This World Locked in Paradise Tx Date: 7th December 2004 This script was made from audio tape – any inaccuracies are due to voices being unclear or inaudible 10.00.00 Music 10.00.04 Jayne Levy It looked nice. It looked like Florida; it just seemed like the perfect thing to do. 10.00.11 Music 10.00.13 Megan Quinn It hurts right now not to see him for twelve months but it would hurt a heck of a lot more not to see him for the rest of his life. 10.00.18 Music 10.00.19 Alan Hadfield A youngster who is having a tough time in society, that’s going down in flames needs something tough to help him get back on track. 10.00.27 Music 10.00.28 Julie Wilkinson It was an act of desperation. My husband and I didn’t know what else to do and we were conned. 10.00.36 Music 10.00.39 Title Page LOCKED IN PARADISE 10.00.43 10.00.48 Raphael Rowe There’s a growing number of difficult American teenagers, whose rebellious behaviour and lack of respect is driving their parents to desperate measures. 10.00.56 Music 10.00.58 Raphael Rowe Fifteen year old Shannon from Florida was out of control and heading for disaster. 10.01.02 Music 10.01.03 Aston JAYNE LEVY She was piercing every part of her body and she was on medication, which she doesn’t like to talk about but she was on medication and she was drinking alcohol with that medication and that’s that was lethal. 10.01.15 Aston SHANNON LEVY ROWLEY Tranquility Bay 2000-2002 I was smoking pot, I was popping pills, drinking, doing acid, just experimenting with everything cos I was really unhappy with my life. 10.01.22 Jayne Levy I had to do something quick, cos I was fearing for her life. I didn’t think she would be alive too much longer. She got physically violent with me. And that did it; that was the clincher, when that happened she was, it was time for her to go somewhere else. 10.01.38 Music 10.01.38 Youngsters Welcome to Jamaica! 10.01.50 Raphael Rowe Many of America’s most challenging teenagers are dispatched here; Tranquility Bay, Jamaica. 10.01.57 Raphael Rowe The facility is run by WWASPS, the World Wide Association of Specialty Programmes and Schools. And it’s not cheap. Sending your child to this corner of the Caribbean will cost almost nineteen thousand pounds a year. That’s cheaper than Eton. Just. 10.02.12 Music 10.02.15 Raphael Rowe Julie Wilkinson from Florida felt she had no option but pay up. 10.02.19 Aston WINSTON WILKINSON Tranquility Bay 2002-2003 I was out of control. I, like, stole their car, like twice. Got, they pressed charges on me and I was arrested and I went to jail and it led up to the point where I had so many charges that they were going to put me on what they call a level six programme. 10.02.43 Aston JULIE WILKINSON You don’t know where the government’s going to send your child, it could be anywhere from Jacksonville to Miami and that scared me to death. 10.02.50 Music 10.02.51 Raphael Rowe The courts told Julie there were two options; either she found fifteen year old Winston a treatment centre or the state would take him off her hands. 10.02.58 Music 10.02.59 Julie Wilkinson I sat down and did some research on the Internet and uh, you know, read all the information at Tranquility Bay or WWASPS was providing and it sounded like a wonderful programme where Winston was going to get lots of professional help and that they would help to, you know, uh straighten out his behaviour. They faxed me an application within the hour and said if I send them a cheque for five thousand dollars that Winston would virtually be on his way. 10.03.26 Music 10.03.28 Raphael Rowe Jayne also was so convinced by the website and sales team that she signed up with a seven thousand dollar down payment. 10.03.34 Music 10.03.37 Raphael Rowe Shannon meanwhile was in for a rude awakening. 10.03.40 Music 10.03.41 Shannon Levy Rowley Three strangers, a lady and two big men, came into my house and sat me down on the sofa and said they were going to take me away to a new school since I wasn’t gong to mine. They said I was going to Jamaica and they handcuffed me and said I could co-operate or they're gonna throw me over their shoulder. I was screaming for my mom cos I had no clue what was going on, I was very scared. 10.04.05 Raphael Rowe How difficult was it to make the decision to have strangers to come into your home and in effect kidnap Shannon? 