ight so im a boy at west ridge academy right now and this guy is over exaggerating, i have lots of problems! i earned my place at west ridge, they are the people that care about me and my success because of west ridge academy i love my parents im doing good in school and i am no longer depressed and a danger to others and myself, so i dont care what this guy sais... west ridge heals...they love the youth
This is Todd Searle. I was there in the early 90's. I know everything about the abuse and the beatings. You guys are not liers and I know the truth. The parents may not believe you, but you all know what happened there.
I did everything I possably could to get out of there. And 5 years later it took me getting arrested to finally put that place behind me.
Does anybody know if there is any help for those boys abused. My boyfriend needs help, true help. Not the abused help he recieved 15 years ago. I wish the boys ranch would admit to the abuse and acutally do something about it.
one last thing... Be careful with that word, "pity".. If you spend too much time "pitying" other people, for whatever reasons, you will find that you have alienated yourself from humanity and therefore your ability to relate and understand different walks of life. Once you put yourself on the "holier than thou" pedestal it is quite a task to come down to the level of people, an endeavor that sounds more than vaguely familiar to "hate".
. And in response to your "Freedom of Speech - what a great ideal to hide behind" comment.. What is it that you see wrong with wanting our constitutional rights? you do realize that the "Ideal" we stand behind is our right as tax paying Americans?
This "anti-West Ridge" campaign is not an anti West Ridge campaign at all, but a way to hope to encourage families to look beyond the religious backbone of that particular facility and help make this place and those that are similar a truly safe place for the children sent there, or to be closed down.
. I will be the first to admit that all was not bad there, but does that really make it ok when things are not? I am about as leftist as they come and am no more a negative person than any who were there, let alone those who seek truth rather than an excuse to defend something or somewhere you know nothing about.
Chris Buttars is a tool but the guy has been gone almost a decade - your information is off. My wife and I are stuggling with our son, just toured for ourselves and I spoke directly with both boys and girls. All of them wished they were home but almost everyone of them admitted if they weren't there they might be in jail or worse. After reading all the posts I am stunned that I can't find a single parent of one of you guys that support your claims of abuse.
Buttars is still very involved. In fact, he still receives almost $60,000 a year from West Ridge Academy. Much of his immediate and extended family work there.
BTW, I'm not buying your story about your son and you and your wife. It seems very odd for someone dealing with such a crisis to become compelled to mass comment a bunch of YouTube videos regarding a facility you have no affiliation with. But if you want to send me your contact information, I'll put you in touch with some parents.
You may want to open your eyes. I don't know how abuse is allowed there. My boyfriend has gone through so much Trauma and abuse because of this place. He was woken up in the middle of the night and thrown against the wall. And countless other things He is still struggling with alcohol abuse and has cried to me countless times of the abuse. I have talked to others who attended there. I can see one person lying about abuse but not as many as suffered. Is there any healing for him.
I sure hope it has changed. My boyfriend was abused regularly from this place. Thrown against the wal,l hit, beat. He has blocked out most of the memories from this place. I pray to God that it is a better place. I know that most places are good. I work at one and all I can say is that I would be very carefull in putting your son into this situation.
West Ridge has changed since you have been there and I believe that you need to do some more research because it is nowhere run like it was 10 years ago and it also has a director that is taking the Ranch in a different direction.
By research do you mean talk to boys that are currently there? Because I have and continue to do. West Ridge Academy is an awful and vile place, and the direction it needs to go is to stop attacking the people speaking out against it.
Freedom of Speech - what a great ideal to hide behind. This "anti-West Ridge" campaign is the perfect example of troubled youth who did not complete the necessary treatment and rather than making good with their lives, choose to exhibit the same kind of hate and rebellion that landed them in the program as a teenager. I, for one, pity their lives filled with anger, hate and bitterness and focussing that anger on external sources instead of recognizing their own failures. Enjoy your hate.
I too, am sorry for cowards. The kind of cowards that abuse and torture adolescents for a fee.
I'm sorry the spotlight is starting to become uncomfortable. Maybe you should work somewhere else, if you don't like people talking about what a vile institution West Ridge is.
