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Something Was Wrong

S24: S24 Preview

Something Was Wrong

Broken Cycle Media

True Crime, Documentary, Education, Society & Culture

4.124.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

*Content warning: distressing topics, child abuse, death, child sex abuse, psychological and physical violence of children, cultic abuse, Institutional child abuse, ‘troubled teen industry’, TTI, suicidal ideation, murder. 

Season 24 of Something Was Wrong shares the harrowing truths of international Institutional Child Abuse (often called the ‘troubled teen industry’) through powerful interviews with survivors of wilderness therapy programs, therapeutic boarding schools, and other institutions around the world. 

These firsthand accounts expose an alarming pattern of abuse, neglect, and trauma disguised as treatment, alongside testimony from parents who entrusted these programs with their children. With expert insights from leading voices in the children’s rights advocacy space and adolescent mental health, Season 24 explores how programs have operated in the shadows for decades and why their harmful practices continue today. 

*Free + Confidential Resources + Safety Tips: 
somethingwaswrong.com/resources   

*Sources: Former student at Utah school for troubled teens backs claims of abuse made by Paris Hilton, FOX13, News Utah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CSYxaQq8OE 

Trails Carolina camper's death ruled a homicide, FOX8 WGHP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm97SeyZ8xg 

Troubled teen school facing lawsuit over employee’s alleged sexual misconduct, ABC4 Utah 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CD0a1PdiQU 

Five Facts About the Troubled Teen Industry, American Bar Association 
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/litigation/resources/newsletters/childrens-rights/five-facts-about-troubled-teen-industry/  

What You Need to Know About the Troubled Teen Industry, The Law Offices of Lisa Kane Brown
https://lisakanebrown.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-troubled-teen-industry 

*SWW S23 Theme Song & Artwork: 
Glad Rags: https://www.gladragsmusic.com/ 

The S24 cover art is by the Amazing Sara Stewart

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0:00.0

The death of a child at a troubled teen camp is now considered a homicide. An autopsy report states that a 12-year-old boy who died less than 24 hours after arriving at the Lake Toxaway based camp died.

0:14.6

A former student at Red Rock Canyon School in St. George filed a $10 million lawsuit today.

0:21.7

She's accusing the now closed school, its parent company, and two former staff members of negligence,

0:27.5

failure to supervise, sexual assault, and more.

0:30.3

Celebrity, Paris Hilton, is calling out a Utah youth facility, claiming she was abused during her time there in the late 90s.

0:42.3

If you were to compare and contrast the prison industrial complex to the TTI, they have more rights than we did.

0:52.3

When I was 15, I was abducted in the middle of the night by two strangers,

0:56.6

and I subsequently spent the next three and a half years in two different facilities.

1:02.9

I thought it was a boarding school. I thought they would teach him not to do the drugs,

1:08.7

would treat him well, and thought he would get better.

1:13.6

They're explaining to me that I'm now part of this program because I was an unruly child.

1:21.6

This was my parents' last attempt to help me.

1:25.6

They blindfold you, do the strip search.

1:28.9

They make every effort to dehumanize you from the second that you're in their custody.

1:36.5

The idea is we scream at you, we break you down, we totally control you, and that way we

1:44.0

reprogram you.

1:45.0

It was a privilege to do just about anything because the narratives you don't deserve anything.

1:53.0

I had to confess to doing drugs and having sex even though I had never done so.

1:59.0

But if you deny that, then you are lying.

2:05.2

Staff members who were so wonderful when they came in ended up molding into these horrible people

2:14.0

on a power trip. There were some girls that I was terrified of because they were so programmed, where it was

2:23.1

kids abusing kids, essentially.

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