746. Odyssey Transport Agency Inc

Odyssey Transport Agency Inc was a so-called youth transport firm. It is a company, parents can hire to transport their children to a residential programs if they do not want to burden themselves with the emotional stress of breaking the news to their children that they will rather spend time on themselves rather than doing the hard work of parenting.

The process often starts with employees entering the room of the teenager in the middle of the night together with one of the parents telling the teenager that the teenager has to go with the employee who the teenager never have met before. Then the parent leave the house, so the employees are cleared of facing potential witnesses who could testify against them if case of possible violence or other forms of molestation.

The companies operating within this industry has in the past been known to use various forms of mechanical restraints. The website of this firm does not state which forms of restraints or use of force the employees are allowed to use.

It must be very clear that the entire process of such a transport must be very traumatic or in clear violation of one of the first rules, parents learn their children: Never go with a stranger!

It is very clear that it could have not be fun to a teenager transported by a company like Odyssey Transport Agency Inc

The website is gone so it seems that the world is now free from having this firm operating.

Sources:

• Dangers of Teen Escort Transportation Services (Alliance for the Safe, Therapeutic and Appropriate Use of Residential Treatment)
• Being transported – testimonies from victims (Minors in residential placement research center)
• ODYSSEY TRANSPORT and Dr. Phil? (Fornits Home for Wayward Web Fora)