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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Age of kids? Schizo kicks in from about 13 or 14 to age 25.
Doesnt sound like a good idea to send some kid away only cuz they don’t function well in their environment. Could be many neurological issues....sounds like rich, lazy, ignorant parents, trying to throw money at the problem. The kids may have resisted normal “train the adolescent” techniques however.
Notice:Hard work (typical of ranch life), short food as a punishment (but not sent to bed without any dinner), occasional minor and one serious injury (also typical of ranch life).
What’s missing?
Oh. Not even one claim of sexual impropriety or abuse. Say what?
They didn’t send their kids; they got rid of their kids.
Pity these kids didn’t make the most of the experience.
My 5’2”, 135# wife is nearing 75 and has been doing all that for decades. We’ll drag the bathroom scale out and weigh one of our hay bales, but I’m sure they’re more than 50#. (Oh, yeah - and she even dodged a rattler when visiting her girlfriend’s ranch in New Mexico last month.)
NBC is a political machine with a political agenda.
They do lie often. We have no idea of the truth of this article, it may be true or not. I sure as hell know you do not go running about dodging rattlesnakes. You do not even see them mostly. Rattlesnakes will bite you. They prefer to get the hell away from you. I have them on my land. I just leave them alone unless they come close to my house. I then reluctantly kill them as they are a danger to my dogs and cats and I. If they are out in my property away from my home I just leave them alone.
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I live in Texas now but prior in South Louisiana. Water Moccasins are curious and aggressive. I have no love for them nor pity. I killed them. Rattlesnakes I can get along with if they stay away from my house.
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Poor little daisies. Guess they didn’t have any safe spaces nor binkies. Cry me a river.
I’ve never been tied to a goat either, but I HAVE been on a SEPTA bus with democrats.
Same thing…
$6K a month? Stupid parents make stupid children.
Sounds like about a tenth of the work you have to do when you own a real ranch, farm, or orchard. Poor babies.
The article mentions working from morning to night. Probably much longer than an 8 hour day. Probably serious violations of labor laws. Also no mention of any kind of mental therapy or treatment, or religious opportunity on Sunday.
As to parental careful checking, not necessarily happening. If parents are separated, even less likely. Perhaps travel across country to examine???
My parents required me to do a lot more work than the other kids in my neighborhood, but nothing remotely like what was reported here. I knew we were poorer than the other neighbor families, so I didn’t like it, but I did accept the need.
“I like olives & cream cheese on bread.”
That was my dad’s favorite! Black olives, cream cheese on pumpernickel. Dad was German, so it had to be pumpernickel. I haven’t had that in years (probably last had it when I was a wee sprout), so it sounds real good right now!
That doesn’t sound good at all.
A therapeutic farm would be good, where they pick eggs or fruit in their eight hours or do some useful labour for a day’s work, but nothing like this.
Ha ha ha. My youngest did all that and more for fun. 6 months on a working horse and cattle ranch. 5ft-1 of pure energy an muscle. Had a blast. Starting with basic farm chores before dawn and breakfast.
Did they have little sweat bees stinging their legs as sweat ran freely down their backs while picking butter-beans? Or have okra plants scratching their arms as they clipped off the okra pods? Or carry five gallon buckets of water to put on the freshly planted garden (we only had one hose and it didn’t reach to the garden spot). I remember that well. I was seven, eight, nine, ten, and eleven years of age and my folks were making me work in the garden before supper. After about twelve I joined the band at school and had band practice almost every afternoon.
I now greatly regret not being more cheerful as I worked. Looking back, I realize that food was what was on the table each evening and kept our bellies full. I’m sure my folks would have rather been inside the house as well.
I suspect it does.
How to Navigate Depression: 22 Things to Try:
https://www.healthline.com/health/depression/how-to-fight-depression
You also do not appear to realize depression has nothing to do with any chemical imbalances, so medications to help are much more limited than were believed, for decades.
Depression Is Not Caused by Chemical Imbalance in the Brain
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/insight-therapy/202207/depression-is-not-caused-chemical-imbalance-in-the-brain
Of course. That is why I suggested some context might be in order.
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