From ‘Troubled Teens’ To Traumatized Adults
By Sebastian Murdock and Taiyler Mitchell
OCTOBER 10, 2025
Molly Dickin had only been at an all-girls boarding school in Arizona for a few months when she and two other girls climbed over a barbed-wire fence and ran off into the desert.
It was around 8 p.m. in late April 2015, and Dickin was making her escape from Spring Ridge Academy, a now-closed, for-profit boarding school just over an hour north of Phoenix that housed up to 76 teen girls at a time to treat behavioral problems.
