, and he was just being the good guy, the good administrator taking one for the team and took [sexual abuse victim] on. You decide what you find credible in that.

The prosecutor pointed out that Ben established control early on and even though he tries to claim that the facility was everyone else’s responsibility, he had total control over it.

This is how old [sexual abuse victim] was when she came in (indicating). She’ s 16. When she came into this facility, she was a kid. Her first encounter with Mr. Ben is in the OSS room. Did you hear that from pretty much almost every kid that testified? Do you think that’s by chance that they pick the OSS room for all kids to be checked in with they arrive there?
[sexual abuse victim] knew when she was sitting in that OSS room and her stuff is being gone through and there’s kids in these cells and she doesn’t even know what this place is, and Mr. Ben comes in and walks in and says, hey, how are you doing? Can I help? Are you okay? From that day on, he controlled every aspect of her life, everything. Now, he wants to step back from that. It’s Devon Dade; it’s Mike Davis; it’s these other people. You all know that’s not true. You all know that he had total control of that facility.

The prosecutor commented on how Ben held himself as an expert in mental health and how often he quoted Dr Grassian. We also pointed this out in our highlights of his testimony.

How many times did you hear from him, well, as Dr. Grassian said, and then he started to give you a lecture on whatever psychological concept he was telling you about? He holds himself out like he knows a whole lot about that profession.

He told her that he had more experience with sexual trauma than any other counselor there. You heard him testify. Was that surprising that he said that? He told her it would be better for her to talk to him instead of her other counselor, instead of Miss Jane, about the sexual trauma issues. And he is redirecting her from a real counselor, a real therapist, to get her to come talk to him because he’s better at it.

On Ben Trane’s control over Midwest Academy.

He himself on the stand reluctantly, reluctantly, admitted that he has control of the kids there. Again, who wants to accept all of the good things that happen at the school. But he knew why I asked that question. Did you have custody and control of the children? Well, the school did, the school. He knew why I asked the question. He didn’t want to admit to it.
What else do we know about his control? He has total control of the school. That’s from Mike Davis. Anything that happened there he had to approve. Mike Davis was the clinical director with the degree, and he was in an advisory capacity. So he could make sug gestions. He could advise what should be happening with the clinical program, but the Defendant got the final say.
He was the top of the pyramid. He was my boss. That was Gary Lachapelle. Jane Riter; he was my boss. He was the person who had control of everything. The Defendant himself described himself as a control freak. That doesn’t change.
You heard a lot of the talk about the strict behaviorist, and it’s behavior, it’s not mental health. All these kids are making a choice. They choose to stay in there. They choose not to do as they’re told. It’s their fault is what they want you to believe.
He told agents he made the rules, policies, and procedures. He said that in the interview. You heard that from Tom Pearson. He made the rules, the policies, the procedures. Everybody followed the rules at Midwest Academy. You don’t want to step out of line there. His rules.
He made all the final decisions. His clinical directors had an advisory capacity. His clinical directors were telling him, we need to change the OSS room a little bit. This probably isn’t the healthiest thing. This isn’t working. He didn’t do it. When did he do it? After DHS came in. After the FBI came in. After he said, oh, maybe we might make a few changes now.
He said, I will decide who comes and goes. He told agents that. He told Mike Davis that. Remember he said that there was a short period of time he gave Mike Davis the power to decide who’s appropriate to come in and who’s not. Do you remember what Mike Davis said when Mike Davis started turning away some kids because they had too many mental health problems that they wouldn’t be a good fit? The Defendant got mad, and he took that authority away from Mike Davis, and he said, I will decide who comes and goes.
Mike Davis also told you he’d refute what clinical staff would say because he knew better. Did you pick that up a little bit on the stand too, that the Defendant thinks he knows better than a lot of people?
He took the attitude that he knew more about therapy than the therapists. He believed that you must interrupt behavior and correct it with immediate consequences. And despite the staff recommendations, he would not change the
rules of the room. He wouldn’t change them. Even when he did change them, you heard that too, that when he did change them after DHS that he took the locks off of the doors, after a while they put it back on.
He wouldn’t follow clinical advice that a child needed to go to a hospital or didn’t belong there or needed to get out of the room. You heard that from Jane Riter. Now, she said usually, you know, it would happen, the kid would get to the hospital, but not when she recommended it. Sometimes she said, oh, maybe a few days later. Is that okay for a few days later for a kid to go to a hospital when a licensed therapist is saying he needs it right now? He got to decide that.
He refused to give staff mandatory child abuse training. Everybody agreed to that. There was no dispute about that. Why? Because he told Mike Davis they might make reports that we don’t want them to. You knew from the staff that you went up through the chain. You didn’t go outside. You stayed within MWA on that stuff.

