Frankie Clock, a 26-year-old from Mesa, remembers when the founder of Spring Ridge Academy, a boarding school for troubled teenage girls that operated in Yavapai County, instructed her to dance in ...

Back in June, a jury awarded the mother of a former student of Spring Ridge Academy $2,500,000, determining that the institution defrauded consumers by misrepresenting the program’s practices. Former ...

Molly Dickin had only been at an all-girls boarding school in Arizona for a few monthswhen she and two other girls climbed over a barbed-wire fence and ran off into the desert. It was around 8 p.m. in ...

Former Spring Ridge Academy students speak out Back in June, a jury awarded the mother of a former student of Spring Ridge Academy $2,500,000, determining that the institution defrauded consumers by ...

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From Lifespring ‘Cult’ To Spring Ridge Academy Stories of abuse from troubled-teen facilities have trickled out for decades, but few programs have been held accountable. HuffPost previously reported ...