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He puts his hand on my shoulder, and he's like, you're going to go with these girls for a few hours.

And then the girls kind of start to close in.

I'm like, get away from me, pushing back.

And then he's like, well, we can either do this willingly or forcefully.

Welcome to The Knife. I'm Hannah Smith. I'm Pasha Eaton, and this week we speak with Meg Richter.

Meg was sent to a boarding school for troubled teens located in the Missouri Ozarks.

She now refers to the school Mountain Park Baptist Boarding Academy as a military Christian cult.

Meg has begun to speak out about her experience and has connected with other former students of Mountain Park.

And as a note, this interview focuses on Meg's personal experiences at Mountain Park.

But at the end of the interview, we do discuss a homicide that happened at the school the year before Meg arrived.

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