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March 31, 2007 |
Ivy Ridge sues state education
department
The Academy at Ivy Ridge in Ogdensburg has filed a lawsuit against
the state Education Department and its commissioner, Richard P. Mills,
over that agency's rejection of the school's application to become a
private secondary institution.
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March 31, 2007 |
AP Police Arrest 6-Year-Old Girl
A 6-year-old girl was in the custody of her mother Friday after the
Avon Park Police Department escorted the girl in hancuffs from Avon
Elementary School to the Highlands County Jail on charges relating to
battery of a school employee.
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March 23, 2007 |
Girl's Overdose Death Raises Questions
In the final months of Rebecca Riley's life, a school nurse said the
little girl was so weak she was like a "floppy doll." The preschool
principal had to help Rebecca off the bus because the 4-year-old was
shaking so badly. And a pharmacist complained that Rebecca's mother kept
coming up with excuses for why her daughter needed more and more
medication. None of their concerns was enough to save Rebecca.
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March 20, 2007 |
Ivy Ridge runaways found
Four students who fled a behavior modification program near
Ogdensburg were caught Tuesday afternoon. As of early Tuesday evening
all four were in custody of State Police in Ogdensburg.
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March 20, 2007 |
Search continues for runaway students
The search is still on to find the missing boys from a North Country
boarding school. Even with false leads, there is still hope to find the
runaway teens.
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March 19, 2007 |
Ivy Ridge students run away
Police went door to door, even buggy to buggy, looking for the
missing boys. "If you see them, let someone know," a trooper said. Early
Monday morning, four students ran free from the Academy at Ivy Ridge, a
school for troubled teens.
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March 17, 2007 |
Ex-employees speak out on Parc
Place
Parc Place, a lockdown
rehabilitation facility for troubled teens in north Chandler, is
under fire from former employees who say the place is plagued by
violence, poor management and lax care.
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March 16, 2007 |
Senate chief backs $5M payout
Senate President Ken Pruitt said Thursday that he wants to fast-track
a $5 million claims bill to compensate the family of a 14-year-old
Panama City boy who died last year after being roughed up by guards in a
state-supervised boot-camp program.
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March 16, 2007 |
Affair With Teacher Leads to Slaying
In a tragic twist to a familiar story, a teenager who had sex with
his married 30-year-old teacher was fatally shot outside the woman's
home, and authorities have charged the woman's husband.
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March 12, 2007 |
Wisconsin clinic fined $100,000 in
girl's death; employee gets 60 days jail
Angellika Arndt died in May at age 7 after being restrained by an
employee at a Rice Lake facility. A Barron County Circuit judge levied
the maximum fine against a Wisconsin company that owned a counseling
center found responsible in the death of a 7-year-old girl last year.
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March 12, 2007 |
Jail time and fines leveled in death of
Wisconsin girl
A counseling center received the maximum fine and one of its staffers
was sentenced to 60 days in jail Monday in the death of a 7-year-old
girl who had been restrained at a center in Rice Lake because of
behavioral problems.
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March 12, 2007 |
Counseling center, staffer sentenced in
girl's death
Barron County Circuit Judge Edward Brunner fined the Northwest
Guidance and Counseling Clinic today. The clinic also will have to pay
$12,000 in restitution after it was found guilty of felony negligent
abuse of a resident.
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March 11, 2007 |
Child-death suspects are nabbed
A young mother was accused of abusing two of her children years ago.
She and the children were placed in foster homes (she was under 18). She
fled, leaving her children behind. They were later adopted. She went on
to have two more children. In December 2006 she beat one child to death
and hid her body under her triplex. Just recently her baby died, she
claims she rolled onto the baby and he suffocated. She and her boyfriend
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March 11, 2007 |
A call for change, for Angie
Ten months after 7-year-old
Angellika "Angie" Arndt died, those responsible will be sentenced Monday
in a Wisconsin court. But few who knew Angie, or came to know her plight
after her death, feel she will ever get justice. "Her case is extremely
disturbing," said Isabelle Zehnder, president of the Washington
state-based Coalition Against Institutionalized Child Abuse. "And it
never should have happened."
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March 10, 2007 |
Carolina Springs Academy and WWASPS:
What parents need to know
While
Elaine Davis praises the program where she works, Carolina Springs
Academy, and the umbrella organization, WWASPS, there are those who
have a very different point of view. CAICA believes it is up to
parents to do the research and to make up their own minds.
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March 8, 2007 |
Foster Parent Arrested On Charges Of
Crimes Against Children
Bella Vista police are searching for parents or caregivers of
children left in the care of a Bella Vista man arrested Wednesday on
charges he sexually assaulted children and videotaped children in sex
acts.
