UNITED STATES
The Raw Story
By David Ferguson
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Kate Logan, the director of “Kidnapped for Christ,” a documentary exposé about a brutal offshore Christian reform school, said that she lost her Christian faith in the course of making the film.
In an interview with Raw Story, Logan opened up about how her initial intent was to make a documentary praising the school, but that the façade the Escuela Caribe presented to the world quickly crumbled when she began to interact with the students.
She first became interested in the school and New Horizons Youth Ministries at the age of 18 in 2004.
“I was a missionary working in the area,” she said. Escuela Caribe is located in the Dominican Republic, one of the most impoverished areas of the world. “And I found out about the school because you tend to notice other Americans there.”
When she first heard of the program, it sounded great.
“They told me the school was a place for kids that would either end up in jail, on the streets or dead, kids that were really in trouble,” Logan said, “And I thought to myself, what a great program, where kids can learn about another culture and get away from bad influences back home.”
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