Posted on 09/11/2022 7:30:43 PM PDT by Morgana
For girls who were depressed, drinking, skipping school or fighting with their families, Trinity Teen Solutions claimed to offer a cure. Desperate parents paid $6,000 a month to send their children to the Christian therapeutic program at a working ranch in a remote area of Wyoming, often without visiting first.
What girls encountered once they got there, according to 22 women who spent time at the ranch as teens from 2007 to 2020, was a nightmare of hard labor and humiliating punishments that left some injured and others with post-traumatic stress disorder.
In recent interviews and court filings, the women described injuries to their hands, legs and feet, including cuts, frostbite and in one case torn ligaments requiring surgery, from hauling heavy metal pipes to irrigate fields and carrying bales of hay they said weighed over 50 pounds. The girls built barbed wire fences, dragged carcasses of dead animals into a pile and were driven around the county to clean churches and recreation centers, they said. “From the time we woke up in the morning to the time we went back to sleep, we were always doing work. Always,” said Taybre Conrad, 19, who left the ranch in 2020. “And they were having us do the type of stuff that grown men do.”
If they stepped out of line, girls were forced to run up and down a small mountain, dodging rattlesnakes, or were given only a can of olives and beans for a meal, according to former residents. Three women said that staff members who accused them of being “stubborn” tied them to a goat with a leash for days at a time.
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An early 20th century theme park?
Poor babies. But I suspect they did behave after that experience.
Are they trying to imply that women and men aren’t equal? Sounds like this place had it figured out.
Some context would be important.
I personally understand the concept of making things hard for these youngsters. The girls would no doubt badmouth the concept.
so.. they made these delinquents do work that many kids do for their families their entire young lives?
and this is bad why?
Would boys of the same age been able to do the work? Equal pay for equal work.
Did you read the article? Depression? Like using them as farm hands really helps depression?
It’s possible they were sent to a place with working conditions that were akin to a concentration camp.
What pay? Their parents paid these people to take the girls to be ranch hands. It’s the perfect scam, and it’s been done before. Just say you are running a ranch for troubled teen and parents send their kids sight unseen. No medical, no shrinks, kids are worse when they leave than when they came.
Lawyers are having a field day with these things.
Ambulance chaser's wet dream...
read my post 11 and tell me what you think
The answer to that would be cameras. If kids misbehaved, they would be sent home and parents will have to pick them up.
I saw this. Wealthy moms on the Left, ran the fathers off but got $$$$. Shipped their kids off.
Oh I know kids who have already won settlements from these type of schools.
Then again I blame the parents for not checking up on the kids after sending them there.
You said the keywords:
” ran the fathers off “
That is why a lot of these kids are there and no parent is watching out for them.
The food was terrible, and the portions so small!
How about butchering animals? Beheading a few chickens would put their lives in perspective.
I’ve never been tied to a goat, but the rest sounds like a few jobs I had as a yoot.
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