Archive | May 2020

787. Masters Ranch West

Recently the authorities intervened and removed more than 30 boys from the ranch located near Prescott in the state of Washington. One of the employees are investigated for third-degree child molestation and communicating with a minor for immoral purposes.

The result of a visit by both the Walla Walla County detectives and Child Protective Services case prompted the authorities to relocate the children at the ranch.

It could not have been fun to be there as a teenager.

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786. Acadia Montana

During its shortlived lifespan Acadia Montana went through a number of changing management, change of staff and the children were not provided with the promised care. In the end all the local community cared about was the loss of jobs rather than the welfare of the children placed at the facility.

Previous it was known as Rivendell of Montana

It could not have been fun to be there as a teenager.

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785. Union Juvenile Residential Facility

Union Juvenile Residential Facility located in Raiford, Florida was notified by the state that the children in their care would be removed after a battery case.

The facility is owned by Sequel TSI who had similar issues with their facilities in Utah.

It cannot be fun to be there as a teenager.

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784. Indian Oaks Academy

Indian Oaks Academy in Manteno, Illinois was mentioned in the media related to cases where youth placed in the facility used the lack of supervision to abuse each other. One article mentions 17 cases of sexual assault or abuse against its at-risk residents over a period of 30 months.

It cannot be fun to be there as a teenager.

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783. Mingus Mountain Academy

2020 it was revealed to the public that the facility which is a youth asylum marketing some kind of unproven treatment methods had a large number of persons suffering from Covid-19. The nature of the facility properly did not allow the students to be separated from each other and there are no reports that the facility tried to alter the grouping of students to prevent the virus from spreading for start serving individual meals in small groups for the same reason.

More than 80 students were tested positive for the virus and a large number of employees also. This shows that if a facility is unable to group students in isolated groups no bigger than 8 students while still maintaining a minimum distance of at least 1 meter between each person, they should not be operating. They should shut down.

As Covid-19 is a dangerous and deadly illness, some of the students are at risk of dying.

The facility had hoped to keep the outbreak a secret until they were ready to deliver the caskets with dead girls back to the families according to ABC news.

In 2017 3 girls ran from the facility. They were later recovered. Relatives of one of the missing girls wrote on Google Maps

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I do not recommend this place!We send my little 14 year old sister and SHE RAN AWAY and they didn’t look for her now she’s missing and me and my family don’t know anything about her…

The girls were later located by the authorities.

It cannot be fun to be there as a student.

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