bruises. a runaway, who said she had been choked by boyd household or. in four years later, another runway, who said boyd had grabbed her by the throat. and several times, child protective services went out to visit. except. i was told if i said anything negative my life was going to be made miserable. boyd coached the girls before they talked to cps investigators and they were sure he was listening she said, eavesdropping from his office on the other side of the wall. i remember being asked. are people being starved? and i said no. i was literally terrified about what would happen to me if i was going to be the person that was starved next. because nothing ever came out of these. amanda told us her parents had another way of handling the investigators to. i was told, when cps came downstairs, to take the girls outside, and basically hide the girls from cps.
agapa did not respond to our request for comments. on its website, it states its staff does not participate in corporal punishment. and they have all been trained and proper restraining techniques. colton, insisted he was be in there, years ago. and tried to reported to a sheriff s deputy, who picked him up after he ran away from the school. i tried to tell them, they are beating us. and he did not listen. he cuffed me, put me in the back of the car, and dropped me back off at agapa. that s the last i heard of. it never saw cps. nothing. and the cops did not believe? you know. agapa, like circle of hope, was seen in the community is doing good work. helping troubled kids. amanda said it was not unusual to see deputies hanging out at circle of hope. sometimes doing target practice with her dad. maggie said, boyd boasted about. it they had ties with all
you hid the girls from the authorities to or check on whether or not they were okay? yes. do you know your parents said they had an open door policy with cps. that they could come in anytime. is that not the case? cps could come in, but like i said, i had to hide them. amanda s parents denied that. they said they never hit students from cps. they said they told the girls to be honest with investigators. in any case, none of the reports ever resulted in any action. the school prosper. and parents like teresa, had no way of knowing about the complaints over the years. we have no regulations, on any religious facilities. in the state of missouri. none? none. not at all. this woman is a mystery representative and foreign murder social worker. to these places have to register with the state when they open up? no. we have no ability to currently
met a church. amanda that got his first job at a chris reform school. the family later moved to missouri, where boyd worked at a gossipy, a boarding school for rebellious boys. in 2006, when amanda was 15, he decided to open his own school. only this one would be four girls. well is this place like, this physical house, the location? it was just a very rundown, homely place. dna had drake told us he was she was in there when she was in tenth grade. would you been doing, committing crimes? i have never committed a crime. my mom found out that i had become sexually active and that i had tried marijuana for the first time. maggie drew arrived in 2007, when she was 15. nobody was smiling. i saw the girls and everybody was so quiet. i was like, this is so dismal. what is this?
instructor. it was second nature to him to just put people in their place. before he started working in reform schools, would household or had been a marine, a trainer of marines. amanda had idolized her strong, commanding father. when i was like two or three, i was daddy s little girl. he takeover drives in his jeep, she said. listen to music together. but, things began to change, said amanda, when her mother persuaded the extra sergeant to start going to church. there are many versions of christiane it he, of course. this one do you member what the sermons were, like oh with the preaching was? like a lot of the sermons i remember were a lot based on fear and burning in hell for eternity. and some, she remembers, talked about how to disciplined children. how to beat the scene out of them. it was to spare the rod, spoil the child. it was through someone he