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Men Behind WWASPS &
Teen Help / History of WWASPS
Mitt Romney /
Robert Lichfield / Mel Sembler Connection
FEATURE:
TRANQUILITY CLOSING? RUMOR OR FACT?
NEWS
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April 17, 2009 |
St Elizabeth to host 'timeout' school for
violent kids - Old Tranquility Bay facility considered
|
(click
here) |
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March 13, 2009 |
Academy at Ivy Ridge closing, will
'restructure' operations
|
(click
here) |
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February 23, 2009 |
'Boot Camp' closed - Tranquility Bay,
Jamaica (click here
for more news on Tranquility Bay)
|
(click
here) |
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January 14, 2009 |
Spring Creek closes its doors (More
Spring Creek Lodge news)
|
(click
here) |
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October 16, 2008 |
ROYAL GORGE ACADEMY - School shuts down,
dozens lose their jobs -
More news re Royal Gorge
|
(click
here) |
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March 26, 2008 |
Government to probe
Tranquility Bay
|
(click
here) |
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March 26, 2008 |
Cayman Minister orders
Tranquility Bay probe
|
(click
here) |
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March 6, 2008
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Tranquility Bay: helping
or harming Cayman's youth? |
(click
here) |
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February 28, 2008 |
Tranquility Bay: Youth
pleads to get out of rehab
|
(click
here) |
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November 2007 |
Skyview Academy Closure
|
(click
here) |
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August 28, 2007 |
Teenager testifies in
Randall Hinton trial
|
(click
here) |
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August 25, 2007 |
Trial for Royal Gorge Academy official
begins Monday
|
(click
here) |
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July 7, 2007 |
Tranquility Bay closing its doors?
Rumor or fact?
|
(click
here) |
June 28, 2007
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Changes at WWASPS' Tranquility Bay |
(click
here) |
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July 10, 2007 |
Canon City lawsuit brews
over school assault probe - Randall Hinton / Royal Gorge Academy
|
(click
here) |
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July 7, 2007 |
Tranquility Bay closing
its doors? Rumor or fact?
|
(click
here |
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July 7, 2007 |
Is Darrington affiliated
with WWASPS?
|
(click
here) |
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June 20, 2007 |
Lawsuits hit Romney money man -
Robert Lichfield |
(click
here) |
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May 6, 2007 |
PAC donations from Utah raise
doubts in Maine [RECAF & ROBERT LICHFIELD] |
(click
here) |
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May 6, 2007 |
How we traced the money [RECAF & ROBERT
LICHFIELD] |
(click
here) |
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May 6, 2007 |
Suit alleging abuse names GOP donor [RECAF
& ROBERT LICHFIELD] |
(click
here) |
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May 1, 2007 |
Hinton OK’d to leave state |
(click
here) |
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January 2007 |
The trouble
with troubled teen programs |
(click
here)
|
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December 1, 2006 |
Ivy Ridge Academy accreditation
rejected |
(click
here) |
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November 23, 2006 |
Knee deep : Lawsuits mount against
Spring Creek Lodge |
(click
here) |
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October 28, 2006 |
Cayman Islands - Controversy surrounds
Tranquility Bay |
(click
here) |
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October 24, 2006 |
Ivy Ridge
accreditation delayed...again |
(click
here) |
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September 26, 2006 |
TOUGH-LOVE CAMP OWNER,
NARVIN
LICHFIELD, TO STAND TRIAL
SEPTEMBER 26-29,
2006
|
(click here) |
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September 12, 2006 |
Gang
assault in school leaves victim in hospital - Ivy Ridge |
(click
here) |
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September 12, 2006 |
Ivy Ridge
accreditation delayed |
(click
here) |
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August 29, 2006 |
RIGHTS GROUP SUES YOUTH HALL
|
(click
here) |
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July 28, 2006 |
Press Release: WWASPS Back in Court
|
(click
here) |
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July 28, 2006 |
Ivy Ridge Academy
sued for $100 million
|
(click
here) |
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July 27, 2006 |
WWASPS BACK IN COURT: 25 Parents File
Class-Action Law Suit Alleging Fraudulent Tactics
|
(click
here) |
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July 17, 2006 |
TB troubles very public
|
(click
here) |
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July 13, 2006 |
