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The Secret Of Miles City: How A Friend Request Shattered A Small Town’s Innocence
A high school athletic trainer claimed his unorthodox treatments would change players’ lives. Dozens of victims say school officials, including one who’s now a state lawmaker, kept “Doc’s” secrets.
Days after we published the story, the US Attorney for Montana indicted the man at the center of the case. He later pleaded guilty.
A profitable 'death trap': Sequel youth facilities raked in millions while accused of abusing children
An NBC News investigation — based on more than 10,000 pages of records from 14 states and interviews with former Sequel residents, their parents and attorneys, probation officers and watchdog groups — reveals how Sequel became one of the biggest behavioral health youth facility operators in the country, despite children being sexually and physically assaulted by staff members, and one was killed.
In the months following this reporting, several states stopped doing business with the company, the company continued closing facilities, and US Senators opened an investigation into abuse at youth facilities nationwide.
Women Say A School For Troubled Teens Punished Girls For Being Gay
Former students and employees of the River View Christian Academy told BuzzFeed News that girls were disciplined if they even discussed the idea of being gay. "I didn't come out as queer for 10 years because of it."
The story caused the California government to launch its own investigation, which corroborated many details of my story, and later raid the campus. The state attorney general asked a judge to order the school shut down a few months later.
Teens were sent to Wyoming ranches for therapy. They say they found a nightmare of hard labor and humiliation.
A six-month investigation into claims of human trafficking, forced labor and abuse at two ranches for troubled teens, and why the state officials overseeing the ranches allowed them to continue operating despite years of complaints and violations.
Three weeks after this story published, one of the ranches shut down, and the other only had one child remaining at the ranch.
The Comics Giant Behind Wonder Woman Is Accused Of Promoting An Editor After Women Accused Him Of Sexual Harassment
At least two female employees at the publishing giant DC Comics accused a top editor of trying to forcibly kiss or grope them. He was promoted anyway. Two years later, he was accused of doing it again.
Our story resulted in the editor’s firing; a follow up feature story ran shortly after.