Please continue to attack the victims, it speaks volumes for West Ridge. And please, continue to enjoy your hate.
sorry4cowards is a troll. He's been copy-pasting this same message in the comments sections to other videos, and it isn't even original. It's plagiarized wholesale from a press release the camp put out a while ago.
sorry4cowards obviously you can sit there and hide behind your computer while you make those comments that trust me you wouldnt want to make in front of me, West Ridge was a corrupt ass place run by MORMONS who want to force there religion upon boys who are there for help not religious propaganda so go suck a tailpipe
I am also a west ridge alumni who "worked" my program well enough to graduate.. I bear a lot of negativite thoughts and memories as well as some fun nice memories.. But no matter how you look at it many of the things that happened there should not have ever happened.. What we are doing is not to harbor hate or bitterness, or to focus on anger, we are trying to bring to light that all is not what it seems at West Ridge academy.
So Say for example a serial child molester, after years of horrendous and perverted acts and never being caught leaving devastated and destroyed children in his wake, decides to turn over a new leaf and becomes a devout christian. does that excuse this vile human being???? Just Saying,,,,
Wow, okay. That's TOO extreme to compare it to a concentration camp! I draw the line there. Yes, everyone has problems. I went to WRA. Do you have any idea what a concentration camp is?! They fucking murdered JEWS there. I didn't see any murders committed at WRA.
Although I agree that we live in an age that tends to exaggerate (how many times has Obama been compared to Hitler during the campaign?) , this guy is as right (or wrong) as you are, Stefanie. The term "concentration" or "internment" camp predates WWII. The first time it was used was during the second Boer War (late 19th century). The camps set up by the Nazis were extermination camps or death camps.
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You haven't changed a bit bro. You don't know post traumatic cuz your a pussy and a bitch. You always have been. Go join the marines and do something with your sorry ass and then you can talk about post traumatic. Get over it and move on. The Boys Ranch wasn't that bad, you were just always tied to a rope
ight so im a boy at west ridge academy right now and this guy is over exaggerating, i have lots of problems! i earned my place at west ridge, they are the people that care about me and my success because of west ridge academy i love my parents im doing good in school and i am no longer depressed and a danger to others and myself, so i dont care what this guy sais... west ridge heals...they love the youth
lazorbob 9 months ago
Mormons preach hate and intolerance!
OrganNLou 1 year ago
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This is Todd Searle. I was there in the early 90's. I know everything about the abuse and the beatings. You guys are not liers and I know the truth. The parents may not believe you, but you all know what happened there.
I did everything I possably could to get out of there. And 5 years later it took me getting arrested to finally put that place behind me.
The Ranch will be exposed and come to a stop.
tsearle33 1 year ago
Does anybody know if there is any help for those boys abused. My boyfriend needs help, true help. Not the abused help he recieved 15 years ago. I wish the boys ranch would admit to the abuse and acutally do something about it.
angiedl31 2 years ago
What type of person questions the abuse of a child? Sick, sick, sick...
holyfatkid 2 years ago
sorry those are all backwards, it is mostly in response to the utter frustration that comes from attitudes similar to that of sorry4cowards..
kadepetersen1 2 years ago
one last thing... Be careful with that word, "pity".. If you spend too much time "pitying" other people, for whatever reasons, you will find that you have alienated yourself from humanity and therefore your ability to relate and understand different walks of life. Once you put yourself on the "holier than thou" pedestal it is quite a task to come down to the level of people, an endeavor that sounds more than vaguely familiar to "hate".
kadepetersen1 2 years ago
. And in response to your "Freedom of Speech - what a great ideal to hide behind" comment.. What is it that you see wrong with wanting our constitutional rights? you do realize that the "Ideal" we stand behind is our right as tax paying Americans?
kadepetersen1 2 years ago
This "anti-West Ridge" campaign is not an anti West Ridge campaign at all, but a way to hope to encourage families to look beyond the religious backbone of that particular facility and help make this place and those that are similar a truly safe place for the children sent there, or to be closed down.
kadepetersen1 2 years ago
. I will be the first to admit that all was not bad there, but does that really make it ok when things are not? I am about as leftist as they come and am no more a negative person than any who were there, let alone those who seek truth rather than an excuse to defend something or somewhere you know nothing about.
kadepetersen1 2 years ago
Chris Buttars is a tool but the guy has been gone almost a decade - your information is off. My wife and I are stuggling with our son, just toured for ourselves and I spoke directly with both boys and girls. All of them wished they were home but almost everyone of them admitted if they weren't there they might be in jail or worse. After reading all the posts I am stunned that I can't find a single parent of one of you guys that support your claims of abuse.
MrStevenst 2 years ago
Buttars is still very involved. In fact, he still receives almost $60,000 a year from West Ridge Academy. Much of his immediate and extended family work there.