Controversy
surrounds Tranquility Bay
Comments about article:
TB Troubles Very Public by Isabelle Zehnder
Do Homework on Tranquility Bay by Blanche Hardy
|
(click
here)
(click
here)
(click
here)
|
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June 23, 2006 |
Spring Creek
Lodge Academy Withdraws From World Wide Association of Specialty
Programs & Schools
|
(click
here) |
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June 22, 2006 |
Rough Love: A
heart-wrenching article with a chilling ending
|
(click
here) |
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June 22, 2006 |
Taking a beating: Parents want answers
from Spring Creek
|
(click
here) |
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June 6, 2006 |
Woman distraught:
denied visit with sister at Ivy Ridge Academy
|
(click
here) |
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June 7, 2006 |
A Mother’s
Story by Cindi Kirkpatrick
WWASP Program: Carolina Springs Academy
|
(click
here) |
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June 7, 2006 |
Seven Days
I Will Never Forget by Taylor Kirkpatrick
WWASP Program: Carolina Springs Academy
|
(click
here) |
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June 6, 2006 |
Woman distraught:
denied visit with sister at Ivy Ridge Academy
|
(click
here) |
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May 27, 2005 |
Parent
Denied Access to Student's Police Records
|
(click
here) |
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May 26, 2005 |
Ivy Ridge Academy Investigated By
Attorney General
|
(click
here) |
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March 13, 2006 |
The Cutting Edge: Tranquility Bay:
Disturbing look at the booming tough-love industry in the United States
|
(click
here) |
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February 7, 2006 |
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center -
Carolina Springs Complaint
|
(click
here) |
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January 23, 2006 |
No More Nightmares at Tranquility Bay?
|
(click
here) |
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June 8, 2005 |
Melee Keeps Spotlight on
Hard Life at Academy |
(click
here)
|
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July 20, 2005 |
Cops search for
two Tranquility Bay teens
|
(click
here) |
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June 16, 2005 |
Spring Creek's
Short Leash
|
(click
here) |
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June 7, 2005 |
Plot to Kill Parents is
Detailed
|
(click
here) |
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June 2, 2005 |
Shared Choir
Program Dropped
|
(click
here) |
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May 26, 2005 |
Spring Creek Lodge Among
Top Spending Montana Lobbyists
|
(click
here) |
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May 18, 2005 |
Ivy Ridge
Students Charged After Rioting, Escape
|
(click
here) |
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May 17, 2005 |
Students Recaptured After
Escape
|
(click
here) |
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May 17, 2005 |
Twelve Ivy Ridge Students
Charged With Riot
|
(click
here) |
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May 12, 2005 |
Appeal Court Rejects
Lawsuit Against Journalist
|
(Click
here) |
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April 28, 2005 |
Exposing WWASPS camp abuse
|
(click
here) |
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April 25, 2005 |
Corporate Child Abuse Persists
|
(click
here) |
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April 22, 2005 |
Mother Sues Facility for
Child Abuse
|
(Click here) |
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April 21, 2005 |
Utah-Based Group Under Fire
|
(click
here) |
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April 15, 2005 |
Ivy Ridge Accreditation Suspended in State Probe
|
(click
here) |
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March 12, 2005 |
Activists Fight Gulag Schools: Isabelle Zehnder, Tom Coleman, and former Majestic Ranch employees commended
for their efforts to expose abuse at WWASP facility, Majestic Ranch
|
(click
here) |
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March 6, 2005 |
Group Seeks Probe Into
Boarding School
|
(Click
here) |
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February 16, 2005 |
Boarding School Faces
Allegations of Abuse
|
(Click
here) |
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February 5, 2005 |
Licensing for "Therapeutic"
School?
|
(Click
here) |
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February 3, 2005 |
Spring Creek Lodge
Employee Shoots Man Seven Times, Kills Self
|
(click
here) |
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January 10, 2005 |
Scrutiny Increases on
Centers for Teens
|
(click
here) |
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Parent Story
Susan Oldham
December 29, 2004
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Carolina Springs Academy (WWASP)
"NO CHILD
should be subjected to what my daughter went though. These FOR
PROFIT 'treatment centers' are nothing but legalized child
abuse centers."
