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Hephzibah House describes itself as a private Christian boarding school for teenage girls. The school says its mission is to take in troubled girls and help them with God's love.

But dozens of women who were students there say what they experienced was not love but abuse.

"There was no free talking, no giggling, no pillow fights, no making friends," Mary Kumar explained.

She lived at Hephzibah House from 2007 to 2009. She says students were expected to do heavy labor in addition to their Bible-based education.

"A lot of on the floor work," she said. "We had to work on our knees on the floor for three or four hours every day, so when I left I had very thick callouses on my knees that would crack and bleed."

Kumar also says she didn't get proper medical care while staying at Hephzibah House.

"I had this weird ear infection while I was there because they wouldn't let us use Q-tips and I didn't have a lot of time to clean myself because of our three-minute showers. ... My ear erupted down the side of my face ... and that wasn't really given a lot of focus," she recalled.

But Kumar says other medical problems were given too much focus.

"They did an invasive exam to see why I couldn't go to the bathroom. When that could've been easily fixed with Metamucil or putting us on a better diet," she said. "... I saw that with a lot of other students. They would have these horrible illnesses or sicknesses and they would be made fun of or treated like garbage, but for things like that we were given forced pelvic exams or forced anal exams ... and that doesn't make any sense to me."

Kumar says the neglect was beyond physical, leaving her unprepared for the real world.

"They really dumbed us down there, because women aren't really supposed to have a lot of thoughts or dreams besides becoming a mother. I was 18 playing dress up. What do normal 18-year-olds do?" she said.

She's not the only one who says she suffered at Hephzibah House. 16 News Now was contacted by more than a dozen women with similar experiences. There may be more.

"The number of victims that have come forward is about 300," Kumar said.

There are accusations of abuse dating back to the 1980s.

Eighteen-year-old Olivia Lambright just left the school last June. She says she was spanked during her five years there.

"When you start spanking all the way down to your thighs, you have bruises on your thighs instead just on your bottom. I would say that's going too far. But the one thing that they would tell me was, 'This is the way God wants us to do it, and this is your fault this is happening,'" Lambright explained.

She says humiliation is a daily part of life in the dorms and at church for Hephzibah House students.

"At night you had a 10:30 bathroom break and a 2 a.m. bathroom break, and there will be times where they take the 10:30 and they miss the 2 a.m. bathroom break. And the girls are having accidents ... and that's what happened to me," she said. "I had an accident and they were like, 'Oh! You have to wear diapers now.'"

Lambright told 16 News Now she had to carry a pink mat to church after that incident, which she felt was done to humiliate her.

With so many woman contacting 16 News Now, we reached out to Hephzibah House. The school gave us written statements refuting the claims.

In response to the accusation that they conduct child labor, the school said it does require students to do daily chores but does not overwork them.

When it comes to paddling the girls too hard, the school said they have not used corporal correction for years. They also refuted claims that they keep students locked in a basement.

Dr. Ron Williams founded Hephzibah House in 1971. 16 News Now requested an interview with him, and he agreed to send us prerecorded responses to our questions.

Williams said the school and its staff do the Lord's work in line with fundamentalist Baptist teachings.

"There are myriads of troubled teenage girls in this world, and we can't help all of them, but, praise God, we can help some. And we've received some from every one of the 50 states and from some foreign countries because of missionaries having trouble with their daughters," Williams said.

He said he is stumped by the abuse accusations.

"The leaders of most of our critics, when they left our ministry, were very cordial, friendly, amiable. Would call us, stay in touch, invite us to their weddings, so now they are leading a whole group against us ... which is really inexplicable to us," he said.

But while Williams tours the country speaking to churchgoers about home and family, his son Ben is speaking out against his father's school.

"The things that are happening at Hephzibah House are definitely cultish. Are they 100% cult? No. But are they cultish? Absolutely. And that is why there's a fear, that is why there's devout loyalty. ... There's good people there to this day ... but when you get captured into that culture, it takes years for you to literally deprogram," Ben Williams explained.

He says he wants the community to know about the physical and emotional abuse he both saw and endured growing up at Hephzibah House. That includes issues he says the school has with the quality of food being served.

"We would get cases of, banana boxes full of dented cans that had no labels. The girls would open them up, and they would just starting dumping. And yes, every once in a while ... they deny this but every once in a while a can of dog food would get dropped in. That is true. So 'surprise soup' would be multiple different soups dumped in, stir it up, and that was the slop that they were served," Ben Williams said.

The Kosciusko County health inspector documented a formal complaint about the food quality just last month, including that students were "served something resembling dog food" and that they "became ill multiple times from food and was then shamed for being ill".

In addition to documenting the complaint, the health inspector also cited Hephzibah House for a few of its procedures involving food preparations.

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Still, without proof of a crime, law enforcement officials say little can be done. Kosciusko County Sheriff Kyle Dukes says that of allegations investigated in the past 20 years, no criminal charges were ever filed.

Hephzibah House told 16 News Now the Department of Child Services visited in January and nothing was found. We have been unable to get that confirmed with DCS.

There is no agency overseeing the quality of education or care at the school because Indiana law allows for boarding schools to operate without a license due to a religious exemption.

