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Paul Geer "The Music Man" was convicted by a federal jury after a two-week-long trial on two counts of coercing and enticing two separate children to travel across state lines to engage in unlawful sexual activity and two counts of transporting the children across state lines with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity with those children. The jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on two additional counts. "The evidence at trial proved that, while Geer was a teacher at the Family Foundation School in Hancock, New York, he imposed various disciplinary sanctions on students that were tantamount to torture. The sanctions Geer imposed on students included depriving children of food or forcing children to eat food that had been regurgitated, binding children in rugs and leaving them in isolated rooms for extended periods of time and forcing children to perform forced physical labor. " Read the full Press Release from the US Attorney's Officer HERE. Listen to "Meet the Music Man" HERE. Read Liz Ianelli's memoir about The Family School "I See You Survivor" HERE Watch Jon Martin Crawford testify to Congress about FFS HERE Read the Catskills Reporter's ongoing series about FFS HERE Get ready to hear all about the trial once Paul's 2 week period to try and overturn the conviction has passed. Until then please help us protect this case. THANK YOU to all of you, without whom this would never have been possible. And as always, to all Survivors out there, #ISeeYouSurvivor

Hey stranger danger, remember us? We’ve been on Blackout for the last few years primarily because the podcast and all you epic humans tuning in from across the Globe have been successful! I dig that it seems weird to go dark when things are working, but gander a google for “Paul Geer” and you’ll see that the Federal Govt has finally charged the “Music Man” from my personal vortex of hell “the Family Foundation School” for just 3 of his many victims who came forward from his 30 year reign of terror, and yes we all hope that more of his victims will have access to Justice in the future . For those that arent caught up on this predator, checkout our interview with Liz and Liz titled “Meet The Music Man” from 2020. We pushed for YEARS for the NY Child Victims Act which opened the statute of limitations for child victims of SA in civil court. Those cases have finally arrived in Federal Criminal Court in the “USA vs Paul Geer”. Currently, the jury is deliberating so we are keeping our mouths SHUT as we have for the last few years to protect this process. Troubled remains a free, non monetized podcast by Survivors, for Survivors and the general public. Our goal is still to raise awareness with the goal being Justice and accountability for the past as well as legislation and reform in the present and for the future. To this day, a quarter million NEW child victims are abducted, trafficked, detained and tortured in coercive behavior modification facilities nationwide. For the thousands of Survivors from the Family School specifically, we see you survivor. As soon as the verdict is in we will posts updates about the trial and if you would like your voice included please send audio Recordings to our email TheTroubledPodcast@gmail We’ll use as many clips as possible, but they may be edited for brevity or content. FFS Survivors who would like to submit a character witness statement for Paul Geers sentencing (which is months up to a year out) we are happy to forward you that email or you can contact the James T Foley Courthouse in Albany (which is also how you would purchase the trial transcript which is 5 cents a page, altho please note that we do plan to host our copy publicly once received). For ANY Survivor who hopes to be involved in ANY civil or criminal cases in the future, PLEASE PLEASE hear this “anything you say publicly on any podcast, in any article or even on any of your social media platforms CAN absolutely be used as evidence in any court.” We have a lot to say about how Survivors testimonials were used in Federal Court this time but we and EVERY FFS Survivor (or anyone related to any active case) should seriously stay shhhed until the verdict is announced to avoid jeopardizing our collective access to Justice. We’ll be seeing you again very very soon, but until then #iseeyousurvivor

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Last week, the first volume of the report on the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigation was released. Last year, the first Indigenous Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, created the initiative after the discovery of 215 unmarked graves of Indigenous children by Canada’s Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in May 2021. If YOU are a Survivor of Institutional Child Abuse (w/in the so-called "Troubled Teen Industry": Conversion Therapy, Wilderness Therapy, Bootcamps, Boarding Schools), or one of our allies, it is imperative to support the Indigenous Communities of Turtle Island through this review and reconciliation. Please center, elevate and amplify Indigenous Survivors and Advocates. READ Indian Country Today's coverage for a summary and follow for more information. The National Boarding School Healing Coalition is requesting people who attended a boarding school or are a descendent of a boarding school attendee to submit their written testimonies to the House of Natural Resources Committee by May 26. Email submissions to HNRCDocs@mail.house.gov and CC NABS at info@nabshc.org. The National Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) has put together a suggested outline for written testimony for individuals to follow if needed: YOU can support the first targets of the US' Historic prevalence of mass, for-profit, legal, child abduction, detention, trafficking and torture schema by sharing this brief update episode and ALL of the links below to help make sure that ALL Survivors of the Residential Schools for the Indigenous are aware of their opportunity to submit testimony. We are disheartened that after centuries of Survivors speaking up, and a year of investigation, the US Government is allowing mere days for Survivors to step forward and share traumas they may have kept locked away for decades. STILL, raise awareness for this update in #everychildmatters and then do the following: Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding Schools ActSB2907ResistBotPCGYYN"Demand Thorough Searches of Residential School Lands for Native Children Remains" Podcast on this Friday! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/troubled/support

