WEBVTT - Introducing Camp Hell: Anneewakee

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<v Speaker 1>In the town of Douglasville lies what was once the

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<v Speaker 1>largest medical facility in Georgia. It is here where a

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<v Speaker 1>largely unknown story began. Remember the name an Awake. It

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<v Speaker 1>was mostly obscured a few months ago, but in the

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<v Speaker 1>months ahead it may come to represent everything that's right

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<v Speaker 1>and wrong with juvenile justice and rehabilitation, not just here

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<v Speaker 1>in Duglas County, but throughout all of Georgia. Louis Petter

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<v Speaker 1>began the Inn, a weekie center for emotionally disturbed youth,

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<v Speaker 1>in nineteen sixty two. For over two decades, thousands of

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<v Speaker 1>patients would attend. It was based on what they called

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<v Speaker 1>wilderness therapy that started out with tents and shovels, and

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<v Speaker 1>from there he built that massive complex, or his kids

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<v Speaker 1>built it. By the brochures, I thought I was going

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<v Speaker 1>to a camp. I didn't realize I was going to

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<v Speaker 1>be locked up. It was kind of like a outdoor

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<v Speaker 1>summer camp where you would live in some cabins and

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<v Speaker 1>do outdoor things. They always seemed to leave out the

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<v Speaker 1>slave labor board, as they called it. Vocational therapy aniwaki

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<v Speaker 1>was meant to break you down. They wanted to make

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<v Speaker 1>you into a machine. Anna Wiki has come to represent

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<v Speaker 1>the tip of an iceberg of discovery and to the

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<v Speaker 1>abuse of children. In addition to years of child labor,

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<v Speaker 1>was a network of abusers that went from the top

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<v Speaker 1>of the organization all the way to the patients. He

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<v Speaker 1>took kids out of the program and brought him into

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<v Speaker 1>his family. That was what happened to me, and I

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<v Speaker 1>knew older guys that had happened to them. It's a

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<v Speaker 1>system that is built for abuse. Everybody knew, and everybody

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<v Speaker 1>get their mouth shut. It would take decades for this

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<v Speaker 1>abuse to come to light, largely in part to Petters

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<v Speaker 1>many political ties, some even reaching the White House. He

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<v Speaker 1>was a player. He was a political player. G b

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<v Speaker 1>I agents have been looking into possible financial improprieties in

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<v Speaker 1>the Anawaki operation. It was not just treatment of troubled kids.

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<v Speaker 1>It was the eloping land and real estate in Florida,

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<v Speaker 1>real estate in Georgia, and real estate in Mexico. And

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<v Speaker 1>that made an Awake a gold mine. We brought people

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<v Speaker 1>back from Mexico. I was transported across state lines. I

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<v Speaker 1>was trafficing basically. Petda charged with five counts, including sodomy,

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<v Speaker 1>cruelty to children, and simple battery. Remains in the Douglas

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<v Speaker 1>County Jail on one million dollars bond. You have to

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<v Speaker 1>think how many of these people that they didn't find

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<v Speaker 1>are still working at these places now. This is the

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<v Speaker 1>story of an Awake as never told before, from government

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<v Speaker 1>officials to former councilors and the survivors who withstood the abuse.

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<v Speaker 1>Thousands of patients passed through an Awake. Some of them

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<v Speaker 1>received justice, but many are still waiting Camp Hell. An

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<v Speaker 1>Awake debuts April. Listen and subscribe on the I Heart

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