10.04.13 Jayne Levy That’s basically what they did, yeah, I always refer to it as kidnapping, they say escorting but it’s really kidnapping. Desperate parents do desperate things. 10.04.22 Music 10.04.30 Raphael Rowe I wanted to see Tranquility Bay for myself so I travelled to southern Jamaica. The facility is tucked away in remote Treasure Beach, four hours from Kingston. 10.04.39 Music 10.04.42 Raphael Rowe Once inside children are cut off completely from their home life. They can’t talk to their parents until staff decide they’ve earned it. Their parents sign over their rights to the programme. 10.04.54 Music 10.04.57 Raphael Rowe Seven months after first asking I eventually got a chance to meet the director and get a rare glimpse inside. 10.05.03 Raphael Rowe Mr Kay. 10.05.03 Mr Kay Good morning. 10.05.04 Raphael Rowe Nice to meet you. 10.05.05 Mr Kay How are you? 10.05.05 Raphael Rowe I’m not too bad. Thanks for agreeing to meet me this morning. 10.05.07 Mr Kay You’re very welcome. 10.05.09 Raphael Rowe I wasn’t allowed to talk to other pupils but I was handed over to Joe, a model student from Ohio; fourteen months earlier he was into drink, drugs and skipping school. 10.05.20 Raphael Rowe Now he’s clean. Thanks, he says, to the programme. 10.05.25 Joe I think this is the first room I was checked into when I first came here actually. 10.05.28 Raphael Rowe Really. And how long ago was that? 10.05.30 Joe Fourteen months ago. 10.05.31 Raphael Rowe It’s quite bleak 10.05.32 Joe It’s just a latch down. It’s minimum. 10.05.36 Raphael Rowe New arrivals, some as young as twelve, can’t speak without permission, can’t look out of line, are allowed the barest necessities. Only hard work and compliance will earn them rewards such as a sweets or a phone call home. 10.05.50 Aston JAY KAY Director of Tranquility Bay Level One kids don’t have a lot of privileges. They’re monitored twenty-four hours a day, supervised very highly. Our programme is built on responsibility and trust and as they prove themselves to be accountable and operating out of integrity then they’ll advance in level and we give them more responsibility. 10.06.10 Raphael Rowe So these are the kind of newest recruits, almost. This is not a punishment room. 10.06.15 Joe No. 10.06.16 Raphael Rowe It’s just a chill out room but they’re having to be observed. 10.06.19 Joe It could even be there for a long time but it’s just they haven’t gained any trust yet enough to let these walk around by yourself. 10.06.25 Raphael Rowe I’m trying to imagine what these kids must have done to be here. I really don’t know. 10.06.31 Joe I guess that’s the motivation to work for gaining Level Four. 10.06.37 Voice on loudspeaker Subtitles The investment in money and time you have made up to this point… will come back to you many times over. And the symbol of all the positive management skills taught… 10.06.47 Raphael Rowe Children are bombarded with self improvement messages even when they eat. 10.06.51 Jay Kay What happens is every meal the kids listen to a motivational audio tape. They have to write down what they learned and what they heard today, so they actually have to kind of recite from memory what they heard and then how are they going to apply the message that was in the message to their life. We have to maximise all the time that we have with these kids to give them all the information we can so they can choose a better, a better life for themselves. 10.07.17 Raphael Rowe Shortly after I arrived I met a group of parents anxious to explain why they were happy to put their faith in Jay Kay and his methods. 10.07.25 Raphael Rowe How long has it been since you’ve seen your son? 10.07.28 Alan Hadfield Fourteen months. I will see him tomorrow for the first time. 10.07.31 Raphael Rowe Why, Why haven’t you seen him in fourteen months? 10.07.33 Aston ALAN HADFIELD Because this is, this is the rules of the school. It’s, it’s, it’s, it’s also the rules for parents. 10.07.41 Aston MEGAN QUINN If it wasn’t for the God sent gift of this programme you would be going to the lakeshore of Chicago where my father is buried, where my sister is buried and putting flowers on his grave. So, yes, it hurts right now not to see him for twelve months but it would hurt a heck of a lot more not to see him for the rest of his life. 10.08.01 Alan Hadfield I have to, I have to believe in these people. They have helped a lot of children. 