If a child comes forward and says they were abused at a program then all parties agree that warrants reasonable cause to investigate. Aspen agrees that the state had reasonable cause to investigate also. No one is refuting this.
Now that the investigation has been completed they realize that no abuse occurred.
“The DHS’ withdrawal of its order suspending MBA’s license supports our position that they did not have justification for that order in the first place. The DHS has acknowledged with this settlement that in fact there was additional evidence no abuse had occurred.â€
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I think we can all agree that DHS admits that they have the childrens best interest in mind. So they wouldnt ignore children being abused in their state and walk away.
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A little context is in order:
"A statement from Phil Herschman, President of Aspen Education Group, on behalf of Mount Bachelor Academy:" should precede the misleading quote from last post.
Whooter opines that this statement means abuse allegations were false, but what it actually
says is that the state did not review evidence claiming what happened was not abuse, but nowhere does this statement say or imply that the kids who reported abuse were lying or that the state did not uncover rampant abuse - they did.
The state believed them, investigated and MBA was closed for abusing kids. Then MBA sued the state, and probably agreed to pay a massive undisclosed fine in exchange for the state softening the charges.
This is legal spin from the party who was caught abusing kids and got exposed for it. This statement by AEG's PR team is damage control only.