18 years ago, I became a legal person and was allowed to simply walk out of the pedo run kiddie prison I'd been detained in in the Catskills. I wasn't allowed to "walk away" when they forced me to eat my vomit, or while the last boy I had a crush on was choking to death on his own blood in front of me - but somehow, something about my 18th birthday, changed everything. 18 years later and I'm barely beginning the process of deconstructing my experience within the so-called "Troubled Teen Industry" at the Family Foundation School in Hancock New York. I'd like to thank the film, Sucker Punch, for breaking the blocks I had built the dismissive delusion of my "boarding school" upon. Let's discuss a few of the things I learned from my one year of access to therapy. For those of us with CPTSD from Tough Love, it's imperative that we recognize DARVO when it happens. While I'm not endorsing DBT, or suggesting these tactics have worked for me, we discuss the Dear Man technique. And scoop this Daily Mail article on our team, focused on Circle of Hope and Agape Boarding School thanks to the advocacy of Amanda Householder and Colton Schrag (to name two of many). We appreciate the shout-out to Family School Survivors, if you are one and would like to participate in upcoming articles, please reach out. If you'd like to connect with the Reverend Chris Wilson (who breaks down the difference between "boundaries" and "rules" for us) you can find them on Instagram HERE @ExiledFaith if you are interested in addressing your religious trauma or learning more about the toxicity of "purity culture", we could not recommend them more. Please send in any audio clips for our #justiceforcornelius episode Please rate and write reviews for the podcast on itunes, Spotify and Facebook and connect with us across all social media platforms @TalkTroubled Until then, #iseeyousurvivor and keep #breakingcodesilence #maythefourthbewithus --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/troubled/support

Let's talk about Survivors of Institutional Child Abuse on a global scale. Sometimes its imperative to scroll it back to comprehend the scope of the entire cake we're cut from. Historically institutionalized communities are calling upon the international community to activate and assist them in moving their advocacy forward. This week is #MMIWAwareness and the root of the rot of institutional youth abuse in the USA and Canada were the "residential schools" for the Indigenous. There is so much valuable insight to glean from how Survivors have pushed for reform, redress and reconciliation. But as we continue to benefit from Indigenous cultures, we must likewise center, elevate and amplify their voices as we move forward with any action items or advocacy in/on Turtle Island. As the rising toll of indigenous children confirmed stolen by the Church and State's institutional atrocities surpasses 10,000 in Canada, we implore you to jump on hashtags like #everychildmatters and help to proactively expand the visibility of these Survivors and Advocates. With that in mind, please follow and support one of our favorite Nonprofits in Canada, led by an MMIW Survivor and Second Generation Residential School Survivors @ChildrenFirstSociety on all socials and activate via their website: https://childrenfirstsociety.wixsite.com/childrenfirstsociety In Ireland there are over 9,000 children confirmed killed by the Church and State in their residential homes including the Mother and Baby Homes. Please join the Survivors and Advocates via #motherandbabyhomes. If you're particularly interested in the institutional targeting of Irish Travellers in Ireland definitely support best selling author of "The Tinker Menace" Laura Angela Collins. You can support Travellers and other Nomadic Communities in the EU/UK via #WeRoamWithYou and #StopTravellerHate With everything we have to learn from the successes in these communities, as well as the obstacles they face, our hope is that we can apply this knowledge to our own quest for justice while also becoming more accessible, inclusive, diverse and accountable. We haven't used the hashtag #breakingcodesilence in a while but since we bring it up, we may as well include it here. We have to expand and round out our table of leadership, access and visibility so that all Survivors can see themselves represented whether they be from wilderness therapy, conversion therapy, religious boarding schools, or any Tough Love flavor of the so-called Troubled Teen Industry. And we must recognize when we individually or collectively DARVO ourselves and the community by deflecting the trauma we deny in ourselves and projecting it outward. Checkout "Take Back Your Life Recovery" by Dr. Janja Lalich, next deprogramming series for Survivors of High Control Groups starts in May: https://www.tbylr.com/ We hope you will join us as we move forward into this next stage of our crucible, and we are incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported us thus far. Follow us @TalkTroubled everywhere, visit our website www.talktroubled.org and rate/review us on iTunes/Spotify/Facebook. #iseeyousurvivor --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/troubled/support

UPDATE: Isa was found SAFE and her friends are asking everyone who posted to remove any pictures of Isa for her privacy - we've updated this episode because we are hoping that YOU can help us hold the San Francisco and Oakland police accountable for obstructing justice and lying to both the press and public. THANK YOU EVERYONE! PRESS RELEASE for #FindIsa read with permission of her friends, please make sure her hashtag is trending on all the social medias. IF you make your own video for...

