Family of teen who died at Utah boarding school speaks out 

Thank you Paris Hilton for spreading the word about these terrible facilities

Why are parents still sending their kids to these places???

Sepsis is not a stomach condition as stated in the video, it's the immune system's response to a serious reaction to infection once it reaches the blood and can be deadly. It requires you o to other emergency dept. She could've had an infection that got worse that started in her stomach but sepsis in itself is not a stomach condition as stated.

Shut the school down immediately, not excuses or delays. Paris Hilton was a victim of these types of schools.

This school, along with the rest that are just like it, need to be shut down permanently just like the one that Paris Hilton was sent to when she was a teen. Shut all of them down now!!

Sepsis is not a stomach condition. Sepsis is infection that moves into the blood. It's always important to take every infection seriously because it can move into your blood and you become septic.

Here is a review for ya from Google.... and there are so much more ....🤮 - Forced to smile in pictures - No touching allowed - Forced papsmear upon arrival done by a ~60 year old MALE which felt incredibly invasive and uncomfortable as a 16/17 year old. - Required to write in journals but only positive thoughts which gave me no outlet to express any frustration or sadness I was feeling - Phone calls to parents are monitored and only positive stories are allowed to be told to the parents (I tried to tell them something inappropriate a teacher said to me and my therapist hung up the phone call mid sentence) - You are not allowed to tell other students you love them - The program is incredibly hard to graduate in 8 months. I signed myself out once I turned 18 after a year of being there and no graduation date in sight.

Or if the parents didn’t send her away as punishment then she would still be alive... Parents also hold responsibility in my opinion

The troubled teen industry? How sad and scary. Poor kids.💔

I was sent to a place just like this, when I was 15. I’ve seen all this and worse! It traumatized me and only did harm. They keep you as long as possible to make money and manipulate parents and kids. Please never send your kids here, just don’t!! It won’t help and these places are so beyond ducked up!

I had sepsis, once you start being sick it’s serious. She would have had a high temperature, possibly a migraine too - she would have felt terrible. A blood test would have shown her inflammation levels. After all the bad press these places in Utah have had, especially from the likes of Paris Hilton and others, I’m surprised they’re still standing. Paris and other girls have took this issue to Congress

Even with medical intervention septis can be fatal. It’s unconscionable to not take her to a Dr or the ER when she was sick.

I just watched a true crime podcast that talked about a guy who killed both of his parents, they had him kidnapped an taken to one of these programs/schools, for behavior issues. He was there for 2 or 3 years and when he got out, he "paid them back". He did a horrific thing but I'm honestly surprised it doesn't happen more. Sending a troubled teen to be tortured and abused is such a cruel, ineffective way to help someone. It almost guarantees your child will resent and hate you.

That school should be closed and they should be criminally charged. My heart goes out to her family

Don’t ever send your child to ANY KIND OF BOARDING SCHOOL. My parents sent my brother and I to boarding school for 6 months while they did missionary work - it destroyed our family forever. I was 13 then and I’m 43 now and I still can’t forgive them. The fear and sense of abandonment and the bullying were so intense I started believing that I wasn’t “real” and I was in a dream state. I stopped talking entirely. And I started getting confused about where I actually was. My parents had NO WAY of knowing that I would respond that way to being left at boarding school. All these decades later we are a family that has not healed. They are loving parents but they made a huge mistake

My heart is broken for her family. What a beautiful young lady. Sepsis is not a stomach illness. So tragic!

When your kid needs help you don't send them away. Most of the time the parents need therapy, too. Her dad is culpable

Calling sepsis a stomach condition is vastly understating it. It's how people die from a variety of conditions that have gone untreated too long.

The staff doesn’t care for the students well being and that’s a traumatic for the student father. I am sorry for his loss. That’s really heart-breaking. 😢🥺

So...a kid is throwing up for...WEEKS...and your not concerned?? This place is not careful enough. They don't care about these kids at all. They gas light them and lie to them and yes, ive been ignored and the people who did it made the same excuses. If they can convince themselves that your just trouble it excuses them from having to care about you.

