Living in Sin: Inside a Religious Reform School
Movie • 2019
ReportAt a religious reform school in Indiana, several former students share their heart-wrenching stories of what they allege to be physical and emotional mistreatment. But those who run the school, and another former student, say that what happened there is just the strict structure and discipline common to similar schools for troubled teens.
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Vaginal tears from forced speculum use.
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Not shown, but graphic abuse of an infant is described. Numerous girls are religiously abused by their parents and/or caregivers.
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Although there is some hope of conditions improving, it’s pretty bleak the whole way through.
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Nothing is shown, but allegations of sexual abuse are described in detail.
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I’d say yes, as the tween/teen girls are required to dress “modestly,” implying there is something inherently sexual about their bodies.
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Cries for help (such as running away) are met with punishment. Presumably unwell children are religiously, physically, emotionally, mentally, and sexually abused, sometimes under the guise of “treatment.”
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An adult woman downplays and excuses abuse she and other women suffered in childhood.
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Children are forced to attend an abusive boarding school, where they lived with little to no contact with parents for extended periods of time.
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It’s a boarding school for “rebellious” girls, but I would count it. Several traumatized (and some potentially mentally ill) girls are held involuntarily, and are subjected to abusive “treatments.”
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Not shown, but it is discussed how girls where forced to wet/soil themselves and forced to wear diapers.
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Mentioned abuse of a baby, not shown.
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In the past, via hidden cameras and microphones.
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I think it qualifies. It’s implied that some of the girls’ parents didn’t fully understand (and therefore couldn’t consent) to how their daughters were treated; Of course, some of the girls didn’t want to go to the boarding school, which one could argue is kidnapping regardless of parental consent.
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