From the get, what they did was illegal and immoral. Narvin and Robert Litchfield will be punished sooner or later. Hmmm. Are there 2000+ in the WWASP Survivors group that are lying as well? WWASPS Back in Court, Again | WebWire Any one who ever had to enter those doors you are never alone! craig hanson is a liar, deceiver, and that place is the most dishonest place ever. Im so hyped someone is writing a screen play I have always been told from others that cross creek sounds like something from a twisted movie. We had to be within arms reach at all times? Mighty nice list of people to execute. doubt I would have read all of Dostoevsky and Hemingway, etc at Cross Creek if I wasnt exposed to it by the tapes. Dallas that asshole. Who knows? Dude I remember Dallas, tall ass muscular intimidating mf. That guy was a quack. Before opening that program he served as a football coach for several college and professional teams, including Weber State and Utah State. The boy side staff were very relaxed and there was very few restraints. Cross Creek Manor, was opened in 1987 in La Verkin, UT. Brian Vaifanua owned and ran one of the most notorious WWASP programs, Paradise Cove in Samoa, a facility where children were subject to miserable conditions, denied proper food and medical care and systematically tortured, assaulted, neglectedand broken. Ill never be the same and I feel an obligation to make sure other kids dont have to be trapped in these prisons where restraint, belittling, or cruel punishment are an every day occurrence. I was small, still have a chip in my hip from the abuse, I struggled for years after I left from the abuse. I attended a place called Trident in 95-96. Cassie, When I arrived, I was put into group 5. This Is Maysam Group 8. We follow the Lord and value family. I knew it would get shut down eventually. Does anyone who went to cross creek know how to obtain our high school transcripts. Some of the programs have added a therapeutic component in addition to the typical highly structured program. I was there for 30 days then I was flown to salt lake city and ended up in provo canyon school. These guys are like hiding Nazi SS rats, just follow the smell, and the exterminate. Copyright 2012-2021 WWASPSurvivors.com - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. If you were in group 6 than you knew how messed up Craig was to his kids. The lying, manipulation of us and our parents, the psychological and emotional damage, isolation, and all the other fucked up shit they did is on them-not us. Then, in 1999, he took an ownership interest in the Cross Creek Programs, where he still serves as Administrator. Thank you for getting this website going! They got their start in the TTI owning an all-girls program called Sunrise Beach in Cancun, Mexico. Learn how your comment data is processed. Anyone remember Dallas? how dare them! I got lost down this rabbit hole, and Im seeing some familiar names pop up. I remember you. I was 17. The school is bogus there anyway & not really accredited, so anything he did, he will have to do over. Another graduate claimed to be supervised by a male staff member when she was showering at the age of 13. Yes No. Farnsworth met Litchfield when both worked at Provo Canyon Schools. After that, the other programs were founded one by one, following roughly the same model as developed at Cross Creek Manor but each separately owned. Please get back with me. Goodwin would not agree and insisted his son be sent to Cross Creek in LaVerkin, Utah. None of this is due to cross creek I will never see how this helped my life. I was also in your group in 2003 was there for only 8 months. Lol The reason they restrained him over 50 times was because they needed to. Trane was found guilty of all charges and faces up to 9 years in prison and will have to register as a sex offender. Cross Creek Programs, UT (Cross Creek Center for Boys and Cross Creek Manor) Darrington Academy, GA Help My Teen, UT (Believed to promote and market WWASP/WWASPS/Robert Lichfield . What a charming example of exactly the kind of attitude that allows abuse like this to occur. He found a journal i kept and put me on suicide watch for 2 months, he didnt like me because i hated sports and didnt like him. What struck me at the time was how young they all were. Yeah I was at cross creek very fortunately for only 8 months cause my parents pulled me out. No wonder he was NOT helpful about the complaints against these Utah facilities. I was there when the Ron Meetings first started. yes a fight club. Remember, Majestic Ranch treated children from 7 to 14., so all victims were under 15 for sure and possibly