Posted on 04/19/2022 9:35:08 PM PDT by Morgana
When the owners of the Circle of Hope boarding school in Humansville, Missouri, were arrested last year on more than 100 combined charges of child abuse and neglect, authorities pointed to an unlikely whistleblower: their 31-year-old daughter, Amanda Householder.
In a new lawsuit filed in Polk County Court, Householder alleges that her parents, Boyd and Stephanie Householder, routinely abused her and her younger brother, beating them with golf clubs and a leather whip and force-feeding them until they vomited. She also alleges the couple abused the teenage girls entrusted to their care at Circle of Hope and forced her to participate in that abuse. After moving out at the age of 17, Amanda started a campaign to get her parents’ boarding school shut down.
Circle of Hope was shuttered in September 2020, and the Householders were arrested in March 2021. In charging documents, they are accused of restraining their teenage students with handcuffs and zipties, making one girl drink dish detergent, and shoving another girl’s face into horse manure. The couple has yet to enter pleas and their attorney did not respond to a request for comment. They previously told The Kansas City Star their daughter was a “Satan worshipper” who was addicted to drugs. She denies those claims.
Amanda Householder filed her lawsuit against her parents, their school, and another boarding school where they worked last month. Here, she tells The Daily Beast what it was like taking on her own family, and the surprising social media strategy she used to help her do it.
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I’m glad she had the courage to do what was needed, but I’m not sure if I would be shouting about it from the digital rooftops. If she and her brother were also treated that way, she may be in a sustained state of shock and self doubt, and may need to convince herself she did the right thing.
It’s from the Daily Beast. I’m sure there’s another side to this story we’ve yet to hear.
Google her name, she’s been all over the place talking about this. Even Dateline.
And the basis for you believing her is?
Girls will lie if it helps them avoid accountability for their poor decisions.
Not saying it’s true in this case, but one should not easily dismiss the possibility.
Someone believed her enough to close the school. Sounds from charging list that girls at the school were queried too
The mug shots on the parents show a pair who could believably done all of it
When I googled her and looked at her photo, I immediately thought she looks like a satan worshiper. So I added "satan worship" to the google search and sure enough, there it was.
I won't pass judgement myself (much) ... But I wouldn't trust Amanda Householder as far as I could throw her.
She looks like she suffers from ptsd which if her story is true would explain much of her anger and attitude
Abused children grow up to be very confused adults
HUMANSVILLE?????
Tattoos I saw were two hummingbirds, a calf, and an octopus on her upper chest.
She has a nose ring.
Sometimes she wears red eye shadow, and looks gaunt, tired and contemptuous.
But IF her parents abused her and called it following Christ, it is a millstone around their necks. Woe to them who call evil good.
“You might be right but if I saw Amanda Householder walking toward me on the sidewalk, I’d run the other way.”
From a skinny goth girl with black fingernail polish?
Do yourself a favor and never go to a ghetto where the real scary characters hang out!
Funny you should say that. Why would anyone want to?
I did think of that after I typed what I did.
Still hard to watch them continue to impose there own suffering
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