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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You mean ranches have hard work?
One should not spend $6000/month without talking to upcoming graduates and asking questions, doing web searches, etc.
I don’t buy expensive things without a web search.
This is 2022, put technology to work.
$6000 a month these parents paid.. with those sorts of resources I highly doubt those kids were sent there sight unseen or without thorough checking it out by most who sent their kids there.
I have little doubt that these “troubled youths” which anymore often just means spoiled brats, didn’t like the program.
Was their abuse? Maybe… but I sure wouldn’t assume as you have that parents willing and able to spend $6000 a month to try to help their rebellious children, just shot em off without any research into the place.
Sounds like a bunch of crap from a bunch of crappers to me.
Don’t get to do as they please so they whine. And you were expecting somethig else maybe?
“Did you read the article? Depression? Like using them as farm hands really helps depression?”
A little ‘tough love’ certainly worked in my family.
“run up and down a small mountain, dodging rattlesnakes”
I’m sure there’s no embellishment there, not at all.
“given only a can of olives and beans for a meal”
Mexicans eat a lot of beans.
I like olives & cream cheese on bread.
Kalamata olives? gone!
I don’t remember being tied to a goat, but all the other lobs listed I have done in my youth. Suck it up buttercup, get over it and learn to fly straight
More money than brains does not make for great heredity.
I don’t have a problem with the idea of a working ranch, where the kids can work out their addictions and get some self respect.
However, it shouldn’t a hellish experience.
same here, sounds like my childhood!
these people are complaining about twisted ankles and scratches from falling into cactus!
um... that happened nearly every day during my childhood!
these are just BRATS looking for a payout
Hoping to win the Lawfare Lottery.
“From the time we woke up in the morning to the time we went back to sleep, we were always doing work. Always,”
The Horror! The Horror!
exactly! the POINT was the scare them straight so they wouldn’t end up dead on in jail!
From the time we could do something useful in the tobacco fields, we worked, when we could handle a hay bale, we worked doing that, too.
(Yes, we helped clean the church an the fire hall as well.)
This sounds like typical farm/ranch life, work is dawn to dark, and sometimes more every day, all year.
Poor little babies, what don’t kill you makes you stronger, but now you know a little about where food comes from, too.
(If they’d really been abused, there would have been no surgery—walk it off!)
“Taybre Conrad, 19,...they were having us do the type of stuff that grown men do.”
It’s equal pay for same work, dearie.
A girl smashed her finger on a pipe. OK.
It is hard to tell much from an NBC News story.
I’d like to know how many girls went to the ranch in the last several years. For all their balanced reporting the journalists seemed to be unable to find a single girl or parent that spent money for the experience and got good results.
Did any of the girls commit suicide while enrolled at the ranch? A lot of girls, and boys, do while enrolled in public schools and listening to teachers and counselors telling them they might want to consider mutilating themselves.
only hellish to entitled liberal babies used to being coddled.
This sounds like my ENTIRE childhood!
Actually.. BETTER! they didn’t mention spankings!
LMAO
LOL, they made them wash their own clothes and make their beds.
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