In the town of Douglasville lies what was once the largest medical facility in Georgia.

It is here where a largely unknown story began.

Remember the name Anawakee.

It was mostly obscure a few months ago,

but in the months ahead it may come to represent

everything that's right and wrong

with juvenile justice and rehabilitation,

not just here in Dutless County, but throughout all of Georgia.

Louis Petter began the Anawakee Center for Emotionally Disturbed Youth in 1962.

For over two decades, thousands of patients would attend.

It was based on what they called wilderness therapy.

It started out with tents and shovels and from there he built that massive complex or his kids built it.

By the brochures I thought I was going to a camp. I didn't realize I was going to be locked up.

It was kind of like a outdoor summer camp where you would live in some cabins and do outdoor things.

They always seem to leave out the slave labor or as they called it vocational therapy.

Anawiki was meant to break you down. They wanted to make you into a machine.

Anawiki has come to represent the tip of an iceberg of discovery into the abuse of children.

In addition to years of child labor was a network of abusers that went from the top of the

organization all the way to the patients.

He took kids out of the program and brought them into his family.

That was what happened to me.

And I knew older guys that had happened to them. It's a system that is built for abuse.

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