Welcome back to Troubled, a podcast by/for Survivors of Institutional Youth Abuse. THANK YOU for being here for the third season of our Independent self archival project. Two seasons bootlegged together over a cell phone, recorded in an old Prius wasn't too much for you? Well, masochism may pay off here as we embark on our most personal missions yet and play the cards we've held closest throughout the collective crucible of advocacy in a time of Covid. Super quick 31st birthday catch-up with Amanda Householder, who just filed a lawsuit against her parents, Boyd and Stephanie Householder, owners of Circle of Hope Girls Ranch AND their complicit and culpable cohorts - Agape Boarding School for Boys, Agape Baptist Church and Berean Baptist Church. We won't be getting into the nitty gritty of the details today, out of respect for Amanda, but we HIGHLY recommend you read the Kansas City Star Article "I was born into this." Daughter of Missouri reform school sues parents over abuse" by Judy Thomas and Laura Bauer, two rare gems of journalistic integrity. It is incredibly difficult to find ethical media allies of this caliber and we would just like to thank these women for how they have treated Survivors of Institutional Abuse throughout the last year of consistent coverage in Missouri. We wish they weren't an exception, but we are infinitely grateful they're both committed to exposing this crime against humanity as it plays out in their backyards. Forgive us our ADHD and self-defense, in this and every episode. We look forward to exploring the specific traumas of ourselves and our peers who were forever altered relationally by peer-on-peer attack therapy, but we'll also briefly address it in this update. We hope that Survivors will see other Survivors making moves and taking names as invitations or challenges to do so themselves. We hope that you will join us on the frontlines at every fork in the road. We also understand that for a historically invalidated community, and collectively gaslit community, that it can be triggering to see the mic passed to the next advocate. Often we can feel as if we are being spoken for, or over, or disregarded entirely. But every opportunity for a Survivor to speak, is an opportunity for Survivors to be heard. If we believe that we are stronger together, then we cannot continue to allow our community to reenact our trauma. MANY Survivors are neurodiverse, many of us experience RSD (Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria) - especially since it's the most common symptom of ADHD. Even if we don't have RSD dialing up the perception of rejection, we HAVE been abandoned, excluded, silenced, and otherwise pariah-ed to the point where you don't even need 'confirmation bias' to perceive the world as wholly unsafe, as well as the people in it. I dig it. I'm living in this world with you. PLEASE let us be aware of how we deflect and project ourselves onto the world around us. We cannot move towards an exclusionary policy as we curate our collective movement. Please join us in advocating for youth rights to liberate all kids in cages, from the border, through foster care, to the ToughLove so-called Troubled Teen Industry. Until next time, #iseeyousurvivor and THANK YOU to all of our allies --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/troubled/support

There are MANY Survivors who desperately need help but are unable to ask and find it difficult to accept. This is our programming. Please support Survivors like Liz Ianelli who was duct taped in a carpet for 8 days after reporting the pedophile who raped her. The permanent damage of this torture is both mental and physical. 26 years later, this first responder had had 3 spinal surgeries and during the most recent caught on infection which led to sepsis. She is bed ridden on transfusions, unable to work, still taking care of her 3 sons. Please help us help eachother https://gofund.me/d53e874f #iseeyousurvivor UPDATE: she is now hospitalized in kidney failure --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/troubled/support

Nicole is a 14yr old Puerto Rican born foster child who has been in residential group homes & TTI facilities since she was 7. She escaped the last one with her 12yr old friend, broke into a house, and used the guns they found there in a stand off with the police. She was shot in the chest and arm and is now being tried as an ADULT for attemptive murder of law enforcement. If convicted and sentenced as an adult sue faces a MANDATORY life sentence. PLEASE SUPPORT these children. The system...

