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In the United States, a teen escort company, also called a youth transport firm or secure transport company, is a business that specializes in transporting teenagers from their homes to various facilities in the troubled teen industry.[1][2] Such businesses typically employ a form of legal kidnapping, abducting sleeping teenagers and forcing them into a vehicle. Teen escort companies in the United States are subject to little or no government regulation and commonly result in permanent trauma.[citation needed]
- ^ "The man who takes troubled youths to therapy camp". BBC News. 22 April 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ "'Blindfolds, hoods and handcuffs': How some teenagers come to Utah youth treatment programs". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
A lot of those Utah-bound kids arrive through a "secure transport" company, where parents pay thousands of dollars to have someone pick up their child and take them away.