Discarded Girl

Review of Sunrise RTC

The lite version of an internment camp, for disc...

The lite version of an internment camp, for discarded girls like me. Without using their language, here are some behavioral modification techniques this treatment center employs:

- multiple sexual abuse cases that were swept under the rug (I remember you Trent) and blamed on the child victim
- killed two teenage girls in a car crash circa 2011, 2012ish due to negligence
- ostracization and humiliation techniques
- struggle sessions
- solitary confinement
- attack and aversion therapy
- forced manual labor
- homophobia
- racism
- transphobia
- victim blaming in child sexual assault victims
- underqualified staff
- not properly accredited

If you care about your children, do your research before you hand their care over to strangers. There are a lot of alternatives to places like this. Underregulated RTCs in Utah get worse than Sunrise too.

A couple of memories that stand out to me from this glossy, lockdown, private prison:

- being denied human contact and medical care for becoming sick when I was put on medication for sleep (ostensibly) that lowered my blood pressure (I have hypotension)

- a therapy group in which a group of girls aged 12-15 who were CSA victims being told well ladies, sometimes, these boys just can t control themselves, see you just need to learn to cover up your shoulders! as a reason for why they had been abused.

- scrubbing fecal matter and menstrual blood off of bathroom walls, messages written by other desperate girls in solitary confinement or on Therapeutic Probation and ostracization technique in which girls were forced observe activities, but not participate, while being completely ignored, as if they didn t exist. This sometimes happened for weeks at a time. They were not allowed to speak, breathe, or exist

- being told this is a business when I asked why conditions weren t better considering the program s cost