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Transcripts for MSNBC Dateline 20240604 06:45:00

Agapa did not respond to our request for comments. on its website, it states its staff does not participate in corporal punishment. and they have all been trained and proper restraining techniques. colton, insisted he was be in there, years ago. and tried to reported to a sheriff s deputy, who picked him up after he ran away from the school. i tried to tell them, they are beating us. and he did not listen. he cuffed me, put me in the back of the car, and dropped me back off at agapa. that s the last i heard of. it never saw cps. nothing. and the cops did not believe? you know. agapa, like circle of hope, was seen in the community is doing good work. helping troubled kids. amanda said it was not unusual to see deputies hanging out at circle of hope. sometimes doing target practice with her dad. maggie said, boyd boasted about. it they had ties with all ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Dateline 20240604 06:59:00

Vigils linked to agapa. we reach out to the school and lawyers for the accused for comment, but have not received a response. it s been painful, amanda told us, this reckoning with her father and her own past. but, she said, she hopes in madrid for former students, like ashley tucker. ashley kicked or drug addiction, and plans to become a paramedic. she s a mother herself now, and calls her daughter her angel. now you know how your mom felt about you. yeah. [laughs] now, i realize she was just trying to help me. amanda does not expect to reconcile with her parents anytime soon. do you miss them at all? i miss what i wanted to have happen. i would never go back, but i think what i m trying to say is, i miss something i never had. what s she has, instead, is ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Dateline 20240604 06:44:00

Serk stories about her father. amanda began hearing from former students of the boys religious reform school where her dad used to work. this man remember him very well. i watched him grab students and chuck them to a wall, grab them by the neck and slammed them on the rocks outside. get in their face and yell and scream. he denied that. but amanda listened, and remembered her childhood at agapa, watching boys being dragged off to a room known as the padded palace. when you open the door, it would go into this weird dark carpeted room. and that was the restraining room. all you would see was later, these boys being dragged back down from this room. and they are bloody and bruised. we talked to a dozen former agapa students, and former employees, who told us they witnessed staff mistreating kids over a number of years. ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Dateline 20240604 06:58:00

When i had my kids, that changed. one of the things in the newspaper article, people who are complaining about the school, they ve been failures in their lives, and your failure in your life. and you re blaming them, that you need someone to blame. i may not be successful, in the sense that i m a millionaire, but my kids are happy. my kids don t have to fear me. so, to me, i m successful. and, she told us she is not done speaking out. in the fall of 2020, she led a march to the gates of agapa, the boys school where her dad worked two years ago. it s time that we bring awareness to agapa. awareness, yes, and maybe accountability to. in fall of 2021, the cedar county prosecutor filed 13 third-degree felony assault charges against five in the ....

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