Pastor Fletcher A. Brothers is a

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preacher and author from

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Freedom Village

Brothers is best known as the founder of Freedom Village USA, a home for troubled teens operated from a

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perspective and founded in

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in 1981. The campus was the site of the Lakemont Academy, a secular boys

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. Freedom Village also operated an office in

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and it had many students from Canada. Freedom Village came under fire when it was revealed to be paying workers less than minimum wage, and for the punishment practiced on students, and for allegedly abusing child labor laws Brothers had to sell the Lakemont property to cover his millions of dollars in debt after he was denied the ability to file for bankruptcy.

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Freedom Village USAFreedom Village Canada
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