3 Dead kid's since it's beginning ? Who are these people PAYING OFF in the State of Utah ? First Mistake - when YOUR KID is Having Problems or Issues YOU DON'T Send them away to other people to Fix a Problem that WAS Created within the family dynamic ! People seem to think well I've had it - let's send them away. That Doesn't Work ! It just gives the parents a breather from the drama and dysfunction. YOUR Family Drama and Dysfunction. Parents need to step up to the plate ! If raising children were easy none of us would have any problems BUT it's NOT easy and if YOUR Parents didn't teach you to clean up and take care of the messes and people You create then they did you a disservice !

Wait. For weeks? Why didn't the father take her to the hospital or pull her out of school? Was she not allowed to call someone? I have so many questions. I hope the father finds justice and wins..

This is so sad. Anyone whose ever had sepsis knows how terribly I'll it makes you. Why do parents keep sending their troubled kids to this horrible holes? RIP Taylor. 😢

At this point the students don't just feel neglected they ARE neglected to the point of death!!

Outrageous! Why didn’t they take her for medical care? It makes no sense!

This is terrible, her death is on their hands.😢😢😢😢

Stop shipping your "troubled" teenagers away to these horrible places because you're too lazy to raise your own kid when it gets difficult. This is where all the homeless people in liberal cities come from. Graduates or escapees of these "schools" who are too traumatized by their conservative families rejecting them end up estranged, addicted and living on the streets in whatever place has social services to help them. Usually right here in my backyard in California, where we try to help people instead of abusing them.

There is two of these facilities around me, they always have jobs posted and it makes you wonder. Also kids needs to be with their parents. Not in facilities. Why are they there to begin with. This is an unnecessary loss. Breaks my heart for the parents and this kid. Very sad!

Junior high and high school students are aware of these places and the things that happen there. The dangers. They talk about it amongst themselves and what they would do if their parents tried to put them in a place like that, etc. When my child was 13, they came home from school one day telling me about the "troubled teen industry" and what her concerns were. She begged me to promise that "even if her behavior got really bad", we would never have her kidnapped in the middle of the night and taken to one of these facilities. She was actually frightened of being kidnapped with the approval of her parents, the very people who are supposed to always protect her! That seems totally insane to do to your child! So her father and I promised her that even if she became an "impossible teenager", we would never have her kidnapped from our home and taken somewhere else to be "fixed". We promised to stay together as a family and work together to fix whatever problems might arise. What really shocks me is that teenagers are aware of these places and are actually worried that they could be taken from their homes and send away to a boarding school that's more like a prison. Kids shouldn't have to worry about that sort of thing. That shouldn't be something that is even on their minds. These facilities must become just something else that used to exist in our world but is now extinct.

the troubles teen industry is a huge cover up of how horrible they treat kids and treat them like slaves

How is this place still allowed to be open when they are endangering the lives of children and psychologically/emotionally abusing them?

I'm sorry for your loss...Parents should never have to bury a child...I know from experience too! 💔

The massive problem with sepsis is once you get it. You have to get to a doctor immediately because you have literal hours before you are in major trouble. This school needs to be looked into NOW.

One of my friends was sent there in 2010 and she saw many people die at the residential school. She still has PTSD from it.

This is absolutely horrific!! This was such a preventable death, and the agony that she went through before passing away. Her and her family need Justice and changes need to be made at that facility so this does not happen again!

People think that troubled teens need discipline and by and large they don't. They need something to bridge the gap between what they need and the family structure they are in that hasn't guessed or grasped what they need. It's most often a misunderstanding between people in very sufferer life stages. In addition, what we often think of as discipline actually is abuse. The child is just supposed to knuckle down and ignore their own needs and boundaries in order to tow some demoralizing outside imposed line. These places instead of building a bridge and trying to discover went wrong just double down on the "discipline". It's a symptom of our erroneous ego based societal ideas about how a child is adopted to think and feel and act.

I'm honestly trying very hard to not be judgemental, but I have to ask as a parent, how does it get to the point where you think "let me send my child away for someone else to raise."... because make no mistake, if a child is literally living somewhere else, those caring for her day in and day out are raising her. You are relinquishing your parenting role to someone else. I have empathy and compassion, but I really don't understand.

I knew a girl that was sent to one of those places. She has post traumatic syndrome from it. All there was was cruelty and isolation.

This is what happens when you don’t wanna be a parent. Save the excuses I’m well aware of how difficult it can be. I’ve witnessed it personally.

Smh the parents should be ashamed of themselves for sending her there not sueing them for doing what they do best.

