THE Academy at Ivy Ridge billed itself as a boarding school to help reform troubled teens, but two ex-students say their stay at the abusive facility left them traumatized and irrevocably scarred. Childhood friends Julie Peysakhova and Roman Kupershteyn were…[Continue Reading...]
THE Academy at Ivy Ridge billed itself as a boarding school to help reform troubled teens, but two ex-students say their stay at the abusive facility left them traumatized and irrevocably scarred. Childhood friends Julie Peysakhova and Roman Kupershteyn were…[Continue Reading...]
A SURVIVOR of the abusive troubled-teen academy at the center of a shocking new Netflix docuseries has laid bare the horrors he witnessed during a nightmarish nine-month stay at the school. Eddie Curley's traumatic entanglement with New York's Academy at…[Continue Reading...]
Eddie Curley's traumatic entanglement with New York's Academy at Ivy Ridge began in 2002 with the flick of a light switch in the dead of night at his parent's home in Delaware, he told The U.S. Sun in an exclusive…[Continue Reading...]
A MAOIST cult leader controlled his followers by claiming he had God-like powers. Aravindan Balakrishnan, who moved to the UK from Singapore in 1963, said a supernatural force called "Jackie" would destroy them if they tried to leave. He said "Jackie"…[Continue Reading...]
THE shiny brochure shows kids on horseback, swimming in a lake and relaxing in a breathtaking setting of "237 acres, with plenty of outdoor recreational space and nature trails”. But reality for the teenagers sent to the Academy at Ivy…[Continue Reading...]
For 10 months, an Aussie teenager was forced to share sexually-explicit images of herself and carve things into her own body by a depraved online paedophile ring. Now, the teen’s mum is warning other parents of the potential dangers, as…[Continue Reading...]
A religious cult leader, Roch Theriault, who had convinced his followers that the world was going to end in the late 1970s, subjected them to cruel tortures if they doubted him or tried to leave the group, according to this…[Continue Reading...]
The trailer for The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping previews the upcoming Netflix docuseries, which focuses on a woman haunted by her experience in a disciplinary school. “No talking. No smiling. No going outside. The Academy at Ivy Ridge claimed…[Continue Reading...]
Faith Bistline grew up a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and there’s something she wants everyone to know about it. “I hope that they see that the FLDS is a criminal organization. Straight up,”…[Continue Reading...]
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