10.08.07 Aston VIVIAN ELLIS You have to earn everything in this programme, OK. It’s the way the programme is set up. In fact they even have to earn the right to see the ocean. They’re right there on the ocean, OK. I mean how great is that? Don’t you think you’d be motivated to want to go out and see the ocean? 10.08.23 Music 10.08.25 Raphael Rowe But there’s a darker side to being locked in paradise. Parents of children who haven’t responded to the programme say the regime is brutal, open to abuses and some of the staff poorly trained. They are now preparing to sue WWASPS for damages. 10.08.40 Music 10.08.42 Raphael Rowe After the breakdown of his relationship with his mother, fifteen year old Oliver Bucolo was sent to Tranquility Bay. 10.08.48 Aston OLIVER BUCOLO Tranquility Bay 2000-2003 The first six months were just terrifying and horrible. Like, like I said, they shaved my head, they stripped me of like all my personal possessions, they threw you straight into line. You know, sometimes I mean you’d be having a bad day so they just be nit picking, try, try to drive you off the edge. I mean you’d be thinking off into space so they’d get you for that, don’t look out of line whatever, oh I’m sorry you talked out of turn when you were apologising and you didn’t call me sir. You have a disrespect to staff and talking out of turn and they’d go on and on and on and kids would just freak out and like punch a wall or something. 10.09.20 Raphael Rowe For one child it was all too much. In August two thousand and one seventeen year old Valerie Heron jumped off a third floor balcony. She’d been escorted to Tranquillity Bay just twenty-four hours before. 10.09.33 Shannon Levy Rowley She just got there and she just jumped off the balcony one day and died in front, smack in the middle of the school and every body saw it. 10.09.45 Raphael Rowe One of the most controversial methods of the programme is OP or Observational Placement. 10.09.52 Raphael Rowe Children lie silently on the floor in a guarded room until staff members decide they can leave. They eat, sleep and exercise in the same room. I found ex-students who’d been in there for eight weeks at a time. 10.10.06 Jay Kay If they’re refusing the programme, if they’re a danger to themself or others, if they have acted out physically or in a violent manner they will probably find themselves in Observation Placement. And the length of stay that the kids stay in there; we try to get all the kids out within twenty-four hours. However, if a child has acted out physically then they’re going to find themselves in there for a longer period of time. 10.10.31 Raphael Rowe Shannon could not cope with the regime in Tranquility Bay; she cried constantly and ended up in OP following a suicide attempt. 10.10.38 Shannon Levy Rowley They lined us up like sardines in there, like feet to head everything. They lined us up, no air, no ventilation, if we had to go to the bathroom we had to leave the door open so they can sit there and watch us and I was there for eight weeks straight. 10.10.51 Winston Wilkinson Pretty much when I ran away they sentenced me to go to OP. And the normal, you’re only supposed to spend like two or three days in OP, they kept me in there for forty-six days and I would beg my case manager oh please, you know, let me out, I’ll do good and you know, you know it kind of like gave me, I was so distraught and like so depressed that I would just like would do anything to get out of there. 10.11.27 Raphael Rowe So what have these guys done? And why are they doing what they’re doing, which is lying on the floor? What did you do? 10.11.34 Boy Subtitle I tripped out. 10.11.36 Raphael Rowe You did what? 10.11.36 Boy Subtitle I tripped out 10.11.37 Joe Subtitle He flipped out. 10.11.39 Raphael Rowe What do you think about what you’re doing right now, which is lying on the floor as a form of punishment? 10.11.45 Boy Subtitle I hate it. 10.11.46 Raphael Rowe Does it work? Does this work for kids being forced to lie on your back or your front? This is your third time. Joe has been in the situation you’ve been in but he’s come through and he now says he’s on Level Six and he’s conformed and it’s changed his life, don’t you think at some point it’s going to change yours? 10.12.06 Boy Subtitles This place is senseless, you waste your parents’ money. 10.12.10 Raphael Rowe How long have you been in that position? 