Teens were sent to Wyoming ranches for therapy. They say they found a nightmare of hard labor and humiliation.

NBC NEWS ^ | September 8, 2022 | Tyler Kingkade

[The Sentient Sheep]

Oh MY God ! Carrying bales of hay they said weighed over 50 pounds. 50 lbs ? The cruelty and inhumanity is appalling. Such horror I tell you ....

[Nifster]

I guess the teens couldn’t wear Prada

A little hard work never killed anyone

[Parmy]

I would say that these kids need to suck it up. When I was 15 or 16 I could out work a 25 year old in the hay fields.

I could throw a 100 pound bale of hay 5 ft. over my head on top of other bales already on the trucks.

The days were long, but I needed money because my parents ween't rich. None of us were rich back then.

We worked and thought nothing of it. It gave us a sense of accomplishment and pride in ourselves.

And, at nearly 80 years of age, I still look back on that time and have a sense of well-being.

[DesertRhino]

““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.””

So this adult woman has suddenly decided that men are different? And that work is hard?

Just don’t be an entitled beetch and you wouldn’t get sent there.

[piasa]

Hard physical work is actually great for depression.

Beans and olives ...not so much.

[Tacrolimus1mg]

I’ve heard about some of these places. Restricted access to food and water, which may not even be consumable in the first place, extreme physical labor (I don’t just mean your typical ranch work), and severe corporal punishment and sex abuse on top of being unable to contact family either through a lack of a phone or fear of retaliation.

Sending a kid to work on a ranch, which is hard AF as it is, isn’t abuse, but there are correction camps which really are hell holes. I think there was one in AZ that had a documentary done about it, but I don’t recall the name of it.

[piasa]

This kind of work is pretty typical for girls who grow up on family farms... and they do it with gusto if there are horses. I don’t know of any lazy or soft female barrel racers.

Being tied to a goat is a new one, but maybe it was the only way to get the city girls to quit using the word “literally.”

[piasa]

Maybe the girls expected to be sent to ride ponies the way Huma Abedin’s husband Weiner was, someplace easy and comfortable.

[PCPOET7]

kids with problems are easy victims. hard labor is good for kids but if you are working a kid from first light to last light the situation screams possible abuse. I say don’t take anyone at their word that it was abuse investigate.... I am sure that some of these places were great at helping kids, but some probably were abusive places and crimes were committed on children at those places.

[piasa]

There was one in Arizona which was not really a ranch at all, looked more like a homeless camp, and was run by radical Muslims, and featured terrible abuse. Made the news until the media figured out one of the guys involved was tied into top Virginia democrats.

[Dr. Sivana]

I know a family who sent a daughter there. The place is fine. Maybe not as much horse back riding as promised, but exceptional mental health care with access to good resources, and very thorough testing. This family’s daughter benefitted specifically from a complete DNA workup which resulted in the prescription of better meds.

[keving]

Some job requirements have 50 pounds lift ability to get a job. Welcome me to equality. Yet I’ve never seen a 50 pound dumb bell in the applicants interview.

[Dr. Sivana]

No medical, no shrinks, kids are worse when they leave than when they came.

Plenty of medical. Also, a LOT of supervision is paid for and there is a low worker to client ratio. The family I know who had a daughter there had an additional diagnosis of restless leg syndrome in her sleep, which was interfering with her sleep cycles. She retrieved medical treatment for her malady which was discovered only because she was monitored on cameras and by live custodians at night.

Don't trust NBC to give a balanced story. You may not like how they do things, but it is no scam.

[wardaddy]

Hell I’ll do it for 4000 a month

My kids say yes sir yes ma’am and thank you and generally do what I ask on the first or second attempt all five of them

I think I found my calling

[Dr. Sivana]

Hell I’ll do it for 4000 a month

Besides customized diets for the clients (many had food sensitivities related to the illness), and having about a 3 to 1 ratio of workers to clients when you have a full house, you will have to get complete medical workups for a variety of different issues, and usually more than one in the same girl.

And who knows how much the liability insurance is, thanks to articles like this one? The work done maintains the ranch that the clients live on, not Blandings Castle. It is more work to keep things going in rural Wyoming. BTW, the idea that the nearest gas station is 30 miles away is nonsense. Cody is 15 miles away, and is a significant small city/town. I surmise that there are gas stations on the outskirts of Cody.

[wardaddy]

Our rattlers are smallish

As are my hollows and hills

What west coast folks call canyons

They’ll be fine

This is so silly

Crybabies with woke media sissies

[Dr. Sivana]

Wealthy moms on the Left, ran the fathers off but got $$$$. Shipped their kids off.

Trinity is not that kind of place. They try to get the girls better to be able to have them go home again. The parents send them there for treatment, including and especially medical treatment.

[Morgana]

“I’ve never been tied to a goat, but the rest sounds like a few jobs I had as a yoot.”

For boys maybe not girls. girls suppose to be in the kitchen on the ranch cooking lunch and dinner.

I read several articles on this. One of the adults made the kids put down a dying calf by putting a pitchfork in it’s heart. Now I ask you what kind of f****** psychopath is that? No one does that. Everyone knows you put down an animal with your Mossberg 12 gauge. You always double tap it, in the brain to make sure the critter is dead.

[Angelino97]

Poor babies. But I suspect they did behave after that experience.

Nope. The article talks about "court filings." Apparently, they're suing.

[Angelino97]

It’s possible they were sent to a place with working conditions that were akin to a concentration camp.

Did any of them die?