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• Queen Creek police investigating alleged assault at Desert Lily Academy

  09/16/2025

  Author: Queen Creek Independent Staff

  Facilities mentioned: Desert Lily Academy, Canyon State Academy, Rite of Passage

  Trigger warnings: child sexual abuse

  Source: Queen Creek Independent

• Children were beaten, encouraged to fight at state-funded AL facility, lawsuits claim

  08/01/2025

  Author: Alex Gladden

  Facilities mentioned: Camp SAYLA

  Trigger warnings: graphic description of physical child abuse, restraints, isolation, humiliating punishments

  Source: Montgomery Advertiser

• Man on probation after hitting student at Provo residential treatment center

  07/29/2025

  Author: Emily Ashcraft

  Facilities mentioned:

  Trigger warnings: graphic details of physical child abuse

  Source: KSL.com

• Ex-Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch worker charged with sexual assault of minors

  Author: MTN News

  Facilities mentioned: Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch

  Trigger warnings: graphic descriptions of child sexual abuse

  Source: KQTV

• Family of young boy allegedly sexually assaulted at psychiatric hospital files lawsuit against facility

  Author: Mamie Bah

  Facilities mentioned: Southwood Psychiatric Hospital, Acadia Healthcare

  Trigger warnings: child sexual abuse

  Source: CBS News

• A trans teen girl was put in a male detention center. They broke her jaw.

  07/15/2025

  Author: Molly Sprayregan

  Facilities mentioned: Washington DC DYRS’s Youth Services Center

  Trigger warnings: juvenile justice, transphobia, transmisogyny, physical assault

  Source: LGBTQ Nation

• In Asheville Academy suit, lack of supervision led to self harm, child and parent say

  07/11/2025

  Author: Jacob Biba

  Facilities mentioned: Asheville Academy for Girls, Family Help & Wellness, Magnolia Mill School, Trails Carolina

  Trigger warnings: self-harm, suicide, child death, isolation, forced labor, substance use, neglect

  Source: Asheville Citizen Times

• Child Victims Act: 7 lawsuits claim sex abuse at JCCA facilities in Pleasantville

  Author: Nancy Cutler

  Facilities mentioned: Pleasantville Cottage School, Edenwald School, Jewish Child Care Association of New York

  Trigger warnings: graphic accounts of sexual abuse, substance use, restraint, isolation, grooming

  Source: Rockland/Westchester Journal News

• Teen Sexually Abused At D.C. Youth Rehab Center By Employee From Temple Hills

  07/09/2025

  Author: Kristin Danley-Greiner

  Facilities mentioned: Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services’ Youth Services Center (YSC)

  Trigger warnings: sexual abuse, isolation

  Source: Patch

• Former youth detention center psychologist pleads guilty to criminal sexual act

  07/08/2025

  Author: Lana Bellamy

  Facilities mentioned: Brookwood Secure Center for Youth

  Trigger warnings: graphic accounts of sexual abuse

  Source: Times Union

• A Military-Style School for Troubled Teens Became a “Living Nightmare”

  08/20/2024

  Author: Rachel Browne

  Facilities mentioned: Robert Land Academy

  Trigger warnings: child death, physical assault, forced labor, sexual assault, psychological abuse, racism, torture using stress positions, restraint, suicide

  Source: The Walrus

• Matt Bevin’s Despicable Legacy: From White Savior Adoptive Parent to Child Abandoner

  08/09/2024

  Author: Pamela A. Karanova

  Facilities mentioned: Atlantis Leadership Academy

  Trigger warnings: adoption trauma, broken adoptions, neglect, graphic description of severe physical abuse and injuries, graphic description of verbal abuse, homophobic slurs, suicide

  Source: The Real Adoptea Moxie Blog

• Embark Behavioral Health names new CFO

  07/30/2025

  Author: Chris Larson

  Facilities mentioned: Embark Behavioral Health

  Source: Behavioral Health Business

• ‘State-sponsored Abandonment’ No More: California Stops Paying for Adoptees Sent to Out-of-State Treatment Centers

  07/22/2025

  Author: Sara Tiano

  Facilities mentioned: Zion Hills Academy, Sequel Youth programs (Clarinda Academy, Woodward Academy, Normative Services Inc., Falcon Ridge Ranch, Red Rock Canyon School, Mingus Mountain), Havenwood Academy, Cinnamon Hills Youth Crisis Center, Three Points Ranch, White River Academy

  Trigger warnings: physical restraints, seclusion, adoption trauma

  Source: The Imprint

• Dozens of Teens Who Spent Time at Abusive Florida Reform School Ended Up on Death Row

