Meg Appelgate

“I see it happen to survivors, too, where they'll talk about their story and all of a sudden, they'll have a cease and desist. And it's just like, it's their experiences. Like, it looks so horrible. Just say nothing. I mean, you look really bad by trying to do this to a survivor.”

“One of the things about the TTI, or the troubled teen industry, that most people don't know is they started back in the 1800s as Native American boarding schools where they would steal kids from their families, try to assimilate them into American culture and strip them of their culture completely. And that's really where the behavior modification, taking kids from their families, putting them in a different place in an institution, started from.”

“You're coming after people who are trying to protect kids. And you're protecting pedophiles. How do you think this is going to... If you take everything I have and you sue the shit out of me and I'm all done, you're still protecting pedophiles. It's a bad look.”

“They appear to be normal, hardworking, caring people and they insert themselves wherever there's gonna be kids, whether it's a PE coach, a cheerleading coach, a swim coach, a church camp, outdoors camp, boy scouts, girls. It doesn't matter. And I'm not saying boy scouts and girl scouts camps or whatever. I'm just saying wherever there's kids, there is a very, very high possibility there's gonna be pedophiles.”

“If someone tells me I'm a survivor of a religious program, almost always the abuse tends to be more severe. And it's also harder to hold them accountable, because a lot of times, there are 501C3s and nonprofits, and they have exemptions from licensing, and they have more leniency from the behaviors and the practices that they're allowed to utilize in their programs.”