|
(click
here) |
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December 7, 2004 |
Locked in Paradise
Transcript
|
(click
here)
(click here) |
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December 7, 2004 |
Tranquility Bay: The Last Resort
|
(click
here) |
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December 7, 2004 |
Paradise Lost
|
(click
here) |
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November 22, 2004 |
How to Save a
Troubled Kid?
|
(click
here) |
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November 14, 2004 |
Stats at George
Mason University: How to Save a Troubled Kid
|
(click
here) |
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October 10, 2004 |
U.S. newspaper
profiles youth who was at Dundee
|
(click
here) |
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October 8, 2004 |
Student Commits
Suicide at Montana School
|
(click
here) |
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September 21, 2004 |
Licensing Bill Killed After
Lobbying by Major Political Donor
|
(Click
here) |
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September 20, 2004 |
Troubled Schools May be
Buying Influences with Lawmakers
|
(Click
here) |
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September 19, 2004 |
Questions Swirl Around Closure of Facility
|
(click
here) |
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September 21, 2004 |
Follow the money trail: Teen
Help operators have clout
|
(click
here) |
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September 13, 2004 |
Lack of
Medical Doctors
|
(click
here) |
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September 11, 2004 |
Genesis by the Sea
Raided and Closed by the Police: Baja Raids Shut Boarding Schools For
U.S. Teens
|
(click
here) |
July 2004
|
Want Your Kid to Disappear? |
(click here) |
July 2004
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Carolina Springs Academy, WWASP – A
Story of a Graduate |
(click
here) |
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April 17, 2004 |
Problems Plaguing Programs
for Youth
|
(Click
here) |
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April 9, 2004 |
Youth Programs in Utah Targeted
|
(click
here) |
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March 29, 2004 |
Teen Escort service members charged with assault
|
(click
here) |
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November 8, 2003 |
California Lawmaker Requests Federal Investigation
|
(click here) |
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September 6, 2003 |
Program to Help Youths
Has Troubles of Its Own
|
(click
here) |
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July 13, 2003 |
Key
to His Schools' Success? It's God, Founder Says:
A Rare Interview with Robert Lichfield, LA Times
|
(click
here) |
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June 17, 2003 |
Carolina Springs
Represents Itself as a Center for Severely Handicapped Children
The
School Board of Sarasota County, Florida Recommends Approval of Funds to
Carolina Springs for "Severely Handicapped Child" in the Amount not to
exceed $14,000
|
(click
here) |
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July 9, 2003 |
Overseas Boot Camps: Trouble at Tranquility Bay
|
(click here) |
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June 13, 2003 |
Parents Divided Over
Jamaica Disciplinary Academy
|
(click
here) |
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June 8, 2003 |
Jamaica No Problem, Says
Tranquility Bay
|
(click
here) |
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July 6, 2003 |
Utah-Based School Owner
Banned
|
(click
here) |
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June 8, 2003 |
Jamaica no problem,
says Tranquility Bay
|
(click here) |
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May 9, 2003 |
Parents, Shopping for
Discipline, Turn to Tough Schools Abroad
|
(click
here) |
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Spring 2003 |
My Visit to Tranquility Bay by Richard
Titsch, III
|
(click
here) |
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March 27, 2003 |
Director of Troubled Youth
Facility Resolves Remaining Charges
|
(Click
here) |
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December 31, 2002 |
Family Wins Fight to
Remove Teen From Tranquility Bay
|
(click
here) |
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June 14, 2002 |
Headmaster at Majestic Ranch
Charged with Abuse
(Though he was charged with abuse, this man continues to work at this
facility)
|
(Click
here) |
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July 20, 2000 |
Desperate Measures
