Former students at the $60,000-a-year Midwest Academy – a “therapeutic school” for “struggling teens” – claim they were placed in solitary confinement, forced to listen to round-the-clock pumped-in noise, and denied sufficient food as punishment.
The school, established in 2003, is located in Keokuk on the corner where Iowa, Missouri, and Illinois meet, and vows to provide “a safe, comfortable, structured and disciplined environment.” With monthly fees averaging between $3,000 and $5,000 Midwest offers a fast, if expensive, academic boot camp for teenagers, who have mostly been kicked out of other schools – with most pupils staying for less than 18 months. It hit the headlines last week after the FBI conducted a two-day raid on the institution resulting in an investigation being opened into sexual abuse, which was later expanded to cover other potential forms of maltreatment.
Lee County Sheriff’s Department has told the Des Moines Register that there have been 80 calls to the police from the academy in the past three years, with five alleged instances of sexual abuse. The Sheriff has also stated that 19 complaints were “founded” – suggesting there was, in fact, evidence of illegal behavior. The incident that sparked the raid was a report from a student that she had been assaulted by a member of staff.
“It’s like torture. You think it’s never going to end. You think, how can a human do this to another person?” said the former student, who said she had personally witnessed a suicide attempt.
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With many of the students already psychologically vulnerable, the harsh treatment often resulted in trauma, with some interviewees claiming they are still haunted by nightmares of the facility.
Reports have revealed that, as the Midwest Academy was entirely privately funded and had no license either as an educational or psychiatric institution, it had not been subject to any systematic checks throughout its history. The Iowa Department of Education has stated that claims about official accreditation on the Midwest Academy website are “very concerning.”
“We consider the students at Midwest Academy to be home-schooled,” said state Education Department spokeswoman Staci Hupp.
Links with previous abuse scandal schools
The academy was founded by Bob Lichfield, the owner of the notorious World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS), an umbrella group that once operated more than two dozen ultra-strict schools in the US, Mexico, and the Caribbean. All but a handful have been shut down due to abuse allegations and licensing shortcomings, with the company having to change its name due to a steady stream of lawsuits, one of which specifically involved Midwest students.
Current owner Ben Trane has said that Midwest has severed all links with WWASPS, but has refused to or reveal its ownership structure, or give media interviews. However, another teacher, Tyler McGhghy, who had worked at the facility for seven years, dismissed the allegations out of hand.
“The accusation of physical and emotional abuse is absolutely false. Like in public education, people have bad experiences. But, it did shock me,” he told local NBC affiliate WGEM.
“Talking about the kids being manipulative and dishonest, that’s probably 80 percent of the reason they’re there. They’ve lied to their parents, they’ve been dishonest to their parents,” summed up the teacher, who said that the school observed strict protocols for student-staff relations, specifically to avoid the kind of legal fallout that has now occurred.
https://www.rt.com/usa/332442-midwest-academy-solitary-abuse/
Part of the media brainwashing over the last twenty or thirty years has centered on “authority worship”, leaving many TV viewers believing that cops are all good and always right, and anyone who’s “cracking down” on anything is God’s gift to humanity.
This popular perception results in sociopaths flocking to positions of authority in larger numbers than they have in the past, and the power they’re granted is always abused.
“Problem children” are the result of kids being raised by the television, which has made a mockery of their parents’ authority for decades, and still having to answer to parents, who were raised by their own parents rather than the TV, and have a very different view of morality than what the Zionist media supports.
I’m convinced that these problem kids wouldn’t exist if there were no TV in the house where they grew up, or if their parents made the effort to teach them that the TV’s definition of or right and wrong doesn’t work in the real world.
all playing out as planned……………….morons for parents
“With many of the students already psychologically vulnerable, the harsh treatment often resulted in trauma, with some interviewees claiming they are still haunted by nightmares of the facility.”
Prepping for prison.
And this teacher outright denying anything like that ever happened and that All the kids are liars. Either he’s the most naive dumbass that’s ever lived or he’s lying.