Brutal offshore Christian reform school exposed in new documentary

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

“Kidnapped for Christ” is a new documentary that tells the story of teenagers sent to an evangelical Christian boarding school outside the U.S. where school personnel attempt to rid them of feelings of same sex attraction or other “ungodly” influences.

“They mess your mind up,” said former student Deirdre Sugiuchi to Raw Story. “Prisoners have more freedom than we had.”

The “school” is Escuela Caribe, an evangelical Christian reform school that is run like a prison camp by an organization called New Horizons Youth Ministries.

Many of the students are the children of Christian parents who believe their sons and daughters’ nascent feelings of same sex attraction can be eliminated by the school’s program of Bible study, brutally hard work, exercise and physical punishment to break the students down.

Other students, like Sugiuchi, were the children of well-to-do evangelicals who were just being normal teens.

“My parents were fundamentalist Christians,” she said, “and they didn’t like the way I was turning out.”

So, at 15, Sugiuchi was sent to school in the Dominican Republic at Escuela Caribe. There were only about 40 students at the school at any given time, she said, and from the moment students arrive they are placed on a stringent system of punishments and rewards.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/13/brutal-offshore-christian-reform-school-exposed-in-new-documentary/

[Thinkingabout]

1. My question is if they can pray the gay out of a person can the stupid be prayed out of them?

[malaise]

2. They had several of them in Jamaica a decade or so ago

but they were forced to shut down when their cruelty was exposed. Sometimes I'm shocked at how little due diligence parents practice before exposing their own children to some serious lunacy.

[arthritisR_US]

8. Common... They don't need due diligence,

they have "god"

[RKP5637]

3. Yep, people of god again, ones I avoid like the plague. Reminds me of my Sunday school

teaching of years ago, as they said, "the devil comes in many disguises," and these asses are a perfect example of disciples from hell. Yet another WTF for me today. Someone tells me they've got religion, I tell them bye bye.

[rhett o rick]

4. Outlaw fundamentalism. nm

[BlueJazz]

5. Damn...I don't like the looks of the Staff.

[freshwest]

6. I am sick of these grifter for profit religious wackadoodles. n/t

[truebluegreen]

7. + a zillion

[RKP5637]

9. Yep, and some are trying to take over the court system in the US, local election by

local election, where local elections are held for judges, and they can do this because from what I've read, most people do not bother to vote for the respective judges running, so, organized wackadoodles can succeed.

[freshwest]

11. Exactly. On the school boards, in the courts, in the lege... GOTV or prepare for this future...

[eppur_se_muova]

10. This was the same "school" described in "Jesus Land" (book rec) ...

http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781582433547

[Nevernose]

12. The schools are migratory

They were mostly in Texas, then Utah, then the authorities shut them down. Then Mexico, then Jamaica, then the authorities shut them down. Now they're in the Dominican Republic, abusing children and stating one step ahead of the law. The only thing they leave behind are broken lives.