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HAB911

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Thu Mar 2, 2017, 12:21 PM Mar 2017

Life Inside Alabama's Most Sadistic Christian Bootcamp

Solid Rock Ministries in Mobile, Alabama. Three officials from the church’s program for troubled teens were convicted in January 2017 of aggravated child abuse.

It was October 2011, and Captain Charles Kennedy, a veteran policeman, was in the main office at the Restoration Youth Academy (RYA), a Christian home for troubled teens in Prichard, Alabama, when he caught a glimpse of something shocking on a close-circuit monitor: a naked boy crouching in a 6-by-8-foot isolation room as a light bulb burned overhead.

Kennedy had been waiting for William Knott, the program’s manager, to return with some paperwork, and when he walked back into the office, Kennedy asked about the boy, whose name he later learned was Robert. He wanted to know what the boy had done to deserve such treatment. Knott, a squat, powerfully built ex-sailor, calmly explained his rationale: “He’s got an attitude. He’s only been there for a day, and he’ll be there for another day or two.”

http://www.newsweek.com/2017/03/10/saving-youth-foundation-alabama-christian-school-beatings-nudity-562257.html

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Life Inside Alabama's Most Sadistic Christian Bootcamp (Original Post) HAB911 Mar 2017 OP
There are many more & when they get shut down they just move to another state & reopen luvMIdog Mar 2017 #1
good reference material HAB911 Mar 2017 #3
I'm 61 I actually spent 2 years in one of those homes & it really f'ckd with my head luvMIdog Mar 2017 #4
Horror. No words. northoftheborder Mar 2017 #2

luvMIdog

(2,533 posts)
4. I'm 61 I actually spent 2 years in one of those homes & it really f'ckd with my head
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 02:02 PM
Mar 2017

They use systematic brainwashing. I was reading a POW site once and almost every single technique employed by North Koreans on POW'S was used in that place I was in to turn is into proper little followers of Christ I was in there during the Vietnam war. We were not allowed newspapers , magazines, radios, or any influence from the outside world. That's about as much as I want to talk about that right now. Most of them people I have known that were in there just want to forget & others remained completely brainwashed never to come out of it. Me, well I have no religion now. I think it's worse now because they are being indoctrinated in hate and also geared towards the militant side. Just wanna say this is also one reason Right Wingers and Tea Party make me cringe.

If you read these it will show how all they do is change the names and move and reopen. They get help from everyone including politicians.

Oh Brother Roloff ( from the links below) once BIT my thumb for giving him a 'hippy' handshake LOL

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/teen-home-hell-abusive-religious-reform-school
http://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/remember-the-christian-alamo/

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