10.12.11 Boy Subtitle Five days. 10.12.14 Joe They used to give us worse food, they used to give us beans and bread but I think someone came and told them they couldn’t punish you with food, with like different privileges of food so they get the same meals now. 10.12.28 Raphael Rowe Until last year children were made to lie on towels. They are now given mats. 10.12.34 Jay Kay We added the mats. We were going to, we would have changed the mats anyway but the Ministry of Education and Children’s Services, they made that a recommendation verbally. 10.12.45 Raphael Rowe As a result of inspecting the school and seeing what had gone before? 10.12.47 Jay Kay Hmm mm. 10.12.50 Raphael Rowe The Jamaican branch of UNICEF, the international child rights agency, want the use of OP scrapped. 10.12.56 Aston BERTRAND BAINVEL Head of UNICEF Jamaica This kind of methods is definitely something which is not in accordance with the convention of the rights of the child and not in accordance with, with other UN rules regulating the status of juveniles deprived of liberty. There is a high possibility that it falls under the definition of child abuse. 10.13.17 Music 10.13.19 Raphael Rowe US Embassy documents show there were concerns over the use of pepper spray by staff. This was discontinued in nineteen ninety-eight. Jamaican police are unhappy with the way the programme is run. 10.13.32 Raphael Rowe Last year a senior officer voiced some concern that ‘the staff wasn’t sufficiently trained to handle the many types of problems that might arise due to the special needs and situation of the students’. 10.13.43 Music 10.13.45 Raphael Rowe Oliver was restrained for not being able to keep up with the exercises in OP. 10.13.50 Oliver Bucolo It was just really intimidating, I mean a lot of the people were just, they would just sit there real close to you and they’d have like some kind of big guy on top of you and they’d just, they’d take your, you know, your arm and they’d, you know, you know, jam it up behind you and just push it and push it and push it and I mean it was just unbearable and you’d be screaming, like are you going to comply yet, are you going to comply and you’re just screaming yes, I’m going to, whatever. 10.14.12 Raphael Rowe Shannon also experienced excessive restraint after hitting a staff member. As she struggled it became violent. 10.14.18 Aston SHANNON LEVY ROWLEY Tranquility Bay 2000-2002 One staff held my arms behind my back when I was standing up so I couldn’t grab on to anything. Another staff ripped my feet out from underneath me so I fell with all my weight right onto my chin. I immediately started gushing blood everywhere but that didn’t stop them. They still continued restraining me, trying to clean it up and they didn’t stop and I needed stitches but they waited till the whole facility fell asleep to sneak me out to the hospital and the care that they lacked to give me resulted in the long term damage that I have. 10.14.53 Music 10.14.54 Raphael Rowe A disc in Shannon’s jaw was displaced. She’s now awaiting her third operation. Jay Kay says he’s now introduced a new safer system of restraint. 10.15.04 Raphael Rowe Police have also been critical of the lack of openness at the school. A two thousand and two report to the US Embassy accuses the director of failing to volunteer information to the police when staff had behaved unlawfully. 10.15.18 Raphael Rowe It also lists an alleged rape in nineteen ninety-nine, an employee being fired for selling drugs and the dismissal of a member of staff for seeking inappropriate contact with a female student. 10.15.31 Aston JAY KAY Director of Tranquility Bay In the case of any, any sexual impropriety, that information is always turned over to the police. Always. Anything that has to do with drugs is always turned over to the police. 10.15.41 Raphael Rowe And there’s never been an incident where you’ve not informed the authorities, you’re categorically, that’s it. 10.15.47 Jay Kay Absolutely. 10.15.49 Raphael Rowe The parents I met earlier have now had the chance to reacquaint themselves with their children, some of them after a year. They seem unconcerned by the criticism. For them the alternatives are far worse. 