Author: Ethan Becker

When Eden Prairie native Jessica Woodville was young, she watched as police dragged one of her parents out of the family home. Later, at the age of 16, a similar thing happened to her. “I was more or less kidnapped. A very large man twice my size, coming into my room and telling me that we could either do this the hard or the easy way,” Woodville said. “I thought I was being put up for adoption. I had no idea what was going on.” What was going on was that Woodville was taken to Cross Creek Manor, a reform…