This petition is being created to get this terrible place shut down.  For the safety and mental health of ANY and ALL children that may be sent there.  I have heard and seen the effects of what time spent there will do to a person. They are changed forever, without having a choice. That place is a place of abuse, brainwashing and pure evil. The girls there are beaten and broken down mentally. They are forced to eat slop that can not be safe to eat. They are forced into hard labor. They are monitored at every move so that they can not ask for help or tell someone what is happening to them personally.  They are ripped from their family although the website says they can visit and write. You can only write what they allow you to. You can only visit if they let you.  And that is monitored too so that the girls cant tell parents what is happening.  There is no way once the girls are there to get help.  I wish to see this place shut down so that my close friend and anyone else affected by it will have some sort of closure.  So that they will not have to worry themselves that there is another child going through what she and many more did.  The girls and women who have had to endure the abuse from the Hephzibah house will carry these memories forever.  But, together we can try to make sure that no more children will have to suffer at the hands of the evil at that house.  Please consider looking into the testimonials of the survivors.  Please listen to the son of the pastor and the stories he tells of his own parents.  These stories are real.  The pain and horror these girls went through is real.  Its unacceptable and inhumane.   Help spread awareness.