If three people have died there, why are they still allowed to be open?

The father talks about how wonderful his daughter was, yet he sent her to this "school." If she was "troubled" (whatever that means) she could have gotten help right there where they live. There are children's therapists everywhere. Parents who allow their children to go to these places are partly responsible for what happens to the child while they are there. Parents just don't want to cope with a child that needs help. She was one of 11 children. No wonder her father couldn't spend the time to help her himself. She probably got lost in that crowd of kids.

Why are parents still sending their kids to these places!? And how can this father speak so highly of his daughter in one breath, but she still ended up at this 'boarding school'!?

i was there, she was my friend and supported everyone. RIP Taylor Goodridge

Do they not have medical staff and a doctor on call? That is crazy. So sad. Rest in peace ❤🙏

Yeah, Ms. Hilton's been talking about these types of schools. Why are parent's shipping them out to these places? We don't know the background of her 'emotional' problems though. Why couldn't the family handle it with outpatient counseling?

Who puts their child in a boarding school??

Parenting is hard, and they just are lazy and don't want to do it. Now the parents are missing her but had no problem send her away for others to deal with. All of these facility's need to be shut down. This will not improve any child, and the feeling of just being thrown away that will carry with them, for the rest of there life.

That’s heartbreaking 💔

How callous can you be to know that someone _anyone_ is throwing up and in pain, and you're in a position to do something and you do nothing??

Kids with "emotional problems" need therapy, not a boot camp....even criminal kids shouldn't be sent to a boot camp. These places are basically where kids get bullied and abused because of the outdated, messed up thinking of "scaring them straight".

I cant believe the school is still open and accepting new students/victims.

I’m so sorry. I don’t understand why they didn’t take her to a hospital.

Sepsis is a BLOOD infection. Did you do any medical research before this video?

How terribly sad, I'm sending lots of warm thoughts to the poor family♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

Funny how people only care when there's a payday lawsuit on the horizons.

This is tragic and it is disgusting that the school has not been shut down

Parents can no longer claim they didn't know ALL problem children camps were/are abusing ALL the kids who get sent there. He's culpable a simple internet search would reveal all the lawsuits!

The poor baby, what a painful horrid way to go. Love and light to the family. Utah is confusing, it has some open minded people and some of the most abusive people I can imagine.

I'm happy that this is being blown up so it can't be ignored anymore...

This is so so sad!! Absolutely horrific!

Most of these ‘troubled teens’ places are just places to get paid to abuse and neglect kids. Very very few are actually not horrendous.

Imo I think these types of schools need to be abolished. As a parent, you need your 👀 on your child as hard as that can be at times. Even when things feel hopeless don't give up! 💯

My heart goes out to this family, but this is why you don't send your kids away to be raised and "educated" by complete strangers! Homeschool, homeschool, homeschool!

Such a tragic loss of a precious life. This hellhole and others like it need to be closed down NOW.

Ok, I stopped this video as soon as they mentioned she's not the first person to die here. Parents, it was your responsibility to research this school extensively before trusting these strangers to take care of her. Does this school even have medical staff/nurse on duty??? So sorry for your loss, this school should have been shut down a long time ago.

I am so so sorry for tjis father and family😢 Close this place down this is unacceptable

It’s interesting he has such great things to say about her “biggest heart, she’ll do whatever for anyone, everyone loved her, shine a bright light” but she was so bad that she needed to go to a boarding school for troubled teens?!

So heartbreaking 😪💕

These places ruin lives. Including mine. They need to be stopped.

My mother died of sepsis. It's a horrible death. I am glad Paris Hilton is creating awareness about this. It has to end! Kids need help, not this.

A Death that could have been prevented!! So Sad 😔 Such a beautiful girl!! RIP 💔

How did the other kids there die? Super suspicious

Is there a nurse at these facilities… even at a quote on quote “regular summer camp” a nurse is present…. An individual who is septic does not look well overall but a medical professional would confirm the individual would need a trip to the ER because the individual would have a low BP, high heart rate, and high temperature….

How does any parent with a Native heritage send their child to what amounts to a residential school?

This has been going on for many many years and they've gotten away with it for that many years. Horrible things happen behind the doors of these places I know because I was in one when I was young. Several people are coming out and talking against them now which is great. Even people such as Paris Hilton and others have come out against them too. Several programs such as this threaten and lie. My heart and prayers goes out to this family! The woman speaking here is absolutely correct. I am 61 now and this was happening in my teens.

