Posted on 06/12/2016 9:30:15 AM PDT by Morgana
Blue Creek Academy was an abusive hell on earth, former students say—and the principal who ran it is now heading up a new Bible school in another state.
Jacob* dressed himself in a camouflage jacket and a matching beanie on the summer morning he ran away into the West Virginia hills. At 14 years old, he was one of the youngest, smallest, and longest-attending students at Blue Creek Academy, a religious reform school for boys from which he was desperate to escape.
Blue Creek Academy was made up of an old schoolhouse and several cabins situated on a remote campground in central West Virginia. A mission of the nearby Independent Fundamental Baptist church, pastor James Waldeck advertised Blue Creek as an “alternative to today's degenerate, secular culture and education methods,” and took in boys who had been in trouble at home—both locally and from as far away as Texas—to be reformed. Its principal, 35-year-old JR Thompson, had reopened the church’s campgrounds in 2010, renamed it Blue Creek Academy, and marketed the boarding school, which he ran with his wife, Hannah, as a godly answer for “at-risk” teens with emotional and behavioral disabilities and Christian parents with $1,000 a month to spend on their salvation.
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FWIW, that couple should be jailed for child abuse and never allowed to *minister* or whatever, with youth again.
The guy is on a power trip and is victimizing those kids and shouldn’t be allowed near them any more.
I have to agree with you.
When I saw JR, I thought of OUR JR. Took me a minute to realize it wasn’t.
I second each and every word of your #19.
I do suspect that our common enemy below delights when we squabble with one another across denominational lines and particularly when we preen while attacking one another.
I am not accusing anyone of specific failures in this regard but it is best to recognize child-molesting and other child abuse as sin no matter the denominational identity (if any) of the perpetrator(s). Each and every act against a child by those charged with the care of that child required the passion and crucifixion of our Lord and Savior as the only possible satisfaction of each such sin.
Agreed
Thank you.
It certainly was.
Saw the tagline “Andy” and “theykilledandy”...... what happened to Andy?
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