10.16.02 Vivian Ellis I’ll tell you something Raphael; he’s better off in OP than in jail or dead. OK. And as far as abuses go, look, look at me I’ve lived on this earth a little while, OK, I’m not stupid enough to believe that everything is all rosy and altruistic, OK. There are going to be abuses, I don’t care what you’re looking at, there are going to be abuses, sure, OK, and if I know of them I’m not going to let my child be party to them. 10.16.28 Alan Hadfield My thoughts after having conversation with him, Alex has a desire to change. He has a desire to improve on himself and I have never seen that desire in him before. So there’s hope, there’s clearly hope. 10.16.46 Megan Quinn These kids come out with more tools and more self actualised than most adults we know and I’ve just really surrendered to it and I watched him walk away tall, giving me the thumbs up, both of us waving goodbye knowing that it’s all going to be good and he’s coming home and I’ll have that boy back. 10.17.13 Alan Hadfield Is this school hard? It’s probably, probably one of the hardest schools out there but a youngster who is having a tough time in society that’s going down in flames needs something tough to help him get back on track. It’s not easy. It’s not fun. It’s tough love. 10.17.35 Raphael Rowe Parents who see results seem happy with the school’s extreme methods. But families of those who can’t or won’t submit to tough love are not. 10.17.47 Raphael Rowe Sometimes the split occurs within families. 10.17.50 Raphael Rowe Kathy and Michael have come to see their relative, Amanda, who was put in the programme by her father against their wishes. But a US Embassy official breaks the news that they’re not welcome. 10.18.02 US Embassy official Hi. 10.18.03 Kathy Hi, can we go in? 10.18.05 US Embassy official No. 10.18.05 Kathy Why? 10.18.06 US Embassy official No, I’m sorry. 10.18.07 Kathy No why? 10.18.08 US Embassy official Because the… 10.18.09 Kathy I mean why? I don’t understand. I have been nothing but nice to you all. 10.18.12 Michael Hold on just a second, Kathy. Kathy, wait a second 10.18.17 US Embassy official ...with Mr Kay, who made the decision that I could speak with Amanda but no one else could be let on to the property. 10.18.27 Aston MICHAEL NEUMANN We didn’t fly all the way over here, we haven’t spent thousands of dollars, you know, to make a point, you know, or to be, or to win. No, we wouldn’t, we wouldn’t do that to Amanda. You know, we just want to make sure that she is comfortable and safe. 10.18.45 Aston KATHRYN BRAGG She smoked, got caught with one cigarette, well that one cigarette turns into pot, to cocaine where she’s the worst child in the world when she really hasn’t. 10.18.53 Michael Neumann They’ve criminalising adolescence. 10.18.55 Music 10.18.57 Raphael Rowe So is Tranquillity Bay just a bit rough around the edges? Events at other WWASPS facilities point to a wider problem. These children are enjoying their freedom after authorities ordered another of its programmes in Costa Rica to be closed last year. Their findings included physical and psychological maltreatment of students and restricted communications with parents. Senior staff member Amberly Knight had already resigned. 10.19.23 Aston AMBERLY KNIGHT Former Director of Dundee Ranch I had the blinders on, I trusted that they were the best thing and this is only thing for them. If we weren’t doing this to these kids they’d be on drugs, they’d be out on the street, so, you know, this is the best thing for them. And so I kind of accepted that unfortunately, now I look back and think, how could I have done that, but I did. 10.19.41 Raphael Rowe Did you witness some of this punishment? 10.19.43 Amberly Knight Every day. Every day. And I’m appalled to think that I didn’t recognise it at the time. 10.19.51 Raphael Rowe Other facilities with links to WWASPS have been investigated following allegations of abuse. Two closed down. 10.20.00 Raphael Rowe One of problems in finding out how your child is coping with the regime is that communication is so limited. 10.20.08 Raphael Rowe Low level children can write to their parents but rules forbid them from meeting them or even talking on the phone. 10.20.17 Raphael Rowe It can take up to four months or more to earn the right for a monthly call and even that is monitored by members of staff. 10.20.25 Raphael Rowe You were there for how long? 10.20.27 Shannon Levy Rowley Thirteen months. 10.20.28 Raphael Rowe And in that time how often did you get to speak to your mother? 