  07/14/2025

  Author: Leonora Lapeter Anton

  Facilities mentioned: Arthur G. Dozier School For Boys, Okeechobee School

  Trigger warnings: graphic accounts of physical and sexual abuse, isolation, mechanical restraint, suicide, self-harm, racism, medical neglect, child death, humiliating punishments

  Source: The Marshall Project with Tampa Bay Times

• Julio Sandoval of Agape Boarding School can’t afford travel to CA trial. So US Marshals will pay

  07/08/2025

  Author: Judy L. Thomas, Laura Bauer

  Facilities mentioned: Safe, Sound, Secure Youth Ministries; ABM Ministries; Agape Boarding School; Lighthouse Christian Academy

  Trigger warnings: sexual abuse, forced transport, restraint, religious trauma, spiritual abuse

  Source: The Kansas City Star

• Levy Konigsberg Files Federal Civil Rights Suit Over Child Sexual Abuse at Maryland Juvenile Detention Centers

  06/25/2025

  Facilities mentioned: Thomas J.S. Waxter Children’s Center, Charles H. Hickey School

  Trigger warnings: sexual abuse

  Source: PR Newswire

• 88 children placed into protective custody after reports of child abuse in Louisa County

  06/16/2025

  Author: Jose Mendiola

  Facilities mentioned: Kingdom Ministry of Rehab and Recreation, Shekinah Glory Camp

  Trigger warnings: spiritual abuse

  Source: Des Moines Register, USA Today

• Wyoming Teen Ranch Settles Forced Labor Lawsuit for $2.3 Million

  06/12/2025

  Author: Tyler Kingkade

  Facilities mentioned: Triangle Cross Ranch, Trinity Teen Solutions

  Trigger warnings: forced labor, humiliating punishments, medical neglect

  Source: NBC News

• Ex-Laurel Ridge Treatment Center CEO faces 6 child sexual abuse charges in North Carolina, records indicate

  06/10/2025

  Authors: Nate Kotisso, Katrina Webber

  Facilities mentioned: Laurel Ridge Treatment Center

  Trigger warnings:

  Source: KSAT 12 News

• Down on the Farm: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has an idea for what to do with troubled teens. It happened to me. It was a nightmare.

  06/08/2025

  Author: James T. Morrison

  Trigger warnings: spiritual abuse, religious trauma, medical neglect

  Source: Slate

• Trump’s “Exploratory Therapy” Is Still Just Conversion Therapy — and It’s Dangerous

  05/09/2025

  Author: Dr. Matt R. Salmon

  Trigger warnings: spiritual abuse, homophobia, transphobia, suicide, self-harm, sexual abuse, conversion therapy

  Source: Teen Vogue

• Prison treatment of Indigenous teenager Cleveland Dodd was cruel, lawyer tells inquest

  06/30/2025

  Author: Australian Associated Press

  Facilities mentioned: Unit 18 of Casuarina prison

  Trigger warnings: isolation, restraint, medical neglect, denial of basic needs, suicide, racial trauma

  Source: The Guardian

• Report details ‘disturbing’ abuse against youth at the William E. Hay Centre

  06/13/2025

  Author: Sadeen Mohsen

  Facilities mentioned: William E. Hay Centre

  Trigger warnings: mentions of physical and sexual abuse

  Source: Ottawa Citizen

• Abandoned by parents in Jamaica, Traverse City teen finds hope in foster care

  09/11/2024

  Author: Alli Baxter

  Facilities mentioned: Atlantis Leadership Academy

  Trigger warnings: adoption trauma, child abandonment

  Source: Up North Live

• A Military-Style School for Troubled Teens Became a “Living Nightmare”

  08/20/2024

  Author: Rachel Browne

  Facilities mentioned: Robert Land Academy

  Trigger warnings: child death, physical assault, forced labor, sexual assault, psychological abuse, racism, torture using stress positions, restraint, suicide

  Source: The Walrus

• Lexington Herald Leader: Ex-Gov. Matt Bevin’s adopted son back in the U.S., given new placement outside KY

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  Facilities mentioned:

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• I was abandoned 2.5k miles from home at ‘Lord of the Flies’ troubled teen school – I thought I’d die any day from abuse

  07/27/2024

  Author: Luke Kenton

  Facilities mentioned: Bethel Academy, Academy at Ivy Ridge, Restoration Youth Academy

  Trigger warnings: detailed descriptions of extreme child abuse including psychological and emotional abuse, physical violence, torture

  Source: The US Sun