Missouri's Agapé Boarding School will close its doors due to a lack of finances, school officials say — but the school still faces a wave of lawsuits accusing administrators of abuse.
“Agape’s focus is on getting the boys who remain in the program safely transitioned to their parents or to foster care, other group homes or residential programs,” Clemensen said in a statement Wednesday, obtained by. “Agape’s decision to close is voluntary and solely due to the lack of financial resources to continue caring for the boys.”
In the statement announcing the school’s closure, Clemensen said Agapé spent 30 years providing “over 6,000 boys with an opportunity to get their life back on track and toward a bright future.” But a Januaryfound that hundreds of students given Agapé’s specific brand of “opportunity” considered the schools’ staunch Baptist beliefs, military-esque hierarchy, and extreme punishments bordering on torture.
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