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Related: About this forumFather imprisoned gay teen son in rehab clinic after a witch failed to exorcise his homosexuality
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Russia: Father imprisoned gay teen son in rehab clinic after a witch failed to exorcise his homosexuality
A teenager has escaped from a rehab clinic after his traditionalist father locked him up after he came out to him aged 16.
Ivan Kharchenko, a Moscow teenager, spent 12 days in the Marshak rehab facility, supposedly used to treat drug addictions. He was released after 12 days of forced detention following a siege staged by his friends and supporters including by the Russian human rights campaigner Dmitry Aleshkovsky and State Duma Deputy (MP) Ilya Ponomaryov.
He was placed in the facility against his will after his paternal grandmother had tricked him into seeing a witch who attempted to exorcise the spirit of homosexuality from him. When this route failed, his father turned to doctors and medication for help.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/04/25/russia-father-imprisoned-gay-teen-son-in-rehab-clinic-after-a-witch-failed-to-exorcise-his-homosexuality/
xchrom
(108,903 posts)GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)qb
(5,924 posts)His parents sent him to an ex-gay camp. To my knowledge, he was not fortunate enough to escape.
RetiredTrotskyite
(1,507 posts)felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)to me is child abuse, in any form.
obamanut2012
(26,068 posts)That teens are imprisoned into Ex Gay Boot Camps.
I will never understand why parents have the legal right to do something like this.