They are suing the school? All that sounds just like a regular day back at the family farm when I was a kid.
Sheesh.
Soft retards.
The kid is autistic with other special needs, who had just lost his father. He was going there for “therapy”. He was suppose to be around the animals to help him heal not rolling animal shit.
Yeah, and I used to walk to school barefoot in the winter...
“The students accuse Agapé Boarding School and the Agapé Church of negligence, battery by staff and fellow students, torture and starvation, according to legal documents obtained by DailyMail.com.
Mom Nicole Fernandez, who is among the plaintiffs launching legal action, revealed her then 14-year-old son contracted pink eye from a revolting exercise that involved students rolling around in animal poop.
‘The animals were suppose to be for emotional healing and support,’ Fernandez told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview.
‘That was the main reason I sent my son to Agapé Boarding School. They were all about the animals. They promised that the animals would help Corey with the grieving process and they knew we came from a farm.
‘They used this to con me into sending my son there, which ended up being the worst mistake of my life.’
Fernandez, who is from Northern California, only wanted what was best for her son Corey who was spiraling out of control after the sudden death of his father.
The widow was desperate to save her son with special needs before he ended up in jail or dead. With the recommendation of a broker, who actually turned out to be a recruiter from Agapé, she decided to enroll her fragile teen into the all boys school in February 2019.
‘It looked like the perfect school with lots of nature and animals to help the students emotionally. I was told they they had worked with lots of kids like my son and were well equipped to handle those with special needs,’ she said.
‘My son was on the spectrum and been diagnosed with Tourette syndrome, Asperger syndrome, anxiety disorder, and of course, was grieving the loss of his father.’
But after just four months at the school, Fernandez said, Corey had lost so much weight that when she saw him for the first time during a visit, she couldn’t believe her eyes.
‘My son was standing in front of me and I didn’t recognize him. He looked emaciated, his head was shaved. He was wearing an oversized dirty orange sweater and used rain boots that were about size 13 when he was a size 8 or 9,’ she said.
‘He went in weighing about 185lbs and when I saw him he had dropped nearly 50lbs. He looked like a prisoner. It broke my heart.
‘I should have taken him out immediately, but the school was so convincing and kept drilling into my head that this was what was best for him, when in fact it ended up being the worst mistake of my life.’
It was only after Fernandez took her son out of Agapé in October 2019, did she come to realize the actual torment and abuse her son endured for nearly eight months.
‘I remember him telling me, like it was normal, how he and other kids had been dragged out of bed at night in the Ozark winter and forced to roll around in camel muck.
‘He said: ‘That’s where I got pink eye.’ He was told that it builds character.’
‘As a form of punishment, kids were fed special food, a soggy tortilla on a wet cookie tray with a smeared, moldy refried beans and they had to eat two of them,’ Fernandez explained.
‘If they threw up, they still had to eat it and if they didn’t then that’s what they had to eat for dinner. They were really, really abusing these kids.’
Fernandez said the so-called animal therapy never happened. In fact, the only animals they were allowed to interact with were the horses and a young German Shepherd who was later shot and killed for misbehaving.
‘Who does that, let alone tells the children?’ Fernandez asked. ‘My son told me how the dog used to always accompany its owner, a staff member, on the back of his four-wheeler.
‘When the kids asked where the dog was, the staffer said he shot him. The kids thought he was joking, but it turned out to be true. The staffer shot and killed the dog because it wouldn’t obey him and couldn’t be trained.’”
You were forced to roll around in animal feces as a child?