Facility profile South Carolina
Carolina Springs Academy
Also known as Seneca Ranch, Magnolia Hills Christian Academy
Closed
Donalds, South Carolina
Carolina Springs Academy was a program in Donalds, South Carolina, operated by World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS). It operated from 1998 to 2009.
Lawsuits
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Wood, et al. v. World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools, Inc., et al.
William Chase Wood and several hundred other former students and their parents sued the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS), founder Robert Lichfield, his business partners and dozens of affiliated programs, marketing and billing companies in Utah's Fifth Judicial District Court in Washington County. The document on file is the plaintiffs' 228-page first amended complaint, submitted July 24, 2013, which refers to claim sheets filed in the case on December 17, 2012 in opposition to a WWASPS motion to dismiss. It alleges that students placed at WWASPS programs in Utah, other states, Mexico, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Samoa and the Czech Republic from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s were beaten, restrained, locked in isolation and small boxes or cages, denied food and medical care, sexually abused and forced to work without pay. It alleges the programs operated as a single enterprise that deceived parents and concealed the abuse, and brings negligence, fraud, contract, conspiracy and emotional distress claims. The document does not show how the case ended.
Staff
Administration
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Narvin Lichfield
Founder, director
Elsewhere in the industry
- Academy at Dundee Ranch Owner (2001-2026)
- Brightway Adolescent Hospital enrollment director
- Gulf Coast Academy acquired by
- Teen Help LLC enrollment director
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Ownership
- WWASPS
Documents
Documents on file (2)
From the Unsilenced archive
241 documents about Carolina Springs Academy that Unsilenced collected and Kids Over Profits does not hold a copy of. They open on Unsilenced's Google Drive. Their whole folder: Carolina Springs Academy.
Documents
- 01-1.pdf
- 01-10.pdf
- 01-11.pdf
- 01-2.pdf
- 01-3.pdf
- 01-4.pdf
- 01-5.pdf
- 01-6.pdf
- 01-7.pdf
- 01-8.pdf
- 01-9.pdf
- Complaint - case 8:07-cv-03615, US District Court, South Carolina, doc. 1, filed Nov 2, 2007
- 07-1.pdf
- 07-2.pdf
- 07-3.pdf
- 07-main.pdf
- 08-1.pdf
- 08-2.pdf
- 08-3.pdf
- 08-main.pdf
- 2001-10-18 - Bob Peeler - Lieutenant Governor.pdf
- 2004-2-2 - William O'Dell - South Carolina State Senate.pdf
- A Mothers Story.pdf
- A stay at Carolina Springs Academy.pdf
- Additional Links for Carolina Springs Academy.xlsx
- Affidavit of Donna Watson.pdf
- Affidavit of Elaine Davis.pdf
- Affidavit of Heidi Mock.pdf
- August-2002 (1).pdf
- August-2002.pdf
- B of Carolina Springs Academy.pdf
- Becca and Brittney are 2 of the finest... - Marvin Browning Lichfield-fbdown.net.mp4
- Brochure.pdf
- Bryant at Carolina Springs.pdf
- C of Carolina Springs Academy and Darrington Academy.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy - A Mother's Story.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy Addendum For 12 Months.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy Addendum For 6 Months.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy Boys 6 Month Addendum.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy Boys Enrollment Form - Ryan Pink.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy for Boys Parent Checklist.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy for Girls Addendum.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy for Girls Monthly Addendum.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy for Girls Parent Checklist.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy Info from WWASP Info.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy Linelines Fact Sheet.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy Marketing.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy Overview from WWASP Survivors.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy Wiki from Fornits.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy-02-05-2011--Founder uncertain about future of boarding school in Abbeville County.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy-06-26-2008--Fire destroys dorm at school for troubled teens.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy-07-06-2011--Utah-based school owner banned.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy-09-10-2010--Animal Bones and Carcasses Found At Closed School.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy-09-21-2010--Confirmed - Carolina Springs Academy Closed.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy-10-12-2010--Abbeville County Council Members upset over animal abuse.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy-12-10-2010--School of Troubles - Another chance for abandoned boarding school.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy-12-17-2010--Abbeville school had role in rise and fall of enterprise for serving troubled teens.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy-2014--Second chances - Boarding school for troubled teens reopens with new name.pdf
- Carolina Springs Academy-Undated--Carolina Springs Academy teaches kids to respect authority and follow the rule.pdf
- Carolina Springs Brochure.pdf
- CarolinaSprings001.pdf
- CB from Darrington Academy and Carolina Springs Academy.pdf
- Christine and Jim Rosenborough's Story Undated - Parents account.pdf
