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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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 ....
I guess the teens couldn’t wear Prada
A little hard work never killed anyone
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.
““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.
Hard physical work is actually great for depression.
Beans and olives ...not so much.
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.
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.”
Maybe the girls expected to be sent to ride ponies the way Huma Abedin’s husband Weiner was, someplace easy and comfortable.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
“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.
Nope. The article talks about "court filings." Apparently, they're suing.
Did any of them die?
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