you. you knock her out yes, sir. i mean it i just posted the tiktok. knock her out it just blew up these allegations need to b looked into. how could i do this to my child, thinking i was helping her your parents deny everything, and he said it s not true. what was going on was wrong something needed to be done. hello, welcome to dateline. on the surface, circle of hope school appears to be a refuge, where so-called troubled girls can receive a christia education. some students said, behind closed doors, they suffere abuse. their secrets remained in th shadows until an unlikely ally launched a quest to bring it t light. here is keith morrison, with a broken circle. 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 afrai
child there knowing what happened. what was it like in there? it was hell. i was sexually abused. there? yes, sir. i felt like i was nothing. there were numerous concerns about abuse going on at this facility. my dad would pick a girl up by her neck, throw her to the ground. he would trip you and shove you. knock her out. yes, sir. i mean it. posted it to tiktok. knock her out. it just blew up. these allegations need to be looked into. how could i do this to my child. your parents deny everything. they say none of that stuff is true. what was going on was wrong. something needed to be done. hello and welcome to dateline. on the surface the circle of hope school appeared to be a refuge where so-called troubled girls could receive a christian education. but some students say behind closed doors they suffered abuse. their secret remained hidden in the shadows until an unlikely ally launched a courageous quest to bring it to light. here s keith m
them on the rocks outside. get in their face, yelling and screaming. boyd denied that. but amanda listened, and remembered her childhood at ghastly, watching boys being dragged off to a room known as the patted palace. when you open the door woul go into this weird, dark carpeted room. and that was the restraint room and then all you would see was later these boys were bein dragged back down from thi room and they re all bloody an bruised. we talked to a dozen former students and four former employees who told us they witnessed staff mistreatin kids over a number of years. agave did not respond to our request to comment on its website it s states s staff doesn t participate in corporal punishment we and they ve all been trained i proper restraint techniques. he says he was beaten. they re years ago. and tried to reported to a
serk stories about her father. amanda began hearing from former students of the boys religious reform school where her dad used to work. this man remember him very well. i watched him grab students and chuck them to a wall, grab them by the neck and slammed them on the rocks outside. get in their face and yell and scream. he denied that. but amanda listened, and remembered her childhood at agapa, watching boys being dragged off to a room known as the padded palace. when you open the door, it would go into this weird dark carpeted room. and that was the restraining room. all you would see was later, these boys being dragged back down from this room. and they are bloody and bruised. we talked to a dozen former agapa students, and former employees, who told us they witnessed staff mistreating kids over a number of years.