(To view the complete "Desperate Measures" article,
click here)
|
(click
here) |
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September 15, 1999 |
Breaking Point
"While Paradise Cove sounds like a Club
Med resort, some former students said it's anything but bliss. One of
them, Sergio Alva, claimed he was once hog-tied for two days as
punishment for trying to run away. "
|
(click
here) |
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July 21, 1999 |
Teen Behavioral
Centers Push 'Tough Love': Utah-Based Network's Program Draws Many Cries
of Outrage
|
(click
here) |
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March 17, 1999 |
Department of Health &
Environmental Control: Supplement to Licensing Standards Compliance
Report; Health Licensing Section - Carolina Springs was Ordered to
"Cease and Desist"
|
(click
here) |
|
No date |
Carolina Springs
Academy Teaches Kids to Respect Authority and Follow the Rules|
|
(click
here) |
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December 11, 1998 |
Morava Academy Heads
Arrested
|
(click
here) |
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November 18, 1998 |
Torture Claims Shut 'School'
|
(click
here) |
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November 11, 1998 |
U.S. Kids Imprisoned
in Jail-Like 'Academy'
|
(click
here) |
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December 1998 |
Child Abuse In
Foreign Schools For Wayward Americans
|
(click
here) |
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June 10, 1996 |
The rise and fall of Steve Cartisano
|
(click
here) |
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Articles
of Interest:
▪
Controversy surrounds Tranquility Bay
(click
here)
▪
Rough love (click
here)
▪
WWASPS News (click
here)
FOX NEWS:
▪ Tough-Love Schools
(Box with
"Photos/Videos", click Videos and choose Part 1, 2, or 3)
▪ Sting
of WWASP ▪
Tranquility Bay
▪
Updated list of
WWASP facilities
▪
WWASP Founder
▪
WWASP President
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LAWSUITS
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CHILD
ABUSE, NEGLECT, WRONGFUL DEATH, FRAUD LAWSUIT AGAINST WWASPS - 133
PLAINTIFFS
The Turley Law Firm in Dallas, Texas, initially
filed a lawsuit on behalf of three plaintiffs in August 2006 alleging child abuse,
neglect, and fraud. In October 2006, 26 more were added.
On December 19, 2006, another 55
new plaintiffs joined the lawsuit,
for a total of 82 plaintiffs. (Click
here for Press Release). A Motion to Amend
was recently filed to add another 51 plaintiffs for
a total of 133.
Plaintiffs are both parents who
feel they were defrauded by WWASPS and former students who were abused and/or neglected
during their stay at one or more of WWASPS facilities inside and outside the US.
Wood, et al. v. World Wide Association of
Specialty Programs and Schools, et al.
Click
here
for original Complaint filed August
25, 2006 - 3 plaintiffs
Click
here for 8/26/06
Press Release
Click
here
for First Amended Complaint filed
October 11, 2006 - 25 plaintiffs
Click
here
for 10/16/06 Press Release
Click
here
for Second Amended Complaint filed
December 19, 2006 - 82 plaintiffs
Click
here for 12/21/06 Press Release
Click
here for the Motion to Amend the Complaint, for a total
of 133 plaintiffs
Complete
Complaint posted with permission.
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25 PLAINTIFFS FILE $100,000,000 LAWSUIT AGAINST WWASPS
ACADEMY OF IVY RIDGE FOR FRAUD
Press Release 7/28/06:
WWASPS back in court.
Complaint:
Dungan,
et al. v. The Academy of Ivy Ridge, et al.
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WRONGFUL
DEATH LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST SPRING CREEK LODGE IN MONTANA
On November 6, 2006, an Amended Complaint was filed in the Montana
Twentieth Judicial District Court in Sanders County, on behalf of
Judith Newman, mother of Karlye Newman.
Spring Creek Main Page:
(click
here)
November
23, 2006, news
article re Karlye's death: (click
here)
June
26, 2006, news article re Spring Creek Lodge withdraws from WWASPS:
(click
here)
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LAWSUIT
AGAINST WWASPS FILED: ALLEGING FRAUD, DECEIT, VIOLENCE, and more
Thirteen
families filed a lawsuit against WWASPS
to obtain redress for the systematic frauds, deceit, violence, and
other corrupt and
unlawful practices perpetrated upon parents and
their minor children for the beneficial benefit of the defendants.
Complaint:
George, et al. v. WWASP, et al.
ALLEGED
CHILD ABUSE AT WWASPS' MAJESTIC RANCH
Parents
allege their son was abused at WWASPS' Majestic Ranch program
in Utah.
Complaint:
Havlan v. World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools,
et al.