- CSA Experience from a parent - Cindi Kirkpatrick.pdf
- CSA Fire (1).JPG
- CSA Fire (10).JPG
- CSA Fire (11).JPG
- CSA Fire (12).JPG
- CSA Fire (13).JPG
- CSA Fire (14).JPG
- CSA Fire (15).JPG
- CSA Fire (16).JPG
- CSA Fire (17).JPG
- CSA Fire (18).JPG
- CSA Fire (19).JPG
- CSA Fire (2).JPG
- CSA Fire (3).JPG
- CSA Fire (4).JPG
- CSA Fire (5).JPG
- CSA Fire (6).JPG
- CSA Fire (7).JPG
- CSA Fire (8).JPG
- CSA Fire (9).JPG
- CSA Parent Movie.mp4
- CSA Survivor Testimony - Anon.pdf
- csa-poh12moad.pdf
- csa-poh6moad.pdf
- csa.pdf
- csa_boy_12moea.pdf
- csa_boy_6moea.pdf
- csa_boy_flex.pdf
- csa_girl_12moea.pdf
- csa_girl_6moea.pdf
- csa_girl_flex.pdf
- csa_info.doc
- Danny Priors Account.pdf
- December-2002.pdf
- Declaration of Anita Freedman.pdf
- Dundee Academy Public Relations Proposal.pdf
- Dundee Ranch Info from WWASP Info.pdf
- Dundee Ranch Overview from WWASP Survivors.pdf
- Dundee Ranch Parent Manual.pdf
- Dundee Ranch Wiki from Fornits.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-02-12-2003--Officials to Investigate Tough Love Facility Here.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-02-22-2007--Lichfield Declared Innocent.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-02-22-2007-Today's News - Online Daily Update to The Tico Times Weekly Edition Newspaper.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-02-22-2007-Today_s News - Online Daily Update to The Tico Times Weekly Edition Newspaper.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-02-23-2007--Academy Owner Declared Innocent.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-02-23-2007--Court acquits academy owner.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-02-23-2007--Dundee Ranch owner rips police after his acquittal.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-03-08-2006--Prospective buyers await final word.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-03-20-2003--More Questions about Tough-Love Program.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-03-22-2011--Owner of Rancho Dundee was acquitted.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-03-22-2011--PANI closes youth academy for alleged abuse of students.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-03-22-2011--PANI Rescues 20 Young Americans Who Suffered Various Attacks.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-03-23-2011--Costa Rica government closes controversial ‘tough love’ youth camp.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-03-24-2011--Child Welfare Office closes yet another teen reform center.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-03-25-2011--Child Welfare Office closes yet another teen reform center.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-04-01-2011--Parents revile Teen Mentor - others claim program’s value.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-05-23-2003--Costa Rica Intervenes at Troubled US-Owned Academy.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-05-23-2003--Dundee Deals With Fallout.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-05-23-2003--News Flash.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-05-23-2003--School for Teens Tries to Survive.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-05-23-2003--Tico Times.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-05-24-2003--American owner of school arrested on abuse charges.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-05-24-2003--Dundee Ranch Students Head Back to U.S..pdf
- Dundee Ranch-05-24-2003--News Summary.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-05-24-2003--Owner of Private Discipline Academy in Costa Rica Is Arrested.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-05-24-2003--Parents take 100 young people out of academia.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-05-25-2003--Founders Passion is helping youth.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-05-27-2003--Dundee Ranch's Future Uncertain.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-05-27-2003--U.S. Youths Rebel at Harsh School in Costa Rica and Many Head for Home.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-05-28-2003--President responds to Costa Rican crackdown on troubled youth facility.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-05-28-2003--Raid leads to questions about tough-love school Part 1.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-05-28-2003--Raid leads to questions about tough-love school Part 2.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-05-29-2003--Teens transferred to Montana school after riot in Costa Rica.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-05-29-2003-Chaos Hits U.S. Reform Facility.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-05-31-2003--Tough-Love Program Center of Firestorm.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-06-01-2003--Scandal hits America's 'Dotheboys Hall'.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-06-02-2003--Rioting and escapes put teen facility under scrutiny.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-06-06-2003--Mom of Lost Dundee Student Grateful to Tico Samaritan.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-06-06-2003--Teens prison closed.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-06-17-2003--Dundee Ranch - Riots at Costa Rica school for troubled young Americans raises questions about programs.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-06-26-2003--Tough love school sent to timeout.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-07-06-2003--Utah-based school owner banned.