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His first job at a christian reform school. the family later moved to missouri where boyd worked at agape, a boarding school for rebellious boys. and when amanda was 15, he decided to open his own school. only this one would be for girls. what was this place like, this physical house, the location? >> it was just a very run down, homely place. >> d'nae hetrick was sent there in 2007, the year after the school opened. she was 14. what had you been doing? had you been committing crimes or something? >> had never committed a crime. my mom found out that i had become sexually active and that i had...

Changed. >> people said they had been a failure in their lives and you're a failure in your life and you're blaming them, you need somebody 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's not done speaking out. on a recent fall morning, she led a march to the gates of agape, the boys' school where her dad worked years ago. >> it's time that we bring awareness to agape. >> awareness she maybe hasn't accountability to. in fall 2021, the cedar county prosecutor filed 1...

In proper restraining techniques. colton insisted he was beaten there years ago and tried to report it to a sheriff's deputy who picked him after he ran away from the school. >> i tried to tell him. like, man, they're beating us. and he didn't listen. cuffed me up, put me in the back of the car and dropped me off back at agape. and that's the last i ever heard of it. never saw cps, nothing. >> the cop didn't believe you? >> no. >> agape, like circle of hope, was seen in the community as doing good work. helping troubled kids. amanda said it wasn't unusual to see deputies hanging out at circle ...

Colton schrag remembered him very well. >> i'd watch him grab students and chuck them to a wall, grab them by the neck and slam them on the rocks outside, get in their face yelling and screaming. >> boyd denied that. but amanda listened and remembered her childhood at agape, 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 restraint room. and then all you would see is later these boys were being drug back down from this room. and they're all bloody and bruised. >> we talked to a d...

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