It has officially been one year since the death of 16 year old foster child, Cornelius Frederick. Look back on Lakeside with Corn's Case Manager, and the Director of Case Management, Meghan Folkerson. Please join us in reigniting this campaign for justice. Read National Juvenile Justice Network's Shut Down Sequel: Progress Report HERE: https://www.njjn.org/our-work/shut-down-sequel-progress-report More Info on our website HERE: https://talktroubled.org/justiceforcornelius/ #justiceforcornelius #shutdownsequel #sayhisname #blacklivesmatter --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/troubled/support

Join us Thursday 4/29 for #justiceforcornelius https://talktroubled.org/justiceforcornelius/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/troubled/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/troubled/support

*Cover Art from NBC Tyler Kingkade on COH Here Amanda Householder, Chanel Mare & Miranda Sullivan shoot the shit on Circle of Hope Girls Ranch, Agape Boarding School and the Troubled Teen Industry during the Texas Blackouts (let us know if you want the video). To link up with Masters Ranch Mom, Shelva D Thomas, visit www.dearsdreams.com Please Support our Survivor Sister Maggie Drew get an MRI so that she can finally get her insurance to cover her broken back, broken as a child doing...

UHS (owner of Provo Canyon) is currently under a 5 year Federal Observation Probation due to a recent $117 million settlement with the Department of Justice so that, even though they were guilty over everything below, they can continue to extort our tax dollars. "The government alleged that between January 2006 and December 2018, UHS facilities admitted as patients federal healthcare beneficiaries who were not eligible for inpatient or residential treatment because their conditions did not require that level of care, while also failing to properly discharge appropriately admitted beneficiaries when they no longer required inpatient care. The government further alleged that UHS facilities billed for services not rendered, billed for improper and excessive lengths of stay, failed to provide adequate staffing, training, and/or supervision of staff, and improperly used physical and chemical restraints and seclusion. In addition, UHS facilities allegedly failed to develop and/or update individual assessments and treatment plans for patients, failed to provide adequate discharge planning, and failed to provide required individual and group therapy services in accordance with federal and state regulations." Full Department of Justice Public Statement Even though we all know exactly who UHS is, they are not only surviving, but thriving. Currently, UHS has finalized an application to expand in Oregon. Survivors & Supporters Assemble. The public is invited to submit "comment" to Oregon as they decide whether or not to approve a 50 million dollar UHS expansion (NEWCO). PLEASE organize, activate and amplify to recruit mental health and human rights organizations to submit public opposition to this notoriously abusive and fraudulent company from further causing harm to Oregonians. There's a reason the OHA rejected their previous application, and sure promises of a blood money dump into the local economy is not enough to pay for the silence of those they've harmed. As an individual, if you have personal experience with UHS, please also submit comment. We highly recommend posting a public testimonial on YouTube so that public awareness can reach a critical mass. However you choose to advocate, please remember that in order for your public statement to be officially counted and effective in Oregon, it MUST be submitted via the contact information below. To the care of Pamela Krecklow PAM.L.KRECKLOW@dhsoha.state.or.us OHA 800 NE Oregon Street, Suite 465 Portland, OR 97232 We highly recommend checking out CCHR (Citizens Commission on Human Rights) International's public comment HERE for an excellent summary of advocates concerns AND the perfect example of what Oregon needs from organizations opposing. Our favorite part about the hearing (included in this podcast) is that the "local allies" UHS cites are not only present in the public hearing, but in OPPOSITION. It says a lot when all your supporters (with one exception) are your employees or your paid Goon/Transporter/Kidnapper. Please rate/write review for Troubled wherever you cast your pods (in particular on itunes) so that other allies can find us. UHS is a GIANT in the troubled teen industry, it is imperative that they not be allowed to expand their empire. May the force be with us #nomoresurvivors --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/troubled/support

