Child Abuse Part 18: The Elan School (With Karen Watson)

Human Monsters

Morgan Rector & Glassbox Media

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

3.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 129 minutes

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The Elan school was an institution selling itself as a reformatory for troubled and wayward youth. Their claim to parents and the state was that their children’s behaviour would be corrected through various therapeutic methods. The truth of Elan was that it was a snake pit where residents were subjected to every kind of abuse. Elan did change its students: most of them emerged with post-traumatic stress disorder and other long-term psychiatric problems. In this episode I speak with Elan survivor Karen Watson whose disclosures were even more horrifying than I expected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Glassbox Media Podcast.
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1:22.0	Together we will blast the shadows with light so that no more children disappear into the void.
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