The horrific tale of the now-defunct Family Foundation School in Hancock, New York, has gotten new details after a survivor filed a lawsuit in the Brooklyn Federal court, with the request that they stay anonymous. Per the NY Post, the survivor’s account noted that the facility functioned less like a therapeutic boarding school and more like a site of systematic torture.
Once inside the secluded campus, students were reportedly strip-searched upon arrival and forced into sexualized group sessions with teachers. The survivor also gave accounts of students being encased in rolled-up rugs bound with duct tape, kept prisoner in closets without necessities like food or water, and forced to dig their own graves before being made to lie down in them. The former enrollee also alleged that they were forced to eat their own vomit.