quite younger. Facts are facts. And before you even pretend to say thats because of WWASP, I was considered nonworking and took my exit plan when they could no longer legally hold me as an adult. When she finally was released I am so unbelievably honored that it did not completely ruin the woman I loved. You and all those pieces of shit need to be professionally executed. Ron Garrett is a bitch ass nigga. He was an evil, disguisting animal that deserves decades in prison for the abuse he not only allowed but promoted and got off on. Oh I didnt graduate after the little scuffle in the cafeteria with Preston and Raphael and a come clean done by a group mate I was too much of a liability to the state of Utah because I was now 18. This place tries to get you to say you hate your parents and your life is terrible, which is only true caus youre in the place. GTFOH. I cant find pics anywhere of the inside and have been looking and looking. The Sociology textbook was modern and really interesting. All you do is look within. Homes similar to 8 E DAWN Dr are listed between $475K to $1M at an average of $305 per square foot. Richard Darrington I was in Parkers group with you. Hey bud its Mitch from group 8! I went there as a child, ages 12-14 in 2007. You sound like the typical idiot who would believe that it helped you in some way. I was 14 years old and had just run away from home. I got sent to Dundee ranch when I was 13 and almost died of malaria and they didnt tell my parents. I was betrayed by family and kidnapped during the day. Horizon Academy (Utah) states on their website that they are closed. I know exactly what you mean. Relationships completely non existent and lost. Kay currently serves as superintendent of Browning Distance Learning Academy, a homeschooling curriculum company owned by Robert Litchfield. I was there. In the classic nepotistic fashion that a hallmark of WWASP, in 2010 his father appointed him the owner and Administrator of the Teen Mentor facility in Costa Rica. Rules and Regulations. WWASP PRESS RELEASE ON UTAH LAWSUITS (In November, 1998, two lawsuits were filed in the State of Utah against Cross Creek Manor, Teen Help and the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs. Narvin Lichfield has had a long and checkered history with WWASP. And they lied to parents all the time. Plus they were very strict Mormons, who really had never been to the outside world nor experienced the type of problems similar to what us girls had experienced, which explains their lack of empathy. I was one of the girls who unfortunately spent days on end in isolation and was restrained several times. In 2012 Vaifanua was reported to the St. George school district superintendentwith a long list of allegedhuman rights abuses committed by him and urging the Board to have Mr. Vaifanua banned from working with young children. WWASPS was founded by Robert Lichfield and was incorporated in 1998. I was there at the same time that place messed me up for years.. Love you brotha you were one of the few who really helped me get through that place. Gosh, where to start. I was 17 and had my 18th birthday behind that white shitty fence. Keep going. It made me very sad because i felt I had been abandoned again. Dallas was a fucking pricky I hated him. Jason Finlinson Jay Kay, the son of Ken Kay>, got his start in WWASP working for his father as a security guard at Brightway Adolescent Hospital. This kid was absolutely crazy. Survivor Testimony Tia Foster So phones call after that were very silent. With a bad record, My adoptive mom sent me to cross creek programs boys side in August 2009 and was taken out in August 2011. Two years under Brian Parker my therapist Mary my family clinician and Ron Garret. My therapist wasnt too bad, but I remember Garth and how most were scared of him. dkcedrake@yahoo.com. I remember Cory Padilla. If you are lucky enough to still be alive after long term abuse. We all went through something thats hard to fully explain to people who havent experienced it. I went to that school. Over letting someone tell on themselves vs. telling on them myself. I attended it and there were about 16 of us there. Mi name is paul morrison I was also in greig hansens group five but spent most of mi time in the isolation unit on mi stumic in the cold hungry. #troubledteensfightback. These people have left a permamnent scar on my loved and dearest friend and partner and should be financialy as all of these survivors should be vrewarded for she is unable to even acomplish some of the smallest social activities ,let alone take care of herself due to the timid and fearfull behavior that in