10.20.31 Shannon Levy Rowley I didn’t speak to her at all; I spoke to her for the first time after twelve months. And we had about a half an hour phone conversation and I had my family representative sitting right next to me and we’re not allowed to say anything that they don’t want us to say. I was not allowed to basically put across what happened to my jaw and the things that were going on because if I said something that seemed as manipulative to the staff I’d get into trouble, I could lose my level, I cannot talk to my mom any more. Stuff like that. 10.20.01 Aston JAYNE LEVY We have been told by the school and by all the parties that be, that we were not to listen to our children, that we should listen to the family rep because the children can manipulate and will manipulate us and I believed that, I trusted that. 10.20.18 Raphael Rowe Former WWASPS employee Amberly Knight says that’s no accident. 10.20.22 Amberly Knight We were told that if a parent had a concern or if their child had a concern then we should just tell them that the parent was, or the child was manipulating and lying. I wasn’t given much training as far as how to help the kids. A lot of my training, if you can call it training, was how to manipulate the parents. We were always told that a parent, a child should never leave the programme unless they turned eighteen or graduated. 10.21.47 Raphael Rowe What’s this? 10.21.48 Joe This is the Starfish Dorm, which is the transition… 10.21.51 Raphael Rowe Joe’s reached the top of the privilege tree. 10.21.53 Joe It’s where I live right now. 10.21.55 Raphael Rowe Only a third of kids get there. 10.21.57 Joe You see we can have like a TV and VCR, guitars, we got a refrigerator and stereos and stuff. 10.22.04 Raphael Rowe And this is where you end up when you go through the programme? 10.22.06 Joe It makes you count your blessings, I guess, or like you really appreciate things like that. 10.22.12 Raphael Rowe Joe will be going home to his parents soon. For children who flunk it’s a different story. 10.22.17 Joe They send you an exit plan, which is like your, it’s what you get if you don’t graduate the programme and if I didn’t graduate the programme and I left when I was eighteen then they said I’d get twenty-five dollars and a ticket to Columbus Ohio, which is where I live but twenty-five dollars and then that means that I’m on my own. 10.22.39 Raphael Rowe Parents are sold a progressive, tailored education as part of the programme package. There is a computer room but learning is self study with text books. Private tuition is available at an extra cost to parents who also have to pay for pens, pencils and paper on top of fees of almost nineteen thousand pounds. 10.22.58 Raphael Rowe Although teachers are on hand to answer questions; speaking to Joe it seems there’s not much traditional teaching going on. 10.23.06 Joe With the book, you’ll read it and you do chapter work, which is notes on a piece of paper and you turn that in and then you take a test. 10.23.13 Raphael Rowe What happens when you take the test; I mean how do you pass, graduate? 10.23.17 Joe Well, if you get say like a seventy-five percent, that’d be a C. So you need a B at least, you need at least an eighty percent on these tests so what you do is you look at the book again, you redo the chapter work and you retake the test until you get an eighty. 10.23.36 Raphael Rowe Joe has been highly motivated and has gained enough credits to be accepted to university, something he doesn’t believe he would have achieved at home. But that’s not the case for all children. 10.23.46 Joe There’s other people that are stuck on the same grade for like two years here but that’s just because they just refuse to do it. 10.23.53 Raphael Rowe Or can’t. Not capable I mean. 10.23.55 Joe They have, they have special education. They, they, some of these kids can do it, like they just, they just don’t wanna, they have no motivation to do it. They just don’t want to like sit down and comply just by taking a test. 10.24.10 Raphael Rowe Do you think your parents are fully aware of what goes on within the school and the discipline they use and the education and stuff; are they fully aware of what goes on? 10.24.20 Boy in OP Subtitles Well the education inside here sucks. Literally. 