2022年1月5日 · Synanon followers also founded the supposedly therapeutic behavior modification schools called CEDU, which operated 11 boarding schools and educational facilities, and famously faced numerous allegations of abuse until their complete closure in early 2005.

CEDU Educational Services, Inc., known simply as CEDU (pronounced see-doo), was a company founded in 1967 by Mel Wasserman and associated with the troubled teen industry.

2021年1月22日 · Paris Hilton is sharing photos of herself that were taken immediately after she allegedly suffered abuse at a boarding school in Utah. Hilton, 39, first opened up about the alleged abuse in...

2020年9月5日 · After two teens went missing at CEDU, a "therapeutic" boarding school attended by Paris Hilton, investigators reportedly looked into whether they were taken by convict rapist and killer James...

2020年9月30日 · The socialite — whose new YouTube documentary, “This is Paris,” reveals her dark past — was sent in 1995 to one such place, the CEDU school in California. Hilton, now 39, fled by reportedly...

2020年7月10日 · He evaluates the style of therapy CEDU and programs like it use. He also addresses the troubled teen industry at large. CEDU Running Springs used a practice known as “attack therapy.”

2022年5月12日 · Hotel heiress and activist Paris Hilton shared the alleged sexual abuse and threats she endured over 20 years ago while staying at Provo Canyon School, a psychiatric youth residential treatment center in the city of Provo.

2023年12月21日 · Paris has revealed that her parents watched from their doorway as she cried for help as men carried her out of her home. Paris was taken to a school managed by CEDU in California. CEDU schools and treatment facilities faced several allegations of abuse, forcing them to close operations in 2005.

2021年2月11日 · “Paris Hilton says Opening Up For Revealing ‘This Is Paris’ was ‘Therapeutic and Healing’ – Contenders TV Docs + Unscripted.” Deadline , 1 May 2021. Cooper, Kelly-Leigh.

2020年11月22日 · CEDU was one of the original ‘troubled teen’ facilities, founded in 1967 by a former Synanon cult member. The cult used sleep deprivation, isolation, humiliation and hard labour to cure heroin addicts — methods since discredited, but transferred to wilderness programs and bootcamps intended to snap young people out of misbehaving.