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-07-12-2003--Narvin Lichfield Plans to Reopen Academy at Dundee Ranch.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-07-21-2006--Tough-Love Camp Owner Faces Trial.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-08-05-2003--Dundee Mother Claims Robbery.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-08-21-2003-Preside of childrens home says hes victim of witch hunt.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-08-22-2003--DSS bars president from youth facility.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-09-11-2003--Lichfield still confused.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-10-06-2006--Dundee Ranch Trial Postponed Until February.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-10-20-2002--A Mandeville woman with some strong-arm help frees her sons from a Costa Rican school.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-11-05-2003--US Federal Probe of WWASP Requested.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-11-08-2004--Academy's grip lingers as son and family transform.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-11-08-2004--Academy_s grip lingers as son and family transform.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-11-11-2004--Months at ranch leave son bruised and parents in turmoil.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-11-28-2003--Dundee Case Still Worries U.S. Parents.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-12-07-2004--Desperate steps and dark journey.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-12-09-2003--Dundee Campaign Donation Probed.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-12-15-2006--New Allegations Rekindle Dundee Controversy - Defunct School’s Owner Faces Trial Next Year.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-Undated--Concerns are growing that there may be more than meets the eye.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-Undated--Costa Rica Detains American School Head.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-Undated--Dundee Owner Released from Jail andCloses Teen Facility.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-Undated--Officials to Investigate 'Tough Love' Facility Here.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-Undated--Officials to Investigate _Tough Love_ Facility Here.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-Undated--Report PANI Failed to Protect Kids.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-Undated--Student Story.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-Undated-Costa Rica detains American School Head.pdf
- Dundee Ranch-Undated-Tico Times.pdf
- ELAIN DAVIS JAN 2004 S CAROLINA.pdf
- Experience at CSA - A parent's account - Sherri Weems 2006.pdf
- February-2003.pdf
- Flory and the staff do Horse worming day... - Marvin Browning Lichfield-fbdown.net.mp4
- Graduate of Carolina Springs Academy by Danny Prior.pdf
- Grandparents feedback on Carolina Springs Academy.pdf
- Greg at Carolina Springs Academy.pdf
- Here is Our 2nd video of the Christmas... - Marvin Browning Lichfield-fbdown.net.mp4
- January-2003.pdf
- LAUREN STAUDT DSS SOUTH CAROLINA.pdf
- Letter from Carolina Springs Lawyer.pdf
- Letter from Vargas.pdf
- Magnolia Hills Christian School Wiki from Fornits.pdf
- March-2003.pdf
- Me! On my Favorite Deer Stand on my 500... - Marvin Browning Lichfield-fbdown.net.mp4
- My experience at Carolina Springs Academy - Anonymous Undated.pdf
- Narvin Lichfield-09-08-2010--Rescue Groups Claim Dozens of Animals Abandoned in Donalds (1).pdf
- Narvin Lichfield-09-08-2010--Rescue Groups Claim Dozens of Animals Abandoned in Donalds.pdf
- Narvin Lichfield-09-21-2010--Prosecutor asks for SLED help in animal cruelty case (1).pdf
- Narvin Lichfield-09-21-2010--Prosecutor asks for SLED help in animal cruelty case.pdf
- October-2002.pdf
- OM at Carolina Springs Academy and Tranquility Bay.pdf
- PANI Amberly.doc
- PANI Report.pdf
- Parent article.pdf
- Parent Manual.pdf
- Parents demanding an investigation about a brawl involving their son.pdf
- Patrick Putmans Story.pdf
- Pillars of Hope 3 Month Trial Addendum.pdf
- Pillars of Hope Flex Addendum.pdf
- Pillars of Hope Linelines Fact Sheet.pdf
- Pillars of Hope Students Over 18.pdf
- Pillars of Hope Students Under 18.pdf
- Pillars of Hope Transfer From Carolina Springs.pdf
- Pillars of Hope Transfer.pdf
- Pillars of Hope Wiki from Fornits.pdf
- Pilllars of Hope-12-15-2006--New Program Operates at Former Dundee Site.pdf
- poh3moadd8-27-07.pdf
- poh_enrollment_12.pdf
- poh_enrollment_monthly.pdf
- poh_over_18.pdf
- poh_transfer.pdf
- poh_transfer_from_csa5-15-07.pdf
- poh_under_18.pdf
- pohflexad.pdf
- Respect Camp Cadet Handbook.pdf
- Response to a parent who heard her son was placed in a chokehold.pdf
- Ryan Pink Carolina Springs Story.pdf
- Seneca Ranch Wiki from Fornits.pdf
- September-2002 (1).pdf
- September-2002.pdf
- SLOCUM JOY JAN 23 2004 DSS SOUTH CAROLINA.pdf
- Story Submission - Anonymous.pdf
- Survivor A of Carolina Springs Academy.pdf
- Survivor B of Carolina Springs Academy (1).pdf
- Survivor B of Carolina Springs Academy and Pillars of Hope.pdf
- Susan Oldham_s Story - 2004 - Parents account.pdf
- Taylor Kirkpatricks Story.pdf
- Taylor's WWASP Experience.pdf
- Teen and Parents Tour of Carolina Springs Academy.pdf
- Teen Discovery Costa Rica Wiki from Fornits.pdf
- TICOTZ28.DOC
- Update on students.pdf
- VARGUS.DOC
- WWASP - Carolina Springs News Articles.pdf
- WWASP - Dundee Ranch Brochure.pdf
- WWASP - Dundee Ranch News Articles.pdf
- WWASP - Psychologist On Casa By The Sea.pdf