http://www.bloggernews.net/14184 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:17:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/14184#comment-1826924 Traci Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:54:33 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/14184#comment-1826924 I attended Abundant Life Academy, a behavior modification program that replaced the New Beginnings Maternity Home in 2007 after claims of mental and physical abuse there proved true. The school that replaced it was no better, if not more abusive. I can personally testify that two girls (both 15) were coerced in to sex with a staff member (age 30) who was not fired until months after the scandal was realized. The school is still open and taking on more teens every day. I ran away from the school at 17, after being forced on to medication for depression which I never had until I attended the program. Ironically enough I was refused other medication, such as anti-biotics or penicillin, for weeks when I came down with strep throat. I was shut up in a quarentine room and left with two other sick girls for about two weeks before anyone took us to the hospital. It was hell. Schools like this are terrible. No one, adult, child, or however you see them should be subjected to this treatment. EVER. I attended Abundant Life Academy, a behavior modification program that replaced the New Beginnings Maternity Home in 2007 after claims of mental and physical abuse there proved true. The school that replaced it was no better, if not more abusive. I can personally testify that two girls (both 15) were coerced in to sex with a staff member (age 30) who was not fired until months after the scandal was realized. The school is still open and taking on more teens every day.
I ran away from the school at 17, after being forced on to medication for depression which I never had until I attended the program.
Ironically enough I was refused other medication, such as anti-biotics or penicillin, for weeks when I came down with strep throat. I was shut up in a quarentine room and left with two other sick girls for about two weeks before anyone took us to the hospital. It was hell.
Schools like this are terrible. No one, adult, child, or however you see them should be subjected to this treatment. EVER.

]]> http://www.bloggernews.net/14184#comment-1299 captainjohann Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:49:56 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/14184#comment-1299 Can these 15/16 year old teens be called WOMAN just because they got pregnant? Stigma attached to these pregnancies is enormous in small communities. maternity home acting like prison is the root cause of this problem. Can these 15/16 year old teens be called WOMAN just because they got pregnant? Stigma attached to these pregnancies is enormous in small communities. maternity home acting like prison is the root cause of this problem.

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