http://www.ticotimes.net/dailyarchive/2 ... #story_twoDundee Mother Claims Robbery,
Death Threats Being Probed
By Tim Rogers
trogers@ticotimes.netRobin Crawford with son Cody.
TT/ Julio Lainez
The mother of a former student at Dundee Ranch Academy claims the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in St. George, Utah opened an investigation yesterday of telephone death threats against her and a burglary of her home in Dundee, Oregon.
Robin Crawford and her son Cody are the primary witnesses of alleged abuse at the former tough-love school in Costa Rica.
The Tico Times yesterday was unable to receive FBI confirmation that an investigation has been opened.
Crawford came to Costa Rica last June to pick up Cody, who escaped from Dundee Ranch Academy -- an affiliate of the St. George, Utah-based WorldWide Association of Specialty Programs (WWASP) -- during the May 20 police intervention and ensuing riots and was taken in my a Costa Rican family. She and her son spent a month in Costa Rica giving testimony of alleged abuse and mistreatment suffered by Cody while at Dundee (TT, June 6; May 22, 30).
Upon returning to her home June 30, in Dundee, Oregon, Crawford claims she received several telephone death threats from an unidentified male caller who told her he was stalking her and was going to kill her.
Two weeks later, on July 14, Crawford says her home was burglarized while she was visiting her father. She claims the robber(s) stole two cameras and a large plastic bag that contained WWASP documentation, contact information of other Dundee students and parents and the criminal complaint she filed against Dundee with Costa Rica's Judicial Investigative Police (OIJ).
To the casual observer, the bag of documentation looked like "a bag of junk," and no other valuables -- including computers, DVD player, TV and expensive artwork -- were stolen, Crawford told The Tico Times during a phone interview from Oregon yesterday.
"I have no idea what this is about," Crawford said, adding that she had never received any threats before her trip to Costa Rica.
Meanwhile, Cody, 16, was arrested July 18 and placed in the custody of the Oregon Youth Authority after allegedly attacking several juvenile department staff members and a sheriff's deputy in an Oregon courtroom after being asked to take a urinalysis test for marijuana, according to the News Register newspaper in Oregon.
Upon returning to Oregon, Cody had to appear before the judge who had agreed to send him to Dundee as an alternative punishment, following his arrest last April for attempted burglary, trespassing and theft.
The urine test ultimately proved positive for marijuana use and Cody was placed under state care while arrangements are made for foster care, according to the news report.
