They learned all about whippings called "corporal corrections" - CC for short, Maynard told an investigator, "carrot cake to be jokeful."īoys got a CC for each "serious" offense, which included "talking on silence," "eating in the dorm" and "rap music lyrics." Rap was catalogued on a list of 30 "evils," "heresies" and "cults" on the Heritage Boys Academy web site to be opposed and preached against. Investigators snapped photos of Confederate flags and camouflage, and a bumper sticker that said, "Spank your child! Or they may grow up to be a Democrat." "They were abusing me to a point that I wanted to actually kill them." He had been ordered to attend Heritage by a Hillsborough County judge as a provision of his probation his mother chose the school. "I wanted to kill all of them," a 16-year-old boy later said in a deposition. The newspaper found more than 100 allegations of abuse in homes operating outside state standards, places where children have been chained and secluded for days, sexually abused and medically neglected to near death.īoys recounted day after day of being whipped with a stick seven, eight, nine fists long. Truth Baptist Academy is one of more than 30 unlicensed religious children's homes the Times examined during a year-long investigation. Maynard summed up state requirements in two words on his Facebook page: "Government tyranny." "Unlike the 'accredited' schools," the school's site says, "we don't water down these subjects by allowing them to be taught drugs, fornication, homosexuality and other perversion …" No one responded to an e-mail or repeated phone messages left on the academy's number or Maynard's cell phone.īut on their web site, the home's operators are unapologetic for avoiding oversight. None of the state agencies that oversee such facilities were aware the church was caring for children. 31 post on Maynard's Facebook page says his ministry for troubled youth has five boys "in residence."īut what is now called Truth Baptist Academy is not licensed as a children's home or accredited as a boarding school.
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Maynard and his Truth Baptist Church have been advertising online for students ages 13 to 17 for a "semi-military" boarding school to teach boys how to "be and behave like a man."Īn Oct.
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