TW/CW: Season 2 EP2 was recorded between Jeneen Miller of Pieces of Victory and Miranda Sullivan from Troubled, shortly after they met in Missouri during the November Right to Rights Rally. Mental Health and technical difficulties have kept this long awaited treasure from you, minimal updates to the content are included in the Outro. Pieces of Victory is a Show on YouTube that features many of our Survivor friends and Heroes. Jeneen's book (which is unfortunately totally true) is also available, and we highly recommend it. Everything is on the table, getting dished and dissed. What do "statutes of limitations" for abuse say about our society? How does r*aping little gay boys convert them to heterosexuality? We discuss Conversion "therapy" Torture in the USA, and Jeneen's good friend, advocate and Survivor, James Swift (aka Fifi Frost). Catch them both on Netflix's Haunted Season 2 EP3 and read James' Memoir "Rusted Rhistestones". We remember all the Survivors who came before us, who recruited us to the movement they created, and who LITERALLY gave their lives to this and us. Michele Ulriksen was the first Survivor to write about Victory Christian Academy in her book, Reform at Victory: a Survivor's Story. She is also responsible for recruiting her Victory Sister, Jeneen, to the frontlines. This is all for her. This is all for them. And for the children today, so that someday, there will be #nomoresurvivors RESPECT to our Sh-eros in public office, Senator Sara Gelser of Oregon and Representative Keri Ingle of Missouri. We see you, we hope to vote for your for higher office STAT. For regular updates on Agape Boarding School or Circle of Hope Girls Ranch as it pertains to the investigation and leaks which would put us 6-feet-under if we didn't run through our allies, SUBSCRIBE to the Kansas City Star and don't miss out on any of the coverage that will contribute to Judy Thomas' upcoming Pulitzer. It's time to relaunch #justiceforcornelius - hit us up if you're ready. It's been a year, since Cornelius Frederick was murdered on video for throwing a sandwich. It's been a YEAR and neither Lakeside, Sequel, Bain, or the anyone within the "Troubled Teen Industry" have answered for this "collateral commodity hiccup". #NOJUSTICENOPEACE Socials @TalkTroubled www.TalkTroubled.org Please Rate & Write Review on iTunes --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/troubled/support

This is the recording of the Senate Hearing on HB557 & HB560, by Rudy Viet & Keri Ingle. Survivors and Supporters converged again in Missouri to stand up for the thousands of children who have been abused in religious residential programs. The House Hearing videos are on our YouTube for those who have yet to see them (the Senate was audio only). To testify (instructions on socials) register HERE: https://www.senate.mo.gov/senatewitnesssystem/Start.aspx More info on Circle of Hope, Agape Boys Ranch, Masters Ranch and the rest of the Lester Roloff IFB web visit our page on MO: https://talktroubled.org/right-to-rights-rally-missouri/ Please join us in ending America's predatory prevalence for mass, legal, for profit, child abduction, trafficking, detainment, abuse and sometimes murder. It's been a long road in Missouri, it's up to the Senate know - tune back in for the debates. #iseeyousurvivor --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/troubled/support

Submit Support / Testimony on behalf of Missouri HB557 for the Senate hearing tomorrow HERE: https://www.senate.mo.gov/senatewitnesssystem/New.aspx For More INFO visit: https://talktroubled.org/right-to-rights-rally-missouri/ #iseeyousurvivor --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/troubled/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/troubled/support

Missouri Senate Hearing WEDNESDAY Everyone requested to submit support to Senate via upcoming link. MOST Survivors cannot be there in person per last minute notice and financial constraints aka “being visible and present has a classist barrier”. So we will have a public Zoom screening of the hearing to support our Survivors who can and to allow for a public Q/A if you would like to testify in the zoom hearing please reach out to us to be kept in loop and sent instructions. We hope everyone will join us. HOW can the IFB Lester Roloff Agape web of abusive “troubled teen industry” with a sordid history and current investigations, with no govt oversight, regulation or accountability be allowed to extort over A MILLION dollars of OUR federal taxes?? NEW EXPOSE on Kansas City Star: https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article250554724.html MASTERS RANCH: watch Shelva’s Missouri Testimony on our YouTube & connect w her via www.dearsdreams.com IF YOU were abused or employed or sent your kids to the TTI in MO please submit testimony for Wednesday via the upcoming link or preferably in person. All allies & Survivors are requested to the frontlines to click a simple support button to save lives & sign HB557 & HB560 into law #iseeyousurvivor visit www.TalkTroubled.org & connect w us on all the socials via @talktroubled ANYONE interested in reactivating #justiceforcornelius pls reach out ALSO per the foster funnel, please scoop this epic article by our ally Children’s Rights (scoop our EP with them) featuring Survivor & Advocate Kayla Muzquiz: https://www.childrensrights.org/hello-america-its-time-to-look-in-the-mirror/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/troubled/support

Live Feed of Circle of Hope Girls Ranch Felony Charges with Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmidt: https://www.facebook.com/AttorneyGeneralSchmitt/videos/878639112695731/ #exposeCOH #iseeyousurvivor --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/troubled/support

Some breathless ADHD rant, ramble & stutter updates on Missouri legislation HB557 & HB560, Utah SB127, Agape Boarding School & Circle of Hope Girls Ranch. As well as a new lawsuit against Dr. Phil by a Turn About Ranch Survivor and a reminder that Clay Brewer is serving life in prison, and he’s not alone. For MO hearing highlight videos, scoop our YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/TroubledTruth --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/troubled/support