Posted on 04/03/2022 12:07:55 AM PDT by Morgana
Maggie Drew’s dad sent her to Circle of Hope Girls’ Ranch in Missouri in 2007, hoping strict Christian teachings would stop his 14-year-old daughter’s teenage rebellion.
Instead, Drew said, she found herself in a nightmare, sexually abused by one of the boarding school’s founders and left with permanent spinal injuries after a fall from a hay barn for which she received no medical attention.
Just 25 miles away at another Christian boarding school, Brett Harper says he endured abuse that included staff members stomping on his back. He said his injuries required two spinal surgeries and left him disabled.
They are among dozens of people who say they were abused at either Circle of Hope or Agape Boarding School — allegations that helped prompt a new Missouri law aimed at reining in religious boarding schools that for decades went without any oversight by the state.
“I still have nightmares about these people and the things they did to us,” Drew said.
The founders of Circle of Hope face around 100 charges, some alleging sexual abuse. Agape’s doctor is charged with child sex crimes and five employees are accused of assault, though Missouri’s attorney general thinks many more workers should have been charged.
The schools are unrelated and are not affiliated with any particular Christian denomination. But both opened in southwest Missouri under a 1982 state law that gave religious boarding schools free rein and the state no way to monitor how kids were educated. Even the health department had no oversight, including for schools that claimed to address mental health, behavioral and addiction issues.
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Christian, my ass. Probably run by feds.
“Christian, my ass. Probably run by feds.”
Funny you should say that. One of the schools they talk about in this? Agape boarding school? For the longest time they took in illegal kids from the boarder and was paid by the gov. because there were not enough foster homes for them.
Figured as much. Thanks. So many ‘Christian’ false flags run by pagans.
You only need to realize that the AP is condoning this same behavior in secular public schools to realize the hypocrisy here.
My solution. Boarding schools for at risk kids Monday-Friday. On the weekends they go home and see the structure difference. If there are 2 young parents they can work 60 hours/wk with no responsibilities at home-get ahead in this world. At the school you can have retired drill instructors walking around with Smokey the Bear hats.
My tagline. Apply here, it does.
“My solution. Boarding schools for at risk kids Monday-Friday. On the weekends they go home and see the structure difference. If there are 2 young parents they can work 60 hours/wk with no responsibilities at home-get ahead in this world. At the school you can have retired drill instructors walking around with Smokey the Bear hats.”
Problem is majority of these schools forbid contact with the outside world even with parents. Some parents can’t contact kids for first six months and that should be a red flag for sane parents NOT TO SEND YOUR KID TO THIS PLACE.
Plus when kids can contact home? Often their calls are monitored and if the kid says something wrong the call ends. The kids letters are also censored as well.
Oh yea I knew the ap would run with this story, but I’ve been warning you all for several months and it’s only gonna get worse.
This article is very good journalism that focuses on specifics and does not give all Christianity a black eye. These corrupt individuals did many sinful acts and I’m glad to hear that the state is finally doing something about it. God bless and make whole all the grown children wounded by those wretches.
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