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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The horror.
I garden, pull weeds, can the food, chop firewood, help fell trees, clear brush, move rocks, do laundry, prepare food, clean the house, feed the wood stove in the winter. It takes all day, too.
Like who is going to do most of it if I don't?
Mr. mm does most of the felling and cutting up trees, but I have a smaller electric chainsaw that works well enough for the stuff the size I can handle.
My sympathy meter is broken for complaints about that.
I also don't believe or am skeptical of some of the other complaints? Using a bucket for the bathroom? Perhaps if you are out in the woods or fields. It certainly would be better than going right there where someone can walk in it or contaminate ground water and wells..
Lots of context is missing in the complaints.
Heck, people can’t even get kids these days to show up for work on time the days they are scheduled, and that for a clerk or cashier job in a store.
There is no sense of obligation and responsibility any more from all indications, except in a few cases.
In several years, once enough time has gone by to fog everyone’s memory, some of them will come forward tell how they were sexually abused. Like Ballsie Ford did.
They has a small sample what people had to every day of their life years ago.
Will it sink in for them nope it was their problem modern mind set is a weak one.
I believe you recently posted an article saying that Vitamin D3 might help depression. My son was told by his doctor to take 5000 IU a day for SAD (winter depression). His doctor recently said he should increase to 10,000 IU. He is 6’1” and 250 lb.
These were not adult women. They were teens and sent by their parents, so some as young as 13 probably no older than 17, maybe 18.
By the grace of God, and with the mast cell affliction you left out!
Thank God for what helps, while being an apologist means considering context, and considering alternative explanations to those which are asserted by attackers.
Nineteen years old is adult enough.
The mast cell disorder only affects my eating and allergies.
It doesn’t interfere at all with my ability to do physical activity.
General old age OTOH, is taking its toll.
The 19 year old quoted in the article was leaving, probably because she aged out and had been there for a number of years. Remember teens starts at 13. At that age I was starting to disagree with my mother, and she would scream “Don’t you talk to me in that fresh tone of voice, smack!” at 12 she would leave me home all day Saturday caring for my 2 and 4 year old brothers while pop drove her into town to do grocery shopping and laundrey for a family of 5. She would also leave me with a list of 6 to 8 chores to do while I kept the 2 and 4 year old out of trouble. Then she came home and complained that I had done things wrong or not finished and I would try to defend myself. But hey, I had a fresh tone of voice. I understood that I was needed to care for the boys, but I didn’t think she was fair expecting me to do her lists to her standard while caring for lively preschoolers.
No, she was not right.
You were 12 and while it’s reasonable to expect you to be able do those things, to do them exactly the way she would have or even to be able to complete them all, is not.
There were days as a mom with toddlers that I didn’t get everything done that I had planned.
Daniel, considering you, I’m almost 100% certain you will hear from Our Gracious Lord,
“Well done, good and faithful servant.”
I can’t imagine otherwise.
Thanks. Years later I realized she was probably in the middle of menopause, but it still hurts to remember. In fact more recently I cared for her while she was dying at my home, but the fact that I no longer felt deep love for her made watching her die more bearable. She did not want to die in a hospital, so I was able to give her that.
Thanks. Years later I realized she was probably in the middle of menopause, but it still hurts to remember. In fact more recently I cared for her while she was dying at my home, but the fact that I no longer felt deep love for her made watching her die more bearable. She did not want to die in a hospital, so I was able to give her that.
Hormones can do nasty things to people.
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