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The Shiloh Residential Treatment Center in Manvel, Texas, has a history of problems, including deaths of children in its custody and allegations children were systematically drugged with psychotropic medications.

Immigrant children forcibly injected with drugs, lawsuit claims

June 20, 2018Immigration

Children held at Shiloh Treatment Center, a government contractor south of Houston that houses immigrant minors, described being held down and injected, according to federal court filings.

Mogens Amdi Petersen, shown in 2003, is the founder of a secretive organization called the Teachers Group, which former members, academics and the Danish media have likened to a cult. He's also an international fugitive wanted in Denmark for embezzlement

UNICEF cuts ties with questionable NGO in Malawi

August 4, 2016Economics

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