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    Claims of Abuse, Sexual Assaults At All-Girls Treatment Center

    August 29, 2026
    Vista Maria in Michigan was founded more than 100 years ago by an order of Catholic nuns to care for vulnerable girls and women. It now faces disturbing allegations of sexual, physical and mental abuse from many former residents placed there by state officials. Inside Edition Digital's Deborah Hastings spoke with former residents, a previous employee and an attorney representing six women in a lawsuit alleging years of abuse at the sprawling, state-funded facility. "It was like ‘The Hunger Games,'” they say.
    Vista Maria denies the allegations.
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