On Ben Trane’s OSS policies:

He doesn’t have to be the one shutting the door. He doesn’t have to be the one dragging them in there. He doesn’t have to be the one that said, oh, you moved your leg; structure starts over. You’ve been in here three days, now it’s going to be four. But he has a conscious awareness of it.
He wrote the rules. He wrote the policies. It’s his rules that kept them in there. He may not have shut the door, but it’s his rules that kept them in there.

The amount of times the two 12 year old victims were in OSS.

Combine that attitude that he has, that was shown through the evidence, you combine that with what he knew was going on with Bxxxxxx and Dxxx. Bxxxxxx spent a minimum–because the records weren’t complete–minimum 133 days in OSS out of 210 days at Midwest Academy, 63 percent of his time. He was 12 and 13 years old, and he spent 63 percent of his time in an 8 by 8 room. And I don’t care if the door was open or if the door was shut. That was not good for him..
Dxxx spent a minimum 163 days in OSS out of 323 days, 50 percent of his time. He was 12 and 13 years old. The Defendant knew that. He was in OSS. He had been warned of the problems with Bxxxxxx and Dxxx, and he knew it and he did nothing.
His attitude is, it’s just behavior; it’s not mental health. They go to the OSS room so they can screw around. It’s their choice to be there. If you lock down on them tight enough, we can fix anything. He said that to Mike Davis. They’re not psychotic, they’re just faking it. That’s the attitude he’s taking into this situation.

On Ben putting children in with a sex offender.

So he got moved into the family with a group of boys who were struggling. They call it struggling. A group of boys who were a problem is the group he got put into. They got segregated in a different room. And the Defendant knowingly put another juvenile who was a sex offender in there.
There was kids from 12 to 17 in this group. This is why DHS had to come in that second time, because of the report of the sex acts that had gone on in that group. What did the Defendant say when Agent Pearson was asking about it. Supervision isn’t their problem.

On the fact that even parents could not lock their children in a closet and feed them peanut butter and jelly over and over again without it being called abuse.

Ask yourself this: If you heard that a parent locked their child in an 8 by 8 closet for a period of time and the amount of time that Bxxxxxx was, and that the parent fed them peanut butter and jelly at every meal with nothing else, and that the parent (sic) was kept in the conditions that Bxxxxxx and Dxxx were there, would you find that okay? Or would you find that criminal?
Even a parent doesn’t have the authority to keep those kids like they did. It was wrong. It was damaging. It caused harm. There was that substantial risk of harm, but this caused the harm. You didn’t need a doctor to tell you that. You knew that before Dr. Grassian testified. Your common sense told you that to be true.

The prosecutor pointed out how Ben always made excuses or pushed blame to everyone else but took credit for everything good. He attempted to manipulate the jury obviously.

Did you notice he was able to always have an explanation, an innocent explanation for things? But his explanation is not consistent with the evidence. It’s not consistent with what the people on this administrative committee are telling you.


