Yikes. Another article refers to the place as a “reform school,” and says more about abuse:
https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2022/03/11/accuser-takes-stand-agape-boarding-school-dr-smock-case/9424476002/
yes I’ve posted about this school in the past they have had a bad track record. Over Christmas their doctor was on the run for sexually abusing kids. He was caught in Arkansas, and is now back in Missouri awaiting trail.
From what I’ve read about him he’s a real werido. The dude has a “castle” in Missouri that he calls Cinderella’s Palace and he adopted boys that would sleep in the bed with him. Just shit like Michael Jackson.
Parents thought the school’s name was the Greek word meaning “the love of God for man and of man for God”, but instead it was the Saxon word agape, as in “mouths agape”.