209. Calvary Baptist Church and Boarding Academy
Calvary Baptist Church and Boarding Academy was investigated by the authorities. Nathan Day was charged with a list of offences including the use of corporal punishment.
It didn’t sound like a fun place to be as a teenager.
Sources:
- Suits, arrest renew reform school debate (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
- Former students, prosecutors question methods of some ‘tough love’ schools (KY3 News)
- Factsheet about the facility (Fornits Wiki)
2020 update
The legislators of Missouri now looks at the almost bizarre lack of laws covering religious boarding schools in their state. If a child abuser really wanted peace from the law, all he should do is to create a religious boarding school in Missouri and then no authority at all will even look at his business.
Source:
After reported abuse at Christian boarding school, some say Missouri law must change (The Kansas City Star)
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