'Literally kidnapping': Teens taken against their will to boarding schools across US

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Julio Sandoval tells parents he wants to help their wayward sons get on the right path.

He assures them, through the website for his transport business, that he will deliver their children safely to a boarding school. So parents hire Sandoval’s company – Safe Sound Secure Youth Ministries – to remove their so-called “troubled teens” from their homes and transport them to the schools.

Sandoval also is former dean of students at Agape Boarding School and current leader of another unlicensed facility, both in Missouri. His goal with his transport company is to be “a blessing to your home,” and Sandoval shares with parents the philosophy he says he uses with his own seven children: “I don’t care if you like me, I am not raising you for YOU to like ME. I am raising YOU, for ME to like you.’”

Now, Sandoval, 41, awaits his next court appearance, arrested this week after a federal grand jury indicted him for violating a restraining order — issued at the request of a minor boy against his mother — by transporting him against his will to Agape in southwest Missouri. The jury also indicted the estranged mom of the teen, who was dropped off at Agape last summer after a 27-hour drive from California, the indictment says, his hands cuffed behind his back the entire way.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/literally-kidnapping-teens-taken-against-170757265.html

[dchill]

1. Religion on steroids.

[magicarpet]

2. Kidnapping for Jeebuz.

Spare the handcuffs and restraints,

Spoil the child.

What they need,..

is the loving iron fist of God Almighty.

Amen

[stopdiggin]

3. this is totally screwed up - and in many jurisdictions and courts, completely legal.

without a prior restraining order in force - this case would have never made it into a court room.

I have no answers for this - but we all must acknowledge that our utter deference to parents, and parenting - can lead to some very ugly (and horribly unjust) situations.
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[electric_blue68]

4. This is partly why although I tend to side with a mother in child custody cases I know....

for long time now I know the mom might be the abusive, neglectful one, and the father not perfect but waaay better.

Sometimes unfortunately both are horrific!

[stopdiggin]

5. and though we have historically been VERY reluctant

to interject the government and courts in the home (and with perhaps some sound reasoning) - we have to accept that the results of that philosophy - can sometimes be heartbreakingly sad and horrific.

We could probably use more monitors, mentors and advocates ... Unfortunately the places where they're most needed - are hell bent on squashing and resisting any sort of oversight or 'interference.'

[Mr.Bill]

6. If he tried to do this to kids I grew up with in the 60s,

he'd be dead.