I was in Artec and they did all this bs!! In 97/98/99 and they told me things to scare me too! I thought it was normal so I never said anything

That is horrible so sad .

so sad!

Even a cursory investigation into these schools would show that sending these kids to these schools is very risky. They should be illegal.

This dad is seriously trying to pretend like it was her idea to go to the school 🙄

Meg Applegate needs to reach out to Paris Hilton.. Paris has started a foundation that helps the same way Meg is trying to impact change❤❤❤❤❤❤

Sepsis can be fatal whomever this woman is talking ,she needs to do her homework if she's a journalist

Why are they still open?

Props to the teacher who recorded.

Absolutely outrageous

I honestly believe that these schools are around because of parental laziness. Talking to your children, paying attention, trying to figure out what is wrong is part of parenting. The parents who actually put in the work instead of trying to get someone else to do it will learn what the issues are and work thru them as a family. Parents need to start having open communication with their children. She had some emotional problems? Like what? Was she depressed? Was she anxious? Was she acting out from being bullied in school? Did she have body dismorphia? Was she sexually assaulted or abused? Or was she simply experiencing the normal mood swings that all teenagers have when they become overwhelmed by their new changing hormones? These questions should have been answered before sending her to any camp. Parents need to start parenting again.

How are these schools still operating?

If her dad loved her so much why would she even be at a boarding school like this?

Not another one! Close all of these facilities now! Don't send your kids there!

This is just awful. It's sickening.

Years ago I worked in similar facility. Parents send troubled teens to these places often thinking that they are doing the best for their child. Many of these children are far from angels and some of them are extremely disturbed. That said, the abuses that take place in these facilities are profound and rampant. The parents are billed for services that their children are not actually receiving or are not receiving from staff with the training and licensure the facilities imply. For instance, if you’re going to be billed $200 an hour for group therapy you would probably assume that your child is attending a group led by an actual therapist. Wrong. It’s almost definitely going to be a group led by a staff member with no appropriate training and at best maybe, maybe they have a bachelors degree in an unrelated field. Because a premium is placed on profit, these facilities, across-the-board, fail to hire an adequate number of staff and adequately trained or licensed staff. This means that not only that none of these kids are receiving the therapeutic services that they are supposedly there to receive, but because of these limitations, it becomes extremely difficult for the staff that are present to actually take children off-campus for medical visits and other normative services. I have seen kids sick with high fevers for a week while receiving only Tylenol and being denied access to a doctor, not receiving normal vaccines as scheduled, severe and painful dental problems go untreated for too long, clearly infected wounds being treated with Neosporin until they got so bad that they eventually required debridement and broad spectrum antibiotics, and on one occasion, a child with what turned out to be a broken hand being required to wait for over 24 hours to go to urgent care because there wasn’t enough staff present to maintain the legally required minimum number of staff at the facility if one staff member Took the child to see an actual doctor. It’s completely sickening. If you cause a stink about these abuse, as a staff member you will absolutely be labelled as a problem, unable to cooperate as a teammate, and gullible because you are allegedly being takentaken in by the kids’ manipulations and attention-seeking. I can’t imagine how much suffering this young lady went through being so sick that her condition evolved into sepsis while receiving absolutely no medical treatment. Not only are they absolutely responsible for her death but for the torture that she must have experienced in her last days and hours.

That poor kid and her family and friends, terrible...

How many people have talked very openly about how bad these places are? Paris Hilton and Catch Me Outside Girl are just a couple that come to mind immediately. And you still choose to send your kids there?!

It's sad times when we depend on others to fix our kids.

This happened at a school my son went to. I thought then that the PM shifts young age, lack of life experience, lack of basic medical education, no basic first aide , no strict protocol to follow: led to very poor choices. The staff has to have empathy, And if a child of another family tells their own family to call 911, or a staff member calls 911 against orders of a supervisor: they shouldn’t be able to be punished or fired. There has to be some fail safe way to get the child help. I’d rather be known as the hypochondriac school than as the death school

do not send your kids away!!!! you only have them for a short time anyway

So terrible!!

This ableism and abuse is disgusting.

I went to one for a year in Provo at 14. Not a fun place