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Season 24 survivors discuss violence that they endured as children, which may be triggering for some

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I'm Tiffany Reese, and this is Something Was Wrong.

Music was wrong. Hi, I'd like to introduce myself. I'm Terry. I'm here because I sent my son to a troubled teen facility back in 2003. I thought he would be safe. They promised me a lot of good things, and I was desperate to help him.

So I sent him to a school called the Academy at Ivy Ridge, or at least I thought it was a school.

Hindsight tells me that it wasn't a school. There are hundreds, if not thousands of survivors and a lot of schools

just like it. And the reason I'm doing this is because due to my son attending that program,

he took his own life. I am here to tell the truth so that no other parent has to go through this.

I don't ever want anybody to have their child taken from them so tragically.

It's terrible when you think you're doing something to help your child and it doesn't

have a happy ending.

Anthony was a great kid, a lot of fun.

In middle school, he joined the football team.

He was a husky kid.

Between eighth grade and ninth grade, all summer he worked out, dieted, and ate very healthy.

And when he went back to school, he was like 45 pounds lighter.

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