California Youth Claims Abuse in Montana Treatment Center
Salem-News.com
A 14-year old child reports being secluded and restrained in his own
blood at Montana Residential Treatment Center, but they won't give his
parents or attorneys access.
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/october232007/montana_kid_102307.php
(BILLINGS, Mt.) - Jeremy Ellis, a 14 year old Laguna Beach special
education student who is currently placed at Yellowstone Boys and Girls
Ranch, a therapeutic treatment center located in Billings, Montana,
claims the facility abused him.
In a letter to his attorney, Leejanice Toback, Jeremy described how
doors were slammed into his face and he has been put in seclusion or
restraints, lying in a puddle of his own blood.
In the letter, Jeremy described how a staff member slammed doors in his
face twice, causing his face to bleed and how he has regularly been put
in seclusion and/or restraints for over one hour, denied medical
attention and given nothing to stop the bleeding. In addition Jeremy
reports how he has been punched and kicked by a particular male staff
member. He has told his mother that his therapist regularly refers to
him and other children as "morons."
Jeremy was referred to Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch by Orange County
Mental Health Services. Jeremy's attorney, Leejanice Toback, originally
requested a placement at Villa Santa Maria in New Mexico, but Orange
County Mental Health Services refused, stating that the facility was not
on their agency's approved list.
After receiving Jeremy's letter, Ms. Toback phoned Yellowstone's C.E.O.
Glenn McFarlane. He is alleged to have refused Ms. Toback's demand to
report the incident to the Montana Child Protective Services Agency. Mr.
McFarlane told Ms. Toback that Yellowstone would do its own investigation.
Ms. Tobak says McFarlane stated that, "if we reported all these
complaints, we would spend all our time reporting incidents to Child
Protective Services." Dave Schwarm, the Quality Improvement Specialist
from Yellowstone confirmed to Ms. Toback she says, that in the last
month there were at least three child abuse allegations made. She says
he stated that according to his records, Jeremy is self abusing. When
asked about evidence to support that claim, he hung up.
Written requests to the facility to cease abuse of the child have gone
unheeded, attorneys and family members say. As of October 8th,
Yellowstone reported to Jeremy's mother that he was again put in
restraints, this time for touching his nose.
Jeremy's parents and his attorney are trying to relocate him to a safe
and secure treatment center, but they have been unsuccessful due to the
records generated by Yellowstone painting Jeremy as uncontrollable and
self injurious and the lack of cooperation by Orange County Heath Care
Agency, who are insisting that Jeremy be transferred to a particular
approved facility which has ten locked seclusion rooms for their one
hundred twelve residents.
"Parents place their special education children in these facilities for
the purpose of treatment and structure, not so that they can be
brutalized. We treat prisoners better than this", Ms. Toback stated.
"The full color brochures and videos that these places prepare don't
have pictures of kids secluded in stark rooms with no pictures, toys,
books or music or restrained by adults three times their size."
A recent Cornell University study found that over a ten year period
there were forty-five deaths of children and adolescents in residential
facilities due to the use of restraints.
Jeremy's family is considering all options, including legal
actionagainst Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch.
CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ON A
DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NSA / CIA
WIRETAPPING PROGRAM....
CPS Does not protect children...
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even
killed at the hands of Child Protective Services.
every parent should read this .pdf from
connecticut dcf watch...
http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com/8x11.pdf
http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com
Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US
These numbers come from The National Center on
Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN)
Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS
*Perpetrators of Maltreatment*
Physical Abuse CPS 160, Parents 59
Sexual Abuse CPS 112, Parents 13
Neglect CPS 410, Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS 14 Parents 12
Fatalities CPS 6.4, Parents 1.5
Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that
are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per
100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse
and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the
citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold
parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY
government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and
death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more
human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which
they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that
they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when
children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a
bunch of social workers.
CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT
FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON...
BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF
REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES
TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY
ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION...
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