"It's amazing. I was 17, and even though I looked like an adult, there was a total lack of rights. Legally, they could kidnap me and take me to a remote island without my consent.”
"They promote it as a kind of utopia for teens. They show you pictures of teens singing around a campfire and frolicking under waterfalls. But in reality, there was abuse.”
“I was neglected and dehydrated. Other people were tied up, emotionally and physically abused. The staff was completely untrained to deal with troubled teens.”
"She was concerned and distraught and she had lost all faith in their abilities. We had a heart-to-heart and made a solemn promise to work together to start to heal. It was a long process, but that's sort of where it turned around.”
--Monty Lapica
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