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An investigation by police revealed school administrators tried to cover up multiple cases of abuse at Miracle Meadows. Students had been handcuffed or shackled to beds, and many endured rapes and vicious beatings.

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[–] [email protected] 164 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A conservative Christian group abusing children? Now I've heard everything!

How many drag queens were on staff?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

The only men wearing dresses and raping children are clergy.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Six months in jail.

What a shitty punishment for allowing rape and torture in their school.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I am guessing actual perps got NADA?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

In 2016, the school's co-founder and director, Susan Gayle Clark, was convicted of child neglect and failing to report and was sentenced to six months in jail.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In 2016, the school's co-founder and director, Susan Gayle Clark, was convicted of child neglect and failing to report and was sentenced to six months in jail.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unless she died within that six months it was too short.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Too short by about 100 years yeah.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

Read the article.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

"Christian"

"Torture"

I'm not even surprised anymore.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sounds like a... water-boarding school.

ba-dum-tsssst!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Wildly inappropriate but undeniably funny. A tight rope to walk

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fundamental tenet of Christianity: be nice to people.

Also Christianity: let's torture a bunch of people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is it Christianity or evil people under the guise of Christianity? Pretty big and obvious difference.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Organized religion is essentially organized crime in the guise of religion. Religious leaders who provide this disguise and their blind faithful who allow & enable these crimes are equally at fault with the criminals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So it's organized religion, not Christianity which has a propensity to abuse power? Because you made it sound like religion itself causes these evil acts, which it does not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Christianity is an organized religion.

I'm not @zik who made the comment you're referring to.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

And Christians wonder why with each successive generation less & less people are choosing to be shackled to religion.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

These kinds of places are beyond insane. I first heard about Elan and then I fell down the rabbit hole of shitty places like this.

Sickening.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would really be a shame if someone burned the school to the ground now wouldn't it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

lock the abusers inside first?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It was God's will this happened. We can't blame the victims, the poor priests and nuns. They were only acting out of God's will.