So you’ve got to look at who you believe, and what did the Defendant say. And he wants to take all the credit for all the good and go on and on and talk to you at length about the psychology and t he therapy and how great he is and how great the school is. But not the bad. The bad was everybody else’s fault. When bad things happened, he’s not responsible.
How many names were dropped to you while he sat up here and testified? Do you remember when he sat here and he said, well, I picked Keokuk because I was looking for a community of good people, right as he’s looking at you ?
And how many names of the good people of Keokuk did he drop when he was talking about his testimony of Jane Babcock and started listing off all these people that he knew. Don’t think that that wasn’t contrived, and don’t think that wasn’t an attempt to manipulate you.
Do you find him credible? What reason would the kids have to make th is up? All these kids from all over the United States, what reason do they have? How are their stories so consistent if this is all made up? You heard the same thing over and over. Everybody had their own version, their own effect from being there, but it’s still the same.
 
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Ben Trane

For anyone curious about how this case turned out:

Ben Trane was sentenced to nine yrs in 2017. Was out for five yrs waiting on appeal. Lost appeal. Began serving sentence in March 2023.

Former Keokuk boarding school owner turns himself in to begin prison sentence​


by KHQA Staff
Mon, March 6th 2023 at 4:52 PM
Updated Tue, March 7th 2023 at 10:28 AM
LEE COUNTY, Iowa (KHQA) — A little more than five years after he was found guilty of sex-related crimes, the founder of a boarding school for troubled youth in Keokuk has turned himself in to begin serving his prison sentence.
Ben Trane on Monday turned himself in to Lee County authorities to begin his nine year prison sentence, according to Lee County Sheriff Stacy Weber.
Trane, the former owner of Midwest Academy, was convicted by a Lee County jury in December 2017 for assault with intent to commit sexual abuse, sexual exploitation by a counselor, and child endangerment.
Trane was free on appeal; however, his appeal went all the way to the Iowa Supreme Court, which upheld the lower court's convictions.
The convictions stemmed from allegations that Trane sexually assaulted the 17-year-old female student and kept two male students in confinement for extended periods of time.
Authorities shut down the school in 2016.


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In the interest of presenting a complete picture, I'll now share a discussion regarding how Ben Trane tended to handle children he did not want to rape (Archive)

Also in another post because THE FUCKING SKIDDIES

In this post, we will examine the testimony of Victim 2’s mother. We’ve removed any identifying information for their own privacy. As with all these articles, we will call out the parts we feel are important to highlight in the body of the article and a link to the full transcript will be provided below.
The victim was sent to Midwest Academy to cope with issues such as bipolar disorder and ADHD which are issues that can be helped with the right medication balance and coping skills. It was not something you would treat with extended amounts of isolation or tough love.
Q. What was going on with Bxxxxxx that made you start looking for some type of placement for him?
A. Well, Bxxxxxx have ADHD when he’s around 4, 4 and a half years old. And when Bxxxxxx about 10 years old, he diagnosed with bipolar. And so he have a lot of problem at school with his bipolar and his ADHD. So I search online to see where I could send my son to get the better structure, make him better kid. So that’s where I found Midwest Academy.

According to the mother, Midwest Academy presented itself as a school that would handle the kind of kids with her son’s problems (ADHD, bipolar disorder, etc) and accepted him after getting a history.
Q. How did you find Midwest Academy?
A. I went online and we search too many school. And I saw the information about Midwest that matching what Bxxxxxx–for Bxxxxxx.
Q. What matched? What was on this website that you thought, wow, this looks like a good match?
A. For ADHD, bipolar, help him structure, him to be better when he get out high school, help his behavior.
Q. All right. So you see this online. What do you do?
A. So I call. Contact with a gentleman. I forgot his name. I have it in my phone. And he’s contact me and tell me what to do, what the requirement.
Q. How to apply?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you fill out a form?
A. Yes. The requirement is tell what is Bxxxxxx history, what he been through other time, if he ever been in trouble, what have he been charge, what he do. So everything is in application. They have to know before they accept Bxxxxxx.
Q. And you put all that information in?
A. Majority, yes.
Q. Was he accepted?
A. Yes.

