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

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matheusmoreira · 1790498519 · focus · HN ↗
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lan_School" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lan_School
What the fuck! I read 20 chapters of this without realizing it wasn't fiction! This is crazy, man.
1. bingowasthename · 1790501365 · focus · HN ↗
  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?
em-bee · 1790504794 · focus · HN ↗
this is horrible and it's against the will of the children but it's not kidnapping as defined by the law.
1. bingowasthename · 1790519799 · focus · HN ↗
  "Kidnapping is the crime of unlawfully seizing, confining, or carrying away a person against their will by force, fraud, or deception."
2. bingowasthename · 1790520064 · focus · HN ↗
  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.
  1. em-bee · 1790561326 · focus · HN ↗
    i agree this should absolutely be illegal. especially at the age of these children who are usually teenagers and should have some rights.
karmakurtisaani · 1790505978 · focus · HN ↗
This comic is amazing. When I first discovered it I spent 2 days reading it at every chance I got. What a crazy story.
fragmede · 1790542683 · focus · HN ↗
Goddamn.
xfeeefeee · 1790585093 · focus · HN ↗
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.
gus_massa · 1790609091 · focus · HN ↗
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It's interesting, but it's not for the faint heart.
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