Runaways, bullying and assault reported inside teen treatment center for adoptees

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A residential treatment center in Missouri advertises to adoptive parents that it can help heal struggling children.

Calo Programs is part of the so-called troubled teen industry that has been quietly institutionalizing adopted children at extraordinarily high rates.

How Calo makes money and what happens to kids there offers a window into a larger phenomenon.

Some youth treatment centers depend on government funding despite limited oversight.

Calo is facing more than a dozen lawsuits and parents describe a chaotic environment that left their children more traumatized than before.

Calo denies wrongdoing and says its treatment has helped many children.

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