vigils linked to agapa. we reach out to the school and lawyers for the accused for comment, but have not received a response. it s been painful, amanda told us, this reckoning with her father and her own past. but, she said, she hopes in madrid for former students, like ashley tucker. ashley kicked or drug addiction, and plans to become a paramedic. she s a mother herself now, and calls her daughter her angel. now you know how your mom felt about you. yeah. [laughs] now, i realize she was just trying to help me. amanda does not expect to reconcile with her parents anytime soon. do you miss them at all? i miss what i wanted to have happen. i would never go back, but i think what i m trying to say is, i miss something i never had. what s she has, instead, is
farmhouse, at her dad school. but, we begin, years ago, and far away, in a place called faris, texas. teresa tucker, a single mom of three was, no other word for it, desperate. it was about her middle daughter, ashley, spiraling out of control. what were you worried about? drugs and rebellion. very mouth-y, and so, i didn t know where to turn. how old was she at the time? 16. on that december weekend of 2014, actually was getting kicked out of the ad another rehab. so, teresa called her best friend, the pastor s wife, for help. it was my pastor and his wife that told us about circle of hope. circle of hope girls ranch and boarding school. it was in missouri, on a farm.
but have not received a response. it s been painful, she told us, this reckoning with her father and her own past. but she hopes it mattered for former students like ashley tucker. ashley kicked her drug addiction and plans to become a paramedic. she s a mother herself now and calls her daughter her angel. now you know how your mom felt about you. yeah. now i realize that she was just trying to help me. amanda does not expect to reconcile with her parents anytime soon. do you miss them at all? i miss what i wanted to have happen. like, what i i would never go back, but i think what i m trying to say is i just miss something i never had. what she has instead is a
my child, thinking i was helping her? teresa did not want it happening to anyone else. ashley begged her, don t report the alleged rape. and so she didn t. but teresa did call child protective services, cps, and she told them about ashley s other allegations of physical abuse. they stated that they were going to go out and check the facility and all that. once they got back with me, they stated that they didn t see anything. there was nothing they could do. teresa contacted the sheriff s office, too. same story. nothing happened. what teresa didn t know was that she was far from the first or only person to make a complaint to authorities about the circle of hope. a mother told us she reported the school the year after it opened. and as time went on, police records show, more relatives and students told stories of abuse. about a girl covered in bruises.
ready to turn her back on her family. not yet, anyway. in 2011, after a parent posted negative comments about the school online, it might surprise you who its loudest defender was. you were online defending your parents. i know. right? why were you doing that? i don t know, other than i kind of felt guilty that it was my family. and so, anytime that people would say something, i just felt the need. i did not want my dad to go to jail. i don t know how to explain it other than that. and you have to understand, there were some stories she never heard back then. she never met ashley tucker, the teenager from ferris, texas, who arrived at the ranch in 2014. behind closed doors, with just us kids, they were monsters. ashley said it was in that culture of fear that the worst thing happened to her. i was sexually abused. there?