Sarah* is one of many young girls speaking out about the ‘child-abuse institutions’ up and down the US that are still existing unchecked
    • Crewman@sopuli.xyz
      15·
      3 months ago

      The fact that places like can exist terrific me. The people that prop up those systems are absolute scum.

    • Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      3 months ago

      I’ve been reading this on and off all day and god damn is it an absolute fucking roller coaster of a story! Thank you for sharing this.

    • just_ducky_in_NH@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      Holy shit. I read about it in the news when it was shut down, but didn’t have these horrifying details. The school was two towns away from mine. How could that be going on and we “neighbors” be oblivious?

  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
    21·
    3 months ago

    I’m absolutely not surprised that so much of this shit is run by (and directed towards) Mormons. “Tough love” is the norm in Mormon families.

    • Allonzee@lemmy.world
      14·
      3 months ago

      The religion of self professed “conservatives” never fails to be pure, distilled cruelty falsely labeled as kindness.

      “Wait wait wait, I get to point at, scream at, and shame an already distressed woman, it costs me nothing to do so, and I get to call it kindness towards the unborn? You sonovabitch, I’m in!”

      • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
        5·
        3 months ago

        I’m bitterly disillusioned that so many so-called Christians entirely ignore all the things that their Christ said. That is exactly what led me to begin questioning my faith in the first place.

    • Mirshe@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      A lot of it is run by Mormons not just because of their religion, but because a lot of these places are in the Southwest for two major reasons - they can be EXTREMELY remote and isolated that way (try walking 2 hrs in Arizona or Utah in the middle of the summer, without water, after probably living on starvation-level rations for several weeks), and the laws down there are pretty lax on what constitutes child abuse IIRC (especially Utah). The worst ones are out-of-country - one of my former boyfriends was sent to a gay camp SOMEWHERE in the Caribbean, and a lot of them operate in places that are normally tax shelters for similar reasons (although I know some of the islands have managed to push these places out of business).

  • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    12·
    3 months ago

    It sounds horrible, top to bottom.

    I don’t know if the writer knew they were saying this, or even if ‘Sarah’ knows this, but the second to last paragraph just made me shudder.

    In cases of extreme childhood trauma, it’s pretty common to just forget most things before the trauma.
    Not that the stories and clear evidence of trauma didn’t make it clear how serious this was to her. Having personal experience with the memory loss, that piece of information really drove it home how that experience wasn’t merely a collection of traumatizing moments, but was a non-stop traumatic experience for a long enough period of time that it re-wired her brain.

    The misguided notion that punishment is rehabilitation needs to go in every society that still embraces it.

  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 months ago

    I had a buddy get sent to a religious camp where he was abused and assaulted, because his parents found a joint in his bedroom.