Let Us Prey: A Ministry of Scandals (Exposing the Horrors of the IFB Troubled Teen Industry)

 

It's been nearly a decade since I established this blog as a bibliography for a presentation I made on the subject of Troubled Teen Homes and the IFB "myth of family."   Talking with survivors of the Troubled Teen Home industry, they also tell me that they have to take breaks from the discussion because the material is just so hard to process.  

HBO Max teamed up with Investigation Discovery to produce a Docuseries about the IFB and the Troubled Teen Home industry, and I have not mentioned it here.  When it was first released, I wan't in a place where I could watch it.  I was still in pain over the documentary about the Duggar Family which I did not post about here, either.  I did make my own video about Blanket Training, and I need to update the resources here.

The people featured in the documentary are just a small handful of the thousands of IFB boarding home survivors who were so often treated much worse than incarcerated prisioners in the penal system in the US.  (I fear now that with the advent of the Trump Administration, the immigrant detainees that ICE has abducted are now subjected to this same low level of abuse that the troubled teen home survivors endured.)

If you don't have access to Amazon where you can get a week-long free trial to Discovery Plus or HBO Max, or you don't have a subscription to these streaming services or Cable access, you can find interviews with the people featured on YouTube.  Cults to Consciousness offers several episodes on the subject, building upon what the Let Us Prey docuseries introduces.  

Here are the interviews with Kathy Durbin.

There's an interview with Amanda from the Circle of Hope Girls' Ranch:

The interview with Ruthy Heiler (of Blind Eye Movement on Instagram):

The Interview with Eric from the Preacher Boys Podcast:

There are several other interviews with IFB survivors at Cults to Consciousness.