I-Team: Ridge Creek School: MyFoxATLANTA.com
Fox has investigated Ridge Creek School - formerly known as Hidden Lake Academy.
It is by far the first care where parents have been fooled by deceptive marketing to enroll their children in residential programs only to find out that nothing they saw on the homepage had anything to do with the reality.
It doesn't help to visit the schools. The students parents may talk to are students chosen by the school and offered the favor of promoting the schools in return for advancement in the program or even early release.
If parents really want to protect their teenagers they should choose out-patient therapy where they can intervene if the situation gets out of hand. Secondly they should take the chances by the social services or even at the justice system. Then of course it would be a question if the foster care system protects the children well enough and there are flaws, but in the public system they have appeals and they can urge the media to go after the social workers who neglect their jobs.
Once you are up against a private company you as a parent has not the right to be given oversight about what is happening with your own child.
Parents should be very carefully not to grant custody of their own children to private firms obviously operating only for profit both inside the United States and outside.