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Reporter’s Notebook: Allegations Still Plague Religious Homes for Troubled Teens

By Maurice Chammah | July 11, 2014

AUSTIN, Texas — While reporting recently on abuse allegations at a home for troubled teens, I realized that the article I was writing had been written before.

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Tough Love or Abuse? Inside the Anchor Home for Boys

By Maurice Chammah | June 30, 2014

Investigating at the pervasiveness of abuse at residential homes for troubled teens.

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