Maggie Drew, who attended Circles of Hope Girls Ranch from 2007-2013, alleges the now-shuttered boarding school illegally took her inheritance money and required her to endure forced labor, and that the school's co-owner sexually abused her.
“People are realizing that these schools shouldn’t be open and that more people are speaking out,” said a former student of a Missouri Christian boarding school.
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