PLAINTIFF
ALLEGES HE WAS HUMILIATED, RIDICULED, AND MORE AT WWASPS' MAJESTIC
RANCH
Plaintiff
alleges he was humiliated, ridiculed, and more, during his stay at
WWASPS' Majestic Ranch program in Utah.
Complaint:
Mazdzer v. Teen Help, et al.
WWASPS
SUES FLORIDA MOM FOR SPEAKING OUT AGAINST THEM
WWASPS sues a
Florida mom for speaking out against abuse her daughter endured in
one of their programs, Carolina Springs Academy
in South Carolina.
Court
transcripts:
WWASP v. Scheff
Press
release 8/8/04:
WWASPS fails, Florida mom prevails
Sue Scheff
won the lawsuit, and WWASPS appealed. WWASPS then lost the appeal.
Press release 6/26/06:
P.U.R.E. Satisfaction: WASPS fails, Florida mom prevails ... again
________________________________________________________________________________
MOTHER
WHOSE CHILD WAS ABUSED AT WWASPS" PARADISE COVE IN WESTERN SAMOA
SUES
Mother files
lawsuit against Teen Help, WWASPS, and their associates, alleging
negligence, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of
emotional distress, breach of
fiduciary duty, and fraud when her son attended WWASPS' Paradise Cove program in Western Samoa.
This
program is now closed. According to the Complaint, the child was reduced to almost to a skeleton.
Complaint:
Bowman, et al. v. Teen Help, WWASPS, et al.
A
mother and her twin sons filed a lawsuit against WWASPS' Tranquility
Bay facility in Jamaica. Read how this mother had to fight
to get her sons back.
Complaint:
Burke v. Teen Help, et al.
Summary
and history of case:
Dochterman, et al. v. Teen Help, et al.
ISAC CORP
SUED BY WWASPS FOR SEARCHING THROUGH TRASHCANS
Advocacy
group, International Survivors Action Committee (ISAC) was sued by
Robert Lichfield for defamation, invasion of privacy, and
intentional interference with prospective
economic advantages. Plaintiff alleges defendants posted defamatory statements about plaintiff,
searched through
trashcans and performed surveillance on plaintiffs' property, and gathered private business
matters from the trash at
facilities where plaintiff has business relations.
Complaint:
Lichfield v.
International Survivors Action Committee (ISAC);
Click here for Docket, Order.
Multiple families file suit against Bethel Boys -
Click here
for Summary
Complaint:
Struble, et al. v. Fountain, et al.
;
for Complaint (parent permission to post complete
complaint)
Complete Complaint
posted with plaintiff permission.
Allegations of abuse at WWASPS'
Tranquility Bay in Jamaica.
Testimony of Aaron Kravig, Lindsey Wise & Nick Violante
IN RE: JONATHAN TYLER MITCHELL,
GINA FARMER -
click here
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DOCUMENTS,
REPORTS, & MISC
Academy of Ivy Ridge, Ogdensburg, New York -
(withdrawing affiliation with WWASP)
|
(click
here) |
Bethel Boys Academy, Mississippi -
Renamed Eagle Point Academy -
Renamed Pine View Academy - Founder
Rev. Herman Fountain allegedly abused and tortured children. He now
operates City of Refuge, a facility for men over 18 who have drug
and alcohol issues
|
(click here) |
Bethel Girls Academy, Mississippi
|
(click here) |
Carolina Springs, Donalds, South
Carolina - WWASP
|
(click here) |
Casa by the Sea, Mexico (closed) - WWASP
|
(click here)
|
Cross Creek Manor, La Verkin, Utah -
WWASP
|
(click
here) |
Darrington Academy - WWASPS
|
(click here) |
Darrington Academy
Enrollment Agreement
|
(click
here) |
Deaths in programs
|
(click here) |
Directions to
Majestic Ranch
|
(click
here) |
Directions to Spring Creek
Lodge
|
(click
here) |
Dundee Ranch, Costa Rica (closed) -
WWASP
|
(click here) |
Eagle Point Christian Academy,
Mississippi (Previously Bethel Boys Academy, Mississippi -
Renamed Eagle Point Academy -
Renamed Pine View Academy - Founder
Rev. Herman Fountain allegedly abused and tortured children. He now
operates City of Refuge, a facility for men over 18 who have drug
and alcohol issues
|
(click here) |
Escort Services
|
(click
here) |
Follow the
money trail: Teen Help operators have clout
|
(click
here) |
Gulf Coast Academy
Enrollment Agreement
|
(click
here) |
Information about WWASPS
|
(click
here) |
Kemper Military School, Boonville,
Missouri (no longer on watch as
sale did not go through. Read
articles to learn more.) Randall Hinton was arrested at Royal Gorge
Academy, the program he opened after being booted out of Missouri.
