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I went to Casa & High Impact – My experience

November 18, 2008 Child Abuse, Cults, Programs & Boot Camps 2 Comments

I was woken up at 3 in the morning in my own room and told that I could only change in front of this man and woman. I was also told that I would only be going for a 3 day evaluation and that I would be able to come home if everything was okay. I was handcuffed and taken across the border illegally. My mother signed over 90% custody to people she had never even met. I got to Casa By The Sea and was stripped of all of my personal belongings, including my sneakers. I was given sandals, “so I couldn’t get away”. After a week in “Worksheets” and being placed in R&R (where they would bend your legs and arms behind your body, laying on your stomach and while a large heavy man sat on your back), I was sent to High Impact. I witnessed the “dog cages” and was even placed in them. In the dog cages, you were made to roll up your sleeves and pants so that the sun could burn your skin. after your skin was burnt, the red ants would bite your burnt skin. We were made to sleep on a carpet, placed on top of a cement block. We were only given oatmeal (about a cup) for breakfast, rice and beans for lunch (also about a cup) and for dinner we were made to eat a chicken breast, along with the bones. If you did not eat the bones, you would be put in the dog cages. I witnessed two girls who tried to escape, tied around their ankles with rope tied to the back of a truck, be pulled up a rocky mountain. I wrote my mother that my feet were blistered and cut deeply, and they lied and told her I was lieing. We were forced to take ice cold showers, where you could see the steam rising off of people’s bodies. We had no brush, we weren’ allowed to brush our hair. We had no soap, because after the count of 100, we were forced to get out of the shower. And the worst part of all, we were given 30 seconds, once a day, to use the restroom. If you asked to go other than that, you would be given consiquences and miles that you ran would be taken away. It got so bad that I would hold my bowels until I would go to the bathrom (#1 & #2) in my pants, because I was afraid to ask to use the restroom. We handwashed our clothes on a piece of concrete. And 75% of our days were spent running and doing excersizes. I lost 40lbs in 3 monthes at High Impact. We werent allowed to so much as sratch ourselves without asking permission, but you would be denied permission if you asked. After going to bed starving, the “mamas” would break out their candy, snacks and good food… and eat it while laughing at us trying to stay warm under a sheet, with no pillow, in the 30 degree weather. I have hip pains to this day because of sleeping on concrete in the fetal postion for 3 monthes. When I finally got back to Casa, I found that my mom thought we would be swimming, they even made her send a bathing suit. For what??? There was no swimming going on at Casa By The Sea. There wasn’t even proper medical treatment. I once witnessed a young girl go into seisures and be left alone to fend for herself. Dace Goulding is a liar, along with King Kay and everyone else. I would love to see him in the streets. DO NOT SEND YOUR KIDS TO THESE PLACES! The pictures are lies, the statements are lies… these fun things NEVER go on at these places. If you want t talk to me, I will tell you anything! 

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  1. AMY DELUcA says:

    I was sent to casa by the sea march 9th 2003 I got a story to tell.

  2. Elyssa says:

    I TOTALLY agree that they are all lies!!! Wow.. High Impact was really like that? That is hella messed up! I am soo glad that you were even able to survive alla that! As for Casa, none of them were even certified to work there! We all found that out after it was shut down. That night was CRAZY! But yeah.. I went through some shit there myself when dealing with health. I don’t remember if you were already gone or not.. but I passed out (fainted) while standing in line waiting to get my food. Perla (our “nurse”) wasn’t there that day, so they just stuck me in “sick bed” all day. The next day I went to see her about what had happened and all she told me was to “drink water and come back if it happens again”. No evaluation, nothing! Shoot.. I’ve passed out outside of the program and when I went to the hospital, they took blood, did x-rays, etc. I’m not going to lie.. I did learn a lot throughout those seminars.. but besides the seminars, that whole place was a freaking joke. I would NEVER send any of my kids there and I would highly recommend that other people don’t do it either.

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