Check out my latest with @sebastianmurdock.bsky.social for @huffpost.com: Spring Ridge Academy, an isolated all-girls boarding school in Arizona, promised to help "troubled teens," but former students said the facility abused them and left them traumatized instead.

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Doubting any horror story from one of these places is like being a gravity truther

“She was the all-powerful cult leader — God. She knew it. She loved it. She’s a malicious, evil woman,” a former student said of the school's founder.

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“People say, ‘Oh yeah, that’s the ticket.’ And they become angry, and they lash out and literally — literally — make things up," the school's founder said.

120+ police reports obtained by HuffPost show dozens of runaway and suicide attempts over the years.

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Six former students of a now-closed "troubled-teen" facility in Arizona told HuffPost they were abused. The facility's founder, Jeannie Courtney, told HuffPost she believes her accusers are making it all up.

From @taiylersimone.bsky.social and I

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A must-read, from HuffPosters Sebastian Murdock & @taiylersimone.bsky.social:

> “There was nothing else I could do. I couldn’t refuse.”
> “It’s like brainwashing.”
> “I had to describe my own rape, and then they made me read it to my parents over the phone.”

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