|
(click here) |
Key
to His Schools' Success? It's God, Founder Says:
A Rare Interview with Robert Lichfield, LA Times
|
(click
here) |
Majestic Ranch, Randolph, Utah - WWASP
|
(click here) |
Morava Academy, Czech Republic (closed)
|
(click
here) |
Men Behind Teen Help & History of WWASP
|
(click here) |
New Beginnings Pregnancy Center (WWASPS)
Director now owns New Hope Pregnancy Center
|
(click
here) |
Pacific Coast Academy, Steven Cartisano
(closed)
|
(click
here) |
Paradise Cove, Western Samoa (closed)
|
(click here) |
Provo Canyon School, Provo Canyon, Utah
|
(click here) |
Report: Majestic
Ranch: A Living Nightmare for Kids
|
(click
here) |
Randall Hinton
|
(click
here) |
Randall Hinton attempts to purchase property in Boonville, Missouri.
According to articles, abuse allegations provided to the City of
Boonville send him packing.
|
(click
here) |
Randall Hinton OK’d to
leave state - Trial scheduled August 27-31
|
(click
here) |
Royal Peak Academy - RENAMED Royal
Gorge Academy - Randall Hinton arrested
Formerly attempted to purchase Kemper Military School
|
(click
here)
(click here) |
|
Spring Creek Lodge, Thompson Falls,
Montana - WWASP |
(click here) |
Spring Creek Lodge Parent
Manual
|
(click
here) |
Spring Creek Lodge
Enrollment Agreement
|
(click
here) |
|
Tranquility Bay, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica
- WWASP |
(click here) |
|
Tranquility Bay closing its doors?
Rumor or fact? |
(click
here) |
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STORIES
Breaking the Vow of Secrecy:
A true story about Teen Help/WWASP by Karen E. Lile
|
(click
here) |
By:
Jennifer Chambard
Casa by the Sea: A Memory That Will Haunt Me Forever
"I had never seen so many kids behave in
such a fashion before. It was like they were programmed. It was very
scary. The first week I was there, they couldn't find me a water
bottle, so I didn't get any water until 9 days later when I was
finally given one. It was Mexico in August and I was denied water!
But that was just the beginning... "
|
(click here) |
Deception, Misrepresentation & Fraud: One Mom's
Story - Sue Scheff, Carolina Springs Academy
|
(click
here) |
A Mother’s
Story by Cindi Kirkpatrick
WWASP Program:
Carolina Springs Academy
|
(click
here) |
Seven Days
I Will Never Forget by Taylor Kirkpatrick
WWASP Program: Carolina Springs Academy
|
(click
here) |
Carolina Springs Academy (WWASP)
"NO CHILD
should be subjected to what my daughter went though. These FOR
PROFIT 'treatment centers' are nothing but legalized child
abuse centers."
|
(click
here) |
|
Declaration of Terry Cameron
Supplemental Declaration of Terry Cameron
Declaration of Kerry Layne Brown
Layne was severely abused for nine
months during his stay at Tranquility Bay. He was pepper sprayed by
Randall Hinton multiple times per day every day while he was there.
Hinton admitted to this on video.