hablts every movement in her life if it was not for my asistance she would be dead by now in the streets,this wasp seminars are sicker and more corupt than scientology and need o be hit where they live in the pocket besides Jeanette is having a hard time surviving due to these REWARDING??? dont take my post down this time like really have some accountability for what you did.I dont know how many time you had big guys toss me on the floor as staff was yelling at me telling me to have accountability as they lay across my back as I am just trying to get air which is really hard to do with three guys laying on your back with all of them putting all there weight on me they made me pass out more times then I can count in there S.N room which was smaller then a jail cell with no bed just enough room for them to lay you out and crush you it your turn to have some accountability. So it was prison none the less. I dont think youll find one person who will disagree with you about Ron. Id really like to know what went on. I am a lawyer in Alexandria Louisiana and I have been contacted by a family, whose son was possibly abused at this facility. I remember it all like it was yesterday. Its been 9 years and Im still not free of that place. Ron had me do Cross Country for them and play on the Basketball team. Royal George Academyit (m there) April 2007 To 2008 Call it either a prison with a nicer outfit or a Gladiator School (Prison). "In September of 2004 I was sent to Cross Creek Manor (CCM) Utah- One of the therapeutic boarding schools that were operated by the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs (WWASP). I learned a lot about myself there, that i never want to be locked up again, i love my freedom. Ive wanted to do something to shut these places down since I was 17, and Id love to help of I can. He screamed at me, spoke down to me, insulted me, tried to physically intimidate me, and sentenced me to 30 days in complete isolation for my non violent refusal to fallow program rules. A backpack and the cross creek uniform still on my back. He was then ordered by the state of South Carolina to stay away from CSA until the case resolved, which wasnt completed until 2007. $475,000. Each tape lasted almost an hour and you did this the entire day, every day, except a quick break for meals. If something horrific and traumatic didnt happen and were all already free, why would we bring it up for any other reason than the offer support and warn parents faced with similar decisions? I pity your clients. Jay Kay was eventually given the job as Director at Tranquility Bay, where he served until the facility closed in January 2009. I Graduated from tranquility bay and am trying to get my transcripts. Narvin vowed to reopen, but backed off that claim when he was arrested by authorities in South Carolina in 2011 after he was pulled over and determined to have been driving on a suspended license and without insurance. He resigned as Director in 2002 while serving a one year, probation-likepre-trial diversion. Steve and Glenda Roach are from St. George, Utah, where they both worked as police officers. I have a few friends on FB from back then but would love to check in with some of my other sisters. I hope everyone can find what they seek. @Rick. Rob my brother from another mother hit me up! I remember that the guy in charge was Cameron, and I remember sick sadistic people like that pig Adrian, and his bland wife. Serving as Administrator, directly under Ken Kay,Ron Garrett was the face of cruelty in Cross Creek Manor/ Center. I dont remember its been years lol. Ivy Ridge was closed in 2009. The seminars were pure psychological manipulation, designed to promote hysteria and to break down the ego so that they could fill up our shattered personalities with whatever they wanted. To me, restraining someone who is violent or suicidal, is a justifiable means to restrain someone. Hey blake, werent you my staff buddy? For example, if a kid punches another kid and a staff restrains him, that is not abuse, because you would be more pissed if he did nothing and let the fight continue. We were in group 5 with Mr Hansen and ms lona I hated both of them whole heartedly. Raise awareness of the true nature of WWASP Programs, to advocate for those still being held in Troubled Teen programs, and to provide validation and support to survivors of WWASP programs. Im a union electrician I have two beautiful kids and a loving wife. I was in group 4 with thane for all of 2006. He definitely helped ease my time there. Getting restrained, dude that part sucked. index/crosscreek - troubledteens - Reddit Would a map of the rooms