She loved animals, she loved music, very artistic, she loved Disney.

Growing up, she was always a happy kid. She could make you smile just by walking in the room

when she was little.

That's Dean Goodridge talking about his daughter Taylor. But as often happens, that special little person grew into a teenager with what he calls emotional issues.

So like hundreds of other American families, he took a difficult decision.

He sent her away to a place that describes itself as a world-class residential treatment centre

and therapeutic boarding school for

teenagers, Diamond Ranch Academy in Utah. It was there that she died in December 2020,

aged just 17. Well, they sent her home in a box. I still think one of these days she's just going to

walk in the door. It's not going to happen.

It must be hard enough to lose a child, harder still when they are in the care of others,

in a place where she was supposed to be getting better.

But Taylor's family still don't know what caused her death or even where she was when she died.

I mean, I've lost family members, but I never thought I would have to bury my child.

The family are desperate for answers. Our U.S. correspondent Martha Kellner went to Utah to try and find some.

I'm Neil Patterson, and this is the Sky News Daily.

Martha, let's start with the basics.

When anyone thinks of camps in America, you know, you think of teen romance comedies, things like that. The truth is, these places, the ones we're about to talk

about, they're a million miles away from that. Yeah, they are. I mean, what we're talking about

here is an industry which generates over a billion dollars a year. So this is big business.

And the term troubled teen camps is kind of this

umbrella term, which applies to things that maybe fit the picture of what you're thinking of,

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