|
(click
here)
(click
here)
(click
here) |
Aaron Kravig describes the
Program as practiced by WWASP at Tranquility Bay
|
(click
here) |
Trial testimony of Aaron Kravig,
Lindsey Wise, and Nick Violente
|
(click
here) |
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FACILITIES
|
Programs
believed to affiliated with WWASPS - some named in
lawsuit:
•
Academy of Ivy Ridge, NY (Recently
withdrew affiliation with WWASPS)
•
Bethel Girls Academy, Mississippi
Bethel Boys Academy, Mississippi (Eagle
Point Christian Academy, Pine View Academy)
•
Eagle Point Christian Academy, Mississippi - (Bethel Boys Academy,
Pine View Academy)
• Canyon View Park, MT
• Camas Ranch, MT
•
Carolina Springs Academy, SC
• Cross Creek
Programs, UT
(Cross Creek Center for Boys and Cross Creek Manor)
• Darrington Academy,
GA
• Gulf Coast Academy, MI
(formerly Bethel Boys Academy, then Eagle Point Christian Academy, then
Pine View Academy)
• Help My Teen, UT
(marketing arm)
• Horizon, Academy, NV
• Lifelines Family
Services, UT (marketing arm)
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Majestic Ranch, UT
• Midwest Academy, IA
(Brian Viafanua, former Director of Paradise Cove)
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New Beginning Maternity, Utah
• Pillars of Hope,
Costa Rica
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Pine View Christian Academy (Borders FL, AL, MS - previously Bethel
Boys & Eagle Point - may now be Gulf Coast Academy)
• Reality Trek, UT
• Red River Academy,
LA (Borders TX)
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Royal Gorge Academy, previously Royal Peak Academy, CO
• Sky View Academy, NV
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Spring Creek Lodge, MT
• Teens In Crisis, LLC
(marketing arm)
• Teen Help, LLC
(marketing arm)
•
Tranquility Bay, Jamaica
World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS)
Programs
shut down on allegations of child abuse and neglect:
Four separate countries, all with limited child protection laws, have shut WWASP
facilities down for suspected child abuse and neglect:
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Casa by the Sea in Mexico
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Dundee Ranch in Costa Rica
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Morava in Czech Republic
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Paradise Cove, W. Samoa
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Sunrise Beach, Mexico
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High Impact, Mexico
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WARNINGS
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Why should we be concerned?
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There are no laws to protect the children
outside the US
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Most facilities are not licensed and there
is no oversight
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Children lose their basic human rights
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Many have no privacy to use the restroom
or shower
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Children
lose contact with the outside world
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Once phone calls with parents are finally
allowed, usually 3-6 months after the child
enters the program, they are censored; children lose all other
verbal contact with the
outside world
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Children’s letters to extended family and
friends are usually not delivered, and mail is
censored
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Many have spent months on their faces in
isolation
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VIDEOS / DOCUMENTARIES
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WHO'S WATCHING THE KIDS?
VIEW DOCUMENTARY
ONLINE
Don't miss a
minute of this compelling PBS Documentary regarding schools and
programs in Montana. Producer Anna Rau explores the teen help industry
and
the need for Federal Regulations in private Boarding Schools in Montana.
(Click
here to view documentary online or to
purchase a copy).
If you are having difficulties, try this link:
http://www.montanapbs.org/WhosWatchingTheKids/
Look for this logo on PBS website:
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Tranquility Bay Documentary
Comments from
viewers
Les Enfants Perdus de Tranquility Bay (France)
The Cutting Edge
(Australia)
Note: this
film aired in Australia and France only, and is not available in the
U.S.
- There are no laws to protect the children
- The facility is not licensed and there is no
oversight
- Children lose their basic human rights
- Many have no privacy to use the restroom or
shower
- Children lose contact with the outside world
- Once phone calls with parents are finally
allowed, usually
3-6
months after the
child
enters the program, they
are censored;
children lose all other verbal
contact with the
outside world
- Children’s letters to extended family and
friends are usually
not
delivered, and
mail
is censored
- Many have spent months on their faces in
isolation
Over the years, thousands of children have ended up
at WWASP’s Tranquility Bay facility in Jamaica where reports and
articles have shown, and victims have alleged…
Click here for more information
on Tranquility Bay
CONTROVERSY SURROUNDS TRANQUILITY BAY
◄ NEW
ROUGH
LOVE:
(June 22, 2006), by Joanne Green - Kids from South Florida and beyond
are
sent to Jamaica to straighten up.
Or else.
A VERY CHILLING
ENDING:
Two of the boys whose stories were told in
Rough Love are no longer with us today. Kerry Layne
Brown died
on June 6, Carter Lynn died on June 7.
Click here.
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FOX NEWS:
(click here)
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Tough-Love Schools
(Box with
"Photos/Videos", click Videos and choose Part 1, 2, or 3)
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