Blue Creek Academy was
an abusive hell on earth, former students say—and the principal who ran
it is now heading up a new Bible school in another state.
Jacob*
dressed himself in a camouflage jacket and a matching beanie on the
summer morning he ran away into the West Virginia hills. At 14 years
old, he was one of the youngest, smallest, and longest-attending
students at Blue Creek Academy, a religious reform school for boys from which he was desperate to escape.