The mother was told that the door to OSS was normally open.
A. How the school discipline. How the kid follow the school rule here. If they get in trouble they would get locked in the OSS, which is the private room that video monitor, that upper class would sit there and monitor four or five room in there. If the kid act out or shouting with another kid in the area, the door will be shut, but normally the door will be open.
Q. You were told that normally the door is left open?
A. Yes

The mother was told about OSS but didn’t know that her child would have to sit structure the entire time. She was getting calls initially every time her son went to OSS and eventually it was just emails.
Q. What was your understanding–was it explained to you that day how you would be informed if Bxxxxxx was in OSS?
A. If he sleep there they will put a little 4 or 5-inch mattress–thickness of a mattress in for him sleep at night and then will take it out in the morning. If his meal be fed, they bring it in the room for him. And they didn’t told me anything about how he sit or he stand or that he had to raise a hand to have to move around.
Q. You weren’t told that he had to sit in structure in there?
A. No.
Q. Did you receive phone calls from the school if Bxxxxxx was put in OSS?
A. Majority, yes.
Q. Did you say– What?
A. Yes.
Q. But what did you–
A. Most of the time, yes.
Q. Did you get a lot of phone calls about that?
A. Eventually, e-mail.
Q. So instead of phone calls you started getting e-mails about it?
A. Most of it is e-mail.
Q. And who is calling and e-mailing you about this?
A. I remember Mr. Don is majority, is gentleman that send me e-mail and call.

The victim’s mom details some of what would happen in OSS as she understood it. While her son was sometimes put in there for being physically aggressive, he was always placed in OSS for little things such as not being in line, running off the line, shouting in line, or not following instructions. Remember: In this victim’s testimony, he was in OSS for 2-4 days at a time every time and never got out in just 24 hours.
A. He be in OSS. Before he get out, he have to do structure, and sometime Bxxxxxx broke structure, and they have to start all over again. And he have to write like 2–what you call it–2 piece of paper.
Q. An essay?
A. Yes. And then when he in there longer, it have to be 3 or 4 pages before he can get out. And one time I noticed that Bxxxxxx was in there more than a week.
Q. Did you say anything about that?
A. I think I did e-mail to Don and ask why, you know, and stuff.
Q. What was going on?
A. Yes.
Q. What types of things were you being informed of as to why he was going into OSS?
A. Well, sometime I receive a letter from Bxxxxxx when he could get to write home a letter. He say just was a little thing or Mr. Don say, he’s supposed to be in line, to go to different class, or go to here and there, and just run off the line and he get punished for just a little thing, or shout in line, or not follow instructions.
Q. Now, there was sometimes, too, that you were told he was being physically aggressive or assaulting someone or things like that; correct?
A. Yes. When they try to put him back in line or something. He–Mr. Don told me he would blow up at them.

The mother saw her son three months after dropping him off and he had lost over 35 pounds. She was concerned and could barely recognize her child. When she asked Ben Trane about it, he said he was completely healthy and within normal guidelines.
Q. So you dropped him off in September, and then the first time you saw him again was in December; is that right?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you notice anything different about him?
A. I saw a whole bunch of kids coming out from a group, and see this little dude and I cannot recognize him. I go, who’s that little tiny kid? And it took me a while because he has his hair cut all off, buzz haircut, and the next thing I know is, that’s my son that I did not recognize.
Q. He looked like he had lost a lot of weight?
A. Yes. He look like he go from 135 to 90-something pound.
Q. Were you concerned?
A. Yes, I did.
Q. Did you talk to anybody about that?
A. I ask Mr. Ben, and I ask Mr. Don, and Mr. Bill said he check with the nurse and everything. Bxxxxxx, you know, metabolize and his health and everything, they said, meet the guideline, that he don’t need to be over for his body and his weight.
Q. So the Defendant told you that he was at his healthy guidelines and he was fine?
A. Yes.

