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Dark Asia with Megan looks into Rushi Academy, a private school in China’s Zhejiang province accused of beating and starving the teenagers it promised to reform.
They were sent away to become better students. Instead, they were beaten, humiliated and punished for trying to leave. And when some of them finally escaped, their own parents refused to believe what had happened.
In August 2026, a disturbing scandal unfolded in China’s Zhejiang province after a teenage girl’s desperate SOS video brought renewed attention to Rushi Academy, a private institution that promised to reform troubled teenagers through traditional education and discipline. But former students described a very different reality. Their accounts included physical abuse, food deprivation, forced obedience and terrifying attempts to escape.
Behind the academy’s respectable image was its founder, Ru Ping, a self-proclaimed education guru with a criminal past. As investigators uncovered evidence of beatings, corporal punishment and restrictions on personal freedom, questions emerged about how this institution had operated for years and why so many parents continued to defend it.
Join Megan as we investigate the Rushi Academy case, a disturbing Asian true crime story involving institutional abuse, coercive control and the devastating consequences of trusting the wrong people with vulnerable children.
Podcast: Dark Asia with Megan
