the sky is endless here, at the end of the californi desert it s her heaven, so far from the tree tangled sky, where sh grew up. the woods of missouri. and the yellow farmhouse, wher the story begins her father s farmhouse, hi school do you love your dad i do love my dad. are you afraid of him i am scared of my dad what a strange, strange thing. to love the person you r afraid of, the father you are afraid of at one point in time, i wasn t afraid of him but she was in which she is now either, which is wh she s come back all these year later, to the woods in the old farmhouse, at her dad s school but, we begin, years ago, an
spoil the child. it was through someone he met a church amanda that got his first jo at a chris reform school the family later moved t missouri, where boyd worked at a gossipy, a boarding school for rebellious boys. in 2006, when amanda was 15, h decided to open his own school only this one would be fou girls. well is this place like, thi physical house, the location it was just a very rundown, homely place dna had drake told us he wa she was in there when she wa in tenth grade would you been doing committing crimes? i have never committed crime. my mom found out that i ha become sexually active and tha i had tried marijuana for th first time maggie drew arrived in 2007 when she was 15. nobody was smiling. i saw the girls and everybod was so quiet i was like, this is so dismal.
and boarding school. it was in missouri, on a farm. the students followed a strict regimen of chores, school work and bible study. was it important to you that you go to a place where ther was going to be some spiritual help at this point, i didn t really care. i just needed her to have help there are hundreds of private residential facilities across the country, promisin to reform trouble teams. they range from wilderness programs to therapeutic voting schools, to boot camps then, there are those whos lessons derived from a ver particular, religious point of view circle of hope was run by married couple boyd and stephanie householder at the heart of their program, they said, was a strict, important protection of th king james bible she was going to ge schooling, and she was going t get counseling this householder was a nurse
some of the allegations wer pretty serious serious enough, the sheriff said, to launch a brand-ne investigation. his deputy went back i compiled all those years o complaints that it never gon anywhere amanda connected him wit former students and staff. he put together a case file. is that a fairly thick file? yeah, it s about five inche thick, probably. are you seeing a pattern of behavior on the part of th people running that particular school well, it seems to be that way, yes having said that, i think we need to be patient and see where this investigation takes us the sheriff s investigation was just the beginning in august, 2020, authorities removed two dozen girls from the school two weeks later, state investigators descended with their own search warrant soon after, missouri s attorne general agreed to assist a local prosecutor with hi investigation. why did it take so long? you know, over the years, w took several of the reports, the complaints to th