In 1970, a man with no clinical training opened a "therapeutic boarding school" in the Maine woods. For forty-one years, students inside were subjected to organized beatings, forced fight rings, and psychological torture while journalists, state investigators, and even Congress failed to shut it down. 

Then, in 2010, one anonymous Reddit post did what none of them could.

TW: Child Abuse, mention of suicide, addiction

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