Cañon City private school director
arrested
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January 10, 2007
Posted by James Jarman
 A
man who runs a school for troubled kids in Cañon City is accused of
assaulting some students there and police say it's not the first
time he's faced these kinds of allegations.
32 year-old Randall Hinton was
arrested on charges of assault in the third degree, false
imprisonment and reckless endangerment.
Employees say Hinton is the
Director of the Royal Gorge Academy.
An employee says Hinton forced a
teenage girl to lie face down on a floor for six hours on December
30, 2006.
Hinton is also accused of injuring
the girl's wrists and not allowing her to receive medical attention.
"And the allegation was that Mr.
Hinton physically restrained a female student at the academy and
that that student did suffer physical injuries from that restraint,"
says Captain Allen Cooper, Cañon City Police Department.
Hinton's attorney tells News First
the girl was violent and was hitting herself in the head with a
stapler and tried to staple her own hand. He says her parents
support the school, saying "her parents have been supportive of the
Academy. The parents have notified the Academy that they're not
surprised by her actions, that this young lady does have some
problems." According to the arrest report, a school employee says
there's a policy of "no physical contact" between staff and
students. But at least one staff member told police he saw Hinton
grab a male student by the back of the head and smacked the
student's face against the floor a couple of times, causing the
student to bleed.
Cañon City Police also searched the
internet and found similar allegations against Hinton at other
private schools, including one called Tranquility Bay in Jamaica.
Some students told Cañon City
Police that they were told they'd be sent to Tranquility Bay if they
don't shape up. They also claim they were told that American laws
don't apply to kids in Tranquility Bay and that pepper spray is used
there.
Hinton's attorney says the
allegation's are not true.
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