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March 8, 2007 |
Sex Offender Guilty in Fla. Girl’s
Death
The sex offender convicted of kidnapping, raping and then killing
9-year-old Jessica Lunsford by burying her alive behind his trailer
could now face the death penalty.
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March 8, 2007 |
Jacob's ladder
JACOB RANGEN IS 13 YEARS OLD AND TALL FOR HIS AGE, with fine, blond,
slightly disheveled hair. Wire frame glasses with thick lenses give him
the studious look of a youthful Harvard physicist teaching a class of
undergraduates. He plays the trombone and baritone horn. He talks and
acts normally. In fact, he is normal, with a normal kid's aspirations.
Except for a few problems.
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March 7, 2007 |
UTAH AGENCY INDICTED IN SAMOA ADOPTION SCAM
Operators of a
private adoption agency in Utah are accused of duping parents in Samoa
into giving them their children and then falsely describing the
youngsters as orphans to prospective adoptive parents in the United
States.
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March 7, 2007 |
Inside The Academy
A group of boy students sits on chairs in a small room. Facing
one another, they form a circle as each one gets a few things off his
chest. And then another. Through the thin wall that separates their room
and the larger, recreation area next to them, the sounds of a familiar
classic rock guitar riff settles into the background of the boys’ group
discussion.
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March 6, 2007 |
Child Neglect Case Leads to Another
Probe
New Carrollton officials are investigating whether an unlicensed
child-care facility was being operated in the house where a woman was
charged with leaving her five children unattended in a trash-strewn
basement.
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March 6, 2007 |
U.N. Report Calls for Ending Violence
against Children
Governments, Communities and Families are Failing in their Duty to
Protect the Young Washington, D.C., March 6, 2007 (PAHO)—Governments
around the world must do more to protect children from violence, which
has negative effects on child development and exacts a significant
economic and social toll, says the United Nations' World Report on
Violence against Children, presented today at the Pan American Health
Organization (PAHO).
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March 5, 2007 |
Boy Alleges Sex Assault At Kidspeace
Center
State police sookiesaid Sunday they are investigating an alleged
sexual assault at the KidsPeace center for troubled youths in North
Whitehall Township.
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March 5, 2007 |
Videotape Shows Men Giving Pot to Kids
Two teenagers were arrested after police found a video of them
showing two children how to smoke marijuana, authorities said.
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March 3, 2007 |
Claims about 'orphans' key in shady
adoptions
A 135-count federal indictment unsealed Thursday accuses the
Wellsville-based Focus on Children (FOC) and seven of its operators of
duping parents in Samoa into giving their children to the agency. The
indictment alleges the defendants lied to prospective adoptive parents
in the United States by saying the youngsters were orphans and needed
homes.
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March 3, 2007 |
Death of James Alenson's: Student said
to show a knife to therapist
A Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School sophomore who is accused of
stabbing a classmate to death in January brought a pocketknife and fake
handgun to school on separate occasions last fall and did not face
disciplinary action, despite showing the items to a psychologist at the
school, the Sudbury police chief said yesterday.
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March 2, 2007 |
Inspector general says school that uses
shock therapy overcharged
State agencies and about 20 Massachusetts school districts may be
able to recoup about $800,000 paid to a school known for its use of
shock therapy to treat children with severe behavioral and mental
problems, the state’s inspector general said in a letter Thursday.
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March 2, 2007 |
Carolina Springs Academy Rebuttals
Slanderous Websites.
Elaine Davis, Director of
Carolina Springs Academy, a boarding school for struggling teens,
recently released a statement regarding websites which are against the
Worldwide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools, or WWASPS.
Includes what former parents and
students have to say.
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March 2, 2007 |
Mother Feels CCSD Is Targeting Her Son
There are explosive allegations from a local parent and educator. She
says she has been retaliated against for speaking out against the Clark
County School District.
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March 1, 2007 |
It's game on for special needs students
Students with behavioral and social needs at the Archway School have
a new incentive to be good.
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March 1, 2007 |
Child's death in
treatment - letter written by M. Ann Hager
Angie was a beautiful, vivacious 7-year-old girl in the foster care
system, who died as a result of being restrained at a day treatment
center in Rice Lake, Wis., last May. Her life was short, her potential
unknown.
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March 1, 2007 |
Isaiah Simmons: Nurse reported school's methods
Five months before a student at the Bowling Brook Preparatory School
collapsed and died while being restrained by staff, the school's nurse
told the Department of Juvenile Services that she was concerned about
the safety of youths held there, according to documents obtained by The
Sun.
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March 1, 2007 |
Citing Abuses, Texas Governor Ousts
Leader of Youth Agency
Gov. Rick Perry removed the chairman of the Texas Youth Commission on
Wednesday over charges that the agency covered up the sexual abuse of
incarcerated juveniles.
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