Her son would write to her about the horrible conditions and things he faced but she was told by Ben Trane that she should ignore all those things and that children are just trying to manipulate when they send home notes like that.
Q. Did Bxxxxxx–you said he doesn’t say much about what’s going on. Did he talk about what was happening at the academy?
A. Well, when he sent a letter–in the beginning of a letter, he so upset, mad; you don’t know how they treat me here; you don’t know when they restrain me; I get hurt; I get bleed; I get scar; I get bruise; you don’t know what I have to deal with here. And then later by the end of the letter, he calmed down. But he didn’t never mention, like, how he get hurt, pain, or what. And at the end of the letter, okay, Mommy, I love you. Tell the family I love them, I miss them. So it’s about same. So that’s why I never concern. And then when I see him, he just so happy to see me and hug me and just laid in my lap and bring him all the Asian food that he asking for. He just laid in my lap and hugged me. He didn’t say much.
Q. Is that what he did most of the time the first time when you saw him?
A. Yes.
Q. He just sat there and let you hug him?
A. Yes. And then we sit on sofa, and he put his head on my lap, just act like a baby and laid in my lap.
Q. And you had several letters from Bxxxxxx like that; correct?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you express any concerns about that to the academy, that you were getting these kinds of letters?
A. I did.
Q. And what were you told?
A. I did majority talk to Mr. Don, his rep. And when I see that he say: fine, if you want me to get kill here and you don’t care about me, or I will do this, do that. So I let Mr. Don know what Bxxxxxx wrote in the letter to concern and look out. We just communicate, but don’t say much about what they going to do, or they say they going to watch out for him. That’s what Mr. Don say.
Q. That they’ll watch out for him?
A. Yes.
Q. During your parenting classes at Midwest Academy, were you taught that a lot of times kids will say those kinds of things because they’re trying to manipulate their parents?
A. Yes. So Mr. Ben and other staff members say, don’t listen to your kid because they just here, they’re new. They just here about a few month, so of course they cannot deal with the structure here and they want to go home. So that’s how they trying you to get them home. So just ignore them. Give them a few more month to see how thing going, so that’s why I never concern.
Q. And you said that Mr. Ben said that
he did a lot of those parenting seminars?
A. Yes.

Her son was in Midwest Academy from September to March. He had lost over 30 pounds between September and December and spent most of his time in OSS. It wasn’t until the end of February that Ben Trane determined that her son might not be a good fit for Midwest Academy. We believe that DHS had become involved at that point.
Q. Prior to DHS making that phone call, had you been notified by the academy that at this point maybe Bxxxxxx wasn’t a good fit here?
A. Yes. After the parenting class, I went home. And somehow around February– almost the end of February, the middle of February or around there, Mr. Ben call and say he don’t think the school is work good for Bxxxxxx, but we try to come up with different program to see if Bxxxxxx will follow instructions, to see if Bxxxxxx will be good at this program, and we go from there.

