The Huntington Herald-Dispatch reports:
Years after being starved, beaten and subjected to various forms of torture as children, former students of the now-defunct Miracle Meadows School in Salem will receive a total of $100 million in civil lawsuit settlements. The amount includes settlements from two consolidated cases brought by dozens of former students and their families. A 2017 filing against the former nonprofit Seventh Day Adventist boarding school in Harrison County resolved this month increased the total amount to approximately $100 million.
According to the lawsuits, the students suffered sexual, physical and psychological abuse at the hands of staff and administrators while the school was in operation between 1987 and 2014. Children were shackled, confined in isolation rooms for months and forced to live in degrading conditions. They were also starved, beaten and deprived of medical care, the attorneys said.
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Years after being starved, beaten and subjected to various forms of torture as children, former students of the now-defunct Miracle Meadows School in Salem will receive a total of $100 million in civil lawsuit settlements. https://t.co/oZ17AxbCAT
— The Herald-Dispatch (@heralddispatch) August 28, 2023
An investigation revealed school administrators tried to cover up multiple cases of abuse at Miracle Meadows. Students had been handcuffed or shackled to beds & many endured rapes and vicious beatings.https://t.co/1xkvuHXrUc
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The founder, Susan Gayle Clark, was sentenced to 6 months for misdemeanor child neglect creating risk of injury and 30 days for a guilty plea to misdemeanor failure to report.https://t.co/Q9sdmHMRYb
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