PATREON VAULT: Troubled Teen Industry- Circle of Hope Girls' Ranch with Amanda Householder
That's So Fcked Up
Ashley Love Richards
4.5 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Cam covers Independent Fundamental Baptist boarding schools, the "troubled teen" industry and Boyd Householder's jobs leading up to opening Circle of Hope. Ashley goes over the horrors that took place at Circle of Hope for 14 years, including the physical, mental, emotional and sexual abuse of hundreds of young girls.
The gals had the pleasure of speaking with Amanda Householder, daughter of owners Boyd and Stephanie Householder, and you'll get to hear some of that interview throughout the episode! They also discuss the recent shut down due to Amanda's tireless efforts, as well as other survivors of Independent Fundamentalist Baptist wilderness programs and boarding schools!
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| 0:00.0 | Girls were being forced to eat until they barfed, and then they were being forced to eat that barf. |
| 0:08.0 | Girls were being starved because my dad thought they were too heavy. |
| 0:12.0 | Girls were being forced to run around, like run laps around our horse pen for hours after they were forced to chug pitchers of water beforehand, so they are already feeling nauseous. |
| 0:24.6 | Girls were being made to waddle around flapping like a duck, like flapping their arms and quacking like a duck. |
| 0:30.6 | Girls were put in push a position all day. Like there was this one girl that was put in push a position, |
| 0:35.6 | and my dad had all the other girls outside working. And so when they would move like to a different location, that girl would get |
| 0:42.1 | up, walk over to the other location and then get back and push a position. This would go on |
| 0:46.7 | until they got so weak they couldn't do it anymore. And then if they couldn't do it anymore, |
| 0:51.3 | they would then be restrained because they were not doing the rules. |
| 0:56.5 | That is so fucked up. |
| 0:59.4 | It's fucked up. |
| 1:00.5 | So fucked up. |
| 1:02.4 | It is just so damn fucked up. |
| 1:04.9 | It is just so damn fucked up. |
| 1:12.2 | That's fucked up. |
| 1:15.3 | Playing. |
| 1:19.5 | Okay. All right. Let's get into another edition. |
| 1:29.3 | Hey, and welcome back, you guys. This is That So Fucked Up, a podcast about Colts, murder, and other generally fucked up stuff. |
| 1:35.6 | We're your hosts. I'm Ashley Richards. And I'm Cam Dexter. I'm sticking with Cam. |
| 1:41.5 | Oh, you're just going to say Cam. That's new now. Yeah. I'm going to be like, I'm Ashley Richards, and you're going to be like, and I'm Cam. I'm Cam, Dexter. You're just, oh, Dexter. No, I just truncated Cam. Okay, I didn't know if you were going for a share type of thing. Like, you're just Cam now. Right. I was like, okay. I'll think about that. But so far, it's we just, we got rid of the Ron or the Erron. |
| 2:03.2 | Honestly, I feel because like your Cam, I feel like I should be Ash, except for, I don't really ever go by that. |
| 2:13.3 | Some people occasionally call me that. |
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