inside be helpful? I was in group 4 with thane for all of 2006. I watched it happening everyday. Required fields are marked *. people that bent us over and spanked us with rulers about to rape us. And anyone on here talking shit about us being troubled teens can fuck finlinson. Eating a pop tart taking little rat bites so I could make it last all movie. I wish I wouldve find this site years ago. I can remember seeing jay Kay and Randall Hinton at Tranquility Bay, they broke bones. In 1996, he then opened Spring Creek Lodge with the Pullan brothers, serving as Vice President. Kay also said in August 2004 during his testimony in the WWASP vs. Defendants Cross Creek Manor, LLC, Cross Creek Center for Boys, LLC (Cross Creek Defendants) and Karr Farnsworth (Farnsworth) move to join in the WWASP Defendants' Motion to Dismiss and the WWASP Defendants' Motion for a More Definite Statement. I know damn well theres no storage back there! I was there in February 2003 never forget. Im here for all of you and want to hear your stories and hopefully some of you recognize me. Cross Creek Programs: Abuse and Torment - WWASP Survivors The Food was the most disgusting food Ive ever ate. Damn I remember Dallas haha. We did room together in the other facility off the main campus. They have morphed into Youth Foundation, Inc. and Youth Foundation Success Academy. Tanner, I think we were in the same Discovery seminar, Its scary places like that exist. Rick is a troll. Conditions at High Impact were said to be deplorable by the Mexican and American authorities that raided and shut down the compound in 2002. 5+ days) sitting in structure and brutal attack therapy sessions that he appropriately named after himself. You were like the first dude outside of my group that talked to me. From Florida.. especially my best friend in the joint: Beau funk. Jade Robinson Victory Lawsuit Against Abusive Teen Help | Help Your Teens His meetings, to a child, were a terrifying thing to endure. I would do anything for the tape of that fight, I would love to sue that place and I am extremely happy to hear that they are shut down. Dont know how causer I know girls that were there for over 2 years and on a lower level. I remember Dallas and Sam and Craig and all those guys. Ft. 1008 E Brentrup Dr, Tempe, AZ 85283. I dont remember what group i was in, but I had Brian Hansen. 3 Beds. That place and then mental torture/manipulation that he and Lona exhibited fucks with me to this day. The ironic part of all this is that I own and operate a legal Cannabis Company in CA, go figure. It saddened to read the things said about Brian Vaifanua. I need it for college. Any help would be awesome. After founding Cross Creek, Lichfield, along with many of his close family and friends, went on to open several more programs, which would later become a part of WWASP. He is also responsible for overseeing afacilityin violation of many health codes and maintaining a lack of ethical standards of care for the students of CBS. He was also served with 3 summonses regarding bad checks written on CSAs closed checking account totaling about $2,000. I was there 02/03, I had Thane as a therapist. To everyone who spent time at this facility- I hope these pictures and videos can bring you some sort of closure. I was in group 2 with Colin and Jeff. Do you remember Willy Modisett? Then walked when I was 18. Fucking trash, yet no one believes or cares. As a Judicial Assistant, she has authorized access to all court records, and could very well manipulate or what if she has already manipulated files. So please, anything I can do to help, please let me know. My son still will not talk about everything that happened there. You were 19 and still there if I recall correctly. Mr Robby, Mr Dallas, Mr Tony, Mr Justin, Mr Brandon and Sam the one ton of fun. (Or Whatever You Believe In!). . My intake was a little different. I will never forget that fucking worksheet room! Most drank the unKookaid and wre the teachers pet favoritism. He also owns and manages a gas station and condos right across the river from Nauvoo (Montrose, Iowa). Ill never forget praying with you every night to make it out alive. I remember Brian too. [2] The school ("Cross Creek Academy") was educationally accredited through the Northwest Accreditation Commission. We made it, they didnt. Anybody else there at the same time? https://www.facebook.com/groups/wwaspsurvivors/, Thanks Bill, Ive already submitted a request to join. Three Points Center - BREAKING CODE SILENCE I remember I took Justin out then Tony came in and slammed my head on the floor.
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