Kidnapping kids remains legal in USA, this site has you experience it first-hand (2018)

elan.school

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A friend of mine was sent to a similar place in the late 90s, specifically for queer kids, but what I heard was eerily similar except with a lot more Jesus. He escaped and his parents were somehow convinced to send him back! He killed himself soon after, in a very painful and slow way. I could not bring myself to go to the funeral. There are few things in this world that truly anger me, and decades later I still feel it.

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It's interesting, but it's not for the faint heart.

This comic is amazing. When I first discovered it I spent 2 days reading it at every chance I got. What a crazy story.

Goddamn. Glad to hear it has been closed down, but what an evil science experiment on what a human mind can take.

this is horrible and it's against the will of the children but it's not kidnapping as defined by the law.

I wrote another comment but deleted it.

Actually, I guess you are right, since it becomes "legal" once the parents have signed the child's rights away to a 3rd party.

It's a real shame that signing away your child's rights, without them present in a court of law, is not illegal.

i agree this should absolutely be illegal. especially at the age of these children who are usually teenagers and should have some rights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lan_School

I read 20 chapters of this before I realized it wasn't fiction! This is crazy.

Same thing happened to me! It reads like a fictional webcomic until you start seeing the little things included like 'real headcount sheet' and then its WTF, this is real?

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