“I can finally move forward after being traumatized for years and can start healing,' says survivor Josh Bradney
By the time Bradney arrived at the reform school, a culture of “physical, emotional and sexual abuse” existed at Agapé that was not disclosed to his parents, the lawsuit states., and claims the sexual abuse started within at least three months of arriving. “The shower bay was not watched. The school wasn’t watched. Staff weren’t watching.
“They made me do things that are terrifying,” Bradney says. He alleges that when he tried reporting the abuse, staff would punish him. Bradney recalled that during a phone call with his parents, he told them about a faculty member who hit a student with a football helmet. After the call, he said he was slammed to the ground by staffers who threatened to “bash” his head if he ever told his parents again. “At Agapé it was like a prison,” says Bradney.
In the suit, he alleges that the school practiced a “pattern of punishment” that was designed to hide and prevent incidents of abuse to authorities and to prevent the public and financial supporters in the community from learning about the alleged assaults. Bradney, who is now 21, says he can’t close shower curtains all the way, doesn’t feel comfortable giving people full hugs, and has to keep his door locked at all times. “Because of that school, there’s things that I do today that I don’t want to do to protect myself,” he says, adding that he was diagnosed with PTSD.
He says he was able to leave Agapé in 2016 after he was sponsored to go to another boarding school in Vermont. A few months after, Bradney says, he was sent to a therapy program in Utah and began to talk to Dr. Smoot about his experiences at Agapé. However, he says it wasn’t until he came out with his lawsuit against the Christian reform school that his parents learned of the full extent of the alleged abuse.
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