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Apparently hurricane is the name of a town in Utah lol. I too thought she died in a literal hurricane
You're absolutely right. I had no idea until (I can't believe I'm saying this) Paris Hilton talked about what she went through. Truly horrifying. >

Yep. Paris Hilton isn't some dumb bimbo - that was a VERY carefully manufactured image she used to escape her controlling family. They had a lot of money and very good lawyers, and she knew they could send her back to the abuse ranch at any time, so she cozied up to paparazzis, tabloids, and D-list celebrities. She fabricated an entire lifestyle as a socialite to make sure she had a camera on her at all times so that if she disappeared, it would make national news.
Edit: Also, these so-called "treatment centers" are often used to target gay kids or those who try to leave oppressive religions. They should be re-branded as conversion centers. >

This is brilliant. I'm so sorry for her, that she had to endure that and had to put her entire life out there for protection in visibility. I don't know much about her personally, but her testimony to congress was very well done and her activism against these centers has made me respect her so much. >

I had to click on this story since I've heard about the insane facilities for troubled teens. But, I was also confused. How does a teen in Utah die in a hurricane? Oh, there's a place in Utah named Hurricane? Okie dokie. >

Its a place in south west Utah >

Today I learned. >

Me too. >

I’ve had friends kidnapped in their sleep and taken to Utah or Minnesota. It’s a pretty fked up recount if you ever can talk to someone who went through it. >

Anyone who sends their child to a facility like this deserves considerable jail time. Fuck “troubled teen” centers. >

The fucking audacity of these parents having large men, complete strangers, enter their children's rooms in the middle of the night and say "you're coming with us no matter what" and forcibly take them to these camps is sickening. Any teen who gets "gooned", parental approved literal kidnapping, is ethically in the right to take any means necessary to rescue themselves in my personal opinion.
If you have to resort for strange men to enter your childs room in the middle of the night without warning to fucking kidnap them and have some fucking group in the middle of nowhere deal with them, congratulations, you failed as a parent. I don't give a shit what these kids did, you handle it as a family and get proper mental health care. >

If the parents are abusive, they probably wouldn't want mental health care, they might become a subject of investigation. >

You’d be surprised. More cunning abusers can readily have a therapist wrapped around their finger before the teen/kid/whoever figures out that abuse is the source of their issue. Then you have the very dangerous situation of a therapist reinforcing them, and simultaneously causing the victim to conclude that mental health professionals are not safe, even if they do eventually escape. >

I've experienced this and it's really hard to get out of. The gaslighting and everything else is very isolating. My father went around warning everyone I was a thief when I was 23. No one would help me. It's fucking terrible. Proving a negative. Fuck insurance companies. Fuck psychiatrists. Fuck Behavioral Hospitals. "Just because we don't have any evidence means we just haven't caught you in the act." How can you defend against something like that? My father was a doctor and people believed he was infallible. He literally had the police believing I joined ISIS in 2014. I fucking hate all those people. >

ALL OF THE “THERAPISTS” AT THESE MORMON RUN UTAH CENTERS OWN FINANCIAL STEAKS IN WILDERNESS PROGRAMS AND HALFWAY HOMES
THIS IS MORMON KIDS 4 CASH
FULL FUCKING STOP. They make money off of “enrolling/abducting” kids not only in their program(s), but also commissions off of “enrolling/abducting” them into other related programs. I have met people from so many programs who know the same therapists or have heard the same names while forced into these abusive and beyond questionable “treatment centers/wilderness programs.”
I repeat, these assholes tell parents whatever they want to hear so they can fulfill enrollment capacity for their program so they can enrich themselves. So many of the teens sent to r/troubledteens are broken or left homeless after the endeavor; many of them are lgbt youth sent from out of state homes that hate them. 
A considerable portion of people who have been sent to these programs say their relationship with their parents was forever broken and beyond irreparable. Many cut contact permanently. The same is true for summarily abandoned parents who regret ever listening to the therapist-cons into creating this fairyland picture of ”what could be.”
If any reporter wants to do a serious modern expose with some major fucking meat on the bone, I have names for you and can lead you to a really interesting financial trail. This is legitimately Kids 4 Cash Mormon style, even entire townships are in on the grift (some center/wilderness owners/workers also are civic public servants).
Also, this is a back-door method in which conversion therapy is essentially made legal
Also Edit: These programs also lease the teens out to places like the Park Services or even Utah State correctional work programs to build trails breaking granite boulders in the mountains or for other menial labor purposes. They literally lease teen “therapy” prisoners out in work programs even though practically none of them are actual criminals- their parents can just send them there and have them treated this way. There’s no vetting process for entrance, just a full-fill capacity, even overfill capacities in some cases. You meet some of the most abused people in these programs being forced to deal with more because these Mormons only believe in their model familial unit.
There was recently a case where an emancipated teen was sent to one of these programs by his mother as both a means of revenge for exposing her in court and for maintaining control over him. Go to r/troubledteens for more information. >

Sounds like they are grooming them to me. >

Calling it a "treatment facility" is like calling a federal prison an "education and wellness center" >

Highly recommend the podcast "Sent Away" for anyone that wants to learn more about the subject. Utah is a haven for these types of "troubled teen" centers. >

It’s pronounced ”her-a-cun” colloquially. It’s a large treatment facility located in some of the most beautiful landscape in the US. >

shame it is being used to legaly kidnap and abuse children >

Yeah I was at caliente in Nevada, there was no hot water through the winter. They refused to fix it. On the plus side when you’re freezing you have to excercise and then you get jacked :) >

I hope her parents live on for many years and feel very happy. >

Perhaps sending them her Birthday card every year to remind them of the joy they had! >

I just found about these facilities yesterday from a lady on tiktok. >

These places are already scams that steal donations and government funds to run a prison for kids, but setting one up in a hurricane is just fucked up.