638. Pine Ridge Training School

Located on an area where they used to house prisoners of war during the second world war, a training school housed teenagers until some time in 1980’s.

Many years after the closure it seems that the training schools housed adults who molested and abused the teenagers. Various forms of sexual exploitation took place against the teenagers. It marked them for decades afterward.

The worst part is that Pine Ridge Training School was only one of these schools. More horror testimonies are expected in the future.

It could not have been a fun place to be as a teenager.

Sources:

• Survivors of Ontario ‘training schools’ say their suffering is being erased by redevelopment project (The National Post)
• Class action suit launched against Ontario over alleged abuse in ‘training schools’ (The Toronto Star)
• Still no justice (Dark Corner of Canadian History)