BTW, I'm not buying your story about your son and you and your wife. It seems very odd for someone dealing with such a crisis to become compelled to mass comment a bunch of YouTube videos regarding a facility you have no affiliation with. But if you want to send me your contact information, I'll put you in touch with some parents.
UtahBoysRanchNetwork 2 years ago
You may want to open your eyes. I don't know how abuse is allowed there. My boyfriend has gone through so much Trauma and abuse because of this place. He was woken up in the middle of the night and thrown against the wall. And countless other things He is still struggling with alcohol abuse and has cried to me countless times of the abuse. I have talked to others who attended there. I can see one person lying about abuse but not as many as suffered. Is there any healing for him.
angiedl31 2 years ago
I sure hope it has changed. My boyfriend was abused regularly from this place. Thrown against the wal,l hit, beat. He has blocked out most of the memories from this place. I pray to God that it is a better place. I know that most places are good. I work at one and all I can say is that I would be very carefull in putting your son into this situation.
angiedl31 2 years ago
West Ridge has changed since you have been there and I believe that you need to do some more research because it is nowhere run like it was 10 years ago and it also has a director that is taking the Ranch in a different direction.
SparkleS5761 3 years ago
By research do you mean talk to boys that are currently there? Because I have and continue to do. West Ridge Academy is an awful and vile place, and the direction it needs to go is to stop attacking the people speaking out against it.
UtahBoysRanchNetwork 3 years ago
Freedom of Speech - what a great ideal to hide behind. This "anti-West Ridge" campaign is the perfect example of troubled youth who did not complete the necessary treatment and rather than making good with their lives, choose to exhibit the same kind of hate and rebellion that landed them in the program as a teenager. I, for one, pity their lives filled with anger, hate and bitterness and focussing that anger on external sources instead of recognizing their own failures. Enjoy your hate.
sorry4cowards 3 years ago
I too, am sorry for cowards. The kind of cowards that abuse and torture adolescents for a fee.
I'm sorry the spotlight is starting to become uncomfortable. Maybe you should work somewhere else, if you don't like people talking about what a vile institution West Ridge is.
Please continue to attack the victims, it speaks volumes for West Ridge. And please, continue to enjoy your hate.
UtahBoysRanchNetwork 3 years ago 3
sorry4cowards is a troll. He's been copy-pasting this same message in the comments sections to other videos, and it isn't even original. It's plagiarized wholesale from a press release the camp put out a while ago.
yerk3 2 years ago
sorry4cowards obviously you can sit there and hide behind your computer while you make those comments that trust me you wouldnt want to make in front of me, West Ridge was a corrupt ass place run by MORMONS who want to force there religion upon boys who are there for help not religious propaganda so go suck a tailpipe
ridethespiral23 2 years ago
I am also a west ridge alumni who "worked" my program well enough to graduate.. I bear a lot of negativite thoughts and memories as well as some fun nice memories.. But no matter how you look at it many of the things that happened there should not have ever happened.. What we are doing is not to harbor hate or bitterness, or to focus on anger, we are trying to bring to light that all is not what it seems at West Ridge academy.
kadepetersen1 2 years ago
So Say for example a serial child molester, after years of horrendous and perverted acts and never being caught leaving devastated and destroyed children in his wake, decides to turn over a new leaf and becomes a devout christian. does that excuse this vile human being???? Just Saying,,,,
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demast84 3 years ago
Wow, okay. That's TOO extreme to compare it to a concentration camp! I draw the line there. Yes, everyone has problems. I went to WRA. Do you have any idea what a concentration camp is?! They fucking murdered JEWS there. I didn't see any murders committed at WRA.
StefanieJinelle 3 years ago
Although I agree that we live in an age that tends to exaggerate (how many times has Obama been compared to Hitler during the campaign?) , this guy is as right (or wrong) as you are, Stefanie. The term "concentration" or "internment" camp predates WWII. The first time it was used was during the second Boer War (late 19th century). The camps set up by the Nazis were extermination camps or death camps.
SoNickPick 3 years ago
it's interesting that ppl attack the victims of westridge academy, but not what the victims had stated as to what happen there.
it also sounds like high time that lds
tax-exempt status must be taken away. more a cult, less than a church.
you1x2007 3 years ago 3
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You haven't changed a bit bro. You don't know post traumatic cuz your a pussy and a bitch. You always have been. Go join the marines and do something with your sorry ass and then you can talk about post traumatic. Get over it and move on. The Boys Ranch wasn't that bad, you were just always tied to a rope
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