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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...

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 Fami...

I will try to get help typing show notes (arms in braces) until then here Snowflake: https://snowflake.torproject.org. AND Abeer’s podcast: www.annoyingabeer.com I also have 75 episodes on the situation in Iran on my TikTok @m0rr1gu #ZhinaAmini #JinaAmini #IranProtests #MahsaAmini

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 Surv...

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 barel...

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 yout...

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 thro...

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...

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-seq...

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 benefic...

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...

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) r...

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...

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

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

If YOU or anyone you know has personal experience with the Troubled Teen Industry in Missouri; especially the IFB Cult (Lester Roloff) branch including but not limited to Agape Boys Ranch, Circle of Hope Girls Ranch, Masters Ranch, Wings of Faith, Refuge etc PLEASE consider submitting your testimony to the State of Missouri next week. Link for submission & details on if Zoom will be permitted are...

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays from our Troubled Family to yours! Please accept this gift from Laura and Julianne, returning to introduce their new offering to the community, Love in Survival. If you haven't already heard Laura's story (It's OK to not be OK and Love Yourself Anyway) please check that out. A decade in to their relationship, they're opening it up for public perusal so that those o...

We waited for Colton Schrag to come out of the Shadows and reveal his Bruce Wayne, since we always intended for him to be our first interview from Agape Boarding School for boys. Definitely catch up on recent coverage in the Kansas City Star to get acquainted with Agape. We need all hands on deck for this one. Also, #whereisrachaelkellso Big Ups to our Survivor Brother Wes Good of Deadwulf for the...

READ THIS KANSAS CITY STAR UPDATE Thank you to everyone who attended and/or support the Right to Rights Rally in Stockton Missouri this past weekend. We will be uploading the rally in it's entirety shortly after the video feed is uploaded to the (anti) COH & Agape YouTube Channel . This episode includes both a BREAKING update on Circle of Hope as well as some BREAKING NEWS on Agape Baptist Boa...

#freeouryouth Trigger Warning: per usual, this episode will include descriptions of violence against children and delve heavily into the systemically racist foundation of United States fostercare This is (hands down) our favorite episode and we could not be more thrilled to release it from the vault it's been waiting in since July. We are soo grateful to Erin McGuinness for her invaluable educatio...

A year after she revisited her own Program (Spring Creek Lodge; WATCH on her YouTube), and just days after losing everything in the fires ravaging our country, Cadilina Deville cashed her last coins into her classic car gas tank and set across the country and through the desert to join the few Survivors who could make it out to Provo Canyon to protest with Paris Hilton on a weeks notice and a pray...

This week is ALL EYES ON MI'KMA'KI National Week of Action #Treaty1752 Art by Indigenous Two Spirit Artist @artnerdforever www.etsy.com/shop/entheosvibrations As Colonization climaxes in Canada with open domestic terrorism and unabashed hate crimes against the Mik'maq fisherman, we are humbled to be entrusted with this message from Ginger Knockwood. Through generations of genocide and centuries of...

This week is ALL EYES ON MI'KMA'KI National Week of Action #Treaty1752   (Cover Art by Indigenous Artist Hawlii Pichette aka Urban Iskwew @urban.iskwew www.urbaniskwew.com ) As Colonization climaxes in Canada with open domestic terrorism and unabashed hate crimes against the Mik'maq fisherman in Nova Scotia, we are humbled to be entrusted with this message from Thunderchild.  ...

On 10/3 the National Youth Rights Association (www.youthrights.org) held a conversation about the successes the anti- "Troubled Teen Industry"  movement has had shutting down abusive behavior modification facilities and the steps we can take to coordinate more closely between the various groups involved, including survivors, lawyers, state legislatures, and organizations focused on intersecting is...

A little pre caffeinated rant on the continued & current hostile occupation of Turtle Island and the deplorable Assimilation of the Indigenous. From Pocahontas to the countless bodies of children left in unmarked graves littered around “residential school” remains. Residential schools REMAIN, just not openly racially motivated since the 90s. Assimilation is still happening. It’s October 12th, the...