Her son could barely eat when he came home and had to quickly be hospitalized for malnutrition due to his time in Midwest Academy. He complained about his body being stiff and hurting. It took him months to get back to normal eating.
Q. After Bxxxxxx returned home, how was he?
A. It took us like seven, seven and a half hours to get back to XXXX. So when I drove Bxxxxxx in the car, his hand and wrist always turn because he say it’s hurting him. His neck, he always pop his neck. He told me his body is tight. He have to move around a lot. Next day I took Bxxxxxx to XXXX within an hour to eat at the restaurant that he really like. Majority, Bxxxxxx is a big eater. But that day we took some sushi and Bxxxxxx barely eat couple piece. And we get ready go home back to XXXX. On the way home, Bxxxxxx say, Mom, you need take me to the emergency. I ask him why. And he say, because I don’t feel good. My body is all tied up, and I feel so weak. My leg is numb. And I told Bxxxxxx, I have to go home to get the insurance card. I’m crazy. It should be on a chain at the hospital, but I told him, just hold on, Mommy have to go home to get the insurance card for you to admit to hospital. So I went home and get the insurance card, took Bxxxxxx to the nearest hospital. I told them what happened. Bxxxxxx just coming home. They told me to take Bxxxxxx straight to the XXX Hospital in downtown.
Q. So you went to an emergency room close to your home?
A. Yes.
Q. And when you are there, they ended up sending you to the hospital downtown?
A. The XXXX Hospital.
Q. The XXXX Hospital?
A. Yes. They contact the XXX Hospital, so when we get there they’re waiting for us at the door.
Q. So what happened with Bxxxxxx?
A. So they keep Bxxxxxx there to test Bxxxxxx out for twenty-four hour to see if he have hurt anywhere else, his nutritions, his mental, everything.
Q. Did they say he was malnutritioned?
A. Yes, they did.
Q. Did he have to have IV fluids and some nutrients pumped into him?
A. Yes, he did.
Q. And so you got to go home about a day later from the hospital; correct?
A. Yes.
Q. Was there a period of time that it took Bxxxxxx to get back to what you considered his normal eating?
A. A few month later.

After the victim came home, his mother found that he had new problems which she attributed to his time at Midwest Academy. Her son was a lot more emotional and cried a lot more.
Q. After Bxxxxxx came home, did he continue to have problems?
A. Yes. After Bxxxxxx come home, we try to get him enrolled back to school. It took a while. He have to go through all the processing and the doctor and everything.
Q. But was he continuing to have– maybe I should say, was he having some emotional problems that you hadn’t seen before?
A. Yes. When I shout at him or yell at him and say thing to him, and he was really emotion and cry and lay there and shout and yell: you don’t know what I have been through at Midwest; how they treated me. That’s when he open up and tell you what’s going on.
Q. So you didn’t know everything until a little bit later on after he had come home?
A. Yes. After he come home and he’s upset and mad and he speak out.
Q. You said he cried a lot?
A. Yes.
Q. And that was maybe different than before; is that right?
A. Yes.
Q. Did he talk about locked doors or show different behavior with different types of rooms?
A. After he went home, yes.
A. He just more upset and more easily crying and upset.
Q. Did you get him some counseling?
A. The school that he went to, yes.
Q. And he struggled for a while; is that right?
A. Yes.
Q. Is he at a place now where he is doing a lot better?
A. Yes. The school have counseling for him, and I also have outside counseling for Bxxxxxx every other week.
Q. And he still goes to a special school?
A. Yes, the same school.

Full testimony of Victim 2’s Mother (Also attached)

 

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Where the right wing has a valid point is, bluntly, degeneracy. Degenerate incentives lead people to hedonism instead of something wholesome. Degenerate people treat kids like objects instead of the next generation, because they don't care about the next generation. To a degenerate, a kid is nothing sacred or something precious to protect and nurture, a kid is an obligation at worst and something to extract fun out of it at best.

You are correct, but the right is often no less degenerate and narcissistic than the left. The right doesn't want to end degeneracy or hedonism. They just want to keep it behind closed doors. Their children who become woke in college often aren't really rebelling. They are just doing what their parents modeled for them, but instead of keeping it a dirty secret, they realized if they became a woke shill they could do it out in the open and get praise for it. If conservatives weren't raging hypocrites 99% of the time, the left wouldn't be as appealing as it is.
 
"NATSAP helps people avoid investigations" - The Utah Disability Law Center, lmao! Aren't leaked calls a bitch?1710355075084.png
Xeet Link here (Archive)

The youtube video there is down. Archive of it:

Apparently there was a full version of the leaked call:
This isn't very informative, because the full leak tthe user uploaded got taken down and their reddit account (ttiwatchdog) has since been suspended. I found an archive of the link, but I think it didn't save properly:
 
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.

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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.
 

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