Kidnapped for Christ

Kidnapped for Christ is a documentary film that details the experiences of several teenagers who were removed from their homes and sent to a behavior modification and exgay school in Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic. The film was directed by Kate Logan. Tom DeSanto, Lance Bass and Mike Manning are the executive producers.

Escuela Caribe, also known as Caribe Vista, was a boarding school for troubled teens near the mountain community of Jarabacoa in the Dominican Republic owned by Marion, Indianabased New Horizons Youth Ministries, an evangelical organization originally headquartered in Grand Rapids, MI. The school was originally located in PortauPrince, Haiti, founded by Pastor Gordon Blossom in 1971 and known as Caribe Vista Youth Safari. The ministry moved temporarily to La Vega, Dominican Republic. Eventually the school would change names to Caribe Vista Escuela Caribe, settling in Jarabacoa on a remote 30acre fenced campus that typically housed around 45 students at one time. Blossom developed the schools program, calling it Culture Shock Therapy or Christian Milieu Therapy. According to former students of Escuela Caribe, they were subjected to a range of abuses including intense forced labor and repetitive exercise, physical beatings called swats, extreme isolation, and various forms of emotional abuse.The documentary details the experiences of several teenagers who were forcibly removed from their homes and sent to Escuela Caribe at their parents behest. The film focuses on the plight of a Colorado high school student, David, sent to the school by his parents after he told them he was gay. The film also documents the experiences of two girls Beth, who was sent to the school because of a debilitating anxiety disorder, and Tai, who was sent for behavioral problems resulting from childhood trauma. ........

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