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Hephzibah House tells 16 News Now there are currently four girls enrolled at the reform school.

The Truth About the LGBTQ Community

Countrymen, if we were to imagine the world without its contributions from whites, Christians, and capitalists, we would have nothing. As obvious as this may be, one has to repeat it now and again put to shame our enemies: the race traitors, traitors against all of the human race itself. Whereas our enemies claim they are fighting the “homophobes” or “racists,” (whatever that means), in truth our enemies are fighting against all of Western civilization, as that has been their sole proclaimed purpose from the beginning.

This used to be a white nation: White men, white women, white children, white families, white culture, and white values. We had ideals: Christian ideals. Once we lived in a nation in which the arm of Liberty shielded us from third-world animals who came here solely to leach off of our resources. But that wasn’t all. One generation ago, if you were a rainbow-parading faggot, you didn’t live in this nation. If you were a pervert, you kept it to yourself. And now our nation has been ruined; ruined to the point of no return, while cuckservative Republicans have been only too gleeful to self-righteously concede to the communists on every leverageble [sic] topic. In fact, Republicans would dress up in drag and read to trans children at libraries if they thought it would raise the GDP any, as if Republican ‘tax cuts’ are going to unite and fortify western civilization. At this point, most Republicans are traitors against the nationalist party, and being an actual conservative is like being part of the dissident movement in the old Soviet Union. Observing the fall of the West, it’s clear that we live in a world gone mad: The grandeur of western civilization is fading, and the West’s influence will be destroyed. Society and all its entertainment filth can best be described as one large sewerpipe of obscenity. What is usually hidden away at the bottom sludge of civilization is now the prime focus of our degenerate society, and in our upside-down clownworld, the fringes of society are now the alternative shadows where you find brilliant minds who are civilized and decent. The once-radiant glory of our nation has been ominously darkened as we spiral into the abyss of overshadowing evil brought upon us by our enemies, and we have merely watched as our communities have been infested with wretched moral values, including every form of degeneracy and evil imaginable.

Take the gays for example.

As a longstanding member of the nationalist party, this is how I see it. We live in the ruins of a society in which our culture is morally, socially, and spiritually bankrupt. Sexual degeneracy is a symptom of late-stage societal collapse, but it’s not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times; rather it’s the way we have not only tolerated evil, but have made a cult of positivity worshiping weakness, depravity, rottenness, and evil itself.

As with everything under the stars and stripes of our national flag, homosexuality is a social issue which we have the right to criticize, and to say otherwise would make you a totalistic communist drowning in the murky depths of totalitarianism, starvation, and enslavement. To demand that we sit idly by and embrace warped sexual perversions as normal is a demand only made by the worst form of a totalitarian tyrant: an inbred libertarian, wobbling on the political crutch of a pseudo-patriotic belief in liberty rather than authority. We of the nationalist party have never shied from voicing our opinions and offering solutions. Homosexuals are not born the way they are, but rather they suffer from one of the many ills that can result from incompetent parenting of Democrats. The communists have embraced every variation of homsexuality, all the way to transgenderism, but the truth is that there is no such thing as ‘transgender’, because that doesn’t even exist! There are only two genders with nothing in-between, and no amount of drugs or mutilation can change that. We won’t accept transgender people who who they claim to be because it’s they who won’t accept themselves for who they are. It’s the same with the mutli-sexuals and the queers, which are not people, and even as the lowest form of animals, they are not the type of creatures that we want in our nation. They’re all mentally ill, suffering from gender dysphoria. The rest of the sexualities in the LGBTQ community include bestiality, pedophilia, and far, far worse. It started when we made this country a tolerant home for the gays, it continued when we made gay marriage legal, it pushed the boundary further when society accepted transgenderism. Do you think it will stop there? It most certainty won’t. Before it becomes ‘hate speech’ to advocate this, I’d like to say that we should offer mass-capital-punishment for everyone who ascribes to whatever sexual perversion that’ll become legal next; and we all know exactly what that is.

At some point, the gays decided that anyone who doesn’t vomit rainbow words of praise is somehow a raging ball of bigotry, while it is they who are hideous creatures guilty of such. As our enemies foam at the mouth with hate and try to bully us into silence by even deleting our frog memes, we must remember that history has shown that Truth doesn’t ask under what political system it exists in. The societal struggle we are engaged in is a fight for the source of our values which brought prosperity and meaning for ourselves, and as companions, as patriots brought ever closer together by virtue of common dissenting beliefs, we must unite together as Americans to support our common cause. Above all, we must not let hate divide us: We must remember to show kindness towards our fellow countrymen so as to not fall into the same callousness and indifference displayed by our intolerant frog-hating enemies. Political issues of this sort cannot be fought on a global level, for societal struggles begin on individual and personal levels, impacting everything around us in our domestic live, and it is with understated honor that our communities should be proud to have people such as ourselves: We were the moral foundation of our nation in the past, and we will be the only remnant left when the Earth falls into chaos. In the Western modern world, there’s so much deeply wrong with what our nation has become. When do we put an iron boot down and put an end to degeneracy before it continues to spread? Join with us, and we will create an American renaissance greater than the world has ever seen.