Years after being sent to a disciplinary school, a woman still haunted by her experiences exposes the corruption and abuse of the troubled teen industry.
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00:00 What do you do if your child gets caught in a cycle of self-destructive or even dangerous behavior?
00:04 Some desperate parents are having their children abducted, taken against their will to a behavior modification program.
00:10 The reality is torture of children.
00:14 I got here at 3 in the morning, and they said I was not allowed to talk anymore, and you can never leave.
00:22 They were being treated like prisoners.
00:27 I had never done drugs in my entire life, but in order for me to graduate, I had to confess to using heroin, crack, cocaine, LSD.
00:34 They dehumanize the kids that these kids are liars and manipulators. They use that to create compliance.
00:41 It's hard to comply with something that you know is wrong.
00:46 We have these handwritten, signed and dated confessions of abuse.
00:55 They use physiological experiences to manipulate the mind. It's meant to break you.
01:01 It is literal brainwashing. You are at fault. You are to blame.
01:06 The people that the program most wants to influence is the parents. It was basically a cult, and we're talking worldwide.
01:15 It's a billion-dollar industry. It all went into this, and it was just to make the sky rich.
01:20 It is human trafficking of children.
01:24 All these kids being robbed of normal childhoods, it's all still operating.
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