10.24.24 Raphael Rowe But I’m told they’ve got a very good education programme going on here. 10.24.27 Boy in OP Subtitles Education my ass, no offence, no offence. 10.24.32 Raphael Rowe We calculate parents pay almost four and a half million pounds a year in fees. We were told a large percentage goes on administration, weekly therapy and character building seminars for students and their families. WWASPS’ facilities as a whole take fifty million pounds a year. 10.24.49 Aston JULIE WILKINSON We wiped out our savings and we are still paying on this loan that we have the next twenty years to pay on. It’s created a very bad hardship for our family and I know many of the families have refinanced their homes two or three times to be able to afford the programme. So it’s a very expensive programme. 10.24.12 Aston JAY KAY Director of Tranquility Bay There is, there is profit in the schools and we use that money for improvements but we also have to pay our shareholders as well. Because we are a company, a corporation that has shareholders? 10.24.23 Raphael Rowe And who are the shareholders? 10.24.25 Jay Kay I am one of the primary shareholders. The other individuals ask not to be named. 10.24.31 Raphael Rowe OK. 10.25.32 Jay Kay But I am the primary shareholder. 10.25.35 Music 10.25.41 Raphael Rowe I met the President of WWASPS; who happens to be Jay Kay’s dad, Ken Kay. 10.25.45 Music 10.25.48 Raphael Rowe I put to him what UNICEF had said about the punishment regime in Jamaica. 10.25.53 Raphael Rowe What do you say to that? 10.25.56 Aston KEN KAY President of WWASPS I say that I am totally against violating reasonable rights of children, or abusing them in any fashion; mentally, verbally, physically. I am not always a hundred percent sure that the United Nations is, has the expertise or, or, or the ability to discern the difference. I hear these complaints and I'm very concerned about them. But then let's do something about them. The people who claim… 10.26.30 Raphael Rowe You can. 10.26.31 Ken Kay …I, I do. 10.26.32 Raphael Rowe As the WWASPS… 10.26.33 Ken Kay I go in onsite make, make… 10.26.34 Raphael Rowe As the WWASPS director you can do something about it. You can shut … 10.26.38 Ken Kay I do not control what they do. 10.26.40 Ken Kay You can disassociate yourself with Tranquility Bay, who are carrying out what UNICEF say are issues of child abuse. 10.26.48 Ken Kay Allegations and accusations are different than facts. 10.26.52 Music 10.26.53 Raphael Rowe A month after this interview WWASPS’ school in Mexico, Casa By The Sea, was raided and closed by the authorities who found four children showing signs of physical and emotional mistreatment. 10.27.06 Ken Kay We have thousands and thousands of positive letters and e-mails from satisfied customers. The whole controversy is very interesting to me. Never lose sight is, the bottom line is just think if we shut down our business and stopped doing what we’re doing, eventually one of these kids that would come to us will die. 10.27.30 Music 10.27.35 Oliver Bucolo Looking back on it, I still think it’s an absolutely wretched place and they wanted to make it tough because they wanted to effect change from the kids. I look at it now and it did help a lot and I mean there’s no real point to stew and brood about the things that happened that I really had no control over. 10.27.54 Winston Wilkinson I would say that the stuff I was doing was bad but I would say the punishment they gave me was not right, like it was, no one deserves that type of punishment. 10.28.06 Raphael Rowe Are you happy? 10.28.08 Joe I’m, yeah, now that I’m leaving and like, it’s like, I don’t know, it’s like, I don’t know the most success I’ve ever experienced in my life. 10.28.17 Music 10.28.18 Shannon Levy Rowley I’ve been away from Jamaica for over three years now and I still have nightmares; I can’t get it out of my mind. 10.28.25 Music Credits 10.28.31 bbc.co.uk/thisworld Reporter RAPHAEL ROWE Camera PATTI MUSICARO Dubbing Mixer CLIFF JONES VT Editor BOYD NAGLE Production Team JULIA DANNENBERG SARAH HANKS LADONNA HALL Production Manager JANE WILLEY Unit Manager SUSAN CRIGHTON Film Research NICK DODD Additional Research HARRY BOYLE Picture Editor MARK ATKINS Executive Producer KAREN O’CONNOR 10.28.48 Produced and Directed by ESTHER McWATTERS 10.28.51 thisworld 10.28.51 Series Producer SANDY SMITH bbc.co.uk/thisworld BBC © BBC MMIV 10.28.54 End BBC This World: Locked in Paradise 1